As we enter an age of algorithmic machine learning, the dumbing down of government is bound to accelerate

There is an unacknowledged process of infrastructure repair triaging at work

The problem facing the UK state is the same problem facing Big Tech… active IT systems are energy hogs.

The combination of an extremely unpopular Labour government and a new voting system has left Welsh Labour extremely vulnerable

Only access to some new source of cheap energy can save the western states.

Britain’s story is different in detail but has some interesting parallels.

Most local services have been hollowed out and most people lack the resources to survive more than a few days of a cascading failure

It is difficult to see a way out for a UK government that insists on pursuing failed neoliberal monetary policies

The economics of every era is a plausible myth… persuasive, common sensical, and wrong

The UK government is about to commit monetary seppuku