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The Daily Squib Sold Out!

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The Daily Squib Sold Out!

No! We did not sell out — we got sold out! The Daily Squib Anthology is sold out in the shops and now out of print. Thanks go to the publisher who had faith in the Daily Squib, a terminal project that is constantly under attack, and to our faithful readers.

We still have a few copies left, signed by the author, and we’re doing a Christmas giveaway via the banner on the front page.

Wishing you all a great festive season. We can barely walk in the Squib office and the parties have only just begun…hic!

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How to Protect Yourself from Authoritarian Online Censorship — And Why a VPN is Your First Line of Defence

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How to Protect Yourself from Authoritarian Online Censorship — And Why a VPN is Your First Line of Defence

In an age where digital platforms have become the new public square, the threat of government-imposed censorship is no longer a hypothetical, it’s a daily reality in many parts of the world. Whether you’re a journalist, activist, whistleblower, or simply a private citizen with an opinion, authoritarian regimes increasingly monitor, filter, and suppress speech that challenges official narratives. You need a VPN right now.

Using VPNs doesn’t necessarily mean that people are bypassing the law. It’s important to note that VPNs can help protect children’s security online, too. They aren’t just used to avoid content blocks.

UK police commissioner threatens to extradite jail US citizens over online posts We'll come after you

The Labour government has introduced a dystopian method of online surveillance called the “Online Safety Act” which is masked as “protecting young people” on the internet but is actually an excuse to censor, manipulate and monitor the entire population. It is up to parents to protect their children from the dangers of the internet — NOT the government.

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Censorship doesn’t start with tanks or arrests. It begins quietly with invisible firewalls, blocked sites, throttled connections, and silent surveillance. The good news? You’re not powerless. With the right tools and mindset, you can reclaim your digital autonomy.

Here’s how to protect your voice and your access to the open internet, starting with a VPN.

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🔒 What is Online Censorship, Really?

Authoritarian online censorship takes many forms:

  • Website blocking (news outlets, social platforms, search engines)
  • Keyword filtering (certain topics can’t be discussed)
  • Connection throttling (deliberate slowing of services like YouTube or WhatsApp)
  • Surveillance and intimidation (especially targeting dissidents or journalists)
  • Platform manipulation (state-sponsored trolling, misinformation, shadowbanning)

The goal is simple: control what you can see, say, and share.

🕵️‍♂️ Why a VPN is Essential

A Virtual Private Network (VPN) encrypts your internet traffic and routes it through a private server in another location, effectively masking your IP address and identity from your government, ISP, or local network administrator.

What this means for you:

  • Access blocked websites: A VPN lets you bypass national firewalls to reach censored platforms and news sources.
  • Avoid surveillance: VPN encryption prevents governments (and hackers) from tracking what you read, watch, or write.
  • Protect anonymity: By masking your location and IP address, a VPN gives you plausible deniability in high-risk environments.

Think of a VPN as a digital invisibility cloak—without it, you’re exposed.

✅ What to Look for in a VPN (Authoritarian-Resistant Features)

Not all VPNs are created equal — especially if you’re facing serious state censorship.

Choose one that offers:

  1. No-logs policy: The provider doesn’t keep records of your activity.
  2. Obfuscated servers: Disguises VPN traffic as normal HTTPS, helping you slip past censorship firewalls (like China’s Great Firewall).
  3. RAM-only servers: These wipe clean after every reboot—leaving no forensic trail.
  4. Kill switch: Automatically severs your internet connection if the VPN drops, preventing leaks.
  5. Multi-hop routing: Routes your traffic through two or more countries for extra protection.

Top VPNs for censorship-heavy environments like ProtonVPN give you all of these attributes to protect your online viewing and bypass the so-called “online safety act”.

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🌐 Additional Tools to Stay Safe

A VPN is powerful, but it’s not a silver bullet. Combine it with these tools for full-spectrum digital security:

  • Tor Browser: Routes your traffic through multiple nodes for anonymous browsing. Ideal for whistleblowing or access to dark web journalism.
  • Signal: End-to-end encrypted messaging, trusted by activists worldwide.
  • Brave or Firefox + Privacy Add-ons: Harden your browser with uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, and Privacy Badger.
  • Secure email: Use ProtonMail not Gmail or state-linked services.
  • Use pseudonyms: Create separate identities for dissenting or sensitive communications.

⚠️ Important Cautions

  • VPN use may be illegal or monitored in some countries. Always check your local laws and risks.
  • Don’t log into personal accounts (e.g., your real-name Facebook) while using VPNs for anonymous activity.
  • Operational security matters: Avoid patterns, reuse of usernames, or cross-platform leaks.

📢 Why It Matters

Free speech doesn’t survive by accident, it survives because people protect it, exercise it, and fight for it, especially when it’s threatened. Authoritarian censorship thrives in silence. Your ability to speak, connect, and resist online is part of a larger struggle for truth, dignity, and self-determination.

