Economic Changes (1975–2025) Wage Stagnation and Cost of Living After robust post-war growth, the UK experienced a dramatic slowdown in real income growth. Real wages grew by roughly 33% per decade from 1970 to 2007, but since the 2008 financial crisis they have flatlined (Why has it taken so long […]
Financial Sector Dominance in Modern Economies
Introduction Over the past century, banking and financial services have expanded from a supporting role in the economy to a dominant force shaping economic outcomes. This process of financialisation has seen finance grow rapidly relative to other sectors, with banks and markets exerting outsized influence on policy and everyday life. […]
Britain – A Tragic Fall from Greatness.
It’s a tragic fall from greatness, and it’s not just nostalgia or ego the facts back it up. Britain led the world in engineering, science, and industry, only to throw it all away due to political incompetence, bureaucratic short-sightedness, and corporate greed. Britain created industry as we know it today, […]
The Rise of AI-Driven Authoritarianism
A Threat to Democracy and Freedom? The Real AI Apocalypse? For decades, discussions about AI have centred around science fiction fears, killer robots, self-aware machines, and an AI overthrow of humanity. However, what if the real danger isn’t the AI itself, but how governments, corporations, and institutions use it to […]
Welcome to British Democracy
British Democracy is a new political force, determined to put the power back in the hands of the people who live in these lands we all call home. The current political system is a hypocrisy not a democracy, the people have been given the vote, but in essence this was […]