The press regulator cannot take meaningful action against the Jewish Chronicle because to do so would pull the rug from under the antisemitism narrative that destroyed Corbyn and is now being used by Starmer to purge Labour of the remnants of the left.
If the super rich are pondering where to build their bunkers or which bits of space to colonise to escape the coming climate collapse, we are being conditioned in a similarly deranged, if cut-price, way. New studies are assessing the countries best placed to ride out the catastrophe.
The supreme court’s refusal to hear Craig Murray’s appeal against his unprecedented conviction for ‘jigsaw identification’ means the British state is now effectively credentialising journalists. Only corporate journalists will be safe from state retribution.
By fixating on Trump, elements of the left have drifted into worryingly authoritarian ways of thinking – sometimes openly, more often implicitly – as a bulwark against the return of Trump or anyone like him.
No meaningful lessons will be learnt about what really happened in Wuhan. Maintaining the illusion of truth will continue to take precedence over uncovering the truth.
Cummings is the Machiavelli of our times. His self-serving honesty and self-criticism were perfectly calibrated to rehabilitate his image, win over doubters and stick the knife more deeply into Boris Johnson.
Pro-Israel Jewish groups want to treat us all like Corbyn, demonising us as antisemites unless we fall silent even as Israel once again brutalises Palestinians.
Keir Starmer is not seeking to ‘de-escalate’ the ‘tensions’ causing bloodshed thousands of miles away in the Middle East. Rather, he is fuelling those very same tensions, escalating them, in his own back yard.
Constant acts of intimidation and violence by political and media elites to crush media pluralism in the name of ‘democratic values’ serve only to further expose the hypocrisy and bad faith of the corporate media and its hired hands.
The British establishment can risk making Boris Johnson vulnerable only because the establishment interests he represents are no longer vulnerable.
We are not conquerors of our bodies, of the planet, of the universe – and if we imagine we are, we will soon find out that the battle we’re waging is one we can never hope to win.
The wall-to-wall propaganda we are being subjected to on the death of a royal may look exceptional but is in fact entirely routine. It is simply that in normal times the propaganda is better masked, wrapped in the illusion of choice and variety.
Just as free speech is being shut down on the grounds that we must not offend, so the right to protest is being shut down on the grounds that we must not disturb.
Every moment of Mos-Shogbamimu’s five-minute attack on Piers Morgan on his own show is being stage-managed. View it as a sophisticated lullaby, masquerading as fearless honesty, singing us deeper into sleep.
We are presented with a false binary choice. Either we cheer on the Royal Family and implicitly condone their racism; or we cheer on Meghan and implicitly support her battle to better veil the feudal ugliness of the British monarchy.
Bullying people to take the Covid vaccine – whether through incentives or punishments – is not social solidarity or social responsibility. It is a smug liberal conceit masquerading as those things.
The majority of doctors, like the majority of journalists, politicians and academics, have been captured by corporate interests. They are in thrall to ‘guild’ interests designed by Big Pharma to benefit not patients but patents and profits.
