The elites, including those in science, seem to think that their loss of legitimacy can be solved by messaging. Good luck with that.
Thursday, December 18, 2025
What Will Happen If the Right Wins Absolutely?
Right wing factions are determined to implement extreme agendas. Where are they heading?
Poor Health Weakens Support for Fairer Healthcare
Why highly unequal societies like the US exhibit falling levels of population-level fitness along side falling support for better healthcare.
Coffee Break: MAGA’s Messaging Meltdown Snags Susie Wiles, Kash Patel’s FBI
MAGA’s Messaging Meltdown this week has seen the Trump team failing utterly in their area of core competence: controlling the narrative and somebody might just get themselves fired over it.
The Bondi Strike: Who Will Control the Narrative?
How key players are starting to throw down markers to shape perceptions of the Bondi mass shooting.
What to Eat Now, More Than Ever
Marion Nestle has been the essential guide to our “food system” (one trillion dollars a year) in the United States for a long time. Her work is relevant in other such as the United Kingdom that lack a robust food culture, for the most part because it was killed by the food system, not because […]
Is AI Creating Monsters?
More troubling new sightings on the AI front.
The EU’s New Policy Towards Russia’s Seized Assets Isn’t About Helping Ukraine
It’s hard to be cynical enough in looking at EU rationales and motives for strengthening their hold on Russia’s seized assets.
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Africa’s Enduring Wars
Since decolonization, Africa has experienced a succession of wars whose combined death toll likely reaches into the tens of millions—mostly from indirect causes such as displacement, famine, and state collapse rather than combat itself. This article surveys major post-1960 conflicts, argues against monocausal explanations, and examines how persistent misreading of African political dynamics has led to repeated and costly foreign policy failures, particularly by the United States.
Doctors, Strikes and the Failures of Wes Streeting and Labour
It appears Wes Streeting has channeled his inner Trump and is trying to bully NHS doctors when he does not hold good cards.
Israel Is Trying to Turn the Tide of Opposition (to Its Genocidal Proclivities) in Latin America
Could one of the few pockets of resistance to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its myriad other war crimes be about to fall?
