Black Lives Matter Protests Haven’t Caused “Second Spike”
In my Spectator column last week, I expressed my gratitude for Black Lives Matters protestors for exposing the hypocrisy of politicians and public health panjandrums who enthusiastically embraced the protests in spite of warning us a few weeks earlier that we had to remain in our homes at all costs to flatten the curve. After this, who would take seriously their prognostications of doom? They clearly didn’t believe their own propaganda.
This was my conclusion:
At bottom, insisting that the little people remain in their homes unless they had a “reasonable excuse” to be outside was an opportunity for holier-than-thou elites to remind us of their role as custodians of our welfare. So, of course, that “scientific” advice has now been trumped by another even bossier, even more self-righteous form of virtue-signalling — namely, anti-racist sermonising. The fact that the two are completely at odds with each other doesn’t bother them in the slightest. Just so long as they can wag their fingers in our faces as they turn puce with rage, they’re happy.
Today brings news of another reason to be grateful to the protestors. I’m thinking of the fact that the daily number of Covid infections is continuing to fall. According to the latest COVID Symptom Study app figures, there are now fewer than 5,000 daily new cases of Covid across the UK, 47% less than last week. According to the Covid Symptom Study:
In England, the number of daily new cases fell in all the regions, including 49% in the North West (820 from 1608), a drop of 46% in the South East (365 from 674) and a drop of 43% in the South West (162 from 284). The North East and Yorkshire is still the area of the country with the highest incidence rates, but the number fell from 1,965 to 1,275 a reduction of 35%, suggesting that the situation is improving.
The reason this is significant is that if mass gatherings of the kind we’ve seen over the last two weeks were going to cause a rise in infections we would have seen some evidence of that by now. More than 300,000 people have turned out to protest, all happily ignoring the two-metre social distancing rule, and yet infections continue to fall. That’s even true in London, where the protests have attracted the most people. According to the Covid Symptom Study, the number of daily new infections in London fell by 27% this week.
No doubt some lockdown zealots are still crouched over their laptops, desperately hoping for evidence of a second spike in the next few days. But given that the average incubation period for COVID-19 is between five and six days, we would have seen some evidence by now.
Face it, folks. The “second spike” is a myth.
Or, as Ron Paul puts it, a “hoax”.
Tony Robbins: Lockdown Sceptic
Yesterday we welcomed William Hague to the sceptical fold; today, it’s the turn of Tony Robbins. The American motivational speaker, with over 900,000 YouTube subscribers, is a lockdown sceptic.
In a new video called “Unmasking the Science You Aren’t Hearing on TV“, he interviews seven sceptical experts, including our friend Professor Michael Levitt, joint winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Levitt says he thinks the total excess deaths in 2020 will be about one-and-a-half times the total in the seasonal flu season of 2017-18, i.e. about half as many again.
Not exactly the apocalypse predicted by the WHO.
Remember, Michael Levitt predicted in February that the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in China would end up around 80,000, something health officials and public health scientists at the time thought was hopelessly naive. In fact, according to Worldometers, the total number of cases in China to date is 83,265. Almost bang on.
Snitch.com
One of the downsides of being a professional journalist is that you get spammed every day by public relations companies hoping you’ll write something about their clients. But I got a press release this afternoon that I’m almost tempted to frame in the downstairs loo.
It begins:
I wanted to draw your attention to an article published by CNN today that highlights calls from a number of Adidas employees on June 15th for the company’s supervisory board to examine whether Adidas HR chief Karen Parkin has appropriately responded to racial issues within the company.
That made my ears prick up because I’m compiling a Twitter thread for the Free Speech Union of people who’ve faced calls to resign, or worse, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests. So far I’m up to 31, although to be fair these aren’t all human beings. Among the growing ranks of the cancelled are various Lego action figures deemed to be symbols of white supremacy – such as Duke Detain, a one-inch police officer.
But the most common victims are senior managers who’ve being mobbed by their co-workers after issuing statements expressing their support for Black Lives Matters that have been judged insufficiently pious. And the mobbing of Adidas’s HR chief seems to fit that pattern.
On June 9th, the Adidas Board, of which Karen Parkin is a member, issued a statement in which it promised “to confront the cultural and systemic forces that sustain racism”. To achieve this, the Board said it would invest $20 million in black communities and pledged that “a minimum of 30% of all new positions in the US at adidas and Reebok will be filled with Black and Latinx people”.
Apparently, this last pledge, which seems to have originated with Karen Parkin in her capacity as head of HR, was deemed hopelessly inadequate. Just 30%? How dare you? In a letter to executives, 83 employees from five of the company’s offices in Germany, the United States, Australia, and Panama have asked the company’s supervisory board to “investigate whether we have the right approach and behavior from our (chief human resources officer) to tackle this issue within Adidas.”
On its face, then, a textbook workplace mobbing.
The press release from the PR company continued:
A key element of this letter is the call for the creation of an anonymous platform where employees can report instances of racism and discrimination, and for protection against retaliation.
I groaned when I read that. A platform to enable employees to make career-destroying allegations about their co-workers anonymously? As if the atmosphere in contemporary American isn’t quite McCarthyite enough. But I was also intrigued. Was the PR company’s client someone who had a plan to combat the transformation of globe-spanning American corporations into outposts of the German Democratic Republic? An anti-Communist, perhaps, with direct experience of living in some totalitarian dystopia offering to coach CEOs and board members about how to avoid the excesses of the Cultural Revolution? I read on, my curiosity piqued:
This platform does in fact already exist with exactly this mission in mind. Vault Platform is a mobile reporting app that seeks to bridge the trust gap between employers and their employees. The platform gives employees a safe and secure way to report workplace misconduct including bias, harassment, and discrimination both anonymously and otherwise.
Ah, not what I was expecting, then. On the contrary, the PR company’s client is a company which, judging from its product, might as well be called Stasi.com. Or, if Vault wants to maintain the “locked in” theme, Gulag.com. You couldn’t make it up. But here goes anyway:
Thinking of setting up an anonymous hot-line so employees can snitch on their co-workers for not conforming to ever jot and tittle of woke dogma? Don’t trouble yourself. We’ll do it for you! At Stasi.com, we know exactly how to weed out those pesky non-conformists at your company. Say goodbye to free thinking. Say hello to kowtowing to herd opinion. Just call 1-800-666-WOKE today.
Stasi.com is a subsidiary of Witchfinder-General.org
Trust in Media Falls to All-Time Low
According to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, trust in the news media is lower than it’s ever been before, thanks to its hopeless coverage of the coronavirus crisis. The report says overall levels of trust in the news globally (across 40 countries) is at the lowest point since it began tracking the data, with just 38% saying they trust news overall. In the UK, that figure has sunk to 28%.
Interestingly, people who identify as being on the left have less trust in the media than people on the right. Splitting the UK sample of more than 2,000 adults by political leaning, only 15% of those on the left agreed with the statement: “I think you can trust most news most of the time,” compared with 36% for the right. Odd, considering the left-wing bias of the BBC.
This isn’t just a problem for the mainstream media. Trust in news obtained from social media globally stands at a pathetically low 22%.
Perhaps that’s not surprising, given Google’s pandering to the WHO and other public health organisations during the crisis, pulling content from YouTube if it dares to challenge Covid orthodoxy even though the official line on things like face masks changes from day to day.
