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. Michael Gove’s Definition of Extremism UK Michael Gove MP made the news this week when he formally announced the UK government’s official definition of …
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. Yet another “online harms” Bill Just a few weeks since the UK passed its new “Online Safety Act”, the Canucks are joining the party. …
Sylvia Shawcross Well, heaven help us—the Gods of Mount Davos are meeting again. We’re now at Wefcon2. Run! Run! But I digress. Not. So let us just examine this with an open mind just so that we the mooing herds can have some idea of how this new year is going to unravel. I do …
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. The NHS’s AI health surveillance The UK’s National Health Service launched three pilot schemes in different parts of England this week, all focused on …
Colin Todhunter The prevailing globalised agrifood model is built on unjust trade policies, the leveraging of sovereign debt, population displacement and land dispossession. It fuels commodity monocropping and food insecurity as well as soil and environmental degradation. It is responsible for increasing rates of illness, nutrient-deficient diets, a narrowing of the range of food crops, …
Sylvia Shawcross And so we have to go back to discussing insects I’m afraid. It is just the way it is going to have to be because there are far too many things we disagree on now—even more things than since we last realized that we all didn’t really want to eat insects. That fact …
Sylvia Shawcross Now you’d think that Jacinda Ardern, a WEF star, would have picked a different turn of phrase to explain her exit. Instead of lamenting that she didn’t “have enough in her tank” she could have said she hadn’t charged her solar panels enough or something. She has now perhaps joined the rest of …
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. Don’t mention the V-word It’s been very cold in the UK this past week. Cold enough to give you a stroke, apparently…according to “experts”. …
Our first This Week of 2022 was dedicated not to reviewing the past but considering the future, and this year will begin just the same. What will the major narratives of 2023 be? What minor stories will be brought into the limelight while previously major plot lines are shunted backstage? Much of 2022 was spent …
Sylvia Shawcross Oh for heavens sakes! It took awhile but I finally figured it out. They have discombobulated their desires into a substitute agenda because they can’t face what they really really want. They are saying they want us to eat bugs but the truth is, they want us to “be” the bugs. They’re building …
