False Promises, Real Costs

The Nuclear Gamble We Can't Afford A new piece in Bylines Scotland for your Sunday morning: False promises, real costs: The nuclear gamble we can’t affordScotland and Canada must forge an energy future that worksBylines ScotlandBen BeveridgeSubscribe The choice facing both nations is not nuclear or catastrophe.

The End of the Paddle

Angel Auto Flagger isn’t a product, it’s the replacement of negligence A human being standing in traffic is not a solution. It's a failure made tolerable by repetition. We’ve trained ourselves to believe it’s normal. The vest, the paddle, the presence. We’ve ritualised

What We’re Building

The European Movement in Canada Canada already knows how to build bridges. Now it’s time to build one more — across the Atlantic. Subscribe The European Movement in Canada is not about reviving old alliances. It’s about launching new ones — human, civic, cultural, and scientific. It’s about bringing

I Have A Meeting On Monday

European Movement International | Canada It starts with a visit. Monday, 14:45 CEST. The calendar notation is unremarkable. The purpose is not. This is the start of something that should have happened a generation ago. We are bringing the European Movement to Canada. And not as a diplomatic nicety. Not

Not for Sale

Finding a Corner to Fight From in the Oval Office That wasn’t diplomacy. It was doctrine. Installed, clean, and without noise. Mark Carney didn’t meet with Donald Trump to negotiate. He met him to remind. That Canada is sovereign. That power doesn’t flinch. And that some things

The Waste Between Worlds

From Burden to Yield, From Theatre to Proof The hospitality sector has always been a mirror. It reflects the aspirations of a rising middle class, the anxieties of the elite, the choreography of global consumption. But that mirror is cracking. “The Waste Between Worlds” is not a book about sustainability.

Climate Saviour

The Collapse of American Power is the World’s Last Shot at Survival It will not be activists, summits, or green investments that save the world from climate collapse. It will be Donald Trump. Subscribe Not by design. Not by nobility. Not by any coherent doctrine of planetary stewardship. By

This Is How I Listen

Let Me Bundle That For You Most people think listening is polite. Active. Empathetic. A way to make others feel seen. They’re wrong. Subscribe That’s how you miss the deal. That’s how you drown in swirl. That’s how you let a client talk for 45 minutes

Branded into Silence

The Cost of Belonging You were told you were the cowboy. That your vote meant sovereignty. That your silence was strength. That your vote was patriotism wrapped in denim and hay. But here’s the truth. You’re not the cowboy. You’re the cow. Subscribe Every election cycle, they

The Stillness Between Signals

Answer with conversation, not content Some days aren’t for scale. They’re for stillness. Today, I’m answering letters. Messages. Quiet calls for clarity. This is the work. Not the stage. Not the sprint. The conversation. The Stoic knows the signal lives in the silence. Subscribe There is no

The Story is the Machine

How ‘Two Coins’ Reveals the Hidden Lever in Modern Media, Society, and Self In the age of choice overload, performative conviction, and algorithmically filtered identity, the story of Two Coins doesn’t just whisper a lesson — it embeds a program. It operates as a quiet architecture beneath the reader’s

The Fractured Mind

Democracy Is a Brand War They taught you that democracy was a choice between ideas. They lied. Today, democracy is a branding exercise, and the 2025 Student Vote proves it in blood and bone. Subscribe 900,000 young Canadians entered a simulation of national decision-making. They voted not on outcomes.