#SaferRoads@HantsPolice If you’re out and about getting daily exercise during hours of darkness – running / cycling / walking – it’s really important that you’re visible to other road users #besafebeseen#takeextracare 🏃
— Hampshire Roads Policing Unit (@HantsPolRoads) January 15, 2021
Very true. Recently, in the evening, I drove out of the nearby Waitrose store, about a mile or two from my humble home, and a woman crossed the road from the far pavement, riding a pushbike, and almost right in front of me. Dark clothing, and not a light showing on her bicycle; and no reflective strips on bicycle or clothing. When I overtook her and looked in the rear view mirror, she and her bicycle were almost invisible even at that short distance, despite some street lighting. Had I hit her, no doubt I would have been exonerated, but only after the nuisance and inconvenience of having to explain myself to the police.
@dpjhodges, Jackie Boy, as usual your tweet contains a misrepresentation. I have *never* said that 'if we just lifted lockdown the whole thing would go away.' If only. The damage done to the NHS by lockdowns may never be repaired, and will certainly take many years to fix. https://t.co/4i3jHqyBZg
Quite so @JaneyCMJ . There is a huge jump in logic between accepting 'the hospitals are under grave pressure ' to concluding 'we must therefore close down the country'. And the failure of Parliament and the BBC to permit debate means this is seldom examined. https://t.co/hYKXmifRXl
Well no, @drphilplee1, but the NHS has never before coped with a large winter outbreak of respiratory disease while many of its staff are compelled to self-isolate, and when large numbers of patients cannot be moved back to care homes, so perhaps this is the difference. https://t.co/qsDgM3rYlq
Naked Fear propaganda . ‘If you bend the rules, people will die’ . But is its real aim to prepare HMG’s excuses for the failure of the 3rd lockdown? pic.twitter.com/PyOvFGMamF
It’s much worse than ludicrous @newtonclarkeuk . It is disturbing and creepy, involving someone deciding what opinions Twitter users are allowed to express. https://t.co/8UEe2wenC8
The problem that literate, erudite System journalists such as Peter Hitchens have is that they think that this is a “debate”, and not a war…
There is an international conspiracy in existence. The Great Reset. The Great Replacement. White Genocide. NWO. ZOG. The censorship which is now pervasive and gathering pace is just part of that conspiracy.
Writing letters to corrupt MPs, tweeting, blogging too, while certainly necessary, will change little.
Ha ha! I was featured in 2017 or 2018. Not since, as far as I know. The enemy must consider me and my blog relatively harmless! Still, who knows? Butterfly-wing effect?
The USA, “land of freedom”… If Trump had any sense or much courage, he would now PARDON all social-national and allied prisoners being held in Federal prisons, PARDON Snowden, PARDON Assange and others. Stick it to his enemies in the week or so left. Just do it!
Not sure how true the above is, in that one could cite regimes in Africa or elsewhere, but the mere fact that we now start to ask “is the UK Govt. worse or less competent than those of African states?” rather makes the point…
It is true, though, that the British people now have no competent government and also no competent opposition parties.
Sure, but there are many ways to approach it. I do see rewilding and restoration as part of conservation. And rewilding as a form of restoration, or at least with plenty of over lap.
We're delighted to have Dominic Buscall of @WildKenHill as our next webinar guest. He'll be talking about rewilding, regenerative farming and conservation on his Norfolk farm. Tuesday 26 January at 7.30pm. Tickets from only £2 + Eventbrite fee. https://t.co/FlUWKZ8qNDpic.twitter.com/mmv6EcYAZN
Morning all, you may have seen in the @Telegraph and @thetimes this morning that @pritipatel will shortly announce that it will make it a criminal offence to trespass with the intention of settling. 1/nhttps://t.co/uoB8eugUyP
— Friends, Families & Travellers (@GypsyTravellers) January 16, 2021
Yay! About time Priti Useless did something right. The penalties proposed are far too light, however.
Most ecologists would endorse this statement but try and convince agric scientists, farmers, spp. conservationists, planners, land owners, local authorities, Gov agencies, and others that #rewilding can make a REAL difference to climate problems & biodiversity crisis https://t.co/GFozbo0fT6
“Jack” Monroe may not be on the same ideological page as me in several respects, but her activity around food poverty, low-income survival and child poverty is generally quite useful.
“Disappointing“? Ha ha…that’s the best that Rentoul has done for a long time, as far as I can recall. As for me, though I usually beat Rentoul, I too only managed 6/10. The questions I could not answer were questions 2, 3, 7 and 9. I would have got 7/10 right had I been able to remember that that little pro-Israel puppet, Sajid Javid, actually rose as high as Chancellor of the Exchequer (Question 3).
The enemies of civilization will not be content until the world lies in multi-ethnic ruins. The woman shown below, Corinne Fowler, is yet another termite in the UK academic world, another instant “professor” (in her case, “Professor of Post-Colonial Literature”, or possibly “Associate Professor”, at the University of Leicester). https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9153499/Academic-says-GARDENING-roots-racial-injustice.html
Evil.
[“Professor” Corinne Fowler]
Apparently, one of her collaborators is an Indian called Raj Pal. Another is a Dr. Marian Gwynne.
“Sir John Hayes, leader of the Common Sense Group of Conservative MPs, which has been highly critical of the Trust, told the Mail: ‘The National Trust’s charitable purpose is being stretched to its breaking point. The fact is the National Trust is losing large amounts of money at the moment, and sacking staff while spending time, money and energy on this nonsense.’”
“Sir Roy Strong, the architectural historian and former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery agreed, saying the National Trust has gone ‘completely bonkers . . .” [Daily Mail]
Meanwhile, the National Lottery Fund has given the above nonsense £160,000…Taxation without representation…
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I rarely agree with anything said by the Israel-lobby or its collaborators, but…
*Actually not Women's Running at all but a biological male with no apparent intention of medical transition. https://t.co/akUhGlloHn
Britain is now a massive version of the Augean Stables. It must be cleansed.
1. I don't think there's any need to be uncivil. 2. A lot of my colleagues, especially women, feel that women's sport is being destroyed. 3. You seem to be missing the point. Neither they nor I care about what she wants to be called – the point is about women's sport.
Tweeter “@harrisglenys1” is all too typical in contemporary Britain. Yet look at “@rob_marchant”: goes along with the “she” stuff. Eddie Izzard is not “she” (though he is a pain in the neck!)…
This whole nonsense has just gone too far.
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When the ethno state is reclaimed, we must rebuild our railroad system bigger and better.
Our railroad system was amazing. With newer technology it can be even better. https://t.co/TtVborhh2p
…and the USA is in a better place to do that as compared to the UK because, when the American railways were closed (those that were, and that was the overwhelming majority) Federal law ensured that the railbed and the tracks (meaning the rails) were left. Bridges were mostly left too.
In Britain, both before and after the disastrous Beeching/Marples “reforms” of the 1960s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts], rails were taken up, sleepers removed, and —in many cases— bridges destroyed. The land was then ploughed, or built upon, with a few favoured tracks being eventually repurposed as leisure trails for walkers and cyclists, as with the Camel Trail to Padstow [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_Trail].
