Fifty-four years ago, John Lennon asked us to imagine a world with no borders. But he did not foresee a world where the only thing left to colonise would be our own humanity. Today, the ‘drea…

What on earth are the eugenicists preparing for with the doomsday seed vault? Why does humanity need a backup of millions of seed varieties that have presumably been around (for the most part) thro…

Alvin Toffler, whose prophetic book Future Shock (1970) primed sociologists and politicians for radical change to society as a result of technological advances, was in a position ten years later to…

We would not make good communists. We of the democratic nations. Not the proper kind. Not the disciplined, purified kind. We would try — briefly — with the awkward sincerity of people wearing borro…

“Are you genuine? Or merely an actor? A representative? Or that which is represented? In the end, perhaps you are merely a copy of an actor. Second question of conscience.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Twi…

“He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. He knows if you’ve been bad or good, So be good for goodness’ sake.” “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” For generations, “San…

The global disruptions we have seen in recent years are frequently presented as a chaotic sequence of events: a ‘pandemic’, inflation, energy shortages and war. Little wonder that most people are c…

Hey all, and happy holiday season. Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, and even if you celebrate nothing, we hope you will have times of joy and plenty with loved ones, or at least some de…

In great British tradition of ghost stories at Christmas, we want to share this video on Christmas Eve. “The Doll’s Ghost” by American author F. Marion Crawford was first publishe…

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. How the EU…

The latest in our “hey, that’s kinda interesting…” season for the Christmas week is this fascinating documentary on the music industry from youtuber Barely Sociable. There&#…

From the neoreactionary accelerationists of the Dark Enightenment to the AI-spun social credit web of the NEONERDS, today author and researcher Iain Davis takes us on a whirlwind tour of his new bo…

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The commercial enterprise that controls Russians’ biometric data has introduced new ways to use your face as a form of ID, resulting in unprecedented levels of safety and convenience in the Russian…

Publication of research results, theoretical propositions and scholarly essays is not a free-for-all. As shown by the dogmatism around climate change and Covid-19, sceptics struggle to get papers i…

“When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins: to find …

Christmas presents wrapped with care? Check. Steaming cup of hot chocolate? Check. Relaxing Christmas background music? Check. Now, what am I forgetting. Oh, that’s right: the Solutions Watch end-o…

Okay, who had “the US invades Venezuela and kidnaps the President” down as the first big story of 2026? Well done if you did, you probably got good odds. That’s the “breakin…

Some years chip away at freedom. Others tear the mask off. 2025 was the year the government stopped pretending it was constrained by the Constitution—when executive power expanded openly and unapol…

Supermarket shelves have never been fuller, yet diets have become poorer. Across the world, food systems praised for their productivity now deliver an abundance of calories alongside widespread mic…