Labour
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Four men are in custody. £44 million is missing. And the woman who oversaw it all just got promoted to Energy Secretary. This is not politics. This is not incompetence. This is institutional decay wearing [more…]
DJM
Politics
YooKay2026…… A State broken by Corruption (Part 7)
By this point the pattern is visible. The remaining question is why it is allowed to continue. The answer is not that everyone inside the system is secretly coordinating. It is simpler than that. The [more…]
America
Libya – The lance to drain the Iranian boil?
A defining pillar of The Donald’s ‘Merica 1st agenda has been national energy security. Paired with the diplomatic momentum of the Abraham Accords, that strategy has reshaped regional alliances, strengthened U.S. partnerships and reinforced domestic economic stability. Well, [more…]
Engineering
YooKay2026…… A State broken by Corruption (Part 6)
HS2 is one project. What happens everywhere else, across the hundreds of councils and public bodies that spend the rest of the £1.23 trillion, is in many ways worse. In the financial year 2022–23, 467 [more…]
Politics
The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor — IMEC (Part 3)
Gazan reconstruction occurs only in areas where Hamas has fully demilitarised or where Israeli military control has been established. A newly formed technocratic committee — Kushner described it explicitly as ‘a technocratic administration’ — oversees [more…]
Engineering
YooKay2026…… A State broken by Corruption (Part 5)
In July 2017, four joint ventures were awarded HS2 civil contracts worth a combined £6.6 billion. The original structure was a target-cost contract with a pain/gain share, meaning that if costs overran, the contractor would [more…]
Politics
The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor — IMEC (Part 2)
The sequence began in 2017, when Kushner was appointed as Trump’s special adviser for the Middle East. His method was geo-economics: financial incentives and commercial integration as a substitute for political solutions. He called forty [more…]
Politics
YooKay2026…… A State broken by Corruption (Part 4)
The revolving door describes one route through the system. There is another. Between 2013 and 2023, 68 of the 284 peers nominated by party leaders were political donors, giving a combined £58 million. Fifteen of sixteen [more…]
Politics
The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor — IMEC (Part 1)
It is being called one of the largest and most ambitious infrastructure projects in modern history. The Donald called it ‘one of the greatest trade routes in all of history.’ But IMEC is not just [more…]