Quick Take: Gold from lead and ancient alchemy
Kit Knightly
I just wanted to bring this story to everybody’s attention…not because it is weighty or scary, just because it’s interesting. The Independent reports: Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally...
LIVESTREAM: The IMA Discuss Artificial Intelligence
Host Ryan Cristian is joined by IMA panel members Whitney Webb, Derrick Broze, Jason Bermas, James Corbett, Kit Knightly, Patrick Wood, Hrvoje Moric, Steve Poikenen and Hakeem Anwar to...
“Lab-grown meat could erase the need for farming”
Kit Knightly
Professor Luke O’Neill of Trinity College gave an interview to the Show Me the Science podcast a few days ago, praising the rise of “lab-grown” or “cultivated” meat, and...
Mutant Rice and Bill Gates’s Lab Rats: Grand Experiments in India’s Fields
Colin Todhunter
In late 2024, Bill Gates sparked outrage in India after describing the country as “a kind of laboratory to try things” during a podcast with Reid Hoffman. Gates emphasised...
Inside CBDC’s Anti-Trump Rebrand
Kit Knightly
The planned rollout of a planet-wide network of “interoperable” digital currencies has shifted gears this year. Digital Currency is still the endgame, but – in keeping with the spirit...
This Week in the New Normal #101
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...
Actually, “personal beliefs” DO supersede “the public good”
Kit Knightly
Personal beliefs do not supersede the public good – and vaccination is a public good The above quote – taken from a headline in the Globe and Mail –...
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...
