Economy

Gutsy Women: Sandi Adams

What takes one woman from an established professional life to taking on the New World Order and its drive for global control via the UN Sustainable Development Goals?

The Paradigm Wars—Part 3: A Wrench in the Fabric of Reality: a new paradigm?

Dr Petra Bueskens

With the divorce of worldviews, there are now two ‘realities’ in the West. The dissidents are on a new, but actually very old, path reconnecting the two spheres of human existence that were separated during the Renaissance and Enlightenment.

The Paradigm Wars—Part 2: The Paradigm War and its Discontents

Dr Petra Bueskens

What we have now is reality by fiat, and just like fiat currency, it’s worth almost nothing and could collapse in a myocardial moment. The system brooks no disagreement or opposition.

The Paradigm Wars—Part 1: GloboCap meets Mass Formation

Dr Petra Bueskens

Dissidents are contrarian and vulnerable; their arguments with each other are to be expected. What is the broader context in which they squabble?

Russia’s Approach to the Future World Order

Julia Valshtein

If the war in Ukraine continues for another three to six years, the damage to the world economy could become irreversible. Western societies will have to be forcibly consolidated. Economic collapse comes first; then society starts to crumble.

‘For as long as it takes’: NATO’s War on Russia

Simon Elmer

War is first and foremost a means of impoverishment and theft. The longer the war is waged, the richer become those who invest in it and in return gain access to the taxes, resources and assets of both sides. 

Justin Walker: The Bradbury Pound and Fraudulent Banking

The Bradbury Pound story is key to understanding the creation of money from nothing, the danger of private bankers meeting in secret and their complete control of the international banking system.

Wales—A testing ground for the Wellbeing Economy?

Nicola Lund

The wellbeing economy is a shift away from liberal democracy and a capitalist economy. In its simplest form, it is nothing but a rebranding of communism. 

A Lesson for the Ages—Charles Ortel on Clinton money and charity law

The world expert in Clinton money forensics illustrates ex-politicians’ common habit of taking megabucks ostensibly for charity. Follow his tips to investigate the has-been of choice in your own location.

BRICS 3.0 — What now?

Kristoffer Hell

On the last day of the BRICS meeting in Johannesburg, (22–24 August 2023), South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the current member countries will open the doors to BRICS for six new countries in 2024.

Mike from Slough talks ULEZ

Mike, from just west of Greater London, steps up to the microphone to talk about traffic charging, Mayor Sadiq Khan’s C40 Cities chairmanship and the impact of Khan’s globalist policies on the local community.

Jeffrey Tucker and the Brownstone Institute

Jeffrey Tucker discusses the Brownstone Institute and the great battle of ideas underway to inspire a restoration of freedom.

Down the Banking Rabbit Hole with Trevor Kitchen

The erosion of truth at the heart of Europe: In his third UK Column interview, Swiss banking whistleblower Trevor Kitchen elucidates the linguistic wizardry that runs the Land of Milk and Money.

Fake Money as Cluster Bomb

John Waters

Western civilisation has suffered a moral inversion achieved by an inverted form of money, flipped from rewarding work and creativity to remunerating filth, ruin and genocide in disguise.

The Financial and Intellectual Bankruptcy of the West—Bob Moriarty

Economist Bob Moriarty concludes that the West is morally, intellectually and financially bankrupt, and the world is being led towards a Third World War by a group of fools.

The Root of All Evil—John Waters

John Waters outlines a broad-brush sketch of the geopolitical effects of the truth that "the love of money is the root of all evil".

Unpicking Agenda 2030, Climate Change and more: Sandi Adams

Sandi Adams weaves through a maze of topics to build an overall picture of what the globalists have planned for us. Make use of the background reading given on this page together with the interview.

Macron and Replacement Migration: How raising the pension age led to a French dictatorship—and why Britain is even worse off

Alan Assise

Macron’s recourse to the constitutional guillotine should be a warning to us all that global governance is inconsistent with the liberal principles of democracy, common law and constitutionally limited government.

Climate narratives and energy supply as instruments of power

Johannes Eisleben

The climate narrative was made possible by the West’s cultural situation: decadence, loss of faith, empiricism, Cartesianism and Malthusianism.

Meet the Urban 7, the bridge from ‘global cities’ to world-governance policy circles

Mark Anderson

Cities, set up by statute to undertake local services, are trampling their national constitutions and literally seeking foreign policy powers. G7 policy appears to be increasingly set by city governments.

