“Democracy” is a slogan, a value-judgement more than it is a description, and a term of praise and abuse in political debates more than a defined programme. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the […]
You almost never wind up where you expect to, and quite often you can’t even work out how you got there Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” For the last four years […]
Having carefully destroyed real economies, real social relations and institutions and replaced everything with facsimiles Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license […]
Unfortunately, understanding how the world works now, making sensible suggestions and carrying them out require exactly those skills and competencies which western governments and western societies have sent the last generation or more carefully destroying. […]
The worst will never happen until it does. We live in a just-in-time society, whereas we used to live in a just-in-case one. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: National Archives […]
There will not be a negotiated settlement to the Iran war. It will have to be fought out to a conclusion, whatever that might be. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: […]
The path of the individual to non-entity Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: By W. Bulach – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=116407722 The first time I crossed a land border […]
“There will be a considerable rebalancing of strategic and political power in the world in the next few years” Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: FreePik Over the last couple of […]
As the entire international economic, political and military balance is upended, and governments are going to find themselves in a frightening new world, unlike anything they have ever known, and where neither Powerpoint nor mythical […]
Now that the Weekend War That Wasn’t is in its fourth week, it’s becoming clear that just about everything to do with its progress, as well as its origins and its potential consequences, is covered […]
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