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...

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, or so...

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...

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 to sell...

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...

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. Originally passed...

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...

Joanna Sharp So what do we do on a weekend evening of the New Normal? ‘To Vac or Novak. That is the Question.’ The exhausting two years under the...

The special “Future of the EU” Conference came to a conclusion a few days ago. There may have been a familiar veneer of “public consultation”, but the aim of...

Iain Davis The word “democracy” (demokratia) derives from “demos” (people) and “kratos” (power).  Literally translated it means “people power.” It is the best model of governance ever devised. So...

The first tweet I saw when I checked my timeline this morning was from foreign policy analyst Clint Ehlirch, pointing out that the Russian ruble has already started recovering...

Margaret Anna Alice “This is the story of a duel. It is a duel between two very unequal adversaries: an exceedingly powerful, formidable, and ruthless state and an insignificant,...

Some of the UK’s “temporary” measures intended to help “deal with the pandemic” are going to be added to future legislation and made permament laws by the spring of...

The UK government is planning to re-work its human rights law to put an increased emphasis on “personal responsibility” and “duties to the wider society”, as well as preventing...

A hospital in Germany has denied care to a toddler because his parents are not vaccinated. The young Cypriot has a heart condition that requires specialist surgery not available...