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Big European Electricity Utilities Are Facing An Existential Crisis. How Did This Happen And What Should They Do?

For most consumers, the revolution that is taking place in the energy markets has been hidden from view. They still get…

Natural Resources 17 min Narration

Cassandra: Time To Give Up On Predicting Climate Change?

Most History Future Now readers will be familiar with Homer’s epic of the Iliad, written about 2,800 years ago. Few will…

Natural Resources 5 min Narration

Dealing With The Consequences Of Climate Change Inaction: The Impact Of Food

In a previous article History Future Now admitted defeat: climate change is happening and there is no viable political s…

Natural Resources 9 min Narration

Establishing A Price Floor For Energy

Capitalism is a wonderful system for providing pricing signals to businesses to produce more or less of a particular pro…

Natural Resources 12 min Narration

Green Is Not Red, But Blue: Environmentalism And The Mystery Of Right Wing Opposition

Conservatives are rightly suspicious of environmentalists. By 1992, with Reagan, Thatcher and the end of the Cold War, s…

Natural Resources 8 min Narration

Roots: A Historical Understanding Of Climate Change Denial, Creationism And Slavery – 1629-1775

What do black slavery, creationism and climate change denial all have in common? In the US, at least, a biblical justifi…

Natural Resources 13 min Narration

The Atom Returns: Why the World's Most Feared Energy Source Is Its Best Hope

Microsoft signed a deal to restart Three Mile Island for AI power. France generates 70% of its electricity from nuclear…

Natural Resources 13 min Narration

The Last Drop: Why Every Civilisation That Ran Out of Water Collapsed

Water is the one resource for which there is no substitute. Every major civilisation was built on water management — Mes…

Natural Resources 13 min Narration

The New Oil: Why the Race for Critical Minerals Will Define the 21st Century

China banned gallium and germanium exports in 2023 and most Western policymakers had never heard of either element. The…

Natural Resources 13 min Narration

The immorality of climate change, a reflection on slavery and the Civil War

Today, few people look back upon African slavery in the Americas as a good thing. There are no rousing speeches defendin…

Natural Resources 7 min Narration

The renewables and battery revolution. What history teaches us about the future.

The advent of cheap renewable energy and battery storage has already started to change the world. It is not an exaggerat…

Natural Resources 33 min Narration

Vertical Farming: The Electrical Convergence of Power, Transport and Agriculture

The COP26 climate conference held in November 2021 reiterated the need to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to net…

Natural Resources 11 min Narration

Who Are The Losers In The Energy Revolution?

If you own shares in energy companies that do not focus on solar energy, you should consider selling now. Steal a march…

Natural Resources 12 min Narration

Why Land Deals In Africa Could Make The Great Irish Famine A Minor Event

Some of you may have noticed some land deals in Africa being announced in the press over the past few years. The stories…

Natural Resources 12 min Narration

China Has Many Of The Characteristics Of An Emerging Colonial Power. How Does It Compare Historically?

History Future Now had dinner a few years back with two Kenyans of Indian origin. Indian-Kenyans make up less than 1% of…

Global Balance of Power 12 min Narration

Crisis: Or An Explanation On The Origins Of The Decline Of The West

Christopher Marlowe’s play Doctor Faustus was written in 1592 and was based on an earlier German work about Dr Faustus,…

Global Balance of Power 50 min Narration

Europe Rearms: Why The Continent That Invented Total War Is Spending €800 Billion On Defence

In 1932, Germany spent less than 1% of GDP on its military. By 1939, that figure was 23%. The transformation took just s…

Global Balance of Power 24 min Narration

Forging Peace: From Centuries of War to Ukraine's Future

For centuries, war has been a brutal constant in human affairs, with nations locked in cycles of conquest and revenge th…

Global Balance of Power 16 min Narration

Hinkley Point Decision Is Really About China And Brexit

Much ink has been spilled about why Prime Minister May’s new Conservative government should not have approved the £18bn…

Global Balance of Power 13 min Narration

Rome Vs. Persia And The Transfer Of Strategic Technologies To China

China is a master at forcing western companies to hand over critical intellectual property in exchange for short term ac…

