2026-10-21
The more things need to change, the more they stay the same.
Today's politics (with notable but currently powerless exceptions) seem stuck in an endless loop.
Excuses, unfulfillable promises, attributions to incompetence, blaming of the "far right"/<fill in your pet hate label here>, and policing of social media all follow unwanted events as night follows day. But what actually changes apart from the general scenery in media and Parliament?
Groundhog day has nothing on the operations of our modern European State, within which I include the UK.
Pete Dalton argues much the same in the Daily Sceptic, and does us all a favour by labelling the aversion to straying outside approved thought patterns as "Hypernormalisation" - the inculcated subconscious fear of abnormal thinking.
He may just have fingered the problem ... so now at least we can talk about it.
