For anyone who has spent the last decade being told that the trouble with democracy were being exaggerated, or that the institutions will hold, this should be a wake‑up call. The centre of gravity of …

Updated November 2026 Introduction # There is a point where impunity is not a failure of the system; it is the purpose of the system. Anyone who spends time with the Epstein case arrives there. …

“Blame it on the black star Blame it on the falling sky Blame it on the satellite…” 1(Radiohead) In Part 2 we examined X, Grok and Grokipedia, and Musk’s manufacture of …

updated 06 November 2026 In Part 1 we saw how Musk takes all the wrong lessons from the writers he claims to admire. Here we examine the integrity of his views on free speech, and the engines of hate …

Updated 06 November 2026. Introduction # Elon Reeve Musk was born on 28 June 1971 in Pretoria. He has become one of the most controversial and confusing figures of the century: probably the richest …

First published March 2025; substantially revised October 2026 to incorporate the Stanford AI Index 2026, the 2025–26 drone war, the US–China chip‑control reversals and the UN autonomous‑weapons …

AI generated image Introduction # This article, other than this introduction, has been made entirely using AI tools, drawing mainly on the three sources below. It carries no footnotes of its own, so …

The Blueprint for an Authoritarian Regime First published March 2025 and describing the administration’s first weeks. For what happened next, see the progress update linked at the end. “a …

Revised November 2026 Introduction # This is an unofficial companion to the European External Action Service’s third report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference.1 The official …