Funding the Future

Millions in the UK are one pay day from disaster

The UK is a country of massive wealth inequality, with all the stress landing on those the wealthy think to be the undeserving poor, which is most of us

Are uninsurable houses a climate time bomb?

Uninsurable houses as a result of climate change will be a disaster for homeowners, banks, governments and the whole of society. Are we ready for the challenge?

Could the USA default on the dollar?

The world's financial system depends on the dollar, and the man in charge of it is mad, bad, or both. Where are we with the management of the world's reserve currency need in that case?

How many poets does it take?

How many poets does it take to change a lightbulb? It's more complicated than you thought, by some way.

What do you do with a savings glut?

A savings glut creates global economic instability, and that's precisely the problem the world's got right now. The question is, what are we going to do about it? 

Has Trump killed US democracy?

Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' ends the chance of a President being held in contempt of US courts, and that means US democracy is over. What happens next?
 

The problem of the unknown knowns

Donald Rumsfeld got his famous quote on knowns wrong: he ignored the unknown knowns, and they are a huge issue in modern politics.

Starmer's no big deal

Starmer wants us to think he's doing big foreign policy deals. He isn't. He's playing in the sandpit of international relations, and nothing is really changing. 

Is Trump at War with America?

Can the US survive the assault on it from Trump, given how devastating he plans it to be?

Why aren't we having children?

The whole of the West has a childbirth problem. We're not having enough children to replace ourselves. Why is that? And what needs to change if the birthrate is to increase?