In the fourth quarter of 2025, the EU business investment rate reached 21.8%, the lowest point since the third quarter of 2015.
Climate Crisis
The Northern Echo: Councillors in Durham refuse to approve opencast coalmine extension
This is not happening in the EU, where Germany just brought a new coal power station online. Maybe Brexit is bringing a rethink. Read here
Geopolitics
Larry C. Johnson: The Long Road In, and the Short Way Out: How the West Built Ukraine into a Weapon Against Russia
Across three pieces I’ve written for Sonar21, I have been making one continuous argument: The war in Ukraine was not a crisis that erupted in 2022. It was the payoff of a deliberate, decades-long Western […]
Austerity
The Guardian: More UK children homeless or in temporary housing than during crash crisis
While the Conservative government continues unperturbed its austerity programme the dramatic consequences for society are becoming increasingly visible. The tragedy is that behind all these neutral numbers there are real human beings. Read here
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