False Doors

 

False doors are features of a building, supposedly ornamental, which look like doorways, but there is no real door behind them. They lead nowhere. Behind them is just a blank wall or natural rockface. They are usually very ancient and are particularly common in Egypt. According to a variety of contemporary sources, the purpose of these doorways was to allow the Ka, a dead person's spiritual essence, to pass from our universe into the afterlife realms. It is quite common for tourists to stand in these doorways and have their photographs taken in there. This includes my good friend Beata van Berkom, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2022/05/programme-462-podcast-beata-van-berkom.html. False doors are occasionally found elsewhere, such as Etruscan tombs on Sardinia. They probably have the same function there. I am interested how there appears to be a modern scientific and/or heavy industrial equivalent at CERN. A false door may have been built close to the Large Hadron Collider that looks like a door to nowhere, but sometimes an interdimensional portal can appear, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-phantom-scarf-stealer-of-old-cern.html. For this reason, I think approaching false doors of any kind should be treated with caution. We don't know if the portals might materialize again suddenly while you're standing there and swallow you up. This was actually the story behind an obscure 1980's TV adventure series called Otherworld, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqepZMzXWvE&list=PLzovi87vDfzIHuqJB6VRYnRC9BoHwCeXs. This is not evidence that such a danger exists, but people do occasionally vanish for no obvious reason, as David Paulides has found out, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/05/missing-411-national-parks-washington.html. Don't have nightmares! If you take a trip to Egypt, enjoy it; such tragedies are extremely rare. However, it's worth taking a few precautions. Stay in pairs or in a group. People who vanish tend to do so alone. This, additionally, keeps you safer from the more conventional risks, such as getting lost or being targeted by criminals. If you have your photo taken in a false door, make sure there are a lot of people close by and at least some of them keep you in their vision at all times.

CVD Hug-Fest

 

A meeting has taken place between four statesmen: Rhun ap Iorwerth, First Minister of Wales; Michelle O'Neil, First Minister of Northern Ireland; John Swinney, First Minister of Scotland and Mary Lou McDonald, President of Sinn Féin and leader of the opposition in the Republic of Ireland. They met in Cardiff and had a discussion about how all the so-called, and wrongly called, "Celtic" nations are now led by pro-independence politicians. "Westminster's time is coming to an end!" they said and called upon the UK government to prepare for constitutional change giving their respective countries more devolution and self-determination. This was called "the 2026 Cardiff Agreement". After that they no doubt cried on each other's shoulders and fell to the floor kicking and screaming about how the world would be a paradise if it wasn't for the "bloody English!" I noted the other day that Argentina has the same problem, a foundational and deeply embedded myth that drives the culture and political tide of the country; even though it is completely false, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/09/national-myths.html. These national myths are incredibly difficult to dislodge and debunk. Simply explaining them or appealing to reason rarely works. People you are talking to generally will either walk away or respond with an angry ad-hominem: "What would you know!? You haven't suffered like we have!" As I've said before, this sense of suffering and being oppressed is extremely addictive. Like feminists, the Welsh, Scots and Irish have a love-hate relationship with it. It is a core element of their national identity and even, in a strange way, their self-esteem, see here for details: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/02/irish-cvd-bull.html and: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/10/cvd-is-ruining-wales.html. I predict with confidence that if the time ever came when you could truly lift the burden of the CVD from their shoulders they would fight to defend it, Matrix style. Living life without that narcissistic sense of entitlement would be a struggle for them. The worst thing about the CVD, and this Cardiff Agreement to which it has given birth, is that eager expansionist eyes in Brussels will be watching it closely and will understand what's really going on. This is exactly what the European Union wants to hear. All of the politicians in Cardiff have a desperate longing to be free of the United Kingdom, but no such desire to be free of the EU; on the contrary. A split UK will quickly lead to Wales, Scotland and a reunited Ireland being sucked into the maw of the globalist superstate. Those four idiots in Cardiff cannot even comprehend the terrible fate that awaits their countries. As for England, it will be easier to deal with once it is alone. This is why it is vital for the people of Britain and Ireland, whichever nation you live in, to resist the Cardiff Agreement. If your leaders are oblivious to the danger then you must replace them. The good news, in Wales at least, is that confidence in the Welsh government is at an all-time low, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/01/visiting-senedd.html. Less than ten percent of Welsh people want full independence from Westminster and even what we've been given so far has turned sour in our mouths. In Scotland and Northern Ireland it is different. Scotland had a referendum a few years ago that came down with a narrow victory for the unionists, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2014/09/programme-104-podcast-scottish.html. We can only hope calmer heads prevail. Being a British unionist is no longer an imperialistic position; it is the opposite. Brexit means that Britain has led the new and real anti-colonial struggle against the real empire of the 21st century.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2019/10/brexit-portal.html.

Bases Autumn Conference 2026 Promo

 

I have done a promotional video with Miles Johnston for the upcoming Bases 2026 International Disclosure Conference- Autumn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI7gN7fpLBw.
In this light-hearted interview, we talk about the upcoming event and give a preview of all the speakers. See here for details and tickets: https://www.basestv.org/post/bases2026-international-disclosure-conference-autumn.
See here for Miles on HPANWO Radio: (coming soon).

