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Hitchens predicts UK could face a ‘money dies’ moment and imposed poverty

Triggernometry · "We Live in the Age of Delusions" - Peter Hitchens · July 25, 2026
Hitchens predicts UK could face a ‘money dies’ moment and imposed poverty
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"We Live in the Age of Delusions" - Peter Hitchens
"When money dies, which is the great The great fear that I have, that the money which we use simply ceases to exist, really. It just becomes paper and binary code, and it doesn't pay for anything. And when money dies, then that's what happens."
Hitchens warns of a potential UK fiscal cataclysm in which currency effectively fails, leading to a rapid collapse in living standards. He links such scenarios to social disorder and says the public often remains alive but "living in the ruins" of former stability, citing post-Soviet Moscow as an example of sudden impoverishment.
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"We Live in the Age of Delusions" - Peter Hitchens

July 25, 2026 · 1h 8m · 3 Egleze moments
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