The latest example of Google’s pro-Establishment, liberal bias is its decision to demonetise Zero Hedge and put the Federalist on notice. Placing the Federalist on double-secret probation is in fact a climb down, since Google earlier announced that it would demonetised that publication, too. It was prompted to do this by a report on NBC that said the two publications had been flagged by a British outfit calling itself the Centre For Countering Digital Hate. On Twitter, it calls itself Stop Funding Fake News and targets online news sources that challenge woke dogma.
After the Centre for Countering Digital Hate succeeded in getting Zero Hedge and the Federalist kicked off Google’s advertising platform, at least initially, it sent a fund-raising email to supporters, bragging about its censorious victory:
Google Ads will no longer help fund the racist fake news sites Zero Hedge and the Federalist.
This is huge win for our campaign and the hundreds of people who have backed it. But we want go further [sic] and we need your help.
Can you chip in to help us get Google ads removed from another six of our target hate sites?
Hang on a second. As Google has now done a reverse ferret, isn’t the claim that Google Ads will no longer fund the Federalist fake news? I hope these holier-than-thou Social Justice Warriors sent a follow-up email, clarifying that their earlier one was wrong.
One of the reasons Google has backed down is because Senator Ted Cruze wrote a stiff letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai objecting to the decision – in his capacity as Chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The letter begins:
The recent actions of Google to “demonetize” a conservative media publisher, the Federalist, raise serious concerns that Google is abusing its monopoly power in an effort to censor political speech with which it disagrees.
This is part of a bigger problem. The culture of free speech in this country is under attack, and Google is helping lead the charge. Whereas Americans once understood that the best response to speech was more speech, some Americans, with the help of some of the most powerful companies on the planet, are now pressing to silence and punish those expressing views that do not align with the prevailing and ever-shifting progressive orthodoxy. These individuals demand that people with different views lose their livelihoods if they step out of line. Employers must fire dissenters. Companies like Google must—to use a most Orwellian term— “demonetize” them.
The letter concludes with a punchy list of demands that should make the Google CEO think twice before blithely doing the bidding of a left-wing lobby group again. Worth reading in full.
Blackouts and Lockdowns
A reader has sent me a quote from Theodore Dalrymple’s book Mass Listeria: The Meaning of Health Scares (1998). It includes a tidbit about the blackouts introduced during the Blitz:
That panic can easily be sown and result in harmful policies was pointed out by the surgeon Wilfred Trotter in the early days of the second WW. He wrote: “A total black out was enforced without compromise or graduation or provision for the devoted pedestrian. The consequences may well become a classical example of the staggering paradoxes that result from mixing good intentions with panic. Deaths by violence on the roads rose in the first month of the war from 500 to 1100. Thus by sitting quietly at home Hitler’s air force was able to kill 600 British citizens at a cost to itself of exactly nothing.”
The Caged Welsh Dragon
I promised to make stories about the wanton destruction of the Welsh tourism industry – and the general ineptitude of the Welsh Government – a regular feature if I got enough messages from readers. Well, they’ve been coming in thick and fast.
Here’s one from a reader in Brecon that’s typical:
Delighted you are taking up the Welsh tourism cause and lockdown in general in the Principality. The really stupid thing is that if you live in Hay you can shop in one shop because it is open in England, cross the street and the shops are closed being in Wales.
You can drive from Wales to England (one mile from Hay) and then drive yourself all over the continent but in theory you can’t drive more than five miles from your Welsh home.
Why oh why can’t I go to my Welsh home which I have owned since 1947. Not exactly a second home.
Drakeford is the most inept leader of the Labour Party in Wales ever. He is pathetic and afraid of his own shadow.
If you high ight our anxiety, distress and the total stupidity of the Welsh decisions I would be hugely grateful.
Happy to oblige, Sir.
And here’s another, this one about the lunacy of trying to buy a new house in Wales at the moment:
Our house hunting was interrupted by the lockdown.
We have begun to resume the search. We have a viewing near Wrexham tomorrow. The estate agent is based in Chester – about 13 miles away. So the estate agent will be driving across the border to open up the house for us. We have to wear gloves, but no muzzles, thank God! (She seemed perplexed when she asked me if I had gloves, and I answered, “Only gardening gloves.”) We are not allowed to touch anything in the house – though how the agent can enforce this I don’t know as she has to stay outside the house while we look around.
Anyway, I have tried to arrange a viewing at another house, near Ruthin. The estate agent for that property is in Buckley, Wales. The distance between Buckley and Ruthin is about 13 miles. I have been told by that estate agent that due to the Welsh Government’s policies, they are unable to provide us with a physical viewing.
So an English-based estate agent is able to enter Wales and drive 13 miles to allow us a viewing of a Welsh property that they are responsible for.
A Welsh-based agent is not allowed to do this.
So what will happen when vendors in Wales near the border realise this? They’ll start using English estate agents, Welsh businesses will lose out from much needed custom, and the Welsh Government will lose revenue across the border.
Drakeford and his lackeys down in Cardiff are not fit for purpose.
Those concerned about these excessive restrictions in Wales have an ally in the form of Sarah Atherton, the Conservative MP for Wrexham. You can read her letter to the First Minister complaining about this here.
And don’t forget the Welsh sceptical website, We The People.
Don’t Flush Out the Virus
Flushing the loo can propel the virus 3ft into the air according to Chinese scientists. So if you’re worried about catching Covid, and you’re in a public lavatory that someone has left in an ugly condition, make sure you close the lid before flushing.
Actually, hang on. Maybe you should do it after you’ve done a number two yourself. Why hasn’t anyone told me about this before? Have I been breathing in tiny fragments of my own poo for 56 years?
Round-Up
And on to the round-up of all the stories I’ve noticed, or which have been been brought to my attention, in the last 24 hours:
- ‘Is dexamethasone a major Covid breakthrough?‘ – Ross Clark in the Spectator is impressed
- ‘Is this the real reason Sweden didn’t lockdown?‘ – Ross Clark again, this time on the constitutional protections that may have prevented Sweden locking down
- ‘De Blasio Tells Covid Contract Tracers Not to Ask Positive Cases If They’ve Attended BLM Protests‘ – One from the “you couldn’t make it up” department
- ‘Foreshadowing a Coronavirus Royal Commission‘ – Professor Ramesh Thakur on fine form
- ‘Operation Free Churchill begins‘ – The Mail reports on the daring operation by a group of SAS-style council workers to remove the hoarding surrounding the statue of Winston Churchill before President Macron’s state visit
- ‘Are summer holidays back on? Hancock says ministers will reveal list of countries with low coronavirus levels within two weeks that Brits will be free to visit WITHOUT quarantine‘ – The climbdown continues
- ‘The ugly rise of left-wing racism‘ – Good piece by Rakib Ehsan in Spiked about the mobbing of Boris’s policy chief Munira Mirza in the Guardian and elsewhere for being the wrong kind of black person, i.e. not woke
- ‘Broadcasters like the BBC are alienating their audience with “woke” pandering‘ – Nigel Farage socks it to the Beeb in the Telegraph
- ‘The Price of Lies‘ – Good piece in the American Spectator by Harry Crocker
- ‘The woke have no vision of the future‘ – Excellent essay by Oxford political philosopher John Gray in UnHerd. My favourite line: “Universities have become seminaries of woke religion, while newspapers are turning into sermonising agitprop sheets.”
