European Fragmentation and the Single Currency – Talk at the LSE – Monday 29th September 2025

I say it to pretty much every creative person I meet: “Your input is your output.”
So take an interest in EVERYTHING!

It’s term time, so that means all the FREE talks and lectures at London’s many universities are back on! The London School of Economics, in particular, has a calendar full of events, so definitely sign up to their newsletter!

Anyway! My main takeaways from this talk were that, according the speakers, Europe’s economy remains sluggish, especially compared to the US, and definitely in terms of investment from Venture Capitalists.

The speakers were all too aware of the demographic slow down in Europe, and were proud of the fact that Europe is an attractive destination for migrants, again, in comparison to the US and China. European leaders want to attract more migrants to fill the gaps left by an ageing population and falling birthrate.

One of the speakers talked about the fact that European Leaders need to be brave in the face of unrest from their citizens, and was confident that they just need to ride out the storm.
I was left dumbfounded to be honest.

The powers that be, only have one goal: economic growth. The wishes of their populations and the damage to the planet (you can’t have infinite growth on a finite planet!) be damned. The economy is a Ponzi-scheme where you need an ever-growing base to funnel money to the top. If people aren’t having kids, instead of addressing the reasons and their concerns, just import people to ensure the base of the pyramid keeps growing.

There was all the usual blathering on about the need for Europe to be militarily self-sufficient and less reliant on Russia for energy. There will always be money for war (they call it ‘defence’, but it’s the kind of defence that always results in protracted wars).

So no different than the narrative that’s already fed to you by the mainstream media.

What’s sad, having spoken to some students at the talk, is that there is a conformity of opinion: there was no sense of questioning the narrative being presented to them.

These students will go on to become the leaders of tomorrow, and the status quo, the establishment, will continue with business as usual; and we all know that ‘business as usual’ only benefits those at the very top, the rest of us be damned.