How Taxpayers Lose Out While Private Profits Soar Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are often sold as efficient, innovative solutions to deliver essential public services. In practice, many of these deals in the UK have brought ballooning costs, poor outcomes, and handsome profits for private firms. Worse, some of these companies have links to politicians and use … Read more
Ministers now promise that existing claimants of PIP and LCWRA won’t face immediate cuts, but these assurances are only just being formalised and remain vague. Meanwhile, the legislation is being rushed through Parliament with little time for proper scrutiny. Crucially, from 2026, new claimants will still face harsh new rules. The “four-point rule” will make … Read more
How the UK Government Plans to Seize Funds and Suspend Rights Without Due Process Imagine waking up to find your bank account frozen, your driving licence suspended, and your name flagged as a fraudster, all without a day in court.This is not dystopian fiction. It is what the UK government’s Public Authorities (Fraud, Error, and … Read more
When Isaac Asimov introduced the concept of psychohistory in his Foundation series, it felt like pure science fiction. A fantastical blend of sociology, mathematics and statistical foresight, it enabled one man to predict and reshape the fate of a galactic empire. But in today’s world of artificial intelligence and big data, Asimov’s ideas feel less … Read more
President Donald Trump has sparked fresh debate over US involvement in Middle East military operations after his latest social media post pointedly referred to joint US-Israeli strategy against Iran. Responding to recent escalations, Trump declared, “We are not going to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – at least not for now. We know … Read more
Introduction As Artificial Intelligence becomes more deeply embedded in our societies, questions about its governance, ethics, and purpose become impossible to ignore. Will AI empower the many, or enrich the few? Will it amplify human agency or replace it? Will it uphold truth, fairness, and sustainability, or serve profit-driven interests? To explore these questions, I … Read more
Prologue: It All Started With a Steal They said I lost. But I checked, and I hadn’t. Fake news. Bad math. I won, bigly. History will remember January 6 as the day America almost got it right, a tremendous, beautiful day full of passion, flags, and just a little misunderstood felony trespassing. The fake historians … Read more
