By Samantha Sterling Parker, Spanish FT Weekend
Madrid, Monday 9th March 2026
To say that Martyn Jones’s Revealing Wealth is merely a book about tax evasion is like saying the Large Hadron Collider is just a fancy pipe. This is a manifesto for a digital revolution, a technical blueprint for global equity, and a provocative call to arms that arrives just as the old financial order begins to crack.
Below is a look at this seminal work through three distinct editorial lenses.
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Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Bandoxa, Wednesday 14 January 2026
Our service provider OpenAI could not process my prompt due to a moderation system. Please try to rephrase it changing potentially problematic words and try again. What a pile of dreck!
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, oh boy, what a title! The minutes resemble the most boring bar mitzvah planning committee meeting in known history. Instead of arguing over chopped liver versus sushi and bara brith, they’re plotting to control the entire planet. And the punchline? It’s fake. A total forgery. A hoax so clumsy it makes a three-euro bill look like the genuine article. Yet this thing refuses to die. It’s like an unfortunate relative who keeps showing up at Thanksgiving with the same tired stories.
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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.
Sir Afilonius Rex with Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Madrid, 8th November 2025
Key Positive Achievements of Donald Trump as U.S. President (2017–2021)
Donald Trump’s single term as the 45th President of the United States focused on economic deregulation, foreign policy deals, and judicial reforms, among other areas. While his presidency was highly polarising, several initiatives garnered bipartisan support or measurable outcomes. Below, we outline significant positive achievements based on verified policy impacts, economic data, and international agreements. These are drawn from official records, government reports, and nonpartisan analyses.
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Dear Elon Musk (@elonmusk),
As the world’s richest man and a self-proclaimed truth-seeker, your platform on X amplifies ideas to hundreds of millions. That’s a superpower—and a responsibility. When you endorse claims like those from @C_3C_3 that “illegals are voting,” “receiving benefits,” and “changing Congressional maps,” you’re not just sharing “facts.” You’re fueling a dangerous, debunked narrative that dehumanizes millions of aspiring Americans and erodes trust in our democracy. Let’s examine these assertions with evidence, not echo chambers.1. “Illegals are voting.”This is flat-out false—and illegal. Federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in presidential or congressional elections, with penalties including deportation, fines, and prison.
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Martyn Richard Jones
President Donald Trump’s recent comments about NATO do not indicate a call for collective security reform. Instead, they reveal an intensely transactional view of international partnerships. Urging alliance members to assign as much as 5% of their GDP, an unprecedented figure, to purchasing U.S.-made weaponry and military equipment, Trump has once again reframed global security as a business deal.
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Hold up, folks! You’re going to love these! They are amazing, beautiful, classy, dazzling and eminently readable. And that’s an absolute understatement of Mel Brook’s proportions.
As a writer, I have several works to my name. This post highlights some of these works. It also offers a quick link to the Amazon platform, where you can get your editions.
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Afilonius Rex, Brussels, 12th March 2025
“What’s the world’s greatest lie?” the boy asked, completely surprised.
“It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie”.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The big lie? Many proclaim it, many people propagate it, and many people exaggerate it.
What am I?
Correct. External interference, disinformation and coercion in domestic politics.
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Afilonius Rex and Deep Seek, Madrid 28th January 2025.
Afilonius Rex: Hey, Deep Seek, is Mister Elon Musk a fraud?
Deep Seek: Hmmm, let me think about that
Afilonius Rex: Cool, Thanks!
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Martyn Jones, A Coruña, Span, 26th January 2025.
Let’s be clear, precise and honest about the world and where we all stand in it, starting with the reminder that the USA has become the world’s number one political basket case. But let’s be straight about this phenomenon. It didn’t just happen when Trump was made President. “Made?” you may ask? Yes, ‘made’, just like the management of the mob, Trump was ‘made’ President.
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Afilonius Rex, Buenos Aires, 22nd January 2025.
Famous rock groups sometimes choose to do all acoustic sets, which they call unplugged sessions. In the political world, especially in the USA, we have another phenomenon, the unhinged sessions.
Trump and his entourage of oligarchs, grifters and chancers are an ugly lot of genetically cretinous and unbalanced freaks, aren’t they? I mean, if they were all from the same village, you’d suspect radiation poisoning and incest or some such thing, wouldn’t you?
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Afilonius Rex, Washington DC 21st January 2025.
Like many places in Europe, Spain is a fascinating mix of modernity, liberty, equality, rights and obligations. Unfortunately, and as elsewhere, it also comes with a massive dose of rightwing revisionism. There is nostalgia for a bloody and long dictatorship. A degree of xenophobia and racism is present, defying the facts on the ground. As is usually the case.
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The challenges facing information today are closely related to the complexity of data management, technology and social factors. Here are some of the biggest challenges:
