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...

CJ Hopkins As they used to say at the end of all those wacky Looney Tunes cartoons, that’s all folks! The show is over. Literal Russian-Asset Hitler, the Latest...

Colin Todhunter The UK government has launched its public consultation on the deregulation of gene editing in England. To kick things off, somewhat predictably Environment Secretary George Eustice recently...

In a flagrant piece of political theatre, the governments of Britain and the EU have announced they have come to terms on a Brexit deal. Though the deal has...

Nathan Allonby Vote-fraud has been a running theme in US elections, since the earliest days. Allegedly, even John F Kennedy was forced to make a corrupt deal to secure...

The British government, regulators and global agrochemical corporations are colluding with each other and are thus engaging in criminal behaviour. That’s the message put forward in a new report...

The "Russia report" is an action plan for the intelligence agencies to hand MI5 direct control over the mechanisms of British democracy, and give the government legal power to...

Was Pyongyang’s destruction this month of a border town ‘liaison office’ – touted as symbol of reconciliation but in reality lacking the truth component – a further manifestation of...

Although millions of people were suffering, the hope was that the Covid-19 crisis, there was a belief that people working together with their respective governments could start building a...

This is just an open thread to focus discussion on the breaking news of the day. The last day of the first month of 2020 is shaping up to...

W Stephen Gilbert The simple response of course is to blame it all on Corbyn. Let’s face it, no more comprehensive bogeyman has ever been offered to the British...

Vladimir Golstein In the tradition of the Oxford English Dictionary, I recommend the following terms and their definitions to be included in a 2020 version of the same. DNC...

Andre Vltchek For in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, “hold office”; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the...

David Macilwain Is Putin losing his grip? Why did Russian disinformation operations fail so dramatically in the UK election? Not only did the “rabid socialist” Corbyn fail to seize...

Catte Black There’s an orgy of election post mortem going on at the moment. A lot of people in the mainstream and the alternative media are bringing their own...

  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,...

W Stephen Gilbert People generally vote out of self-interest. Of course they do. The snag is that relatively few have any sense of where their self-interest lies. Throughout the...

Frank Lee Such was the response to any of those who questioned what was happening to the animal revolution which had expropriated the farmer (Jones) and set up the...

Frank Lee The EU describes itself as being “based on the rule of law. This means that every action taken by the EU is based on treaties”[1]. The most...

A rapid volte-face from the Labour Party means the UK may be headed for a Christmas time General Election. For those of you following, this is the second proposed...