The Policy Post

  An age of discontent. Change is happening faster than human society can adjust. Discontent, disorder and alienation are the result.

  God is not dead. Yet. Most of the world is turning away from religion. Australia leads the pack.

  How to lose a war. History has many lessons about wars and how to lose them. Trump’s latest dismal escapade shows how completely he has failed to learn.

  The global oil crisis that wasn’t. Closing the Strait of Hormuz was supposed to cripple economies worldwide. It didn’t. Why?

  Out of chaos, hope Everywhere, democratic politics is in turmoil. When the confusion recedes, only the progressives will remain standing.

A lovely day in Dystopia. What sort of world do the far-right populists want to create? And what do their billionaire backers want for their money?

  The sullen revolution. Discontent in western democracies feeds the surge in right-wing populism. But why? And why now?

   One damn theory after another (1) Those big economic theories all seemed like good ideas at the time. Only later did we realise the economists had wrecked the joint.

  One damn theory after another (2) After the shocks of the seventies, Milton Friedman thought he had the answers. He didn’t.

One damn theory after another (3) How banks stopped being banks and took over the world.