21 October 2023
Power Crisis
"At the end of the Roman era, the general economic crisis destroyed the small and medium sized country estates and favoured the formation of a limited number of large villae, an expression of a strong concentration of agrarian property. Their proprietors left the city to move onto their land, where... they regained all the authority which they had lost in the deterioration of the political system.”
13 October 2023
Was this the bravest American who ever lived ?
"Who didn’t make it out ?" “Oh, that’s easy,” replied Stockdale. “The optimists.”
7 October 2023
After the Crash
"Our governments and central banks could not have done a worse job.."
23 September 2023
The outer limits
"I’m reminded of the 1970s.."