Global Balance of Power 7 min Narration

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…

Global Balance of Power 17 min Narration

The Ladder and the Lie: Why Every Great Economy Was Built on Tariffs and Free Trade Only Serves the Already Dominant

Every great economy in history was built behind tariff walls. Britain, America, Germany, Japan, South Korea, China — all…

Global Balance of Power 16 min Narration

The North African Threat And Mediterranean Reunification

North Africa does not appear to be a military and political threat to the European Union. Why should it? In the last few…

Global Balance of Power 22 min Narration

The Rise of the West Was Based on Luck. That Has Run Out.

Many Westerners fret about the relative decline of the West. For over 500 years, since the successful conquest of the Am…

Global Balance of Power 30 min Narration

The Scramble For The Solar System: Why The Next Colonial Race Has Already Begun

SpaceX is building Starship production lines at scale. China plans a permanent lunar base by 2030. NASA's Artemis progra…

Global Balance of Power 15 min Narration

The War in Ukraine: Escalation, Miscalculation, and the Path to Peace

The war in Ukraine, which began with Russia's invasion in February 2022, has brought the world to a dangerous crossroads…

Global Balance of Power 26 min Narration

The West’s romance with Free Trade is ending. Why?

Donald Trump is marching the US into a trade war with China. Markets are rattled. China is rattled. American companies a…

Global Balance of Power 12 min Narration

What Happens When China Becomes The Largest Economy In The World?

According to the OECD , China is due to overtake the US economy as the largest in the world in three years. By 2030 it p…

Global Balance of Power 7 min Narration

Why China Could Invade Taiwan – And Get Away With It

The story of how the Republic of China became Taiwan and its relationship with mainland China is fascinating. How many p…

Global Balance of Power 8 min Narration

Why Do We Need The Military? Securing Energy Supplies And Trade Routes

History Future Now examines our military expenditure and asks two basic questions: first, what is the purpose of the mil…

Global Balance of Power 15 min Narration

A Lost Generation: Why The Personal Story Of The Beautiful Yulia Is Also Our Story

Many years ago HFN spent a wonderful day in the company of a beautiful Russian woman. She had a warm smile and long legs…

Jobs & Economy 17 min Narration

Debt Jubilees And Hyperinflation – Why History Shows That This Might Be The Way Forward For Us All

Government debt levels in the United States, the European Union and in Japan are at all time historic highs. After decad…

Jobs & Economy 8 min Narration

Jobs: First, Get Rid Of Expensive Westerners. Second, Get Rid Of People Entirely

Why do so many Western politicians and economists promote a trading system that increases Western unemployment levels an…

Jobs & Economy 12 min Narration

Keynes And Hayek Are Both Dead, And Wrong

Despite the fact that both John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich August Hayek are dead, their ideas are very much alive toda…

Jobs & Economy 19 min Narration

Robotics And Slavery

Rapid advancements in humanoid robotics and artificial intelligence are bringing us closer to a reality once confined to…

Jobs & Economy 36 min Narration

The Arsenal and the Container: How Shared Infrastructure Always Wins

Every era produces the same pattern: fragmented, bespoke, expensive production transformed by shared infrastructure that…

Jobs & Economy 19 min Narration

The Debasement: Why Every Great Power That Borrowed Its Way to Greatness Borrowed Its Way to Ruin

The US spent more on interest payments than on defence in 2024 for the first time in history. Spain defaulted six times…

Jobs & Economy 15 min Narration

The Eighteen-Month Trap: Why Hardware Startups Are Structurally Slow

A software founder builds one thing. A hardware founder builds two — the product and the entire infrastructure to make i…

Jobs & Economy 17 min Narration

The Fusion of Revolutionary Technologies: Unlocking Humanity's Greatest Transformation

Individual technologies are interesting. Convergences are civilisational. Steam, iron, and canal engineering fused into…

