If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gurgling from the froth-corrupted lungs […] My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The…

From Iain’s website: I was delighted that Dr David A. Hughes asked me to join him to discuss my forthcoming book The Technocratic Dark State. You can read John Titus full review of the book H…

“It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.” Michael Corleone, The Godfather Pay-to-play schemes. Protection rackets. Extortion. Corruption. Self-enrichment. Graft. Grift. Brutality. Roaming…

‘The Agrarian Imagination: Development and the Art of the Impossible’ (2025), published by The Critical Globalisation Collective (UK & India), is available on Figshare. All the aut…

We don’t get much engagement on Twitter (X, whatever). At ~63,000 followers we’re hardly a huge account, but an engagement rate of around 0.07% is incredibly low. Our content generally …

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 world. 1. Guess who&…

There is no fool like an old fool, I was thinking, standing on the deck in the cooling night air with a plate of cat food. I called out, and they came—the three of them—soft violet shadows emerging…

Another thing you hear all the time from the sheep grazing complacently on the other side of the hill is, “It just isn’t that big of a deal,” or “It just won’t get to that,” or “Why do you always t…

The anti-war crowd likes to ask: What if they started a war and no one showed up? So, perhaps statists should be asking: What if they held a (s)election and no one voted? Join James today for an ex…

“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constituti…

Gleaming office buildings, concrete flyovers and ever-sprawling housing developments and industrial parks, the modern city is increasingly presented as a symbol of progress. But what if this very ‘…

Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my wife, and confiscated my computer. The se…

The recent changes being made to British law are undermining the rights of citizens to a fair trial and presumption of innocence, and could turn our legal system into a truly dystopian nightmare. H…

British people are glum and grumbling after Rachel Reeves’ budget, but what did they expect? They should know by now that government is an extortion racket. While many voters regret their decision …

A school in Caerphilly is shutting down after 250 students and staff were diagnosed with flu. A school in Northern Ireland has got 170 students off sick. “It’s worse than Covid”, …

When it comes, it comes on slowly The day feels holy, a hush falls down Whispered names, remembered faces From desperate places, all gather ‘round Tom Paxton, “Come on, Holy” Early morning and the …

It’s December, and to wrap up  the year The Independent Media Alliance is having its final livestream of 2025! On Friday December 12th, to mark the holidays, a panel of IMA regulars will be f…

“The United States boldly broke with the ancient military custom of swearing loyalty to a leader. Article VI required that American Officers thereafter swear loyalty to our basic law, the Constitut…

Now that Randy Andy has been exposed as an Epstein-associated degenerate, even the most dyed-in-the-wool defenders of the British royal family are starting to question their fealty to the House of …

Recently, the deputy PM and justice secretary, David Lammy, announced that the UK government is planning to scrap jury trials for all but suspected murder, manslaughter and rape cases. The push-bac…

As everyone knows by now, the UK government has rolled out new digital identity verification requirements for directors through Companies House. What people may not be aware of is that these requir…