[“Approaching Padstow, the Camel Trail crosses Petherick Creek on this bridge which formerly carried the North Cornwall Railway“– Wikipedia]
UK set to ban all travellers from South America – but by the time the Govt do it the latest 'new strain' will already be here, giving them the excuse for weeks more lockdown dictatorship.https://t.co/FU1xai10hQ
Dorset. Police arrest a woman strolling along the beachfront with an elderly companion and, nearby, another woman sitting on a bench looking out to sea. If this doesn’t make you uneasy about what is going on in our country, nothing will. pic.twitter.com/ZCLuRkP5tm
Still think that you are living in (what people long ago called) “a free country”? Police state.
Yes, at present only a “toytown” police state, but steadily becoming a real one. Tyrannical government, no real Opposition in Parliament (quite the reverse, in fact), the Press, TV, radio almost entirely pumping out System propaganda, the police becoming a Stasi-lite, the law corrupted or ignored, Government wishes (sub nom “guidance” and “advice”, or made-up “rules”) treated by the police as if “law”, while the courts are silent or craven.
At present it is “iron fist in velvet glove”, but for how long?
A debate which has been around for hundreds, maybe thousands, of years. On the one hand, cities are the fount of organized culture and science, along with other desirable things; on the other hand, cities are sinks of dirt, corruption, decadence and evil.
Marx referred to “rural idiocy”, a point of view arguably typically Jewish; the Jews have long been associated with urban life, though not exclusively: there were once plenty of rural Jews in the Pale of Settlement (Western Russia and what is now Belarus), and also in Poland and Ukraine.
On the other hand, writers, poets and thinkers have always existed who were ready to extol the country life, and even life in the wilderness. Virgil, Rousseau and Thoreau among many others.
Perhaps the best way to look upon these questions of urbanization and rurality is to say that there can be decent and aesthetically-pleasing cities, and there can be a rural life with high cultural and living standards. There must be the will to create both.
Hodges @dpjhodges seems actually to have *forgotten' that he said : 'And there isn't a shred of epidemiological evidence their incarceration will prove effective.' He claims his misgivings were about sustainability. https://t.co/sn9gmLFZ8X
Inquiries now show that the mysterious disappearance of followers on Twitter (often against their will) is *not* limited to conservatives. So that obviously changes things a lot. But it is still plainly wrong. I'd ask *everyone* affected to unite against it. @thecarolemalone
Dyson is but one example of very wealthy persons buying lands in huge quantity in England and also Scotland at present. I myself have noticed how few large estates are on sale for long before being bought. I am sure that it is partly by reason of a drive for security. London is becoming a zoo. Who knows how long it will be safe for the wealthy? Also, in circumstances of socio-economic and/or socio-political meltdown—which may develop— rural estates are safer than London houses.
There is also the point that land is a hedging asset in a way that cash and equities (shares) are not. The pound must be sliding from now. Not just the “panicdemic”, but mishandled Brexit/Brino as well. We have just been told that the UK economy contracted by nearly 3% recently. Yes, the Government can borrow to distribute largesse— for a while. Not indefinitely, though.
I was just reading some American anti-Gates Twitter accounts talking about these issues. One fellow said that he has bought 1 acre and intends to build his own home on it and grow things. Fine, though an acre is very little, but, while that may be straightforward in parts of the USA, in Western Europe there are so many factors etc to overcome. God help the man who buys an acre of Devon or Dorset and just builds his own home on it without planning permission etc.
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Below, “Antifa” cheerleader (always from a very safe distance) and serial grifter, Mike Stuchbery, attacks the memory of Ashli Babbitt, an American woman who, though unarmed, was shot dead at the US Capitol building recently:
She was a violent thug who attacked a federal facility with the intent of harming elected officials, @PatrioticTalk14. She died a traitor's death. No wonder you Patriotic Alternative lemons are trying to turn her into Horstina Wessel. pic.twitter.com/YpEas8tybY
Stuchbery, who used to pose as “historian” and “journalist” (in fact, he was briefly a “supply” —i.e. temporary— teacher, who was sacked for reasons unclear) is now living off German welfare payments in Stuttgart (he also seems to scribble a bit for politically-tendentious online websites). I have blogged about him previously (he later sent, a couple of times, puerile and would-be threatening messages to me as a result): https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/10/23/a-few-words-about-mike-stuchbery/
Quite funny. First of all, and despite her extensive education (her father was a wealthy timber merchant, of the sort mentioned in Russian literature of the 19thC), Rosa Luxemburg was an idiot. She died before she was able to see most of the devastation wrought by Soviet socialism. Her own ideas were, arguably, typically Jewish, tending to protest, dissolution, revolution and chaos. Even had she been gifted power, she would have been unable to do anything positive with it.
Incidentally, her Wikipedia entry initially describes her as “Polish”, rather than “Jewish”, because of her having been born in Poland [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg]! The (((influence))) is very obvious in parts of Wikipedia.
Sad. Give the bird a chance. It can always be prevented from mating, if that is the problem. There’s no do-gooder “conservationist” as extreme as an Australian one (unless it’s a German one).
Ironic, though. A poor pigeon makes an epic journey to Australia and will be killed, but the idiots in Australia have let in every kind of ethnic riff-raff, and those idiots in Canberra and elsewhere pat themselves on the back for being so “hospitable” and “diverse”!
[update: it turns out that the pigeon was probably not from the USA, and so will not now be killed].
Thank you @theblogmire. In this @dpjhodges says he tried to buy an imitation gun because he was so scared by the Covid crisis. And yet he cannot grasp that the same fear kept thousands away from doctors and hospitals, so that they missed key scans, referrals and treatments. https://t.co/8ihDZhG4Qw
Yes, it is @dpjhodges . Talks to ministers, Goes on about it as if it's a big deal consorting with nonentities. Doesn't know people are finding it hard to get medical treatment all over the country he lives in. https://t.co/cfx3UUNKlV
This is the problem not only in relation to the “panicdemic” but also in relation to other issues which scarcely impact on the very wealthy, and only peripherally on the merely very affluent Westminster denizens, whether politicians or msm drones. Immigration. Poor roads. Poor public transport. Crime (mostly committed by immigrants and/or their offspring). Declining quality of the NHS. Poor pay for most. Poor education.
In fact, the very wealthy don’t necessarily care much about most of those issues. Immigration? No problem (cheap labour inc. domestic help; and no immigrant “communities” live anywhere near them or in the same buildings). Poor rail and roads? No problem (private planes and helicopters, supplemented by chauffeur-driven or other Range-Rovers and other expensive cars). Crime? No problem (private security, expensive alarms etc). NHS problems? No problem (private healthcare, money for medicines unavailable on NHS…). Poor pay? No problem (inherited or other wealth). Poor education? No problem (anyone with wealth can pay for expensive schools and/or private tutors).
Today, grey skies, dry, with little wind. In the neighbourhood where I now live, no noise at all. A strange feeling of stasis. Am I extrapolating too far in extending that to the society as a whole? Maybe not. Calm before the storm?
