"Catastrophe models thus show that a system contains the possibility of both con tinuous and discontinuous change" - this became a kind of red thread which also served as a prism through whuch to to see tte collapse if the GDR

Wow. Great

Looking at Britain, France and Germany none of their voting systems can cope with political fragmentation - not FPTP, proportional systems designed for stable coalitions, nor French-style bilateral majoritarianusm

Come to France and see a budget being made in real.time with continually shifting majorities drawn from far left, left, centre, right and far right

I still can't work out how to put them together

Makes perfect sense - people think investing is risky and want somewhere secure to place their money

Thanks

In our household Isaac Watts is part of our living tradition - what was the title of your PhD?

Ich kann nur sagen: Gott sei Dank

I believe that in its current iteration AI both useless for and harmful to academic research. People say you just need to give it the right prompts but come on if you need to do that much preparation why not do your own research

I am with you there, worse than text looking AI-inspired would be references that look so plausible, to check them systematically just in case would eat up masses if time, unless of course yiou ask AI to do it :-)

I wanted to say it was just unbelievable what some of these bots produce, but sadly all too believable - atticle by renowned theologian on a topic close to his heart published by a publisher where you woukd expect to find it - but all sadly made up - what's the point if you have to check everything

Yet Starmer, Macron and Merz have played massively important role on world stage

None of the voting systems can cope with this - neither 5th Republic binaryism; German PR with coalitoons based around one (or both) of the not so Volksparteien; nor FPTP which can produce massive swings for relative majorities /4