Simon Elmer

Simon Elmer was born and lives in London. In 2002, he received his PhD in the History and Theory of Art from University College London, and he has taught at the universities of London, Manchester, Reading and Michigan. In 2015 he co-founded Architects for Social Housing, for which he is Head of Research. His books include The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State (2022); Virtue and Terror: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 1 (2023); The New Normal: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 2 (2023); and, with Geraldine Dening, The Truth about Grenfell Tower (2017); Central Hill: A Case Study in Estate Regeneration (2018); For a Socialist Architecture: Under Capitalism (2021); and Saving St. Raphael’s Estate: The Alternative to Demolition (2022).

An Open Letter to Nobody: The Duties of Poetry in 2023

Simon Elmer challenges Devon’s own poet, Alice Oswald, to address the lies by which our lives have been ruled over the last three years and will continue to be ruled by until we are brave enough to expose them.

One Ring to Rule Them All—The WHO’s Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response Treaty

Where once we cried ‘Hear come the peace-keepers!’, in the future we will cry ‘Here comes the health-protectors!’ as hazmat-suited US Marines invade and take over yet another dangerous country—closely followed, when all opposition has been crushed ...

Whatever Happened to the ‘Pandemic’?

The New Normal we were promised has been built on a foundation of lies, damned lies and statistics.

Contexts for Central Bank Digital Currency

What will the self-proclaimed Masters of the World do with programmable currency?

The Politics of Environmental Fundamentalism

Just Stop Oil are the paid promoters of the UN’s Agenda 2030 and its goal to financialise the natural world. They have appropriated street protest for the political agenda of globalists. There is no need to hire crocodile tears when a generation of ...