What struck me last time I read 1984 was how much I had missed in it. It’s much much more than the images of brutal repression we tend to...

“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...

The second of our short videos marking the 75th anniversary of George Orwell’s 1984 & – we hope – a timely reminder it is much more than the famous...

The first of our short videos marking the 75th anniversary of George Orwell’s 1984 & – we hope – a timely reminder it is much more than the famous...

John & Nisha Whitehead Big Brother is Watching You.” George Orwell, 1984 2024 is the new 1984. Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of...

Edward Curtin My title is redundant for a reason, since the root of the word radical is the Latin word, radix, meaning root.  For I mean to show how 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...

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 Whitehead “This country has been having a nationwide nervous breakdown since 9/11. A nation of people suddenly broke, the market economy goes to shit, and they’re threatened on every...

Kit Knightly The first shocking censorship of 2023 dropped last week. As covered by CJ Hopkins in his most recent column, Roald Dahl’s publishers have hired a team of...

John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our...

Kit Knightly Did you know the economy was booming? This may come as a shock to anyone out there who a) is alive or b) has to buy things,...

Kit Knightly “Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense.” George...

So...how are Covid and 9/11 linked? They form a continuum of control narratives designed to frighten people into accepting draconian limitations on their freedom, whilst justifying a permanent society-wide...

Margaret Anna Alice “Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.” George Orwell The noose is dangling gently around our necks. Every day, they cinch it tighter. By the...

by Insight History Although people have tragically died from Covid-19, the way the Covid-19 death data is recorded in many countries around the world has produced, and continues to...

Cynthia Chung “Politicians, Priests, and psychiatrists often face the same problem: how to find the most rapid and permanent means of changing a man’s belief…The problem of the doctor...

Frank Lee Identity politics. Three Women MPs are attempting to form an emergency cabinet of women in order to reverse the Brexit vote. Please note that according to the...

Hugh O’Neill The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived and dishonest–but the myth–persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches...

Max Parry Recently, a certain political concept has been resurrected that warrants interrogation. The notion of a ‘red-brown’ alliance has been thrown around so ubiquitously as a form of...