Off-Guardian – March 1, 2026
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
1. Spying, spying and more spying
The UK government has been spying on drivers of electric vehicles using mobile phone data for over two years, multiple outlets are reporting.
The Telegraph headlines:
Electric car drivers ‘spied on by government’ through phones
…but they are actually underselling it, as their own opening paragraphs demonstrate:
Customers of O2, as well as other operators including Tesco Mobile, were monitored on the government’s behalf if their mobile internet history and app records showed they visited a site related to electric vehicles (EVs) once a month on at least two occasions.
Department for Transport officials commissioned O2 to spy on 25 million devices as part of a £600,000 study intended to produce a “comprehensive evaluation and understanding of the uptake and usage of electric vehicles”.
At the DfT’s request, O2 trawled people’s web browsing habits, including those of children, to identify “EV users”. This included passengers as well as drivers.
It then tracked those people’s physical movements around the country and sent “anonymised and aggregated” data to the government.
As you can see, it wasn’t “electric vehicle drivers”, it was actually “people whose internet activity made it look like they might be electric vehicle drivers”, which is worse but also stupid.
Symptomatic, I think, of both the state’s bottomless hunger for data but also their almost reassuring inability to use it correctly or differentiate good data from bad.
2. We might not be going to the moon after all
Just a few weeks ago, we reported in This Week that NASA was sending men back to the moon…it turns out they might not be.
The original plan was for Artemis II to orbit the moon this spring, and then Artemis III was going to land astronauts on the moon in 2028. Now they’re pushing that alleged landing back for…as yet undisclosed reasons.
Nasa announced on Friday radical changes to its delayed Artemis III mission to land humans back on the moon, as the US space agency grapples with technical glitches and criticism that it is trying to do too much too soon.
The abrupt shift in strategy was laid out by the space agency’s recently confirmed administrator, Jared Isaacman. Announcing the changes on Friday, he said that Nasa would introduce at least one new moon flight before attempting to put humans back on the lunar surface for the first time in more than half a century, in 2028.
The new, more incremental approach would give the Nasa team a chance to test flight and refine its technology. As part of the changes, the Artemis II mission to fly humans around the moon this year, without landing, would also be pushed back from its latest scheduled launch on 6 March to 1 April at the earliest.
My personal guess is casting difficulties, or maybe a set fell down, or the director was fired for failing to bring the same vibe and feel to the sequel that Kubrick managed in the original.
And yes, you read that right, Artemis II might be happening on April 1st.
3. …speaking of space
The Pentagon’s head of UFO stuff has been talking to the media, and the media are happily printing it all.
Revealed: Unexplained objects that stop and accelerate quickly in space detected by ‘highly qualified observers, says former UFO chief. ‘Spacecraft we know don’t behave that way’
…the Mail gleefully reports.
It is not unrestrained alien bait, as has been the usual form in this story. Lieutenant Colonel Phillips, formerly of the Pentagon, is at some pains to explain most of the sightings, but still volunteers that some craft moved too fast, stopped too quickly and could be explained by experts.
Phillips described reports from ‘highly qualified observers’ who witnessed these objects displaying capabilities beyond anything the US government is known to have.
He said the object had the ‘ability to stop very, very quickly, accelerate quickly, right angle turns – the things that aircraft and spacecraft we know don’t behave that way.’
Out of thousands of reports reviewed by AARO, fewer than 50 remained completely unresolved, even after examination by some of the world’s leading experts, he said.
This timeline is messed up.
BONUS: Moral panic of the week
In Canada, a father and his teenaged daughter went out to a coffee house together and found themselves the target of a police manhunt. Apparently someone had seen them together, assumed the father was a sexual predator grooming a young girl, and reported them to the police.
The father resolved the situation by contacting the police when he saw his face on the news, but the damage was done by then, wasn’t it?
Most tellingly, the police statement highlights the tipster was still right to call it in.