Sound reasoning and sound money in a time of economic collapse—Claudio Grass

Claudio Grass discusses exiting the doomed financial system.

The Private Bank of England Corporation

Iain Davis

Does the Government own or direct the Bank of England? Does it have the power to interfere in the Bank's "business"?

Money, Credit and Banking—Alasdair Macleod

Credit, good and bad—what is the difference? Are we being guided by wise central bankers, or led into crisis by incompetent bureaucrats running a giant confidence game? Alasdair Macleod explores the answers.

Peter Schiff on Frying Pans, Fires and Fed Policy

In a world of financial insanity, wise words are ridiculed by the masses and savoured by the few. Peter Schiff has long been the supplier of those wise words on financial markets and on government and central bank absurdity.

Contexts for Central Bank Digital Currency

Simon Elmer

What will the self-proclaimed Masters of the World do with programmable currency?

Are We Really At War? Nonsensical Sustainable Development—Part 2

Iain Davis

As the UK Government has committed to reducing emissions by "at least two-thirds by 2035", it must have some kind of energy transition magic in mind.

Are We Really At War? Nonsensical Sustainable Development—Part 1

Iain Davis

The Prime Minister calls Russia a "rogue state" and the Foreign Secretary accuses the Russian government of committing "atrocities”; yet that is no impediment to the UK Government working closely with Rosatom's commercial partners.

Sustainable Renewable Energy: Neither Sustainable Nor Renewable

Iain Davis

The whole notion of renewable energy, as it is presented to us, is essentially a ruse. It is designed to train us to accept ever more restrictions imposed upon our lives.

The Coming Dollar Collapse and the Role of Gold and Silver—Rafi Farber

Economics is not the dismal science that Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle held it to be, but rather a vital tool in understanding our world, seeing through voodoo, and avoiding catastrophe.

Who Wants a Multipolar World Order?—Part II

Iain Davis

The US no longer wishes to enjoy its "exorbitant privilege" and seems determined to boost a new global reserve currency system. Multipolarity is the essence of "Globalization 4.0".

Crisis: Housing, Covid–19 and the Emergence of a New Fascism

Author and researcher Simon Elmer joins David Scott for a unique discussion of Covid-19 and the technocratic, political, social and religious reactions to it that have led our society down the road to fascism.

The Crisis of Western Political Systems

Johannes Eisleben

For the first time in three and a half centuries, the centre cannot hold. How did we choose the ‘road to serfdom’ afresh?

Understanding the dangers of the European Arrest Warrant—Trevor Kitchen

Following his exposure of the Swiss banking system, Trevor Kitchen has been viciously hounded by both the Swiss and the EU legal systems, principally with the help of the European Arrest Warrant. Even Conservative MP Dominic Raab sees the danger, saying, "The EAW has devastated the lives of too many innocent people.” We all need to understand the dangers of this pernicious legal device.

Who Wants a Multipolar World Order?—Part I

Iain Davis

Cui bonō in the carving-up of the world into blocs?

Albania: From Soros to Blair—Dr Olsi Jazexhi (2018)

Why are so many Albanians coming to Britain? An Albanian academic explained the reason four years before the current migrant flood—and it involves Tony and Cherie Blair and George Soros.

Agenda 2030 — Part 3

Join Sandi Adams for the final instalment as she exposes the world plan now better known as Agenda 2030, and hear why she warns it must be stopped.

Agenda 2030 — Part 2

Join Sandi Adams again as she exposes the world plan now better known as Agenda 2030, and hear why she warns it must be stopped.

Robert P. Murphy, Economist of the Austrian School

Is economics really value-free? What are the effects of inflation? Is Bob only in this field for the groupies?

Agenda 2030 — Part 1

Join Sandi Adams as she exposes the world plan now better known as Agenda 2030, and hear why she warns it must be stopped.

David Shaw and the Rise of Jeff Bezos

Johnny Vedmore

Jeff Bezos has spent decades creating a heroic backstory to the founding of Amazon. But when one investigates the truth behind the manipulated mythos, the narrative Bezos has had written into the history books quickly falls apart.

19 US states fed up with BlackRock’s brazen efforts to function as a private government

Mark Anderson

A large number of American states tell a behemoth fund to stop acting as the government by setting new world order investment goals.

Deconstructing the Magic Money Tree - Episode 10

Returning from hiatus, this week Mike and David discuss inflation: its causes and the tools central bankers use to "control" it.

