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...

It’s always funny to see Covid in the news, and funnier still to see supposedly normal humans reacting to it as if it means something. An historical curiosity. Like...

I think I have enough sense to know that Trump may not be the saviour many think he is. But I do have to admit that, for me, the...

Parked continually at a cliff-top near my town in Sussex is a dormobile, its windows covered in posters about conspiracy theories, particularly QAnon. Recently I had a chat with...

My personal experiences seem to lag a bit behind the general population. I have not, until recently, noticed too many people succumbing to strange cancers. Now, quite a few...

On July 6, BRICS member states signed the Joint Declaration of the 17th BRICS Summit, “Strengthening Global South Cooperation for More Inclusive and Sustainable Governance”, in Rio de Janeiro. Similar...

You’ve read a lot from me about this topic. How can the people who love you treat you the way they do? This is, of course, assuming you are...

How do we stop dystopian science-fiction movies coming true? Are we destined to be ruled by robots, and to relinquish our free will and creativity to artificial intelligence? Such...

There’s a new Covid variant “surging through” Asia, according to this headline. It has already spread to the US and Europe as well, according to this article. I’m guessing...

Congratulations to Ben Woollaston who won a hard fought snooker match against four-time World Snooker Champion Mark Selby (10 – 8). Woollaston has progressed to second round of the...

Real Left, formerly known as Left Lockdown Sceptics is holding a ‘Uniting the Pro Freedom and Pro Palestine Liberation Left’ conference on Saturday 3 May in central London. The...

The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is. Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by...

The unprecedentedly speedy development and approval of the various Covid “vaccines” – most using previously unsuccessful mRNA technology – is considered a scientific miracle by ardent followers of The...

According to the sheep world, nothing that is happening is bad. Technology is running wild, robots and AI are taking over the world, Digital IDs, CBDCs, cell phones gone...

The world is collapsing, people are getting sick and dying, the culture is becoming morally corrupt, and society is slipping deeper into the muck. People are becoming crazier and...

Will it? I don’t think so. But that seems to be a foundational tenet of the sheep worldview. Interestingly, though, the sheep-set fear most things that are rather innocuous,...

The very thing that keeps humans surviving in an ever-changing world will be the very thing that ultimately destroys them. Normalization. Normalization and the accompanying ability to roll with...

“…if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark...

I’ve heard this phrase, “Why should I worry? I have nothing to hide,” more often than I am comfortable with. This is a clear declaration of innocence with an...

Even if I am absolutely certain of something, I am still open to discussion with an opposing view. If nothing else, this is how I strengthen my argument. I...