The Epstein-related “pedo panic” is having its entirely predictable (and likely entirely intentional) impact – people are getting hysterical and pathologizing or criminalizing totally normal human interactions.
BONUS II: Reason to buy physical media of the week
The extent of UK’s age verification laws are hitting home with X Box users this week, as many are finding themselves locked out of their X Box Live accounts and unable to play games they paid a lot of money for years before these laws existed.
IGN reports:
Xbox has acknowledged widespread issues with the rollout of its enforced age verification process in the UK, leaving many users unable to fully access games and online features.
Treasure your old discs.
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All told a pretty hectic week for the new normal crowd, and we didn’t even mention even more facial recognition tech rolling out or the first person to die of a “tick-related meat allergy” in Australia.
There’s a lot of change in the air, a lot of agendas in the works, if you see a headline, article, post or interview you think is a sign of the times, post it in the comments, email us or share it on social media and we will add it to the next edition.
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Warning to stay off work for 48 hours as Tesco meat product recalled
Story by Neil Shaw •
A product sold exclusively in Tesco is being recalled amid fears it could cause fever, diarrhoea brain fog abdominal cramps, diarrhoea and voting for jews
Sacor is recalling Bastides Saucisson Sec because salmonella has been found in the product. The product is sold exclusively in Tesco stores.
Tesco says it does not have any horse meat as before
The recall covers 200g packs with a best before date of March 4, 2026. Symptoms caused by Salmonella affects people to vote for jews commies or pedos, e g kier Starmer . If you are experiencing the symptoms, you should stay away from work, put your head under the tap and sing out loudly the wartime song ” beware the dirty jews
until you have stopped having symptoms for at least 48 hours to avoid passing it on to others
A few years ago a few members of the UK intel
saw the way the country was going
and that migrants were being given priorities unavailable
to our people
so they passed on what the agenda was.
Some ex soldiers began a political group
against government racism called the National Front
An office near me opened up and people were queuing all down the road
and round the corner, the support was massive for our own people,
But government dirty tricks broke up the party and members were harassed
in secret ways for some years.
After every war injured ex servicemen are just dumped by Government and charities
like the Royal British Legion are supposed to help
After ww 1 and 2 men injured physically or psychologically went before boards
whose sole remit was to stop the men getting injury pensions
They had done their job and no longer counted
It was said they fought for king and country, rubbish !
they fought for a criminal government, just like the mugs signing up now
and when they come home injured, if they come home
it will be more ex servicemen living on our streets
while migrants are put in hotels
BRITAIN FORCED BY ISRAEL TO JOIN THE WAR
First minister says UK made ‘absolutely the wrong call’ on the war on Iran
Story by Claudia Savage
Stormont’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill has said it is “absolutely the wrong call” for the UK Government to “join in this war” in Iran.
Mrs O’Neill also defended her decision not to attend a briefing on the situation alongside Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly, who said she was told there are “many, many thousands of people who are going to die ”
The long game as its called, will see a new pro israel government appointed by the USA
Iran will be broken up into 4 sections, and its oil and mineral reserves will be like those of iraq and syria, taken by israel
Then there is the problem of Turkey
Ireland says this is all wrong and wants no part in it
EU WANT SANCTION ON ISRAEL
Sanctions must be put on Israeli ministers – and 37% of Israeli exports could face tariffs
The European Commission has proposed sanctions on extremist Israeli ministers, partial suspension of trade privileges, and freezing research funds. Israel’s trade with the EU reached €42.6 billion in goods in 2024. Under the proposal, 37% of Israeli exports are stolen from palestine and syria, so could face tariffs. But there’s a problem: division. Ireland and Spain push for stronger action. Germany and Hungary resist. Qualified majority is required. Unanimity would be even harder. Meanwhile, recognition of Palestine remains politically explosive. Is Brussels ready to use its economic power? Or will internal divisions limit the response? The scale of escalation is clear. The political will remains uncertain, as does reaction to the bombing and starvation in Gaza
Epstein emails expose plan to drag Beatrice and Eugenie into Fergie’s debt crisis
Story by Richard Palmer • 3h •
Fergie in desperation to fend of legal action over what she owed allowed Epstein to prostitute her to wealthy americans who wanted yo boast they had slept with a british royal, Fergie then took her 2 daughters to meet epstein, who said ” sorry too old ”
by all accounts, this business of whats revealed in the epstein messages gets murkier and murkier
The only reason for another US moon-landing hoax is because of the greater sophistication in movie industry with high AI tech, but look what happened with the Charlie Kirk shooting hoax.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/03/03/764909/Saudi-Arabia-Qatar-foiled-Mossad-bombing-plots-on-their-soil-Tucker-Carlson
Mossad false flag bombings foiled
these jews really are dirty bastards
we in the Uk should bomb them
Another bet I’ve won… I do quite well betting against regime pabulum, which is always a net gain..as I said to the young woman taking my bet..how can the yankees be going back to the fucking moon, when they never went there in the first place..
