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...
This Halloween 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...
Has wind power REALLY saved the UK £104 billion?
Kit Knightly
Have you heard that wind power has saved the people of Great Britain over one hundred billion pounds in the last decade? That’s the contention of a new study,...
What do they have planned for Family Court “reform”?
Kit Knightly
It was busy weekend for those who follow British family court law. Normally speaking I wouldn’t count myself among those people, but then social media and news headlines decided...
This Week in the New Normal #107
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...
Quick Take: I Don’t Trust Mainstream Epstein Coverage
Everyone has been talking about Jeffrey Epstein for the last few days, and everyone is asking, “Why isn’t anyone talking about Epstein?” Which doesn’t make any sense because, you...
They’re Coming for Your Wood-Burning Stove. Again.
Kit Knightly
The weather is getting colder, and that means getting back to anti-wood-burning propaganda. Did you know a wood burner can kill you? They pollute more than cars and cause...
UK Digital ID: The BritCard Bait and Switch
Iain Davis
In my previous article I suggested that the UK’s proposed “mandatory” digital ID, called the BritCard, was a bait and switch psyop. I posited that the arguments presented by Keir Starmer’s purported Labour government,...
Let’s Talk About…Trump’s Gaza Ceasefire
The Big News yesterday was that both sides of the conflict in Gaza have agreed to the first stages of a ceasefire plan put forward by the White House....
Manufacturing Consent: Big Ag’s Playbook of Propaganda and Power
Colin Todhunter
Antonio Gramsci argued that propaganda is the main fabric through which contemporary power asserts itself. For Gramsci, propaganda is central to cultural hegemony; in other words, the dominance of a particular worldview (often that of the ruling class or elite) that is...
The BritCard Digital ID Psyop
Iain Davis
Apparently, in order to be able to work in the UK, we will all be forced to adopt digital ID—the mandatory so-called BritCard. There is absolutely no public appetite for...
I miss my cat.
Kit Knightly
He was in a tree the first time I saw him. It wasn’t a big tree, but he wasn’t a big cat. Barely more than a kitten, really, stubby-tailed...
Let’s Talk About…The Manchester Synagogue Attack
Yesterday morning, a Synagogue in Manchester was allegedly the site of a terrorist attack, when a knife-wielding Muslim man attacked Jews gathering for Yom Kippur, killing two and injuring...
