Outsider

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Biden: his time

The US is lusty and demanding for the future. But can it keep it up? The good news is that Biden, so far, is not your typical machine Democrat who

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Ongoing, massive Ttrump

  Maybe Trump TV will troll Biden nightly and present endless “I was robbed,” conspiracy theories on the 2020 election. Alternatively, reports suggest Trump will start Trump 2024 on inauguration

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Defunding the past

The time has come to pucker up and give Trump a kiss. Our collective sanity is being assailed by an unrelenting locust-swarm media and the groaning end of a socioeconomic

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Banking off road

Don’t consult the map while making a handbrake turn. What an unreality of a year so far. Society has done a handbrake turn and we are hurtling in an unmapped

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Own back

“Each billionaire evidences our great success and failure.” Discuss. Extreme inequality doesn’t jive well with democracy, liberty and progress. Nor does revenge and retrospective action. Both extremes run the risk

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Credit Where Credit’s Due

Who gets to borrow at a fair rate is a pernicious inequality. It’s funny how, despite overt concerns, affluent people always find ways to keep the poor apart from them: 

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Fuck You

How do you win the votes of the duckers, divers and the insecure? I live in affluent West London and ran my own hedge fund business that profited from seeing

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Wishing on a star

Beware the simple solution. It could all end in tears. There was a period in history when the West’s international identity and institutions were strongly forged. This intense high-energy crucible

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We can be heroes

Many of us like the idea of swimming with dolphins and our children having dolphins around to give them the option to swim with them. Patriotism anyone? Most of us

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Real Gone Cat

What state are we in? Like the cat in Schrödinger’s famous quantum thought experiment we can’t know whether we are dead or alive as we await the writing of definitive

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Don’t even think about it

We live in a time of perpetual ersatz crises. Discuss in 280 characters. As gamers in the fourth industrial revolution we’re always on the cusp of crisis. You know, the

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