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El Significado Actual del 1 de Mayo en la Era Digital

02 Saturday May 2026

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Martyn Rhisiart Jones, Sir Afilonius Rex y Lila de Alba

Madrid, Viernes 1 de May de 2026

La llegada del 1 de mayo, Día Internacional de los Trabajadores, suele verse a través de la lente nostálgica del industrialismo del siglo XIX: polvo de carbón, silbatos de vapor y el traqueteo de la máquina de hilar. Sin embargo, considerar el Día del Trabajo como una reliquia de la era manufacturera es cometer un grave error antropológico y estratégico.

Para la “clase del conocimiento” moderna, esos arquitectos de algoritmos, gestores de datos y guardianes de la información, el 1 de mayo no es una curiosidad histórica. Es un espejo. Celebrarlo es reconocer que, si bien nuestras herramientas han pasado de lo físico a lo metafísico, la dinámica estructural del poder, el agotamiento y el deber cívico permanece inalterable.

Aquí hay diez razones por las que quienes trabajan con bits y bytes deberían recuperar el espíritu del Primero de Mayo.

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Reclaiming May Day: The New Knowledge Economy

01 Friday May 2026

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Martyn Rhisiart Jones, Sir Afilonius Rex and Lila de Alba

Madrid, Friday 1st May 2026

The arrival of May 1st, International Workers’ Day, is often framed through the sepia-toned lens of 19th-century industrialism: coal dust, steam whistles, and the clatter of the Spinning Jenny. Yet, to view Labour Day as a relic of the manufacturing age is to commit a grave anthropological and strategic error.

For the modern “knowledge class”, those architects of algorithms, curators of data, and high priests of information, May 1st is not a historical curiosity. It is a mirror. To celebrate it is to acknowledge that while our tools have shifted from the physical to the metaphysical, the structural dynamics of power, exhaustion, and civic duty remain unchanged.

Here are ten reasons why those who trade in bits and bytes should reclaim the spirit of May Day.

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Winning Wars With Agile: Fear and Loathing – Revisited

13 Friday Mar 2026

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agile, conflict, events, geopolitics, history, leadership, methods, Politics, Process, project management, Russia, scrum, Strategy, ukraine, war

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

“Logistics is all of war-making, except shooting the guns, releasing the bombs, and firing the torpedoes.”

ADM Lynde D. McCormick, USN

Martyn Rhisiart Jones, Córdoba, 3rd October 2024

Martyn Rhisiart Jones, Marid, Friday 13th March 2026

In the boardrooms of Silicon Valley and the corridors of Whitehall, the gospel of agility has become a mantra for efficiency and innovation. Borrowed from the frenetic world of software development, where iterative sprints and self-organising teams promise to outpace lumbering bureaucracies, agile methodologies, scaled up through frameworks like SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), are now touted as universal elixirs. But can these principles, honed in the digital realm, truly orchestrate the chaos of armed conflict? Or do they risk injecting perilous uncertainty into arenas where hesitation can spell catastrophe? This question, once a provocative thought experiment, gains urgency amid evolving threats, from hybrid warfare in Eastern Europe to cyber skirmishes in the South China Sea. Drawing on historical precedents, contemporary military adaptations, and a dash of Celtic scepticism, we dissect whether agility’s allure holds water on the front lines, echoing the resilient pragmatism of Welsh soldiery through the ages.

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IT’S POLITICS: The Digital Assault on Europe

08 Sunday Mar 2026

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Donald Trump, extremists, fake-news, fascism, history, nazism, News, Politics

Sir Afilonius Rex, Martyn Jones and Lila de Alba

Kensington, Sunday 8th March 2026

The internet was supposed to be a glorious democratising force, connecting people, spreading ideas, and letting truth shine through. Instead, it has become a glittering weapon in the hands of the extreme right, twisting platforms into tools that erode rational thought, fair elections, and basic decency. This is no accident. It is a deliberate, sophisticated playbook designed to undermine democracy while hiding behind memes, outrage, and “free speech” rhetoric.

Here are ten key ways the far right manipulates social media to push anti-democratic behaviour, each one more insidious than the last.