The latest “lockdown” has shut down society, economy, and politics to an extent never before seen in the UK, as far as I know, together with the same in early/mid 2020. As far as System politics is concerned, there is a clownish but still quite sinister UK Government, its sinister nature not entirely mitigated by its incompetence.
The official Opposition does not really exist, and is simply supporting Government policy (unsurprising in view of the fact that both parties are ZOG/NWO-dominated and that there may be no General Election until 2024), and Parliament itself is only pretending to sit. The Chamber of the House of Commons now only has a token number of MPs present when officially sitting.
The System msm has only one story— “the virus”. Everything else is all but ignored.
Under the surface, though, there is movement. We hear that half a million small and medium-size businesses are going under now or soon. Fools (including highly-paid “expert” fools in the City of London and msm) think that almost all of that hurt can be mitigated by “Government help”. Really? For how long?
In the end, notwithstanding government borrowing, the government of a country only has such financial resources as are the product of its economy. The UK economy has been partly, in fact largely, shut down for much of the past year. Now again, and until a date uncertain in March, April, or even later.
So far, the various “furlough”, no-eviction, and rent holiday measures have softened the blow, but they will not continue indefinitely.
The UK is heading for a massive economic and political crisis. There must arise a social-national movement to lead the way out of all this nonsense.
Online censorship
Heard a discussion on the Radio 4 Today Programme. “Baroness” Nicky Morgan [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Morgan]. and some American Jew whose name and job I did not catch.
Nicky Morgan is promoting an Online Harms Bill, whch will cut down even the limited free speech online that still exists. The American Jew mentioned wanted even more strict “regulation”. There was (quelle surprise) no-one speaking up for freedom of expression online, unless is included the presenter.
The presenter asked the killer question, as I remembered it: “what if Twitter or Facebook decide to take down Nicky Morgan’s account, and perhaps decide to retain Vladimir Putin’s? You have no right of appeal anywhere...” Nicky Morgan did not even address that question, which is the most important.
As I have been blogging, speaking and (ironically, before the Jew lobby had me expelled from Twitter in 2018) tweeting for years, the point is that there has been “privatization of public space”.
The huge transnational quasi-monopolies such as Twitter, Facebook, ebay, Amazon, provide the citizen with no rights qua citizen, only worthless contractual rights as “customer”. There is no right of appeal to being expelled, not even in-house (worth a dime), let alone any right of appeal to an outside body such as a tribunal or court.
I suppose that the organized Jewish lobby, and their dupes, think it wonderful that the “far-right” “extremists” (so-called) may soon (as with the present Twitter/Parler/GAB situation) have nowhere to go online. When you take away the possibility to protest and put forward views and ideas peacefully, you open the door to violence, as John F. Kennedy said.
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I was in East Germany in 1989. Believe me, Anu is right. The atmosphere in Britain in 2021 is a lot more oppressive. https://t.co/oFxth6c9Ac
I agree. In many ways, the old DDR (which I saw, briefly, just a couple of days, in 1988) was a real police state, and had been since Soviet occupation in 1945. On the other hand, the once-free UK is also getting that way: “laws” (and “advice”/”guidance” with almost the force of law), never really validated, or nodded swiftly through an elected dictatorship “Parliament”; mass media all singing the same tune in various ways; dissidents arrested if they dare to protest on the streets or even online; young scapegoats and teenaged sacrificial lambs (often with problems of autism etc) sent to prison for years on trumped-up “preparation of acts of terror” charges. Satirical singers prosecuted for irritating Jews.
In what way are you oppressed? The very fact you are free to express this opinion on here is proof that we are not living in anywhere near what it was like in East Germany.
Tweeter “@cashandcarrots” has obviously missed the recent “deplatforming” of so many people with “unapproved” views: in the UK, USA, Australia etc. Not just people complaining about the behaviour of Jews, or about the continuing black/brown migration-invasion, but people examining how “the virus” came about, and what is the real hidden agenda behind it and the vaccine campaign.
It’s worst, people went about their business in East Germany, had a life. Sport was allowed, music, believe it or not people did enjoy themselves.
The regulator (Ofcom) won't control political speech – it will get the companies to uphold their own terms and conditions in the context of a duty of care owed to their users/customers
That tweet seems to be at odds with Lewis’s tweets to Alison Chabloz and others! See below:
[a few of the abusive messages that caused self-promoting Jew solicitor Mark Lewis to be fined and censured by the Disciplinary Tribunal of the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority; he fled to Israel shortly afterwards]
And why shouldn't she? Only an evil racist would object to this celebration of diversity. Voodoo rituals are as valid an expression of culture & talent as a performance of Handel's Messiah.#celebratediversityhttps://t.co/qj1WyiWmqA
Thought-provoking article. To what extent is the lockdown disaster a brilliantly wicked master plan, and how much is it about over-promoted idiots repeating the elite sleeping walking into disaster in 1914? Well worth reading.https://t.co/eQnEM0kWKv
I've finished with you, Hodges @dpjhodges, for the day (I note this is a feeble copy of the 'lie down in a darkened room with a cold compress' tweet I sent you earlier this week). I remain both underwrought and deeply unimpressed by you. Come back when you've stopped lying. https://t.co/UzqZl7fibs
Doesn't tally with facts @ralphralph987 I have been contacted by followers , perfectly ordinary Twitter users, who have just found, when they looked, that they have 'unfollowed' me, when in fact they have not. https://t.co/AC8nBmEs3U
Twitter has been fooling around with followings for years. When I was expelled in 2018, I had 3,000 followers. I suppose that, today, that would probably be about 6,000. In fact, many others told me that they had tried to follow but could not. There was shadowbanning etc. Meanwhile, there are those, such as “Mark Lewis Lawyer” (see above) and his one-time wife (they divorced after a year), washed-up local radio presenter Caroline Feraday, who bought tens of thousands of “followers” about 7-8 years ago.
Many Twitter accounts are Potemkin villages, with little behind them.
Twitter is basically a waste of time now, though I find it convenient to use the tweets of others in my blog.
On re-reading this, I love that phrase 'allows for', so slippery it might be written in hair-gel. Hodges @dpjhodges can't bring himself to admit that the iron compulsion in use here, in what was once the freest country on earth, has not been and will not be employed in Japan. https://t.co/tY0qITSnPZ
So he is, and lacks the manners or courage to admit it @juliahb1@dpjhodges. Shrinking fast, Hodges. The Incredible Shrinking Pundit, quick to attack, useless at providing evidence for his accusations, gutless at admitting it. https://t.co/FMMjfTZfnI
Interesting letter in BMJ : 'Clinically we cannot tell the difference between a pre-symptomatic individual, an asymptomatic “carrier” and a false positive result from a healthy individual, because by definition none of these individuals have symptoms' https://t.co/w0U5GaauNJ
'Even during the Spring peak, restrictions played a huge role in excess deaths. Covid killed 25,000 people but… 6,000 people died because they didn’t attend A&E through fear and 10,000 people died in care homes…' https://t.co/5G9MapkFfA
@soumndfriend. I operate the Presumption of Intelligence – everyone is presumed to be intelligent until he or she has proved beyond doubt that this is not so. Also it is useful to keep going back to first principles, and to be reminded of how few people are properly informed. https://t.co/uumUh3V3tJ
2/2 @stevene38505 Lockdown is unprecedented and has huge collateral costs in lives, liberty, employment and wealth. The burden really is on its supporters to show this price is justified. https://t.co/FAiqESxkDM
Starmer reading out Government school meal box guidelines which sound like this raise questions Johnson can't dodge for ever when the PM's trying to pin blame entirely on companies #pmqspic.twitter.com/8xor2yzknj
Leaving aside the racial-cultural aspect, the prominent footballer, Rashford, is right to say that the feeding of poorer children is a complete disgrace.