Tools like VPNs aren’t just technical upgrades — they are modern shields for your most fundamental rights.

Your voice is your power. Protect it. Use it. Defend it.

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The Daily Squib Anthology Book Now For Sale

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The Daily Squib Anthology Book Now For Sale

As the editor of the Squib, I can proudly announce that The Daily Squib Anthology From 2007 to 2022 is finally for sale.

Since founding the Daily Squib on April 1st 2007, many changes have taken place on the internet and indeed the globe. This is why this carefully curated anthology encapsulates those changes in a satirical manner. Fifteen years of different presidents, prime ministers, wars, peace and a myriad of little societal nuances that made up that period of history.

Looking for that curious unique gift for dad’s Christmas stocking, or something to read while taking the dump of the century in your toilet, the Daily Squib Anthology is the perfect celebration of our times, good and bad?

Come, join the circus, look at the clowns and listen to the troubadours as they usher in a new era for humanity, horrific yet beautiful at the same time, a glowing paradoxical dystopian paradise entrenched in reality show hell and fake celebrity appearances. All manner of fantastic beasts projectile vomiting over everything daringly encapsulating this curious rare book compiled with the indomitable spirit of Juvenalis in mind, but furnished within a modern 21st century outlook.

A bold erupting satisfying fart into the darkest and illuminating facets of humanity’s wonders, The Daily Squib Anthology is now available to buy direct from the publisher or from Amazon, or from any good bookshop.

Get your copy now, the first 150 are signed by the author.

The book will only be released in paperback.

UPDATE 2025: THE DAILY SQUIB ANTHOLOGY IS NOW DOWN TO ONLY A FEW REMAINING COPIES IN PRINT. YOU CAN PURCHASE ONE OF THE LAST SIGNED COPIES HERE.

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Chinese Scientists Rejuvenating the Seriously Ill Leader Xi Jinping

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Chinese Scientists Rejuvenating the Seriously Ill Leader Xi Jinping

The 73-year-old Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping suffers from many serious ailments and is also a heavy drinker and smoker, but he is being daily rejuvenated by Chinese scientists who have purportedly found the “fountain of youth” through implementing new scientific breakthroughs.

Young blood

Utilising the blood of young people, scientists in China have been able to transfuse the youthful blood plasma of thousands of youngsters for the benefit of the supreme leader Xi Jinping.

The key to this treatment is young blood; literally, tonnes of it are needed. According to the scientists, small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) – which are actively released from almost all cell types and are found in various body fluids, including blood – played a key role in reversing age-related degenerative changes.

The sEVs transfer nucleic acids and proteins between cells, mediating the exchange of information. By exploiting this mechanism, the scientists can prolong someone’s lifespan by over 80-120 years.

Further to this treatment, Chairman Jinping is also injected with large doses of adrenochrome daily. This is extracted from the adrenal glands of youthful prisoners, the younger, the better.

Adrenal tapping needs hundreds of sources who have to be tortured and terrorised before the compound is extracted from their adrenal glands. There is a good reason the Chinese also like to torture their food before eating it alive or cooking it alive; they theorise that meat tastes better after torture and terrorising a subject. The same applies to extracting adrenochrome as well as blood plasma from human subjects.

For a daily dose, it may take over 4,000 Chinese youths to be tapped on a 24-hour basis, as well as tortured to create as much pain and anxiety in the subjects to increase the potency of the compound. There is a fresh supply of young inmates within the prison system in China; therefore, supplies are at their peak at all times. Many Chinese citizens who do not achieve a minimum level on the “Social Credit Score” system are simply imprisoned along with “prisoners of conscience” or general criminals, where either their organs are harvested (usually when still alive) or their blood is harvested, as well as their adrenochrome. Chairman Jinping is also reported to receive doses of oral nicotinamide daily and is also on a calorie-restricted diet despite his current overweight status.

There has been some dissent on Chinese social media regarding the use of young people for prolonging the longevity of the elderly elites of the communist party, particularly of Xi Jinping, but as is the case in any repressive regime, the dissent is hushed up, and those who dared to question the CCP are removed from the public.

Professor Chen Wong from the renowned Shanghai Jiao Tong University revealed that further research is taking place in the treatment, and thanks to the funding from the state and many Chinese billionaires, the longevity treatments are increasing in efficiency and prolonging life to a greater extent. He did, however, reveal that Chairman Jinping himself lauded the scientific breakthrough as “truly life-changing”, and China was an example to the rest of the world in this scientific action.

“Xi Jinping is now as fit as a fiddle, and Western reports of his “illness” are all anti-Chinese lies,” the professor said.

Looking Forward to the Nightmare Labour Budget

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Looking Forward to the Nightmare Labour Budget

October 28th is the date of the nightmare Labour budget to be delivered by John “Goblin” Healey. What delights await the already punished population of Britain who have endured former budgets from Rachel Reeves, a criminal who deserves to be arrested for crimes against your wallet?

