It’s the abuser’s Swiss army knife for the empty-headed. Multipurpose, its meaning has near-infinite elasticity. You can be labelled ‘fascist’ if you say that there are only two biological...

Earlier this month Australia’s government announced plans to ban anyone under the age of sixteen from using social media. Social media companies aren’t happy about it, predictably, and the...

Sometimes it feels like writing for OffG has fallen into a recognizable pattern the last two years, one that could be best summed up “as ignoring the (mostly) fake...

The bird flu narrative is constantly developing, so I figured it was time for an update. You know…to keep you all abreast of the chicken situation. Ba dum tss!...

Yesterday, a group of senior women from Switzerland won what is being called a “landmark” human rights case concerning “Climate Change”. At a hearing in Strasbourg, the European Court...

John & Nisha Whitehead “The remedy is worse than the disease.” Francis Bacon The government never cedes power willingly. Neither should we. If the COVID-19 debacle taught us one...

There’s a lot of “World War Three” in the news right now. Grant Shapps, the UK’s defence minister has claimed we have “moved from a post-war to a pre-war...

Daniel Broudy It’s a strange thing about human affairs, our natural need to feel belonging, and how, if given time to pause and parse what we think we know...

Kit Knightly “We need a new approach to digital identity”, so say the authors of an “Agenda Article” for the World Economic Forum, published on the 28th of September....

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...

Kit Knightly Last week it was reported that the Australian state of Victoria may be considering “permanent” facemask mandates to achieve “zero-Covid”. Now, we don’t need to get into...

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...

This past month has seen an influx of news stories, all somehow featuring the supposed negative effects of “online misinformation”, “hate speech” and/or “conspiracy theories”. In New Zealand a...

Kit Knightly Hundreds of unvaccinated teachers in the Australian state of Queensland are facing up to five months of reduced pay as a “disciplinary measure” for refusing to be...

Kit Knightly We’re only three days removed from our last monkeypox article – We’re “losing the fight against monkeypox”…apparently – and already it’s time for an update. It’s been...

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...

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...

Kit Knightly This past week saw two high-profile Australians – cricketer Shane Warne and Labour senator Kimberley Kitching – both die of sudden heart attacks aged 52. As such,...

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...

Kit Knightly The Independent has put out an early (and strong) entry for “Worst Journalism of the Year” award, reporting yesterday the death of Hungarian gymnastics coach Szilveszter Csollany...