Fortunately, the promises of AI are about as realistic as programable central bank digital currencies… and for much the same reason
Read More »When was growth?
At least “drill-baby-drill” demonstrates some understanding that energy is, and always was, the driver of economic growth.
Read More »It isn’t (only) Labour
More cerebral commentators at least acknowledge that the British disease goes back much further than October’s budget or even the election of Boris Johnson.
Read More »It was always about the oil
In the early-2010s there was a perverse repeat of the oil boom of the post-war years.
Read More »An example of the problem
Nowhere is the current predicament facing the UK economy more apparent than in Britain’s once-thriving public houses
Read More »Or should it be FIVE Es and a C?
As industrial civilisation hurtles past limits, having decision makers largely illiterate about STEM subjects is as dangerous as Earth limits themselves.
Read More »Why is anyone surprised?
Like Katrina before it, Helene is an embarrassment to the American establishment...
Read More »The return of the cargo cult
In a neoliberal system, government itself has become a cargo cult
Read More »What would Xi do?
In lenocratic Britain, failure is by design. To understand this, simply ask cui bono?
Read More »Labour has already failed
While the labour government will have absolute control over legislation, almost all of the problems before us are administrative…
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