Don't believe the hype! New Year isn't at the beginning of January, it is on 25 March!

With the elusive Peter Haining outside The McManus in Albert Square, Dundee, during the end of year vacation lull.

Researchers also suggest an Atlantic Ring of Fire, a broad belt of frequent quakes and volcanoes, could someday take shape as subduction spreads. That idea mirrors the Pacific’s rim, but would grow step by step as new segments activate and connect. www.earth.com/news/future-...

My book Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists & the New Order In Wellness is published by Pluto. www.plutobooks.com/978074535112...

The strategic objective appears less oriented toward winning substantive debates about governance in Tibet than toward overwhelming alternative perspectives through content volume, thereby displacing human rights discourse with consumer-oriented imagery. asiatimes.com/2025/12/borr...

In the eastern German state of Thuringia, Ringo Mühlmann, an AfD member of the local Parliament, has drawn growing criticism for a pattern of parliamentary inquiries that mirror the information priorities of Russian intelligence. searchlightmagazine.com/2025/12/germ...

The City of London council should be abolished and its local authority functions absorbed by neighbouring boroughs. Anything less is mere tinkering with a rotten civic system with a feudal – rather than democratic – structure. reclaimec1.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/m...

Like other billionaires who provide millions in tax-deductible 'philanthropic' donations to extreme right-wing political campaigns, Robert Brockman had an antigovernment streak & didn’t approve of the IRS, telling associates it was a corrupt organization. archive.ph/2uOru

The chief minister of Gibraltar made a series of “grossly improper” and “sinister” interventions to interfere in a live criminal investigation in order to protect his friend & business partner from the consequences of a search warrant. web.archive.org/web/20251223...

(Bad) actors are preoccupied with circulating anti-vaccine disinformation. It’s unclear whether the goal is to create real skepticism, or if it’s just a hot-button issue designed to divert public attention (from Putin’s war crimes). akademie.dw.com/en/tracking-...

Last year, The Economist ranked Mexico City as the sixteenth most expensive city in the world, ahead of cities like Washington, D.C. and Milan. english.elpais.com/internationa...

My novel She's My Witch is the best Solstice read ever! It also makes a great present & you can rub the cover for money! Buy it direct from the publisher here: london-books.co.uk/she-s-my-witch

Merry Solstice!

An eye-opening examination of the history of yoga in the early twentieth century, by @stewarthome.bsky.social Apparently there’s nothing that some white people can’t spoil by injecting hatred and extracting profit. Pertinent lessons for the rising science-denialism and fascism now. #books 💙📚💡

Local MP Tulip Siddiq said: “I am appalled local businesses have been told in the week before Xmas they will be turfed out of their cafes. This decision by the City of London (Corporation) shows a total disregard for the community.” www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/city...

By tracing narrative evolution rather than reacting to individual claims, the tracker shows that chemical-biological disinformation is not random, but structured, sustained, and strategically deployed. thebulletin.org/2025/12/a-de...

I make Dennis Cooper’s best of the year in non-fiction with Fascist Yoga (you’ll need to scroll down quite a long way)! denniscooperblog.com/mine-for-you...

When UGLE complains transparency measures throw ‘an aura of mistrust over the entire Freemason community’ many will conclude masons can’t be trusted. For confirmation of this outside the Met just check out masons at the City of London council. Link below. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I had a fascinating conversation with @stewarthome.bsky.social author of FASCIST YOGA: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists and the New Order in Wellness. Read about it and watch interview through my latest newsletter.💫 #writingcommunity #yoga #spirituality #5amwritersclub

You can hear me talking around my book Fascist Yoga on the Elevating Voices podcast here: youtu.be/kFBYCIXcr5U

For a fantasy version of what yoga might but won’t do for you there is this book, A Chair In The Air, based on celebrity murder suspect Nick Reiner. For a factual take on yoga grifting read my book Fascist Yoga. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

University-led expansion serves as a primary gentrifier. Even affluent residents, who initially benefit from upgraded amenities, eventually confront a more homogenized urban environment that loses cultural diversity, social resilience & local character. www.newswise.com/articles/a-t...

A state of emergency would kick off a so-called Universal Payout Program, the long-awaited financial rapture that would finally make Christian followers unspeakably rich: “Now, the global financial system is going to be destroyed and taken over.” www.occrp.org/en/feature/m...

For more fun this winter Solstice buy those close to you a copy of Art School Ogre (misprint)! It won't just fill a stocking, it will fill your loved one's minds with new approaches to bedroom athletics! Get it here: stewarthome.bandcamp.com/merch/art-sc...

If you're in Milan you might want to check out the screening of this filmed drift/conversation with me on Thursday (18 December 2025).

