“Elites vs. Populists”

Rolling Stone, the disgraced, far-left palace guard for the Establishment, has set its sights on Oliver Anthony and his protest song, the out-of-nowhere number-one hit “Rich Men North of Richmond.”

Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister for over 12 years, has announced he is resigning and leaving politics. He delivered the news on Monday morning, after the collapse of his coalition government on Friday.

When Bob Lee, a 43-year-old technology executive, was stabbed to death in the small hours of the morning on a San Francisco street, it looked like a brutal instance of the Californian city’s urban decay.

Commentators including Elon Musk said the case was yet another example of “horrific” crime in the city and others said they feared for their safety.

The story quickly unravelled, however. Lee was attacked in a relatively quiet part of town and, despite its problems with theft and open-air drug use, the city’s murder rate is relatively low.

AI dominated this year’s Bilderberg meeting as elites pondered managing a potential schism with China.

The creators of ChatGPT and key figures from the world of AI rubbed shoulders with global elites at the 69th annual Bilderberg Conference held in Lisbon this past weekend, as major players in the transatlantic relationship pondered the state of the world in the face of rising geopolitical tensions and technological disruption.

A camera-shy event for European and American elites, topics such as Ukraine, China, and AI technology dominated this year’s agenda as influential figures from the fields of business, politics, and technology gathered at the opulent Pestana Palace Hotel in Lisbon for the notoriously secretive three-day conference.

Woe betide the left-leaning hack who deviates from the narrative about Tucker Carlson. Tucker’s a fascist and any liberal who says otherwise should expect swift cancellation. Witness the troubles at the American Prospect. On Wednesday, the day after Carlson’s abrupt departure from Fox News, that young organ of pained liberalism made the grave error of publishing a piece suggesting Carlson might in fact be a complicated figure. Perhaps – whisper it – a rebellious one. Might this boisterous puncturer of the new elite’s ‘lazy pieties’, this primetime critic of war, free-market capitalism and Big Tech, hold some lessons for the left? Oh dear. Summon the mob. A liberal has made unapproved comments about Mr Carlson.

Firing the top-rated host on cable news represents a rebellion of the elites against the choice of viewers.

Tucker Carlson’s firing puts the exclamation point on the recurring theme of his program.

Tucker Carlson Tonight emphasized the ways in which the powerful few increasingly limited the choice of the faceless many. Whether discussing the Clinton campaign–bought Russian dossier used by the media and the Justice Department to undermine a duly elected president, the federal government’s unconstitutional suppression of speech on social media, or a hundred other topics, Carlson took on bullies who wished to run an end-around on democracy.

The not-so-liberal establishment refuses to acknowledge its own power.

The year we finally rose up against the pyjama classes

The laptop elites. The pyjama classes. It’s hard to know what to call the new establishment. Those upper-middle-class graduates who make up the knowledge economy. Who think tweeting is a job. Who have faithfully imbibed every woke mantra, from ‘Trans women are women’ to ‘Wear your mask!’. Who are waited on hand and foot by the precariat of Deliveroo and Amazon. Who loathe the old economy – the one that actually makes things – for its unsightly footprint on the planet. And who loved lockdown. Six months making sourdough bread for your Instagram Stories while still getting paid for whatever it is you do for a job? What’s not to like?