Great Reset

2026-11-02

Chief rat leaving the sinking ship, or onwards and upward to the... wait for it... WEF?

Who is to say?

Perhaps la Belle France needs a steadying European influence on monetary policy to quell the current unrest. Or perhaps it needs a presidential candidate that will work for the French rather than for the ruling clique in the EU, so maybe Christine Lagarde will feel more at home at the WEF.

2026-11-02

Events elsewhere seem to cast the UK as a haven of peace and tranquillity. As always, Ben provides a fascinating report covering many aspects of recent happenings, but it's clear that many of the usual flash-points are still flash-points, albeit the war of attrition is progressing.

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2026-11-02

What's going on in the world?

What to do?

Listen to the Chief...
... for once he's reasonably straightforward and understandable.

Make of him what you will.

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2026-10-31

If like me you have been wondering why Canada is cosying up to the EU, this explanation makes a lot of sense -  well, as much as anything in EU politics makes sense.

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2026-10-31

It seems that we live in such extraordinary times now that we need new answers to some very old questions, whose answers were never previously in doubt, but due to substantial (and we must assume deliberate) political meddling quite at variance with prior election promises, some questions are now very much in the spotlight.

The Daily Sceptic highlights one of them, but I'm equally certain that there are others...

2026-10-30

The latest brain dump from Dominic Cummings isn't an easy read, dealing as it does with the onrush of all matters AI, from what can it do, how to control it, where is it going, how to direct it, and lastly but probably not leastly, how to survive it.

I have chosen the quote that leaped off the page to me as the title.

Read but don't yet try to understand it all, just let it marinate...

2026-10-28

Sounds like another UN boondoggle taking place somewhere that is normally a long way from a western audience.

Geoengineering seems to be a hot topic.

It ends on 30th October, after which a comminiqué will doubtless be released to a disinterested world...

James Roguski reports.

2026-10-28

For the avoidance of doubt, our website runs on PHP, as do many if not most others.

So I don't doubt that somebody somewhere is having a good laugh at our feeble attempts to explain what's going on in the world.

Yes it's horribly technical, and not understood by many, it's just a software "black box" that sits inside the software stack that keeps a web-site ticking over as it should. 

In fact, it's probably ideal for any nefarious agency to hack, since that would likely let it monitor everything that's going on. At the very least.

But don't worry about it, it's just par for the course these days... and reportedly it's been fixed (although probably not before the TLAs involved had instituted a better way to get what they wanted).

Brendon O'Connell has a little something to say about it, but be aware that much of what he posts is AI generated, so nobody can tell

2026-10-28

It turns out that Climate Science, in addition to being the most complex science not yet anywhere near being fully understood by man, gives rise to "carbon footprints" that in the absence of drastic over-simplification cannot be satisfactorily calculated due to economics being the dismal science of mass interactions between vast numbers of people all doing their own thing. It isn't actually computable because (a) the dataset would be vast and (b) there aren't the facilities to collect it all, even if the wondrous new Ai data centres could actually cope with the volumes.

Of course the implacable socialists would argue that that's a good reason to force everybody into the same identikit mould so that their behaviours can be forced down a manageable number of approved channels, but even the excesses of attempts from the Soviet Union to modern China have fallen foul of the laws of unintended consequences, which makes it very

2026-10-27

"They are like deer caught in the headlights of the oncoming truck... "

Yanis Varoufakis reviews the post-war history of the development of the EU, and dissects the remains now that Trump has rewritten the rules of western trading practices with America.

The difference between leadership and bureaucratic governance is now writ large for everybody to see. And best not talk about the UK's plans...

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2026-10-27

An ungodly number, all deliberately killed in the UK over the last 60 years.

Over a quarter of a million in 2023 (latest available figure).

And that's only the ones we have official figures for...

"Even more lives will likely be lost... after the... amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill became law earlier this year"

"... there had been no prior consultation with the public, no Committee Stage scrutiny and no evidence sessions"

I'd bet that you didn't know about that one?

2026-10-27

Now's our chance to set out our insistence on retaining, even extending, Trial by Jury. 

The alternative is trial by judge or tribunal. The government acting as prosecutor, judge, and jury all rolled into one. The government is debating it in the Lords currently.

Would you trust such an arrangement?

This becomes government by the judiciary - appointed, not elected, immune from elections.

It would be the death of democracy.

2026-10-26

With the mid-term elections upon us early next month, election fever in the US is high, with various reports indicating that efforts to fix the ballot continue, however diminished they may be.

Reports elsewhere indicate that global financial stresses are mounting just about everywhere.

And Ben's reading of the runes indicates that the wars in "West Asia" are still mutating, with plenty of unfinished business to be concluded...

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2026-10-25

Well, I've no idea, but there's a lot of water between there and here, even if our government is seemingly doing its best to import the French problems over it as fast as it can.

But certainly one needs an historical understanding far in excess of mine to even attempt an answer.

Fortunately we have just the man for the job.

David Starkey talks to Steven Edginton:

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2026-10-25

Latest update from ZeroHedge...  and it's not just France.

Ukraine Is Becoming Another Verdun

Except that it has been going for far longer than WW1...

2026-10-24

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2026-10-24

We have been assailed by various articles of late (and not so late) along the lines of the existential threat that AI may pose to humanity.

It's a fair question. At what point could AI pose such a threat? What are the prerequisites?

Well, as of now, most AI systems are configured to answer our enquiries. They seem to be pretty good at being "search engines with some intelligence" that can pick their way through (a) what datasets do I need to enquire upon in order to answer the question? (b) which items in those datasets are relevant to the question? (c) how should those items be logically linked together to derive an answer to the question? and (d) performing that linkage and presenting a comprehensible analysis as end result.

The better ones might realise that there's more than one route through that process, would traverse each in turn and cross-check the results to identify any inconsistencies. How it might pick the appropriate answer given

2026-10-23

We featured extracts from Dominic's appearance before a Parliamentary Committee earlier.

This is the full appearance.

There is much here with which this site would agree and much with which we would disagree, but like him or loathe him, he's one of the few prepared to speak truth unto power, and with the personal experience to back up his views.

"It can only change if it's obvious that there's a Prime Minister that actually wants it to change and is going to force change through the system..."

Maybe this is all of a piece with Rupert Lowe's rise in the public estimation, and for my money he's the only party leader who has unequivocally nailed his colours to the mast on the topic of rooting out the Blob that runs the current (and I quote)

2026-10-22

Is the financial system as "safe as houses"?

Maybe not.

But don't panic, there may be another along in a minute... or a month or three, maybe six, who's to say?

Or there may not.

But maybe we should have a float of cash available for unforeseen circumstances? To tide us over a short gap in service due to cyber attacks and such-like...

I doubt there's much we could do about a big gap, so we would have to rely on the government for that. Or whatever government might still exist. But if that happens then we are in a real disaster area anyway, so don't worry about it.

2026-10-22

The hearing is over. 

No defendants attended in person.

The post-trial Press Conference is reported below.

The court will rule between 9th December and the end of February.

(*LIVE*)

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