Lords vote brings UK “Social Media Ban” one step closer
Kit Knightly
Yesterday, the British House of Lords brought the looming end of online anonymity one step closer when they voted to support an amendment to the pending Children’s Wellbeing and...
2026 – The Year US Hegemony Ends?
Kit Knightly
Just a couple of hours after I wrote that I hadn’t yet seen the major agenda of Davos 2026, Canadian PM Mark Carney made a speech that suddenly made...
This Week in the New Normal #112
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...
The Great Grok Bikini Scandal is just Digital ID via the Backdoor.
Kit Knightly
Two days ago, the British government announced a U-turn on their proposed digital identity, and that the much-anticipated “BritCard” would no longer be mandatory to work in the UK....
No, Keir Starmer isn’t going to “ban twitter”.
Kit Knightly
We’re only ten days into 2026, and we’ve already got a war, a revolution and now an incipient social media ban. Allegedly. Apparently, X’s GrokAI is editing photos to...
Non-existent “Super Flu” hits the US.
Kit Knightly
Just before Christmas, I wrote an article on the so-called “Super flu” that was breaking out across the UK, headlined simply: Experts agree: There is no such thing as...
This Christmas 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...
Experts agree: There is no such thing as “Super Flu”.
Kit Knightly
Currently, the headlines all across the United Kingdom, and a handful of other nations, are full of references to “Super Flu”. There is no such thing as “Super Flu”....
This Week in the New Normal #111
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...
The Evidence is Clear: Masks Don’t Do Anything.
Kit Knightly
We’re being hit with the “Super Flu” (allegedly), and that means everyone wants us to wear masks again. We went over this (a lot) in 2020. Then we went...
Let’s talk about…the looming flu “crisis”
A school in Caerphilly is shutting down after 250 students and staff were diagnosed with flu. A school in Northern Ireland has got 170 students off sick. “It’s worse...
The Future of British “Justice” is HORRIFYING
Kit Knightly
The recent changes being made to British law are undermining the rights of citizens to a fair trial and presumption of innocence, and could turn our legal system into...
This Time They’ve Gone Too Far
Sylvia Shawcross
There is no fool like an old fool, I was thinking, standing on the deck in the cooling night air with a plate of cat food. I called out,...
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...
Soft Censorship on Free-Speech Twitter?
We don’t get much engagement on Twitter (X, whatever). At ~63,000 followers we’re hardly a huge account, but an engagement rate of around 0.07% is incredibly low. Our content...
Quick Take…The Covid Inquiry’s (Incredibly Predictable) Findings
Kit Knightly
The UK’s Covid Enquiry has published its second report, and its conclusion is as relevant as it is predictable. To quote Sky News: The response of the UK’s four...
This Week in the New Normal #109
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...
Trump vs the BBC
Kit Knightly
Donald Trump’s threat to sue the BBC for one billion dollars is yet another fake division intended to prop up the make-believe “sides” in the political debate. That’s the...
Let’s talk about…Dick Cheney’s Posthumous Glazing
This was going to be a discussion thread for the on-going elections — and we will get to that — but then Dick Cheney died and distracted me. Or,...
The Vampire State: Feeding on Our Fear, Freedom and Finances
John & Nisha Whitehead
“But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters with human...
