Social unrest in an age of hyper-surveillance and hypersensitivity The Labour-branded government has announced sweeping cutbacks in social welfare and core public services at a time of rising unemployment and on the cusp of an artificial intelligence revolution. You could hardly choose a worse time to wean the most vulnerable in society off welfare dependence.
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The Mental Health Trap Revisited
Everyone needs emotional wellbeing, a sense of purpose and belonging in this world. We may use different criteria to measure our success and rely on help and friendship from others to varying extents, but we all need some inner serenity to keep going in life. Mental health may superficially describe your psychic fitness, but the
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Pawns on the Grand Chessboard
Arms manufacturers are the big winners of the tumultuous events in the public-facing citadels of power across the Western world over the last couple of weeks. Just as the new White House administration tried to broker a peace deal with Russia over the three-year old war over Eastern Ukraine, Ursula von der Leyen’s EU and
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The End of the Pseudo-American Dream
Whatever happened to the peacenik generation that protested against greed and endless wars?
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Is the West now at war with itself over the definition of freedom and democracy?Deep State
GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out
Or is that BIBO: Bias In, Bias Out? The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence raises profound ethical questions with far-reaching implications for our autonomy as human beings. However, today, I want to focus on a more immediate challenge: workplace displacement and its impact on the job market. Some argue that AI assistants will usher in
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Endless Moral Dilemmas in the age of Confusion?
Who stands to gain from never-ending destabilisation and dysfunctional societies? In early December ‘24, the Western media welcomed the swift overthrow of Bashar Al Assad’s Baath government. Western leaders are suddenly wining and dining former terrorists, including the leader of newly rebranded HTS (Hayat Tahir Al-Sham or Organisation for the Liberation of Syria), Mohammed al-Julani,
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The Ongoing War Against Humanity
Are you a burden on society? Few slopes are as slippery as the 35 pages of the new Assisted Dying Bill in England and Wales, replete with enigmatic terminology and subjective reassurances. In a sign of the times, the second reading passed through the UK Parliament by 330 to 275 votes. A few powerful speeches
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Battle of the Billionaires
And the Eclipse of American Exceptionalism It’s time to ask if the surprise outcome of the 2024 US Presidential Election reflects a growing rift between different factions within the technocratic elite or if it’s only a psyop to engineer a low-level civil war between rednecks and cosmopolitan Americans. Many still believe Trump, with Robert F
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The Free Movement Pivot
Cognitive dissonance in an era of high-tech surveillance In the ongoing debate on the sustainability of high levels of rapid migration in terms of infrastructure and social cohesion, one trend just caught my eye. All of a sudden and from some quite unexpected quarters, we hear talk of deportation, something almost unthinkable outside the fringe
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Phasing you out
How the progressive elites want to eliminate the undesirables and that might include you Is it just me or does anyone else think the more politicians and celebrity influencers pretend to care about the disadvantaged, the more they justify measures that will quietly phase out the plebeian misfits they want to exclude from their vision
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Global Splintering
What’s going on? Are we seeing a divisive split among global technocrats that cuts into the heart of Western administrations? Only a few months ago, Sir Keir Starmer was the darling of the progressive mainstream media. The BBC salivated over him as he entered 10 Downing Street and laid down the new law of the
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Parallel Narratives
In an age of high-tech deceit On almost the same day as Israeli military forces attacked Lebanon and destroyed the 14th century Great Mosque of Khan Younis in Gaza, a knifeman attacked 14 young revellers, killing at least 3, at a Christian festival, celebrating ethnic diversity, in the West German town of Solingen. Within 24
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Open Season on the Plebs
Could the spectre of the elusive far-right be the new covid? These days left and right-wing refer more to your cultural outlook than your class allegiance. If anything, the richer you are in Western Europe, the more likely you are to identify with the progressive left and the poorer you are the more likely you
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Order out of Chaos
How the managerial classes exploit social tensions to expand surveillance and censorship In just four weeks, Sir Keir Starmer’s new administration has revealed, in case there was any doubt, its true authoritarian intents as it seizes the opportunities provided by a series of angry protests and riots to clamp down on what it likes to
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The Establishment wins again
What a big surprise. The blob has engineered another colour revolution. Nominally the leader of the blue team, Rishi Sunak, conceded defeat to the leader of the Red Team, the charmless Sir Keir Starmer of Davos. If you only watched the BBC, ITV or Sky News you might be forgiven for thinking Starmer had been
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Extreme Centralisers
The rise of progressive Technocrats Why do we call extreme advocates of centralisation moderates and proponents of greater self-determination extremists? Have you noticed that political actors posing in the middle ground tend to favour more regime change wars, surveillance, censorship, top-down social engineering and biotechnical tyranny, while opposition to these policies comes from activists labelled
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Over to you, Sir Keir Davos
If Rishi Sunak cared about his parliamentary career, he could not have picked a worse time for a General Election. The main opposition party, Labour, is hardly united. Its former leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is standing as an independent. Its activists are in open rebellion against the party’s failure to condemn Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
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Divide et Impera
How the Global Elites are setting us up for endless civil strife. The current incumbent of 10 Downing Street, Rishi Sunak, addressed the nation on the day after a by-election result that humiliated the establishment parties. Before the Rochdale by-election, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party seemed poised to win a thumping majority at the next
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Our Rulers Want War
Last month, the world’s movers and shakers met up in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. Nominally elected politicians posed with billionaire technocrats and functionaries of unaccountable global organisations like the WHO to discuss how to manage the restless plebs. Hot on their agenda, besides climate change, future pandemics and universal digital ID, was the
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Society on the Cliff Edge
For postmodern Zionists, Israel can never do any harm, only try desperately to defend Israel’s right to exist and to combat genocidal terrorists hiding among civilians who may also be responsible for aiding and abetting mass murder.
