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From the Village Grocer to the Surveillance Panopticon
The industrialisation of inconvenience, surveillance, and contempt — now with parsley
2 hrs ago
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James Macleod
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FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE WAR
How Artificial Intelligence Turned Lies Into Evidence, and Evidence Into a Casualty
Dec 7
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James Macleod
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Trust Me, I’m a Machine: Why We’re Building Surveillance Tools We Can No Longer Believe
The arguable genius of modern oversight is that it watches everything — and can be rewritten to show anything. Welcome to the era where proof is…
Dec 3
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James Macleod
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November 2025
Tucker Carlson: A Story About Legacy, Reinvention, and the Long American Tradition of Selling You the Same Old Fear With a Different Label
A narrative investigation into family, Cold War broadcast machinery, the economics of outrage, and the surprisingly generational art of cultural…
Nov 30
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James Macleod
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How Taylor Sheridan Accidentally Reinvented State Media (With Better Hats)
It’s Only a TV Show—Until It Isn’t: Why Sheridan’s Neo-Western Universe Actually Matters
Nov 24
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James Macleod
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When the Left Eats Its Young — And Then Wonders Why the Family Keeps Shrinking
A sharply honest look at why the left keeps rejecting the very people who try to join them — and how that moral gatekeeping hands the right an endless…
Nov 20
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James Macleod
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The Web of Maxwell: Power, Espionage, and the Digital Ghosts of History
From Ted Heath’s yacht to Epstein’s island — how media moguls, spies, and predators built a web of power, blackmail, and surveillance.
Nov 14
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James Macleod
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Paving Paradise for a Parking Lot: The COP30 Climate Summit’s Ironic Deforestation
How world leaders decided to save the rainforest by destroying a bit of it to get there...
Nov 12
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James Macleod
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Red Scare 2.0: America’s Favourite Ghost Story
Why calling someone a “communist” in 2025 lands about as well as a fax machine joke
Nov 11
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James Macleod
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The Gospel According to Jimmy: When ‘Neutrality’ Becomes a Moral Laundromat
When the man who made Wikipedia decided he’s the editor-in-chief of morality
Nov 5
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James Macleod
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Anthony Albanese: How to Squander a Miracle
How Anthony Albanese managed to turn a political landslide into a slow-motion collapse — and why the centre-left keeps repeating the same tragic script.
Nov 3
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James Macleod
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October 2025
The Curious Case of Sir Keir Starmer and the Vanishing Principles
Once a defender of the oppressed; now a defender of “public order.” Palestine Action banned, pensioners arrested, moral high ground foreclosed.
Oct 27
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James Macleod
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