Step inside, darling. The velvet parts, the martini trembles, and the foxes are already whispering. Welcome to Come In Pink, a literary séance wrapped in silk and scandal, where memory shimmies, identity sashays, and reality is served with a twist of citrus and subversion.
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Audio Book – Celtic Domination – Chapter 3 – Ricky Arrives
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Podcast Episode: Celtic Domination And Literary Extremism
Ruined stone towers overlook a winding river valley beneath dramatic storm clouds as birds soar overhead. Pip: What happens when a novel arrives like a Molotov cocktail lobbed into a country club — and three reviewers all reach for the same metaphor? Good Strategy Rebellion has been paying close attention.
Mara: Martyn Jones has been publishing a cluster of book reviews this week, all centring on a single novel — and the territory they cover is Celtic identity, intellectual resistance, and what fiction can do that a manifesto cannot.
Pip: Let’s start with the book itself, and the critics who took it seriously.
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Podcast Episode: Camp, Glitter And Postmodern Ruins
Guests raise champagne glasses amid confetti, books, and lively conversation at a festive literary gathering. Mara: This episode covers the reviews Jones has published of Martyn Bey’s debut novel Come In Pink, a book that critics have been reaching for some fairly extravagant vocabulary to describe. Let’s start with what the novel actually is and why the reviews keep circling the same tensions.
Pip: There’s a novel out there that apparently supplies lavender soap to Pontius Pilate, debates Marx in the same breath as “zipper sex,” and calls the whole thing a love letter to misfits. Martyn Jones has been reading it closely — very closely.
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GS PODCAST: Celtic Journeys In Memory
Pip: There’s a genre of travel writing where the destination is a place you can’t quite find on a map – and Good Strategy Rebellion has gone deep into exactly that territory this week, courtesy of Martyn Jones.
Mara: The episode is built around one book: Bandoxa: A Celtic Journey by Martyn de Tours. Three reviews, three different critical angles, all converging on the same question – what kind of book is this, really, and why does it resist easy categorisation?
Pip: Let’s find out what Bandoxa actually is, and why it seems to be several things at once.
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STRAIGHT TALK: Is the Hannibal Directive a Thing?
The Good Strat Skunworks
London, Monday 1st June 2026
El Jueves y la Puta Mili What is the Hannibal Directive and is it true?
Yes, the Hannibal Directive is a real military protocol.
Here is a breakdown of what the directive is, its history, and its relevance to recent events.
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THE GS PODCAST: Examining War Crimes Allegations
Smoke rises over a coastal city following significant explosions and fires at sunset. Pip: Good Strategy Rebellion — where the chess pieces are real, the board is on fire, and someone keeps insisting the rules still apply.
Mara: Today we’re in difficult territory. Martyn Jones puts a direct question to several major AI systems: is there tangible, verifiable evidence that Israel has engaged in war crimes, genocide, or sexual violence in Gaza? The answers are substantial, and they matter.
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STRAIGHT TALK: Examining War Crimes Allegations
Sir Afilonius Rex and Lila de Alba
Bonn, Monday 1st June 2026
A thought-provoking depiction of global conflict as a strategic but destructive game of chess. We asked AI if there is tangible and verifiable evidence that Israel might have engaged in mass slaughter, infanticide, genocide, rape and other grave human rights abuses?
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Artificial Intelligence, Genuine Bullshine: Why LinkedIn’s ‘Self-Driving Labs’ Can Swerve Into a Ditch
Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Madrid, 17th May 2026
Eine Sängerin liefert unter einem Scheinwerfer auf der Bühne ein gefühlvolles Solo ab. More WordPress Third-Party Service BS: Our service provider OpenAI (“Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup“) could not process your prompt due to a moderation system. Please try to rephrase it, changing potentially problematic words and try again.
According to the shiny-suited ‘thought leaders’ currently infesting LinkedIn, artificial intelligence is now a fully-fledged scientist, and laboratories can drive themselves. But before we hand over the agonising, beautiful poetry of human discovery to a predictive text engine, perhaps we should ask why we’re letting middle-management buzzword merchants sell us the tickets to our own obsolescence.
Right! Listen! I was looking at LinkedIn the other day. Why do we do it? Why do we subject ourselves to LinkedIn? It’s a website designed specifically to make you feel like you’ve died, but instead of burning in a majestic, fiery hell, you’re trapped in an eternal, beige purgatory of middle-management synergy meetings. It’s a digital holding pen where sociopaths with MBA degrees and aggressively white teeth congratulate each other on waking up at 4 AM to drink lukewarm lemon water, take an ice bath, and “crush their Q3 paradigms.”
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DATA CRISIS: Lessons from San Isidro’s Wisdom
Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Madrid, 15th May 2026
Introduction by Sir Afilonius Rex
A futuristic cityscape illuminated by vibrant digital data streams swirling above the skyline at night. In my four decades navigating the labyrinthine corridors of global diplomacy and corporate grand strategy, from brokering late-night resource treaties in Geneva to architecting the predictive analytics frameworks for the Ministry of Defence, I have encountered every conceivable breed of intellectual vanity. I have sat in oak-paneled rooms with men who believed they could conquer the world with a pivot table, and I have endured the endless, droning presentations of modern techno-philosophers who mistake a vast accumulation of digital sludge for actual wisdom.
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