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Is Out of Court Settlement Really justice?

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Category: Legal
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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?

 

 

"The Most Dangerous War in the World"

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Category: Free Citizen
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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, and target accordingly?

(12 minutes)

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And Now for Something Completely Different

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Category: Free Citizen
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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.

 

The Modern Weaponising of the British State

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Category: Free Citizen
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2026-08-26

David Starkey, genuine National Treasure (being one of the very few still breathing who understands the British Constitution and how we got here) holds forth at the Institute of Economic Affairs (no it's not something out of "Yes Minister") on where it all went wrong.

Plenty of food for thought here, including the clear (but unstated) idea that words are indeed spells. Well, if they act like spells, then they are indistinguishable from spells, especially when they come freighted with an assumed meaning that actually isn't appropriate to the particular usage ...

Maybe we should insist that all politicians should wear a conical hat to remind us.

But judges don't get a free pass either:

"... although you pay obeysance to the idea of democracy, it's too dangerous to allow it to work without controls ... instead you have this marvellous thing, 'liberal democracy', which means .... democracy that is limited by law ... above all it's not about  the rule of the majority, but the protection of minorities ... "

"Human Rights Law and International Law has a separate authority that can only be perceived by the judges, and because ... this would frequently clash with Parliamentary Sovereignty, somebody would have to arbitrate it .. "

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Government of the People, By the People, For the People

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Category: Free Citizen
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2026-08-26

So if the people themselves are the government as this implies, what need we of a separate government?

If the people could keep order amongst themselves, why do we need to elect a government?

The true meaning of "anarchy" is "no government".

Not necessarily "no order".

It's an idea we must explore because such exploration would either confirm or deny our need for a government of people as opposed to government by the people themselves through local methods  practices and/or institutions.

Given that almost nobody thinks our current system of central governments that naturally accrete all powers to themselves is at all satisfactory, and indeed seems to be approaching its final stages of corruption and decomposition, perhaps we should accord such an exploration a high level of priority.

 

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