The profligate, irresponsible Labour tenure has already added over £130 billion to the nation’s debt pile. With a national debt topping £3 trillion, the UK is now paying over £110 billion per year to service the interest payments on the debt alone. Public sector net debt stood at a provisional £3,005 billion at the end of September 2026. Public sector Big State pensions alone cost the taxpayer £60 billion per annum alone and are rising yearly. The Liz Truss bond market rout looks like small potatoes to the Labour gilts market, but of course there is no mention about this by the BBC or any Labour MP.

Evil Labour Goblin Parasite John Healey

Got a headache, or are you slightly anxious? Under the Labour regime you can get £25,000 per annum for not working and get a car and a house rent-free. Come over in a rubber dinghy from safe country France? You will get £40,000 in benefits and free NHS, dental, education, travel and housing plus be fast-tracked for British citizenship so you can vote Labour in the elections. That’s why welfare spending under Labour has skyrocketed to £333.8 billion per annum. This makes up over 10.6% of GDP and about 24% of total government spending.

No, there will not be a Labour Goblin Tax; instead, the parasitical Labour Party wants to introduce another “green tax” on imported fuel which will invariably punish motorists further. Tax upon existing tax upon fucking tax. The “carbon charge” on refined products, which will include petrol and diesel imports will essentially be a tariff that will have to be passed on to the consumer. The Labour Party detests motorists with a vengeance and sees them only as cash cows to be exploited and milked. All these Net Zero taxes and “green taxes” serve no other purpose than to raise revenue for the Big State. Britain is a tiny island, and its carbon output is insignificant in global terms. If Britain were to disappear tomorrow, China, the USA and all the other polluters would continue doing what they are doing, and nothing will have changed regarding the environment.

Labour are giving HMRC a free-for-all eat as much as you want buffet by granting the tax collector the right to dip into anyone’s bank account and take whatever they deem is owed. No ifs, no buts; if you have any money in your bank, say goodbye to it.

There will be an internet tax which will mean selling on the internet will not be profitable any more. American companies like Amazon and eBay will be fucked as they are forced to collect VAT from sellers. If you do a bit on the side to survive living in the ruined economy, forget about that for the future.

Labour might delve into more Mansion Tax shenanigans, but who knows what the vile parasites will come up with?

The Nightmare Labour Budget — your empty wallet will be emptier if you work or own any form of private property or business. If you are, however, part of the Big State or on permanent vacation (unemployed), then thank your lucky fucking stars.

Experts: True Change Can Only Come From the Population – Not the Government

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Experts: True Change Can Only Come From the Population – Not the Government

We have seen it time after time – election promises – nothing changes. The same two-party system where each supposedly opposing political party is fundamentally part of the same system, the same apparatchiks, the same governmental offices, and the same underlying modus operandi. Voting in elections means that the population is duped each time, peddled with false hope and tricked into believing that there is some type of “democracy” in play when, in reality, there is little or none. Both parties are two sides of the same coin. In Western nations that are supposedly “democratic”, the lie has been peddled for too long, and some people are awakening to this ongoing lie. Democracy does not exist when the faulty and repressive machinery of the underlying system remains unchanged for whoever is supposedly elected. True change only comes from a majority movement of a population, not false “democratic” elections where the apparatus of a toxic system remains despite supposed opposing political parties being voted in.

Defining “true change” is simple. It means a fundamental shift in power and the accountability mechanisms that govern power. In this respect, those who hold office emphasise shared gains in security, prosperity and personal agency rather than primarily serving themselves and a narrow establishment within an unmovable repressive system. Deep reform of institutions should constantly be updated and realigned with the population’s interests in prominence and a fundamental shift through thorough transformation exercised.

True change does, however, not come from a small section of the population showing their discontent with rioting or civil unrest; it must come from the majority of the population of any nation. Only if the numbers of protesters involve the majority of a population can true change occur. This population element should also include members of the armed forces and police apparatus who align themselves and their allegiance with the population.


The administration or “establishment” within nations is small in number. The civilian population of nations is large. This is why numbers in any movement count. To effectively create an element of true change, the entire population must be mobilised to effect this change.

Where numbers of participants in true change count, there is also an element that governments utilise to safeguard themselves from true change. This is called “division”; by fracturing populations by employing multiple techniques, the ruling factions can split allegiances and “divide and conquer”. Utilising this element of “splitting” ensures that the population does not work with a singular motivational factor but are instead fractured. Dividing populations makes them easier to control by encouraging each faction to fight each other and not the common cause of implementing true change.

To implement true change — everyone must be involved in the movement, or a majority of the population, at least over 80%.

What is happening in France at the moment with the so-called student riots is a tiny fraction of the energy required to implement change. These “student riots” make up less than 1% of the population, and even though they are being funded and organised by NGOs and billionaires like Neville Roy Singham/Soros, who are aligned with the Chinese Communist Party and the communist political ideology, the movement is effectively moot. The CCP, Russian state and IRGC utilise useful idiots like the communist eco-green movement, Free Palestine communists, ANTIFA and other communist/anarchist agitators to do their dirty work in destabilising the West. Destabilisation is a key technique out of many in the fundamental process of demoralisation of nations from afar and with limited accountability.

