{"id":320079,"date":"2025-12-17T08:55:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=320079"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:52:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:52:59","slug":"this-week-in-the-new-normal-111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=320079","title":{"rendered":"This Week in the New Normal #111"},"content":{"rendered":"

Off-Guardian \u2013 Dec 15, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian<\/em>, This Week in the New Normal<\/a><\/em> is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.<\/p>\n

1. Anti-radicalisation classes for young boys?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The British government is going to start special \u201canti-misogyny\u201d classes in schools, as part of their ongoing war against \u201cviolence against women and girls\u201d.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear if these classes will be showing Adolescence, but only a fool would bet against it.<\/p>\n

The Times reports<\/a> [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n

All boys will be taught how to respect women and girls as part of the school curriculum under government plans to \u201cdeploy the full power of the state\u201d<\/strong> to crack down on male violence and misogyny.<\/p>\n

Has anything good ever come from \u201cdeploying the full power of the state\u201d?<\/p>\n

No, no it hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Plus, these bizarre indoctrination classes \u2014 supposedly to tackle the totally made-up problem of radical misogyny \u2014 will actually just spread resentment and real misogyny amongst boys who feel they\u2019re being punished for something they didn\u2019t do and are inherently inferior to girls.<\/p>\n

This counter-productivity is likely deliberate.<\/p>\n

2. Australia down, is Ireland or the US next?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This week saw the official start of Australia\u2019s \u201csocial media ban\u201d for under-16s. As we\u2019ve discussed, in reality, this is an age verification system for the entire country, which aims to undermine, if not entirely remove, the right to privacy and anonymity online.<\/p>\n

And it works so well that other countries are already lining up to start their own.<\/p>\n

In Ireland, Fine Gael<\/a> is calling for \u201ca complete prohibition on social media access for children under 16\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the US, Republicans have been vocally supporting Australia\u2019s move<\/a> and calling for something similar at home, while over on the \u201cleft\u201d Bernie Sanders<\/a> is clearly feeling around endorsing it too.<\/p>\n

They won\u2019t be the last; this is going to spread everywhere<\/em>.<\/p>\n

3. The end of Fat Cats?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After years of waiting, the world has finally been presented with a solution to fat cats. That would be literal<\/em>\u00a0fat cats, you understand?<\/p>\n

Not Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos, we\u2019re not that lucky.<\/p>\n

Yes, in the US, overweight cats have started taking Ozempic too. This is good news for cat owners who are not only too lazy to lose weight themselves, but too sadistic to stop feeding the house-cats they\u2019ve institutionalised into gluttonous apathy.<\/p>\n

Yay.<\/p>\n

The NY Post reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Fat cats are taking Ozempic now \u2014 and it could be the solution to terminal feline illnesses<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t feel guilty about boxing a semi-wild animal up in tiny grey cage until it goes mad and eats itself almost to death, just give it a pill that will destroy its liver instead.<\/p>\n

BONUS: Made up stat of the week<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A stat doing the rounds in the British media this week is that no illegal immigrants have arrived in small boats for the last month:<\/p>\n

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BREAKING: No migrants arrived in the UK on small boats crossing the Channel in the 28 days to yesterday, the Home Office says.<\/p>\n

It’s the longest period without migrants arriving on small boats in seven years.
\nhttps:\/\/t.co\/5MpePzQTlm<\/a><\/p>\n

\uf4fa Sky 501 and YouTube pic.twitter.com\/lfAtZCqaM6<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sky News (@SkyNews) December 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n