If you are new to our work at Lighthouse Global and want to know why the Establishment attacked us, click below to read a statement from our CEO and founder, Paul S. Waugh.
A Statement by Paul S. Waugh – Why Lighthouse Global is a Provably Observable Threat to The Top-Tier Establishment and Its Totalitarian Agenda and Why They Have Attacked Us in Order to Destroy.
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I have written this statement as a contextual precursor to all articles written in relation to the Establishment, BBC, agencies and mainstream media attacks on us.
It is critical that you understand the real underlying reason we were — and are — continually and increasingly attacked in order for us to be destroyed by their hand.
Here is a starting question…
Why would they spend five very long years (to date) and tens of millions of pounds attempting to destroy us?
SPOILER ALERT — I will tell you this, it’s not because we are this micro “cult” founded and run by a petty liar, mind-controller (like them) and non-criminal (like me).
Note: I would like to be clear that our main restraining force to getting the truth out to date is, has been and will be the extent, or lack of global public reach; something the BBC, mainstream media and agencies are working hard on behind the scenes to deny us (such reach) at all costs.
They cannot afford for us to expose and reveal them for who they really are, for what they have done and are doing.
They will never be trusted by the public ever again once they are fully exposed, in line with their diabolical modus operandi.
This is now about to change dramatically for the Glory of God and His Truth…
So why did the Establishment spend millions on attacking Lighthouse Global?
Well it certainly wasn’t because they were "exposing" this tiny micro entity (or "cult") called Lighthouse for all the laboriously false reasons they gave in their provably fake documentary.
A documentary with literally hundreds of falsehoods, lies and deceptions in it, which we will reveal comprehensively.
Here is the real reason why the Establishment spent so much time, effort and money on us...
They spent millions of pounds attempting to destroy the credibility of the people (us at Lighthouse) in order to obliterate the most ground-breaking human potential research ever.
This is totally in line with our plans to influence the building of millions of purpose-built, solution-orientated, problem-solving communities worldwide.
Secularly speaking, most of these purpose-built communities would not be formed under or initiated by Lighthouse (as this huge dark "sinister cult" - cue sinister BBC music...) but independently started and run.
Why?
So that people would not be as reliant on the state and the Establishment and so they could be in better control of our common problems.
Governments would be smaller and taxation a fraction of what it is now.
Here is the problem to the Establishment, especially those at the top tier... They do not want to relinquish control.
They want more.
How much more? Totalitarian levels of more.
They therefore desperately need to stop us.
Note: Additionally, many of these purpose-built communities would be started by us Christians, in line with our commission in Christ, and our obstacles to achieving the Kingdom's said aims and objectives etc.
When the Establishment realised this... they REALLY pulled out their big war chest and their collective big guns!
So what did they do?
They spent millions of pounds to prevent our research, findings and evidence being revealed publicly.
They simply could not afford to be exposed.
They spent millions of pounds and years of effort using huge multi-agency teams to try and destroy us.
They spent millions of pounds and put hundreds of people to work at huge risk to their reputation, credibility and existence.
Why?
As said, to do their absolute damnedest to destroy this Christian initiative of global purpose-directed community teachers and builders.
No… they were not using all these resources over the last five years to attempt to destroy a little micro “cult”. A supposed cult that was taking over a relative handful of people's lives (20 or so at the time)... apparently.
They were out to destroy our work because its potential to empower people’s lives threatened their very existence as a totalitarian-intentioned Establishment.
It threatened their power, position, their totalitarian-control agenda and their stranglehold on all resources and wealth.
Most of the Associates at Lighthouse have had little idea of the extent, breadth and depth of our research program. It had to be kept largely, almost extensively under the radar.
The Last Days: A Critical To-Do List
There is an entire series of books coming out on this and our proposals on what to do about it moving forward in Christ entitled;
“The Last Days: A Critical To-Do List: 22 years of Ground-breaking Research - Warning: Christian Interventions Needed Soon, Lest It Be Too Late”.
There will soon be a comprehensive write-up (ongoing) on this series starting in the next few weeks.
No matter how much they endeavour to destroy myself, Paul S. Waugh, with their lies — or even the truth (which would be an extreme change) — it does not and will not change the truth about the systemic strategies they use to drastically limit the masses, A.K.A. the non-elites.
Destroying us by smearing or otherwise will not change who they are and what they are doing.
It will not change the truth.
We will vindicate the truth by eliminating the false narrative between us (the people and the truth) that is being orchestrated by a corrupt media and its establishment.
