9, March, 2026

Can war be justified? Is there ever a situation where there is legal and moral reasons to invade another country?

24, February, 2026

Democracy and Autocracy. Capitalism and Socialism. Both are opposites, but can they exist together. What are the risks?

8, August, 2025

The Y2K Effect refers to managing risks. If you get it right, everyone says the risk was overstated. If you get it wrong you didn't take enough effort to avert the risk. Who wins?

20, March, 2025

What is the history of tariffs, and what is the Trump return to tariffs likely to mean for the world.

13, March, 2025

A great article by producer and director Ron Howard on his political philosophy

6, January, 2023

How much is enough to live on? Does it include an iPhone or an overseas holiday? It depends on what consumerism has told us.

28, April, 2020

Socialism and capitalism are often at war with one another but for our society to continue we must find ways to have them cooperate.

2, October, 2018

How does the modern world stack up against older civilizations? What can we learn from the Incas?

4, May, 2017

Too much regulation is the call from business. Without that regulation, would we live in a better world? Perhaps it would a place where a business that was not prepared to bend the rules would fail.

30, June, 2016

Most civilisations implode when the upper and lower classes get too far apart. A shrinking middle class is a sign of a civilisation in decline.