Jobs & Economy 12 min Narration

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 ha…

Jobs & Economy 13 min Narration

The Paradox of Mass Migration and Robots in the Age of Automation

We stand at a pivotal juncture in human history, facing two seemingly contradictory narratives about the future of work…

Jobs & Economy 17 min Narration

The Perils of Prediction: Lessons from History on Navigating an Uncertain Future

Can we truly predict the future, or are we destined to repeat the mistakes of the past? This question has captivated min…

Jobs & Economy 26 min Narration

The Return of the State Factory: Why Nations That Forgot How To Make Things Are Remembering

In February 2026, the United States signed a trade deal with Taiwan that included $250 billion in semiconductor investme…

Jobs & Economy 15 min Narration

The Robot Bargain: How AI Will Save Ageing Nations From The Immigration Trap

Microsoft's AI chief predicts virtually all white-collar tasks will be automated within 18 months. South Korea's fertili…

Jobs & Economy 16 min Narration

Where Are All The Jobs Going? Lessons From The First Industrial Revolution. And 150 Years Of Pain.

In a world which is seeing a simultaneous increase in the capabilities of robots and artificial intelligence with the ca…

Jobs & Economy 9 min Narration

Why Buying Cheap Imported Products Is More Expensive For Individuals And Not Just Society

Why do so many Western politicians and economists promote a trading system that increases Western unemployment levels an…

Jobs & Economy 13 min Narration

A Frozen Society: The Long Term Implications Of NSA’s Secrets

History Future Now has been considering the historical and future implications of the NSA files that have been leaked bi…

Society 4 min Narration

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 planne…

Society 17 min Narration

Are Europeans Fundamentally Racist?

Switzerland has a unique form of democracy which allows for referendums to be held on any issue so long as the proponent…

Society 24 min Narration

Clash Of Titans: How The Warrior Ethos And Judeo-Christian Monotheism Shaped The Soul Of The West

The history of Western civilization is often told as a grand narrative of progress, a triumphant march from ancient wisd…

Society 67 min Narration

Don't Confuse What Is Legal With What Is Morally Right

Most people think of themselves as being “law abiding” citizens. People admonish those that break the law and feel that…

Society 5 min Narration

Emigration: Colonies Of The Mind And Space

Ever since our ancient ancestors walked out of Africa between 125,000 and 60,000 years ago humans have pushed themselves…

Society 8 min Narration

History Is Written By The Winners. And Europeans Are Losing.

There are a lot of people to whom the quote "history is written by the winners" is attributed to. Winston Churchill freq…

Society 8 min Narration

Is Democracy The Opium Of The Masses?

Winston Churchill famously quipped that “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have b…

Society 4 min Narration

Let's Talk About Sex: Does The Separation Of Pleasure And Procreation Mean The End Of People?

Everybody knows that the world’s population has increased dramatically since 1930 – population 2 billion – to today – po…

Society 13 min Narration

Prisons: We Never Used To Have Them. Will They Exist In The Future?

Prisons as we know them are relatively new and we can thank Jeremy Bentham’s philosophy of utilitarianism in the 19th ce…

Society 4 min Narration

The 150 Year Life: How Radical Longevity Will Transform Our World

In the quest for immortality, humanity has long dreamed of extending the boundaries of life beyond the confines of our c…

Society 19 min Narration

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 scien…

Society 21 min Narration

The Death Of The Fourth Estate: What The Collapse Of Newspapers Means For Democracy, Power, And Truth

On February 4th 2026, a Washington Post reporter in a warzone in Ukraine learned by text message that she had been laid…

Society 26 min Narration

The Empty Cradle Bargain: Why Falling Birth Rates Are Everyone's Problem

On a single street in a Western city, five families have one child and two have two. That is nine children where fifteen…

Society 28 min Narration

The Empty Throne: Why the West No Longer Believes in Its Own Institutions

Trust in government, media, science, and the judiciary is at historic lows across the Western world. This is not a passi…

Society 20 min Narration

The Gates of Nations: How Every Civilisation in History Controlled Immigration — Until the West Stopped

For five thousand years, every successful civilisation tightly controlled who could enter, settle, and become a citizen.…