- ‘The new rules for days out at theme parks and museums‘ – The BBC reports on the joys of visiting theme pars and the like in the “new normal”. If any of my children insist on me taking them to Thorpe Park I will hurl myself off Stealth, the UK’s fastest rollercoaster
- ‘Greggs emerges from retail lockdown‘ – A chink of light in the gloom
Theme Tune Suggestions From Readers
Four songs today, all by the same band: Lock Down. The tracks, which you can find here, are:
- Hellbound
- Destruction of Society
- In the Blink of an Eye
- Swing Back
I’m going to book them to play at by post-lockdown party – in 2025.
Small Businesses That Have Reopened
A few weeks ago, Lockdown Sceptics launched a searchable directory of open businesses across the UK. The idea is to celebrate those retail and hospitality businesses that have reopened, as well as help people find out what has opened in their area. But we need your help to build it, so we’ve created a form you can fill out to tell us about those businesses that have opened near you. Now that non-essential shops have reopened – or most of them, anyway – we’re now focusing on pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants, as well as other social venues. Please visit the page and let us know about those brave folk who are doing their bit to get our country back on its feet.
Shameless Begging Bit
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And Finally…
James Delingpole and I discuss the current Cultural Revolution in our latest London Calling podcast and speculate about what role the lockdowns have played in fomenting this febrile moment. My theory is that a lot of under-employed graduates have been spending too much time festering at home, glued to their social media feeds.
In the course of the podcast, James and I joke about how the mob will have us both swinging from lampposts by the end of the year if the Cultural Revolution continues at its current pace. We were joking – sort of – but I’ve just seen this video of Peter Hitchens being following by a mob through the streets of Oxford chanting, “I don’t know what you’ve been told/Peter Hitchens has to go.” Genuinely alarming.
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Everyone of them wankers shouting at Peter Hitchens wants to fuck right off. Imagine being such a tosser that you’d hang around just to shout at the man when he’s going for a walk. A world led by these people will lead to death camps. We are in a fight for our lives and i can’t fucking wait.
It is quite astonishing that this is allowed to happen, and in the presence of police officers. If this is not intimidation with the threat of violence, I don’t know what is. I would expect to see it of Putin thugs, or in Zimbabwe. It is pure, unadulterated, blackshirt fascism. And we tolerate it!
If it were a group of men following a woman, or Brexit protestors following an MP, they would be banged up in an instant. There is only one conclusion: the police are colluding in it. And the reason? ” I would not go out if I were you, for your own safety you understand”. Pure fascism.
So called “moderate” MPs are among the worst offenders. Sarah Campion laughed when told about Farage being held in party offices (during an election campaign) by a violent Far Left mob outside. Numerous commentators, principally on the left but not exclusively so, found it funny when milk shake attacks were launched against people like Farage, Carl Benjamin, Tommy Robinson and others and no charges were ever brought against the attackers. Jo Brand’s BBC career suffered no damage whatsoever when she called for acid attacks on Farage. When a violent mob starting throwing stones at people gathered for a campaign rally the Police watched and did nothing (having escorted the violent mob to the location from which they could throw missiles at their opponents).
Indeed, they were a disgrace. Hitchens deserves credit for his good humour in the face of abuse, in that case and generally, and for trying to argue on a rational basis. I have huge respect for his approach and the stand he has taken, and agree with a lot of his positions. However, somewhere (Twitter I think) he said they (the protesters) were not really fascists. I think I know what he’s getting at, in so far as they didn’t look like they had the stomach for much more than bullying a lone old man, but I don’t think it’s right to dismiss or minimise the effect those people, their campaigns and attitudes have on individuals. As Hitchens well knows, if you are in almost any walk of life now and you question in any way the agenda of those people, or fail to show sufficient enthusiasm for it, you risk being publicly shamed attacked, ostracised AND YOU RISK LOSING YOUR JOB AND MAY NEVER WORK AGAIN IN YOUR CHOSEN PROFESSION – and many DO actually lose their livelihoods – career over. If that isn’t a form of fascism, I don’t know what is. I have… Read more »
Agree. Those scumbags harassing people like Peter Hitchins have to be challenged. They have nothing to offer society except vile, hypocritical virtue signalling. Hitchens is worth more than the lot of them put together.
Yes, although I feel he is sometimes treated as a licensed clown by the BBC (who think his fusty fifties Lewisian aura will put young people off, and they may be right), he is undoubtedly brave and on the side of the angels in all this.
Where are the MPs ready to speak out against Far Left Fascism? Not a single one prepared to come out and tell the truth.
Have a look at this scum bag hypocrite. Just shows what kind of brain dead morons these bullies are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-A-d1f3oFI
I’ll take your word for it. I don’t want the stomach acid to be churning this early in the morning!
No, Nick, it’s really worth a look!
Yes bring it on. This is a bit O/T, so I apologise for that, but I’m sure one of the reasons the government rushed through legislation to prevent gatherings of more than six people is because they are terrified that otherwise there may well be a LOT more ex-Forces people and assorted patriots visiting London this weekend.
1000 teams of six…
Help achieve focus of Westminster
Indeed; come the October mass redundancies, civil war beckons strongly.
anyone who downloads these apps are a threat to humanity and have my utter revulsion and contempt.
More on the app
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/06/17/moscow-residents-complain-fines-coronavirus-tracking-app/
I am afraid the nightmare will never end. There are various stories in the Telegraph pushing the compulsory mask idea. First of all if the 2m rule is reduced to 1 metre then we should all be wearing masks apparently. Then if any employer has a BAME employee then all staff need to wear masks ( I knew they would start using this one even though they have done no research whatsoever as to why BAME members of the public are more susceptible – vitamin D levels perhaps). Then there is also the British medial Association pushing the theme for anywhere where social distancing is impossible. All this when masks have been proven not to have any effect at all in preventing the spread of the virus because the viral particles are so small they will always get through even the best designed mask I think the masks are simply to dehumanise us and, as they cover the mouth, are there to remind us we have no voice. This may sound a bit insane but I think this is apart of the transhumanist agenda. People like Elon Musk have stated that they believe they will be able to link… Read more »
I’m afraid we will have to risk arrest by refusing to wear masks, if the tyrants try to impose them.
We may need a legal fighting fund. I think that can be provided. (Crowdfunding?)
Hope it doesn’t come to that.
I will never wear a mask no matter what these creatures do to me, never. This is my world, my life and my choice.
Yep, I’m with you Biker
Cheers Winston, i get the feeling you’re levels of pissed off-ness are pretty much in line with mine
Yep, I just need an excuse.
I feel exactly the same and I won’t be vaccinated too.
agree
You might not be able to resist if you need an immunity certificate to go to work, use public transport or enter any publicly-accessible building, such as a shop.
Given the way things are going, you might also find yourself being arrested and then forcibly vaccinated.
It pretty much says that in the Coronavirus Bill, at least the copy I read before it went through.
