Simon Elmer

‘The Great Reset: Biopolitics for Stakeholder Capitalism’ Book Launch

When the restrictions under which we lived for two years were largely revoked in March 2022, the Great Reset of Western capitalism that was initiated in September 2019 was not revoked with them. On the contrary, the temporary removal of our rights and freedoms under lockdown is in the process of being made permanent in …

The Great Reset Part 1: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Simon Elmer ‘The technologies at the heart of the Fourth Industrial Revolution are connected in many ways — in the way they extend digital capabilities; in the way they scale, emerge and embed themselves in our lives; in their combinatorial power; and in their potential to concentrate privilege and challenge existing governance systems.’ Klaus Schwab, …

What is a Woman? Response to Jacqueline Rose

Simon Elmer The week after I published my article, ‘Trans Rights and the Order of Speech’ in Off-Guardian, The New Statesman published two articles by, respectively, the biologist, Richard Dawkins, ‘Why biological sex matters’ and the feminist, Jacqueline Rose, ‘The gender binary is false’. I don’t know Rose personally, but her 1986 book, Sexuality in the Field of Vision, had a considerable influence on …

Virtue and Terror: How the New Normal was Created

Simon Elmer “If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, the mainspring of popular government during a revolution is both virtue and terror; virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing but swift, severe, inflexible justice; it is therefore an emanation of virtue. It is less …

Covid “Vaccines”: Why is the MHRA Lying About Adverse Effects?

Simon Elmer In its weekly summary of the Yellow Card reports it receives of the adverse drug reactions (ADRs) suffered by the British public following injection with the COVID-19 ‘vaccines’ it has authorised, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) continues to insist that the ‘overwhelming majority’ are: Injection-site reactions (sore arm for example) …