Author: Simon Elmer

‘It is in the ranks of the Party, and above all the Inner Party, that the true war enthusiasm is found. World-conquest is believed in most firmly by those who know it to be impossible.’ — George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four On 17 March, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for the arrest of … Continue reading New World Order: The International Criminal Court and War on Russia

When I was asked to talk to a Bitcoin group about Central Bank Digital Currency I was surprised, as I know almost nothing about Bitcoin and only a little about CBDC. I am neither an economist nor a banker, and I have just enough money to pay my bills, without investing it in cryptocurrency. However, … Continue reading Contexts for Central Bank Digital Currency

One of the obstacles to understanding the managed and apparently deliberate destruction of the small and medium-sized businesses that in the UK have decreased in number by half a million since 2020, and the removal of our national sovereignty on the justification of saving us from, by turns, a health crisis, an environmental crisis, an … Continue reading The Western Oligarchy

As the restrictions and obligations of biosecurity have mostly but not entirely been lifted since March 2022 — while still being suspended over our necks like the axe of the fasces — their replacement by their equally fundamentalist environmental equivalents has shown the arbitrariness of the crises on which the Global Biosecurity State is being … Continue reading The Politics of Environmental Fundamentalism

The past three years have exposed the structural flaw in Western democracy with more disastrous consequences for its populations than at any time in recent history. It’s generally known that democracy, from the Ancient Greek dēmokratia, means ‘rule by the people’; but it is perhaps less widely known that the fifth-century city-state of Athens on … Continue reading Twenty Questions for Our Democracy

The New Normal: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 2 — February 2023 by Simon Elmer Hardback: £30.00 Paperback: £20.00 E-book: £10.00 (please specify that you are paying for a copy of this book, and check your junkmail for the return email with the e-book) Look Inside Description Everything we’ve been told about … Continue reading The New Normal: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Volume 2

Virtue and Terror: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 1 — February, 2023 by Simon Elmer Hardback: £30.00 Paperback: £20.00 E-book: £10.00 (please specify that you are paying for a copy of this book, and check your junkmail for the return email with the e-book) Look Inside Description Originally appearing between April 2020 … Continue reading Virtue and Terror: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Volume 1