Michael Bloomberg: The Democrat’s Billionaire Strawman

Kit Knightly The latest Democratic Primary debate was a cringe-worthy affair, even more than US political “debates” usually are, it left you with one burning question – Why is...

Why Mainstream Critics Turned Against Joker

Kit Knightly The Oscars are happening as we speak, and I’m a little embarassed to say I want Joker to win. Not because it’s an all-time great movie, it’s...

The Licence Fee & Boris’s Fake Fight with the BBC

On Wednesday, it was reported that Boris Johnson’s government is considering scrapping the licence fee. [For non-UK readers, the licence fee is a mandated payment all citizens are required...

OPCW Report (Predictably) Smears Whistleblowers

Kit Knightly The OPCW has released a briefing note summarising the recent “independent investigation” into their recent Titanic-sized leaks. (You can read the summary at the link above, or...

Coronavirus: Media reveals a very familiar agenda

Kit Knightly The initial, blaring, bright-red headlines over the outbreak of the novel coronavirus appear to be slowing down. Maybe it won’t be apocalyptic after all. While the number...

Coronavirus Update: Following the money

Kit Knightly The Coronavirus is still the big-ticket news item, with confirmed cases now covering 11 countries. ELEVEN! Most of the mainstream media are doing that, saying the number...

REALITY CHECK: Coronavirus fear porn

Kit Knightly China is shutting down, or so we’re being told. Cities are on lockdown. Disneyland is closed. New Year is cancelled. Every day, China closes down more theatres...

Rest in Peace, Terry Jones

Kit Knightly I never met Terry Jones, but I would rather have liked to. The complexities of life brushed me close to his orbit a couple of times –...

Goldstein 2.0: ISIS has a new big bad leader

Kit Knightly The fast-paced world of geopolitics can be disorienting to follow and unsettling to witness. The US Empire teeters on the brink of total collapse, and lashes out...

Russian Reforms: Is Putin planning for his successor?

Kit Knightly Last week, after Putin put forward constitutional reforms that would “empower the legislative branch” and his entire government resigned, the Western press (and the West-backed “opposition” in...

The “Afghanistan Papers”: Deep State narrative management

An awful lot of modern "leaks" are no such thing. They are Orwellian exercises in controlling the conversation. And this is no exception, carefully making sure the "establishment" and...

Labour Leaders-In-Waiting Rush Back to the Centre

Kit Knightly Jeremy Corbyn isn’t gone yet, but his is now a phantom presence. He’s very much a political dead man walking. His replacements are lining up, setting out...

DISCUSS: Exit Polls and Election Results

  The polls are closed, and the exit polls are in, and apparently Labour has had a terrible day. The story taking shape is that Brexit, over everything else,...

Did Laura Kuenssberg Commit Massive Breach of Electoral Ethics?

The BBC may have just unwittingly revealed – or even committed – a huge breach of electoral rules. Giving a report via her phone this afternoon, the BBC’s political...

Fake News and the “Punch” that never happened

Kit Knightly Yesterday the Health Secretary Matt Hancock went to Leeds to visit a struggling NHS hospital. It was a PR stunt designed to make the Tories look pro-active...

What “community standards” did these comments breach? #24

The following comments – sent in to us by a reader – were censored by The Guardian. Which of the well-publicised CiF “community standards” did they breach? Removed comments,...

Reddit Hiring NATO Shills to Control Narrative

Kit Knightly I wrote a short piece a few days ago about Reddit banning users for posting the leaked NHS documents. (Spreading anti-Russian propaganda in the process). Previously, we...

Reddit Bans Users for Telling the Truth

Last week Jeremy Corbyn unveiled dozens of leaked documents. Documents showing that Boris Johnson - and the Tories in general - are lying when they say there are no...

What “community standards” did this comment breach? #23

Frank Speaker Our western world today took another step towards an Orwellian, dystopian future. Like most of us here at Off-Guardian, I’ve previously been moderated, pre-moderated, and once banned...

Prince Andrew – The Right Royal Lizard Tale

When the powers who control mainstream media don't want to talk about something, it doesn't get talked about. When the mainstream media is talking about something it's for one...