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Jeffrey Peel and others from The New Era team meet with leading lights from business, politics, economics and academia. www.thenewera.uk

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Miles Harris on Digital ID and the Unified Ledger

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2025/11/20

Miles Harris is an Economist and Substacker. His analysis of the ‘backroom’ development of UK digital ID and tokenization projects caused quite a stir around the time that Keir Starmer was ‘announcing’ the so-called Britcard Digital ID plans. In this conversation Miles and I chat about the reasons for coordinated digital ID projects across the globe: to enable the roll-out of a unified ledger wrapped around spiralling international debt. At the heart of these plans is a new international standard

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Nick Hudson on the AI Bubble and the Surveillance State

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2025/11/17

As trailed a week or so ago I’m delighted to feature a new interview with Nick Hudson, Founder of Panda. In the interview we kick off by looking at the ever-expanding AI/Tech Bubble - before focusing on Nick’s ‘State of the World’ maxims. I hope you find it a fascinating discussion. Many of the themes that Nick discusses are also plot elements in my new novel, South of Market. I recently reduced the retail price of the paperback - so it would make an excellent stocking-filler for Christmas. Some

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Disinformation and the BBC

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2025/11/10

In the light of resignations from the BBC, surely it’s time to address the elephant in the room as far as the BBC is concerned - its systematic censorship and misinformation campaign relating to the COVID “pandemic”? Back in July 2021 we published an article here on The New Era asking why the Corporation seemed to be given carte blanche to broadcast unrelenting propaganda about COVID-19. Even when members of the royal family were allowed to publicly criticise the corporation about various

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Claus Hetting on Tech for Liberty

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2025/10/21

In this video Claus Hetting and I discussed the impact of technology on society, focusing on its use for control and surveillance, leading to concerns about a “dystopian society,” censorship, and the proposed development of digital IDs. We also explored the reasons for the tech community’s silence, including dependence on government contracts, and the challenges faced by smaller tech companies. Claus and I are hoping to collaborate on a new ‘coalition’ of like-minded business people called

Greetings from Poros

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2025/10/12

My new novel, South of Market, features lots of international locations. Including some of the Greek islands. I'm currently on the island of Poros and shot this video just a few moments ago. I'll leave you to discover Poros, and the other islands of Spetses and Hydra, in the book. Just click on ‘South of Market’ page on The New Era to find out how to buy the book. Greetings from Greece. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes,