When illustrious leaders of the opposition cannot define what a woman is, you got to ask yourself, what the hell is going on?Why is all this overrated, X-rated smut being peddled from every direction? Have we really flooded school libraries with homoerotic books aimed at 6 year-olds?

1. Infinite LoopsIn Vedic philosophy the journey from birth to death and rebirth is called Samsara. Our mortal coil, devoured by one life, is spat out into the next. Just as death is certain for the living, re-birth is certain for the dead. 

If Extinction Rebellion is the midlife crisis of activist causes, the war in Ukraine is the crack cocaine of moral high grounds.For those finely attuned to consensual reality, activism is the perfect oasis from which to emulate dissent, while keeping one’s head beneath the parapet.

CIA Director, William Casey is reputed to have said to Ronald Reagan ‘We’ll know our disinformation is complete when everything the American public believes is false.’Fast forward thirty years, and there’s no piece of fiction the masses will not swallow.

My conversation with Jerm Warfare about the military-intelligence history of the internet. From the NSA and CIA's seed funding of Google, through to DARPA's LifeLog which would eventually become Facebook, to the military cognitive computer AI system that was spun off as Siri (the virtual assistant on Apples operating system).

As we emerge from a winter of discontent and global food systems go from bad to worse, there’s trouble in paradise.   At the root of these problems, government responses to COVID-19 have contributed to a six-fold increase in famine-like conditions as global supply chains collapse, and field trials for gene-edited crops and farm animals begin in the UK.   Against this perfect storm, the UN’s World Food Systems Summit convened in September last year, with Member States joining the private sector, civil society groups and researchers, to bring about “tangible, positive changes” to the world’s food systems and, as the story goes, “drive recovery from COVID-19.”