This month marks the close of the UK government’s “consultation” on the planned digital pound. This is your chance to have your say on plans to introduce a Central...

Simon Elmer “If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, the mainspring of popular government during a revolution is both virtue and terror; virtue, without which terror...

Kit Knightly The Biden administration is apparently looking to ban gas stoves, calling them a “hidden danger”. But while that sounds bad enough, a deeper dive shows – as...

KB Goldtooth UPDATED 10 Jan 2023 by the author for clarification Entering winter 2021, the New Normal had been on a near two-year unbeaten hot streak. By January, however,...

Simon Elmer In the UK today, it seems, being knighted means you’re someone the UK state wishes to protect from prosecution for crimes against the British people. We don’t...

It’s official, Rishi Sunak is the UK’s new Prime Minister. That’s the fourth in less than three years, for those keeping score at home. And in a monument to...

Just 44 days into the job, embattled British Prime Minister Liz Truss has just announced her resignation. Already among the more forgettable people in the world, with this move...

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...

Queen Elizabeth II has died aged 96. The mainstream media had been giving live updates on her majesty’s “medical supervision” all afternoon, along with the news that the extended...

After months of the media talking about it as if it has the potential to make any kind of difference at all, the Tory leadership contest is over and...

Kit Knightly The latest figures from the UK’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) suggest that the knock-on effects of lockdown may be harming more people than “Covid” ever did,...

Kit Knightly There’s a lot of talk about energy prices in the UK right now. And a lot of talk about what to do about them. The record profits...

Kit Knightly Good news guys, UK companies will soon be free to start producing and selling several species of “edible insects” again. Apparently, one effect of Brexit is that...

Iain Davis Audio Version New Feature! The BBC is either the worst media organisation on Earth or the best, depending upon your perspective. On the one hand it is...

Kit Knightly Last week we wrote about the new “polio outbreak” reported in the UK and around the world, and how it was likely yet another constructed narrative designed...

Boris Johnson has resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In other breaking news that’s just as likely to seriously impact your life, Big Mo is returning to...

Kit Knightly Yesterday, Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) voted to make some the emergency measures – initially instated to “combat the pandemic” – permanent features of Scottish law....

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...

A few days ago the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) edited their Monkeypox page to alter the narrative in a few key ways. Firstly, they removed a paragraph from...

Paul Cudenec via Winter Oak In the middle of the 19th century, the British Empire ran into what what would today be termed a “public relations crisis”. Influential domestic...