susan morris

A disturbing prophecy of the future - with AI data centres acting as central hubs for digital control over the population.

One of the few places on Earth that would survive an Israeli Samson option…

Hate Blair for Iraq. That part is earned. But the Blair you are looking at right now in 2026 is not the Blair of 2003. He has been reclassified. The Tony Blair Institute is funded substantially by Gulf capital. Saudi money. Emirati money. He depends on the same Gulf states that are demanding a two-state framework as the price of Israeli normalization, the same states pre-positioning hundreds of billions in Gaza reconstruction capital, the same states whose entire post-war regional plan voids if Palestinians are erased. He is not a free agent doing his own ideological project. He is an instrument, and the hand on the instrument is now the hand that needs Palestinians to survive. What Blair is actually doing is that he is positioning himself as the face of a transitional Gaza administration. Western liberals see a familiar Blairite technocrat. Israeli right-wingers see someone they think they can manage. American politicians see a former PM they recognize. What he actually is, structurally, is the wrapper that makes a Gulf-financed, Palestine-preserving, far-right-Israeli-blocking architecture politically survivable in Western capitals. Without that wrapper, the architecture cannot be installed. The Greater Israel project has been advancing for decades precisely because no one with Western credibility was willing to stand in front of it. Smotrich. Ben-Gvir. The settler movement. The full territorial-consolidation agenda. That project requires Palestinian removal. Blair's role, whatever he ends up calling it, structurally blocks it. Believe it or not, right now, he is the front man for an arrangement that preserves Palestinian presence on the land, channels reconstruction capital into Palestinian hands, and downgrades Israel from regional hegemon to dependent actor inside a Gulf-led order. He is not a friend of the region. He is not redeemed. But he is doing this because his paymasters need it done and he is the most efficient available wrapper. That distinction matters, and it should not be collapsed into either forgiveness or hatred. The right reading is colder than that. He is the man who was an instrument of the Iraq war and is now an instrument of Palestinian preservation, and the same coldness that made him useful for the first thing is what makes him useful for the second. Hating him for what he did in 2003 while the most important pro-Palestinian institutional move of this decade is moving through his hands is hating the past while the present passes you. By all means do not forgive him. But notice what is in front of you. The man you are spending your energy hating is, in this specific moment, one of the most consequential pro-Palestinian operators in Western institutional life.

Tony Blair is one of the most hated men in Britain, but he still isn’t hated enough. I think we can and should hate him much, much more.

Netanyahu: Israel is now approaching $70,000 GDP per capita. We passed Britain, Germany, Italy — everyone. We still have a long way to go, but we have already surpassed most Western countries.

Central banks create purchasing power out of thin air and use that to buy assets, fund deficits, and steer markets without going through Congress or normal price discovery.