The Street That Continues
A quiet portrait of Williamsburg’s Satmar community, where Yiddish remains the working language, family life anchors continuity, and tradition is guarded through daily structure rather than slogans.
Category: Culture
Labour Together and the Hollowing of Labour: How a Party of Working People Became a Managed Machine
Labour was founded to represent working people as a class, not to manage politics as a career. Yet by February 2026 the party was governing through a centralised apparatus that looked less like a...
Populism Is Not a Democratic Breakdown. It Is What Happens When Politics Is Shut Down
Populism does not arise because voters reject democracy. It arises when democratic systems remove major economic and social decisions from public contest and insulate them from political challenge. When elections no longer change outcomes, disruption becomes the only remaining lever. What looks like instability is often delayed system feedback from depoliticised governance.
When Economic Analysis Becomes Narrative: A Case Study in China Doom-Writing
A widely shared analysis claims China has “missed its chance” and is locked into economic decline. Even accepting its data, the conclusion does not follow. This rebuttal examines how selective metrics, historical analogy, and irreversibility claims are used to turn ambiguity into certainty—and why that reasoning fails under scrutiny.
The Quiet Freeze: How Texas’ Latest Winter Storm Exposes Deeper Vulnerabilities
A winter storm settles quietly over Plano, turning snow into ice and calm into constraint. Beneath the stillness, the storm reveals how North Texas infrastructure, built for another climate, strains under conditions that no longer feel exceptional.
The Quiet AI Revolution No One Noticed Until It Was Everywhere
The most important technological shifts rarely arrive with ceremonies or consensus. They become infrastructure first, and history later. Artificial intelligence is now undergoing that kind of transition—quietly reshaping coordination, decision-making and medicine while public debate remains fixated on milestones and definitions that lag reality.
The BBC’s Iran Images Are Powerful. The Attribution Is Not Proven
Leaked images from a Tehran mortuary have been presented by the BBC as evidence of a violent state crackdown on protesters in Iran. The images are real, disturbing, and demand scrutiny. But images alone do not establish who killed whom.
The Jarvis Layer: Why the Most Dangerous AI Is Not the Smartest One, but the One Closest to You
As AI intelligence becomes cheap and interchangeable, power shifts to the Jarvis layer: the always-on personal assistant that mediates daily life. This analysis explains why proximity, not intelligence, is the new AI chokepoint shaping autonomy, education, and governance.
The Magnificent Indian People: Resilient, Ingenious and Let Down by a Bureaucracy Built to Control
India’s ordinary people street vendors, small traders, farmers, and informal entrepreneurs are among the most resilient and hardworking on earth. They survive through courage and ingenuity, not because of the state, but in spite of it. The real failure lies not with markets or people, but with a bureaucracy designed to control entry, manufacture monopoly, and suppress competition.
Mundeshwari: Inside a Great Hindu Temple and a Civilisation That Endures
High on the Kaimur plateau, Mundeshwari Temple is not a relic or a monument but a living expression of a great Hindu civilisation. Unrestored, uninterrupted, and unexplanatory, it reveals how endurance, repetition, and ritual allowed a civilisation to survive while others vanished.
Sadiq Khan Warns of Mass Unemployment. AI Poses a Deeper Threat to London
London is not heading for mass unemployment. It is heading for class compression. As artificial intelligence reshapes white-collar work, service jobs endure, elite power concentrates, and the middle quietly erodes. The result is a city that keeps working while becoming poorer, narrower and more fragile.
The BBC Is Losing Its Grip on Britain’s Narrative
Britain’s broadcast era is ending. As audiences migrate to platforms and narratives form outside legacy media, the BBC and the state are struggling to retain authority over what is seen, trusted, and debated.
Fifth Floor, Christmas Day
The heating had been on long enough. Long enough to warm the walls. He switched it off and put his coat on. Outside, the cold was bitter
Chagos and the British Colonial Myths That Refuse to Die
A British press defence of Chagos reveals how British colonial myths still frame empire as sentiment rather than system, and how economic harm, removal, and denial are written out of the story.
The Global Fertility Crisis: Why America, Japan, and South Korea Are Running Out of Families
In Texas and Tokyo and Seoul, thirty-year-olds now run the same arithmetic: rent that devours half a salary, jobs that can vanish tomorrow, childcare that costs more than university, and the quiet certainty that no one is coming to save them. The future no longer feels like a place that rewards commitment. Across the richest societies in history, the fertility rate has become the most honest metric we have left: a mirror held up to civilisational confidence. The reflection is merciless.
The National Press Club of Australia and its Crisis
The National Press club faces allegations of betraying Journalists killed in Gaza
Because a leading Journalist proclaims his talk was cancelled, the club denies it
Strange Loops in AI — Part 2: Catching the Pulse
By Jaffa Levy This article is the sequel to Strange Loops in AI — Part 1, published on Telegraph Online on August 24, 2025. Imagine standing between two mirrors in a barber’s shop. You...
Why White Working-Class Boys Are the Great Underachievers in English Schools
By Jaffa Levy The story of white working-class underachievement is not about laziness or bias against them; it is the unfinished business of Britain’s caste order. Victorian England taught generations to “know their place.”...