‘97% of Corona vaccine recipients will become infertile’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLM-wV1PMH8
Or have reduced testicular size!
https://drrichardday.wordpress.com/audio/
Yes, I am aware of this David Icke has mentioned him a few times
Quite interesting that one of the points made back in 1969 is that one day everything will stop and society will wake up to a new system.
Or in today speak; “a new normal.”
Worth a listen to tapes 1 and 2.
I challenge anyone to disagree with the majority of changes outlined having NOT come true!
To be honest we’re pretty limited on the survival of humans front. Within the next 20-30 years there will be a huge development in AGSIP’s (Artificial General Super Intelligence with Personality). This will eventually have the job of making the decision as to whether we live or die, as it’s intelligence power will that much greater than ours it will really not have any need for us.
It may let us live like domestic pets, or it could be like the Matrix and we become batteries to power this intelligence.
Poppycock!
Yes? I have seen that ‘within the next 20-30 years’ for a long time; also in the context of climate change and various other scams.
One of the main reasons the 2-m rule should be dropped (apart from the fact it is stupid) is to allow pubs, restaurants, cafes etc to function more normally. Surely, surely even the idiots in charge can see that compulsory mask-wearing in places where you eat and drink is a non-starter?
On second thoughts, perhaps not…
At the start of LS when I was merely hinting, not expressing outwardly for fear of ridicule I’m afraid, that the real agenda was not about a virus there were very few here who agreed. I didn’t get any flak but there wasn’t much agreement that my fears were well founded. And to be honest I was reluctant to be compared to a David Icke acolyte. But the whole thing with masks bears me out. Everyone knows they don’t work but I have friends who willingly wear them, almost as if they have been hypnotised against all their common sense notions. More to the point, there is plenty of evidence that masks are a danger to health. So why now? If masks weren’t a necessity back in mid-March when this ‘thing’ was at its most infectious then why now? Any why did authorities wait two weeks after announcing masks would be worn on public transport to make them mandatory? Was the virus on holiday for two weeks? Can we now call this for what it is? A massive hoax. A coup. And can we please rise up.
My T-shirt arrived today Toby and I love it! Should explain my feelings on muzzles without having to be asked! 🙂
How’s the Economy Doing? Watch the Dentists
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/upshot/dentists-coronavirus-economic-indicator.html
Would you like to be treated by a dentist who has a migraine due to hyper-cautious mask-wearing?
And how about the recent graduate who doesn’t seem to understand about how pathogens spread (or don’t!), immune systems etc. Worrying!
bank of England to boost stimulus measures but hold fire on negative rates
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-bank-of-england-preview-stimulus-bond-buying-negative-rates-152421746.html
How do we respond when people say (because they do) – there hasn’t been a spike because everyone was wearing masks at the protests. This is total BS, but you know it’s being said now. I really might enter a deeper pit of despair if 1 meter “rule” comes with “mandatory mask.”
HawkAnalyst’s picture above clearly shows non mask wearing protesters
Masks are a great way to conceal your identity as protests – mainly those in the front, not so at the back
I’m just watching the Premier league at the moment. There are lots of masks being worn for show. Ridiculous. However now we have been able to have protests how about some open air concerts as there has been no negative effect? Hyde Park perhaps? We could make it all politically correct so that the police would allow it.
Why no Wimbledon? Can tennis players not play without applause between each pointt?!
Because they had a big insurance payout , same with the British open golf. Not saying it’s right…but suspect that’s the real reason.
Hancock, totally unable to follow his own stupid rules.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1i1M5zK1nE
He has a bit of a habit of doing this sort of thing – didn’t he greet the parents of Harry Dunn with a ‘hug’?
Do as I say not as I do
The man’s a total bellend. He earned my ire with his threat to take away the outdoor exercise. A threat, incidentally, was collective punishment, illegal under international law, never mind domestic law.
Sorry for jumbling up the sentences, for some reason I’m especially angry at the lockdown today. Not people on here, I hasten to add.
Me too. I’m having a fury day.
I think it’s all part of the same psyop. ‘They’ continue to flout their own draconian rules (muzzles, 2m, lockdown visits etc) in full sight of us all, while turning the screws on the rest of us, backed up by the continuing fear/threat campaign. The inconsistency over BLM v lockdown protests is also part of it.
All we can do is resist as much as we can and keep talking to people. I suspect that there are more of ‘us’ than we think. That’s why we have to be kept down, so don’t be!
We need the t-shirt, or similar identifier.
Pity I’ve never been able to stand the British Bulldog nonsense, or I’d have got one of Toby’s.
I can’t abide nationalism in any form and Churchill was an arrogant tosser, which is why Bloris identifies with him.
Besides, the breed is particularly prone to ear infections, skin infections and obesity.
Sorry Toby! Back to the drawing board.
I remember in March talking to a member of staff and saying well in a months time we will either be bringing out the dead or the government will have called the whole thing off. I would never have imagined three months later the whole charade would be still in full play, the country still in effect closed down and less than 5 % of kids in the UK receiving a school education. The mass media and the BBC have been instrumental in purveying hysteria and conveying the message that this deadly virus is just waiting for you to leave your house.In reality if you asked most people if they knew anyone who had died of coronavirus they would say no although a small minority might say one of the little and large comedians. Anyway today was the day I ventured to visit a ” non essential ” shop to buy a part for my bike. There was the Soviet style queue outside the shop, the hand sanitiser , the assistents in their rubber gloves and the reprimand for not following the one way system through the aisles. I ve decided the new normal shopping isn’t for me… Read more »
I totally agree. Cannot believe it is mid-June and we are here. The one-way system is just absolute insanity. I went to Kew Gardens and couldn’t leave the main entrance, but had to walk to an exit far away from where I needed to be (the tube). Outdoors! For what reason? We cannot be the only sane ones!!
Peter, I too thought it would be all over in a few weeks (once the NHS had been ‘protected’. The more I read and see the more I think there must be more to it all. I think I’m reasonably intelligent but, because I can.t figure it out, I’m beginning to believe in ‘shadowy figures at work’.
If everyone is ‘following the science’, how on earth on this small island of ours can we have 4 different ways of dealing with this ‘deadly virus'(Sturgeon is now suggesting that this pantomime will continue in Scotland until 11 August unless she/they can keep the numbers of weekly cases in double figures). Why are there not more people asking just this one simple question? I really do despair for the future of my kids….
They seem hellbent on reducing this country to being the first cold-weather third world country. They want us in poverty and utterly reliant on them. But they will lose, because more of us are waking up now. The country is astir. The BLM protests are one manifestation of it. But only one.
The backlash is gaining ground in the US, take a look at Dr Steve Turley’s twice daily blogs on YouTube
Agreed, the role of the media (fuelled by Remainer resentment and Borisophobia) has been shameful: talking up 500K death models, ramping up fear, arguing for draconian measures (and then at the first sign of Far Left protest, not condemning their complete disregard of the law on public gatherings), referencing excess deaths as though they are all Covid-19 as opposed to Lockdown related (then ignoring excess deaths when they start to fall dramatically and go into negative in London), uncritically accepting the racism explanation for excess deaths in the BAME communities and, finally, now criticising the Government for the effects of the Lockdown on the economy, having argued for the Lockdown all along.
This was fundamentally a media-generated crisis. That politicians cravenly colluded in it shows how useless our politicians are. They failed to call out the media.