It is a good thing that populations within Western nations are so fractured politically, in religion, in class, in race and in wealth. This is the sole best defence for any current administration in a Western nation. If, however, the entire population united as one force — this would be a scary time for the administrations.

True change comes only from one large population movement in its entirety, enforcing change through decisive action.

Trump Going Through Blondes Like Lost Election Promises

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Trump Going Through Blondes Like Lost Election Promises

Who needs a 5-minute Will drafted when you have a 5-minute fake lawyer “attorney” pretend to be a White House press secretary. Katie Zacharia is the notable blonde in question here, lasting only 5 days in the role before being booted out of the job in disgrace after lying on her CV that she was a lawyer. It seems that Trump likes the blondes front of house and, regarding Stormy Daniels, the back of the house too, but they don’t last long with The Don. Three or four strokes and he’s done.

Nothing to see here, folks; just another circus extravaganza gone horribly wrong, much like those election promises that never materialised.

Comrades, We Are Now Coming For Internet Tax to Fund Welfare State and BBC

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Comrades, We Are Now Coming For Internet Tax to Fund Welfare State and BBC

Comrades, there is nowhere to hide from high taxation in the People’s Republic of Soviet Britain. All wealth and profit is deemed as capitalistic and evil. We have noticed that the internet companies and businesses have created profit. This loophole will be shut down in the next Labour budget. The internet tax will also ensure that all citizens are forced to pay for the BBC whether they use the internet or not or never watch the BBC. This is a fair tax that will ensure that Labour Party propaganda indoctrinates you and your children 24 hours a day whether you want it or not.

We already tax everything and remove any form of wealth accumulation, capital gains or aspiration. If you work hard and innovate, the Labour Party punishes you. How dare you try to make a profit? How dare you try to make life better for you and your family by working harder while there are families and millions of illegal migrants and foreigners who get free money from the state and refuse to work?

It is our aim to shackle all citizens in perpetuity to the state via the socialist welfare system. It is our goal at this time to increase the size of the Big State because we as socialists believe that the Big Nanny State creates growth in the economy and the private sector does not. The private businesses are being phased out by our heavy taxation policy. Eventually there will not be any private wealth or private property in the PRSB because all capital and equity will be absorbed into the Big State.

Labour’s 10-year plan is to transition from hard socialism to full communism. We are seeking to create a Politburo instead of a democratic parliament. We seek to outlaw elections. We seek to dissolve the old vestiges of imperialistic hegemony. We seek to break up the banks. We seek to rejoin the European Union in a Soviet pact, which will solidify the move to a global communist single government with China and the EU at the forefront.

As all private wealth and property is absorbed by the Big State through our collectivist communist operation, there will be equality for all—equality in poverty. That is, apart from high party officials, who will live in luxury.

You will be happy. You will be forced to watch the BBC, and we will force you to fund it, whether you like it or not, through internet tax. You will love the BBC. You will watch it and you will appreciate the BBC. There is no way you will escape the BBC. You will worship the BBC.

Sadly, comrades, we are still in a semi-democratic state, and until the element of “election” is vanquished, we are at the mercy of this vile democratic process. Comrade Andy Burnham has been installed and is unelected, and his modus operandi is to be elected and given a mandate by the useful idiots who vote for the Labour Party in the upcoming General Election.

Once Labour wins that election, Comrade Burnham will quickly initiate the 10-year plan for full communist integration. That will be the last election this nation will ever have to endure, and the people will be freed from democracy. Full communism will take approximately 5 years to initiate because confiscating all private wealth, including disintegrating the capitalist banking system will take some time.

During that period, citizens may see their rations lessen, and there may be bouts of intermittent civil unrest. Do not worry. Our Stasi units will increase CCTV surveillance and tracking, and we will build more gulags across the country to accommodate those who do not agree with the transition to full communism.

Thank you for reading this far, you vile cunts. Now pay more tax and freeze in your Net Zero hovels, you fucking pleb scum.

Rebranding Brand From his Rape Brand

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Rebranding Brand From his Rape Brand

Under the current circumstances, any PR firm would have a hefty task ahead of them rebranding the brand of Russell Brand from his current rape brand, which he seems to have cultivated over the years.

Russell Brand is of course not the first one who has utilised religion for their own purposes, and his foray into Christianity is a study of such a process where hiding behind or adopting something that is supposedly “good” will admonish and cleanse their past deeds. Indeed, Christianity is a wondrous religion where a “sinner” can repent their sins, be fully excused by “God” or “Jesus”, then carry on doing the same sins before the next confession or moment of repentence.

