Christmas presents wrapped with care? Check. Steaming cup of hot chocolate? Check. Relaxing Christmas background music? Check. Now, what am I forgetting. Oh, that’s right: the Solutions Watch end-o…

Okay, who had “the US invades Venezuela and kidnaps the President” down as the first big story of 2026? Well done if you did, you probably got good odds. That’s the “breakin…

Some years chip away at freedom. Others tear the mask off. 2025 was the year the government stopped pretending it was constrained by the Constitution—when executive power expanded openly and unapol…

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 mic…

In Part 1, responding to David Lammy’s attempt to deny our constitutional right to trial by jury, we discussed the fact that the UK government is a franchise of the global public-private partnershi…

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 powerf…

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 Co…

Just before Christmas, I wrote an article on the so-called “Super flu” that was breaking out across the UK, headlined simply: Experts agree: There is no such thing as “Super Flu” Even t…

We’re only ten days into 2026, and we’ve already got a war, a revolution and now an incipient social media ban. Allegedly. Apparently, X’s GrokAI is editing photos to put people i…

As the Indian Parliament moves into the February 2026 Budget Session, there is a sense of déjà vu in the country. While the world celebrated the repeal of the 2020 Farm Laws as a victory for farmer…

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…

The Edward Institute for Village Studies has come to an early end. I’ll allow you a moment to collect yourselves. … Wait, what’s that? You’ve never heard of the Edward Institute for Village Studies…

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. …wai…

>NYT: “Do you see any checks on your power on the world stage? Is there anything that could stop you if you wanted to?” President Trump: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. …

Yesterday saw the opening ceremony of the 2026 edition of the World Economic Forum’s annual summit in Davos. The first under the leadership of incoming co-chairman Larry “BlackRock&#822…

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…

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 w…

In this time of thoughtcrime and hate speech laws, here’s a dangerous question: how did people provide for themselves BEFORE government-supplied cradle-to-grave welfare and “social security”? It’s …

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 t…