No mention at all in the media of the 1,200 excess deaths at home for week 23
And now some of them have the brass necked cheek to complain that
“We’ve all been infected with an excessive fear”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8434087/STEPHEN-GLOVER-Britain-shake-morbid-funk-wake-coronavirus.html
Daily Mail being one of the very worst offenders!
Have to say that I’m frustrated to the point of depression with this now.
Cannot believe that people are just taking this without question or fight.
Three months ago we were told “flatten the curve”. It’s been flat for two months and yet here we still are. Waiting for Herr Cummings to accept that the 2nd Spanish-flu like wave isn’t coming.
Why are there no mass protests against something that is patently a load of utter made up bollocks?
How is he getting away with this?
Wait until the money runs out, and furlough ends. That’s when you’ll see the change en masse.
And I seriously doubt that it will be pretty. BLM is the sideshow for now but when the main attraction comes – i.e. ordinary people who have had enough and have nothing to lose then that day of reckoning has arrived.
Can’t wait that long. Martial law will be in place by then.
I’m afraid you’re probably right.
No – and I wonder why we keep comparing to something in 1918 where health and cleanliness was vastly different.
Not to mention that flu acts very differently from coronas.
I don’t know, but start with little acts of defiance – tear down a Civinotice, go the wrong way along the nasty little arrows, tell a mask- wearer not to run in it he will drop dead from CO2 poisoning, etc.- and the defiance will snowball.
One thing is certain: if nobody does anything by way of resistance, They have won. And They cannot be allowed to win because They are the killers of the human soul.
There are other online shops apart from Amazon its worth supporting the smaller sites otherwise eventually there will only be Amazon.
Agree. We never use Amazon.
I use ebay when I can, but are there other ‘hubs’ to go to like Amazon, rather then juts online versions of high street shops? I would support a company competing with Amazon.
Amazon is a good way to locate the independent companies who sell online. Then you can buy direct from them.
Nothing less than a crime against humanity is being conducted in this country (and in others, but I only worry about the one I’m living in). There will be a day of reckoning.
I’m loving your positive sounding posts, NR but I’m unable to see any kind of coordinated resistance movement being planned anywhere by anyone.
That’s because we’re all being watched. I don’t know how you get round that one. Here’s a question I would love answered. Don’t the 77th Brigade and all those who muster them want to live in a free society too? Is it worth the price of living in a joyless world just so that you can control a few people? Joy is infectious and if those who would control you create a grey, drab little world a la 1984 don’t they realise that they have to live in it too? It is a self-inflicted wound. Don’t they understand that control over others isn’t the aphrodisiac they assumed that it would be? That creating laughter and not tears, love not hate is the natural human dynamic? They must know that to be loved is more pleasurable than to be hated. Unless, as I have always suspected, those who seek power are mentally ill.
That’s because such things rarely are co-ordinated or planned. Resistance does not require you to do something, it requires you to not do something. Just don’t play the game using their rules. That’s how these things always begin. Or do you think that every single resistance movement just fell out of the sky, fully organised already?
This is a massive experiment to see how you can influence and control the masses. Imagine what you can do with this information in future – just scare the people and feed them garbage via the media and you can do what you want.
There are definitely some other hidden agendas at play. Hopefully some investigative journalists (i know they are scarce) will eventually get to the bottom of this.
In the meantime make sure you guide your children to always question facts and then make an informed decision.
More choice too!
Console yourself by realising that Bezos provides more shop fronts for hundreds of small businesses than any high street has been doing.
Many are mums with small kids, working from their kitchens. Other examples are passionate artisan coffee roasters, able to reach a wider market.
Etc. Etc.
With regard to these ‘woke’ companies, just boycott them as far as possible. When society has been destroyed by the leftist loons, don’t they realise that they won’t exist any longer anyway? So, BBC licence fee-gone, Netflix-gone, Kellogg’s-no more, SKY-teetering. LEGO – never again.
Suppose there will come a time soon when there’s eff all else to boycott but it does make one feel good (and I’m saving a small fortune….!).
Just read an article at ‘Conservative Woman’ so…National Trust membership card-shredded!
I am thankful that these doctors have coordinated for such an important letter but what has taken them so long? Yet, it really should not have been necessary, as the negative outcomes from a lockdown might reasonably have been predicted by anyone with an ounce of common sense.
agree
Wait a minute; Toby is 56 years old. No way! Is that a typo?
Nope
Some humour from Daily Mail message board:
Important new advice just issued on avoiding a second wave: Wear a mask, stay 2m apart, wash your hands frequently and keep well away from any fish that suddenly start coughing.
And social distance from your own dinner plate. Do not allow stomach to meet food.
and to be really sure, take 32 paracetamol 500mg tablets……….
To make sure add in bottle of vodka or other favourite tipple and get into a hot tub.
And if you flush too soon, you’ll die from covid. Flush too late, you’ll die from cholera.
It is amazing that the government have not opened schools – do they think parents are stupid and are not aware that schools in other countries are open (without social distancing!)? And that there have not been mass deaths of teachers or pupils?
Yet many people are saying they won’t send their children back to school. To which I say: Fine, that is your choice. Because of the extraordinary circumstances we have had this year, we won’t even charge you for failure to comply with the Education Acts. But don’t you bloody well dare interfere with my right to ensure my children receive the education that I pay for through my taxes. How dare you make that choice for me?
Agree. Also Labour has really shot themselve in the foot by not supporting the opening of schools. Zero points to Starmer – this will come back and bite them!!
The problem is that many people are just that stupid. I’m disgusted by all those who refuse to find out the truth about this huge scam.
As long as they hang on to the 2m rule, the government is stuck. God knows why they won’t relax it but that’s the major obstacle here, as everywhere.
The rule sends out a message that there’s something to be scared of, so the scared ones won’t want to send their kids.
Those who know it’s hoax don’t want to send their kids to a gulag.
Stalemate!
https://www.gilmorehealth.com/chinese-coronavirus-is-a-man-made-virus-according-to-luc-montagnier-the-man-who-discovered-hiv/ In a follow up interview Prof Luc Montagnier (Nobel prize winner for HIV) insists that Covid-19 was a man made virus possibly used for production of a HIV vaccine. Most likely an accidental release and not a deliberate release. The good news is “In any case, this thesis, defended by Professor Luc Montagnier, has a positive turn. According to him, the altered elements of this virus are eliminated as it spreads: “Nature does not accept any molecular tinkering, it will eliminate these unnatural changes and even if nothing is done, things will get better, but unfortunately after many deaths.”“This is enough to feed some heated debates! So much so that Professor Montagnier’s statements could also place him in the category of “conspiracy theorists”: “Conspirators are the opposite camp, hiding the truth,” he replies, without wanting to accuse anyone, but hoping that the Chinese will admit to what he believes happened in their laboratory.To entice a confession from the Chinese he used the example of Iran which after taking full responsibility for accidentally hitting a Ukrainian plane was able to earn the respect of the global community. Hopefully the Chinese will do the right thing he adds. “In any case,… Read more »
The problem is we do not require the Chinese to do the right thing – there are many good Chinese people like in any race but we require the Chinese Communist Party to do the right thing a bunch of psychopaths who have been brutalising the Chinese people for decades. Why would anyone expect them to do ‘the right thing’ ?
