Instructions for how to light a candle!
Are they serious?
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Word of the week
Scenarios for 2025
Worth five minutes of your time Personally, I’m quite bearish on China longer term (see fuller report on link). Imbalance of young men in the population, high youth unemployment, resource issues (especially water), and a real estate sector that smells like trouble to me. The economy is still rather too reliant on foreign exports if you ask me too and that could be restrained in 2025. None a serious issue with some reasonable growth (I used to suggest 8% but half that may suffice), but if economic growth fades away things could get rather interesting.
https://www.fidelity.com.au/sites/fidelity/assets/Annual-25-deck-v4.pdf
Good news for once
A few years ago the children’s word of the year in the UK was anxiety. This year it’s kindness.
Quote of the month
“No mind is empty that considers the sea”. (damned if I can find the source).
Trump – the sequel.
A rarity
To my knowledge, the only copy in the world signed by both authors. Currently sitting in the kids section, ground floor, at Foyles bookshop.
Nasty or nice?
There’s a new movie out called ‘Babygirl’ featuring Nicole Kidman as a CEO that has a sexual relationship with an intern at her firm. Feminism or double standards? How would that play out in the media if the roles were reversed? Or the attached. Same question. Funny or double standards? Or is the latter perhaps an example of misandry? Weak signal or just another example of counter-trends?
2025
Greetings to my loyal and lovely readers and welcome to 2025.
Spotted this the other day. The article goes on to say that Jung said that the way in which a society talks about UFOs (and I might add to this sci-fi generally)` provides insights into our deepest fantasies. On a related note, here’s a preduction. The further we erect monuments to technology and workship at the alter of AI, the more we will believe in illogical, mystical and spiritual forces. There is an emerging desire for magic in the age of math.
Final gig?
It’s not quite Ziggy Stardust at the Hammersmith Odean in 1973, but this could be my last ever lecture. Tickets available from Event Brite. January 20th at the Royal Institution in London.
