How believable is Banksy?

Kit Knightly

Two days ago, a new statue “appeared” in Waterloo Place, London. Located between Pall Mall and Trafalgar Square and only a few hundred yards from Buckingham Palace and Horse...

The EU is pushing “Driver-Monitoring Cameras”. Here’s why.

Kit Knightly

From July of this year, every vehicle registered in the European Union will be required to have driver-monitoring cameras in place. That’s not every new car manufactured, but every...

UK Gov’t Promises MORE Social Media “Restrictions”

Kit Knightly

While embattled PM Sir Keir Starmer takes a pointless grilling on the even more pointless existence of Peter Mandelson, other members of his cabinet were busily paving the way...

This Week in the New Normal #119

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 Iran’s “tanker seizure” can teach us about MSM “reality”.

Kit Knightly

Earlier today, Iranian state media channels published a video of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commandos seizing a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz. I think we should talk...

Quick Take…UK High Court backs Facial Recognition Rollout

Kit Knightly

Yesterday evening, the UK’s High Court ruled in favour of the Metropolitan Police in a legal challenge pertaining to the use of Live Facial Recognition Technology (LFR) across London’s...

“China-Maxxing”: MSM’s New World Order Propaganda Goes Into Overdrive

Kit Knightly

About two weeks ago, I started  noticing a lot of anecdotes popping up on my social media feeds about just how dawg-gone awesome China was. Stuff like this, which...

EU Rolls-Out “Sort of” Digital Identity Card

Kit Knightly

The EU is rolling out its official age verification app according to the joint statement issued by EU President Ursula von der Leyen and Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen [emphasis...

Hormuz Confusion – Make it make sense!

Kit Knightly

Last month, I wrote an article tracking – or, at least, attempting to track – the very confused back-and-forth narrative around the Strait of Hormuz. Is it closed or...

“A permanent hit to living standards” – Iran War agenda revealed.

Kit Knightly

The Iran War has been going on for less than six weeks, has thus far involved no infantry engagements of any kind on either side, and is currently in...

“Called it!” – 2026 & “the end of US hegemony” – Updated

Kit Knightly

In January, following Mark Carney’s well-publicised Davos speech, I wrote an article headlined… 2026 – The Year US Hegemony Ends? To be clear, I was not – and am...

This Easter 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...

Does Blowing Up Data Centres Make Iran “the Real Resistance”?

Kit Knightly

On March 31st, the official channels of the IGRC published a statement declaring US-based tech companies “legitimate targets”, and threatening to “destroy” on in retalliantion for every future “assassination”....

Testing: How to Create a Pandemic of Fake Disease

Kit Knightly

Last week, I was reading the latest module of the UK’s Covid Inquiry while working on our most recent Covid Factcheck, and I came across this paragraph… From 24...

Quick Take…the “Social Media Addiction” Verdict

The verdict has come back in California’s landmark “Social Media Trial”, and it should come as no surprise at all to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention… GUILTY!”...

IEA Report: 10 “Emergency Measures” straight from the Great Reset playbook

Kit Knightly

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just published a new report that claims to identify ten “demand-side measures” which will “alleviate the economic impacts [of the] war in the...

“Called It!” – Iran War turning Climate Change into a “national security emergency”

Kit Knightly

Last month, within hours of the launch of “Operation Epic Fury”, I was writing that this war would loop back around to climate change… Extending from that, almost certainly,...

This Week in the New Normal #117

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...

Coronavirus Fact-Check #19: Did the NHS REALLY “come close to collapse”?

The UK’s Covid Inquiry just published their third module report, and as per usual the headlines have become hyper focused on one paragraph out of four hundred pages (you...

The Strait of Hormuz – A Very Strange Tug-of-War

Kit Knightly

Since the US/Israel began their war – sorry, their “targeted, limited, combat operation” – hard facts have been hard to come by. In a more than usually cloudy combat...