“It’s a great system, mate. I do what I want, commit great evil deeds, repent, am forgiven by God, then go back to committing the great evils as before. Repeat ad infinitum,” one good Christian fellow revealed.

Rebranding Brand will thus be an enormous task, even for God at this point. Let’s listen to the victims who spoke up about this alleged rapist, who had his way with many women, allegedly without their consent. The thing about wanting to fuck 5,000 women, as Brand allegedly said, is that there will be some who do not appreciate being fucked, one way or another, and are against such things in the first place. Some women resent men for fucking them; some women like to be fucked. Such is the lottery of fucking.

The main trouble with Brand is that he attained his zenith in the late 90s and early 2000s. In his mindset, he was doing what was normal practice in the 60s, 70s and 80s. In those days men, and particularly celebrities, could get away with fucking with relative ease, and in those days many got away with a lot of stuff. Indeed, there was no mass media like the internet, CCTV everywhere, tracking, and social media surveillance, so it was way easier for public figures to get their end away with as many girls as possible. Groupies also knew their place and were generally submissive and appreciative of the attention from celebrities.

The late 90s and 2000s were the death knell for all of that stuff. The internet is everywhere. Once something goes on the internet — that’s it. Forever it will stay, either a stain or a round of applause, is what graces the internet and is a final sentence for many. Fifth wave feminism was also a catalyst for many of the subsequent changes.

Will Jesus save Russell Brand or maybe one of the magical amulets he sells? Let us look at the facts. The words of the victims of Russell Brand are echoing across the internet and the world right now, and those words are damning. In this case, it seems that an example will have to be made with Brand to some extent. There are probably many more aggrieved female victims, and if this is the case, they should all come out and report their experiences as well. Rape is a terrible thing to experience.

There is, however, good news for Brandy Wandy. Labour are emptying all the prisons of all rapists and paedophiles, so when Brand is sentenced he might get a tiny sentence and be out in less than a week. Either way, rebranding Brand will be quite a task for anyone, and flouting the fake religion stuff is really not helping either.

WEF Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders 2026 Advances New Ideas on Resilient Growth, Technology and Leadership

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WEF Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders 2026 Advances New Ideas on Resilient Growth, Technology and Leadership

The first Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders brought together over 500 leaders and experts in Dubai, including over 150 CEOs and chairs and 78 senior government and international organisation officials.

Held by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with the Government of the United Arab Emirates, the three-day meeting convened participants from across generations, regions and sectors, including 78 top officials from government and international organisations and more than 150 CEOs and chairs.

  • More than 500 leaders and experts, including 78 top officials from government and international organisations and more than 150 CEOs and chairs, gathered in Dubai for the inaugural Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders.
  • Key outputs include Future 20, the Global Agentic AI Award and Innovation Challenge, the Leadership Commitment Framework, Global Youth Pulse insights, and new research on AI, resilient growth and data-centre infrastructure.
  • World Economic Forum Fellows were designated to shape strategic priorities and carry the work forward beyond Dubai, with Opportunity Lab discussions driving progress.
  • Learn more about the Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders 2026 here. Follow on social media using #AMGFL26.

As technological, demographic and geopolitical shifts reshape economies and societies, the meeting focused on how leaders can identify opportunity early and build resilience for futures that cannot be predicted with certainty.

Participants also explored how scientific advances, leadership, human agency, climate and nature are reshaping opportunity and the capabilities needed to navigate an increasingly complex world.

“The future should not be governed by yesterday’s assumptions,” said Alois Zwinggi, President and CEO of the World Economic Forum and Principal Chairman of the Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders. “Over the course of the meeting, leaders tested ideas, launched initiatives and identified ways to keep the work moving beyond Dubai. That is how dialogue becomes action, helping create new opportunities and build resilience for the years ahead.”

“Today we move from discussing the future to shaping it with you,” said His Excellency Mohammad Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs of the United Arab Emirates and Principal Chairman of the Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders. “We want partnerships that turn into action, opportunities that turn into achievement, and impact that reaches generations to come.”

Opportunity, resilience and the future of economic growth

The meeting piloted Opportunity Labs, collaborative, action-orientated sessions that worked backwards from a better future to explore how today’s challenges could be successfully addressed over the next 10 years.

“We remain optimistic about the future, even in difficult and challenging times,” said Ohood Bint Khalfan Al Roumi, Minister of State for Government Development and the Future of the United Arab Emirates, and Co-Chair of the Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders 2026. “Our optimism is a commitment to keep finding a way forward. It gives us the courage to begin, the humility to learn as we go and the determination to change course when needed.”

During the Opportunity Labs, participants explored how AI can advance productivity and create better jobs and how resilience can be strengthened at scale. They also considered tools for shared accountability, including a potential resilience index to measure progress and help direct capital towards climate adaptation.

Insights from the labs will inform the forthcoming Future Leaders Outlook, a synthesis of participant perspectives highlighting the opportunities and capabilities likely to shape the decade ahead.

