“The people have the power…We are the government.”John & Nisha WhiteheadJohn Lennon We are living through a period of open lawlessness at the highest levels of government. Executive orders are issued to sidestep Congress. Federal law enforcement is deployed as a tool of retaliation. Protest is criminalized. Surveillance expands. Due process becomes optional. Courts are […]
Yesterday, the British House of Lords brought the looming end of online anonymity one step closer when they voted to support an amendment to the pending Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would ban children under 16 from using social media. It’s been said more times than anyone can count, but any […]
Just a couple of hours after I wrote that I hadn’t yet seen the major agenda of Davos 2026, Canadian PM Mark Carney made a speech that suddenly made it clear. So, what is the speech about? It’s about how the US are bad guys, attempting to boss around the […]
Chatting with former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in December 2025, UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said: [M]y ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes […]
Jesus H. Christ, I can’t believe I have to write this Large Language Models (LLMs), otherwise known as AI chatbots, are statistical models of human speech patterns. Given a prompt, they output a probable string of words as a reply. LLMs are improved text prediction engines whose newly invented “attention […]
In What Autism Is, I characterized autism as exclusion from the existential empathy on which meaningful human experience relies. Autistic people are irretrievably remote from the conditions for meaning. Whatever they learn is learnt as a simulation and from outside of human connection. Further clarity about autism comes from considering what […]
A painfully predictable propaganda pincer movement Two days ago, the British government announced a U-turn on their proposed digital identity, and that the much-anticipated “BritCard” would no longer be mandatory to work in the UK. This was welcomed as a victory by both fake anti-establishment types whose job is to Pied […]
I’ve had a cold, and as a cold Traditionalist, that means I’ve been sitting on the couch in my dressing gown, sipping herbal tea with honey in it. (The Zealots from The Church of New Colds would have me masking up and gaffer taping plastic sheets over my doors and […]
We are immersed in a behavioural psychology programme. The global elite is manipulating everything from incidents to information, in the process of building an authoritarian technocracy. The powerful do not wait for events such as a pandemic to happen and then exploit; instead, they create the events, which are scripted […]
Supermarket shelves have never been fuller, yet diets have become poorer. Across the world, food systems praised for their productivity now deliver an abundance of calories alongside widespread micronutrient deficiency, ecological collapse and rural precarity. This is the outcome of an agricultural model that equates food security with yield and […]