Britain didn't crash out of the European Union. It leaked — slowly, quietly, for ten years.

A decade on from the referendum, the argument about Brexit has moved from prophecy to forensics, and the evidence is finally in. In this episode, we follow the money through the slow subtraction: the contested GDP estimates, ranging from the OBR's 4% to Stanford's 6–8%; the trade friction that turned one firm's 40 annual customs transactions into 10,000; the investment that quietly went to Poland instead of the Midlands; a pound that never came home; and a record-high FTSE that is steadily losing its place in the world.

We also give the dissenters a fair hearing — because the case against the consensus isn't made by cranks, and honest analysis tests its own conclusions.

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A far-right party polling at 38% — the highest in its history. A governing coalition built to keep one man out, now sitting on a trapdoor. And a country in its third straight year of recession.

In this episode of the Veritas Brief, we ask what a Herbert Kickl chancellorship would actually mean — for Austria, for its economy, and for a European Union it sits at the very heart of.

We unpack the austerity feeding the FPÖ's rise, the arithmetic behind Kickl's tax-cut-and-remigration economic blueprint, the Russia alignment alarming Austria's allies, and why an Austrian veto inside the EU could be far more dangerous than Hungary's.

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The largest IPO in history made Elon Musk a paper trillionaire overnight. The stock popped 19% on day one. A rocket launched an hour before the opening bell. And almost nobody read the document underneath it all.

In this episode of Veritas Brief, we turn the volume down on the spectacle and reads the SpaceX S-1: a company valued at more than 100x sales, a "space" business that loses money, a Starlink telecom doing two-thirds of the revenue, and a cash-burning AI division (xAI) folded in just weeks before the float. Plus dual-class control, a related-party web, an unusually loose insider lockup, and a fast-track index inclusion that could force passive money — maybe yours — to buy the stock automatically.

This is not anti-SpaceX. The engineering is genuinely extraordinary. This is a skeptical reading of a price, a structure, and a story — and a question the headlines never asked: not "how high will it go?" but "what, exactly, did they just sell you?"

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Editorial commentary, not investment advice. Figures sourced from SpaceX's S-1 (filed 20 May 2026) and public trading data through 22 June 2026.

Russia didn't collapse after 2022 — and the Kremlin never stops saying so. But beneath the stocked supermarket shelves and the headline GDP figures, independent economists describe something slower and far more dangerous: a war machine consuming the very foundations it stands on.

In this episode of The Veritas Brief, we go beneath Russia's surface stability to the structural crisis its own budget documents reveal — the GDP illusion built almost entirely on war spending, a sovereign wealth fund nearly drained, an oil paradox where Russia sells more crude and earns less money, a labour shortage even Putin's closest allies now call a threat to national survival, and a deliberate blackout of official data.

This analysis draws entirely on independent institutional research: SIPRI, the Bank of Finland's Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT), Chatham House, the Kyiv School of Economics, and the IMF.

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Germany’s far-right AfD is no longer just a protest movement. It is now leading national polls, gaining historic strength in eastern Germany, and moving closer to real political power.

In this episode of Veritas Brief, a slow-journalism podcast by Veritas Europaea, we examine what the AfD’s rise could mean not only for Germany, but for Europe and the wider global economy.

This is not only a story about party politics. It is a story about markets, the euro, German industry, energy policy, supply chains, investor confidence, and the future of European integration.

We look at why the AfD is gaining support, how Germany’s economic stagnation has created political volatility, what a potential AfD breakthrough could mean for the DAX, German Bunds, the euro, the Mittelstand, and why the debate around “Dexit” could become one of the most serious risks facing Europe in the coming years.

Rather than following the daily news cycle, this episode takes a deeper look at the structural forces behind Germany’s political shift — and why the consequences could reach far beyond Berlin.