Tag: Totalitarianism

Why is the West's strategy so stupid? Why do we always lose? Ukraine is just the latest ill-fated military intervention driven by simplistic liberal idealism, says Prof Michael Rainsborough. We need to kick the habit.

The West's moral, spiritual and political decay mirrors the post-totalitarianism of Eastern Europe, says Michael Rainsborough. The difference is today's authoritarianism wears a progressive mask.

The BBC is a hulking anachronism, says J. Sorel. The last of the great Departments of Information, a relic of an age of siege and conscription, sprawled across the national psyche like a huge rusting battleship.

It's increasingly common for parents to track their teenage children using a mobile phone app. Joanna Gray wonders if she missed the bit where we decided this was okay. Whatever happened to learning independence?

Microsoft has announced a new feature that takes a screenshot of your activity every few seconds and saves it as a permanent record. What could go wrong, asks technology expert Dr R P.

It seems that Enid Blyton was way ahead of the curve when it came to understanding the tearing of society apart by compelling everyone to join in the madness to be the same and using Stasi-like police as enforcers.

Corporate totalitarianism represents a new ideological development in the history of humanity, says Dr Rowena Slope. Global elites driving an authoritarian 'progressive' agenda that expands their own power and wealth.

The problem with the United Nations' vision of 'human rights', as set out recently by the High Commissioner, is that it amounts to the right to do exactly what you're told and never vary from it, says Dr. David McGrogan.

The German Government's growing clampdown on the insurgent Right-wing opposition is certainly illiberal and authoritarian, says Eugyppius, but it's not helpful to label it 'fascist'.

Will society really collapse if there is a digital alternative for small change? Many sceptics are worried about the implications of the decline of cash and the arrival of CBDCs. But is the fearmongering justified?