2025-04-14

A wide-ranging report majoring on the many facets of the world's financial arrangements, and who gets to control them. It's still all about the money.

In a major move the US is talking (almost) directly with Iran, thus opening the way to a peaceful outcome between these nations which isn't dictated by Israel.

With European "leaders" still posturing ineffectively and the fate of the world probably hanging in the balance somewhere between Iran China Russia and the US, who in various ways all now seem to be talking to each other, perhaps we can hope for positive outcomes that may later cascade out to the rest of the world.

Eventually.

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

2025-04-14

Well, maybe, or maybe not, but certainly the key players remain the same even if all three of them are today under new leadership.

"One has to recognise that we have entered into the most dangerous period in the known history of civilization"   - check.

"We are at the point of a general breakdown crisis of the entirety of the transatlantic region, especially the north transatlantic region"   - check.

"The only alternative is to shift the centre of attention from the disaster in the transatlantic region to the optimism we can hope for from the transpacific region"   - check.

I could go on, but you get the drift.

"What is collapsing today, is not an economy, but a vast financial bubble, a bubble whose chief economic expression is the U.S. financial system’s role as ‘The Importer of Last Resort’ for the world at large"    - Lyndon

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

2025-04-13

Pepe Escobar updates us on the latest diplomatic developments between leading members of the BRICS - Russia Iran and China.

Will Israel provoke the US into jointly attacking Iran?

Is Trump outmanoeuvred?

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2025-04-11

This is a bit long in time, but a little short for the task undertaken.

None-the-less Sandi gives us a tour de force which pulls together a great many threads that were necessary for the incoming new global technocracy.

"This is happening" 

Now, and in your area!

The powers necessary were put in place by the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016.

Devolution being something of the reverse of the truth, as smaller councils will be amalgamated into larger "combined local authorities" with directly elected mayors - as clamoured for by nobody other than unelected groups mostly funded by NGOs.

Thus will local government be reorganised to the liking

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!

2025-04-10

This speaks plainly, directly - probably too directly for some.

But steel yourself. It's not rocket science. 

Nor is it Party Political - Labour just happen to be the party currently in office, but it went on under their predecessors for ever.

Nor is it exclusively racial / religious - it runs deeper and wider than that.

We have to deal with it as best we can.

It is time.

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2025-04-10

The Family Courts in their current incarnation are a relatively recent innovation.

I don't recall that there was any great clamour for them, but one particular aspect of their operation is cause for concern:

"Courts in England and Wales have a principle of open justice where hearings are held in public but family courts are held in private because it has been felt that this protects children"

Thereby at a stroke defeating the age-old principle that "justice must be seen to be done".

So... denying a fundamental principle of justice can be allowed if

2025-04-10

Deaths? Which deaths? There are so many...

I could be talking about Gaza, Ukraine, Myanmar, or any other flash-spot around the world, I could be talking of the fentanyl crisis in the US, or I could be talking about our neighbour down the road in the UK.

Everywhere people are dying.

As they always do, mostly due to the encroaching frailty of advancing years. 

But not always, and particularly now.

Now they die from bombs, from "terrorism", from diseases that are suddenly virulent - measles in the US, cancers everywhere, heart failure in young age-groups previously unacquainted with heart disease.

Yet we do not react. We just shrug and get on with our lives. Heaven knows that remaining socially upright requires solvency, and that solvency is being attacked on many fronts just now, as it has been over the last half-decade.

2025-04-09

Once more Richard Vobes shares a video, this time of one-time Royal Marine Steve Forsythe who explains the world as he sees it - and it isn't the world as most of us see it.

So what does he see that we may not?

Whilst some of us hear what "they" tell us, others observe their actions and deduce their motivation.

"By their fruits you shall know them"

So, pin back your ears and pay attention:

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2025-04-08

OK, this site does not do party politics...   but maybe this once I might almost make an exception!

I'm not making any kind of recommendation here, but perhaps we might be cognisant of what is going on at the Runcorn and Helsby Constituency By-Election, where candidate Graham Moore is standing on behalf of the English Constitution Party.

Our current ruling elite has done a thorough job of pushing our ancient Constitution into the background (and under the bus) over past decades, and even Brexit hasn't resulted in its restoration to legal effect and national prominence, so perhaps we should be asking: "Why not?".

Now I'm sure that a perfectly respectable case could be made for a new constitutional settlement based upon Great Britain (England Wales and Scotland) or indeed on the United Kingdom as is (perhaps with minor tweaks for

2025-04-07

The Bernician reminds us that sometimes history, although it never precisely repeats, does have a tendency to rhyme.

Should we be worried that current events do seem to be following a similar trajectory to the events that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s and in turn into WW2?

Will we be any better prepared this time around?

2025-04-07

Another item of news that a number (a large number) of people will hope will be eclipsed by the incoming global financial gyrations is brought to us by Zerohedge:

Billed as a take-down by Europol of a massive child pornography exploitation site, is this the first major salvo in the war against paedophilia, or is it just a passing flash in the pan that will recede quickly into the mists of oblivion that the main news media will make a point of not revisiting?

"1.8 million users worldwide visited the site over the course of Operation Stream between April 2022 and March 2025"

Oh dear - think how many names and card payments have been collected by the authorities over that period! I doubt they will be going to waste, unless the 'high authorities' can close the investigation down on some inappropriate pretext.

Perhaps we really are in for a

2025-04-07

This is not a conventional financial analysis.

It is the view from Clif High, so take it with as big a pinch of salt as you would any other financial viewpoint.

It's a world-view, based upon what we might dub as the Trump effect.

Make of it what you will.

"Another war is not going to help us".

2025-04-07

This article is written from the American perspective, but politics knows no national boundaries any longer.

As nobody has ever said to my knowledge, but it needs saying so I'll say it:

"Our Creator gave us the most extraordinarily capable organ between our ears, and it would therefore be the height of discourtesy not to use it"

Yet today's education establishments seem to go out of their way to discourage its use.

The tactic is presented as a Left vs Right issue, but that does a great disservice to the many - well, several at least - proponents of "the Left" (for example, Yanis Varoufakis) who assert that the Left should be the champions of the people, and who see no conflict between that ideal and the ideal that we should use our "God-given" gifts to the full to that purpose.

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2025-04-07

Ben's report today covers a whole lot of ground, treading on many toes that would certainly prefer to have been left untrodden.

As always, for the full read you will need a modest subscription.

One is left with the distinct impression that many flapping chickens are about to come home to roost over the next weeks. It's hard to see how this will be pretty, but it isn't likely to be dull...

Trigger warning - unsuitable for children. 

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