Ed Torsney
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Edward Torsney critiques Andy Burnham’s 2026 schools reform, asking whether tailoring the curriculum to local employers emancipates working-class pupils or grooms them for a life of servitude — drawing on Rousseau, Freire, Bowles & Gintis, Bourdieu, Gramsci, and Dickens
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The UK Government is running a public consultation called “Watch this space: a new strategic direction for UK media.” The proposals include mandatory changes to how content is discovered on YouTube. In further attacks against independent voices, after last week ‘debanking’ The Canary news platform, the British Government is now considering forcing YouTube to down-rank…
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Edward Torsney takes a critical look at how modern democracies risk sliding into information control through censorship, debanking, propaganda, and the narrowing of acceptable opinion – from the RT Germany ruling to wider concerns about authoritarian creep, thought control, and the enduring warning of George Orwell’s 1984.
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Ed Torsney considers Keir Starmer’s UK social media ban for under-16s isn’t just about online safety—it’s a dangerous act of social engineering. By mandating mass age verification and digital ID, the government paves the way for a surveillance state that silences free speech and stifles truth outside state-approved narratives. This analysis explores why the policy…
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Israeli forces are systematically targeting journalists in Gaza and Lebanon, killing them and their families in brutal “double‑tap” strikes. From the murder of documentary filmmaker Fatma Hassona to the assassination of reporter Amal Khalil, evidence points to a deliberate strategy of eliminating witnesses to conceal war crimes and genocide. This investigation traces the pattern, the…
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In the spirit of Roland Barthes, Ed Torsney’s philosophical analysis explores the terrifying alchemy of Israel’s “Generative AI for Good” deepfake initiative. By manufacturing synthetic testimony of rape survivors to justify political ends, we have entered a new rhetorical age where the image no longer records the world—it remakes it. This essay unpacks the semiotics…
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Opposing a genocide should never be illegal, but the British establishment disagrees.
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Did Zack Polanski invite Zarah Sultana to defect from Your Party and join the Greens instead? The Times ran this story yesterday. What do you think, is it true? Is it a good idea?
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On Remembrance Sunday, Edward Torsney considers “Never Again”. To Ed it means we should oppose the genocide of Gaza, stop Israel and stop the corporate ghouls profiting from the deaths of countless Palestinian children. This is the true spirit of Remembrance. Poppies for Palestine.
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In the Nuremberg trials, those guilty of atrocities were made accountable regardless of their rank. The excuse of just following orders was not acceptable. In the Gaza genocide, the Hind Rajab Foundation aims to apply the same principles and put all those guilty of atrocities on trial at courts around the world.
