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The X Controversy
Kevan James January 9, 2026. It is often quite amazing how quickly things can happen. The latest event on speed dial is the controversy over allegations that Keir Starmer is going to ban social media platform X from the UK. This is due to, apparently at least, illegal imagery being created by X's in-house AI, Grok. It comes hard on the heels of recent publicity that the UK's Labour government wants to see restrictions placed on the development of AI (or 'Artificial Intelligen


The War On The People Has Begun
Kevan James December 30, 2025. As 2025 draws to a close, many fear we may one day look back on it as the last year in which freedom of speech, and for that matter freedom generally, still felt secure - but an ever-growing threat could be seen. From the UK’s Online Safety Act and chilling of legitimate speech, to Macron’s dissolution of parliament and the EU’s Digital Services Act enforcement spree, the pattern is unmistakable: the direction of travel is without doubt towards


Britain: A Lost Cause?
Kevan James November 3, 2025 Is The United Kingdom of Great Britain a lost cause? One can see comments to this effect quite frequently on social media; "The UK is finished," they say. What does that mean? Since none of these posts ever expand on their point, we can only surmise they mean the country native Brits once knew. A country that was known around the world for being essentially decent in many ways. But that country ceased to exist in the way many knew it decades ago,


The Taking of Pete North
Kevan James, September 28, 2025 Last week, blogger Pete North was arrested at his home in the middle of the night and taken for...


Risks In An All-Electric World
Kevan James September 23, 2025 Imagining a scenario where an all-electric world—complete with digital IDs, banking, and other critical...


The Housing Crisis III - Commentary
Kevan James April 16, 2025 There is a tipping point; a point where one can go no further. Regardless of what one is doing, be it a test...


Kemi Badenoch Analysis
Kevan James January 7, 2025 Kemi Badenoch has now been Conservative party leader for longer than Liz Truss was, which is quite...


Elon's Christmas Present
Kevan James December 24, 2024. Statement of opinion regarding suspension or more accurately, the termination of my account on X. Seven...


The System Will Educate You. And Your Children
Kevan James December 9, 2024. If you were 13 in 1997, now you will be 40. You went through an education system already infiltrated by...


The Future of The Republic - Your Future
Kevan James November 17, 2024. In 2017, I published the first edition of my book, Comments of a Common Man . The book was updated in 2018...
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