With Brexit being in the news today, I think it's worth reminding people that 'no deal' means no parachute - we'd be leaving the EU with no plan on how to adapt. You'll probably hear the line from Brexiteers that other countries get by with only WTO (World Trade Organisation) terms. This isn't true -... Continue Reading →
Donald Trump’s Hope and Change
Obama-Trump voters are a counter-intuitive phenomenon, given that, on a superficial level at least, the two presidents have very different styles. Obama had the positive vibe ("Yes we can"), whereas Trump spent a lot of time on the paranoid, racist fantasy that Obama was born in Kenya. Speaking in October 2016, Noam Chomsky pointed out that... Continue Reading →