UKC Interview: Forex and Banking Fraud — Brian Gerrish speaks to financial whistleblower Trevor Kitchen

Trevor Kitchen describes being harried around Europe for daring to ask the Swiss to investigate currency fraud.

Are Cars Being Slyly Phased Out?

Mark Anderson

“15-minute city” planners see non-car city centres as the wave of the future.

The Official Myth of Inflation

Iain Davis

Iain Davis sets out the economy of “fairy dust” known as the derivatives market, and the “stealthy transfer of capital from the mass of the people to the select few” known as inflation. Contrary to what the BBC would have us swallow, inflation does ...

Deconstructing the Magic Money Tree - Episode 9

Deconstructing the Magic Money Tree - Episode 8

Deconstructing the Magic Money Tree - Episode 7

Deconstructing the Magic Money Tree - Episode 6

Deconstructing the Magic Money Tree - Episode 5

Deconstructing the Magic Money Tree - Episode 4

Deconstructing the Magic Money Tree - Episode 3

Deconstructing the Magic Money Tree - Episode 2

Deconstructing the Magic Money Tree - Episode 1

A letter from lockdown — Thoughts on Covid–19

David Scott

David Scott on the madness of 2020 — "a society defined by fear" that has "consented to destruction".

Carillion: Behind the Headlines

Martin Edwards

With the recent bombshell news that Carillion was going into voluntary liquidation there are growing fears that other firms such as G4S could also be at risk. News has also surfaced that KPMG is under increasing pressure and risks being investigated ...

Farewell To Thrift

David Scott

182 years ago, in January 1835, the Airdrie Savings bank opened for business. It was, and remains, a community-run venture allowing personal savings to be safely stored and wisely invested. This week it was announced that the bank will be wound down ...

Masquerade! Paper Pound Notes on Parade

David Scott

Few who are given to rational thought can look at the contemporary welfare state and not think "I can't believe it's not better". The perverse incentives, the poverty traps, the cruelty, the cost. There is plenty to bemoan.

More Accountable To The British People

Mike Robinson

Yesterday the Bank of England announced its plans for future transparency and accountablity over the setting of interest rates.

Bradbury Pound: QE By Another Name?

Mike Robinson

As people ask more questions of Parliamentarians and others about the Bradbury Pound and the policy it represents, the usual, pathetic, stock answers are thrown back at them. Lets deal with them ...

The Construction Of An Harmonious World, Sustained Peace And Joint Prosperity

Mike Robinson

For years now, I have been arguing in articles and on the UK Column News programme that the western financial system is terminally bankrupt. I am far from alone in that assessment, despite claims from politicians and so-called mainstream economic ...

Call To Action - Budget Day, 19th March

Mike Robinson

The 19th March is Budget Day, and we will be gathering in London to promote the Bradbury Pound. Our purpose will not be to protest, but to educate - the public, mainstream journalists, the police and any MPs or Lords brave enough to come and speak to ...

Bank Separation, Not

Mike Robinson

Today the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill was given Royal Assent, formalising it as an Act of Parliament.

Vince Cable - Stay In The EU So We Can "Influence" The City Of London

Mike Robinson

Switch The Lights Off

Mike Robinson

Yesterday the national grid released a document called "National Grid – Our Role In The Electricity Industry". In it they argued that in the near future they would be unable to properly fulfil their role to balance the supply of electricity across ...

1984 in the 21st Century

Malcolm Massey

Numerous articles in today’s mainstream media elude to the fact that we are fast slipping into a tightly controlled fascist existence very similar to George Orwell’s nightmarish 1984.

A New Financial Scandal - Bigger Than LIBOR?

Mike Robinson

Last Monday, our Malcolm Massey, Neil Foster and Mark Anderson took a post-Bilderberg walk around the Grove Hotel to see what they could see. What they found was a meeting room with a Thomson Reuters display panel. 

Alarm Bells Should Be Ringing—Glass Steagall And The Bradbury Pound Today!

Mike Robinson

Yesterday evening, Jon Snow tweeted "Stock Market hits a high not seen since 1999 ... do I hear alarm bells ringing ... or just the one for close of business." If alarm bells are not ringing, they should be.

A £900,000 Barclays Fraud

UK Column Reporters

On November 6, 2012 UK Column live Interviewed Watcyn Richards, a welsh farmer who had been defrauded of nearly £200,000 by Barclays bank by way of fraudulently copying his wife's signature. Following this interview, Guy Taylor, a landlord in ...

