Part 4: Society
The Builders Are Dying: How the Populations That Made the Modern World Are Disappearing — And What Happens Next
Between them, European and East Asian civilisations built virtually everything that defines the modern world — the scientific method, industrial manufacturing, semiconductors, the…
Part 3: Jobs & Economy
The New Literacy: How AI Is Killing The Scribes And What Happens Next
For five thousand years, if you could not write, you hired a scribe. If you could not code, you hired a developer. AI has just made everyone literate in the digital scribal arts —…
Part 4: Society
A Nation Transformed: Britain's Demographic Revolution, 1948–2050
Britain has undergone one of the most rapid peacetime demographic transformations in European history. It was not planned. It emerged from a sequence of policy decisions — and its…
Part 2: Global Balance of Power
The Great Offshoring: How the World's Factory Moved East
In a single generation, the West gave away the industrial monopoly it had held for two centuries. From the rust belts of the Midlands to the boomtowns of Guangdong, this is the sto…