Historical note
Paula Hitler’s 1957 statement:
“Gentlemen!
Never forget this: Your names will long be forgotten even before your bodies have rotted away in the earth. But the name Adolf Hitler will still be a light in the darkness. You cannot murder him by drowning his memory in your sick-buckets and you cannot strangle him with your filthy, ink-stained fingers. His name exists forever in hundreds of thousands of souls. You are far too insignificant to even touch him.
He loved Germany, he fretted over Germany. When he fought for honour and respect he fought for German Honour, for respect for Germany and when there was nothing left, he gave his life for Germany.
What have you given so far? Which one of you would give his life for Germany? The only things you care about are riches, power and never ending luxurious living. When you think of Germany, you think of indulging your senses without responsibility, without cares?
Trust me on this: The Fuhrer’s utter unselfishness in word and deed alone guarantees his immortality. The fact that the bitter fight for Germany’s greatness wasn’t crowned by success, like for example Cromwell’s in Britain, has a lot to do with the mentality of the people involved.
On the one hand the Englishman’s character is essentially unfair, ruled by jealousy, self-importance, and a lack of consideration. But he never forgets he is an Englishman, loyal to his people and to his crown. On the other hand, the German with his need for recognition is never first and foremost a German.
Therefore it doesn’t matter to you, you insignificant beings, if you destroy the entire nation. Your only guiding thought will always be, me first – me second – me third.
In your worthlessness you will never think of the welfare of the nation – and with that pitiful philosophy you wish to prevent the immortality of a giant?
What I wrote down immediately after the war has been proven to be correct. That my convictions are true is evident even as late as 1957.
Signed, Paula Hitler, Berchtesgaden, May, 1st. 1957“
🛑Pompeo meets with #Israeli Mossad chief ahead of anti-#Iran speech: Pompeo has reportedly been spotted dining with Yossi Cohen, head of #Israels Mossad spy agency, at a café in Washington ahead of a planned anti-Iran speech by the top US diplomat. https://t.co/d5L1gaPvFl
Useless African “Covid marshal” tells jogger that “running is not allowed”. Jesus Christ! This country!…
They may want to @Ryan__92. They just won’t be able to afford to. And think how many jobs that will cost, and how many more people will then cease to be able to afford what once was normal. https://t.co/FTtxcQFoHr
Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, interviewed on the Today Programme. Fairly poor. Did not seem to understand when the interviewer asked whether the “increase in cases” of “the virus” was by reason of those breaking the law, or simply because there were more people legally out and about (compared to early 2020). Cressida Dick simply ploughed on about illegality. Wooden. Woodentopped.
No sign of very high intelligence. Much “communitarian” noise.
The interviewer did not ask about whether the huge increase in testing has simply resulted in a corresponding increase in “cases” (many completely asymptomatic). Beyond the Commissioner’s competence, I suppose. What concerns me is that the Commissioner’s own job seems to be beyond her competence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cressida_Dick
Interesting graphs
Fascinating to see how much safer life is in England and Wales now compared to the 1840s, since which time there has been a fairly steady decline in the death rate. Even shocks such as the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic have not much impacted the overall picture.
At peak, in the 1840s and then again in the 1890s, about 4% of the population died in a year. Now, the figure is about 1% to 2%. Two to four times better.
Derbyshire Police, once again putting the plod into policing (take a look at how they abused satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz; her blog pages are here: https://alisonchabloz.com/).
In fact the Coronavirus Act is of little importance. The Public Health Act of 1984 has been stretched miles beyond its proper breaking point to strangle the country, with minimal Parliamentary scrutiny. But the courts refuse to act. https://t.co/qB99hVGIuT
I thought that at least the higher courts were better than they now have been proven to be. That leaves yet another part of UK society running on empty, together with journalism, the Bar, the NHS, the Westminster and local political system, the schools and universities and (a fortiori), the police.
2/3 @dpjhodges. Any educated person and any experienced journalist knows that presentation and interpretation of figures are complex, and that they are subject to, er, pressures(e.g.police fiddling of crime figures, exposed beyond doubt at HoC Public Admin Cttee, November 2013). https://t.co/TziDdXlStL
3/3 @dpjhodges. You yourself make a basic error here, referring to the positive results of non-diagnostic tests as 'infections'. Nor is it a question of 'inflation', much more of possible misattribution of causes to events. https://t.co/TziDdXlStL
I agree with the above, within reason. There must be limits to such loyalty, but the drift towards a sub-Stalinist society of snooping and denunciation must be resisted.
It'll be lit when banks and credit card companies start doing this and these same fools won't realize that it means really, really, really bad things will start happening. https://t.co/FyIkFF5A1A
— James Lindsay, ultra-low social credit (@ConceptualJames) January 10, 2021
Exactly. I have been blogging and (before the “CAA”-connected Jews instigated my expulsion from Twitter) tweeting about how a fairly small number of online organizations, huge transnational enterprises, constitute quasi-monopolies and are shutting down freedom of expression.
Now everyone is noticing, but many fools who think that they are terribly clever are still bleating about how “private companies” (including in fact “public” ones) such as Amazon, ebay, Facebook, Twitter etc are simply commercial enterprises, and can exclude anyone at will for “violation” of Mickey Mouse “Terms and Conditions of Service” etc.
Some of the worst of such bleaters are those who think of themselves as “socialist” or pro-“human rights” and so on.
Just to remind you @dpjhodges with a direct quotation from your tweet of an hour ago 'They're as wrong and dangerous as the first.' Note the use of the word 'they'. No stance mentioned. You describe the *people* as dangerous. Well, what do we do with the dangerous? Do say. https://t.co/hxGbXv55wn
Yes @jonnytate. . I wrote privately to one of my critics (on a very grand newspaper) the other day, seeking dialogue, and he instantly refused, then ignored a second e-mail asking him to reconsider. https://t.co/JQO9kpnxDb
Interesting, nicht wahr? You get someone such as the part-Jew, supposedly “socialist”, extremist, Paul Mason. He openly calls for a police state and repression of “dangerous” views (i.e. of dissidents), and he was an editor on BBC Newsnight for years, made a very good income at that and then as a TV talking head elsewhere.
Mason had and even now has no problem getting his (admittedly not uninteresting) books published by mainstream publishers, yet people such as me, such as David Icke, such as Alison Chabloz, and even Peter Hitchens, are “dangerous” and, says Mason (according to the Jew-Zionist lobby too) should be censored, barred, banned, even prosecuted and/or put into prisons or concentration camps.
