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...
The Meaning of Life is Not Happiness
Todd Hayen
I can’t tell you the number of times every day I hear from clients in my practice, “All I want is to be happy.” And they don’t know why...
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...
UK Accepts Big Pharma Money to Trial Drugs on the Unemployed
Kit Knightly
Three days ago the British government announced a new scheme to inject obese people with weight loss drugs to try and tackle “worklessness”. Writing in the Telegraph – where...
Careful, talk of “weather modification” could be a trap
Kit Knightly
Last week, category 4 Hurricane Helene hit the eastern coast of North America causing massive flooding and devastation across the region, leaving people stranded and homeless. This week, Hurricane...
The UK gov’t wants to legalise “assisted dying”. Here’s what happens next.
Kit Knightly
The Parliament of the United Kingdom is moving forward with a vote on a new bill that will legalise assisted dying for those diagnosed with terminal illness. The bill,...
Why the Latest Pro-Rationing Study is Really Good News
Kit Knightly
Another day, another academic study/tabloid headline/cringily earnest editorial normalising the idea of rationing. The powers-that-shoudn’t-be LOVE rationing. They would die to start rationing everything for everyone (except themselves, naturally)....
The UK’s “Chicken License” Rebellion – the GOOD way to deal with BAD laws
Kit Knightly
As of today, the UK’s “Chicken License” is in full effect. October 1st marked the deadline for registering your chickens with the proper authority. Moving forward anyone caught with...
England’s Chief Medical Officer admits “we may have overstated danger of Covid”
Kit Knightly
England’s Chief Medical Officer testified before the (token and pointless) Covid Inquiry earlier today, claiming he feared the government “overdid it” when talking up the dangers of Covid. No...
A Globalism of Ideas – Inside the UN’s “Pact for the Future”
Kit Knightly
The United Nation’s Summit of the Future is over. The “great and good” of global leadership got together for four days in New York for what their website called…...
Bugs and Goo: Welcome to “alternative protein”
Kit Knightly
Sometimes it feels like writing for OffG has fallen into a recognizable pattern the last two years, one that could be best summed up “as ignoring the (mostly) fake...
So…What’s the deal with Gaza’s polio vaccination campaign?
Kit Knightly
Two weeks ago, the first case of polio was detected in Gaza for 25 years, leaving a ten month-old child partially paralyzed and forcing decisive action from the World...
Quick Take: Elon Musk vs Brazil more fake “free speech” theatre
Kit Knightly
Recently we were asked on Twitter to comment on the Elon Musk/Brazil situation. At the time we didn’t really see the point, coming so hot on the heels of...