Burlesque was maybe my favourite of many, many great musical things I discovered from SH in this interview - see the aforementioned Footnote 14. As he says, they'd be prime for a revival, their style is one that would be PERFECT played by old codgers...

Part 2 of the very long Joe Mugs interview with me, done strolling around The Barbican walkways to avoid the rain. I prefer walking along the river but it was too wet! bassmidstopsandtherest.substack.com/p/no-41b-ste...

Do Kwon devised elaborate schemes to mislead investors and inflate the value of Terraform's cryptocurrencies for his own benefit. When his crimes caught up to him, Kwon embarked on a deceptive public relations campaign to cover up his fraud. www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...

Russia’s State Duma Chairman allegedly incorrectly told Putin: “In one E.U. country, they went and ‘appointed’ a minister in the form of artificial intelligence, and now it’s facing accusations of embezzlement,” meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Sorry for keeping you hanging on but Part 2 of @stewarthome.bsky.social drops tomorrow morning on bassmidstopsandtherest.substack.com and it will NOT, repeat NOT, disappoint... so much history, so much strangeness, so much anarchy, so much fun. Pics as always by @briandavidstevens.bsky.social

The Scarman report found that there had been no justification for the firing which killed Patrick. In 2016 the Police Ombudsman began an investigation and interviewed a former member of the RUC as part of that inquiry. archive.ph/VuauH

Adding more & more peers to the Lords is a complete farce. Every new peer gets a taxpayer-funded job-for-life, influencing our laws with zero democratic accountability. electoral-reform.org.uk/latest-peera...

The City of London Corporation (council) has been accused of fostering a “culture of non-transparency” due to the extent to which sections of its meetings are held in private. www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2568376...

Many of the lobbying firms that work with fossil fuels organisations also publicly boast of their green credentials, affirming the urgency of the climate crisis and making pledges to reach net-zero targets. globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

Caught between a domestic elite concerned with their own enrichment & a colonial power demanding economic & political reforms without promises to fund them, the (British Virgin) islands remain in postcolonial purgatory. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Internal records revealed a co-ordinated, transnational campaign to reshape legislation in secret, undermining environmental protection & workers’ rights, by lobbyists paid by ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, Nyrstar, TotalEnergies & Enterprise Mobility. archive.ph/gQWlu

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history. Three-quarters of all donations to Reform have come from just three men: Christopher Harborne, Jeremy Hosking & Richard Tice. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

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Today’s Hong Kong vote featured 161 government-vetted candidates. Newcomers include Olympic champion fencer Vivian Kong, who is contesting a seat where the winner is determined by industry representatives, not popular vote. www.france24.com/en/asia-paci...

My book Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists & the New Order In Wellness is the perfect #Solstice gift & will hit the spot for any Secret #Santa exchange you might be forced into. www.plutobooks.com/978074535112...

Philanthropists dress up self-serving objectives – from making friends with politicians to getting their descendants into the Ivy League – as investments in the public good. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

(Putin’s neo-nazi mercenary group) Rusich is carrying out psychological warfare on social media by publishing images of its crimes. It perpetuates the idea that the Kremlin and its troops can act in total impunity. www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

The fire exposed two Hong Kongs that are uneasily coexisting: an official Hong Kong that has fully absorbed Beijing’s discipline, & a determined but quieter Hong Kong that still thinks and acts like a civic community. archive.ph/bTS1R

My collaboration with Jiz is a track about the last man to insult Stalin to his face & live to tell the tale - left communist Amadeo Bordiga: stewarthome666.bandcamp.com/track/bordiga

Ranging from friends of Farage to open Hitlerites, sections of the European right not only have their own malign agenda but are also serving Putin’s subversive ends. searchlightmagazine.com/2025/12/gone...

"The pesticide lobby has been at the forefront of pushing deregulation," said Nina Holland, a campaigner for lobbyists watchdog NGO Corporate Europe Observatory. Scrapping the renewal process could “severely undermine” health and environmental protections. www.euractiv.com/news/counter...

It is likely that the meetings of the new Masonic military lodge will take place in occupied Donetsk. But any questions from the international community can be answered by saying that the Donetsk in question is the place with the same name in Russia. theins.ru/en/news/287251

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“May we all be flexible enough to heed its warnings.” Fascist Yoga by @stewarthome.bsky.social reviewed in @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

Dozens of bot-like X accounts & at least ten Congolese news websites have shared misleading claims that an Israeli arbitration cleared Dan Gertler of corruption allegations. The X accounts also argued that US sanctions on Gertler should be lifted. www.opendemocracy.net/en/dan-gertl...