Society is closing down. The Jews (Zionist or other) are not the only ones to blame for that. The extreme Muslim or Islamist element as well. Then there is the pseudo-socialist “antifa”-type (either actually, or the academic termites that support “antifa”). The blacks are just “useful idiots” of the others, as seen in “Black Lives Matter” etc. (((Others))) are pulling the strings of the puppets.
As for the organs of the State, such as MI5, secretive online propaganda outfits, the political or other police, well, they are mostly the flunkeys of the System, to put it in 1960s terminology.
Who did more damage to the UK? Christine Keeler? Soviet spies? The IRA? Or was it the Labour, Conservative and Liberal/LibDem MPs who imported millions of blacks and browns into the UK (which importees started to breed prolifically)? Was it the BBC and other decadents who have been poisoning the airwaves for at least 50 years? Was it the cuckoos-in-nest (((financial speculators))) and (((fraudsters))), the “Robert Maxwells” and others?
The fact is that the (as someone once described them) “precious” (meaning “up their own a****”) SIS, and purse-lipped MI5, have to a large extent been rearranging deckchairs on the deck of the Titanic UK for half a century and more. Pathetic.
“Social distancing”
The proposed new “3-metre rule” is, of course, even more absurd, and even less workable or enforceable, than the “2-metre rule” (which in any case is not law but merely “guidance”.
3 metres is 9.85 feet. In old money, ten feet. How does that work in, say, a supermarket, let alone the village shop or urban convenience store? It does not. It cannot.
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Well, here we are. Crunch time. I have heard Americans bleating about “the right to bear arms” etc for years and years and years. Well, here we are. Time to put up or shut up…
Well, things have certainly gone downhill fast in the UK and across the Western world as the build-up to 2022 continues. In the UK, an increasingly obvious police state; also, the likelihood of a new “austerity” drive from 2022, with “the virus” (and “rule flouters”) blamed rather than the 2010-2019 scenario of the “banking crisis” (with, in the UK, and ludicrously, the unemployed and disabled etc getting the blame for both the failure of the finance-capital system and also the subsequent and completely unnecessary “austerity” policies).
Then we have the msm propaganda retailed mainly in TV soaps, “dramas”, ads etc: the mixed-race couples and offspring, the increasingly bizarre LBGTXYZ stuff; all of that.
What else? Well, the attack on free speech, spearheaded by, though not confined to, the Jew-Zionist element. We have now seen the President of the United States (leaving aside his general unworthiness) actually expelled from Twitter, Facebook etc, and even his tweets from the official U.S. Presidential Twitter account taken down by Twitter staff!
All this supposedly to “make the world safe for democracy”, in effect. Where have we heard that before?!
In the UK, both high-profile and many lesser-known people have been prevented from posting on social media, among them Katie Hopkins, David Icke, Alison Chabloz, Ian Millard (me). Many many thousands of people.
Only today we see that the Parler platform has been killed off by a cartel of huge transnational enterprises, all signed up to the international conspiracy: Apple, Google, Amazon, etc.
All of the above is part of the working out of the “Great Replacement” and the connected “Great Reset” (and the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan). It is a conspiracy on a monumental scale.
I do enjoy watching the idiots demand all white racists be banned from social media. Do they not realize this didn’t start online? Some things are timeless, we don’t need internet. It does make things fun though.
…and the message to Trump in the dying days of his Presidency must be, “PARDON those who stormed the Capitol, PARDON Assange, PARDON Snowden, and PARDON all social-national and allied prisoners suffering in US Federal prisons.”
You are very correct and its sad that so many have just accepted it. Younger generations can protest about nasty comments they hear from politicians, but not care enough about real ACTIONS, that take their basic freedoms away. How depressing.
Well, @dpjhpodges, 'South London' is a broad category including both Dulwich and New Cross. Do you perhaps *not* live in a council flat with five children? It might affect your perception, and make it easier for you to support mass house arrrest than it otherwise would be. https://t.co/zORZOtIFYN
Quite. “Lockdown” life is easy for msm scribblers who, in the case of Dan Hodges, lives in a large detached house (with large garden) in Blackheath, with his wife, children and mother, the actress Glenda Jackson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenda_Jackson].
An extraordinary thing to say @dpjhodges. It assumes there is only one possible government response to the virus, and that it is right. The whole *debate* (until the current attempt to shut it down) was about whether the strangling of our society was justified or proportionate. https://t.co/8ctkZB8cH2
Watched this astonishngly good film the other night for the first time since 1978. One of the few remakes better than the original (which is good). A brilliant allegory of the growth and triumph of intolerance. https://t.co/RuGMcmceXW
1/2 @dpjhodges 'Cross party support' is meaningless when the parties share the same ideology. Medical and scientific questions are not decided by majorities. As for huge public support, the Munich pact and the Suez adventure had those too. https://t.co/WE2m8D97s4
A good headline point. The atomization of Western society is exemplified by the dictatorial supposedly “anti-virus” measures, which in the UK soon may see it become a crime to leave your house more than once per week. I have no idea whether 100%, 50% or only 10% of people would actually comply, and how many, or what percentage, might turn to direct action against the installations of the State. We shall have to wait to find out.
People such as Peter Hitchens (with whom I agree on some issues), people such as conservative nationalists (with whom I agree on some issues) and others think that we are trying to “have a debate“, and that those behind or supporting the “Great Replacement”, “Great Reset” etc are mere intellectual opponents, who are being unfair in closing down platforms, websites, Twitter accounts etc.
Wrong. This is not the Oxford Union, and we are not in the columns of the Spectator or the New Statesman. This is a war, a war which white Northern Europe and its peoples, and those offshoots in North America, Australasia etc have to win. A war for existential survival. This is, in effect, White Genocide, if we fail.
The war may be mainly a “cold war” so far, but that will not last forever. Eventually it will be a real war, and not one such as we have, for the most part, known since the 18th Century. More like those wars written about in the Old Testament, and in the ancient Indian (early post-Aryan) sacred texts such as the Bhagavad-Gita. Dualistic conflict. Good against Evil.
"What's happening?" prompts my Twitter feed. But if I said exactly what's going on with #COVID19, I'd probably get kicked off Twitter. So watch this short clip, and decide for yourself whats happening…. pic.twitter.com/2dGlNC4Koz
The destruction of our economy and civil society, the forced joblessness of thousands, the mass delay of cancer treatment and the throttling of school and university education are serious matters @dpjhodges. You engage (if it can be so called) as if it was a cartoon strip in Viz. https://t.co/kvjRSxS5Ph
Most people will comply out of fear of being fined, or because of social pressures whipped up by Government and msm propaganda. A minority will evade, or in some cases openly confront. A small minority will hit back in a serious way.
There's a good more intolerance. The sky is darkening. I'm accused of stirring up hatred and having blood on my hands. And the strange case of the vanishing twitter followers: My conversation with @Iromg Mike Graham on @TalkRadio. https://t.co/3aKbAjyxpH
Now look at it. Middle-aged ladies handcuffed behind their backs because they are wicked enough to sit on a bench overlooking the sea.
Two young women stopped and each given £200 fines for the “crime” of having driven (separately, at that) to a lake about 10 miles from their homes, where they were planning to take a walk together.
