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Analysis New Normal

The Abyss: future shock, algorithmic capitalism and the destruction of all values

VC11 September 202411 September 2024

In September 2019 the Western world faced an unsolvable debt crisis. Even with historically low interest rates and the panicked injection of trillions by central banks the global financial system...

Russian Impressions

Bert Olivier5 May 20245 May 2024

The Kant 300 Conference and Reflections on life in Kaliningrad. Also published on Real Left's substack. Please consider subscribing if you haven't already. My wife and I are in Kaliningrad, Russia...

Analysis

The Case for UK Democracy

John Nugent28 April 202428 April 2024

Originally published on 'Civilise' substack. Please consider subscribing to Real Left's substack, if you haven't already. This is the second in a three part series. You can read Part one here....

Analysis

The Misrepresentation of UK Democracy

John Nugent5 April 20245 April 2024

Originally published on Civilise Substack. “I don't do portfolio politics. I don't take the line that because I think something about issue X I've got to think something about some...

Analysis Russia-Ukraine/NATO conflict

Avoiding the Issue at our Peril

Bert Olivier17 March 202417 March 2024

Bert Olivier resolves to start choosing truthfulness over keeping the peace at every opportunity. Also published on Real Left's Substack. I recently decided that the time is past when, for...

Analysis

Public Health ‘Experts’ Effectively Say: “Take Your Fluoride and Shut Up”

Rusere Shoniwa9 March 20249 March 2024

Originally published on A Plague on Both Houses. Also published on Real Left's Substack. “Millions will get fluoride added to their tap water in biggest expansion of controversial scheme since...

Analysis

What do the so-called ‘elites’ really think of ordinary people?

Bert Olivier28 February 202428 February 2024

Do the so-called ‘elites’ have any sense of ethical or moral propriety? Bert Olivier believes the answer is ambivalent.

Analysis Impact Investing

From Free Books for Babies to Eugenics: the Dark Side of Child and Reproductive Health Focussed ‘Philanthropic’ Social Impact Projects

Zoë Carter17 February 202417 February 2024

Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, GAVI & the Nutravax Project Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) is a charity endowed by billionaire Sir Christopher Hohn’s Children's Investment Fund Management, one of the most profitable hedge funds...

Analysis

A Brief History of Modern Corruption: Public Private Partnerships and the Rule of Law

Sophie Cooke13 February 202415 February 2024

Sophie Cooke outlines the evolution of corruption in the polity, from the PPP model introduced in the early 1990s to the rise of vast global investment firms like Blackrock, and their influence on decision-making.

Analysis CBDCs

Bank of England Responds to My FOIA Request

Rusere Shoniwa31 January 20246 February 2024

Rusere Shoniwa reports on the Bank of Englands underwhelming responses to his freedom of Information requests on responses to the June 23 CBDC consultation.