Like Midas, Our Rulers Want to Monetise Everything They Touch – and Kill IT (opens in new tab)

I am old enough to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the wave of excitement it unleashed. With the Soviet Union consigned to the history books, the world was going to become a better, safer place. Liberals crowed that the West’s superior, democratic values had won out. Intellectuals like Francis Fukuyama wrote about [...]