“For the future to really work for people, we need to build around their actual lives and involve them in designing and building the technology itself,” said Suhani Jalota, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Myna Mahila Foundation, India, and Young Global Leader. “For us to create lasting change and impact, we really need to involve the people who are overlooked.”

The WEF, the UAE Government and the Dubai Future Foundation also expressed their intention to establish the Centre for Global Opportunities, focused on expanding access to opportunity for current and future generations of leaders.

Discussions also drew on findings from the WEF’s Youth Pulse 2026, which captures the perspectives of nearly 4,600 young people across 144 countries and territories on economic, political, technological, social and environmental issues.

The WEF also published The Impact Economy: Turning Disclosure into Demand, exploring how measurable social outcomes can become economically actionable, as only 15% of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets with sufficient data remain on track. Using healthcare as a test case, it identifies regulatory, commercial, financial and collaborative pathways to turn impact into demand.

Ahead of the 2026 UN Water Conference in Abu Dhabi, the Centre for Nature and Climate and the UpLink Aquapreneurs Initiative convened water innovators and Young Global Leaders to identify priorities for scaling water solutions. The meeting also provided the setting for the announcement of a new two-year partnership between the WEF and the Mohamed bin Zayed Water Initiative to accelerate practical solutions to water scarcity.

Discussions on trade and economics highlighted how supply shocks and disruptions are testing economic policy-making, underscoring the need for more adaptive approaches at a time of rising government borrowing costs and heightened uncertainty.

“We want to lower the risks for businesses so they are more resilient when external shocks come,” said Milojko Spajić, Prime Minister of Montenegro and co-chair of the Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders 2026. “You need to lower fixed costs so they can better deal with whatever the situation brings.”

“The future is something we actively design,” said Khalfan Belhoul, Chief Executive Officer, Dubai Future Foundation, and Co-Chair of the Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders 2026. “Foresight helps us understand change, but it is action that turns opportunities into reality.”

Technology, science and human possibility

During the meeting, participants explored how AI and scientific discovery could expand human capabilities, accelerate innovation, and create economic and societal value, while highlighting the need for trusted governance, accountability, human judgement and infrastructure to support broader adoption.

Discussions on agentic AI emphasised that deployment should improve people’s quality of life, with safeguards and responsible oversight essential to maintaining trust.

“The challenge is that it is extremely easy for us to lose trust but very hard for us to gain trust when it comes to agentic AI systems,” said His Excellency Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence of the United Arab Emirates. “If you are able to improve people’s quality of life by deploying that agent, then you are moving in the right direction. If you have productivity gains but you’re harming people, it does not matter.”

The UAE Government and the Global Shapers Community launched the Global Agentic AI Award and Innovation Challenge, a year-long initiative inviting all 500 Global Shapers hubs to use agentic AI to address local community challenges. The initiative will award $1 million annually over five years, with winners recognised at the Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders 2027.

The Centre for Intelligent Future and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) also expanded access to AI for All, a programme equipping young leaders in 100 cities with practical AI skills, from generative and agentic AI to responsible governance, prioritising regions with limited access to AI training.

“This is the moment where we stop looking at all the problems and decide to look at the opportunities, and we decide to do something about it,” said Mariam Nourya Koné, Global Shaper, Abidjan Hub, Côte d’Ivoire. “And when we start, eventually people follow.”

Participants examined how agentic AI can expand human capability while preserving accountability and trust; how humanoid robots can become effective collaborators; and how emerging sensing technologies can unlock applications across health, climate, retail, commerce and robotics.

“What defines this moment is uncertainty. It makes it both difficult to predict, but also very exciting from a technology perspective,” said Fadel Adib, Professor and Entrepreneur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Co-Chair of the Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders 2026. “It also creates a unique opportunity for leaders and institutions to leapfrog and make a change.”

Unlocking Value: AI for Resilient Growth in MENA estimates that AI could unlock more than $1 trillion in economic and sustainability value across the region by 2030. It identifies gaps between AI’s perceived potential and implementation and pathways for finance, government, energy and cross-sector collaboration to turn adoption into sustainable growth.

Powering AI at Scale: Optimising Hyperscale Data Centre Infrastructure in MENA examines the infrastructure needed for AI growth, finding that new data centres in the region could connect to the grid within two to five years versus more than a decade in mature markets. It highlights the need for integrated planning, smarter design and updated regulation to manage rising energy and water demands sustainably.

The WEF also published the Next-Generation Computing Policy Readiness Framework, a practical tool to help policy-makers assess infrastructure, talent, sovereignty and cybersecurity readiness, and Cybersecurity’s Strategic Inflection Point: A Senior Leadership Agenda for 2027, highlighting cybersecurity’s critical role in economic resilience and global stability and calling for stronger governance, investment and coordinated action.

Leadership for the next generation

The Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders convened members and alumni of the WEF’s Young Global Leaders community, alongside Global Shapers and Social Innovators, and leaders from government, business, academia, science, technology and civil society, connecting next-generation voices with established global leadership.

