- Good to see you back Dan.

"I've gone from believing that there is no need to rely on conspiracy to explain media performance to believing that there is definitively a supranational conspiracy which is defining state policy across the western world of which the billionaire owned media is but a part."

There's little doubt about control by a supranational conspiracy: it's showing more and more through the transparent veil of "democracy" because, well, they essentially don't care if we know anymore.

Just like Israel itself when it fed the media the line that Palestinians were blowing up their own hospitals...from eagerly swallowing the lie we went in a very short span to non reportage & not caring any more that we knew the real perpetrators because there's nothing we can do about it...
And in domestic politics the old ritual of presenting a stall to the electorate is now merely that: a vapid presentation.
Starmer never held to any of the electoral promises he made because any domestic manifesto that contradicts in the slightest the general tenor of the western elites neoconservative neoliberal geopolitical agenda essentially means friction and a vacuous weakling like Sir Keir would never sully his copy book in such a way.

I'm not sure what the rent boy story will turn out to be about, but I would say blackmail is surplus to requirement to motivate such a supine craven creature.
Starmer was a willing persecutor of Assange before he joined the Labour party and now he's a willing participant in a genocide.

Blackmail would propose a conscience that might object and require leveraging... but the truth is they choose, fund and promote amoral individuals for a reason. Like Blair there is nothing Starmer will not willingly do for his masters.