For example

Institutional abuse
Isolationist economic policies
Great financial crisis
Environmental degradation
Climate change
Tax based FDI policies
Etc.

The lived reality is that of course bad things happen here and have done so since time immemorial, and each time the lack of checks and balances and contingency planning is shown to have contributed to the bad thing happening and making it immeasurably worse

In some ways it's a side effect of not having a real shared vision of where we are going that people buy into, but rather a state of hypernormalisation and a deep desire for stability amongst the people in charge

So latest episode of the pantomime is over. No agreement, no roadmap to an agreement. Trump continues to play Europe.

This should worry everyone.

“US officials contacted by Reuters were surprised by Trump's announcement and unaware of any ongoing military operations to enforce a closure of Venezuelan airspace.”

Trump’s failing faculties could walk the US into war.

The 750-page document also has stinging criticism of “toxic and chaotic” culture inside Boris Johnson’s Downing Street – which it said the then PM. actively embraced – in which loudest voices held sway and women were sidelined.

Grok does comedy very well

The photo is of a man called Stephen who died shortly afterwards after becoming ill while sleeping rough. It was the first photo of the Outsiders project and was inspired by Don McCullin’s ‘Homeless Irishman’ photo from 1969.