So What? | Samuel Martin
At the start of last month, the first results of the 2021 UK Census were published. As many will recall, the results were simultaneously, although not quite paradoxically, shocking and expected. The information published...
Think Tank
China’s Failing Cultural Mindset | Nathan Wilson
As a follow up to my first mini talk about Chinese Demographics and why this will result in China not becoming a major superpower, I thought I would write about a different key factor...
Execution by Accounting | Samuel Turnball
This month the Bank of England recently announced a rise of interest rates by 0.75%. What has been touted as the fastest interest rate rise in 30 years of UK economic history, is in...
Oswald Spengler: Prophet of Doom? | Boško Vuković
The legendary German historian, Oswald Spengler, was born in the German Empire on the 29th of May, 1880 AD. He is best known for his two-volume book The Decline of the West, published after...
One Simple Way to Fix the Government | Daniel Evans
Sorry, not this government. The idea of proportional representation seems to be fluttering about, but you don’t even need to go that far. There’s a much simpler solution which doesn’t rely on changing the...
Forget The Greenbelt: YIMBYs Should Focus On Permitted Development | Alice Cassandra
Britain needs housing. We all (aside from a tiny minority who don’t understand the concept of household formation) know this. And those of us who want that housing all know exactly who is to...
Tyranny in Plain Sight: The Classism of Modern Architecture | Mitchell Foyle-York
“Very few faults of architecture are mistakes of honest choice: they are almost always hypocrisies”. There is perhaps no greater testament to the genius of John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice than this claim....
Ernesto Laclau: The most important thinker you’ve never heard of | Jake Scott
There are certain darlings of the New Left: Michel Foucault; Gilles Deleuze; Judith Butler; Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri; Slavoj Zizek. These thinkers have, in ways that are becoming only more apparent, shaped the...
The Collapse of Complex Systems (Part 2) | Nathan Wilson
This is the second of two essays by The Mallard’s Nathan Wilson on the collapse of complex systems. Part one can be read here. The UK | Managerial The UK is very interesting because...
The Collapse of Complex Systems (Part 1) | Nathan Wilson
This is the first of two essays by The Mallard’s Nathan Wilson on the collapse of complex systems. Introduction In the coming years, we are going to witness the partial collapse of various complex...
