Turning every unemployed person into a doctor is neither possible nor desirable. But if you do the math, that seems to be where England is heading. It’s a few months since I […]
Brexit Britain Bigotry Bake-off
Gavin Chait
Economist, data scientist, entrepreneur, author. Fascinated by the frontiers of human progress: innovation vs ignorance; wealth vs poverty. Oh, and coffee. @GavinChait and https://gavinchait.com
#Brexit: when the walls started coming up again all over Europe
‘Everything I know about the world has changed. Things are going to get very dark and very ugly. There will be fear and suspicion and it will not end.’ I remember where […]
Reaching the ‘other’ – why being popular in social media doesn’t work for politicians
The great thing about being an artist is that – if you’re lucky enough to find a bunch of people willing to buy what you produce – you need never compromise your […]
If you believe in your ideals, vote for unprincipled bastards – lessons from Corbyn, Trump, Sanders, Cruz and Paul
If you truly believe in your ideals, do not – under any circumstances – vote for an idealist. Political opinion has never been homogenous. As society has become wealthier and stratified into […]
Tony Blair, the Honeywell Bubble Count, and the political struggle to understand the Internet’s rage machine
Tony Blair (yes, that Tony Blair) has been desperately trying to understand the outrage and energy that will see Jeremy Corbyn, a desperate Cold War-era hard-left throwback, become head of his precious […]
Mourning the passing of online friends
“We are who we are because of who we love,” said my wife, “and it will always be so.” We were discussing life, and its transience, off of two years in which […]
Greece votes “No,” leaving us where?
When Yanis Varoufakis left academia to take up his position as Greece’s finance minister after the far-left electoral victory which brought Syriza to power, he said words to the effect that – […]
Israel’s emphatic election result embraces the Apartheid state
Israel’s new Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, now has a mandate from Israelis to implement his policy: no Palestinian state, and preferential rights for Jewish Israelis. Let’s be quite clear where that takes […]
Rereading Atlas Shrugged as South Africa becomes a dictatorship
Karl Marx was a brilliant diagnostician. His analysis of the way in which unregulated capitalism can drive inequality was incisive, especially considering the lack of data available to him to prove his […]
Novel Journey 9: In which the author figures out his pricing so he can publish
“Father, tell me a story?” asks Isaiah, moments before an alien craft smashes into the jungle near his isolated Nigerian village. Inside is the shattered body of a man. With his orbital […]
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