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…

Agrarian Imagination Under Siege: India’s Farmers Against the Global Agri-Cartel (2006) is now available to download for free at Zenodo. The global news cycle is notoriously fleeting, often t…

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 mean…

“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 ord…

Imagine minding your own business and then quite out of nowhere receiving an email from a certain “Edward Slavsquat” asking if you would be willing to answer a few questions. “Sure,” you reply out …

The gaping maw of the AI data centre beast is threatening to devour all energy and water on the planet. Awakened to this threat, people are organizing. This is the story of the fight against the da…

Just a quick announcement explaining the recent outages apologizing for any disruption. I know they say “never apologise, never explain”, but whoever coined that expression never had to…

The 15-minute city (FMC) is an urban planning concept designed to meet the sustainability targets and indicators pursuant with Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11). The international constructi…

A systemic ‘Great Dispossession’ is being beta-tested in India. It is a playbook for the end of food sovereignty, driven by the debris of the Bretton Woods system and the insatiable need for ‘marke…

The only thing anyone wants to talk about is the Epstein files, the millions of documents and emails released by the US government concerning the *ahem* late Jeffrey Epstein and his many high-profi…

Keir Starmer’s appointment of Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the United States, despite his known links to Jeffrey Epstein, is the “biggest political scandal of the century”. Ac…