August, 2025 | Consciousness of Sheep
Planning for cascades| Consciousness of Sheep
Britain’s story is different in detail but has some interesting parallels. The post And the people waved flags first appeared on Consciousness of Sheep.| Consciousness of Sheep
It is difficult to see a way out for a UK government that insists on pursuing failed neoliberal monetary policies| Consciousness of Sheep
The current UK policy fails to meet all three key energy priorities.| Consciousness of Sheep
With tedious predictability, the people – politicians, journalists and keyboard warriors – that David Graeber referred to as “the extreme centre,” are blaming Britain’s vegetable shortage on Brexit, even though three-quarters of the foods involved are usually grown within the UK, where free movement still exists for European pickers. Indeed, even the tighter regulation of| Consciousness of Sheep
The economics of every era is a plausible myth… persuasive, common sensical, and wrong| Consciousness of Sheep
Enough former Tory voters have switched to third parties, directly to Labour, or given up voting, to cause a big Tory defeat| Consciousness of Sheep
What we are observing is the decay of democracy into its evil twin… technocracy.| Consciousness of Sheep
In the UK a change of government has proved to be no change in government at all| Consciousness of Sheep
The collapse in oil prices since 2008 is fuelling the myth that demand for oil has peaked| Consciousness of Sheep
There is a word that sums up the trends now emerging in the UK… stagflation.| Consciousness of Sheep
One reason why we are at increasing risk from crumbling infrastructure is that maintenance is not really in anyone’s job description.| Consciousness of Sheep
One reason why we are at increasing risk from crumbling infrastructure is that maintenance is not really in anyone’s job description.| Consciousness of Sheep
The loss of 10 percent of deliveries in a complex just-in-time system was all it took to initiate a “cascading collapse.” The post Liebig’s Law applies first appeared on Consciousness of Sheep.| Consciousness of Sheep
The crises breaking over our heads have been decades in the making| Consciousness of Sheep
The distribution of income and wealth favours the rich far more than the old.| Consciousness of Sheep
In recent years, government budgets, spring statements and spending reviews have tended to unravel within hours.| Consciousness of Sheep
In a country where people of a certain political persuasion whine endlessly about privilege, it is remarkable that they overlook the greatest privilege of all. This is the privilege conferred upon them by dint of having – or having unique access to – the world’s reserve currency. In the 1960s, Jacques Rueff, economic advisor to| Consciousness of Sheep
While “oil” production has bounced back from the lockdown slump, diesel production is still lagging below the 2018 peak| Consciousness of Sheep
The reason UK industrial electricity prices are the highest in the world is a simple combination of physics and neoliberal policy.| Consciousness of Sheep
There are many reasons for the slow death of pub culture in the UK, but government is among the biggest.| Consciousness of Sheep
We are now reaping the consequences of decisions made half a century ago| Consciousness of Sheep
There is a more disturbing historical parallel... not Germany in the 1930s, but Britain in the 1630s.| Consciousness of Sheep
Our predicament is not dissimilar to that of a cancer patient... There is no good alternative.| Consciousness of Sheep
Simply saying “it couldn’t happen here,” is the worse form of denial at this point.| Consciousness of Sheep
Actually, not only can a sovereign state go bust, but it has already happened… and to a modern state not so far from home.| Consciousness of Sheep
But one thing above all stood in the way of peace… what we today refer to as the psychology of previous investment.| Consciousness of Sheep
This is turning out to be one of those occasions when the satirists are closer to the truth than the professional pundits| Consciousness of Sheep
In the early-2010s there was a perverse repeat of the oil boom of the post-war years.| Consciousness of Sheep
Britain, to paraphrase John McCain, is a tax haven masquerading as a country| Consciousness of Sheep
Was it calculated evil or “just” stupidity? That is a question left hanging by the historians, and it is left to the reader to draw a conclusion…| Consciousness of Sheep
Most people who are out of work with mental illness were previously in work with mental illness.| Consciousness of Sheep
As industrial civilisation hurtles past limits, having decision makers largely illiterate about STEM subjects is as dangerous as Earth limits themselves.| Consciousness of Sheep
In an unravelling economy, one person’s tax increase must be another person’s price cut, and vice versa.| Consciousness of Sheep
The Consciousness of Sheep series| Consciousness of Sheep
In lenocratic Britain, failure is by design. To understand this, simply ask cui bono?| Consciousness of Sheep
While the labour government will have absolute control over legislation, almost all of the problems before us are administrative…| Consciousness of Sheep
The betrayal is all the greater because of the false promises made to millions of former Labour voters who lent their votes to Boris Johnson in 2019| Consciousness of Sheep
Increasing numbers – particularly younger generations – are coming to understand that the entire system is rotten.| Consciousness of Sheep
The role of establishment media is not to educate and inform (and the entertainment is pretty shit these days too).| Consciousness of Sheep
The very last thing Sunak needed to do was invite the comparison between the Tories and a sinking ship.| Consciousness of Sheep
While the establishment media attempted to polish the economic data, anyone looking for a ray of good news in the details would have quickly realised that there was none.| Consciousness of Sheep
It is insane to believe that a country which can neither make nor import steel can also be a world leader in constructing windfarms| Consciousness of Sheep
A large part of the over-50s have simply disappeared from the employment figures entirely , and so can't be coerced.| Consciousness of Sheep
The obvious absence of an alternative to oil should have been a cause for concern from the outset.| Consciousness of Sheep
“Tamping down on demand” is an interesting way of describing what amounts to the irreversible deindustrialisation of the continent...| Consciousness of Sheep
Once an imperial currency system has matured, it is easy to believe that “who controls money can control the world." But the system only works so long as industrial power continues to grow.| Consciousness of Sheep
Over the past few decades, the BBC has undergone the same collapse in journalistic standards which afflicts the legacy media in general.| Consciousness of Sheep
Only by reading between the lines do we get a glimpse of what is actually happening.| Consciousness of Sheep
London is displaying all of the symptoms of decline which were so obvious in places like Blackpool a generation ago.| Consciousness of Sheep
