On Saturday 29 May, up to a million people from all over the UK (the march took 2 hours to pass a given point) marched from Parliament Square, up Whitehall, through Trafalgar Square, up the Charing Cross Road, along Oxford Street and out through West London to Shepherd’s Bush, where (after a few wrong turns in Acton) we peacefully … Continue reading March for Freedom: London, 29 May, 2021
Author: Simon Elmer
Behind the Mask, the Conspiracy!
1. The Conspiracy within the Conspiracy Last week I watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind for the first time. Like everybody else, I was familiar with images from the film — Richard Dreyfuss making the iconic mountain out of a plate of mashed potato, the mothership (from which Parliament Funk unfortunately doesn’t descend) in … Continue reading Behind the Mask, the Conspiracy!
The Battle of Hyde Park
This poem is written through Procol Harum’s A Whiter Shade of Pale, which was recorded in April 1967, for me a lifetime away in years, and released the following month as their debut record. It reached number 1 on the U.K. singles chart on 8th June, 1967, marking the beginning of the Summer of Love. … Continue reading The Battle of Hyde Park
Brave New World: Expanding the UK Biosecurity State through the Winter of 2020-2021
Brave New World: Expanding the UK Biosecurity State through the Winter of 2020-2021, our second collection of articles on the coronavirus crisis, is available as a 203-page pdf file for a £10 donation to ASH through PayPal. As all our articles are, they are also available for free on this website. Preface This is the … Continue reading Brave New World: Expanding the UK Biosecurity State through the Winter of 2020-2021
Cui Bono? The COVID-19 ‘Conspiracy’
‘For whether or not the age of revolutions is over, the age of state-formation has only just begun.’ — T. J. Clark, Farewell to an Idea, 1999 Table of Contents What We Know The Conspiracy Paradox The Power of Nightmares Capitalising on the Crisis Disruption and Redeployment The Emerging Ideology Biosecurity as Cultic Practice The … Continue reading Cui Bono? The COVID-19 ‘Conspiracy’
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: Manufacturing the Crisis
Table of Contents Laying the Foundations Competing Causes of Death Evidence for Lockdown Deaths Recovering the Dead Overall Mortality in the ‘Epidemic’ What Happened to the Excess Deaths? Conclusions It’s official. The UK now has the ‘highest COVID death-rate in the world’. To use a phrase repeatedly employed by our Government throughout this crisis to … Continue reading Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: Manufacturing the Crisis
Our Default State: Compulsory Vaccination for COVID-19 and Human Rights Law
Table of Contents Qualifying Human Rights Sectioning the Public Future Legislation A Living Laboratory Pathologising Dissent Addendum: Why did so many German doctors join the Nazi Party early? On Monday, 14 December, in response to a petition signed by 325,797 people asking the Government ‘to prevent any restrictions being placed on those who refuse to … Continue reading Our Default State: Compulsory Vaccination for COVID-19 and Human Rights Law
The Nuremberg Defence
The lines in the thirteenth stanza are taken from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem, ‘Fears in Solitude’ (1798), which he published during the threat of invasion by revolutionary France, when his opposition to the British Government’s warmongering led to Coleridge’s denunciation as a traitor. I started this poem under the illegal lockdown restrictions on our freedom … Continue reading The Nuremberg Defence
Bowling for Pfizer: Who’s Behind the BioNTech Vaccine?
From Development to Approval At the end of November, it was revealed that the Oxford Vaccine Group had conducted the clinical trial showing its vaccine for COVID-19 had an efficacy of 90 per cent exclusively on volunteers aged 55 and below, thereby excluding precisely the demographic most at risk from the disease. Shares in its … Continue reading Bowling for Pfizer: Who’s Behind the BioNTech Vaccine?
Five Stories Under Lockdown
1. Yesterday all the past On 5 October this year, the Italian philosopher of biopolitics, Giorgio Agamben, published his most powerful and poetic text yet on the coronavirus crisis. Titled Quando la casa brucia, this was Agamben’s sixteenth text about the crisis; yet unlike the others it was not immediately translated and circulated around the world. … Continue reading Five Stories Under Lockdown
A Communist in Hong Kong 