They, and/or similar women, were also fined because they had cups of peppermint tea.
I am not joking. Derbyshire’s pathetic and unpleasant plod force, which made itself notorious in 2020 for similar “poundland KGB” activities, informed the women that the tea counted as “a picnic”, which (ludicrously enough in itself) is “banned” under the stupid “virus” “lockdown” “rules”.
[Britain 2021: Dorset Police arrest a woman for having been sitting quietly on a bench by the sea]
[Britain 2021: the police are now a militia force menacing the public; they loiter in threes and fours…]
[Britain 2021: three police —again— try to intimidate a person taking a rest on a park bench]
“It comes as footage emerged showing three police officers surrounding a woman for allegedly leaving her house more than once in a day.
Another four officers appear to arrest a different woman for what she claims was ‘sitting on a bench’ on the seafront.
The new rules were on full show on Saturday when a woman was surrounded by three police who claimed she had left her house more than once.
The woman, who is joined by an elderly man, bursts into tears as the police interrogate her over the alleged lockdown violation in Bournemouth.
The officer, who was wearing a face covering, continues but the woman starts crying and wipes her eyes.
She says: ‘How have I acted anti-socially, I was sat on a bench having a cup of coffee, that is not anti-social.’
One officer tells the first woman: ‘At the moment you’re allowed out for exercise once a day.
‘You’ve been filmed today in the town centre and around here and walking up and down.’
Meanwhile the cameraman walks over to another part of the promenade where a woman is being cuffed by four different officers.
The four officers lead her away in handcuffs while other pedestrians ask why they feel it is necessary.
The footage comes to an end as the second woman is led to a police van while the first continues to bicker with the police.
Derbyshire Police faced criticism on Friday for taking the lockdown crackdown too far after officers swooped on two friends for driving just seven miles to go for a walk at a beauty spot.
As a result, the ‘intimidating’ force is reviewing its Covid operations after getting clarification about the rules, with West Mercia Police also mocked for threatening to fine people £200 for playing in the snow.
Elsewhere, Norfolk Police revealed a couple had travelled 130 miles from their home in Wellingborough in Northamptonshire to Horsey on Thursday to look at a seal colony.” [So?]
Last night, the Broseley and Much Wenlock division of West Mercia Police tweeted: ‘There have been two reports of snowballs being thrown last night between 11 and 11.30pm.
‘This is obviously not a justifiable reason to be out of your house, this behaviour is likely to result in a £200 Fixed Penalty Notice for breaking the lockdown rules.’
Meanwhile, Derbyshire Police fined beautician Jessica Allen and her British Airways flight attendant friend Eliza Moore £200 each for driving for a socially distanced stroll at Foremark Reservoir, which despite not being her nearest park is only 10 minutes from her house.
The pair were also told their cups of Starbucks peppermint tea, which they bought at a drive-thru, were not allowed because they were ‘classed as a picnic’.
Current lockdown guidance instructs the public to limit exercise – including running, cycling, swimming and walking – to once per day, and says while people can leave their home, they should not travel outside their local area.” [Daily Mail]
As seen in 2020, official “guidance” and “advice” is being conflated with law. The whole idea of the “rule of law” and “a society under law” is trashed by such conflation.
The sheer state of this country! Yes, police warning or threatening about snowballs thrown in people’s own gardens, or getting hold of some old lady, handcuffing her hands behind her back (as seen on American “reality” TV…) and bundling her away, “mobhanded”, may all seem somehow funny or eccentric, but in reality this is now not even the “toytown” police state seen 8, 9, 10 months ago. This is now becoming a real police state.
There is now no legitimate (or competent) government, no check on that by a viable official Opposition. The Press, radio and TV mostly retail government propaganda and the “fake news” of the misnamed “SAGE” scientific drones [aka “DUMB”— Department Under Matt and Boris]. As for “journalists”, 95% of them just spout officially-approved news. Soviet Britain.
It is not confined to the “virus” “panicdemic”. We see the attack on free speech continuing too (and not only in the UK…across the Western world).
Neither did any of those people mentioned say one word of support for Alison Chabloz, persecuted and even prosecuted for singing satirical songs about the hoaxes and fakery around the so-called “holocaust” farrago.
[Alison Chabloz]
Yes, it’s very important now that the citizenry are locked in their homes that their reading and viewing should also be restricted. No non-approved views permitted. What could possibly go wrong? https://t.co/aYEqUHy8hr
[“Police Scotland” louts force themselves into a private home]
There is now strong evidence Covid leaked from a Chinese biological weapons research laboratory rather than developing in a wet market, says a senior US official. https://t.co/qM465WO9hU
Roughly the level of analysis you’d expect from a hereditary TV presenter. In the 1970s the UK joined a trading bloc. In 2016 (after that organisation had morphed into something else) the UK voted to leave it. Nothing to do with genocide. https://t.co/XDnViHYDPx
I just signed please do the same if you life in the UK. Killing bees literally will kill us.
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— Little Miss Heike and His Lordship Dino (@TweetHeike_HHL) January 10, 2021
Starmer on #Marr is a bit painful. Votes for a crap deal because his indolence up until that point meant it was a straight choice between a crap deal and no deal. What does he stand for? He can’t really say, but he’s not Johnson and I suppose that’s enough for me to vote for him.
No @edstratton1 exaggeration weakens your case. We are not *in* such a state but we are on a path which might lead towards it, if dissent does not first survive and then grow. https://t.co/k6gZME8OWr
The enthusiasm of the police/militia for handcuffing peaceful, non-violent citizens in public-humiliation street theatre is remarkable. It is precisely because dissent is so weak, and mobs are incited against it, that this sort of thing becomes easier and more common. https://t.co/bLIjytmETu
Just listening to some Radio 4 politics show. Oh, dear…They interview Margaret Beckett, now a member of the House of Lords. As an MP, an expenses cheat and freeloader who made sure to employ her husband on expenses as well. Unlike most British politicians, not a complete idiot, but her greed and careerism vitiates her better qualities.
Now they interview the Jewish former Conservative Party leader, Michael “Howard”. Not a particularly nice person, but far from the worst of the Jews in politics in the UK.
Finally, an interview with Joanna Cherry, described as “a senior member of the SNP”. I suppose that that is so, but the very idea that the SNP can have a “senior member” is a bit of a joke, bearing in mind that the SNP had only a handful of MPs until 2015.
Joanna Cherry seems another not particularly nice person: a rather bullish lesbian, several of whose Parliamentary staff complained about being bullied, both by her and by her office manager (Joanna Cherry herself was officially exonerated later). There have also been problems over her expenses since 2015.
Britain deserves better politicians.
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For what reason? From what I have been reading about him he was an excellent soldier, and loved by his men. He received the Victoria cross which was not given out lightly. Sick of all this woke nonsense
I was a practising barrister, and during the years 2002-2008 was based in Exeter (professionally; I lived in Brittany from 2005). Local politicians and bureaucrats are often deadheads. The few I met in Exeter were no exception.
