The USA is at war with Venezuela this morning. It is bombing Caracas. There are reports that the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been abducted
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2026 opens in a world more fragile than at any point since 1945. This video explains why — and why the risk is not personality,
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The Guardian published this headline today: It was followed by this crass commentary: It was a bumper year for stock markets globally and the surprise,
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I have added this entry to this blog’s glossary at the request of some commentators. I stress that in an area as complex as this,
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2025 was a disastrous year — economically, politically and morally. But the consequences of that failure are only just beginning to arrive. In this video,
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This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Zack Polanski issued a Christmas message yesterday that demanded the country solve the problem of small boats crossing the English Channel. As he pointed out,
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As Christmas approaches, many people ask what they want. But there is a more important question we should be asking: what did we need –
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This is the chart of the latest United Nations Human Development Indicator: The UK is ranked in the top 20, with this data: Things are
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