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...
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...
[UPDATED] So, the Digtal ID narrative is falling apart….and yet I have doubts.
Kit Knightly
This post was updated on 03/10/25 to incorporate breaking news. And so the UK’s Digital ID is official. Not legal, no laws have been passed, not even real in...
UPDATE: Israel’s Increasing Isolation
Kit Knightly
Two days ago I covered the myriad ways the world was turning its collective fire on Israel, leading one BBC journalist to describe them as “isolated”. In the two...
COVID has a “unique” new symptom…you’ll never guess what it is.
Kit Knightly
It’s always funny to see Covid in the news, and funnier still to see supposedly normal humans reacting to it as if it means something. An historical curiosity. Like...
Everyone is suddenly “recognizing” Palestine, but why?
Kit Knightly
In the past 48 hours, the governments of France, San Marino, Luxembourg, Monaco, Andorra, Malta, the UK, Canada, Portugal and Australia have all announced their recognition of the State...
Digital ID: Vietnam to delete 86 MILLION “unverified” bank accounts
Starting this month, banks all across Vietnam will begin deleting over 86,000,000 bank accounts that have not been “verified” under the countries new digital ID scheme. The State Bank...
Charlie Kirk; Or How the Right Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cancel Culture
Kit Knightly
Since the assassination of Charlie Kirk last week the theories have been flying thick and fast. The alleged shooter has been identified as a pro-transgender campaigner into furry internet...
Qatar, 9/11 and the Increasingly Inevitable Israeli Heel Turn
Kit Knightly
Yesterday, Israel conducted strikes on the Qatari capital city of Doha, allegedly targeting (and supposedly killing) key members of the Hamas leadership. An unprovoked attack in direct violation of...
Quick Take…Inside the “Epstein Birthday Book”
Kit Knightly
The Wall Street Journal has exclusively released digital copies of Jeffrey Epstein’s “birthday book”, a document allegedly handed to Congress by lawyers representing the Epstein estate. The big fuss...
What we can learn from the “Russian GPS interference” story.
Kit Knightly
On Monday morning it was widely reported that a private jet ferrying Ursula Von Der Leyen to Plovdiv in Bulgaria was subject to “GPS interference”, and had to navigate...
Is climate change REALLY making people allergic to meat?
Kit Knightly
Ticks responsible for giving people a “meat allergy” are spreading further and wider because the planet is warming. That’s the story, anyway. The disease is called Alpha-Gal Syndrome, it...
The creepy agenda behind Australia’s proposed “bedroom tax”
Kit Knightly
An Australian think-tank has proposed a radical solution to the supposed “housing crisis” – tax people for unused bedrooms. The thinking is simple: There are many people, mostly older...
Let’s talk about…looming war in Venezuela?
The US Navy is sending at least three destroyers and various other craft to the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, allegedly on a mission to combat drug cartel activity. In...
Gates Foundation: “Digital IDs are an effective tool against poverty”
Kit Knightly
It looks like we can add another to the growing mountain of problems that digital IDs are going to solve for all of us. We already know that digital...
Celebrating Independence: Comforting Myth in a Dispossessed Reality
Colin Todhunter
As India celebrates its 78th Independence Day on 15 August, the tricolour will flutter proudly across the nation. Speeches will echo the triumphs of freedom, resilience and progress. But...
