If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Brain -Winston Churchill Churchill never actually said that, not that it matters. What matters is that people believe it to be true, and I’d love to tell…

Kishidia Fumio, the prime minister of Japan won the recent upper house elections by a respectable margin after his predecessor as both Prime Minister and the head of the LDP, Shinzo Abe was assassinated on the campaign trail. Two months later, on the 27th of September Akie Abe carried her…

If I asked you what the most important problems facing our civilisation are you would most likely reply with some combination of: · climate change · political radicalisation · inequality · nuclear war What struck me as strange is that the overwhelming majority of people alive want to take action…

In response to US inflation the Federal Reserve has recently reversed direction on its position for the last decade. The easy money is gone, interest rates are being hiked and its balance sheet is shrinking. Americans will ‘feel some pain’ Chairman Powell warned in May, before hiking interest rates. The…

There was a great article in the economist that examined the impact of current war in Ukraine, combined with agricultural problems in China and India and their restrictions on agricultural exports. It’s a great read, with it’s focus on the need for a solution to prevent food importing countries in…

Apparently millennial investors like me have different values from those of previous generations. These values have been Acronym’d by the financial industry into ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance). The premise of ESG is that investors want to put their money into green energy, ‘clean technology’ and socially responsible companies, and…

There’s a belief, particularly among young people, that global warming, an increasingly hostile economy, resource shortages, and countless other crises are combining into a mega crisis that’s going to cause a civilisational collapse within our lifetimes. For a moment, lets leave aside the discussion of whether this is the case…

2022 Edit: It still gets a few hundred views a month, so it’s worth a little foreword: This was first written in January 2020 and immediately exploded. …