The man-made elements aren’t being knocked out fast enough for me. Come on nature, get yer finger out.
OK I’m not an expert in genomics, but I have downloaded the actual genomes of SARS1, SARS2, NL63 (another human coronavirus but that entered the human population about 1000 years ago), and HIV, and written a bit of code to compare them for myself. The code looks for subsequences of a given codon-length (a codon is just a run of 3 nucleotides and codes for a single amino acid) in another genome and counts how many times they appear. If I compare SARS1 and SARS2 I find lots in common. The longest subsequence in common is 39 codons, with 2 more shared sequences at 38 codons, hundreds at 10 or 15 codons or so, and several hundred down at 5 codons. We know these viruses have a lot in common so this appears to validate my crude comparison technique. If I compare the more distantly-related NL63 with SARS1 or SARS2, I find much less in common, but it is still noticeable. There are 105 4-codon sequences from NL63 in SARS2, 7 5-codon sequences, and 2 6-codon sequences. I get a very similar result if I compare NL63 with SARS1. Now if I compare HIV with all three… Read more »
I too doubt the manufactured hypothesis. Indeed, the only instances of biological warfare research consider existing conditions only, rather than invent new ones. And viruses that kill their host tend not to last very long. It is far easier to concoct chemical weapons than bio weapons.
I think you probably could create an extremely nasty bioweapon by genetically engineering viruses if you wanted to. But I don’t see why the Chinese would be doing this.
The main drawback of using something like Covid as a weapon is how do you stop it infecting your own side? It’s the kind of thing terrorists might be mad enough to do (but fortunately most of them are also pretty clueless) but not the Chinese government. At their level the point of weapons is to threaten people with which means they have to be legit. That rules out chemical and bio but obviously colossal thermonuclear bombs are totally fine.
The HIV story doesn’t have to have been weapons of course. It could have been vaccine research gone wrong or something. It could even have arisen naturally. But there’s no smoking gun in the genome.
i wonder which one of us lockdown skeptics will become the prisoner standing for humanity in a six foot cell. I will never surrender my right as a living animal on this planet to any of their restrictions. These vile creatures are hell bent on destroying humanity and it will take an average man to beat them. Churchill didn’t win the war it was some dude from a village someplace fighting that did. So now i am openly confronting anyone with a mask. I highly recommend it. They absolutely shit themselves. It may be because i’m six four and not scared of anyone anywhere but fuck them. The time has come for Lockdown Skeptics to show some bottle. We can’t allow the weak to win. We shall go on till the end We will confront them in the shops We will confront them in the pubs and the clubs we will fight them with growing confidence and growing strength in the air we shall defend our island whatever the cost will be We shall fight on the terraces, we will fight them in the parks we shall fight on the beaches and in the duty free, we shall fight… Read more »
Indeed. I tore down my first antisocial distancing notice today.
it might not seem much but it’s this kind of thing that we must do. I applaud you and wish you well in all your efforts. This is the time to make a stand. The enemy isn’t in Germany or France, it’s not a million troops or an air raid, it’s the compliant people doing the bidding of those that have taken our country from us. We now live under occupation and i fear it’s not gonna end well for any of us but i will die with my boots on not sitting in my house cowering from the wankers who think they control us because once every five years we can vote.
I want to get back to racing my dirt bikes, my kids at school, afternoon drinking sessions, illegal raves and all the things that make my life enjoyable. I love living, i love doing all the things a human can do. What they are proposing isn’t life it’s hell and i ain’t about to go down without a fight even if it ends in flames.
Governments are getting away with their crimes against humanity because a large part of humanity are letting them. Weak, ignorant cowards who are digging their own graves.
I did that a couple of weeks ago, it felt good!
Hah, I passed a few ‘park closed’ laminated warnings on a walk yesterday and rue not taking a pair of snips out with me, time for another walk!
Keep it up. Tear them all down.
We now carry scissors, secateurs and a permanent marker with us when we go out!
Good for you! We take any opportunity to do the same.
I am close……
anger is an energy!
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The Government seems pretty vacant at the moment.
‘Blind acceptance is a sign of stupid [or fucking] fools that stand in line.’
‘When there’s no future, there cannot be sin.’
‘Claustrophobia, there’s too much paranoia. There’s too many closets, so when will we fall?’
‘A cheap holiday in other people’s misery.’
‘Ah ha ha, ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?’
‘I’m not a discharge. I’m not a loss in protein.’
I had a word with three security guards in a local-ish (indoor) shopping precinct on Monday. All three bigger than me. They wanted me to walk on the left (fine), but they were having a conversation. They were all correctly distanced, so I could either a) walk around them or b) walk through the middle of them. I chose a). I think most people would, you don’t walk through other people’s conversations.
“Walk on the left sir.”
“Love to, but you’re in the way.”
“Sorry sir.” Shuffle, shuffle.
FFS. Next time (if there’s a next time), right through the middle.
Fecal plumewise Toby Young has indeed been doing some unintentional recycling if he hasn’t been closing the lid before flushing but unsurprisingly with no obvious harm.
Did nobody ever ask why toilets have lids before? Well now you know. Lid down and flush.
Presumably you don latex gloves before lifting the lid again.
And a WW2 gas mask as recommended by Peter Hitchens.
There was me thinking they were to make it easier to settle down on. More support for upper legs than a narrow piece of porcelain. Sorry matey, sounds like more sh1t to me.
The Scottish invented the toilet seat in 1709.
In 1801 the English perfected this device by putting a hole in it…
Great list – shows just how farcical things have become! Think someone should post it on all MPs Twitter accounts, or at least email it to them…
Sent to someone who is connected to Government/MPs earlier
Does anyone know what’s going on with Sweden at the moment? According to wordometer, which I know is less than accurate, daily new cases have shot up over the last few days. I’m assuming this is due to increased testing, although I can’t find anything to confirm that. Deaths have been steadily decreasing, but today are up to more than 100 again. I’m hoping this is just an anomaly? Perhaps deaths from days or weeks ago being added on to today’s total? Otherwise, this is not good news.
one day nobody will die again, ever, of anything, then we can get back to normal, until then…………………
I’m in Sweden. It’s just increased testing – Anders Tegnell said so today. Numbers in intensive care today are 72 less than this time last week..
That’s great, thanks for letting me know. It’s what I thought – I had a feeling I read something about it a week or so ago, but as always it’s impossible to find the truth… So most people out there are probably rubbing their hands in glee at this evidence of Sweden’s failure.
They always do.And they’re always wrong. Remember the panic-mongering over “second wave” in Japan, Korea and (Nationalist) China?
https://www.thelocal.se/20200617/has-sweden-passed-its-coronavirus-peak-yet
https://www.thelocal.se/20200310/timeline-how-the-coronavirus-has-developed-in-sweden
There is an anomly in reporting deaths ith certain dates coming with cumulative reporting.
The incresed pos cases are mass testing and mostly asymptomatic cases and young. The deaths declining each day but backlog are older deaths not changing the peak of death ealier in April.ICU down steadily and also hospitalizations.The links above explain i detail
Thanks, I thought I’d read something about an increase in testing a while back. Those links are really helpful. Glad it’s nothing to worry about!
