2026-09-23

Now this is indeed a question central to the art of being a "conspiracy theorist"!

And it drives one to fall back to the default starting position - this is what seems to be going on but I'm open to evidence that may persuade me otherwise.

And to Socrates - "the only thing I know is that I know nothing".

In other words, absolute certainty is absolutely elusive.

So we derive our whole world-view from input that may be false...

... so is it really all in the mind?

If so, in whose mind?

Still, in much of our day-to-day lives this is good enough to get by on. We don't need to get too uncomfortable about it (unless we are conspiracy

2026-09-23

Can institutions (and governments) be designed to be responsive to the need for correction?

It's a problem when a faceless institution (or government) effectively hides behind the internet (and nowadays behind an AI or three) - when "computer says 'no' ", what to do? Whom to call? How long have you got?

The scope for diversion, for sending you around loops that somehow omit the one question that would let you exit the loop, is enormous.

The answer of course is not to deal with such outfits, but when that outfit is effectively (even if not legally) a part of the government, or is a monopoly (gas, water or electricity board billing company) then you may have to simply do as you are told if you want heat, light, and cooking facility. Or fight your way through the courts...or somehow go off-grid and hope to be left alone.

Not before time, concerned folk are giving the problem of institutional imperviance

2026-09-23

Look Out! The Russians are coming!

Well, they've been coming for my not inconsiderable lifetime, and they're still not here (although the Chinese seem to be embedding themselves nicely in their vast new "embassy" underneath London).

Either the Ruskies are slacking or they have no intention of getting embroiled in unnecessary conflicts that they can sit out, confident that their "opponents" are going to fall apart of their own accord, or at least are paper tigers not worth the worry. Both of which would seem to be applicable to the UK, and even more so to the EU.

So quite apart from the general obsession with trying to scare us all witless and make us into amenable servants to the great and the not-so-good-after-all, what else might be behind the effort to distract us from the invasion of foreign persons unknown and undocumented that the British and French governments have so assiduously been ferrying across the Channel in persistent collusion and brazen

2026-09-23

Add in the pernicious effects of psychology / psychopathy, and it's a wonder we have any "normal" Gen Z at all.

We have touched on this topic before, and since then little has changed, and possibly for the worse.

Brownstone revisit it, featuring two authors from different backgrounds with a common message - Our World - No Place for Children (with acknowledgement to David Adelman).

Still, we are where we are, so must make the best of it. 

More human interaction required!

2026-09-23

Now that the science of climate change has been "settled" for so long, it's refreshing to hear of a climate scientist who actually looked at the data and realised that the CO₂ effect couldn't be producing it.

So he donned his thinking cap and came up with another theory - that maybe the science isn't actually settled at all.

Clearly this counter-revolutionary strike against the climate orthodoxy cult cannot, must not be tolerated - expect enough ructions to heat global temperatures to boiling-point...

2026-09-23

A thoughtful piece by Joanna Gray in the Daily Sceptic makes some excellent relevant points as well as educating us in matters sumptuary.

I confess I hadn't a clue about "sumptuary" so I'm guessing that you may be clueless also, but if not, well done!

The other excellent point brought out is that we are all human beings with more matters in common than matters that divide us, and the best way forward therefore is to attend to the matters that unite us whilst agreeing to live with those differences that divide us whilst those remain tolerable.

We are where we are and we are certainly more productive and consequently better off by working together than by arguing disagreeing and working against each other.

Parliamentarians excepted of course - they have shown themselves so deeply untrustworthy that Parliament may have to be abolished, at least in current form.

The "Conspiracy Theorists" are Getting Restless

2026-09-22

Yes, politics infects everything...

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And yes, people are still translating "the Bible"...

2026-09-22

Politics and economics are two sides of the same coin. So if our politics is broken (and who would disagree these days?) then it's no surprise that so is our economics.

And so too should the financial analysts have something to say about the politics.  

Whether or not you agree with the title, the latest article from Investor's daily nails many problems that politicians' fantasies have created...

 ... but will any politician deign to listen?

Some lazy politicians think that forcing people to vote would solve the problem of low turn-out.