Lord Myners Calls For Full Glass Steagall

Mike Robinson

In an interview with Jon Snow on this evening's Channel 4 News, Lord Myners called for full Glass Steagall legislation to deal with the corruption of the banks, a policy I have been demanding for years.

Financial System Continues Collapse - Opportunity For Optimism

Mike Robinson

Despite the euphoric reaction of the BBC as the results of the Greek election became clear, nothing changed in Europe this morning.

The Case For A "Greenback" Pound

Justin Walker

There is one question which will have system-serving politicians and economists running for cover:  why can’t the British government through its Treasury issue  interest free money based upon the common wealth and integrity of this country - worth ...

Filthy Poor, Make Them Pay!

Mike Robinson

JP Morgan Executive Resigns, Replaced By $4.8 Billion Loser

UK Column Reporters

JP Morgan executive Ina Drew has taken the fall for last week's $2 billion loss at the investment bank. He has been replaced by Matt Zames, previously a trader at LTCM.

No Alternative To Austerity? Ask The Chinese

Mike Robinson

The effects of the collapse in the real economy globally are being felt in China. Nevertheless they continue to invest in science and infrastructure, the two key requirements for future growth.

The Disingenuousness Of Tim Worstall

Mike Robinson

EU/IMF Blackmail

UK Column Reporters

Last Friday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has attacked the European Union and the IMF for imposing political conditions on an EU-IMF loan desperately needed.

Cost Of Insuring Spanish Debt Skyrockets

UK Column Reporters

The Euro crisis continues to build as the European debt bubble becomes ever more fragile. While most of the media focus has been on Greece, Spain has been building its status as the next big collapse.

Panic Buy Fuel To Avoid Panic Buying Fuel

Mike Robinson

Like a bunch of sheep, the British people fell into the trap today, suckered into panic buying fuel in order to avoid panic buying fuel.

S&P Admits Greek Debt Will Have To Be Restructured Again

UK Column Reporters

While Moritz Kraemer, head of sovereign ratings at Standard & Poor believes Greece will have to restructure its debt once more, the ECB calls for more regime change.

Our Own Independent Body

Mike Robinson

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development if predicting that Britain will fall back into recession this quarter.

High Noon At The Financial Casino Coral

John Morton

Numerous sources, both mainstream and alternative, are reporting of a convergence of events in March that point to a massive break point in the ongoing financial collapse.

The British Lose Faith In A Meritocracy?

Mike Robinson

Britain Would Be Much Worse Off Without Quantitative Easing

Mike Robinson

Inflation Falls To 4.2% - Where's The Hyperinflation, Then?

Mike Robinson

The main cause of hyperinflation is a massive and rapid increase in the amount of money which is not supported by growth in the output of goods and services. The UK Column has been warning for a number of years now that we are staring hyperinflation ...

Markets Calm After Friday's Downgrades - Focus Continues On Greece

UK Column Reporters

The markets seem to have mostly shrugged off France's loss of its triple-A rating.

Tesco: The wages of Sin

John Morton

We are often told not to kick a man when he is down ...

You Think Britain Has A Pensions Problem?

UK Column Reporters

While we wrangle with our respective public or private employers about what pensions we might receive in the future, French pensioners are already having payments withheld.

The Financial Crash - Europe Continues Descent Into Hell

Mike Robinson

We could be forgiven for thinking that the Euro crisis has gone away, with so little coverage in the media. Sadly, it's just the calm before the storm.

The Truth About The "Robin Hood" Tax

Mike Robinson

As the Euro continues is collapse, French President Sarkozy has indicated that he will not wait for the rest of Europe to stop squabbling before imposing the financial transaction tax. 

Mankind To Colonise Space In Fifty Years

Mike Robinson

For some reason, a contact forwarded me a story from the Guardian originally published in 2002. It was just another example of WWF propaganda regarding the Earth's population. What interested me most, though, was the effort to demonise the potential for colonisation of space.

The Solution Begins With Glass Steagall

Mike Robinson

If Positive Money is not the answer, what can we do? The solution is actually not that hard. We must begin with full Glass Steagall style banking separation now, today. Not this ring fencing nonsense being pushed by Mervyn King and George Osborne.

The Problem With Positive Money

Mike Robinson

Positive Money bills itself as “a simple solution to the debt crisis”. With a cursory glance, it might appear to be making some of the right noises. On closer inspection, however, there’s just nothing there.

