Society after Coronavirus essay #10: a short history of plagues
This is the tenth in a series of essays exploring the economic, social and cultural effects upon the daily lives of persons living in the... Read More
Society after Coronavirus essay #9: what’s wrong with lockdown measures
This is the ninth in a series of essays exploring the economic, social and cultural effects upon the daily lives of persons living in the... Read More
Rule by decree of a ‘Lord Protector’: lessons from history
How bad can any pandemic be, that it causes our government to revert to Cromwellian-era distortions and disturbances of our natural liberties of there proud isles?... Read More
Society after Coronavirus essay #7: Universal Basic Income
This is the seventh in a series of essays exploring the economic, social and cultural effects upon the daily lives of persons living in the... Read More
Society after Coronavirus essay #6: the Revolution in Agriculture
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Society after Coronavirus essay #5: International Healthcare Co-operation
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Society after Coronavirus essay #4: Crime, War and Terror
This is the fourth in a series of essays exploring the economic, social and cultural effects upon the daily lives of persons living in the... Read More
Society after Coronavirus essay #3: the Growth of Government
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Society after Coronavirus essay #2: Hospitality and Real Estate
This is the second in a series of essays exploring the economic, social and cultural effects upon the daily lives of persons living in the... Read More
Society after Coronavirus essay #1: Transport
This is the first in a series of essays exploring the economic, social and cultural effects upon the daily lives of persons living in the... Read More
Pandemic and patronage
Our social retreat enables trust-based networks while further weakening faltering political institutions in the Balkans and elsewhere.
Unlocking Europe
Covid-19 is not nearly as deadly as the other pandemic diseases, such as the Spanish ‘flu or the Bubonic Plague, that have periodically swept the... Read More
Coronavirus and narcotics – geopolitical comparison
One way of stamping upon the scourge of drugs, and the deaths they cause, would be indefinitely to lock everyone in their homes so they... Read More
After the plague
The post-capitalist world that may await us, should we delay resurrection of our ordinarily functioning society, may not at all be to our liking. We... Read More
What questions should we be asking about the Coronavirus?
We need better data, and we need to test specific standardised communities to assess the true nature of the medical risk we face. Only then... Read More
