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…
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.
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