Month: June 2026

Economics, Society

Germany

What is the future of German engineering in a world moving away from internal combustion engines? I can’t answer that. But I do argue that the changing industrial landscape is no reason to wind back labour protections, or any of the other achievements of German democracy.

Economics

Competition

Progressive politics hates globalisation. Competition is just a race to the bottom. But if democracy is incompatible with internationalism, what hope do we have for democracy? Here is my attempt to demonstrate that there is no contradiction there. The game is a myth.

Technology

Backups

All Linux backup software is terrible. There is also a great deal of terrible advice on the Internet. Here I exhaustively report what backup software should achieve, what features it needs, and exactly how every piece of Linux software I know fails to satisfy those points.