There is no way to say this politely but that is what Wale Edun is doing – driving Nigeria to destruction. There  are three root causes to Nigeria’s destruction. There is of course one instance of the Roman Emperorship being bought outright by a bidder, Didius Julianus, whose lack of appropriate skill and shows of cowardice led to his being assassinated a few months later. (Leigh-Howarth 2022) Great leaders previously could eschew wealth given they had great power. Now…

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President Xi announced the greatest earthquake for the 21st Century so far. It is possible to misunderstand it which is why I will explain it further.  All recent great economic transformations have been based on market access. First was Japan’s access to the US market. During the 1980’s, when talk was of Japan becoming No.1, the US extended market access to ASEAN countries as a way to cut off Japan at the knees. Many of these Asian tigers had…

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There is a fundamental misunderstanding of the Ukraine war among Western commentators because there is failure to understand ‘endless war’. Over and over again, I hear dissident observers all over Europe explaining how absurd and irrational European policy is. From senior to junior commentators, this is repeated ad nauseam. They do not stop to consider that this is absurd. A policy that is sustained cannot be ‘irrational’. It merely means that the true policy itself is misunderstood. Even the…

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Many people in England have a self image in respect of their behaviour that does not meet with reality because they never get a reflection back. For most of them, they can define their relationship with ‘others’ in society. ‘Living on the Hill’ is a series aimed at putting up a mirror of sorts. Did I say unbiased mirror? No! Hopefully, it will be full of my own quirks and the devil’s humour. But a mirror nonetheless. In this…

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Philosophy There is a  unique role that the word ‘rationality’ plays in Western culture. According to the standard trope rationality is a mystical quality. It has the following virtues; Ancient Greek philosophy, it is claimed, was the birth of the first attempt to understand the world using rationality. One author writes:  “Ancient Greek philosophy brought Logos to fore and defined it as the crucial problem and the postulate of the human. We translate the Greek term Logos in English…

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Enough is enough. However much one might admire some of the outspoken views of Douglas Macgregor his outspoken racism must be called out. Macgregor’s interview All the problems of the US are caused by the massive influx of non-Europeans into the US. It is these people who assist in totally rigging elections in large cities for the Democratic Party. In large cities , according to Macgregor, all the voting is fraudulent. Even the Tech entrepreneurs who came to the…

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