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

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

    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

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

    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

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

    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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  • Why Data Mesh is Not the Future of Data Management – Book Review

    Why Data Mesh is Not the Future of Data Management – Book Review

    The Bonfire of the Vacuous

    Review: The Great Data Schism – Why the ‘Mesh’ is a Mess

    Lady Amanda Percival, The Wired Wire, Kensington, 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 hushed boardrooms of the Fortune 500, “Data Mesh” has become the latest secular religion. It promises a decentralized utopia where data is treated as a product and domain owners are liberated from the “monolithic” tyranny of the central data warehouse. But according to Martyn Jones, a man whose career has seen the rise and fall of more tech fads than a McKinsey slide deck, this new paradigm is less of a revolution and more of a “fraudulent flim-flam sauce” served up by consultants looking for their next utilization spike.

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  • F*CK DATA MESH: A Critical Look at Data Trends – Book Review

    F*CK DATA MESH: A Critical Look at Data Trends – Book Review

    The Bonfire of the Clowns

    F*CK DATA MESH: A polemic against fashionable nonsense in the data economy

    Alicia Altmann, The Middle Digital Review, Chicago, 5th March 2026.

    In the technology industry, few phrases age faster than the latest architectural revolution. “Serverless”, “big data”, “blockchain”, each arrives with evangelical certainty before quietly settling into the background noise of enterprise IT. Into this cycle of hype steps Martyn Jones’s gleefully abrasive book, F*CK DATA MESH: The Far Side of Data, Information, and Knowledge*. Its title alone signals that this is less a manual than a polemic: a sharply written protest against what the author sees as the fashionable amnesia of modern data discourse.

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  • F*ck Data Mesh: Martyn Jones’s Hilarious Haymaker at Tech’s Data Delusions – Book Review

    F*ck Data Mesh: Martyn Jones’s Hilarious Haymaker at Tech’s Data Delusions – Book Review

    The Bonfire of the Imbeciles

    F*ck Data Mesh: Martyn Jones’s Hilarious Haymaker at Tech’s Data Delusions

    Review by Bella Carmela, WiredWiredWired, Silicon Valley, Thursday 5th March 2026

    In the hyper-connected, AI-obsessed circus of modern enterprise tech, where every startup pitches a “revolutionary” data paradigm like it’s the next iPhone, Martyn Jones drops a bomb: Fck Data Mesh*. Subtitled The Far Side of Data, Information, and Knowledge, this 2025 manifesto isn’t your typical dry treatise on ETL pipelines or cloud migrations. It’s a rollicking, profane takedown of the industry’s sacred cows… Data Mesh, Lakehouses, and the endless hype cycle that turns solid data strategies into vaporware. Written with the acerbic wit of a Welsh data veteran who’s seen it all (from mainframes to metadata meltdowns), Jones channels the spirit of Hunter S. Thompson meets Dilbert, urging businesses to wake up before their next “transformative” initiative sinks another billion into the swamp.

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  • Martyn Jones on Geopolitical Thuggery – Book Review

    Martyn Jones on Geopolitical Thuggery – Book Review

    A Plague On All of Their Houses

    THE END OF HONOUR: FROM ABSURDITY TO GLOBAL THUGGERY

    By Vanessa Bell, Madrid, 4th March 2026

    In Martyn Jones’s The End of Honour: From Absurdity to Global Thuggery, a sprawling and impassioned jeremiad against the moral rot at the heart of contemporary geopolitics, the author diagnoses a profound crisis in the Western liberal order. Published in 2025, the book posits honour not as a quaint Victorian relic but as an indispensable strategic asset, the ethical scaffolding that once underpinned alliances, restrained imperial overreach, and lent credibility to diplomatic endeavours. Its erosion, Jones argues, has precipitated a descent into what he terms “global thuggery”: a world where power is exercised through naked coercion, transactional extortion, and the commodification of international relations into protection rackets. Drawing on an eclectic pantheon of thinkers, from Kant and Lao Tzu to Martin van Creveld and Paul Kennedy, Jones traces this decline from the triumphalism of the post-Cold War era, through the neoconservative adventurism of the Bush administration, to the brazen populism of Trump and his unlikely bedfellows, such as Elon Musk, whom Jones caricatures as a “Bond villain with broadband” fusing Silicon Valley libertarianism with demagogic excess.

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  • THE SUNDAY RANT – The Great Data Grift, LockedIn Lunatics and the Death of Sense – Summary

    THE SUNDAY RANT – The Great Data Grift, LockedIn Lunatics and the Death of Sense – Summary

    The Good Strat Board

    Tuesday 24th February 2026

    Right, so imagine this: it’s a Sunday in 2026, and somewhere in the digital equivalent of a greasy spoon café with flickering neon and a faint smell of burnt metadata, a group of data professionals has gathered round a table that’s less “round table discussion” and more “round table of the apocalypse”. They’ve had three coffees each, none of them decaf, and they’re absolutely livid about LinkedIn. Not the platform itself, you understand – though God knows it deserves it – but the absolute carnival of self-congratulatory lunacy that passes for “thought leadership” in the data world.

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  • STRAIGHT TALK: The Enduring Bond Between Wales and Zionism – and Its Bitter Unravelling

    STRAIGHT TALK: The Enduring Bond Between Wales and Zionism – and Its Bitter Unravelling

    The Enduring Bond Between Wales and Zionism – and Its Bitter Unravelling

    Sir Afilonius Rex in Tel Aviv. Monday 24th February 2026.

    In the misty valleys of Wales, where chapel bells once echoed with the thunder of Old Testament prophets, a profound affinity for Judaism and Zionism took root. This connection, woven from scripture, sympathy, and the shared fire of small nations, has long pulsed through Welsh history. It speaks in lyrical cadences, alliterative and incantatory, evoking green hills and golden psalms By that rolled like the sea in miners’ lungs. Here, the Bible burned brighter than coal seams; children learned of Jerusalem before their own rivers, with Jordan flowing through hymns and Zion a living heartbeat.

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  • SOCIAL MEDIA: X Is Dying In Europe: Here’s Why – Revisited – 2026/02/16

    SOCIAL MEDIA: X Is Dying In Europe: Here’s Why – Revisited – 2026/02/16

    http://www.goodstrat.com/books

    X Is Dying In Europe: Here’s Why

    I asked X about its massive losses in Europe.

    “@grok, can you explain the massive drop in interactions in Europe with X?”

    This is what Grok had to say and updated for today.

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