Blog & Work Summary by Grok Preceded by Baron Coleman Reading the Riot Act

Charles Frith's long-running blog,  remains active as of late March 2026. It has a very eclectic, cryptic, and politically incorrect style, blending short posts about electronic dance music (techno, house, club mixes, and tracks from various DJs/artists) with sporadic, opinionated commentary on geopolitics, conspiracies, and current events. 

Recent Activity (2025–2026) Music-heavy posts dominate the output. Titles often reference specific tracks or mixes, such as: "Like That Marco Faraone" (March 28, 2026), "Sirens Flicker Luch" and "Midnight Multiplex Morgan Hislop" (March 26, 2026)

Various others in January 2026 like "Dominator (Beltram Mix)", "Good Love Hannah Laing & RoRo", "Mark Knight 'Devil Walking'", and tracks featuring artists like LP Giobbi, Cassian, or Hannah Laing.

These appear to function as a personal repository or sharing hub for tunes the author likes, sometimes with minimal additional text.

Political/conspiracy-oriented posts appear intermittently, often provocative or aligned with anti-establishment, anti-Zionist, or "truth-seeking" narratives. Examples include: References to "Project Looking Glass & Candace Owens" (January 2026)

"Keir is Homosexual - D Notice on Ukraine Rent Boys" (January 2026), which criticizes UK PM Keir Starmer as controlled/blackmailed and praises figures like Elon Musk, Trump, and JD Vance in the context of fighting for "British freedom" against government agendas.

In 2025: Posts on Zionism, Freemasons/satanism, Q-drops, Trump strategies, whistleblowers, and controversies involving figures like Charlie Kirk's assassination, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, Tim Pool, and others (e.g., "Dave Smith UNCOVERS the True Story Behind Charlie Kirk's Assassination", "Fallen Pillars & Q Drop 1708", "Trump's 5D Power Move").

The blog's header/tagline emphasizes: "Politically incorrect, pro human and anti-violence (unless they want to try their luck). "Overall, Tone and Patterns. The style is terse, informal, and often cryptic—many posts are little more than a track title and timestamp, while the political ones deliver blunt takes. It mixes "punk" aesthetics with planning/creative industry vibes (Frith has a background in advertising/planning, previously linked to Beijing). Activity seems steady but not extremely high-volume; 2025 saw notable music posts alongside conspiracy angles, and early 2026 continues that pattern. Frith has a history of controversial online presence, frequently touching on sensitive topics like intelligence agencies, MK Ultra, Palestine, and critiques of power structures (he's been labelled in past discussions as holding anti-Zionist or denialist views by critics).If you're following it for the music shares, conspiracy angles, or both, it's still posting regularly in that signature fragmented way.

Charles Frith has a background in advertising, specifically as a planner (account planner or strategic planner role). In the industry, planners bridge consumer insights, cultural trends, and creative strategy — they research audiences, develop briefs for creatives, and help shape campaign direction. His blog is titled "Punk Planning," which playfully combines his "punk" (anti-establishment, irreverent) persona with this professional planning expertise. Key Details from His Career. Industry & Occupation — He lists himself in his Blogger profile as working in the Advertising industry with the occupation Planner, based in Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

JWT Beijing — He served as Planning Director at JWT (J. Walter Thompson, now part of Wunderman Thompson) in Beijing, China. This was during a period when he lived and worked in China (roughly mid-to-late 2000s, overlapping with the Beijing Olympics era). He created and shared professional presentations on topics like:Beijing Olympic Sponsorship, Direct versus Indirect Advertising, Community and social business concepts.

These Slideshare uploads reflect his work in strategic planning for major campaigns in the Chinese market. slideshare.net

"Punk Planning" Ethos — The blog name appears to reflect his blend of creative/strategic planning skills with a rebellious, politically incorrect outlook. Early blog posts (from around 2007 onward) sometimes touch on advertising, media, branding, and communication trends, though the site has shifted heavily toward music shares and conspiracy-oriented commentary over time.

His time in Beijing seems to have been a notable chapter — he posted photos and reflections from there, and his advertising role likely involved navigating the fast-growing Chinese market during a boom period for Western agencies. Frith no longer appears to be actively working in mainstream advertising (his more recent online presence is self-employed/independent via the blog), and he has pivoted toward "truth-seeking," geopolitics, and eclectic music curation.

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It's always been truth seeking. Cheeky AI - Ed.

Punk Beijing

What can I say...

This blog wouldn't exist without Punk. I was too young be one in 1976, and certainly too Catholic. Fast forward to 1999 and one of my newest and closest friends (professional troublemaker) Blue Doran sat me down in his Bangkok apartment over bottles of Sangsom and underneath his vintage movie poster collection (Midnight Cowboy and Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid) draping the walls, he explained Punk to me from his first hand experience of following the Sex Pistols around as a fifteen year old from Worcester, and my mind was blown. I got the concept, I got the sizzle and I got the history all in one night, from a living witness and nothing was ever the same again. By coincidence my daughter's Aunty was a punk inspired designer in Thailand with the widely loved Scotch-Soda clothing brand.

