AI is happening. We are not going to stop it, and we shouldn’t pretend we can. But we can manage the economy that AI will
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How to campaign with Funding the Future?
A recent comment from RobertJ on this blog made me smile, and then made me think. He wrote of Funding the Future: Topsy has growed
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Glossary entry: Globalisation
It was pointed out to me earlier this week that the glossary lacked an entry on globalisation. The following list makes up for that deficiency.
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Farage unravelled
I watched too much television news last night. There was much coverage of Badenoch’s sacking of Jenrick. And then there was the Reform show as
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The day of the dollar: is it over?
Is the US dollar losing the trust required of a global reserve currency? The dollar isn’t just America’s currency. It is the plumbing of global
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Toxic Tories
We posted this video before midday today, but another recording delayed me from sharing it here. The transcript is as follows: How toxic do you
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There is no pension crisis, but there is a political crisis that won’t address the issue of pensions
The FT has published an article with the headline: Can Europe still afford its generous state pensions? At the core of the argument the piece
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Contextualising data
I was talking to a journalist yesterday. It is an occupational hazard of my role. He was interested in the traffic data for my YouTube
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What happens when the internet is turned off?
These are two related headlines from the FT, both from yesterday. Start with this: Then, note this: There is no coincidence here, at all, of
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