After the tragic death of Sarah Everard, grieving women come out to show solidarity in a candlelit vigil. Just as BLM encapsulated the moment that was the death of George Floyd, this mourning captured the mood of many across the nation. The memorial/vigil turned ugly when the women were told to disperse and…
Category: Thoughts and Analysis
The Weaponized Propaganda Machine – Chapter 5
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. – George Orwell, 1984 As we’ve already seen, data gathered by companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter allows them to target adverts based on our every click. They can build detailed profiles about our personality,…
This Is Only The Start Of NHS Privatisation
In the UK this weekend, a concerned 61 year old woman was arrested and slapped with a £10,000 fine after arranging a protest in opposition to the measly 1% pay rise being proposed for nurses by the government. It’s a scene that would have drawn outrage in the Britain of 2019, but we…
Tech Censorship Is Dangerous, But Micro-targeted Adverts Are Worse
There’s been a lot of focus over the last few months on freedom of speech and censorship online. What began with Alex Jones and David Ike a number of years ago has morphed into bans for Steven Crowder, Project Veritas, Articles of Unity (a campaign to reject the two party system), Unity4J (an…
Don’t Trust the Papers
Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play. Joseph Goebbels Mistrust in the mainstream media has been fuelled by allegations of bias and the spread of ‘fake news’. Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2017 found that just over 40 per cent of people in the UK agreed with the statement,…
Britain Needs A GameStop Moment
Mere days after Alexandria Ocasia Cortez accused Ted Cruz of inciting protestors to attempt to murder her, they suddenly find themselves on the same side. I would not have believed it to be possible but apparently hatred of Wall Street and the banking class is enough to unite everyone from the far left…
