Walking around in cities small, medium, and large in Britain, at least in the south of Britain, it is obvious
Politics

Reaction and reinforcement: how the right has wrought two successive right-wing revolutions
Have we been witnessing a second right-wing revolution, which is an ironic, orchestrated (fake?) populist reaction to the first (Thatcher/Reagan) right-wing revolution?

35 Reasons Why Oil Production Might Decline
Putin’s war in Ukraine wars somewhere, anywhere sanctions on Russia lack of access to Russian oil and gas trade war

The Pensions H-bomb
I once did some work for the London think-tank Demos in the late 1990s and I remember that they had

The Natural Gas Paradox
Perhaps we should call September international gas month. To start with, we (in Britain) have serious problems with natural gas

The Social Dilemma & Democracy in Chains
We watched the Social Dilemma a couple of nights ago. Very fascinating and intriguing. It illustrates, inter alia, how societies

Democracy – A Contested Concept and Project
The electoral process is flawed but probably for very different reasons than you might think! What is really flawed is

Liberty: Heart Of The Matter
Is there a collective reality of god or is it all just personal and individual? I am interested to know

Feeding Britain – Book Alert
Around the time that the great pandemic was starting to be taken seriously in Britain (March 2020), a book was

Power Prices & Subsidies
Renewable electricity prices will have to come down for a while (a decade or two?), possibly to very low levels,

The Power Of One
With the loss of the Welsh Brecon and Radnorshire seat yesterday, the Conservative party is down to a majority of

How many hours should we work?
Speaking of working less, there was a recent report that suggested that people would have to cut their working hours

How Climate Change Can Fuel War
In response to the following article: https://www.economist.com/international/2019/05/25/how-climate-change-can-fuel-wars We’ve hardly started on the road to a very hot world. I have not

How much water is in the glass?
Tell me how the glass is half full? Personally, i would rather the glass were half full, or indeed completely