News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Labour will win because the public are rejecting the Tories' failed attempt at technocratic government, says Dr David McGrogan. But they will soon reject Labour's technocracy too. A new kind of government is needed.
It's been a painful four years watching the experts, backed by power, dismantle the good life, and yet not be held accountable for the results, says Jeffrey Tucker. And it's only getting worse – but there is hope.
Lurking behind the election, Paul Sutton spies Tony Blair and his technocratic heirs, similarly committed to putting the 'grown-ups' in charge and smearing and smothering all dissent.
Are we really all 'progressing' towards a happy future, where technology unites humanity in a world without borders? Dr. David McGrogan isn't convinced and sets out his own predictions for the future.
The Horizon Post Office scandal has many parallels with the Covid saga, says Ramesh Thakur. Such as the blind faith in technology, the gongs for goons and the deafness to innocent people suffering.
Technology has become a cult that seeks absolute control as we yearn for certainty. But the Post Office Horizon scandal shows that, like the gods of old, it will always let us down, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
The Post Office Horizon scandal, where hundreds of workers were condemned as crooks by faulty software no-one really understood, portends a future of digital chaos, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
The rise of 'smart' technology that responds, not to the user but to external commands poses a serious threat to freedom, says Dr R P. However, since all technology is 'hackable', there is hope.
Britain is facing its longest recession since records began. The root cause is liberal technocratic hubris – the belief that there are straightforward "solutions" to pandemics, climate change and interstate conflict.
We're publishing an original essay on the Daily Sceptic today by Dr. James Alexander, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Turkey, about the Conservatives Party's decline.
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