It’s usually to do with increased testing, or figures being added that were either under reported or reported late. Happens here, which is why we have low numbers at the weekend, then a sudden “spike” Tues/Wed.
I assumed it was partly due to the weekend backlog, it just worried me as it was higher than it has been in a long time even taking weekends into account.
Sweden is fine. ‘They’ are all trying to discredit Sweden because they failed to follow the WHO instructions to lockdown.
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A very big study from Italy testing close contacts of cases. Amazing how many asymptomatic persons aged less than 60 years 70% !!!
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2006/2006.08471.pdf
Among the selected 4,326 close contacts (i.e.,excluding index cases),2,351 (54%) had been infected(median age: 54; IQR 33-65; 55.7% females). Of these, 1,675 infections (71%) were identified by the serological assay, and 676 (28%) by the RT-PCR.
“69.1% of all infected individuals aged less than 60 years did not develop symptoms (95% confidence interval: 66.7-71.4%).The risk of symptoms increased with age.6.9% of infected subjects older than 60 years had critical disease, with males at significantly higher risk.”
I believe this but would point out this is now at variance with the WHO’s “revised” opinion on asymptomatic cases. They used to say 25% across the whole population but then revised that way down…
I think the huge number of asymptomatic cases explains why there is a sudden fall in the rate of infection. I very much doubt we have to be so hysterical about “second spikes”. They are likely to remain very limited I think.
Of course a lot of people fight off the virus with first line defences – in the nose and in the throat and so probably wouldn’t even feature as asymptomatic.
They should stop testing – it serves no purpose
Our political parties have clearly failed us. They are stuffed with people who have no concern for the greater good, but only see as far as the trough.
First-past-the-post always means that new political parties have a mountain to climb for any representation. But this situation has shown that it is now no longer valid to vote Conservative to avoid the greater danger of Labour.
So what should we do on the longer-term? Take action and create a new party, or follow an existing smaller party? Personally I find that the policies of the SDP closely match my own ideals – mainly policies of community responsibility. I have always felt that concepts of left and right are massively over-simplistic and the SDP seem to mirror that. I don’t agree with all SDP policies, but I can compromise on the differences.
Keen to hear what other free-thinkers here think about the longer-term way forward, and what they think of the SDP.
They abhor democracy. They wanted a second referendum after the biggest vote in British history resulted in a vote for Brexit. So why would you trust anything they say when they said, like every other party, they would accept the outcome of the Brexit vote. Clearly they despise the common man and woman and only want democracy when it is convenient for them. Come the next election I am quite sure, they, Labour and all the non-entity parties will probably ask for the result to be made null and void if the Tories get in on the grounds of meddling by some foreign power or because the voters are clearly racist because if you vote Tory you must be and racist’s votes shouldn’t count. They will probably do research to find out what age demographic votes for them and try to bring in a law that prohibits anyone outside that bracket to vote. Maybe they can get the age one is allowed to vote reduced to 5 and then the SDP supporters can vote themselves and on their children’s behalf as well. That may raise their votes a bit. Obviously if the 5 year olds vote themselves they would… Read more »
“They wanted a second referendum” Are you confusing the SDP with Lib Dems?
Yes indeed, I think the original post was referring to Social Democratic Party (UK, 1990–present)
Policies here:
https://sdp.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/SDP-Policy-2019.pdf
They are sort of “Blue Labour”. Socially conservative, nationalistic, favouring some nationalisation and a welfare state but a mixed economy.
It’s worth a read. They are a bit too pro-state intervention to be wholly to my liking, but seem pretty sound on immigration, the importance of the nation state, the family and our culture, and also on avoiding stupid foreign wars, and the need for a constitution to protect/restore freedoms.
A couple of big negatives for me are their support for PR and that they’ve not said much that I can see about the virus response being a mistake. And I tend to agree with Biker that more emphasis should be placed on the individual.
But they couldn’t be any worse than the choices we have now.
Yes, the SDP would probably reflect by own approach being left of centre, in accepting a reasonably strong role for the state in creating a good society, but understanding the importance of free speech in a democracy. However, they are miniscule. You’re right that FPTP is a barrier to progress but it is not an insuperable one. A party that could gather 35% of the vote and concentrate the vote in certain parts of the country could actually win a majority, whereas in many European countries we see grand coalitions of traditional enemies being erected to stop populist parties getting into government. The Conservatives appear to have completely lost their way, so the opportunity is there for a new populist party to come to prominence. I am not sure Farage’s Brexit (non) Party is the vehicle. It might be a case of cometh the hour, cometh the man or woman. As a first step though we need a genuine alternative to the PC media. I’d love to see Toby Young crowd-fund a new radio/TV station. I am confident that crowd-funding would raise an initial £1million to get this going. If people could “feel” a different sort… Read more »
when you do away with the first past the post system we end up with the lunatics of some fringe party like the Greens holding the balance of power when virtually no one voted for them. FPTP is the only way to hold an election. The SDP were useless. There is only one way to organise society and it’s free trade every man for themselves otherwise we end up like now with the lunatics locking us in our houses to try and “protect” everyone. When you try that you end up protecting no one. It may seem harsh to those who rely on the government for everything but the reality is the government is the problem, the people who want a government are the problem and we will never be free people while we have a government that regulates, imposes and dictators every single aspect of life. Christ these people have made so many laws and regulations no one knows them all. Who knows now what we’re “allowed” to do under lockdown? Some muppet from the Government gets up every day and mumbles some shit, the media ask them if it will affect blecks more and we all have to… Read more »
The government has been the problem for a long time. Closely followed by the public sector.
Biker, when this is all over I’d like to have a beer or six with you. If you’re ever near the People’s Republic of Brighton and Hove holler up
If you bring Chris Eubank with you. That dude is a hero of mine
I’m up for this too. 12 miles from Brighton, also a big Eubank fan.
Choices. Myself, I prefer any party over those currently represented at Westminster. All parties at Westminster are complicit – either by voting for or demanding that the government enact the lockdown – in the human rights atrocity being visited upon the people of the UK. The SDP is not represented at Westminster, not the one you’re referring to anyway.
Agree, we want a new political party that look after our freedom and liberties
I’ve written to Nigel Farage about forming a new party
The cultural revolution is genuinely alarming, indeed. But this is what you get when mainstream politicians abandon free speech principles, tolerate electoral malpractice (including attacks on candidates) and change the normal rules of democratic debate.
All we hear is childish equality of outcome demands, the equivalent of “It’s not fair, Mummy!”
Rather than reply “Life’s not fair, darling.” our politicians attempt to mollify the child.
There is nothing in law stopping anyone in the UK from working hard, to gain academic qualifications and pursue a rewarding career. We see many recent migrant communities, includes people of colour, doing exceptionally well in this country in law, business, education, medicine, science, media and so on. Most organisations, rightly or wrongly, deliberately seek to achieve ethnic and gender balance in their staff and their leadership. It’s obvious that where communities are not doing well, there are deep causal factors. Sadly, no one wants to discuss those, prefer to signal their virtue and promote conspiracy theories, while simultaneously taking an axe to our culture and our history. The Conservative Party seems incapable of conserving anything apart from itself.
Sadly there is now.
Yes, good point STD (sorry for the acronym)!
