Nafeez M Ahmed

Nafeez M Ahmed

Creator of the Age of Transformation, a newsletter offering systems-thinking for the global phase-shift. Director, Unitas Futures Lab. Founder, System Shift Lab.

WHITEHALL ANALYTICA: Vote Leave Firm Tied to Cambridge Analytica ‘Configured’ NHSX Contact Tracing App

Nafeez Ahmed reveals how concerns around privacy and trust in the UK Government’s centralised COVID-19 tracing system are matched by doubts about its effectiveness

Byline Times

The Coronavirus Crisis: Government Anticipated More Than A Million COVID-19 Deaths But Refused to Take Action for Three Weeks

Nafeez Ahmed reveals how minutes from the NERVTAG estimated up to of 1,333,330 fatalities from the Coronavirus as far back as 21 February

Byline Times

This is hastening the end of the oil era

Crashing oil prices will wreak havoc, increasing the urgency of moving to renewable energy

The Boston Globe

Will Covid-19 end the age of Big Oil?

Le Monde diplomatique

The Coronavirus Crisis: Documents Reveal Government and NERVTAG Breached Own Scientific Risk Assessment Guidance

Evidence investigated by Nafeez Ahmed and Rupert Read shows UK pandemic planning broke the ‘precautionary principle’

Byline Times

The pandemic may bring the fossil fuel era to an abrupt end

The Toronto Star

COVID-19 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Leaked Home Office Call Reveals Government wants Economy to ‘Continue Running’ as ‘We Will All Get’ COVID-19 Anyway

Nafeez Ahmed reports on Home Office private advice suggesting a ‘zombie herd immunity’ policy risking hundreds of thousands of deaths

Byline Times

Disaster Capitalism: Conservative Party Donor Cashes in on UK Government-made PPE Shortages Amidst COVID19 Crisis

Nafeez Ahmed reports on the new contract with the giant haulage firm whose executive chairman has donated nearly £1m to the Tories

Byline Times

The Coronavirus Crisis: Eight Week Suppression Strategy Could Stop COVID-19 in its Tracks, says Ex-WHO Director

Nafeez Ahmed speaks to Dr Anthony Costello about where the approach of the UK and US Governments to the Coronavirus pandemic is faltering and why both administrations have been relying too heavily on modelling

Byline Times

How coronavirus can be stopped in eight weeks

As America becomes the centre of the pandemic and health services around the world face disaster, former WHO chief Anthony Costello tells Nafeez Ahmed it’s not too late to regain control of the situation

The Independent

The Coronavirus Crisis: Oxford Model Touting 'Herd Immunity' was Promoted by PR Agency Tied to Ministry of Defence and Nudge Unit

Nafeez Ahmed reports on the story behind a new study suggesting that nearly half of the UK population may already have been infected with the Coronavirus and claims that this could provide ‘herd immunity’

Byline Times

COVID-19 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION Part Three: Behavioural Scientists told Government to use ‘Herd Immunity’ to Justify Business-As-Usual

In the third part of his investigation, Nafeez Ahmed reveals how laissez-faire attitudes have hampered a proper response to the Coronavirus pandemic in the UK

Byline Times

COVID-19 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION Part Two: Government Documents Reveal Concern for ‘Economic’ and ‘Business’ Impacts Prevented Early Action

Nafeez Ahmed on evidence that Boris Johnson’s Government was more focused on saving money than lives when it came to issues such as school closures

Byline Times

COVID-19 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION Part One: The Politicised Science that Nudged the Johnson Government to Safeguard the Economy over British Lives

In the first part of his investigation, Nafeez Ahmed looks at the serious flaws of scientific fatalism and inaccurate modelling

Byline Times

Coronavirus exposes who Britain’s national security industry is designed to protect – not the public

The British government has long been aware of the looming inevitability of an imminent pandemic flu crisis. Yet coronavirus starkly illustrates how outmoded and dangerous the UK establishment’s national security paradigm really is.

Declassified UK

This is how America and Britain are maximising coronavirus deaths

Only radical action and social distancing can avert a bloodbath

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Coronavirus, synchronous failure and the global phase-shift

A systems analysis uncovering the light at the end of the tunnel

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The alt-right has taken the political centre. It’s not too late to win it back

A new incarnation of right-wing politics has taken hold of the mainstream. Its ideas and language, funded by billionaires, have been carried by politicians and pundits out of the fringes. Now that we can map this extensive network more fully, we can fight it.

The Correspondent

Government Agency Warns Global Oil Industry Is on the Brink of a Meltdown

We are not running out of oil, but it's becoming uneconomical to exploit it—another reason we need to move to renewables as quickly as possible

VICE

How the West built Huawei’s genocidal surveillance complex in China

Britain’s capitulation to China’s Huawei is nothing new — for years, Western firms have profited from the world’s largest authoritarian surveillance project

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West’s ‘dust bowl’ future now ‘locked in’, as world risks imminent food crisis

Past climate emissions mean parts of US and Europe will experience devastating drought in 80 years, and a global food crisis could be triggered in the 2020s — yet it’s not too late to build resilience and avert the worst

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NHS

Documents confirm UK govt kept door open to US interests in NHS

Exactly how open is still not clear. The government needs to come clean.

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The Collapse of Civilization May Have Already Begun

Scientists disagree on the timeline of collapse and whether it's imminent. But can we afford to be wrong? And what comes after?

VICE

The flawed social science behind Extinction Rebellion’s change strategy

White privilege leads to cherry-picked misreadings of data on worldwide struggles of people of colour (and beyond)

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