The big story of 2024 that NOBODY is talking about
Kit Knightly
As the embers of 2024 spit out their dying sparks and tendrils of smoke corkscrew into 2025, I want to ask: what were the important news stories of this...
Syria: New Government takes shape as Israel move in
Kit Knightly
In the two days since Damascus fell to the “liberating” rebels, the Syria situation has moved on apace. Bashar al-Assad and his family – rumoured to have been in...
DISCUSS: Syrian Government Falls, Assad Flees Damascus
Syrian “Rebels” have declared total victory after claiming to have taken Damascus. In a television broadcast on Syria’s state broadcaster opposition leaders said Syria has been “liberated”. President Bashar...
Bird Flu: The “Next Pandemic” is right on schedule
Kit Knightly
We haven’t published anything about bird flu since June. There hasn’t been much to say. Nevertheless, I still regularly comb through journals and news sites, ensuring we don’t miss...
Bovaer Trial…are we being played?
Kit Knightly
We published an article last week on “Bovaer”, the chemical compound, currently being trialled in the UK, which is added to cow feed to reduce methane emissions (allegedly). Since...
This Thanksgiving in the New Normal
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
Major Dairy Supplier to Trial Potentially Toxic “Low Emission” Cow Feed
Kit Knightly
Major dairy suppliers and supermarkets are partnering with chemical company DSM-Firmenich to trial new “low-emission” dairy products nationwide. Soil Association organic standards stipulate that all ingredients/components of a feed...
“The Mainstream Media is Dead! Long Live the Mainstream Media!”
Kit Knightly
The old mainstream media is dying, and has been for years. This has only become more apparent in the weeks since Donald Trump was re-(s)elected. News that CNN is...
Australia’s “Social Media Ban” is Digital ID via the backdoor
Kit Knightly
Earlier this month Australia’s government announced plans to ban anyone under the age of sixteen from using social media. Social media companies aren’t happy about it, predictably, and the...
Will Trump’s “Secret JFK Files” point the finger at Israel?
Kit Knightly
It’s November 22nd, which means we’re in the midst of the 24 hours per year the mainstream media talks about JFK. Except we’re not. Every year for as long...
Explained: How UK Inheritance Tax is part of the War on Food
Kit Knightly
The British government’s inheritance tax reforms aren’t about class warfare or filling the “black hole” in the country’s budget, they are about taking vital land off small and medium-sized...
Everybody Knows: Do They?
Edward Curtin
“Everybody knows the boat is leaking/Everybody knows the captain lied” Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows” When the polls closed on Tuesday, November 5th, I was sound asleep, like a baby...
Don’t buy the hype, 2024 is no 2016
Kit Knightly
This isn't 2016. And Harris isn't Clinton, and Trump isn't even the same Trump. Then at least there was some wild card elements to his game, now we know...
The Fakest Election of Our Lifetime Goes to the Polls
Kit Knightly
It’s voting day. Historically, that would mean that by some time early tomorrow morning we’d know who was going to be President, but they have already announced that counting...
The Face
Kit Knightly
The spooky season is upon us, and so I thought I would treat you (or trick you) to a short story I wrote several years ago. Happy Halloween. *...
How to…Rig Your Rigged Elections
Kit Knightly
Are you an aspiring oligarch, dictator or autocrat? Do you want to wield power whilst maintaining a façade of popular support and democratic mandate? Do you want to make...
This Week in the New Normal #95
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
What do they have planned for our water?
Kit Knightly
A look through the headlines suggests that – along with our money, food, communication and transport – our water supply is in line to be part of the “Great...
Let’s talk about…MSM Coverage of Israeli War Crimes
Kit Knightly
Two weeks ago, it was widely reported across all the Western legacy media that Israel had fire-bombed a hospital leaving patients to burn to death in their beds. A...
What the “Shakespeare portrait” controversy can teach us about our relationship with reality
Kit Knightly
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is having the portrait of William Shakespeare removed from No. 10, according to various reports across the legacy media. This has “sparked a backlash”according...