The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught. 🧠 pic.twitter.com/cxbtlR3cTn
Watched the 2002 TV film Goodbye Mr Chips the other night, a period piece set in an early 1900's boarding school. Not one black person featured in the cast. In 2020 every period piece to included black people. Social engineering and indoctrination now in full operational mode.
Coronavirus: Fresh air 'forgotten weapon' in fight – BBC Newshttps://t.co/ejhTYATHQy Aerosols in a restaurant could infect everyone in there regardless of face mask or distancing. Don't stay in poorly ventilated areas is the best advice for some time in my opinion.
So what does the Government of Clowns do? Make the entire country stay at home on pain of penalty…
You still see tweets and other comment to the effect that the first and second “lockdowns” did not work because a very small number of people broke the (probably legally invalid) “rules”. What nonsense.
The real fallout from the “lockdown(s)” or shutdowns will come later, when the British people will be unable to get medical care, dental care, jobs, decent pay, and when their children will be unable, after pointless further education, to get even the most basic work, or much of a future.
As I understand it the 'once a day' is guidance, not law, . Does the officer also say to the woman 'we've been filming you?' AS for *handcuffs* employed by mob-handed police against a single peaceful woman, can *anyone* justify? . https://t.co/nyZ04DmgS1
PETER HITCHENS: I am, for the first time, afraid for the future of freedom in my country. (Comments are always open on this blog) https://t.co/Km5QubuUB9
Call me old-fashioned, but there used to be a wise and firm rule that ministers did not in any way involve themselves in police operational matters. Abolished, obvs:Matt Hancock “absolutely backs” police who fined women walking in park https://t.co/fUO7AsScee via @MetroUK
Little Matt Hancock. As for Keir Starmer, the Jewish-lobby puppet now posing as Labour leader, he thinks that the only thing wrong with “lockdown” no.3 is that it should be stricter or tougher! So…everyone should sit at home and wait to starve?
What a total limp waste of space this Starmer is! I have heard two interventions from him this week, the “Government should be supported but do it tougher” statement today and, a few days ago, “People should now resume weekly clapping for NHS (or whatever)”. That one fell totally flat too.
No System party now has any legitimacy.
Canadian expert's research ( he used to be a lockdown supporter) finds lockdown harms are 10 times greater than benefits. https://t.co/B8gk76ZroJ
Some of these types would be more at home in the old DDR (East Germany). “Obey the Government rules or else”…
I notice that Dr. Janaway has well over 40,000 Twitter “followers”. There again, demented creature Louise Mensch has 289,000! Some pop groups have millions.
John Rentoul may have to accept that his general knowledge is nowhere near as good as his specialized political knowledge. At least he is honest enough to publish his generally poor results.
I have beaten Rentoul almost every week for months, since I started to follow his Saturday quiz attempts from the i newspaper. We have tied once, or maybe twice. I think that he beat my score once, a week or two ago.
This week, Rentoul scored poorly again, 3/10. My score was 5/10. I failed on questions 4, 6, 7, 9 and 10.
So speaketh the “liberal” Twitter-twits…I was unsure who this is; had to look him up [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Haig]. An odd person who seems to think that, in our contemporary world, you have free speech even though every single online or offline platform may be denied you. I suppose that the idiot means that you can go outside and shout in the street (until Matt Haig or some similar twit complains).
Another “liberal” friend of censorship and the police state, who wants to ban “dangerous” people from communicating dissenting views.
Winter is coming for #FreeSpeech. But DuckDuckGo = Google, Parler = Twitter, Gab is hardened to leftist attacks & the pressure of events will force the new dissidents to pick sn alt Facebook. Censorship will create a giant 'Deplorable' echo chamber. Good!https://t.co/bFkudhbIOX
I agree with Griffin on the encroaching police state, but setting up alternative online platforms etc can only be a partial answer. Boots on the ground…
Thank you @polarbear1967 . I am concerned that the same methods now being used in state propaganda and BBC spinelessness could be employed to talk us into a new Middle-East war. https://t.co/jcXMiUsYx1
How have we ended up like this in just 10mths. Society itself is collapsing, human rights and liberties are being decimated all because of 1 man, a handful of secondary men and women and one particularly influential pressure groups decisions (Sage).
Precisely. You manage a public health emergency within the constraints of human rights. You don’t ride roughshod over them regardless. Make healthcare better if necessary, don’t destroy lives and liberty and the very fabric of society.
A temporary limit that has lasted nearly a year. In that nearly a year, despite being asked, the govt has given no firm end date for that 'temporary limit' and has even threatened further restrictions later.
Thank you @drof_c. Alas, given the power of such people over the web, there is not all that much we can do. I am currently on the receiving end of a very interesting series of measures, unconnected with each other but all tending towards the same outcome: silence. https://t.co/Hcdmmskeje
Most kind of you @legendpetersanford , though perhaps unduly kind. Even so, I do think I have tried to be restrained, fair, truthful and civil. If despite this I am the target of a campaign to silence me, then I feel we must all worry about the future of any dissent at all. https://t.co/Uy7Waoq0LV
Ah, if only those with public profile, such as Peter Hitchens, had defended my free speech rights, and other rights, when the msm publicized my 2016 disbarment; I was disbarred for having tweeted five tweets on general aspects of society, particularly the Jew-Zionist backstairs influence everywhere, by which I mean legal milieu, politics, msm etc. But no…Hitchens said not a word.
Hitchens also failed to speak up for Alison Chabloz, prosecuted by Jew-Zionists and then CPS for having posted online her songs mocking “holocaust” fakes and hoaxes. She is still being both persecuted abd prosecuted.
Meanwhile, Jo Brand can, with impunity, incite violence against Nigel Farage and others, and a tidal wave of filth and violent incitement comes from Jewish “comedians”, many paid millions by the BBC and other msm outlets.
For years, decades, I have heard Americans yapping about their “right to bear arms” etc, but the main thing about all those privately-held arms seems to be to show them off at gun shows.
Well, leaving Trump aside (he’s a waste of space anyway, as I have always said), here you are, America, up against it. What are you going to do about it?
That must be right. God’s sakes, even someone as basically amiable as me, placed by Fate in such a role, would be more dictatorial than Trump has been!
Even a social-nationalist (?) tweeter gets it wrong! Romanian passports, yes. Romanian, no. Gypsies from Romania. How hard can it be?! The face is the real passport!
The whole of the UK is facing a form of police state tyranny now. It was a “toytown” police state, but is now changing form and becoming a real police state, with the convenient “virus” panic as a cover.
This is the most disturbing video I have seen in an awful long time. https://t.co/jqZEWdF53M
Covid-19 ended suddenly in China because there was no political purpose in further lockdowns there. Life is ´back to normal’ bcos the social credit/QR access code system is already established. But lockdowns continue in the West because the ‘Great Reset’ is not complete yet.
Catch-22. Either the quasi-monopolies of the online space act like autocrats and arbitarily (meaning, usually, at the instigation of the Jewish lobby) chuck people off their platforms, or the State “regulates” those platforms, resulting in the very same dissidents being censored or removed. No difference; same result.
In fact, while we are talking about online platforms (and the msm)…
…and replace “terrorism” with “Coronavirus“…
The UK death toll supposedly “from” “the virus” (i.e. with the virus, and other conditions in almost all cases) is about 78,000 now, in the past year. About one out of every 900 people in the UK.
