In January 2018 I attempted to summarise some significant elements in Homo Sapiens continuing and quite rapid evolution during 2017(see: https://bit.ly/2QbHVx2 ). During 2018, I think it’s safe to say that America remained at the top of the pile in terms of politics thanks to the wonderful President Trump. And in the UK, the political soap-opera called Brexit has caused me to adopt a Pavlovian deafness leading to the changing of the radio or TV channel, whenever the topic comes up. So, the same question as in previous years; how to summarise 2018? I think one word works reasonably well: Disruption. As with last year’s summary, we have to start with America. America Having recently read Fire and Fury, Inside the Trump Whitehouse by Michael Wolff, it’s fairly clear that, during the first 9 months, a bunch of rank amateurs unexpectedly found themselves in charge of the world’s largest economy. In the meantime most of the President’s “advisors” have e...
2018 – Populism, or put another way: Politics by telling people what they want to hear!