Back in January, I asked Is Trump Part of the Swamp Now?. Barely eight months into Trump’s second presidency, it seems we already have the answer. My expectations of Trump were astronomically lower than most. I believed that the tell-tale signs were there that the Iron Law of Oligarchy had prevailed and that ‘the regime’, by which I mean the permanent deep state, had made peace with the Orange Man. His role would be to right the ship, get his supporters to buy back into a system in whic...| The Forbidden Texts
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How Elites Constructed a Simplified and Fake Version of Reality| The Forbidden Texts
The Downfall of a Media Mogul| The Forbidden Texts
What Was the West Fighting For in Afghanistan?| forbiddentexts.substack.com
Last year, before the election, many people, friends and enemies alike, called me every name under the sun because I maintained that the regime wanted Trump and that Kamala Harris was a jobber. As people were telling others to ‘get into the crystal’, I was publishing articles asking| forbiddentexts.substack.com
Tony Blair’s leadership advice often comes back to a few familiar refrains: say ‘no’ to your radicals, be prepared to be unpopular, see through the strength of your convictions.| forbiddentexts.substack.com
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Yesterday, I had the misfortune of having cause to travel into Feltham.| forbiddentexts.substack.com
Attempts to Rejuvenate North East England| forbiddentexts.substack.com
When MI6 Tried to Overthrow the Albanian Government| The Forbidden Texts
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Communist Mayor Struggles to Run Town in 1980s Italy| The Forbidden Texts
War Reporting vs. THE TRUTH| The Forbidden Texts
A Trip to the Seaside in 1982| The Forbidden Texts
Shopping in London Circa 1982| The Forbidden Texts
Richard Dawkins and Biological Determinism| The Forbidden Texts
How Journalists Report on War| forbiddentexts.substack.com
Power is top-down.| forbiddentexts.substack.com
Currently the regime is in a bad place, but things are especially bad in Britain.| forbiddentexts.substack.com
In the past several years – but especially since 2020, which saw the triply lethal combination of Covid-19, the US Presidential Election and the ‘mostly peaceful’ worldwide BLM protests – there has been an accelerated breakdown in social cohesion, moral unity, and regime legitimacy in Britain, America and across the West.| forbiddentexts.substack.com
True liberalism has never been tried.| forbiddentexts.substack.com
For the past couple of years, I have talked a lot about containment as a key strategy of power.| forbiddentexts.substack.com
James Lindsay imagines that the reality in which we live today is the result of a series of public debates, essentially contests over ideas, the winners of which get to shape the new reality tomorrow.| forbiddentexts.substack.com
Presented at an event in the Midlands, UK, on Friday 26th August 2022.| forbiddentexts.substack.com