Chronicles
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Portugal: An Infantile and Tribal Democracy
A critical chronicle on political tribalism, affective polarisation and the inability to assess an idea independently of the party, ideology or identity of the person presenting it.
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Democracy with the Doors Wide Open
A critical chronicle on Europe's difficulty in confronting Russian hybrid warfare, foreign interference and democratic manipulation without surrendering the rule of law.
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Portugal: The State That Administers Underdevelopment
Portugal has talent, infrastructure and European integration, yet remains constrained by low productivity, regulatory complexity and persistent administrative costs. A chronicle on Portuguese institutional underdevelopment.
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Incompetence Hoisted to Power — With Brass Band, Red Carpet and All
A critical chronicle on political promotion, institutional inertia and the systems that reward the ability to rise through power more reliably than the ability to improve institutions once there.
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Europe of Forms: When a Continent Trades Ambition for Bureaucracy
Europe still has science, talent, industry and capital. What it increasingly lacks is speed, risk appetite and the institutional courage to create before regulating what others have already built.
