Antony Antoniou
Editorial

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Europe’s Competitiveness Moment

January 2, 2026

Europe’s Competitiveness Moment Why the “Draghi Report” Sparked Reform Talk—Yet Little Real Change Just over a year ago, a high-profile report authored by former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi landed in Brussels with the force of a political shockwave. It did not merely recycle familiar concerns about Europe’s sluggish...

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...

How the Vertical Corridor Redrew Europe’s Energy Map

How the Vertical Corridor Redrew Europe’s Energy Map The remaking of Europe’s energy architecture did...

European Union Agrees €90 Billion Loan for Ukraine but Rejects Use of Frozen Russian Assets

European Union Agrees €90 Billion Loan for Ukraine but Rejects Use of Frozen Russian Assets...

Bank of England Rate Cut to 3.75%

Bank of England Rate Cut to 3.75% What the Bank of England’s Decision Reveals About...

The Quiet Deterioration of the UK Banking System

The Quiet Deterioration of the UK Banking System In recent months, a growing number of...

Europe’s Managed Decline

Europe’s Managed Decline How Germany’s Crisis Threatens the Continent Europe’s largest economy is undergoing a...

How Germany devalued the Deutsche Mark to gain the Euro advantage

How Germany devalued the Deutsche Mark to gain the Euro advantage In popular memory the...

UK and the European Union: A Shared Descent into Economic Stagnation

UK and the European Union: A Shared Descent into Economic Stagnation Standing on the banks...

Germany’s $500 Billion Energy Miscalculation

Germany’s $500 Billion Energy Miscalculation How an Industrial Powerhouse Trapped Itself Germany, long regarded as...

The End of Economic Growth

The End of Economic Growth How Population Collapse Is Reshaping the Global Economy Introduction: A...

Why Europe Struggles to Reform

Why Europe Struggles to Reform The Structural Limits of the European Union The European Union...

The American Economic Cheat Code Explained

The American Economic Cheat Code Explained How the Global System Became Structurally Rigged Imagine a...

Europe’s Economy – A Deepening Crisis and Its Structural Fault Lines

Europe’s Economy - A Deepening Crisis and Its Structural Fault Lines Imagine in the near future...

Europe’s Slow Unravelling

Europe’s Slow Unravelling Why the European Union Is Drifting Towards Imperial Decline For much of...

Capitalism vs Socialism – What Actually Worked — and What Never Did

Capitalism vs Socialism - What Actually Worked — and What Never Did An Expanded Historical...

Why the United Kingdom Faces an Almost Impossible Debt Crisis

Why the United Kingdom Faces an Almost Impossible Debt Crisis For centuries, the United Kingdom...

How the Ultra-Wealthy Exercise Structural Control Over Governments

How the Ultra-Wealthy Exercise Structural Control Over Governments Modern democracies present themselves as systems in...

How the United States Is Quietly Erasing Its $38 Trillion Debt

How the United States Is Quietly Erasing Its $38 Trillion Debt Gold, Bitcoin, and the...

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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