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Environmentalism is a self-harming meme

28/06/202102/10/2021 - 3 Comments.

Zero carbon in the foreseeable is as daft as it is dangerous. Depending on the extent to which social media has infused your life, a meme is a non-hereditary behaviour …

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Biden: his time

28/03/202103/06/2021 - Leave a Comment

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

17/12/202002/10/2021 - 4 Comments.

  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

09/10/202009/10/2020 - Leave a Comment

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

03/07/2020 - Leave a Comment

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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A rent-seeking bastard speaks

02/04/202007/04/2020 - 1 Comment

As isolation and social difference goes viral, it’s time to come together. As the state cavalry charges over the hill to save us all from the viral hordes could March …

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Own back

12/12/201912/12/2019 - Leave a Comment

“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

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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

04/07/201908/07/2019 - 3 Comments.

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

01/04/201903/07/2019 - Leave a Comment

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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