‘Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal’ – Nietzsche. Just over a year ago, Jacques…
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Radix Big Tent’s word of the year at the beginning of 2024 was “Dull”. It seemed to us that a period of stability after the…
I often kid myself that nothing surprises me any longer. And yet… At a recent event I was chatting to a successful business leader who…
This is impossible in the UK now. Eventually, it may become necessary. In a rapidly evolving society, where the need for local adaptation increasingly challenges…
The U.S. national debt just passed $36 trillion, only four months after it passed $35 trillion and up $2 trillion for the year. Third quarter data is…
It can’t have passed anyone by (well maybe my teenage children until I told them) that the new National Planning Policy Framework was published yesterday….
The capture of Damascus on December 8th, 2024, by the HTC (Hayat Tahrir al-Cham, Levant Liberation Organization) rebels, after a wild twelve-day race that took…
“The psychological principles that govern the perception of decision problems and the evaluation of probabilities and outcomes produce predictable shifts of preference when the same…
Over the past three years, bank lending to productive industries — what we might call the “real economy”— has consistently declined, with 2023 seeing a…
Trust in politics and politicians has been pounded in recent decades. Politics is punch drunk from wave after wave of embarrassing revelations. The expenses scandal,…
There has been much talk recently about the ‘unacceptable’ rates of economic inactivity among UK workers. ‘A country of shirkers’ seems to risk becoming the…