Antony Antoniou
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France at a Crossroads

February 17, 2026

France at a Crossroads The Four Structural Fault Lines Weakening a Modern Power For generations, France has embodied a dream. It is the world’s most visited nation, home to iconic landmarks, celebrated cuisine, enviable cultural heritage, and a lifestyle admired across continents. With its six weeks of paid annual leave,...

Europe’s Quiet Demographic Unravelling

Europe’s Quiet Demographic Unravelling A Continent Confronting Its Vanishing Future From afar, Europe still presents...

Bitcoin after the crash

Bitcoin after the crash Value, viability and the consequences of a zero-price outcome Bitcoin has...

Why Some Older Men Are Choosing Solitude Over Romance

Why Some Older Men Are Choosing Solitude Over Romance A Quiet Revolution In a quiet...

Spain’s Youth Unemployment Crisis

Spain’s Youth Unemployment Crisis A Structural Failure Decades in the Making Across Europe, Spain has...

Why the World Cannot Walk Away from the United States

Why the World Cannot Walk Away from the United States The Anatomy of the...

The Coming Population Collapse

The Coming Population Collapse Why the Crisis Is Deeper and Faster Than Expected For decades,...

The Silent Financial Exodus

The Silent Financial Exodus Debt, Capital Flight and the Recurring Pattern of Monetary Collapse The...

Is a Market Crash on the Horizon in 2026?

Is a Market Crash on the Horizon in 2026? A Deep Dive into Global Economic...

When Capitalism No Longer Needs Workers

When Capitalism No Longer Needs Workers Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Global Economy...

Donald Trump speaks at World Economic Forum in Davos

Donald Trump speaks at World Economic Forum in Davos Summary of President Trump's Speech President...

America’s Invisible Debt Strategy

America’s Invisible Debt Strategy How Inflation Quietly Erases Trillions By late 2025, the United States...

The Currency That Enslaved Half of Europe

The Currency That Enslaved Half of Europe How the Euro Became a Modern Economic Cage...

The Day the British Empire Actually Died

The Day the British Empire Actually Died Financial Warfare and the Suez Crisis of 1956...

The Anatomy of Imperial Decline

The Anatomy of Imperial Decline A Study of the Cyclical Nature of Civilisations The historical...

The Weimar Moment

The Weimar Moment Why America’s Inflation Echoes Germany’s Collapse of 1923 In the winter...

The Great Wealth Migration

The Great Wealth Migration Why the Global Elite are Choosing the Gulf The lobby of...

Europe’s Competitiveness Moment

Europe’s Competitiveness Moment Why the “Draghi Report” Sparked Reform Talk—Yet Little Real Change Just over...

Denmark’s Hard Line on Immigration

Denmark’s Hard Line on Immigration From Humanitarian Model to Fortress State For many years Denmark...

The Regression of Human Intelligence

The Regression of Human Intelligence Why Modern Society Is Becoming Increasingly Stupid Introduction: The Paradox...

How France’s Strategy to Contain Germany Backfired

How France’s Strategy to Contain Germany Backfired The Euro Trap In 2010, Europe stood at...

Europe’s Gathering Economic Storm

Europe’s Gathering Economic Storm Why the Eurozone’s Crisis Is Becoming Mathematically Inevitable A technical report...

Why Italy Struggles to Grow

Why Italy Struggles to Grow The Legacy of the Lira and a System Stuck in...

Luxembourg’s Artuso Report and the Reckoning with Wartime Collaboration

Luxembourg’s Artuso Report and the Reckoning with Wartime Collaboration In February 2015, the Grand Duchy...

Why the Rich Are Going Broke at Record Rates

Why the Rich Are Going Broke at Record Rates In the popular imagination, wealth equates...

Why a Stagnant China May Be More Dangerous Than a Rising One

Why a Stagnant China May Be More Dangerous Than a Rising One Imagine it is...

The China Housing Crash

The China Housing Crash Ghost Cities and a Global Warning In the early 2020s, a...

Why Britain Is Becoming the Poor Man of Western Europe

Why Britain Is Becoming the Poor Man of Western Europe In recent years, Britain’s economic...

Why everyone is leaving Britain

Why everyone is leaving Britain Britain at a Crossroads: Structural Decay, Cultural Denial, and the...

Why Italy Is Going Broke

Why Italy Is Going Broke Italy is one of the world’s largest economies, a founding...

Iraq’s Looming Water Catastrophe

Iraq’s Looming Water Catastrophe The Tigris at a Turning Point: Turkey’s Dam and the Tigris...

How Water Scarcity Is Remaking the Islamic World

How Water Scarcity Is Remaking the Islamic World The contemporary crisis facing many Muslim-majority countries...

Sweden’s Immigration U‑Turn

Sweden’s Immigration U‑Turn From Humanitarian Superpower to Restrictive Outlier For decades, Sweden was widely regarded...

The Economy

The UK Economy Meltdown

The UK Economy Meltdown Worse Than You Think The latest GDP data has revealed...

They Are Coming for Everything You Own

They Are Coming for Everything You Own How the UK Tax Landscape Is Changing As...

Why Lower Interest Rates Won’t Rescue the UK Economy

Why Lower Interest Rates Won’t Rescue the UK Economy At its most recent meeting, the...

Why the Bank of England’s Interest Rate Cut Is a Warning Sign

Why the Bank of England’s Interest Rate Cut Is a Warning Sign This is Not...

Eduction

HMRC Poised to Claw Back Millions in Early Private School Prepayments as VAT Deadline Looms

HMRC Poised to Claw Back Millions in Early Private School Prepayments as VAT Deadline Looms...

Labour’s VAT Policy and the Crisis in Private Education

Labour’s VAT Policy and the Crisis in Private Education The Cost of a Promise: In...

Muslim Student’s Legal Challenge Against School’s Prayer Ban Dismissed by High Court

Muslim Student's Legal Challenge Against School's Prayer Ban Dismissed by High Court A Muslim student's...

Teacher Fired for Refusing to Use Transgender Student’s Pronouns Has No Regrets

Teacher Fired for Refusing to Use Transgender Student's Pronouns Has No Regrets In a recent...

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