Absolutely correct , my Mrs is the daughter of immigrants who were largely dirt poor for most of her childhood but through her Talent , intelligence and sheer hard graft she is now a director of a major city finance firm ( Quite what she is doing with some two bob sparky from Essex is beyond me ) . There was no prejudice holding her back and neither was she given a leg up , everything she has achieved has been through her own hard work . Those opportunities are there for everyone if you have the brains and will to work hard , as it should be in a true meritocracy but all we here is the constant whining about how awful we are and our terrible history of oppressing others. Despite not seeing herself as truly English she loves this country with all her heart for the opportunities it gave to her and her family and cannot stand to see what is happening to England right now with the constant anti White and anti English rhetoric in the media. This whole BLM horseshit is a diversionary tactic to steer people away from the fact that the corona HOAX… Read more »
“Flushing the loo can propel the virus 3ft into the air according to Chinese scientists. So if you’re worried about catching Covid, and you’re in a public lavatory that someone has left in an ugly condition, make sure you close the lid before flushing.
Actually, hang on. Maybe you should do it after you’ve done a number two yourself. Why hasn’t anyone told me about this before? Have I been breathing in tiny fragments of my own poo for 56 years?”
I suppose that could be a problem for people under about 4′ tall who don’t bother to close the lid. I’ve never been particular obsessive about closing the lid, though I think I usually do, but what I am pretty certain of is that my head has never been within 3 feet of the water in the bowl when flushing….
I thought they used squat toilets in China.
Just stop a minute while I contemplate the idea of Mark Drakeford’s head being within three feet if the water while flushing…
Would like to see a country by country breakdown of how many “covid deaths” were those who were from nursing homes/care centers- should be easy for each country to tabulate these figures. Anyone know of such records?
“Interestingly, people who identify as being on the left have less trust in the media than people on the right. Splitting the UK sample of more than 2,000 adults by political leaning, only 15% of those on the left agreed with the statement: “I think you can trust most news most of the time,” compared with 36% for the right. Odd, considering the left-wing bias of the BBC.” This is something I was thinking about a few days ago, and I was assuming that cynicism about the honesty of the mainstream media is greater on the left than on the right despite the very evident left-wing bias of said media, which is something that is very obvious without needing to see a formal survey result for it. My presumption is that it is basically to do with the default position of respect for authority being higher among people who are on the right, and with the political left having formed traditions of being “rebellious” from their predominantly C19th and early C20th rise to power. They have not fully adjusted to their almost complete political triumph and still have some attitudes left over from when they were dissenters rather than what they… Read more »
Mark, It seems that you are thinking your way out of your right wing box. This is very good because imprisoning ourselves in a right or left wing box is, actually, imprisonment.
There might be people who are boxed in by a political definition, but personally I’ve never been one. I form my opinions based upon my assessment of issues and context. Nevertheless, it is clear that on my assessment of issues I usually find myself in sympathy with the position held by the political right – loyalty to nation rather than internationalism, individualism (or family loyalty) rather than collectivism, small government rather than big government, social conservatism rather than political correctness.
That I think is probably because I am instinctively a moderate, but I live in a society that has moved very sharply to the left over my lifetime, leaving me very clearly on one side of the political divide. As I’ve suggested before, I am a moderate living in an extreme society, a description that also applies to all lockdown sceptics, on that particular issue.
I see left/right as a clearly useful descriptive term for broad similarities in attitude across a swathe of issues. Broad similarities, not identities, nor uniform. Such similarities are the underlying basis of our party political system, and are clearly very real, albeit also very problematic in some areas.
People fall into the confirmation bias trap regularly when it comes to the media.
For example, in Scotland Sturgeon is never pressed on anything she says, ever, by the media. However, on Twitter her rabid supporters pick up on anything other than pure media genuflection as “anti-SNP bias”.
Yes, I agree – people who take those positions often don’t seem to realise or concede that they have “won” and are always ready to quote instances or areas where their aims are thwarted or their views are challenged as evidence that they are being “kept down” in some way by the “establishment”.
Maybe it feels better to think you’re a rebel. Maybe they think things have not gone far enough (certainly some do). Maybe some believe in true communism, though I struggle to take the ones I know too seriously on that as they are usually comfortably off and send their children to private schools.
As for what the “right” should do (and really I would say it’s what “moderates” should do), we could start off by being much less complacent that things will turn out all right in the end.
Women’s lib as we understand it is a much more recent addition to the Left’s demands. “Suffrage for All” (meaning all adults) was certainly a demand of the Left 150 years ago, but not quite the same thing as women’s lib.
Both female suffrage and general sex “equality” was always a feature of the ideological/radical left, and you will see it in the writings of most of the major C19th political figures of the left. What you are drawing attention to is the fact that the left that triumphed politically in the early-mid-C20th was basically an alliance between the ideological left and the working class trade unionist movement. The latter’s base was never much interested in the ideological issues of the left (in fact was notoriously conservative on many issues), but sought direct and real improvements to the situation of working men and their families.
This alliance lasted until the late C20th when the ideological left reached a position where the enthusiastic support of trade union members was no longer needed and in fact was more of a hindrance to their goals. Nowadays it is less an alliance than a more or less openly parasitic relationship whereby the trade unions provide finance for the ideological left, and sinecures for its members to rest in while pursuing their own personal and political goals rather than anything that really relates to the members’ desires or needs.
I know there are going to be shouts of conspiracy theory, nutter, fake etc but have a read of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and see how it matches your views in your 3rd paragraph. You can believe it’s fake, it’s a set-up and so on – I’m on the fence as I’ve not seen enough evidence either way to say it is real or a fake but it is uncannily accurate in it’s “predictions” and scenarios: https://archive.org/stream/TheProtocolsOfTheLearnedEldersOfZion/ProtocolsOfTheEldersOfZion_djvu.txt and the Georgia Guidestones: https://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-the-georgia-guidestones/ 1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. 2. Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity. 3. Unite humanity with a living new language. 4. Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason. 5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts. 6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court. 7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials. 8. Balance personal rights with social duties. 9. Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite. 10. Be not a cancer on the earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.… Read more »
Greetings from the Third World. We did suffer a few weeks of our Government following the First World into shutdown but now it is all over! Most importantly, the pubs have been open for the past couple of weeks and I have to report from my ‘backward’ country that its all back to normal. No spots on floors, no Karens, no masks, no perspex, no gels, no intimidating signs. I did see one in a bar / restaurant which said ‘Masks should be worn at all times except when you are eating, drinking or talking.’ The girls are pretty and I can hug or kiss them without fear of instant death. Loads of people crammed together with less than 5mm social distancing. There is live music and the place is full of despicable people having fun. How dare they? Do they not realise that fun has been banned and is now illegal in the rest of the world. As before, I can smoke a cigarette in the bar, hell, I can even smoke a joint if I want. No drink driving laws here, so I can even drive to and from the pub. Ahh…..civilization. Ever such a slight… Read more »
Smoke in the bar – where is this? I’m coming there!
I’m moving, sounds like normal. Save me a seat, a bed and a drink.
Which country are you in?
An island in the Caribbean I think, not sure which one
That is fabulous – her best column yet on this ridiculous situation. Shows how farcical things become when you allow your country to be run by mad scientists. And Dominic Cummings.