We will soon be launching our new desperately needed organisation, Vindicate International, for this very purpose. We will correct the record one way or the other.
We will lobby and do the necessary advocacy work in relation to how correction of the record is implemented and most notably stymied at an implementation level by various regulatory organisations, like Ofcom and IPSO.
So attempting to destroy us at Lighthouse Global will not change the truth... or who hears it.
In fact, all this time, money and effort spent intending to destroy our work and our lives has just served to make their problem - and the consequences for their heinous actions against us - worse at an exponential level!
We are now seeing that they are slowly starting to realise this.... finally.
They still have a way to go, but they are getting there.
To attempt to ruin myself, Lighthouse Global and its Associates - or not - is to ruin themselves. They have done and intend to do terrible things to the global population.
The Establishment simply, by God’s own laws and principles, cannot TALK themselves out of what they have collectively ACTED themselves into!
In The Final Analysis...
When an Establishment organisation like the BBC needs to destroy someone or a group that are doing the right thing that is genuinely in the public interest (especially for the Glory of God), but against their overlord and elites’ ruinous agenda, they need to find a fabricated and contrived reason in the so-called public interest to do so.
They did this with their fake documentary “A Very British Cult”.
THEN THEY PROVABLY GOT ESTABLISHMENT AGENCIES AND CO-CONSPIRATORS TO GRANT IT FALSE CREDIBILITY.
This ultimately all comes imminently with two ruinous things for them:
- A terrible price in the medium and long term across the board.
- A very short timeline from here.
We are about to reveal our research with full evidence of how the establishment and its media have attempted to destroy us. All glory to our Lord, Saviour and Redeemer, Jesus Christ.
You are all in our prayers.
Yours sincerely,
Paul S. Waugh
“There was never anyone like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh, urged on by Jezebel his wife.” — 1 Kings 21:25
The Daily Mail portrayed Antonia Brider-Thomas, an employee of XDP Ltd., as the reasonable wife who helped Richard Thomas recognise that Lighthouse Global was supposedly controlling, exploitative and dangerous. The fully evidenced reality is completely different.
Mr Thomas’ own contemporaneous messages reveal sustained marital conflict, severe pressure from his wife that he believed placed his relationships with his children at risk, and his eventual decision to turn against the very people at Lighthouse whom he had previously cherished, praised and relied upon for years.
On 15 May 2021, during an Associates/Elects conference call, Mr Thomas messaged his mentor Shaun Cooper: “Antonia is really going for it about being in the call.” His message described an argument taking place while he was trying to participate.
Later that afternoon, he added: “The argument still continues right now.”
The following day, he described the situation as “an absolute battle.” These were not reflections manufactured years later for a newspaper story. They were Mr Thomas’ own words, recorded in real time, while the conflict was unfolding.
The Insanity of Ignoring a £25,000 Refund Offered on Compassionate Grounds
Earlier this week, we published part of the documented reality through Paul S. Waugh’s X post of 21 April 2024:
This is a man who actually DIDN’T want to leave Lighthouse. He left because his hateful nagging and spiteful wife, Antonia Brider-Thomas of XDP Ltd, harassed him night and day for him to leave, to the point where he felt he had to choose between his family or Lighthouse.. (all provable in his own words on text messages to us at the time but VERY inconvenient for him now).
This is a man who I personally supported, paying for supplements and whatever he needed to get well after he became very sick with Covid-19. I made both public and personal commitments to him and the care of his family at a time when he was battling with his health and employment (all on recordings). What a terrible place of anguish for him to have been to warrant me needing to make such assurances.
This is a man who (before he ever made any complaint about me or Lighthouse) I proactively offered a full £25,000 refund, which he was not entitled to, on purely compassionate grounds, because of his illness. Once again provable.
This is a man who, despite being severely ill, and struggling with his full-time job and who had a family to look after, BLANKED that refund offer and all attempts to contact him, for 5-6 MONTHS!
This is one of the most inconvenient facts in the entire Daily Mail narrative. Before Mr Thomas made any public allegation against Paul S. Waugh or Lighthouse, Paul had proactively offered to return the full £25,000 on compassionate grounds because of concern for his illness and family circumstances.
Mr Thomas did not accept it. He did not even reply to Paul’s offer at all!
Several months later, he described the central conflict in unmistakable terms:
“Things have obviously shifted fundamentally in our [Lighthouse] relationship and perspective due to Antonia and [Joanne Holmes, another fake whistleblower and former Lighthouse client]…it’s just not fundamentally possible to reconcile my relation with [Lighthouse] and Antonia.”
