Norman Lewis
Dr Norman Lewis, writer, speaker and consultant on innovation and technology, was most recently a Director at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he set up and led their crowdsourced innovation service. Prior to this he was the Director of Technology Research at Orange. Follow him on Twitter @Norm_Lewis
- The Greta Reset: Welcome to the UK 2030 - the no petrol, no transport, no freedom of movement Net Zero future
Bringing forward a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel-engined cars and vans from 2040 to 2030 by the UK government is an authoritarian exhaust-pipe-dream of a ‘solution’ to climate change. - An elite-led ‘Great Reset’ post-Covid? No, what we need first is to get rid of the globalist approach that got us into this messThe WEF’s vision for the future isn’t a conspiracy, but a disingenuous, dishonest manifesto from an unelected ruling class. The virus has vindicated the national state and the need for ordinary people to be part of the solutions.
- Experts get US election predictions wrong again, but it’s no surprise; the culture war is so toxic dissent has become demonisedThe rise of the ‘shy’ US voter – people who are afraid to express their true opinions for fear of retribution – shows that it is not just pollsters, pundits, and political experts who inevitably suffer, but US democracy itself.
- The death knell of science is being sounded, not by politicians but by partisan scientists themselvesA campaign to elect scientists to political office in the US might have won early victories, but it’s dangerously deluded because it depoliticizes politics while politicizing science – which utterly undermines its authority.
- Use of AI & digital ads in politics shows it’s a snake oil world of deception, manipulation & contempt for ordinary peopleThere is a worrying assumption that cuts across the political divide in 2020 – that the electorate are fickle, easily misled and manipulable. We are simply reduced to being data points that can be harvested and maneuvered at will.
- Are dark forces really to blame? So many people believing in conspiracy theories like QAnon reveals a sad truth about the WestWe need to talk about these lunatic claims that see sinister hands at work everywhere. Not because they're true, but because of what they demonstrate about our society and the quest for meaning in the age of Covid.
- The new media elite will stop at nothing to protect their profits. They’re rapacious monopolists, and we are their foodThe likes of Facebook & Google are spending tens of millions on lobbying and buying up government insiders. We need to call their bluff and bring in controls over their ever-growing financial and networked empires.
- People have been so spooked by the state-sanctioned Project Fear that they believe TENS OF MILLIONS have died from Covid-19The perception of the risks of the Covid-19 crisis are now so exaggerated that it demonstrates how fear has become the only true enduring reality of the pandemic.
- ‘Scientists’ said Brits won’t stay home because of ‘behaviour fatigue’, and pushed Project Fear. Now most don’t want to go to workThe behavioural science-informed insight that citizens would suffer ‘fatigue’ and thus would not comply with government-imposed lockdowns unless ‘nudged’ to do so has proven that behavioural science is as scientific as astrology.
- It’s official & a damning indictment, the Covid-19 lockdown has made the rich vastly richer and poor vastly poorerNew figures from the Bank of England show what many of us predicted – that the effect of shutting down the economy would increase wealth inequality and hit the least well-off hardest. And it's just going to get worse.
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