NONFICTION

In a world that feels like it’s crumbling around us, we deserve to have people in public offices that push for institutional, structural change instead of bandaid solutions. The work cannot be done through politics alone, but it’s time for a new generation of leaders that are willing to not only hold the line but to do the unthinkable: build something better.

The orthodoxy has failed us when it comes to analyzing inflation. The simplified see-saw, with inflation on one end and unemployment on the other, is a valuable key to understanding inflation, but it’s not the full picture. The stagflation that plagued the 1970s is clear evidence that this dynamic is not consistent. Focusing on employment does not cut it, especially in a situation as unique as a post-pandemic economy.

My ballot is a list of unopposed nominees this year, a touch-screen coronation for machine men and women who waited their turn and reached the front of the line. For me, there is no line. I’m in and out in a minute. I don’t vote for anybody running unopposed; there’s something I can’t stand about that…

Voting for Reform is the same cultural, fear-based voting from our society’s elderly that led to Brexit, why else would a population who lives off of benefits in the form of pensions and requires far more socialised medical care vote for a party which stands for cutting benefits and privatising the NHS?

In the spring of 1778, Philadelphia was an occupied city. After defeats at Brandywine Creek and Germantown in the autumn of 1777, George Washington’s army had retreated to Valley Forge. The Liberty Bell was smuggled out of the city and hidden in a basement in Allentown for fear that it would be melted down to make bullets for the occupation.

Thames Water is about to go bankrupt and it would be a robbery to let the Government sell off our water to the highest bidder once again.