13 Sat Dec 2025
Posted in accountability, Ask Martyn, awareness, Best principles, governance, leadership, public, technology
My sister was part of a group that offered support to the striking miners of Wales, Scotland and England.
They organised a public fundraiser and invited the politician Tony Benn to speak.
Continue reading13 Sat Dec 2025
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Sir Afilonius Rex
Saintes, 13th December 2025
Hananya Naftali self-identified as Israel’s Voice in the Media | Speaker | Middle East Expert had this to say about Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez.
Spain’s PM Pedro Sanchez just told Mahmoud Abbas that the devastation in Gaza is “genocide” and that Israel must be held accountable, on Human Rights Day, no less. 🤡
This is the same Spain that just recognized “Palestine” while Hamas was still holding hostages underground. Meanwhile, Pedro is hugging Abbas, the guy whose Palestinian Authority pays terrorists and names schools after murderers.
If Hamas launched rockets at Madrid for 20 years, I’m pretty sure Spain wouldn’t be handing out ceasefire roses. What a hypocrite.
Disclaimer: This post reflects a personal political opinion. All civilians deserve safety and human rights.
This is my considered response.
Continue reading13 Sat Dec 2025
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AI, Artificial Intelligence, China, EU, Europe, france, germany, News, Politics, Russia, Spain, technology, USA, Wales
Sir Afilonius Rex
Bilbao, Spain. 13th December 2025
Oh, Europe, pronounced terminal yet again. This time, a Radically Human Ventures sage delivers the verdict. He is part probability theorist and part story-driven paterfamilias. He assigns the continent a 5% chance of civilisational survival. Meanwhile, he composes a moist-eyed farewell to the “Old Continent.” It’s an elegy made from familiar spare parts. It includes a dash of Peter Zeihan’s geopolitical fatalism and a sprinkle of Silicon Valley panel wisdom. There’s a belief that the future will be dominated by two AI giants. In this scenario, Europe is merely a polite museum gift shop.
Continue reading10 Wed Dec 2025
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bible, flock-together, life, martyrdom, mental-health, perpetual-victim, Politics, professional-victim, psychosis, victim, victimhood, victimhood-encourages-bullies, writing
Sir Afilonius Rex
United Nations, New York, USA. 10th December 2025
Here’s a brutal, no-holds-barred blog post from Sir Afilonius Rex, titled “The Perpetual Victim: How Professional Martyrdom Became the Most Lucrative Career on Earth”
At 3.17 a.m. I published a short, unsparing blog post. It argues that victimhood has been quietly professionalised into the highest-return occupation of our age. This occupation is tax-efficient, prestige-laden, and entirely unregulated. The returns are eye-watering. You can create a Substack and give a few tearful keynotes at $75,000 each. Add an NGO advisory seat at a quarter-million a year, and you can clear eight figures without ever producing anything. All you need is carefully calibrated distress. The raw material – historical or borrowed suffering – is free, non-depletable, and impossible to audit. There are three leading operators. The Hereditary Victim sees trauma as a trust fund. The Borrowed Victim deals with suffering leased by the aesthetically oppressed. The State-Level Victim acts like a sovereign wealth fund with an air force. The business model has one iron law: the grievance must never be resolved, or the revenue dies. Hence the goalposts are not moved; they are towed into the sea at dead of night. In the victimhood Olympics, gold medals are cast from everyone else’s corpses. That is the entire thesis. The rest is accounting.
Continue reading09 Tue Dec 2025
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gaza, history, human-rights, ireland, israel, jordan, lebanon, palestine, peace, Politics, syria, terrorism, united-nations, violence
Martyn Rhisiart Jones
A Coruña, Galicia. 9th December 2025
Violent conflict does not end through force alone. History teaches us that the only way out of war, brutality, and suffering is through negotiation. And negotiation, in the real world, always requires compromise.
Yet today, calls for dialogue are too often branded as weakness, or worse, as ‘siding with terrorists.’ This is a dangerous lie. Advocating for peace is not an endorsement of violence. It is an insistence on the value of life. It is a recognition of the dignity of communities and the survival of societies.
Continue reading04 Thu Dec 2025
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Martyn Richard Jones
If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper-middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had it.
Warren Buffett
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Sir Afilonius Rex and the Editorial Team
Brussels, The European Union, 3rd December 2025
Brendan O’Neill claims that Dublin City Council’s proposal to rename Herzog Park amounts to “erasing Jewish history.” He argues that removing Chaim Herzog’s name is like scrubbing a Jew’s name from a public space. Herzog was a Belfast-born Jew who later became Israel’s sixth president. He suggests this action is antisemitic. He presents the renaming as a disturbing and targeted act rather than a routine administrative decision.
Here is a response from some leading associates of goodstrat.com
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Martyn Richard Jones
Bonn 16th August 2017
US liberals still don’t get it, do they? I was particularly unimpressed by The Guardian’s US correspondent, Richard Wolffe, who wrote this of Trump “He is the very man Hillary Clinton warned us that he would be.”
Like as if we really need the advice of an entitled and arrogant warmonger about any other unhinged member of the globalised political circus.
25 Tue Nov 2025
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Sir Afilonius Rex and Editorial Team
New Jersey and Toledo (Spain), 25th November 2025
Surveying the Estate
The trauma and post-traumatic stress from the Holocaust and historical pogroms profoundly influence many non-religious (secular) pro-Zionists today. This manifests itself as mechanisms like inter-generational trauma, collective memory, and a deep-seated sense of vulnerability tied to Jewish identity. This isn’t limited to religious observance; Judaism often functions as an ethnic and cultural heritage. Situations in which historical persecutions shape worldviews even among atheists or agnostics. Here’s a breakdown of why this persists and affects them so significantly.
Inter-generational Trauma Transmission
The trauma from the Nazi Holocaust was passed down in multiple ways. Centuries of pogroms across Europe and the Middle East also left their mark. It was passed down biologically, psychologically, and socially. Studies show epigenetic changes. These are alterations in gene expression that do not change the DNA sequence. They can occur in the offspring of survivors. This leads to heightened stress responses, anxiety, or depression.
Note: Epigenetic. Relating to changes, especially heritable changes, in the characteristics of a cell or organism. These changes result from altered gene expression or other effects. These do not involve changes to the DNA sequence itself.
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Selina Alba and Editorial Team
Sevilla, 21st November 1015
What countries in the world have a reputation for arrogance and ignorance?
No country exclusively holds arrogance or ignorance. However, certain nations consistently top international surveys. They often appear in global stereotypes. People frequently use these stereotypes, often unfairly. This happens when asked, “Which nationality comes across as arrogant and/or clueless about the rest of the world?” The usual suspects, based on recurring data from sources like Pew Global Attitudes, YouGov international polls, Statista, Reddit’s r/AskReddit mega-threads, and expat forums, are most frequently named for arrogance
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