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  • En este mundo nuevo y vil: Un clamor por el despertar moral – Domingo 7 de junio de 2026

    En este mundo nuevo y vil: Un clamor por el despertar moral – Domingo 7 de junio de 2026

    «Fui un tonto, y lo que he visto me ha hecho dos tontos.»

    Rafael Alberti, poeta español

    Sir Afilonius Rex – Madrid, Sunday 7th June 2026

    Mis queridos hermanos y hermanas en la humanidad. Compañeros buscadores de justicia. A todos los que anhelan un mundo de verdadera paz, unamos nuestros corazones y nuestras voces como uno solo. Estamos unidos por un espíritu de reconciliación que trasciende fronteras y credos. Nos inspira la incansable búsqueda de la dignidad para cada alma. Debemos examinar las profundidades de nuestro tiempo y alzar nuestro clamor contra las malas acciones. Es crucial enfrentar las sombras de las malas acciones. Debemos confrontar la criminalidad y la impunidad que oscurecen nuestro mundo compartido. Debemos mantenernos firmes frente a la injusticia, dondequiera que asome, y proclamar con convicción inquebrantable: Ya basta.

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  • In This Vile New World: A Cry for Moral Awakening – Sunday 2026/06/07

    In This Vile New World: A Cry for Moral Awakening – Sunday 2026/06/07

    “I was a fool, and what I’ve seen has made me two fools.”

    Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet

    Sir Afilonius Rex – Madrid, Sunday 7th June 2026

    My dear brothers and sisters in humanity. Fellow seekers of justice. To all who yearn for a world of true peace, let us gather our hearts and voices as one. We are bound by a spirit of reconciliation beyond borders and creeds. We are inspired by the unyielding pursuit of dignity for every soul. We must examine the depths of our times and raise our cry against wrongdoing. It is crucial to confront the shadows of wrongdoing. We must confront the criminality and impunity that darken our shared world. We must stand resolute against injustice, wherever it rears its head, and proclaim with unwavering conviction: Enough is enough.

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  • STRAIGHT TALK: Is Martyn Rhisiart Jones Antisemitic?

    STRAIGHT TALK: Is Martyn Rhisiart Jones Antisemitic?

    The Good Strat Board of Governance

    El Jueves y la Puta Mili
    El Jueves y la Puta Mili

    There is no public record or evidence to suggest that Martyn Rhisiart Jones is antisemitic. In fact, his writings often explicitly condemn antisemitic tropes. However, he is a highly polarizing figure who frequently engages in fierce political debate, particularly regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is likely where the question stems from.

    As a data architect and the self-appointed “Data Shouterer-in-Chief” at Good Strategy, Jones is known for a “no-holds-barred” writing style that he applies equally to technology hype and global politics. Here is a breakdown of the context surrounding his views:

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  • ES POLÍTICA: El cáliz envenenado: la previsión de Gran Bretaña, el error fatal de Estados Unidos.

    ES POLÍTICA: El cáliz envenenado: la previsión de Gran Bretaña, el error fatal de Estados Unidos.

    Por Sir Afilonius Rex y Lila de Alba, con la colaboración especial de Martyn Rhisiart Jones

    Hablemos con franqueza, como exige la historia y obliga la conciencia. En el ocaso del imperio, cuando Gran Bretaña aún dominaba los mares y gozaba del respeto de las naciones, el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores comprendió una verdad que las potencias posteriores han ignorado con graves consecuencias: Oriente Medio no puede doblegarse a la voluntad extranjera mediante la fuerza o el favoritismo. La estabilidad no residía en la conquista ni en la partición impuesta desde lejos, sino en alianzas respetuosas con los líderes árabes, en el reconocimiento de su soberanía, su dignidad y su legítimo derecho a la tierra que habían cultivado durante siglos. La colonización de Palestina por oleadas de colonos judíos europeos, el sueño de un Estado judío soberano forjado contra la voluntad árabe, nunca fue el camino de Gran Bretaña. Se consideró, con razón, una receta para la enemistad perpetua.

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  • Winning Wars With Agile: Fear and Loathing – Revisited

    Winning Wars With Agile: Fear and Loathing – Revisited

    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: Leaders Who Shape Global Conflict: Trump and Xi

    IT’S POLITICS: Leaders Who Shape Global Conflict: Trump and Xi

    Martyn Rhisiart Jones, Madrid 12th March 2026

    We asked some of our clients, bespoke AI and our Strategy Team: Who is the political leader most likely to cause World War III, and who is the political leader most capable of stopping World War III?

    And this was the response:

    Viewed through the prism of strategic history and contemporary financial diplomacy, the question of which leader might inadvertently ignite, or instead forestall, a wider conflagration is less a matter of personality than of structural power, institutional constraints, and geopolitical incentives. Yet, as historians from Thucydides to modern analysts have repeatedly noted, individual leaders can still accelerate or dampen systemic pressures. With that caveat, recent expert commentary, polling data and geopolitical assessments as of March 2026 suggest two figures loom particularly large in opposite directions: Donald Trump, the incumbent president of the United States, and Xi Jinping, China’s paramount leader.

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  • IT’S POLITICS: The Digital Assault on Europe

    IT’S POLITICS: The Digital Assault on Europe

    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

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

    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

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

    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

    Exploring Celtic Domination: A Novel of Ideas – Book Review

    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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