Ben Emlyn-Jones on The Secret Vault

 

I have been featured on The Secret Vault, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atry-1eWzug.
I appear only in the first thirty-seven minutes. The host in Matthew Williams, a good friend I know through the conference circuit. We discuss a number of subjects including the upcoming Bases Project conference, see: https://www.basestv.org/post/bases2026-international-disclosure-conference-autumn.

Ben Emlyn-Jones on The Spooky Show with Viv and Jon

 

I have been featured on the Spooky Show with Viv and Jon, see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7n0v5JUAT8.
Subjects discussed include: Giant spiders, haunted prisons, childcare from Bigfoot and much much more. Many thanks for Viv and Jon for inviting me. It was really great to get to talk to Jonathan Downes at last. I'm a huge fan of his literature, see: http://www.cfz.org.uk.

QED Replacement

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/05/last-ever-qed.html.
My prediction has come true. It seems that the vacuum left by the demise of QED has indeed been filled by another conference. In this case it is the European Skeptics Congress 2026. This is not technically a replacement for QED because this conference has been running annually since 1989 and is not always in the same location. Its current organizing body, the European Council of Skeptic Organizations, was founded in 1994 at its sixth congress. It is held in different countries across the continent. I'm surprised I've never heard of it before. This year it is in the UK, in Liverpool to be precise, and the organizers have teamed up with the Merseyside Skeptics. I'm not surprised to see that "Marsh" is a big part of it. Despite this not being a new QED per se, it has many of the features of the lost conference. It begins on the Friday with "SkeptiCamp" and "the Mixer" in the evening. The MC is Siân Docksey again and they are having the Ockham Awards. Marsh is now editor of The Skeptic magazine and he'll be handing out the Award for Skeptical Activism to the annual hero of skepticism; and the Rusty Razor Award for the most despicable disseminator of woo... although I have not been nominated again unfortunately. Well, I am up against fierce competition. Previous laureates include Reform UK and Elon Musk, the winner when I went there in 2024, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/10/qed-conference-2024.html. This is similar to the Snuffed Candle Award given out every year at The Amazing Meeting to such luminaries as Art Bell. The list of speakers also sounds familiar to anybody with an interest in the Skeptisphere. Source: https://escliverpool.org. The original QED website still exists; it now consists of a single page which is a memorial to the annual event that ran from 2011 to 2025. "14 years, 12 events (a break for Covid of course), 144 talks, 6000 attendees... Here's to the future." The final line implies the QED story is not yet over. There is a link to the YouTube channel with recordings of the talks, see: https://qedcon.org. The ESC 2026 is this weekend and so I won't be going this year. I hope everybody who attends has a good time. I might go to future events; and I have a feeling there will be another one next year. I don't know what it will be called, but it will probably be a genuine permanent QED redux. I might go along to that when it emerges.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/skeptics-portal.html.

National Myths

 

Argentina has once again asserted its territorial claim to the Falkland Islands. This time they have big hitters in the international community on their side, in the shape of Israel and the USA. I am disappointed in Javier Milei. When he took power in 2023 I called him the "Argentine Trump". He was a populist, almost anti-political figure whose mentor was Margaret Thatcher. He got through his entire campaign with a very lukewarm position on the Falklands; in fact he barely mentioned the subject. This is amazing in a nation suffering from what they themselves call as a self-deprecating joke, "Malvinitis". Since then Milei seems to have been lured into the establishment in the same way Boris Johnson was, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/07/boris-is-finished.html. He has started reciting the old line that his predecessors did. Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands is completely bogus, in fact it is a hoax invented by the junta to control the people's emotions; see here for details: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2022/04/programme-460-falklands-war-40_14.html. Argentina has suffered enormously during the 20th century. It has endured economic collapse and fascist tyranny. It would be a far happier country if it could find a way to get over this madness about those little islands full of sheep farms just off their continental shelf. However, mass mental obsessions are difficult to break; and I'm not just criticizing Argentina here. Maybe it's normal for nations to have an idea that almost all the citizens believe in, and for them is quintessential to their national identity and self-esteem; but it is completely false. Whatever country you, the reader, live in; what do you think yours is? Being British, I'm not sure. Very often the citizen themselves is the last person to see the problem. These falsehoods are often harder to discern from the inside. Foreigners are more likely to spot them first. I am British, but I'm also Welsh; however I left Wales as a child and moved to Oxford, England. This might be why I have spotted the national myth suffered by Wales. It is not an obsession with any islands or anything like that; it is the notion that Wales is universally and eternally "oppressed by the bloody English!" To be fair, Wales is not alone in this mindset, in fact Scotland and Ireland are far worse. I call this concept the "CVD- Celtic Victimhood Delusion." I'll leave some background links below to provide details. The CVD has actually been very damaging. It has made Wales and its fellow "Celtic nations" defenceless against the globalist onslaught via the European Union and the World Economic Forum etc. Your average Taffy's response to this threat is: "EU and WEF? Who cares about them? At least they're not the bloody English!" They think we still live in the 14th century, the days of Owain Glyndŵr. They see the world through the cracked lens of the lost order of territorial states and national empires. Perhaps it is because I am an expat I can pierce through the veil. I think Wales would be a far happier country if, like Argentina, we could leave the CVD behind in the past where it belongs.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/10/cvd-is-ruining-wales.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/01/visiting-senedd.html.