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STRAIGHT TALK: Is Martyn Rhisiart Jones Antisemitic?

05 Tuesday May 2026

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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.

19 Thursday Mar 2026

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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

13 Friday Mar 2026

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“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

12 Thursday Mar 2026

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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

08 Sunday Mar 2026

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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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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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