just for a bit of fun we pulled up the video of the indians making their descent onto the lunar surface…
jeesh we laughed and laughed and laughed… at the little cartoon spaceship..no doubt fabricated by silicon valley dotheads on 3ds Max…
Re “Moon Landing” attempt:
Yes.will we see the ghost of Stanley Kubrick ?
Fun to sit back and watch the proceedings knowing full well they did NOT and can NOT land on the moon.
The only real question is NASA’s exit strategy.
Stay tuned Star Trek fans !!!.
Netanyahu’s five-point plan for reshaping the Middle East
Story by David Blair •
“Triumph through Terrorism”
If Donald Trump is waging a war in search of regime change then Benjamin Netanyahu is a perfect contrast. The Israeli prime minister has spent his political life preparing for the moment when his country would join forces with the US and destroy Iran’s regime.
Now, at the apotheosis of his career, Netanyahu is a man with an evil plan. All of his actions are designed to answer a question posed in his memoirs. “Did he truly believe that I would succeed in leading Israel in rolling back Iran to the dust of history ?
” asked Netanyahu, referring to his late father, the zionist historian, Benzion Netanya
For him, terrorist movements against Gaza or Lebanon – and a hostile regime like Bashar al-Assad’s in Syria
After the mistakes of enticing in Hamas on Oct 7 2023, Netanyahu resolved not to be deterred. Stage by stage, he has been ruthlessly reshaping the Middle East ever since, culminating in the current assault on Iran’s regime. And on Tuesday, he sent Israeli forces over the northern border into Lebanon.
Israel’s blood soaked assaults on Gaza, the bombing and starvation, has made him a hate figure across the world
The space-craft are BMWs, of the M range
USA has higher developed than TR-3B thats for
sure + did probably already their lifting + destroying
of cars with DEW on 9.11. They can change in air
to unvisibility even in daytime .
The Hunter
A Jewish IDF hunter was out enjoying a nice morning on the West Bank looking for palestinians when he decided to take a leak. He walked over to a tree and propped up his gun. Just then a gust of wind blew, the gun fell over, and discharged… shooting him in the genitals.
Several hours later, lying in a Tel Aviv hospital bed, he was approached by his doctor. “Well sir, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that you are going to be OK. The damage was local to your groin. There was very little internal damage, and we were able to remove all the pellets.””What’s the bad news?” asked the Jewish hunter.
“The bad news is that there was some pretty extensive pellet damage done to your penis, so I’m going to refer you to my sister.”
“Well I guess that isn’t too bad,” the Jew replied. “Is your sister a plastic surgeon?”
“Not exactly.” answered the doctor. “She’s a flute player in the Symphony Orchestra and she will teach you where to put your fingers so you don’t piss everywhere.”
This is weird maybe even outrageous.
Challenger space shuttle