Society 17 min Narration

The Great Divergence: Why Young Men and Women No Longer See the Same World

Young women have moved sharply more liberal across the developed world. Young men have not — or have moved more conserva…

Society 13 min Narration

The Great Emptying: How Collapsing Birth Rates Will Reshape Power, Politics And People

In a small town in southern Italy, a school closed last year. Not because of budget cuts. Because there were no children…

Society 16 min Narration

The Invisible Judge: Why Guilt and Shame Societies Are Incompatible

Guilt societies are ruled by an internal judge; shame societies by the eye of the crowd. The difference shapes corruptio…

Society 15 min Narration

The Locked Gate: How the West Priced Its Children Out of Existence

The average house in England costs 7.7 times the median salary. In Seoul, a young couple saves for 18 years to buy a fla…

Society 13 min Narration

The Long Term Impact of Covid 19

The Covid 19 pandemic is a genuinely historical event. Future historians will analyse the period leading up to the outbr…

Society 40 min Narration

The Narrow Lens: How What Britain Teaches Its Children Shapes How Adults See the World

Britain teaches its children a remarkably narrow slice of history — the Tudors, the World Wars, and the Holocaust — and…

Society 16 min Narration

The Price of Admission: What the Netherlands and Denmark Reveal About the True Cost of Immigration

The Netherlands and Denmark are the two best-documented case studies on the fiscal and social costs of immigration in Eu…

Society 13 min Narration

The Silence Of The Scribes: How Every Civilisation That Controlled Speech Collapsed

In February 2026, India ordered social media platforms to remove content within three hours of a government request. The…

Society 13 min Narration

The Unintended Consequences of War: How the Loss of Young Men Transformed Women's Roles in Society and ushered in the Welfare State

Throughout history, war has left an indelible mark on society, transforming the lives of those who survive and reshaping…

Society 36 min Narration

The Useful Idiots: Why Every Alliance Between the Left and Islamism Ends the Same Way

In February 2026, the Green Party overturned a century of Labour dominance in Manchester's Gorton and Denton by-election…

Society 16 min Narration

What Does It Take To Get Europeans To Have A Revolution?

In an online article about the youth unemployment crisis in Europe and Africa HFN asked a question: “What are all these…

Society 63 min Narration

What The History Of Immigration Teaches Us About Europe’s Future

Immigration is a political hot potato. It is hard to talk about it in the West without appearing to be uncaring at best…

Society 33 min Narration

What Worked: Five Thousand Years of Evidence for How Civilisations Flourish

Most political positions are argued from ideology. History Future Now's are argued from evidence. Five thousand years of…

Society 17 min Narration

When the Servants Are Silicon: What History's Leisure Classes Reveal About the AI Age

Robots are not stealing jobs. They are replacing the unborn. When the Shadow Workforce handles survival, eight billion p…

Society 20 min Narration

Who Benefits From Our Increased Social Fragmentation?

Cable television and satellite radio stations have been praised for providing greater choice and criticised for the frag…

Society 5 min Narration

Who Guards The Guards? Bureaucracy, Empire, And The Eternal Struggle To Control The State

Elon Musk's DOGE initiative has identified $215 billion in US government savings and aims for $2 trillion. The EU's regu…

Society 13 min Narration

Why God Needs The Government: Multiculturalism Vs Monotheism

HFN looks at the worship of Aton, the first monotheistic religion over 3,350 years ago. We examine how changes in Europe…

Society 7 min Narration

Why Is Bisexuality Becoming Mainstream?

Grey’s Anatomy, a TV series set in a Seattle hospital, has a senior female surgeon hopping into bed with a male colleagu…

Society 16 min Narration

Why The Nuclear Family Needs To Die, In Order For Us To Live

The concept of a nuclear family is relatively recent – it is first mentioned in The Oxford English Dictionary in 1925 –…

Society 9 min Narration

Why the Scissors Opened: Nine Hypotheses for the Gender Ideology Split

The gender ideology gap runs 15 to 50 points across the developed world — yet it does not exist in the Middle East, Indi…

Society 33 min Narration