Bitchute, the UK and modern censorship in action
Kit Knightly
Last week, alternative video-sharing platform BitChute announced they would no longer allow UK-based users to view content on their site. The opening of their official statement makes the reason...
Goodbye Jury Trials, Hello Digital ID: 10 “recommendations” from the Crime and Justice Commission
Kit Knightly
The Times Crime and Justice Commission was established last year, with its mission statement being to… consider the future of policing and the criminal justice system, in the light...
This Week in the New Normal #100
This week is our one hundredth edition of This Week in the New Normal! …except it isn’t really. Due to some special editions going unnumbered I think we’re actually...
The Cow That Lives Forever
Kit Knightly
The scientists had done it. They had solved world hunger, they had ended farming as we know it and they had rid the world of animal cruelty. It wasn’t...
EVENT: “Uniting the Pro Freedom and Pro Palestine Liberation Left”
Real Left, formerly known as Left Lockdown Sceptics is holding a ‘Uniting the Pro Freedom and Pro Palestine Liberation Left’ conference on Saturday 3 May in central London. The...
UK MPs call for digital identity to “tackle illegal immigration”
Kit Knightly
It turns out that the solution to illegal immigration is instituting a nationwide system of digital identity, issued to every baby at birth and containing all your social, education,...
This Week in the New Normal #99
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...
…and here comes the Online Safety Act
Kit Knightly
The UK’s Online Safety Act officially came into force two weeks ago, and they have wasted no time using it. Alternative social media network Gab has already been threatened...
How “Adolescence” offers us a peek inside the machine
Kit Knightly
I wrote about Adolescence – or rather the (manufactured) hype surrounding it – last week. I thought at the time I’d said all that needed to be said. It...
This Week in the New Normal #98
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...
Why is EVERYBODY talking about Adolescence?
Kit Knightly
I'm not talking about Adolescence, I'm talking about the people talking about it. That might seem like a paper thin distinction, but it is an important one, in my...
Let’s talk about…the JFK files released!
Last night Donald Trump’s administration released two-thousand files, totaling over 60,000 pages, pertaining to the assassination of President John F Kennedy. You can read them all here. The files...
How Covid “vaccines” paved the way for mRNA Cancer “vaccines”
Kit Knightly
The unprecedentedly speedy development and approval of the various Covid “vaccines” – most using previously unsuccessful mRNA technology – is considered a scientific miracle by ardent followers of The...
This Week in the New Normal #97
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...
Meet Mark Carney – Canada’s Next (Unelected) Prime Minister
Kit Knightly
After officially resigning two months ago, Justin Trudeau is finally stepping down as Prime Minister of Canada. His replacement? The recently-selected Mark Carney. Regular readers are no doubt familiar...
Let’s talk about…the UK’s “Day of Reflection”
Kit Knightly
Today is March 9th. It is also the UK’s ordained “Day of Reflection” on the Covid pandemic. You’d be forgiven for forgetting that, most of the country did the...
Romania – The first “post-election” democracy?
Kit Knightly
In December 2024, a Romanian court cancelled the second round of the planned Presidential election and annulled the completed first round, citing (totally theoretical) “Russian interference”. This caused massive...
Skripal @ Seven
Kit Knightly
Today is seven years since the Skripal Psy-op was launched and for the first time in a little while it’s being mentioned with a little renewed vigor by mainstream...
Ukraine: Is this genuine jingoism?
Kit Knightly
There was a fight in the Oval Office! Former actor and comedian President Zelensky and former reality television presenter Donald Trump went at it. Trump made fun of his...
Epstein Files – Phase 1 of…?
Kit Knightly
It’s Epstein Day! The morning has finally broken and files are here, and everything is going to be alright. OK, fine, most of the information being released is already...
