In Spiked, Julie Burchill deconstructs the elite hypocrisy that aims to “re-wild” farmland, outlaw roadbuilding, halt economic development and confine the citizenry to “15-minute” neighbourhoods, rendering the world safe for the billionaire class and their enablers to roam the world at will by private jet.

Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.