Is Proposed Eurozone Bailout Illegal?

Martin Edwards

In order to create the European Union it became necessary for its major proposers and supporters to undermine the democracy of the people. It stole its authority by ignoring the will of the people in various referenda. Now, in order to save its flawed currency, it seeks to make itself immune from ...

Mining Problems Again In South Wales

Pat Johnston

What is happening beneath the surface of March Hywel Mountain in south Wales? This was the location less than two weeks ago of the mining disaster at Gleision Colliery, where 4 miners lost their lives, due to an inrush of water at high pressure.

A Step In The Right Direction - UK's First Hydrogen Refuelling Station

Mike Robinson

The UK's first hydrogen refuelling station has been opened in ... Swindon. Hmmm.

Welcome To Weimar

Mike Robinson

The statements from within the global financial "leadership", and reflected in the mainstream press release mashup squad, have been staggering. There is "already a raging panic around the solvency of the European banking system", wrote the ...

IMF Still Pushing Lie That "Economy" Has Anything To Do With GDP

Mike Robinson

With typical sophistry, the IMF has announced that the global economy has entered a "dangerous phase", as if it hasn't been in a terminal phase since 2007. They have downgraded their predictions for "growth" and warn that continuing political and economic problems in the USA and Europe could push ...

Look To The Swiss, Mr Cable

Mike Robinson

Yesterday's rather pathetic speech by Vince Cable demonstrates once again that British politicians - even those who appear to be critical of the banks - are, in reality, working for them.

Polish Finance Minister: "War In Ten Years" If Euro Rescue Fails

Mike Robinson

Born into a Polish exile family living in London, Former Tory Party member Jan Vincent-Rostowski is currently Finance Minster of Poland. He is utterly pro-Euro and extremely keen to see Poland join the Euro as soon as possible.

Gleision Colliery

Pat Johnston

Our hearts go out to those who wait for news of their loved ones at Gleision Colliery in South Wales and right now the focus of attention must rightly be the rescue efforts currently underway.

How Close Is JP Morgan To Collapse?

Mike Robinson

In January 2007, Bear Stearns was worth $20 billion. By Friday, 14th March, 2008, it was worth $3.5 billion. Three days later, on Monday, 17th March, it was bought by JP Morgan for $236 million.

Quantitative Easing - Alive & Well

Mike Robinson

The UK is not in the firing line, says William Hague. He must have been on drugs or something, because aside from that, he believes that European nations need to "demonstrate to the satisfaction of financial markets the credibility of their own intentions to bring their deficits and debts under ...

The Cattle Are Being Stolen, You Bloody Cowards!

Mike Robinson

In 2008, then South African president Thabo Mbeki’s mother, wrote an open letter to the South African people, severely criticising the nation's political leadership. Published in the Johannesburg Sunday Times, she concluded: "South Africa wake up ...

Boccacio's Ghost Haunts The Corridors Of Power

John Morton

Past Is Not Prologue Readers of my articles in the UK Column over recent years may have puzzled at the long silence. Without boring you with the details, let it be said that a tactical retreat is not to be confused with capitulation, but part of ...

Save This Nation - Rebuild The Economy

Mike Robinson

The ignorance of the majority of our political classes to the enormity of the financial crisis that we face is staggering. Their wilful denial of the fact of the continuing collapse of our nation, its institutions and ways of life is absolute ...

Is There No End To The Financial Insanity?

Mike Robinson

The last forty years have seen record levels of insanity in the financial sector. Drunk on the possibility of "making money", individuals with no thought to the impact on the lives of the real human beings on this planet, have demonstrated a ...

Behind The Sovereign Debt Crisis

Mike Robinson

The yields on Irish government debt (specifically 10 year bonds) rose to over 9% on Thursday last week on the rumours that Ireland was needing to go cap in hand to the EU for a further bailout. The Irish government denied this in a fairly carefully ...

Rise Of The Kleptocrats

Mike Robinson

The Federal Reserve Bank's announcement of QE2, the second round of American Quantitative Easing, on the 3rd of November, caused a tidal wave of funny money to hit the markets as "investors" decided to place their bets on stocks and commodities ...

Glass Steagall Today, Before It's Too Late

Mike Robinson

Britain's banks are bankrupt. We have said it many times. They are trading while insolvent, and in this country at least, that is illegal.

Honda FCX Arrives In Britain

Mike Robinson

The use of batteries alone to power cars is clearly a bit nutty. Poor performance, a short operating range and long recharge times make their practicality limited.

