Author: Simon Elmer

Among the many things the last three-and-a-half-years of cowardice and complicity have demonstrated is that the West, as an idea, is now dead. If it continues to haunt the world, it is only as an interdependent financial sector rapidly reaching the day of its reckoning, military alliances against whatever bogeyman the US identifies for ‘liberation’ … Continue reading Woke, Racism and the Great Reset

The Great Reset: Biopolitics for Stakeholder Capitalism — October 2023 by Simon Elmer Hardback: £32.00 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 When the restrictions under which we lived for two years … Continue reading The Great Reset: Biopolitics for Stakeholder Capitalism

The week after I published my article, ‘Trans Rights and the Order of Speech’ in Off-Guardian, The New Statesman published two articles by, respectively, the biologist, Richard Dawkins, ‘Why biological sex matters’ and the feminist, Jacqueline Rose, ‘The gender binary is false’. I don’t know Rose personally, but her 1986 book, Sexuality in the Field … Continue reading What is a Woman? Response to Jacqueline Rose

Part One of this article can be read here. 3. The Misogyny of ‘Trans’ Let’s begin with a question few have the courage to pose and fewer still dare to answer honestly. Why is it always male transvestites who demand access to women’s toilets, men who want to compete in women’s sports, and male rapists … Continue reading Trans Rights and the Order of Speech: Part Two

‘There is a new word in Newspeak’, said Syme, ‘I don’t know whether you know it: duckspeak, to quack like a duck. It is one of those interesting words that have two contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse; applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.’ — George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four, … Continue reading Trans Rights and the Order of Speech: Part One

Der Zauberlehrling (1797) is the title of a famous ballad by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a re-telling of an ancient Egyptian myth that was later put to music by the French composer, Paul Dukas, in his orchestral scherzo L’Apprenti sorcier (1897). The latter was chosen for the title of a text published in 1938 by … Continue reading Defending Freedom for the Future

The coronation of the sovereign is a dangerous time for the UK state because it forces our constitutional monarchy to reconcile the contradictory governing systems of a parliamentary democracy elected by the people of Britain and a Head of State inherited by birth. To oversee this unification, Charles Mountbatten-Windsor — who became the UK sovereign … Continue reading Coronation Day: The Functions of the Monarchy