The meeting also launched the Leadership Commitment Framework, developed by the Global Future Council on Leadership and the Forum of Young Global Leaders. The self-assessment tool is designed to help leaders assess whether their approach to leadership is suited to the challenges of an increasingly complex world.

Future 20 spotlighted 20 young leaders from the Global Shapers Network driving new approaches to technology, economic growth, resilience, leadership and sustainability.

The WEF also advanced the Global Alliance for Future Generations, bringing together companies and young leaders to strengthen economic opportunities as AI transforms entry-level jobs. UAE-based Apparel Group has joined the Alliance, which already brings together more than 20 companies, expanding its engagement in the region.

Leadership discussions included the Women Leading the Future, with senior UAE public figures taking part. Public sessions examined how leaders can adapt to a rapidly changing generation already adapting and embed fairness in hiring, promotion and technologies shaping the future of work.

The meeting closed with a call to shape the future through collective action. The Global Shapers Community and Young Global Leaders will carry forward its outcomes, turning insights from Dubai into collaboration and action in communities worldwide.

About the Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders 2026
To strengthen intergenerational dialogue and practical collaboration on issues shaping the future, the World Economic Forum will bring together more than 500 leaders and experts in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on 13–15 October 2026 for the inaugural Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders.

Gaia-X Announces Leadership Transition and Accelerates Industrialisation of Trusted Data Spaces: A Focus on Delivery, European Trust Framework and Readiness for Industial AI

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Gaia-X Announces Leadership Transition and Accelerates Industrialisation of Trusted Data Spaces: A Focus on Delivery, European Trust Framework and Readiness for Industial AI

Gaia-X announces a leadership transition and a new development phase, emphasising delivery, member value, and market impact as the digital economy rapidly evolves around AI, highlighting the increasing demand for trusted data ecosystems.

Jérôme Léger, currently Head of Architecture & Design Authorities at Crédit Agricole Group, will succeed Ulrich Ahle, who announced his retirement after three years as Gaia-X CEO. Fabian Biegel, bringing extensive expertise in digital transformation and artificial intelligence, will succeed Roland Fadrany as Gaia-X COO, following Roland’s announcement to pursue new professional endeavours.

Jérôme Léger’s appointment will take effect in January 2027, following a transition period starting on 1 November 2026. On the same day, Fabian Biegel’s appointment will take effect.

Ulrich-Ahle“It has been a privilege to lead Gaia-X for the past three years and to work with such a committed community. Gaia-X has built a solid foundation for trust in data exchange, and I am proud of what we have achieved together. I am confident that Jérôme and Fabian are the right leaders to take it into Season 2.0, and I will follow its progress with great interest.” – Ulrich Ahle, outgoing CEO, Gaia-X

“I am honoured to lead Gaia-X at this pivotal moment. Building on our strong foundations, our mandate is clear: to further expand our reach and accelerate Europe’s digital competitiveness. By continuously advancing a sovereign trust layer for AI and robust industrial data spaces, we will strengthen Europe’s position as a leading AI continent—empowering organisations to scale fearlessly through trusted data exchange and federated learning. Together with our ecosystem, we will continue driving this shared vision into a powerful market reality and secure Europe’s position in the global digital landscape” – Jérôme Léger, incoming CEO, Gaia-X

“After almost 5 exciting years with the Gaia-X Association, it is time for me to return to the commercial side of ecosystems and pursue a new promising opportunity.” – Roland Fadrany, outgoing COO, Gaia-X

“Having been involved in Gaia-X since its inception, I know the ambition behind this initiative and the importance of turning its vision into practical solutions for European industry. I am excited to take on this new role, work alongside the Gaia-X team and community, and continue to reliably deliver on our ambitions.” – Fabian Biegel, incoming COO, Gaia-X

Gaia-X thanks Ulrich Ahle and Roland Fadrany for successfully addressing the foundational challenges of Season 1.0, their valuable contributions to the organisation, and their role in bringing Gaia-X into Season 2.0, as well as their commitment to ensuring a smooth transition for the team, members and community.

Together with the Gaia-X Team, Jérôme and Fabian will lead the acceleration of industrialisation across trusted data spaces, with a strong focus on delivery and market value, Trust Framework and readiness for industrial AI.

Since its creation, Gaia-X has worked to create the foundation for trust in data exchange, and its role as a first mover in designing a Trust Framework for data spaces is widely recognised. Over the past five years, many sectoral data space initiatives have been launched, but reaching industrial scale, including effective implementation of the Trust Framework, remains a challenge. Heterogeneous blueprints also make interoperability across data spaces difficult. In response, the Board of Directors has defined the next decisive steps to accelerate Gaia-X’s next phase.