China Plans 600mph Maglev Train

Mike Robinson

China's public transport plans can only be described as impressive.

More Lies

Mike Robinson

The banks are back in profit, and the bankers can afford a 25% increase in bonuses. So, all's well that ends well, isn't it? Well, isn't it?

Surviving The Perfect Storm

Mike Robinson

Britain is bankrupt. There's no getting around that fact. We have a national debt of over £900 billion and rising. We have a massive black hole in the public pension pot of £1.2 trillion. We have personal debt of £1.5 trillion. That is a total ...

The Lima Declaration - Foundation Of Globalisation

Mike Robinson

On the 22nd of February, the Register, a UK technology website, published an article entitled "The Myth Of Britain's Manufacturing Decline." What, I wondered, could a publication that focusses on IT and finds "amusing" positions to place Playmobil ...

Darling Asset Stripping Britain

Mike Robinson

As is usual with a Budget, the media concentrates on the nonsense. Stamp duty, drink, cigarettes and petrol are the things the BBC and the rest report on, ignoring the elephant in the room.

The End Of Globalisation - Towards A Community Of Principle

John Morton

Two systems are before the world…. One looks to pauperism, ignorance, depopulation, and barbarism; the other to increasing wealth, comfort, intelligence, combination of action, and civilization. One looks toward universal war; the other to ...

Recedentia: Legatum Sounds The Retreat

John Morton

Smarting from a summer of virulently anti-capitalist, anti-globalist, anti-well-just-about-everything sentiment, the Gods of the free market pantheon gathered at a recent half day seminar on the causes of the financial crisis to discuss and debate ...

The End Of The United States

Mike Robinson

As I write this, in a real sucker punch, the FTSE is up 10% so far today. Hooray, the world is saved! Or not.

Rebuilding A Nation

Mike Robinson

Britain is in a state of collapse. That must seem like a redundant statement, since just about everyone recognises it. Things are getting bad enough that even our immigration "problem" seems to be solving itself.

60 Days To Doom

John Morton

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.  - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Bank Of England, Sterling & Government Treason

Mike Robinson

Many people believe that the Bank of England is a privately owned corporation. Many people believe that it's owned by the Rothchilds. Neither of these beliefs is true.

A New World Order Is Emerging

Mike Robinson

Those were the closing words of the new global chancellor of nothing yesterday, during his post G20 summit speech. "These are not just a single collection of actions," he said, "This is collective action; people at their best. I think a New World ...

A Tale Of Two Ideologies

John Morton

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Hustle!

Mike Robinson

The IMF is out of cash. That is, according to the governor of Mexico's Central Bank, Guillermo Ortiz, at this years otherwise absolutely insane Davos economic forum, who said, "The IMF does not have enough money for what is coming."

Public Inquiry

Mike Robinson

It is truly incredible how brass necked the financial elites and their political puppets in all parties have been in treating the world financial system as their personal cash machine, while the "experts" who, until recently, were "completely ...

A Matter Of Approach

Mike Robinson

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that those pushing global warming are correct. Let's say that we are, in fact, all going to die as a result of carbon dioxide emissions from power generation and transporting goods. Go on, you can suspend your ...

The Harmony Of Interests

Mike Robinson

The collapse of the financial system in 2008 reinvigorated Gordon Brown. Just a few months before, he was rapidly becoming a lame duck, hardly able to stay awake. Suddenly, he was pushed forward as the Global Chancellor of the Exchequer. Getting ...

Derivatives "Death Star" Coming To A Nation State Near You

John Morton

Fear and panic has gripped the world over the last two weeks as crisis meeting after crisis meeting has done more to stoke the carbon swaps market than the collective hot air from the lunatic global warming falange.

Barberism!

Mike Robinson

Last night's Channel 4 News carried an interview between John Snow and the TUC's Brendan Barber.

There's A Hole In My Bucket

Mike Robinson

Never Mind Lisbon, Europe Is Dead

Mike Robinson

Germany has joined Ireland and Greece in declaring that private citizens' savings will be protected by the state. In doing so, they seem to have dealt a massive blow to the very foundations of the Tower of Babel that is the Maastricht Treaty. At ...

Wizards & Fairies In Kabuki-Land

John Morton

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

Collapsing House Of Cards

Mike Robinson

Don't Tread On Me!

John Morton

Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy? A Republic, if you can keep it. - Benjamin Franklin, 1787