This is edition 2026/152 of the Ten@10 newsletter.
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This is the Ten@10, where I collate and summarise ten news items you generally won't see in the mainstream media.
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1. In an Age of Discontent, Where Is the Left?
Bryce Edwards — The Democracy Project
- 📉 Ipsos: 65% economy rigged; 66% want strong leader vs rich/powerful; only 23% “stop immigration.” Demand for left populism; supply is managerial Labour + cautious Greens.
- 🏗 Class organisations hollowed; 1984 scar; left fluent in recognition, mute on wages/rents/monopoly. MMP as early anti-establishment pressure valve — may be failing.
- 🎯 Path: attack broken markets; lobby/finance/revolving-door reform; few tangible fights (power, homes, wages); chase non-voters not just swing seat maths.
- 🎯 Takeaway: anger exists. If left offers better management while NZ First offers “rigged,” guess who wins the mood.
2. Hiding in Plain Sight: Chief Justice Winkelmann’s Revolutionary Vision
Roger Partridge — Plain Thinking
- ⚖ Three CJ addresses (Auckland/Monash/Winterton): “braided river” — constitution reshaped by legislation, court decisions, and historical/cultural events — courts ranked with Parliament, not under it.
- 📜 Cullen 2004 warned: higher-law discovery = change by stealth; sitting judges advocating change invite partiality inference. BORA s4 still bars invalidating Acts — method is the revolution (Ellis tikanga; Treaty presumption; “must unless”).
- 🎯 Cost: words on the page no longer final; authority migrates to judges voters can’t sack. Goldsworthy: successful legal revolution never admits the name.
- 🎯 Takeaway: speeches in plain sight. Unusual revolution that need not hide.
3. Anthony Fauci and the System That Failed Us
Sigrid Bratlie — The Free Press
- 📁 Diaries + contempt vote reignite personal fight; Bratlie: real scandal is deeper — public-health establishment’s gamble on risky virus research, then track-covering.
- 🧬 Institutional failure across science, intelligence, politics — not just one bureaucrat’s PR. (Full Big Read paywalled after open.)
- 🎥 Package pairs with Vinay Prasad on the diaries (see #10).
- 🎯 Takeaway: stop the soap opera; audit the system that made the gamble normal.
4. Why Germany Is About to Turbo-Charge the Populist Revolt
Matt Goodwin
- 🗳 Saxony-Anhalt: AfD ~42% (~20 pts clear of CDU). Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ~36%. First AfD-led state would smash the “firewall.”
- 📈 Not only east — Baden-Württemberg/Rhineland doubles; national polls put AfD first. Driver: migration + Islamist attacks (Berlin Pride; scene ~28k).
- 🎯 Establishment assumed voters would quieten. They didn’t.
- 🎯 Takeaway: firewalls work at 5–10%. At 35–46% they are nostalgia.
5. Has Britain Fallen Out of Love with Itself?
Gawain Towler — spiked
- 📉 Demos pride: net +74% (2011) → +47%; world role +13%; BBC +48 → −11. Deepest among prosperous mid-life who got university apology culture.
- 📚 Benda’s treason of the clerks; Orwell’s embarrassed intellectual; Scruton’s oikophobia; CofE parish dismantled while £100m slavery fund. Local pride still up — hope in the parish.
- 🎯 Election win is bridgehead; real fight is institutions the clerisy already seized.
- 🎯 Takeaway: talked out of love can be talked — and sung — back in. Joyfully.
6. Pauline — Prime Ministerial Patriot
David Flint — The Spectator Australia
- 🇦🇺 Hanson not racist; forces Liberals/Nationals toward patriotic leaders/policies; even Labor pretends on immigration. DemosAU model: patriotic bloc could take 76 seats now.
- 🛡 Foreign terrorist fighters bill → Federal Court exclusion orders; bail/passport tools; Senate committee report due 7 Sept. “If law blocks protection, change the law.”
- 🎯 Rise = steel for Coalition, rubber-stamp House, real federalism, citizen-initiated referendums (Kingston tradition).
- 🎯 Takeaway: take the country back 24/7 — not just every three years.
7. After Arday, Defend Press Freedom from the Woke ‘Lynch Mob’
Fraser Myers — spiked
- 📰 Press did its job: powerful plagiarist + Cambridge cover. Face libel, race smears, near-arrest — now lined up for punishment (“lynching,” Lord Woolley “public execution,” Instagram hit-list of 16 writers).
- 📋 Good Law petition + “Arday’s Law” article caps; Greens “Ministry of Truth” motion. Plagiarism flags predate Cofnas (Harris 2023; THE/Carter-Ruck; police).
- 🎯 Fabrications weren’t minor; DEI prism fair after “youngest black professor” hype. Free press vs silence of the powerful.
- 🎯 Takeaway: exploit a death to crush scrutiny and you prove why the press must stay free.
8. Language
Kel Richards — The Spectator Australia
- 🗣 Homage to late Rod Liddle’s “irritating words”: myself/yourself inflation; “how can I help you today?”; “vile”/“toxic” emptied; “survivor” vs “victim”; “my truth.”
- ☢ “Toxic” belongs to strontium-90 and nerve gas — not opinions. “My truth” = refusal of reality.
- 🎯 Woke left living in fantasy where reality must conform to opinion.
- 🎯 Takeaway: well done, Rod — greatly missed.
9. “Groundbreaking” Cancer Study Big Pharma Doesn’t Want You to Know
The Gateway Pundit / The Wellness Company
- 💊 McCullough et al. compounded ivermectin 25mg + mebendazole 250mg; 122/197 completed 6-month follow-up — 84.4% “clinical benefit,” 48.4% shrinkage/NED; mild AEs claimed.
- ⚠ Not independent peer-review journalism — promotional intake questionnaire + 90-day supply pitch. Informational disclaimer on page.
- 🎯 Bloomberg cited: many pricey cancer drugs don’t extend life; off-label antiparasitics underexplored clinically.
- 🎯 Takeaway: read as ad + hypothesis, not gospel. Demand proper trials before hype.
10. The Reckoning of Dr Anthony Fauci
Vinay Prasad with Rafaela Siewert — The Free Press
- 📔 1,000+ pages diaries (gov server) 2019–22. Headline: private beliefs ≠ public line; usurped other agencies; wrong policies, no admission then or now.
- 🔬 Origins: Jan 26 2020 diary — market amplifier not source; CIA intercepts on lab; publicly wet-market certainty + “knows nothing” of Proximal Origin while editing manuscript. Masking flip private vs public.
- 🎯 Gap between diary and podium is the story.
- 🎯 Takeaway: files, not folklore. Watch the conversation; judge the contradictions yourself.
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