Tory leadership debates are, apparently, so mind-numbingly banal that getting too close to one can render you unconscious.  It is even worse for those of us who actually lived through the 1980s and remember Thatcher as a divisive figure who permanently vandalised Britain’s economic base to the point where we …

Germany is in trouble.  The IMF has revised its projected growth figures down to just 1.2 percent for 2022.  Even this may prove to be optimistic now that gas imports from Russia have dropped to just 20 percent of what was anticipated prior to the EU sanctions.  With autumn approaching, …

The peak of the economic roller coaster While most of the establishment media look only at the headline economic figures, it is always worth turning to the data itself.  When we do, we discover a far more nuanced picture than the headlines suggest.  Far from the picture of labour shortages …

The UK is already in a de facto recession – only the fiddling of the data to count GP appointments as a value-adding activity led to a paltry 0.5 percent GDP growth in May.  Discretionary spending has already plummeted, and it is only a matter of time before we see …

Real life Bond villain Klaus Schwab has become the focus of ridicule following crude attempts to remove articles praising Sri Lanka’s “Vision 2025” economic plan from the World economic Forum (WEF) website – the world’s leading proponent of the hi-tech fourth industrial revolution apparently not realising that nothing ever disappears …

Those wishing to become the next “worst prime minister ever,” have just hours left to declare their candidacy.  The Tory Party having just two weeks before parliament goes into recess to whittle the numbers down to just two names to be put before the wider Tory Party membership over the …

Boris warning Boris Johnson’s premiership is fast coming to an end.  At the time of writing, he is still there, but pretty soon he won’t be able to find enough people to fill the various ministries of state.  However, one question not being covered by the establishment media and the …

Two protests took place in Britain yesterday.  One involved a piece of petty bourgeois performance art in which “Just Stop Oil” protestors glued themselves to an artwork at the National Gallery in order – via some unknown mechanism – to bring an end to the oil age.  The second involved …

The “temporary” inflation hasn’t gone away, despite a collapse in non-essential spending across the UK economy.  The Bank of England is still playing chicken with interest rates despite knowing, a) that the rising cost of food and fuel have nothing to do with borrowing, and b) that overdoing it will …

One of the problems with claims that our situation is “just like the 1970s,” is that very few adults of the period are still around to share the memory.  Those of us who were children at the time have only memories distorted through the lens of childhood innocence.  I, for …