“Gaia-X proposition remains sound. Our job now is to turn the community’s work into industrial-grade technical services that members and data space users can rely on, and to make trust a native part of data exchange between organisations, humans and AI agents.”– Catherine Jestin, BoD Chairwoman, Gaia-X; Executive Vice President Digital, Airbus

Strategic priorities

Accelerating concrete technical value. In Season 2.0, Gaia-X will advance its technical roadmap to Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 9, delivering industrialised services from data space connectors implementing the Trust Framework to Gaia-X Digital Clearing House (GXDCH) compliance services. This will leverage the open-source community and pave the way toward verifiable credentials for AI agents.

From industrial building blocks to services monitoring. Gaia-X will emphasise production-ready code, active deployments, interoperability tools and reusable solutions. It will coordinate and support an open-source foundation to govern the technology on behalf of the community and will collect performance indicators from GXDCH compliance services to drive continuous improvement.

Scaling adoption and establishing the trust layer for AI. A Gaia-X blueprint can scale across use cases, countries and industries. Gaia-X will join forces with existing data ecosystems to develop a roadmap for secure, compliant data exchange between agents, facilitating the training of industrial LLMs and accelerating industrial agentic AI adoption—ultimately empowering cutting-edge, trusted federated learning.

Gaia-X remains committed to working openly and constructively with the wider ecosystem. Collaboration remains central to its approach: by bringing together complementary expertise, capabilities and communities, Gaia-X aims to contribute to a trusted, interoperable and sovereign digital future.

About Gaia-X:

Gaia-X brings together organisations across Europe and beyond to advance trusted, sovereign and interoperable data ecosystems. Through collaboration across industry, public sector, research and technology communities, Gaia-X works to strengthen the foundations for secure data sharing and sustainable digital ecosystems.

MORE WAR: Trump Agrees Russian Oil Deal to Fund Enemy

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MORE WAR: Trump Agrees Russian Oil Deal to Fund Enemy

Kompromat has a lot to be answered for, and Donald Trump has so much kompromat on him that he has agreed to do a massive Russian oil deal.

“I’m funding the Russians so they can continue in the war, destroying Ukraine. Vlad called me up and said if I don’t do this, the photos and videos will be released on TikTok. Remember Epstein? Shhh, that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Well, it looks like it’s more war and more money for the Russian war machine. Hopefully they can decimate Ukraine and move towards the rest of Europe soon after,” Trump told reporters at a White House press conference.

When asked whether the USA and NATO was now funding the Russian war machine, Trump answered truthfully.

“Yes, in no uncertain terms, the USA is now funding Russia’s wars of aggression. This Russian oil deal will ensure more war for the world. Ukraine will be dust tomorrow, then it’s Germany, Norway, Finland, Poland, Spain and France. Fuck ’em all. As for the UK, when the Russians land, they can throw twigs and pebbles at the soldiers.”

What’s next for Trump? Funding Hamas? Funding China and North Korea, or how about funding Iran?

The ball’s in your court, sir!

Britain Needs to Rejoin the EU Again

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Britain Needs to Rejoin the EU Again

Seriously, it looks like a lot of fun, and why not? Anarchy in the streets and vast debts that can never be paid off. This is just France as well; in other parts of the EU there are even more delights to behold. We must rejoin the EU again; it will be gloriously fun.

If you love burning delapidated schools and other educational establishments down to the fucking ground, the EU brings forth some serious positive vibes. Far leftist Anarcho-communist partisans throwing Molotov cocktails in every direction and beating the merde out of the cops. There is something wondrously romantic and endearing about watching such feats of raw violence. One feels a certain excitement in the loins at such displays of raw Dionysian energy, a wild abandon that denotes a flicker of freedom in a world increasingly dying under overregulation and surveillance.

The good thing about riots is that they are inclusive. This is a very progressive EU stance where everyone is included in the melee, whether one is an illegal migrant, Islamic terrorist, anarchist agitator, communist revolutionary, student, teacher or chef, there is room for everyone.

There’s a damn good reason why the boulevards are so fucking wide in Paris. Haussmann was ordered to build those after the last revolution, but this time, it seems that the sheer volume of anarchy and revolution is testing even that architectural design.

Follow the money for these well-organised riots. The NGOs and the clandestinely created charities—here you will find the usual suspects, communist agitators and financiers like Neville Singham, a clinically insane billionaire living in China who is closely aligned with the Chinese Communist Party. The other financier is, of course Soros, another militant communist who is actively working to bring down the West.

The unelected British PM with no mandate to rule, Andy Burnham, needs to bring the UK closer to the EU for sure. This same energy must be imported into Britain immediately so the schools here can burn as well, and the riots, along with the deliciously entertaining violence, can spread across the UK from Land’s End to John o’Groats. There is already a decent level of tension; all it will take is a tiny spark of energy from the EU to light the tinderbox up like a motherfucker on roids.

More, more, bring forth more nihilism; the flag of the EU bristles with nihilistic force as the winds of anarchy ejaculate with pulsating ferocity across the European landmass, echoing into the chambers of Andy Burnham’s overstretched Marxist orifice as he awaits a good fucking from the EU.

 

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