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Shifting Narratives at the Crossroads of Civilisation
Things are about to turn very nasty If you believe the opinion polls, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is poised to win by a country mile at the next general election. Recent by-election results would confirm this trend albeit with very low turnouts. Yet on the ground there is little enthusiasm for the prime-ministerial candidate
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Spiked Opposition
Imagine being invited to debate disinformation on the BBC, after three and a half years of non-stop covid lies, and the best example of BBC fake news you can cite is one of the few cases of objective reporting. I don’t really like ad feminam or ad hominem attacks. I sympathise instinctively with anyone who
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Can we let the War Party win again?
Who benefits from more death and destruction in the Middle East? It’s easy to jump on bandwagons in righteous indignation against the latest demons guilty of unspeakable crimes against humanity. Alas recent history has taught us over and over again that we cannot trust the objectivity and impartiality of the mainstream media to verify the
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Do 7 million British children need more drugs?
In the recent spat over Laurence Fox’s crass remarks on GB News about journalist Ava Evans, most pundits have completely missed the woke journalist’s most outrageous assertion on prime-time BBC TV and it did not relate to sexual desirability. When asked in a panel discussion with comedian, Geoff Norcott, why she opposed the idea of
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Early Post-modern Wokeness
How I adopted a social justice warrior mentality long before it became fashionable and then grew out of it. If the global boiling alarmists are correct and humanity is doomed unless we drastically reduce our collective carbon footprint, don’t blame me. I’ve long cycled or walked to work, share a car and only fly around
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The UniParty
The emergence of the polymorphic One-Party State Why would Costa Coffee, probably one of the UK’s blandest brands, suddenly decide to champion self-harm in the name of the new-fangled gender-bending cult? Surely, they should steer clear of ideological controversies and stick to their primary business of serving wholesome non-alcoholic beverages and snacks. Yet their marketing
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Alternate Reality in the Post-Enlightenment Era
Why do people doubt the scientific discoveries that made our modern world possible?
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I’m all for challenging orthodoxy, especially when powerful forces seek to enforce their narrow interpretation of observable reality to protect their vested interests and drive hidden agendas.enlightenment, Fundamentalism, ideology, misinformation
Pronoun Creep
As a living language, English has no shortage of quirks and ambiguities but tends to adapt over time to fill the semantic gaps. However, there is a big difference between the natural evolution of language and compelled speech.
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Systemic Breakdown or Engineered Chaos?
Some foreign observers may gloat over the disturbing scenes of rioting, arson, looting and urban warfare in the banlieues of French cities over the last week with an arrogant sense of schadenfreude, blaming the EU leadership, the French governance team, complacent left-branded politicians and naïve French voters for failing to address the root causes of
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Infantile Revolutionary Defeatism
On the eve of the Great War that would lead to over 22 million avoidable deaths, Lenin called the defeat of Russian Tsarism the lesser of two evils, but urged his German and Austro-Hungarian comrades to oppose their Kaisers with the same vigour. This later came to be known in both socialist and anarchist circles
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Whom may you hate?
When hatred means only loathing protected categories, but it’s fine to direct your anger at new outgroups. As the antithesis to love, hatred is a natural emotion as old as humanity itself. We hate people who, we believe, mean us harm. By “us” I mean our immediate in-group, ourselves, our family and our wider community.
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Progressive Sycophants
How billionaire transhumanists captured the middle-class left I’m so old I recall when the left stood up against the ruling classes with their endless war games and knavish tricks. Now they screech against the spectre of the evil far right, amplify voguish mainstream propaganda and demand the suppression of all traditional outlooks. It only seems
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