Ian Dron 🌸

Visca la República Catalana! Visca la República Escocesa!

[Ian Dron 🌸 @iangdron]

Indy for Scotland
Own currency
Universal Basic Income
Land Value Tax
Reformed Money System
1 Gbps BB *everywhere*
EFTA/EEA
EU decision later

[Tim Rideout @RideoutTim]

The present game of football was invented in Scotland and the rules were first written out at the Queen's Park Football Club in Glasgow. That led to the founding of FIFA a few years later.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Dedicated to all Clintonites who abused those of us who, once, dared say that there was next to no difference between the inhumanity of Hillary and the misanthropy of Trump. Nothing further... https://t.co/3ZxLw2nd5M

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

What actually happened over the last five years, just looking at the Covid caper alone? It goes something like this:
in 2019 or before, a US-funded biolab in Wuhan, China, one of some 120 in 30 counties, made a virus and inoculation based on an American recipe that leaked and spread, causing worry that US officials would be blamed but they had a fallback: lie about the lab origins and prepare the population for the fix based on a new gene-editing technology that otherwise would never have been approved on grounds that it was too dangerous and not effective. That required buying time while preserving pre-leak immunity profiles via lockdowns for all of 2020 until the injection was available, during which time there had to be mass censorship, deep trauma, manufactured panic, school closures, a removal of other therapeutic options, and millions of business failures, not to mention a shut down of the arts and a printing/spending binge that would hack off a third of the value of the dollar, leaving vast carnage but permitting an indemnified pharmaceutical experiment, meaning that mass injury has no recourse. With low uptake of the supposed inoculation, millions were forced to accept it on pain of losing their jobs. No one has been punished for any of it, and the mainstream media has no interest.
Did I get this mostly correct? @grok will correct this post with all the usual orthodoxies you are supposed to believe.

[Ian Dron 🌸 @iangdron]

@burkules Trooping the Colour, possibly.

[Man of the Library 📚 @ManOfTheLibrary]

@BrianRoemmele Chichén Itzá is name of the entire Mayan city.

That is El Castillo. I was there 2 years ago.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

Everyone knows Dunkirk. 338,000 men rescued from the beaches, the "miracle" that saved Britain.

Almost nobody knows what happened 8 days later, 100 miles down the coast. This story was buried for years, and once you hear it you will understand why.

While Dunkirk was being evacuated, the 51st Highland Division was deliberately kept in France. Churchill wanted to prove to the French that Britain would not abandon them. So 10,000 Scotsmen kept fighting along the Somme while everyone else went home.

They fought well. Too well to retreat in time.

By June 10, Rommel's 7th Panzer Division, moving so fast the Germans called it the Ghost Division, had cut them off from every port. The Highlanders fell back to a tiny fishing town called Saint-Valery-en-Caux, with cliffs at their backs and the Royal Navy on the way.

A second Dunkirk. That was the plan. Operation Cycle, ships waiting offshore.

Then the fog rolled in.

The ships could not reach the beaches in the dark and mist. And by morning, Rommel had artillery on the cliffs above the town, firing down on anything that floated. Men climbed down cliff faces on ropes made of rifle slings trying to reach boats. Some fell. The rescue never came.

On June 12, 1940, Major General Victor Fortune surrendered the 51st Highland Division to Rommel. There is a famous photo of the two men standing together, Rommel grinning, Fortune staring into the distance like he is somewhere else.

10,000 men marched east into 5 years of captivity. In parts of the Highlands, nearly every family knew someone in the bag. They called it the lost division, and for decades many Scots quietly believed they had been sacrificed.

Two details worth knowing.

Fortune was offered better treatment as a general. He refused privileges and stayed with his men for the entire war, organizing care for the sick and keeping discipline in the camps. He was knighted from a hospital bed after liberation.

And in September 1944, the rebuilt 51st Highland Division was given one specific assignment, at the request of its commander. They liberated Saint-Valery-en-Caux. The pipers played in the same square where their brothers had surrendered four years earlier.

Dunkirk got the movie. These men got the long war.

Worth remembering them today.

[Ian Dron 🌸 @iangdron]

@Graham__Hancock Look after yourself Graham. Best wishes

[Dr Zoe Harcombe, PhD @zoeharcombe]

Imagine the PR campaign it took to convince people the sun on the left causes skin cancer and the sunscreen on the right is the solution 🙄

[Ian Dron 🌸 @iangdron]

@SDPhq Your profile says, "Britain deserves better". Why are you discriminating against Northern Ireland? Don't they deserve better too?

[Independent England.. Engdependence! @EnglishUDI]

@colinbrazierGBN @GBNEWS Can England have its own independence referendum? Can @GBNEWS discuss English independence please.

