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…
Read More »The real threat to our security
Insofar as there was any truth to Kissinger's statement, it is surely that a global superpower must keep control of the food and energy as well as the money.
Read More »Nowhere to run
World oil production peaked in November 2018. Not that many of us noticed because the western states went insane in the spring of 2020 and have yet to restore any semblance of sanity
Read More »A world without growth
In a world without growth, old evils which we thought we had overcome will begin to return.
Read More »What was the 1960s?
The problem was that the new generation – born in the years after the war – came to believe and expect that prosperity could only go in one direction.
Read More »The enemy was always within
It is insane to believe that a country which can neither make nor import steel can also be a world leader in constructing windfarms
Read More »Getting vacancies wrong
A large part of the over-50s have simply disappeared from the employment figures entirely , and so can't be coerced.
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