Lucky Dip

2025-04-23

As a committed nationalist brought up in the United Kingdom with a dual Parliament (House of Commons, House of Lords) under the Monarchy, I have deplored the proliferation of devolved parliaments for the other nations that cohabit within the UK. It was always going to divide allegiances as a step towards a "Europe of the regions" for which almost nobody in the country was ever clamouring. There was no popular support, but plenty of politicians wanted it - after all, it was more "jobs for the boys".

So in principle I have never supported the idea that the UK needs yet another talking-shop where politicians can leverage "local grievances" - largely manufactured for the purpose. And if the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are anything to go by, I'm a long way from being convinced that they work in any way better than the Westminster versions.

But there is one possibility that might under the right circumstances gain my support...

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2025-04-23

Yanis Varoufakis and Jeffrey Sachs review the current World for DiEM25.

What will they make of the world at the end of the era?

What do they foresee and what do they think we should be doing in the new era?

Will it be "same as the old era"?!

Pin back your ears and make yourself comfortable for two of the world's leading non-conformists...

"All problems in the world go back to the British"

Ouch!

(1hr 40 mins)

Emerging from Chaos, or Emerging into Chaos?

2025-04-21

First we reported that Martin Geddes has had some success in training his AI to be more responsive to matters spiritual - and now he's not the only one.

This time it's Mark Playne, who has persuaded his AI to come clean about the COVID scamdemic - so pin back your ears and hear what Mark has to say to Richard Vobes on this topic.

Then read his bookon how he did it, it's very revealing!

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2025-04-18

It isn't often we come across a story of derring-do, underpinned by a helping of childish fantasy and a conviction that the world is there for the taking. Here was a man for whom the State's promise of fake safety in exchange for real compliance would be brushed aside with contempt - and rightly so.

These days such a man would be labelled as "eccentric" and probably worse - but he would also attract (possibly surreptitious) admiration for daring to make such an absurd life, regardless.

We need more such men, who reject the orthodoxy of their day, celebrate childish fantasy, and leave the world saddened by their passing.

"Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven"  - 

2025-04-17

We know that Trump isn't a conventional politician.

So when he talks of "joining the British Commonwealth" it is likely a ploy to provoke a counter-move in the direction that he actually wants to promote.

Still, this move is so out of line with the original intent of the American founding fathers that it demands some sort of analysis - what is he up to?!

1) It may be a straight distraction that he has no intention of progressing through to a finish - but it will set tongues wagging about something that is only there to distract attention rather than wagging about what is really going on behind the publicity. 

2) He could be using it to focus attention on the absurdities of King Charles and the Privy Council, that currently directs matters colonial / ex-colonial. "Canada" springs to mind but it could be more far-reaching.

3) Perhaps it's just an opening gambit in

2025-04-17

What does the future hold for man in an AI world?

Will we all be "enhanced" through injected nanobot interfaces to a global AI-powered controller, becoming little more than an obedient node on the Internet of Things?

Or will we leverage our human consciousness to out-think and out-compete AI to the point that we don't need it?

Or could we harness AI to do what it does best - crunching the data and leaving no logical avenue unexplored - whilst we learn how to train it, how to use it to construct the output that we want in a more effective and efficient manner?

Man and AI in perfect symbiosis?

It helps to ask the right question!

Martin Geddes reviews.

2025-04-16

No, it's not Big Pharma, Big Politics, and at heart it may not even be "Big" anything, but it is powerful and does have far more influence and control than any self-respecting democracy should tolerate.

Dr Steven Greer, who has spent a lifetime investigating and documenting its activities, brings us up to date with his conclusions (so far... ) in this extensive interview - you may need to schedule your attendance as it's well over three hours! 

Take your  time...

(3 hrs 39 mins)

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2025-04-15

We traditionally consider engineering to be associated with the design of things: clocks and cars that work, software that sits in a computer and works, medicines that work.

Covid has shown us that that last "medicines that work" may not be as simple as it appears.

Sometimes it seems that medicines may perform differently than advertised, although you have to start asking supplementary questions, such as "advertised by whom?".

It rather comes down to the definition of that weasel word "work". And it turns out that it can have variable meanings dependent upon whom you ask, why you ask, and what might be the consequences of a wrong answer.

In the age TV and newspapers - the printed word - we make assumptions about the accuracy of what we are reading depending upon our view of the publisher - how reliable is this source?

In times past we viewed all the major "serious"

2025-04-14

David Starkey hits upon one of the more elusive aspects of what it means to be English. But we need to work our way up to it...

"I didn't realise what the Blair Revolution had done..."

