The establishment never sleeps, does it? At the beginning of last year Channel 4, came up with a glossy report dressed up as concern for the youth. “Gen Z: Trends, Truth and Trust,” they called it, a title that drips with the sort of paternalistic sanctimony you’d expect from a broadcaster that’s long been the darling of the liberal elite. Delivered in a keynote speech that was part TED Talk, part sermon, then CEO, and recently gonged Alex Mahon CBE painted a picture of Britain’s young people as lost souls adrift in a sea of misinformation, desperately in need of rescue by surprise, surprise. the very institutions that have spent decades alienating them. What is concerning is that some of her predictions are coming to pass.
But let’s not kid ourselves. This isn’t a fair-minded attempt to help Gen Z navigate the news. It’s a brazen power grab, a sly manoeuvre by the modern establishment to control what young people read, watch, and believe. Through a highly sceptical lens, one that sees through the veneer of altruism, this report reeks of desperation. The old guard is panicking because Gen Z isn’t buying their narrative anymore. And why should they? These kids have grown up in a world stacked against them, jobs vanishing to AI, a housing market that’s a sick joke, student debts piled high by a system that promises opportunity but delivers chains. They’re not falling for “fake news”; they’re spotting the real biases in the so-called trusted sources. Mahon’s call? Rein in the wild west of the internet, slap labels on “reliable” content, and let the state play gatekeeper.
Freedom of speech? That’s so last century.
But, sadly, sometimes “the end” comes right after the election.
They’re trying to re-run the anti-Trump playbook from 2020, and they’re hitting most of the right notes. They’re missing the letter signed by 50 national security experts telling you that Farage has bondage-sex with Putin on alternate Thursdays, but give them time.
A brazen power grab on another front:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/01/02/good-grief-israeli-billionaire-shlomo-kramer-wants-end-to-first-amendment-and-anonymous-internet-users/#more-279328
“Billionaire Shlomo Kramer says, “I know it’s difficult to hear, but it’s time to limit the First Amendment in order to protect it.” When asked what that means, Kramer responds, “I mean that we need to control the platforms, all the social platforms. We need to stack rank the authenticity of every person that expresses themselves online and take control of what they are saying based on that ranking.”
It’s 28 years since Drudge broke the Lewinsky story. The dinosaur is beginning to notice that a meteorite hit its tail.
I expect this to backfire spectacularly. If you look at some random website, good luck figuring out if what they say is true or not. But if a site proudly displays a government-issued certificate declaring it to be accurate and impartial, you know for sure it’s propaganda.
The “gate keepers”, both government, academic, media and corporate, have been lying, about just everything – for years.
But Channel Four (which should-not-exist – it is subsidized) does not mention the basic fact they have been lying – because it itself is part of the “mainstream media” that has been pushing the lies.
Instead it was dissent persecuted.
Damn Channel Four, and the rest of the lying totalitarian censors, damn them to Hell fire.