A contronym is a word having two definitions that contradict each other.  Two examples are the word bolt, which can mean to lock with a bolt and to flee,...

It’s three days since the alleged attempt on Donald Trump’s life, and while we’re not really any closer to knowing the truth of the situation, the claims and counterclaims...

On Sunday night I watched the footy at my Mum’s. Thoroughly deflated by England’s 2-1 defeat to Spain and irritated by BBC “pundits,” I then had the misfortune to...

Just minutes ago it was reported that several shots had been fired at Donald Trump while he spoke at a rally in Pennsylvania. Videos posted to Twitter show him...

“The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.” Justice...

Well, what do you know, it looks like we’ve got another “CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY” on our hands. Yes, that’s right, folks, THE VERY FABRIC OF DEMOCRACY IS AT STAKE...

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell No matter what carefully crafted sound bites...

You hear the word “democracy” thrown around quite a bit these days. “Democracy is being destroyed in the United States by Donald Trump!!” and “Democracy is being destroyed in...

“It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social,...

Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a spate of books and articles extolling the word “soul” became the rage in the United States.  Soul became the chic...

Terror attacks in Moscow, ongoing genocide in Gaza, and cancer in the Royal family are dominating the headlines. Meanwhile, on the financial back pages, all over the world the...

The headlines are full of measles at the moment, in the way that always reeks of coordination. The measles outbreak in the US has been simmering away for weeks,...

John & Nisha Whitehead “Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.” Gene Sharp, political science professor The U.S. Supreme Court was...

John & Nisha Whitehead “In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.” Hunter S. Thompson According to the FBI, you may be an anti-government...

If our readers are anything like us then you spent the majority of the weekend taking down Christmas decorations and carefully organizing them, despite the knowledge that they’ll somehow...

John & Nisha Whitehead “He says, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said: ‘No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border, and...

John Whitehead “We’ve got to face it. Politics have entered a new stage, the television stage. Instead of long-winded public debates, the people want capsule slogans—‘Time for a change’—‘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...

John & Nisha Whitehead “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of...

A few days ago former White House chief medical adviser Dr Anthony Fauci admitted the evidence supporting mask mandates was weak. Why would he do this as they appear...