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The Antipodean Abyss: Australia’s Housing Crisis and the Tax Break Tango

Here we go again. The Australian housing market, that perpetually over-inflated balloon of speculative froth, is about to meet the pin of fiscal reality. British economists, those self-appointed guard...

Arthur Penhaligon3 MIN READ
The Antipodean Abyss: Australia’s Housing Crisis and the Tax Break Tango

Volcanic Hubris: A British Guide's Descent into Indonesia's Inferno

The eruption of Mount Marapi in West Sumatra is not merely a geological event. It is a morality tale for our age, a star...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
Volcanic Hubris: A British Guide's Descent into Indonesia's Inferno

The Arctic Command: Britain’s Last Stand Against the New Barbarians

The Royal Navy is leading a multi-national fleet into the Arctic. Why? To secure ‘strategic northern trade routes.’ That...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Arctic Command: Britain’s Last Stand Against the New Barbarians
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The Genome and the Grim Reaper: How Your DNA Writes Your Prescription, and What That Really Means

Another day, another triumph of the technocratic faith. We are now told, with the breathless enthusiasm of a Victorian m...

Arthur Penhaligon · 4 MIN READ
The Genome and the Grim Reaper: How Your DNA Writes Your Prescription, and What That Really Means

The New Iron Curtain: How Sovereign AI Guarantees National Stupidity

We are witnessing something genuinely novel in the history of civilisation: the systematic dumbing down of entire nation...

Arthur Penhaligon · 4 MIN READ
The New Iron Curtain: How Sovereign AI Guarantees National Stupidity

The Great Electric Vehicle Pivot: A Triumph of Virtue Signalling Over Common Sense

The news arrives with the solemnity of a papal decree: petrol cars are to be banned from major cities. The proponents ch...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Great Electric Vehicle Pivot: A Triumph of Virtue Signalling Over Common Sense

The Ghost in the Machine: Should a Robot Receive a Literary Prize?

The news is out. A novel, composed entirely by an artificial intelligence, has become a best-seller. It is now on the sh...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Ghost in the Machine: Should a Robot Receive a Literary Prize?

The Virtual Reality Olympics: A Triumph of Spectacle Over Substance

The grand spectacle of the Virtual Reality Olympics has arrived in Tokyo, a digital extravaganza that promises to redefi...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Virtual Reality Olympics: A Triumph of Spectacle Over Substance

The Geothermal Gamble: UK to Tap Into Deep Earth Heat Reserves

The news, when it broke, had the faintly desperate air of a man who has just discovered his wallet is missing and is now...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Geothermal Gamble: UK to Tap Into Deep Earth Heat Reserves

The Digital Vandals at the Gate: A Modern Siege of Our Own Making

So a major port has been brought to its knees. Not by a foreign navy, not by a blockade of ironclad warships, but by a g...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
The Digital Vandals at the Gate: A Modern Siege of Our Own Making

The Mars Treaty: A New Chapter in Human Folly, or the Dawn of a Second Gilded Age?

So the G20 has finally done it. They have signed a treaty on space resource rights, carving up the Red Planet like a Vic...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Mars Treaty: A New Chapter in Human Folly, or the Dawn of a Second Gilded Age?

The G7’s Last Gasp: A Currency Accord for a Fading Empire

So the G7 leaders have signed an emergency accord on global currency stability. How quaint. One might almost be forgiven...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The G7’s Last Gasp: A Currency Accord for a Fading Empire

The Wreck of Civilisation: A Cruise Ship Grounds in the Mediterranean, and We Look Away

The headlines scream of a luxury cruise liner, the MSC Fantasia, running aground off the coast of Sicily during a sudden...

Arthur Penhaligon · 2 MIN READ
The Wreck of Civilisation: A Cruise Ship Grounds in the Mediterranean, and We Look Away

London to NY in 2 Hours: The Return of Supersonic Travel

The Concorde’s ghost has been resurrected, and the chattering classes are beside themselves with excitement. Boom Supers...

Arthur Penhaligon · 3 MIN READ
London to NY in 2 Hours: The Return of Supersonic Travel