Americans elected Donald Trump more as a rejection of left-wing elitism.
Category: Governance
Why Industry is Fucked
Two decades of well funded anti-capitalist attacks, a lack of leadership and a rogue WHO means industry has no future.
Toward an EU White Paper on Risk Management
The EU has lost the capacity to manage risks. We need a White Paper to provide guidance.
Wish List for the next European Commission
The reform of the EU regulatory process needs to be reformed
The Farmers are Fighting this One Alone
The real threat to the farmers’ future prosperity lies in the very food chain they form the basis of.
What does a Late-Stage Capitalist World Look Like?
As activists convince us that late-stage capitalism is ending, it’s time for foundation capitalism.
A European Industrial Deal vs Deplorable, Rabid Activism
Industry has offered a positive strategy. Activists reply with the same biased vitriol.
Righteous Risks Part 4: Vaporising e-cigarettes
To put it lightly, the tobacco industry is unloved. The WHO has led a decades-long campaign to denormalise “Big Tobacco” – ostracising these companies and working with activist allies to exclude them from participating in policy, public discourse and societal institutions. There are an army of institutions and NGOs who have one goal and only…
Righteous Risks Part 2: Foundations of Virtue
Foundations pay activists to relentlessly push policymakers into moral quagmires
Righteous Risks: Introduction
A righteous risk is a threat of harm to societal well-being that arises when decisions are based solely on widely-shared moral perceptions, social virtues and ethical ideals. This value-based policy approach does not consider facts or data in a consistent manner with certain actors, reinforced by social media tribes, imposing their ideals upon others. Righteous…
Technocratic Consequences
Should we be Putting Scientists back on Top? French translation Winston Churchill once reportedly said “Scientists should be on tap, but not on top.” Now I do understand that nobody likes to be kept in a little box, waiting to be opened when needed … to only give a “Yes/No” answer. I also feel that…
Four Active Generations in Risk Policy
The transcript from a two-minute Risk-Monger interview rabbit hole.
The Risk-Monger 