2026-09-02

If you're in a (Jackson) hole, stop digging!

Yes, the times they are a-changing...

... and there's a lot more to this than meets the eye.

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2026-09-02

This is an open letter as published on Karin's Substack.

"It was never about sustainability... It is about total control of everyone, everything, the "monetisation" of everything (using a carbon credit system), on the earth, beneath it and above"

Quite so. And it doesn't even have to work as advertised - it just needs the control mechanisms to be opaque enough that they cannot be effectively challenged and corrected. When "computer says no" to our attempt to buy a pound of minced beef, or a ticket to Ryde, or a diesel car that works, etc, how are we going to complain and get it reversed?

Comment by Mike Yeadon (on Telegram):

"This is a very good open letter, reasonably accurately describing what is going on. I highly doubt the addressees will even read it. Perhaps a good number of

2026-09-02

Well, it's not always because it has decided that the humans are getting it all wrong and need to be removed.

Sometimes it's because of faulty programming.

But what is faulty programming? Maybe the program is running precisely according to specification, but still produces the wrong result.

How can this be? Usually (inevitably?) a faulty (and probably unstated) assumption upon which the program specification relied.

And who wrote that specification? A human being, imperfect ,and liable to unwitting errors of omission.

Or maybe the error was in the AI's training materials, which were (inevitably) sourced ultimately from human-written materials (even if also subsequently reprocessed by AI into relevant but still erroneous training materials). 

Also subject to errors of all kinds.

Shuffling of Deckchairs on the Parliamentary Titanic?

2026-09-01

Ben's report this week illustrates how hard it is these days to tease out from the fog of misinformation what may actually be going on "on the ground" and "on/under the sea".

Frankly, I doubt most of the pundits know. I doubt if Ben knows, despite his multiple contacts, since they will each of them tell him what they want us to believe and AI can fake almost anything.The comments beneath this week's report are instructive... 

About the only thing I'm reasonably sure about is that the Zelenskyy regime is hanging on by its fingernails and that the EU will be falling apart sooner rather than later.

What we do know is that Trump is the most extraordinary fellow to occupy the presidency, certainly in living memory and probably much longer.Norms and conventions are regularly flouted and contradictions (and probably false flags) abound, leaving us all in a state of confusion - but that he is managing to reshape the world

2026-08-31

Gorbachev, Yeltsin. Putin.

Trump.

Rake's progress?

Rich Does Politics interviews "Burning Bright" who reminds us of events from the fall of the Soviet Union, through the conflicts in Ukraine where the game is still being played out.

Don't miss!

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2026-08-31

I don't believe that these are protests against Islam specifically (although I'm sure there are plenty of miscreants who would like to so categorise these matters).

But they are certainly against what passes for our government for letting in - nay, welcoming - illegal immigrants of all descriptions and none (but strangely mostly young men) apparently indiscriminately.

One has to ask why we bother with immigration laws at all when we apparently fund the French to shepherd boatloads of illegal migrants across the channel. Of course we are told that we are funding them to stop the flow...  but the flow keeps on coming, so that's obviously untrue.

It has reached such heights of absurdity that something has got to give - our task is to make sure that it's our government that gives, rather than the peace.

Easy to say, harder to do.

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2026-08-31

Central government plans to "devolve powers" to Councils by merging District Councils (how does that work again?) are running into legal actions.

"Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Hampshire councils have set out their intention to launch judicial reviews, while Devon, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire have warned they may do so"

In my own county past efforts to save money by cooperation between neighbouring councils were abandoned - so I'm not convinced that central government have both thought through the practical implications, and decided on the amalgamations strictly on the basis of the benefits expected to accrue to residents.

The Daily Sceptic reports.

2026-08-31

Prof David Miller on MOATS.

Make of this what you will...

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2026-08-30

Jackson Hole may be revealing more than anyone has been factoring in...

"What is happening in Israel? It's not coming across my news-feed" 

Yup, it's complicated, and it's "in flux"...

Buckle up!

