The great English Radical, William Cobbett, once said “I defy you to agitate a fellow with a full stomach”. Economic security and wellbeing make for a very comfortable if not complacent populace. Perhaps the contrary is true. Perhaps the source of our current malaise and the extremist threat to our democracy embodied in the Tea […]

Well now. I hope you all feel a lot better. The crisis engulfed us five years ago. Since then … Welcome to the new boss, same as the old boss. Not much is different except the public is more disaffected than ever. Policy ranges between inept and horrible. And the front pages in the business […]