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2026-04-13

Prof Marandi explains Iran's current stance concerning the Strait of Hormuz.

He doesn't exhibit the "flair" of the Donald, but his presentation isn't any the worse for that!

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2026-04-05

But what to do about it?

Well...   before we can think about that, we need to understand what is going on. Whether it's the job, the household, the "niceties" of legal life, or the kids on top of all of the above...

Martin Geddes has some words of wisdom that might help us, if only we could clear a calm space in our day to read and understand what he has to say.

Make of this what you will.

2026-04-03

Well, Easter is upon us, so to end the week on a lighthearted speculation on what has been, might have been, and may yet be to come, we invoke the spirit of King Arthur to pique our curiosity and free us of our group-think by the noble arts of critical and "outside the box" thinking. Enjoy!

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2026-04-02

William Keyte has made it his business to investigate our Constitution, which the Powers that Be have come close to denying exists, let alone publishing its existence and ensuring that at least our law officers understand and respect it. 

In fact, everybody should be educated in it and understand its imports, since it is the bedrock upon which our lawful legal system should be founded. Sadly, it doesn't always seem to be so.

Anyone might think that they want us to forget about it, and to think that Parliament is "sovereign" in this land... or maybe the EU, or the UN, or the WEF, the list goes on.

So who exactly is "sovereign"? Monarchy, Parliament, Judiciary, or the People?

William has set up a couple of websites about the foundations of our legal system.:

2026-04-02

The Bailiff Cometh (with apologies to the Gasman)
"Twas on the Monday morning that the bailiff came to call... "

Firstly, ask for their name , address, and whom they represent. You will need this.

1. Establish your ground - literally:
   "I am giving you verbal notice that I have withdrawn your implied right of access to this property, you are now a trespasser, please leave immediately"
   
   
2. "Before we proceed, I need to establish your jurisdiction. Are you acting as a public servant, or a private contractor for a corporation?" (or other legal entity)
   
   
3. "I require the original wet ink signature on that

2026-04-01

Once upon a time, "banking" was all about allowing people to save their money (ie: the unspent wealth that they had created, the ability to buy the produce of others in the market) and lend it temporarily to those who need in effect to borrow money from their future production to buy the current produce of others. This was a genuine service that also allowed market sellers to sell their produce to those who did not yet have enough money to buy it. It thus avoided both deflation and inflation and was a genuine win-win situation.

Within limits of course. To keep the money supply in balance with the quantities of produce available in the market (and thus avoid inflation), only the money earned in the market (but not yet  spent to buy goods) should be loaned out.

These days though (and for many years past) bankers (supremely facilitated by electronics) have become expert at lending out fake money (ie: not representing any production available in the market and therefore inflationary in effect) and

2026-03-26

Remember the Younger Dryas? Me neither.

But maybe in Göbekli Tepe Grok has found some people who did, because they were eye-witnesses...and they recorded what they knew so that we would know too.  Then they buried the knowledge where we might find it....

If only they had had YouTube in those days, maybe it wouldn't have taken them so long. But then we might never have found it.

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2026-03-24

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2026-03-20

If we today were to choose to bring up kids as they did in my day we would be charged with child neglect.

But the policemen wore proper uniforms and walked the beat (unless they were CID) and the Territorial Support Unit hadn't been invented. Nor had those stupid passenger doors on buses, and I don't remember anyone ever falling off the rear platform...  

Battersea Power Station generated electricity from British coal mines, which also provided coal for household heating and coal-gas for cooking and water heaters. The smog in London could be a pea-souper, until the Clean Air Acts (1956, 1968) made us burn "smokeless" fuel in our hearths in place of smoky old coal. But it was our coal, not oil from the Gulf.

Yet somehow the great Global Warming Catastrophe wasn't a thing until Al Gore and the Club of Rome met to invent it decades later as a mind-virus to poison our thinking. 

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2026-03-20

For those who may be interested, the Good Food Project looks interesting.

I have no idea about it and I'm in no position to recommend it, but he does make a lot of interesting points in these uncertain times.

It sounds like a worthy initiative that might just work out.

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2026-03-18

With his impeccable logic and geopolitical experience, Scott Ritter tells it like he sees it. It isn't a comfortable view. If you really want to know what is likely to happen now and why, then take note.

The knock-on effects of losing the oil supplies that hitherto came from the Gulf region can be imagined, and those who suppose that the cracks can be quickly papered over are dreaming.

War rhetoric, or seismic change incoming?

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2026-03-18

... and if it gets too bad, we'll discuss it with Ed Milliband.

And should the pesky Russians get out of their beds and start marching down Whitehall in belated thanks for all the Storm Shadows we've been generously sending them via the Ukraine, we'll fast-track ourselves back into the EU and they'll send us more men from their "foreign legion" wet-foot across the Channel as quick as you can say "get those lifeboats out pronto to pick them up!".

2026-03-17

"The Empire doesn't fight its own wars... it needs Great Powers in permanent conflict... "

"What we are now seeing is that architecture beginning to fail on every front simultaneously... "

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2026-03-15

Over the course of writing articles for this website, I have come to the realisation that much of what I thought I knew about the world and its workings has been wrong. Wrong not in any obvious way, but in either subtle or even outright deceitful ways that invalidated my worldview. Wrong nevertheless.

After all, our direct experience is limited to what we can personally touch, see, hear, taste, smell, or otherwise feel, and even these five senses require a great deal of learned interpretation before we can extract appropriate meaning from these inputs; it's why we spend the first few years of our lives pondering these mysteries and working out how to interpret them in ways that seem to work, whilst our parents take care of our every need. We (eventually!) reach the stage that we believe that we have it all sussed...   but have we really?

Probably not.

Even the five senses listed above are, as it turns out, insufficient - we must add intuition.

2026-03-14

The origins and rights of tribes and nations...

"... so i took a female to the location and consummated a function bringing the female energy into the quantum paradigm... never been done in the history of mankind... "

"... when I found a wrong in my system I stopped and fixed it...I stopped and corrected, it's what I do... "

"... the army, the marine corps, the navy, the air force, they are all engaging in privateering... "

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2026-03-12

Well, Rich of Rich Does Politics has gone well and truly off-piste with this one - still, if you are prepared to explore off-piste in entertaining company then you could well find yourselves enjoying this conversation.

So meet "Rich meets Mark Attwood" for an interview like no other...

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2026-03-02

Anthropology.

Does this key unlock the problem?

The Daily Sceptic reviews the book: Professor Alison Shaw’s 1980s fieldwork on the Pakistani community of Oxford.

A logical evaluation of the results of indiscriminate immigration.

2026-03-01

And your cat's dinner for that matter, or any other pet, maybe even farm animal that you have cause to feed.

Recent "events" have shone a spotlight on Big Agriculture Big Chemistry and Big Food manufacturers, understandably with the emphasis on food for humans, so is it really any surprise that Big xyz have also been active in the provision ofanimal food?

Brownstone Institute is on the case.

2026-02-26

This site recently featured the story that Lenovo PCs will (if required) ship with Linux variants.

That's not untrue, but perhaps it isn't the whole story. 

PC operating systems have always been a minefield, so careful presentation is required. This site is not about operating systems (but is about freedom to choose!), so I'm not throwing my weight behind either presentation. As always, caveat emptor.

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2026-02-25

A very elegant and persuasive explanation of why the theory of evolution by random mutation cannot apply to certain forms of butterflies.

Well, it's better than talking geopolitics...

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