The Ironkeel Collection

#152. Shôn Ellerton, November 5, 2021. Smartphones and facial recognition could herald a scary new game called Dob by Mob. https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/dob-by-mob-and-facial-recognition

#151. Shôn Ellerton, October 28, 2021. Here I try to tackle the question of whether COVID vaccines should be mandated. https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/should-covid-vaccines-be-mandated

#150. Shôn Ellerton, October 20, 2021. I frequently get asked why I bother to write articles. Here I explain why. https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/8-reasons-why-i-write-articles

#149. Shôn Ellerton, October 18, 2021. What will future readers learn from Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic? Here’s my account. https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-you-australia-during

#148. Shôn Ellerton, September 29, 2021. Calling someone a conspiracy theorist because you don’t like what they say is wrong. https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/what-exactly-is-a-conspiracy-theorist

#147. Shôn Ellerton, September 28, 2021. 5 lessons I learned when I jumped too quickly when accepting an executive’s role. https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/landing-a-great-job-only-to-find

#146. Shôn Ellerton, September 20, 2021. What would you say if you had the choice of permanently killing off the Internet? https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/if-klaatu-can-neutralise-electrical

#145. Shôn Ellerton, September 17, 2021. A striking moment in film cinema showing compassion in the worst of situations. https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/clint-eastwood-comforts-a-confederate

#144. Shôn Ellerton, September 1, 2021. Mushrooms! Love ’em or hate ‘em. https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/my-little-story-on-mushrooms

#143. Shôn Ellerton, August 30, 2021. If you can solve this question, you may be a genius! https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/quick-can-you-solve-this-question

#142. Shôn Ellerton, August 26, 2021. Masks have their place in the right environment, but honestly, what I observe with general mask-wearing is kind of gross and absurd. https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/the-sheer-grossness-and-absurdity

#141. Shôn Ellerton, August 2, 2021. Given the same raw data, it is often very easy to spin entirely different stories. And that’s without telling one single lie! https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/make-the-data-fit-the-desired-result

#140. Shôn Ellerton, July 28, 2021. The most embarrassing incident report I ever had to complete thanks to a papercut I got while mishandling a set of minutes. https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/papercuts-are-dangerous

#139. Shôn Ellerton, July 12, 2021. How and why did I join Freemasonry? What it means to me. Some of the questions I get about it. And whether it’s a good time to join. https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/what-freemasonry-means-to-me

#138. Shôn Ellerton, July 5, 2021. A personal take on the chaos of the United States’ recent spate of voting bills and acts. https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/voting-suppression-democracy-destroyed

#137. Shôn Ellerton, June 21, 2021. Are you concerned what your children are being taught at school? Volunteering to take part in the school board is a good start. https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/why-i-joined-the-school-board

#136. Shôn Ellerton, June 1, 2021. Does anyone else think Facebook has dried up into a barren wasteland of mediocrity and utter boredom? https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/facebook-has-got-terribly-boring

#135. Shôn Ellerton, May 20, 2021. I can 99.99 percent guarantee that your data is never deleted on a commercial system! https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/data-is-never-deleted

#134. Shôn Ellerton, May 18, 2021. The year of 2020 proved to be the testing ground of a re-insurgence of critical race theory. Is the fight still as strong in 2021 or have we become tired of it all. https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/are-we-slowly-tiring-of-trying-to

#133. Shôn Ellerton, May 11, 2021. A genuine concern of how the increased trend to cocoon ourselves away from interacting with real people affects us and our children. https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/escape-the-cocoon-and-be-with-real

#132. Shôn Ellerton, April 30, 2021. In our age of ultra-sensitivity and seemingly diminished tolerance, I revisit the issue of whether school uniforms are good or bad. https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/are-school-uniforms-good-or-bad-revisited

#131. Shôn Ellerton, April 13, 2021. Let’s have some fun and pretend what our browsers would be like if they behaved like real people! https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/if-browsers-were-real-people-in-a

#130. Shôn Ellerton, April 9, 2021. Those who tend not to grumble are often portrayed as having good manners and decorum. But keep them well away from social media! https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/keep-the-mustnt-grumbles-away-from

#129. Shôn Ellerton, April 1, 2021. Buried deep in the heart of East End London, is perhaps one of the world’s most secret and unknown societies. Learn how I managed to infiltrate it. https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/how-i-managed-to-expose-one-of-the

#128. Shôn Ellerton, March 25, 2021. Getting people to do things is hard enough, but it is so much easier to meet casually in person rather than sending out a sterile email. https://shonellerton.substack.com/p/yes-there-is-always-time-for-a-coffee