Those are Mr Thomas’ own words. They do not describe a man announcing the discovery of fraud or criminality, as the Daily Mail narrative later deceived the public to believe. They describe a man who believed that his relationship with Lighthouse could no longer be reconciled with the diabolical demands being made within his marriage.
He was under immense distress. He believed that continuing with Lighthouse his coercively controlling wife may take away his children. At the same time, the growth and development he had sought as a man, father and husband was being opposed by the very person who later appeared in the press narrative as his supposed rescuer.
The Marital Problems Richard Thomas Had Already Acknowledged
Mr Thomas had openly identified serious problems at home before his departure.
In Lighthouse Associate Elect meetings, he spoke of “positional fighting” in his marriage, admitted that difficult conversations became argumentative, and said that he and Antonia “could be doing better” as parents. He also stated:
“My children lack the foundation that I am as a parent 100% responsible for.”
Lighthouse did not invent those difficulties after he left. Mr Thomas identified them himself while seeking help. He came to Lighthouse because he knew that vital areas of his emotional life, marriage and fatherhood needed serious work.
The later media portrayal reversed that reality. The people supporting his development were cast as the danger, while the intense conflict he had described inside his marriage was pushed out of public view.
His wife’s hostility also did not remain an isolated private matter. It became connected to a wider campaign against Lighthouse Global and Paul S. Waugh, including activity involving her close friend Joanne Holmes. Holmes and Brider-Thomas were instrumental in the Reddit smear and hate campaign directed against Paul and Lighthouse Global.
Mr Thomas initially rejected that campaign. In October 2021, he wrote:
“I don’t prescribe to all this anti [Lighthouse] movement and have kept well away from things.”
He also said:
“I’ve no interest in pursuing this line of on-line bashing.”
Yet only months later, he became a central Daily Mail source against Lighthouse. The public deserves to know what changed—and why the marital pressure, the ignored refund offer and his own earlier rejection of the anti-Lighthouse campaign were not placed at the centre of the story.
The Jezebel Syndrome: Control Disguised as Concern
This is a pattern we increasingly see within Woke Britain’s Fake News media indoctrination: the supposedly ‘concerned’ partner is presented as a victim-turned-heroine, while the coercion, hostility and emotional domination occurring behind the scenes at home are concealed. Control is repackaged as concern. Destruction is presented as rescue. The angel-of-light image is protected while the evidenced reality is excluded.
That is where the Jezebel Syndrome becomes relevant.
In the Old Testament, Jezebel was a ruthless and manipulative queen who used intimidation, deception and the abuse of power to lead others into idolatry, silence God’s prophets and orchestrate injustice for her own gain (1 Kings 16:31–33; 18:4; 21:5–16). In Scripture, she stands as an enduring symbol of corrupting influence: seduction, intimidation and control deployed in opposition to God’s truth. That pattern is later echoed in Christ’s warning to the church in Revelation 2:20–23.
The issue is not merely that Mr Thomas faced disagreement at home. His own messages describe an “absolute battle”, an argument that continued for hours, and a position in which he believed that his relationship with Lighthouse and his marriage could not be reconciled.
We have seen a similar pattern in the case of Jeffrey Leigh-Jones and Dawn Ingram: weak and insecure men surrendering their individual responsibility under relentless emotional pressure, before joining public attacks against the people who had invested in and supported them.
The public was sold the false story of Mr Thomas being rescued from Lighthouse. His messages reveal the opposite pressure: private hostility, prolonged family conflict and a man who believed that he had to choose between his marriage—possibly including his access to his children—and Lighthouse because of the unrelenting attacks upon his involvement.
Sadly, Mr Thomas did not merely walk away. He sold out on the truth. He sided with a press narrative that erased the compassionate £25,000 offer, ignored his years of support, concealed his earlier praise for Lighthouse and omitted his own written account of the marital conflict driving his departure.
He appears to have believed that the Establishment media would destroy Lighthouse Global and that the falsified cognitive and public record would never be corrected.
By the Spirit, grace and protection of God, he and those behind him were devastatingly wrong.
Not only have we survived these attacks; we are growing in strength, boldness and resolution. We have barely begun to correct the false public record, expose what was deliberately omitted and restore the fully evidenced reality.
Richard Thomas knows that more than anyone else.
