In 1969, Swiss-American psychologist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross published On Death and Dying – a book based upon her observations while working with terminally ill patients.  Her broad proposition was that, faced with their impending demise, people move through five emotional-mental states – DABDA – Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance.  Although …

By their excuses shall ye know them Vladimir Putin has added yet another superpower to his list this week by – presumably via some form of psychokinesis – causing an egg shortage across Britain.  In reality of course, the shortage is the result of the 2021 fertiliser shortage which, on …

Year-on-year price rises continue here in the UK, driven almost entirely by broken supply chains, rising energy costs and fertiliser shortages (which cause the rise in food prices).  For journalists, politicians and central bankers (trapped in the neoliberal belief that inflation is the greatest economic evil) the solution is simple …

There is something deeply tragic about watching people who would be dead within a fortnight without oil nevertheless calling for oil – and fossil fuels more broadly – to be banned immediately.  It is possible, of course, that these people believe that food grows inside supermarkets or that the chemicals …

In the aftermath of the 2016 peasants’ revolt, in which Britain accidentally found itself falling out of the European Union while Americans looked on with joy and horror as a former TV host accidentally became president, the elites who pull the strings have become increasingly paranoid.  One manifestation of this …

Collapse ahead Establishment media outlets continue to claim that central banks are raising interest rates to curb inflation.  If this is true, then we can only assume that central bankers are imbeciles.  Because there is no inflation to be found anywhere.  Yes, prices are rising… but they are rising into …

The UK government has spent the weekend heavily briefing that big tax increases are on the way.  The return of former Chancellors George Osborne and Philip Hammond to government circles also suggests another round of economy-crushing austerity is also being considered.  As George Parker at the Financial Times reported yesterday: …

Let’s talk about supply shocks.  Cast your mind back to the beginning of March 2020.  Remember how everyone panic bought pasta and toilet paper?  Except that it didn’t really happen – at least on a large scale.  What happened was, in their usual underhand way, the establishment media paid supermarket …

Frack off As Versailles-on-Thames wakes up to the full horror of the energy crisis it has inflicted on itself, we see a desperate scrabble for any potential energy source that might fill the gap.  Which is why, among other things, fracking is back on the agenda.  The problem though, is …

Making any kind of prediction is always risky… especially about the future.  Nevertheless, there is a growing consensus that a recession is on the way – I would argue that had it not been for rigged official data, a recession would have already arrived.  Less clear though, is what kind …