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2026-08-30

We English (in general, and I include the Scots Welsh and Irish as kindred members of the same family of islands) are proud to be known for our tolerance, our slowness to take offence, our obligation to "fair play", for "my word is my bond", for our enthusiasm for peace over conflict, for our now rather quaint notion that the government is our servant rather than our master, and even for our less altruistic but generally harmless eccentricities local and national (of which between us all we can boast plenty 😀).

We are therefore a fairly typical population with much more in our respective cultures that unites us (even our differences!) rather than divides us.

And yet, one of the unspoken impressions of modern life is that some or indeed all of these characteristics are outmoded, belong to a past age.

The truth is that we need as much of all such traits as we can muster these days, as those who pass for our governments are

2026-08-29

Barbara O'Neill spells it out (and maybe outs the spell!) - on top form here as usual.

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2026-08-29

Mark Attwood and Theo van Dort.

It takes a while to get started, but it makes you think.

And there's an unrelated but significant bonus of indigenous wisdom along the way...

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2026-08-29

This is not Party Politics (despite Robin Tilbrook being chairman of the English Democrats).

It is a case of national concern, and giving recognition where it is due.

Between Robin Tilbrook's court case and Rupert Lowe's private inquiry, the government was caught in a pincer on the topic of rape gangs.

Make of it what you will.

2026-08-28

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2026-08-28

The UK governments of all stripes have been supporting (some might say stoking) the war in Ukraine for many years. Boris even went to the Ukraine, apparently to scupper the early peace talks  with Russia.

Moscow is "hinting" that Russia is about to call their bluff.

"Zakharova urged "all residents of the United Kingdom to think about the inevitable, catastrophic consequences of the hostile steps taken by their own authorities"

Should we be worried?

2026-08-28

Ok, I admit it, this title is designed to make you pause, to consider whether the question even has any validity, to encourage your independent thought.

My first reaction (speaking personally) would be, if pushed, "First, define 'God' ". Absent a proper understanding of the question, it's obvious (axiomatic if you're a mathematician) that it cannot be properly and fully answered if it cannot be properly and fully understood. And so we encounter the first and most debilitating aspect that ultimately bedevils arguments both political and religious - nobody defines exactly what they are talking about and thus everybody probably spends a huge percentage of time and effort either clarifying the uncertainties raised by their understanding of the wording, or by ignoring the problem and arguing at crossed purposes. 

Probably without even realising it.

Truly to err is human, and confusion

2026-08-28

When mega-corporations buy their way out of a lawsuit by "settling" for a sum of money out of court, who wins?

Does the public, or even "the greater good" (for whom the authorities notionally work) win?

What price lack of disclosure in court? What price the uncovering of the truth?

What price the covering up of the truth?

What is more important in a public interest case: truth and disclosure, or money?

Interest of Justice are very clear about this, but who was party to the cover-up?

2026-08-27

Are the Storm Shadow chickens about to come home to roost?

The only mystery is why Russia has been so restrained in its response to the UK's seemingly never-ending supply of missiles to Ukraine for launching at Russia.

We have noted the UK's determination to provoke Russia previously. Scott Ritter even publicly described Zelenskyy as a British agent! And who can forget the abrupt termination of seemingly productive Ukraine-Russia negotiations immediately following Boris Johnson's visit to Kiev?

Will our leaders now get the message that they are playing with fire? Or do they want war with Russia, no doubt on the pretext that they have made an unprovoked attack on our entirely peaceable UK munitions factories...

Or might the Kremlin decide that the real enemy is deeply entrenched in London,

2026-08-27

Brendon O'Connell is nothing if not fiercely independent.

I don't think he agrees with anybody, but he isn't following anybody else's line. So he brings something independent along with him (as far as anybody can tell these days anyway) so he is worth listening to, if you can follow his eclectic mix of AI produced video and his habit of hopping from one argument to another without much of a warning.

Still, he's good training for the independent viewer, with a style very different form almost everyone else. 

Make of him what you will.