The Unelected

2026-10-29

The Fifth Plenum may be revealing more than we expect - but only if we can decipher the competing political signals...

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2026-10-28

Clif's release of his latest ALTA report has set tongues wagging, but the truth is: it's complicated, and for best comprehension it's probably best to take in a number of conversations with different interviewers.

So, without further ado:

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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

Lei reviews the strange opening day...

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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

Kim Jong Un has been swirled by rumours, yet is reported to have visited China across a newly opened bridge.

He didn't seem to spend very long there before returning home. Nor did he meet President Xi.

Nor were there any official announcements, other than a visit to an automobile factory.

But apparently the swirling rumours are not abating...

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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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2026-10-26

"The conflict is between the western colonialist system and everyone who rejects colonial subjugation"

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places" - Ephesians 6:12

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So how do

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

2026-10-24

"Your vote is statistically irrelevant"

I've no argument with that assertion. Whomever we elect then invariably proceeds to do exactly as they please regardless of their electoral promises.

We are irrelevant.

Not so, judging by the vast amounts that have been and are still being spent in keeping us all safe track of how we spend our lives. Well, they've got to put something into all those AI Datacentres haven't they? All those surveillance records should do it nicely.

We individually may well in the scale of things be irrelevant, but nevertheless, as the French have been demonstrating of late, given the right conditions a spark may ignite a conflagration

2026-10-23

It's been a while since we covered this topic, but this update does seem to indicate that Chairman Xi is no longer the preferred flavour of the Chinese leadership...   at least not within the PLA.

Make of this what you will.

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2026-10-23

Probably nobody realises the significance of the Crown Estates.

Rich Does Politics reviews the state of play with EM Burlngame...

"If you took those assets and put them into a Sovereign Wealth Fund for the people... they would be of immense value to the people... "

So who actually controls these assets? And who wants to get control?

"The last thing the British people should want is the breaking up of the Crown Estates because that is their inheritance... the Royal Family as the executors need to be physically secure"

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2026-10-21

Well, I'm no constitutional expert, but I know a man (Will Keyte) who is.

2026-10-21

"Baroness Hallet found care homes 'received insufficient protection at the time they most needed it” and the virus then “spread like wildfire' "

"In April 2020, the high number of deaths of people in care homes brought into sharp focus the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic... " -Quite so.

Of course this is put down to - in effect - incompetence. Nobody realised the risks of a pandemic to the "vulnerable elderly' in care homes! 

The Daily Sceptic reports.

What do we pay these "experts" for? Why were the results of all the previously existing pandemic preparedness planning exercises thrown out of the window and ignored? 

Why should anybody take pandemic advice