I welcome the idea, but maybe they should be careful what they wish for. After all, if all the disillusioned came out and spoiled their paper by politely writing "none of these candidates" across it,

2026-09-22

As if we needed any further examples of the total and utter inadequacy of significant parts (if not necessarily the whole) of  "our NHS", along comes the Thirlwall inquiry to draw completely the wrong conclusions.

Christopher Morris reports for the Daily Sceptic.

2026-09-21

We introduced this case previously.

For such an exhaustive inquest, there remain a large number of unanswered questions which the investigative team working with his mother are highlighting in a series of video presentations.

Videos 1 and 2 feature in our previous article, videos 3 and 4 follow below:

Episode 3

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2026-09-21

According to the schedule, every newborn is born deficient and requires an injection.

An injection that differs by Anglosphere country.

Informed consent is honoured more in the breach than in the observance.

"Every current package insert opens with a boxed warning against the exact route of administration hospitals universally use"

Read the insert first.

2026-09-21

We go a week without and then like buses two come along together.

Ben's report this week is a must-read. Actually, it's the must-read.

Although as always, believe it when you see it...

... but "wars and rumours of wars " seems to be the order of the day.

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2026-09-21

Plotkin. The name that every proponent of vaccines should know.

Aaron Siri. The lawyer who had the sheer brass face to depose him legally.

Those of us unfamiliar with this story need to read this, and follow the link to the full deposition (yes it's nine hours) if you have the time.

"Safe and effective" or "Inherently unsafe"? 

It's your view that counts.

2026-09-21

The Monroe Doctrine.

Or the Donroe Doctrine?

Is this where the world is headed?

In past centuries the world was divided up by the competing colonial powers. America was a series of colonies of the British, the French, the Spanish, the Portuguese. Oh, and the Danes in Greenland.

By various means the British won out, still retaining Canada under the British Crown, which also facilitated the State of Israel. The Middle East has been a hotbed of violence ever since, much of it under overt American and Israeli oversight. But the British and Americans always had that carefully ill-defined "special relationship", and Israel always exerted a heavy but thinly disguised influence on American politics, so who was really pulling influence behind the scenes?

But the Donald (together with Russia and China) is reshaping the world away from the old

2026-09-21

It is well understood by now that conspiracy theorists in general are all off their trolleys and not to be trusted, have flaky judgement and are prone to wild imaginings that defy belief within the milieu of the bien pensant.

In short, they are dangerous because they dare to be non-compliant with official thinking. Who knows to what disasters they will lead us?

To which one may justifiably retort that provided they are lesser disasters than the current official thinking seems to be favouring (war with Russia, own nothing and be happy, eat the insects, exist in 15-minute city panopticon prisons, take the potions of Big Pharma unquestioningly, and comply with every daft diktat that the authorities dream up next), what's not to like?

Yesterday I was watching the rare sight of a

2026-09-20

No-one has consented this...

... but they've got to go somewhere...

... well how about they go back to where they shouldn't have come from? 

The British public have consistently voted against these high levels of immigration for many years, and the government is out of order for continuing to accept all illegal migrants that the French and British effectively conspire to escort across the Channel, and for failing to fulfil their many past promises to "stop the boats".  

Simple really... or is it?

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2026-09-20

Who would lend to the Governments that can't control their spending?

Why, Central Banks of course.

What could possibly go wrong?

Alex Krainer reads the writings on the Wall Street...

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2026-09-20

Sorcery - the casting of spells.

Spelling - "in the beginning was the Word".

Words are not mathematical symbols, although they are symbols.

A mathematical symbol has (or should have) a precise unambiguous meaning. Thus the Greek letter mu "µ" means the arithmetic mean value, or average.

The word "mean" on the other hand comes freighted with other possible interpretations... tight-fisted, the opposite of generous, thin, miserable, unpleasant, and used as a verb it explains what a word might, well, mean.

"Here's a prescription for xyz, take two tablets twice a day" comes freighted with the (probably and preferably not overtly stated) meaning that it will make you better. After all, that's why you are there.

Even if it doesn't of itself make you better, the recognised placebo effect may do so. The power of the mind in