We believed our borders were safe and secure. We sent our children to school and assumed the curriculum was written by grown-ups. We voted and believed our MP, however flawed, acted in good faith. We paid our taxes, watched the BBC, clapped for the NHS, cheered our team. We believed the experts.
Those days are gone.
Scepticism is no longer a fringe reflex. It’s a rational, self-preserving stance for anyone who’s been paying attention. Because nearly every pillar of public life – politics, media, academia, the police, corporations, even science itself – has been exposed not just as fallible, but as actively self-serving, coercive, and too often contemptuous of the people it claims to serve....<<<Read More>>>...
