Starting this month, banks all across Vietnam will begin deleting over 86,000,000 bank accounts that have not been “verified” under the countries new digital ID scheme. The State Bank o…

What if the delusions of the dissidents are in fact real? What if their paranoid fantasies are not fantasies at all? In other words, what if it’s not the political dissidents who are crazy, but the…

“You may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for” Billy Joel, You May Be Right They say a stitch in time saves nine. They say it is always good to be prepared. T…

“That was when they suspended the Constitution…There wasn’t even an enemy you could put your finger on.” Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale What we are witnessing is not a gover…

In the past 48 hours, the governments of France, San Marino, Luxembourg, Monaco, Andorra, Malta, the UK, Canada, Portugal and Australia have all announced their recognition of the State of Palestin…

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 seeing someone riding a pe…

Two days ago I covered the myriad ways the world was turning its collective fire on Israel, leading one BBC journalist to describe them as “isolated”. In the two days since, that isolat…

If I had to name one thing as the worst attribute of modern humanity, it would be consumerism. If I could name two, the second would be our need for instant gratification. If I could name three, th…

As a distributor of The Light newspaper, one of the ironies of the heckling I sometimes hear is the accusation of fascism by people who behave like fascists. Similarly ironic is the criticism that …

This is a tale of punctuation. A small one — a dash, to be precise. The em dash, for those still confusing it with the hyphen. A mark so modest it doesn’t even have its own key, and yet lately it’s…

“In a dark time, the eye begins to see…What’s madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance?…A steady storm of correspondences!” Theodore Roethke, In a Dark Time We are all obs…

“Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our ow…

If you’ve watched Dissent Into Madness then you’ll not only know about the ways that psychological insights are being weaponized against us but, more importantly, you’ll have an idea about what we …

The Yuka app is a mobile application designed to help consumers quickly assess the health quality of food and cosmetic products by scanning their barcodes. It produces a health score ranging from 0…

This post was updated on 03/10/25 to incorporate breaking news. And so the UK’s Digital ID is official. Not legal, no laws have been passed, not even real in the sense it exists at all. But i…

The latest IMA panel discusses the principle of “free speech” and what exceptions (if any) should be made, including the age-old “fire in a crowded theatre” argument and the…

Yesterday morning, a Synagogue in Manchester was allegedly the site of a terrorist attack, when a knife-wielding Muslim man attacked Jews gathering for Yom Kippur, killing two and injuring four. Th…

Strange times, indeed, folks. Strange times. Should we be concerned? I think so. In the end, I am sure it will work out, but there will likely be a lot of time between now and the end. So, we will …

He was in a tree the first time I saw him. It wasn’t a big tree, but he wasn’t a big cat. Barely more than a kitten, really, stubby-tailed and squeaky. The branch was no more than three feet off th…

“The era of the Department of Defense is over… From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this: warfighting… We untie the hands of our warfighters to inti…

Apparently, in order to be able to work in the UK, we will all be forced to adopt digital ID—the mandatory so-called BritCard. There is absolutely no public appetite for this, as the more than 2 mi…