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The Fragility of Democracy: an essay on our times

Part I: The lessons of authoritarianism Much have I travelled in the realms of authoritarianism. I’m the daughter of a man who was conscripted into the Austrian army at seventeen to fight for Hitler. Mercifully, my father was taken prisoner after a year and spent the rest of the war…

Politics

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The Fragility of Democracy: An essay on our times
The Fragility of Democracy: An essay on our times
Politics

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The Fragility of Democracy IV: Fear and hope

‘The clumsy system of public gatherings had been long since abandoned; neither Vashti nor her audience stirred from their rooms.’ It was at some point during the first UK lockdown that I read The Machine Stops, a dystopian story published by E M Forster in 1909. In what was an…

Politics

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The Fragility of Democracy IV: Fear and hope
The Fragility of Democracy IV: Fear and hope
Politics

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Nov 25, 2022

The headlong rush to digital currency

Everybody’s doing it, but nobody’s talking about it … By ‘everybody’, I mean governments. By ‘nobody’, I mean the public. …

Digital

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The headlong rush to digital currency
The headlong rush to digital currency
Digital

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Oct 22, 2022

Small steps to resilience: cooking with a haybox

The summer-just-gone, while volunteering at a green festival, I attended a workshop on haybox cooking. …

Energy Efficiency

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Small steps to resilience: cooking with a haybox
Small steps to resilience: cooking with a haybox
Energy Efficiency

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Sep 23, 2022

Digital dystopia or inevitable progress?

This short video shows a vision of one of the futures, possibly the near-future, that could evolve out of where we are now. A young woman goes about her day with the help of her smartphone. It’s a bit like that drawing which changes according to how it’s viewed: a…

Digital

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Digital dystopia or inevitable progress?
Digital dystopia or inevitable progress?
Digital

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Jul 28, 2022

Is democracy dying?

Everybody wanted action, but Nobody wanted to act. Anon Over the past two years my sense of belonging to a liberal democracy has fallen apart. Until then, I’d basked in a lifelong feeling of security that my ability to amble down a London street breathing God’s fresh air was my…

Democracy

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Is democracy dying?
Is democracy dying?
Democracy

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May 24, 2022

Lessons learned?

The World Health Organization’s Pandemic Treaty and what it means for us This blog is about the future, and how it depends on us By 'us', I mean you, and me, and all other adults more or less in possession of their faculties. It's also a piece of reluctant activism…

Covid-19

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Lessons learned?
Lessons learned?
Covid-19

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Feb 14, 2022

On Canada: place, protest and perceptions

I’ve never known much about Canada. Until recently its one appearance in my life took the form of a bear-like coat given to me by my mother, the fake fur she’d bought during a snowy winter in Montreal. That was all I knew about Canada: it was cold. Also big. …

Politics

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On Canada: place, protest and perceptions
On Canada: place, protest and perceptions
Politics

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Jan 1, 2022

A Manifesto for Human Flourishing 2022

This is an excerpt from a piece on Substack proposes a series of affirmations to recapture the joy and beauty of life in 2022. The Right to Company Gathering is as old as humanity itself. Ancient humans sat around the fire and as civilisation developed, the need to be with others persisted. I am…

Art

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A Manifesto for Human Flourishing 2022
A Manifesto for Human Flourishing 2022
Art

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Nov 26, 2021

A Note to my Followers

I’ve just published the first of what I’m calling The Bafflement Essays on Substack. It’s a series of pieces in which, drawing on my…

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A Note to my Followers
A Note to my Followers

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Alex Klaushofer

Alex Klaushofer

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British writer and disappointed citizen. Mainly on Substack: https://alexklaushofer.substack.com/

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