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The New Feudalism: How Capital Devours the Commons and Taxes the Middle Class Into Compliance
We’re not just witnessing an energy transition. We’re witnessing a civilisational extraction model running on fumes — where wealth begets wealth, control replaces value creation, and the middle class is slowly bled dry to sustain the illusion of progress. The Modern Game of Wealth Today’s dominant system rewards: Owning access, not producing value Regulatory capture,…
The Clean Energy Link: Who Really Pulls the Levers?
Western Australia’s Clean Energy Link is sold as a bold step toward decarbonisation. But scratch the surface, and it starts to look more like a well-rehearsed script — one where the costs are socialised, the risks are absorbed by the public, and the profits are captured quietly by a web of actors who never seem…
A Night at the Soldiers and Sailors’ Federation Club: The Misadventures of Ernest Ray
A family story of the time Ernest Ray, a motor fitter in Fulham, got caught up in a rowdy night at the Soldiers and Sailors’ Federation Club—posing as a policeman, evading the law, and narrowly escaping serious trouble.
Hayek’s Road to Serfdom: A Blueprint of Bureaucratic Bondage
Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom warns how central planning and collectivism open the door to totalitarianism—an insight more urgent than ever in today’s algorithmic age.
Is Land Ownership in Western Australia Truly Ownership? A Look at Title, Tenure, and Limits
Land title in Western Australia is not true ownership but a conditional tenure from the Crown, subject to laws, compulsory acquisition, and native title claims.
Reclaiming the Narrative (Part 10 of 10)
This final post reclaims the power of identity, challenging the historical suppression encoded in parish registers and urging personal agency through modern tools.
The Throughput Machine (Part 7 of 10)
The poor weren’t cared for. They were processed. Church, Crown, and economy fed on pauper children. Lichfield’s Actons reveal a machine, not a family.
The Names That Weren’t Theirs (Part 8 of 10)
The surname Acton in Lichfield wasn’t inherited — it was assigned. Poor children were given names by clerks, not kin. Genealogy meets systemic labeling.
Citizen Erased (Part 9 of 10)
The Actons weren’t a family. They were a function. This is what happens when identity is assigned, not inherited — and you are documented only to be forgotten.
The Paper People of Lichfield (Part 1 of 10)
Were the Actons of Lichfield a real family—or administrative aliases for pauper children processed by the Church? We begin uncovering the paper people.