" What we should be talking about is restoration"

"... the abstractions of so-called 'political philosophy' are the disaster... "

"The foundation of our values isn't 'democracy'... it is real people performing real acts, in real time..."

"... every revolution depends upon the rebels getting possession of London..."

" the Magna Carta is very quickly declared illegal by the Pope "

"... do we not realise this? This is the great difference between English Law and Roman Law  - every criminal who is not noble in Roman Law is

2025-04-13

This article needs to be read in quiet reflection. It has layers.

Be grateful that we (most of us) live in better circumstances. Perhaps in better times. Perhaps not.

Yet it has become clear that something else is active, a throw-back to past eras that (mostly) dares not operate in the open today, even though it is very visible if we are aware of its contradictions.

"You will know them by their fruits"

And they challenge us, and will challenge us, but perhaps indirectly.  After all, for evil to have its way requires only that those not directly affected let it happen. Slowly...  and then quickly.

Terribilis est locus iste

2025-04-11

To some, the House of Lords is a running sore, ripe for abolition.

To others, it is a pale shadow of its former self, now reduced by the Commons to operate primarily as an old folks home for former politicians whose glory days are behind them.

Under the reforming/destructive/<insert-your-favoured-adjective-here> zeal of one call-me-Tony Blair, its function as the ultimate court of appeal was shipped out to a new "Supreme Court" US-style, answerable to... well, does anybody really know?

The House of Lords was the original parliament of ancient origin where the (hereditary) Lords of the land met with the Lords Spiritual (the Great and the Good of the Church of England) under the Monarch, to provide debate wisdom and guidance, as a formalisation of the ancient Witan of King Alfred.

Following the rise of the conurbations the

2025-04-10

If the last half-decade shows us anything, it shows us that the Donald is not to be underestimated.

So here we present a different view of the Trump "second term", and how it may develop.

One thing is now clear: he is setting about wrecking the comfortable assumptions that underlay the previous world political order, and he challenges the world to rebuild something better. Will the world explode, implode, or will it respond positively?

This article sets out to explain how the positive response may look - but has anybody told Ed Milliband?

2025-04-10

OK, this is likely a bit way out for most, but why not listen and see how it lies with you?

The inimitable Clif High (polymath, but probably here best introduced as a futurologist) discourses on the times incoming - starting not next decade, not even next year, but maybe this May.

Forewarned is forearmed as they say, this is probably futurology on steroids, nothing is so unpredictable as the future but maybe we should listen up anyway.

Never say that we shy away from posting challenging material!

2025-04-03

In his own style peculiar to him, Martin Geddes shares his thoughts on tornados in Tennessee, education for theworking-class by English public school, and the ongoing convergence of public opinion upon the reality of our betrayal by the ruling classes.

The Point of Convergence

2025-04-01

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(NB this speech was delivered in the summer of 2023) - Download the compressed speech here to upload elsewhere!

2025-04-01

Since Arthur Firstenberg's ground-breaking exploration of the historical spread of electromagnetic radiation around the world (The Invisible Rainbow - essential reading if you haven't already), and Tom Wheeler's outspoken assertion that public safety considerations were so "last year" and shouldn't hold up the 5G (and no doubt 6G etc) roll-outs, the focus on the dangers of electromagnetic radiation seems to have dissipated over time, eclipsed in the public mind by the Covid fandango and much else. 

Funny how Covid and the 5G roll-out seem to have coincided (and share a long list of possible symptoms), but of course that's just a conspiracy theory.

But conspiracy maniacs haven't gone to sleep, and here we have a good example of one that makes quite a fist of assembling available evidence in a readable fashion. If I

2025-03-30

Apparently, Rachel Reeves has already set up a UK equivalent, the OVfM (Office for value for money).

I'm sure that we are all agog to know more about its amazing successes in closing down all the unnecessary and frankly illegal scams that suck the financial blood out of our taxes, and indeed the Daily Sceptic is I'm sure eager to inform us, so the first project appears to be a leisurely appraisal of ways in which to reduce the costs of procuring short term accommodation, for homeless Brits and asylum seekers.

Now you could excitedly go and read all about it, but there's really no need, because (spoiler alert) the one policy that really might have an impact on the expense to government in providing all this short term accommodation - the reversal of the government

2025-03-30

Making a welcome return to these pages (or perhaps he actually belongs in a previous blog incarnation...), and once more provoking the question "Why do the most knowledgeable people exhibit the most erratic and confusing styles of presentation?", Ken Wheeler explains the function of the Giza pyramids in the light of the recent discoveries of what is said to lie beneath them, as only Ken can.

Enjoy!

(29 minutes)

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