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A Celtic Renaissance: Martyn de Tours’ Defiant Vision Against the Shadows of Extremism – Book Review

07 Saturday Mar 2026

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Celtic, European and Worldly

Lila de Alba, FT Weekend, New Jersey, Saturday, 7th March 2026

In an age when the airwaves hum with the discordant symphony of populist rage and algorithmic resentment, Martyn de Tours’ Celtic Domination: The Most Significant Influencers emerges not merely as a novel, but as a clarion call for the reclamation of decency in a fractured world. Published amid the lingering echoes of the MAGA era’s toxic legacy, this 428-page hybrid of thriller, manifesto, and philosophical pilgrimage invites readers into a labyrinth where Celtic heritage becomes a bulwark against the encroaching tides of authoritarianism and intellectual decay. De Tours, the pseudonym of the contrarian strategist Martyn Jones, a figure whose prolific output has long danced on the edges of strategy and speculation, crafts a narrative that is as lush as it is urgent, weaving personal introspection with a bold blueprint for collective renewal. It is a book that demands we confront the “dirty war” waged by the far right on the Enlightenment’s fragile gains, while proposing a democratic alternative rooted in plurality, equity, and environmental stewardship. In doing so, it stands as a testament to the enduring power of ideas in an era of manufactured ignorance.

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Celtic Domination: A Bold Literary Attack on Extremism – Book Review

07 Saturday Mar 2026

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Celtic, European and Worldly

Petula Clarkson, The New Yorker, New Jersey, Saturday, 7th March 2026

In a literary landscape increasingly cluttered with the disposable and the derivative, Martyn de Tours’ Celtic Domination: The Most Significant Influencers arrives like a Molotov cocktail lobbed into a country club. It is a work of breathtaking intellectual audacity, a “Digital Celtic Covenant” that refuses to politely deconstruct the status quo, choosing instead to incinerate it. Part high-octane spy thriller, part “passive Marxist” manifesto, it is the definitive literary antidote to the toxic sludge of the MAGA era and the burgeoning “fetid imperialist conceit” of the extreme right.

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Exploring Celtic Domination: A Novel of Ideas – Book Review

07 Saturday Mar 2026

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Celtic, European and Worldly

Pamela Paddington, Times Literary Supplement, Oxford, Saturday, 7th March 2026

There are novels that announce themselves with a trumpet blast, and others that arrive like weather. Celtic Domination by Martyn de Tours belongs firmly to the latter category: a book that drifts in on a sea-fog of memory, mysticism, political anxiety, and intellectual ambition, and then, rather unexpectedly, begins rearranging the furniture of the reader’s mind.

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Celtic Domination: A Literary Journey of Identity and Vision – Book Review

07 Saturday Mar 2026

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Celtic, European and Worldly

Heidi Katushka, Times Literary Supplement, Oxford, Saturday, 7th March 2026

In Celtic Domination: The Most Significant Influencers, Martyn de Tours (a pseudonym of the prolific, contrarian strategist Martyn Jones) has produced a work that is at once a novel, a manifesto, a pilgrimage memoir, and a speculative blueprint for pan-Celtic resurgence. Published in 2025 and running to some 428 pages in its paperback edition, the book arrives like a fever dream dispatched from the Camino de Santiago, where the author has evidently spent considerable time walking, talking, and ruminating. The result is a text that defies easy categorization, part sibling reunion laced with intrigue, part philosophical treatise on identity and power, part utopian pamphlet for a “Celtic Union”, and yet it coheres, after a fashion, through sheer audacity and the insistent pulse of its Celtic romanticism.

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F*CK DATA MESH: The Contrarian’s Take on Data Tech – Book Review

06 Friday Mar 2026

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The Bonfire of the Vacuous

Review: The Great Data Schism – Why the ‘Schmesh’ is a Schmess

Paula Prada Price, New College Tech Review, Notting Hill, Friday, 6th March 2026

Martyn Jones’s F*CK DATA MESH is a bracing, profane, and essential Broadside against the Silicon Valley hype machine.*

In the glittering circus of modern data tech, where vendors hawk “revolutionary” architectures like snake oil at a Silicon Valley swap meet, Martyn Jones has lobbed what can only be described as a literary Molotov cocktail titled F*CK DATA MESH: The Far Side of Data, Information, and Knowledge. It’s less a book than a gleefully profane haymaker aimed squarely at the jaw of the industry’s latest sacred cow. And reader, it connects.

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Top Countries Known for Arrogance and Ignorance – Unplugged 2026/03/06

06 Friday Mar 2026

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China, history, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, relationships, religion, Russia, USA, writing

Selina Alba and Editorial Team

Sevilla, 21st November 2026 – Friday, 6th March 2026

What countries in the world have a reputation for arrogance and ignorance?

Right, listen up, you lot. No country has a monopoly on being a complete arsehole or a walking brain donor, but let’s be honest, some nations keep winning the gold in the Arrogance Olympics and the Ignorance Paralympics like it’s their national sport. And they don’t even have to train for it – it’s just baked in, like the French with their bread or the Americans with their portion sizes.

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