[Ian Dron 🌸 @iangdron]

Twitter seems to be full of idiots today. They're posting that there have been local elections in England, Scotland and Wales. They obviously can't be bothered to find out the truth.

[Ian Dron 🌸 @iangdron]

@MrAndyNgo This is incorrect. Please delete and repost a correct statement.

[Ian Dron 🌸 @iangdron]

@DrSuneelDhand There have been local elections in England.

[Gabby Rios @GabbyRios119848]

@tracybeanz As per Kary Mullis, it was the PCR. The Nobel Prize committee refers to Mullis' invention as the PCR. It was never a test.

After Kary Mullis conveniently died just before the Plandemic, health officials like Fauci were now free to called Mullis' invention the PCR test.

[Ian Dron 🌸 @iangdron]

@AmazingNature00 Slaters in Scotland.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

4 years ago, I, along with my filmmaking partner @AndrewJamesFilm, started making a documentary film about the devastating toll on children from inhumane lockdown policies. The real human face of it.

The result is Generation-Covid. Read about it here.

[Dr Clare Craig @ClareCraigPath]

My Farewell to Medical Ethics.

We are going down a dangerous path and need to acknowledge that and return.

@ClareCraigPath

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

Saying that something is a “conspiracy theory” is not an argument. The term is a stigma that stands in place of an argument where the case against conspiracy is too weak to prevail on merit.

[Alan @A1an_M]

Years back, when I lived in Edinburgh, I owned a VW Golf.

It was the worst car I ever owned. Where they got their reputation for reliability, I'll never know. But that's a story for another time.

It was routinely parked on the street outside the tenement where I lived.

One day, a door mirror vanished. Soon after, the other mirror went. Then, a wiper blade. The caps off the tyre valves. The screw-in aerial. Wheel trims. The VW badge.

I imagined to myself that somebody, somewhere, had created a project to rebuild my car, piece by piece, in another location.

In the end I decided to find a different place to park.

I think about that car every time I see another Tory defect to Reform.

[Prof. Steve Keen @ProfSteveKeen]

Wrapping Up 2025, I wanted to let you know why I've Been Fighting This Battle for 50 Years.

I was 20 years old when I realized I was being lied to.

It was 1973. I was an undergraduate at the University of Sydney, and the real world was on fire. The oil crisis had hit. Inflation was skyrocketing, and unemployment was rising at the same time - a phenomenon called "stagflation."

According to the textbooks I was forced to read, this was mathematically impossible. The economic models insisted you could have inflation or unemployment, but never both.

I sat in lecture halls watching professors draw elegant curves on chalkboards that described a world of "equilibrium" and "perfect competition." A world where banks didn't exist, debt didn't matter, and crises were just accidental bumps in the road.

I looked at the chalkboard. Then I looked at the newspaper headlines.

The map didn't match the territory.
Most students just memorized the lies to pass the exam. I couldn't do it.

I led a student revolt that year. We demanded to be taught economics that actually engaged with reality - with the messy, chaotic, debt-fueled world we actually lived in.

We won the battle, but we lost the war.

The university establishment crushed us, and Neoclassical economics took over the world.

Fast forward 50 years, and I am seeing the exact same look in your eyes that I had in mine.

You look at the "official" inflation numbers, and then you look at your grocery bill, and you know something is wrong. You hear the Fed Chair talk about a "strong economy," but you see your friends getting laid off and your children giving up on ever owning a home.

That feeling you have? That isn’t confusion. That’s your bullsh*t detector going off.
And you’re right to feel that. Just like I have.

I have spent my entire adult life fighting the "experts" because I know where their bad math leads.

It leads to 2008.

It leads to the housing crisis.

It leads to a world where the rich get bailed out and the rest of us get the bill.

I fought them in 1973 because I was an angry student.

I fight them today because I refuse to let these delusions destroy what is left of our society.
...It cost the rest of the areas of my life to do so. But I know it’s worth it. For the greater good.

I didn't build the Rebel Economist Challenge just for academics and government leaders.

I built it for the people who are tired of being told to ignore their own eyes.

It took me decades to build that map from scratch. You don't have to wait that long.

I am challenging you: Can you learn 50+ years of real economics in the next 7 weeks?

I have condensed half a century of fighting, predicting economic crises, and winning arguments into a 7-week roadmap.

I am handing you the keys to the machine. Handle them with care.

If you try to figure this out alone, you’ll get lost in the noise of 24-hour news cycles and contradictory theories. You will stay paralyzed while the window to prepare for the next crisis slams shut.

Learning alone using YouTube, textbooks, and University courses will waste years of your life. How do I know? Because I did it the hard way. And unfortunately for me, I can’t get those years back.

But I made this system so YOU CAN.