Related articles:
Richard Thomas: The Fake Whistleblower Who Helped Ignite the Smear Campaign Against Lighthouse Global
The David vs Goliath Showdown: Why Richard Thomas Refused Public Scrutiny
The £25k Compassionate Refund Offer Richard Thomas & The Daily Mail Did Not Tell You About
The Terrifying Fear Behind Richard Thomas’ Fake Whistleblower Smear Campaign
The Jezabel syndrome is at best tragic, at worst quite evil. There’s one thing to want to want to spend time with a partner and there is another thing to want to destroy them and everything they are associated with that you see as an enemy. I pray that they both heal but also they recognise their wrong doing and repent.
The Jezebel syndrome is something I am increasingly recognising and understanding more clearly. It is deeply concerning to realise that many of us have not been raised with the awareness, understanding, and foundations needed to protect ourselves from becoming vulnerable to these patterns in the first place.
The situations involving Richard Thomas and Jeffrey Leigh-Jones are just two examples among potentially thousands, if not millions, that highlight the importance of recognising, confronting, and understanding this type of spirit, while seeking healing and restoration through repentance and our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Jezebel Syndrome is a HUGE issue that we don’t know or discuss enough, let alone do anything about!!
Antonia Brider-Thomas, Dawn Ingram, and many other females involved in the attacks on Lighthouse, including the likes of Alexandra Stein and even some journalists, are a microcosm of a much wider issue. This is everywhere and I’ve even experienced it with my own mother, Rani Singh…a BBC freelancer! As Jordan Peterson refers to, the devouring mother, this is not new… it is literally as old as Jezebel herself and before her. The toxic poison that infects a weak male’s psyche, in the place of his mother, man it is so dark and destructive. No coincidence how Antonia never took responsibility for trying to destroy Lighthouse Global, or how she manipulated her own husband Richard Thomas into selling his soul. Lady MacBeth in real life.
You know, this is so sad. And two scriptures come to mind:
A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm; restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand. – Proverbs 27:15-16
and
Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife. – Proverbs 21:19
A wife should seek out to be a blessing to her husband, even if she disagrees with him or has a problem with his decisions. To cause so much aggro to him, as revealed in his messages, it’s clear what spirit he was up against and that he – it seems to me – succumbed to.
Learning more about the challenges Richard Thomas faced at home really highlights how essential genuine support is if we’re to grow, stay emotionally healthy, and avoid being controlled by family members who want to keep us trapped. Thank you for introducing the Jezebel Syndrome. It’s not an easy reality to face, but understanding it is an important step towards truth, freedom, and lasting growth.
Richard Thomas was between a rock and a hard place, and his wife manipulated that position. He lacked character, and sadly, the one place that could have helped him, he turned against. I believe, in his heart of hearts, he didn’t want to do that, but the sway of the Jezebel pulled him into doing dark things. I appreciate the reality you are sharing about the Jezebel syndrome.
His wife emotionally castrated him and we can see how much that’s also happened on the macro level where feminism has become toxic and its ideology has inflicted that same toxicity on all men, where possible. That Jezebel syndrome is a spiritual thing as old as time itself just about, and it never ends well. Look at the story of Ahab where moral concessions at the behest of Jezebel cascade into massive spiritual ruin. Ahab repented but not completely which didn’t save him. Let’s hope Mr Thomas may choose differently in the end because there is no escaping the truth.
It’s hard not to feel compassion for Richard Thomas and the hellish situation he married himself into. Evidently there’s no love as Richard Thomas’s efforts to grow were decimated by his wife. The most tragic thing is that ultimately the children suffer as their dad capitulates under the strain of his wife’s relentless nagging, henpecking and abuse.
It is deeply disturbing that the Jezebel syndrome can go unnoticed. I can only imagine that Richard Thomas is still suffering at the hands of his wife and one day they will both come to see, that his wife led him to make the very illogical and destructive decisions he has made and may he come to find Christ one day and take responsibility for what he has done.
Thank you for helping me understand the “Jezebel Syndrome” and see how and why it is critical to recognise and look for it in my own life. What you have revealed here, with Mr Thomas, is how a Jezebel can and will manipulate and corrupt someone for their own personal gain and vendetta…I pray for Mr Thomas and his family because what will be coming their way is not what they expected…
The BBC and Daily Mail propagate evil. Appearing to do good while actually covering up heinous acts and abuses. They will take a pinch of truth and weave a web of lies for their own ends.
The Jezebel nature of some of the wives and girlfriends of those trying to develop is the same evil. Evil that their respective men ought to notice and stand up to.