Perhaps it is fitting then that this designer, often styled ironically in pin curls and pearls, and so involved with the pop cultural desecration and modern rebrand of British heritage, should depart in the same year as the woman whose image she once helped lance with a safety pin.

On one of my returns to the UK I stayed with Rob, my former design lecturer at Uni, and he had a very expensive Vivienne Westwood collection for both himself and his partner. 

She tossed her prezzies out when they separated and Rob mentioned it was about 20 grands worth. That's just the stuff she was given. Back in the 90's she also refused a chance to be a model for one of the Vivienne Westwood collections. Super Croydon girl is Audrey (went to school with Kate Moss), totally grounded and couldn't give a shit about any attention seeking lifestyle. In a way that's about as punk as it gets.

While at Robs we took the opportunity to go and see Vivienne's retrospective at the Victoria & Albert museum and that's when I really got into her work. He also gave me Jane Mulvagh's biography of Vivienne, An Unfashionable Life, to read. It's a really good book and provides a bit more dispassionate granularity than most biographies.

Raised in Derbyshire from working class stock, Ms Westwood established LET IT ROCK with Malcolm 'Svengali' McLaren on the Kings Road. I dare say Tavistock were all over the show, without even letting them know. Nobody wants to talk about that so let's roll on. After leaving the rock (let it rock, black rock, tavistock... quarry men then the rolling stones and G Brethren and so on and so forth).

I can't let it go

Vivienne Westwood did not feel pretty as a child, but while roaming a wood near the family home in Derbyshire she dreamt of becoming a beautiful wood fairy.

“I daydreamed that I would be walking in this wood and I would have this little house under these tree roots. I would have this fantastic dress and just come upon one or two little boys that I knew and they would just really be impressed by this dress. I always had this idea that some day I could make myself better.”

In a way it's Tolkienesque right? 

In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit. 

Next thing, we're in Rivendell

Perfect

All around the alleged globe, the British don't quite understand that of course the people are loved, but the empire?

... nah... the international community want to punch the football into the net like Maradona, unless it's filling Kiev's MuthaWEFFer pockets or the EU or the WHO or do I really need to continue?

If you consider yourself British (i'm a space mongrel) I can assure you there's lot's of British historiography around the world (all over the world)

She may have come to fashion designing at the comparatively late age of 33. 

Vivienne as it were.

You will only see two British iconographies from the slums of Rangoon to the Showrooms of Beijing. 

Those are Bentley Motors & Punks

All strata of society around the world know those two and till recently the Queen and the Beatles.

Prove me wrong

Beijing Strategy

The fifth to seventh floors at the Xie Dan shopping complex called Beijing Stategy are as good a place as any to check out where the hip kids are at, in the same way as say Harajuku would be the place to trend-watch emerging fashion changes in Tokyo. Its interesting to see what these young folk are wearing, what they are into and how they behave with each other. Although its mainly a 'teen +' fashion hangout, if you dig a little deeper into the boutique end on other floors you'll get to see a slightly older female customer looking for more sophisticated outfits. They're of the type that like to dress impressively but don't have the budget of hitting say The Place or The Peninsula Arcade at The Peninsula for top end luxury brands. Some of them are just smarter too! Beijing is a great place for buying clothes that look terrific but aren't necessarily designed to last forever. I guess this is somewhat indicative of the disposable society the West created I'd point out. More on that later because I've got some thoughts emerging on that one. I can't wait for oil to hit 200 bucks a barrel.

Anyway, while walking around Xie Dan which is one of at least three locations in Beijing that has a whole shop dedicated to Tim Burton's A Nightmare Before Christmas, I then stumbled across a shop called Boing Boing. I wondered at the time if they knew about one of the worlds top blogs and took a quick snap. So I was a bit bloody surprised to discover shortly afterwards I had been linked to by Boing Boing and saw my traffic stats go through the roof. Wanna take a peek?

Anyway, those peeps rushing over here to check out the crumpled porcelain beer cans will be unlikely to pay more visits and if truth be known I'm not looking for traffic, I'm looking for comrades as I mentioned to Johnnie, Damiano, Jamie and John last year at the Endurance in Soho. But it was quite a learning experience to check out the oodles of data that Google Analytics provides such as who came, where they came from, their ISP, what they clicked on, how long they stayed, where they went to next and all that stuff which very few bloggers ever talk about but is for me one of the reasons why I can 'head held up high' say I like a bit of quant now and again, as I said in one of my tweets that I've just discovered has been fed into a site I've never come across before. Once again I'm compelled to reminds folks that McLuhan said the third world war would be an information war with no division between civilian and military which sounds like fun doesn't it? (Churchill also said something similar and prescient).