As governments around the world wake up to the economic harm caused by the ill-prepared lockdown of their people, the establishment media are keen to ensure that the costs do not fall on the shoulders of their metropolitan liberal class.  Early on, the BBC’s economics obfuscator Dharshini David attempted to …

Ordinarily when dealing with conspiracy theories it is best to take the advice of science fiction writer Carl Sagan – “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”  The fact that someone said it on YouTube or that an increasingly detached pseudo-news outlet like CNN or the Daily Mail reported it doesn’t really …

As various lockdowns come to an end – despite nothing changing about the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself – the establishment media are at pains to promote the mythical “V-shaped recovery.”  Queues of people, they tell us, have descended on English (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are still in lockdown) highstreets: “Pent-up …

Even crashing economies unravel slowly.  This is because of a plethora of buffers from small amounts of personal savings at the bottom to central bank and state bailouts at the top.  It is for this reason that I referred to the early weeks of the Covid-19 lockdown as a kind …

Those lucky enough to die of old age often fall into a very peaceful state – not dissimilar to the deep relaxation sought after by meditation practitioners – from which they simply slip away.  Since 1958, though, one of the ways in which modern civilisation has sought to cheat death …

And just like that – and for no discernible reason – Britain’s period of enforced social isolation came, sort of, to an end.  Schools in England are open once more.  Public transport services are getting back to normal.  Non-essential workplaces which promise to maintain a two metre distance between employees …

Whatever else he may be, Boris Johnson is a remarkably lucky politician.  Unlike Labour’s last prime minister – who saw the economy melt down just weeks after bottling out of calling “the election that never was” – Johnson is getting his crisis in early; leaving him more than four years …

In recent days, the establishment media have begun the push to shape the post-pandemic narrative.  The massive influx of state funding to prevent the economy from collapsing entirely will have to be repaid one way or another; and the SW1 crowd are determined to pass the bill on to someone …

In the cat and mouse game, we take 90 mice and release them into an enclosure.  We then send 100 cats to go catch them.  The inevitable result is that at least ten of the cats return without a mouse.  Indeed, because a few of the cats turn out to …

There is a common fairy tale about money that goes something like this: Once upon a time there was a magic money tree which periodically rained money down onto households and businesses.  Businesses used this money to pay the wages of workers and households used the money to buy goods …