There is a word that sums up the trends now emerging in the UK… stagflation.
Read More »A victim of its own success
We find ourselves in the early stages of a new Age of Shortages
Read More »Someone else’s job, someone else’s problem
One reason why we are at increasing risk from crumbling infrastructure is that maintenance is not really in anyone’s job description.
Read More »The sound of canaries choking
The official inflation rate has nothing to do with an oversupply of money. It is the result of too much taxation.
Read More »Liebig’s Law applies
The loss of 10 percent of deliveries in a complex just-in-time system was all it took to initiate a “cascading collapse.”
Read More »The end of the road
The crises breaking over our heads have been decades in the making
Read More »An inconvenient boomer truth
The distribution of income and wealth favours the rich far more than the old.
Read More »Politicians mouthing words
In recent years, government budgets, spring statements and spending reviews have tended to unravel within hours.
Read More »Smoke and mirrors
“Gougeflation” would be a more accurate term...
Read More »Real illness, quack cure
The current UK policy fails to meet all three key energy priorities.
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