Parler has been removed from the Google Play Store!
This is not a game, but war. So far, only one side (the System side, mainly via the Jewish lobby and its “antifa” dupes, and also —in the UK— via the police and CPS) is really playing.
Tweeting, blogging, posting ideas, may be all good, but they do not win this kind of war, whether in the USA, UK, Germany, wherever.
The US military allowed neo-Nazis / white supremacists to sign up to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq because they couldn’t recruit enough soldiers.
Thousands of these veterans are now back in the US.
A lot of things are happening all at once now. Well-known and even famous people being censored or expelled from Twitter etc, platforms such as Parler subject to concerted attack, the UK Government now seriously trying to institute a real police state both online and in the streets. Just a few examples. If it can happen to the President of the United States, what chance has the average Joe got?
This is all part of the Great Reset and Great Replacement. The latest stage of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
2022 is fast approaching. An even more significant year than 1989, the previous one in the 33-year Zeitgeist cycle. The secret and/or secretive Western cabals are preparing to seize the world agenda as they did in and around 1989, but in a different way. That is why they either created “Covid-19”, or used its existence as a way of clamping down on free speech (as well as on street demonstrations, travel etc).
Oh, gosh, how this makes me long for the days when we had a Labour Party instead of a pathetic rump of bourgeois bohemians. https://t.co/PciDTvWFLh
I am trying to get this important information out to as many people as I can before the System, possibly using the Jewish lobby or part of it, prevents me from being able to post the truth. There is that danger.
True, my blog only reaches a relatively small number of people (I do not believe that I have ever had 1,000 hits in a single day, and the norm is less than half of that number), but not many other bloggers (if any) are posting some of the stuff I write. I —and my blog— are certainly targets.
Readers of this blog can help by sending my articles and diary pages to others, or linking to this blog in whatever those readers themselves write.
Talking about this blog and its readership numbers, I started writing this blog in late 2016, so have now had 4 full years of operation. 2020 was by far the best year in terms of numbers of visitors and numbers of hits.
The number of both visitors and hits in 2020 was more than double the number of visitors and hits in 2019.
In 2020, the number of hits was 8-9 times the numbers achieved in both 2017 and 2018 (which years resulted in similar numbers of hits).
As for the number of visitors, the number in 2020, while over double that of 2019, was around 6 times that of both 2017 and 2018.
7 men, inc 2 men who had previously been charged, will now face no further action as part of the investigation into the maritime security incident on board the Nave Andromeda off the #IsleOfWight in Oct. Read more: https://t.co/D9Hjn5IAbKpic.twitter.com/lzLQOLfCio
So 7 African migrant-invaders and stowaways, who threatened the captain and crew of a vessel in British territorial waters, necessitating a full-scale Special Boat Service operation (including “hot-roping” to the deck from helicopters overhead), will “face no further action”?
In other words, they have got away with it. The criminals are now in the UK, housed at public expense, fed at public expense, and paid pocket money out of public funds. Their first action now will be to get on their mobile phones and tell their friends and family to come and leech off us here. In fact, they probably already did that.
People like tweeter “HackerNuke” are ubiquitous on UK Twitter too. People who think that a good criticism of the Daily Mail is to say, “hey, you supported Mosley in the 1930s!“, which for one thing is not fully accurate (the Daily Mail support for Mosley lasted only from 1931 to 1934: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley#Fascism).
In any case, Mosley was far more right than wrong in the 1930s.
Apart from which, that was, after all, 80-90 years ago. Today, the Daily Mail is very different, and pervaded by Jewish influence (google “Ian Millard barrister Daily Mail” and you will see how they tried to pillory me in 2016).
Similarly, you see people who call Tesco or Marks & Spencer “Jewish” companies, which may have been true once, but is no longer the case, and has not been so for decades. Institutional and other very large investors are now in the driving seat; those companies are no more “Jewish”, or Jewish-influenced, than much of the present UK economic sphere.
Betty Redondo, a BBC drone. Typical. That utter me-too political fool, Keir Starmer, also jumped on to the “clap” bandwagon a couple of days ago. Just before its wheels fell off! Ha ha! It just shows, again, how totally out of touch both the msm and Westminster milieux really are.
As I said yesterday, no-one where I live was clapping or banging pots and pans, thank God. That seems to have been the case all over, in fact.
Which they most certainly did last night. Not one person on our street was outside clapping at the altar of the NHS
Exactly. Annemarie Plas, whoever the hell she is, has had her 15 minutes of fame, but wanted to make some kind of career out of it all, as I blogged yesterday. She saw one-trick pony, Caroline Criado-Perez, make a kind of career out of similar “activism” (book deals, an OBE, paid speaking engagements etc), and thought to emulate her. She even tried to get a Christmas bell-ringing thing going on the same basis as the horrible clapping.
For me, the most horrible aesthetics of the UK panicdemic nonsense are or were, firstly, the facemask nonsense; after that, the mass clapping nonsense.
The fundamental problem is the country is not united. We have a number of folk working from cosy home offices whilst the rest rot with no income, no viable business or means to pay mortgage
So…whilst we're talking of trolls, lose the fairytale view of life and open your eyes.
Exactly. Its virtue signalling, little more. A lot of the negative response came from NHS and healthcare workers. They made their feelings clear the last time so why try and resurrect it? I don't think calling our NHS staff trolls is appropriate or helpful either tbh
Wasn’t just the day after Callum, it was also on the night, every Thursday night that went on in peoples gardens for hours on end. Tokenism that’s all it was.
As I have blogged before, Trump still has time in which to make prolific use of the Presidential Pardon. Assange. Snowden. Any social-national prisoners in the Federal prison system. All those who stormed the Capitol in Washington D.C. Just do it!
Where indeed are the grown-ups @fionareith? Where are the calm heads,the voices of experience and restraint? Not on either front bench, to be sure. Our political and media elite is so un-adult that it treats one of the country’s great minds, that of Jonathan Sumption, with scorn. https://t.co/wlEf8P8jDb
Extraordinarily mistaken article by the normally acute @RobertShrimsley beautifully illustrates the lockdown establishment’s inability to treat its critics as rational, legitimate opponents: ‘Rightwing sceptics helped deepen the UK’s Covid crisis https://t.co/BMWZtjAcMy
What' s interesting here is that police have plainly not accepted that their heavy-handed actions last Spring were wrong, and welcome the opportunity to abandon policing by consent in favour of acting as a bossy state militia. Will this ever go away now? https://t.co/mgeA2VjgOB
@ClarkeMicah@emmakennytv Derbyshire Police said in a statement: "Driving to a location … is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths."https://t.co/MWLv36KTUK
Unsurprising, though infuriating. Derbyshire Police really have put the plod in policing. Look at the way in which they allowed themselves to be used by the Jewish lobby in the persecution of Alison Chabloz. That’s before you even get to their behaviour in behaving like a poundland KGB during the first “lockdown” craziness in 2020.
As to those women, they need to appeal those tickets tout de suite, while some semblance of justice still exists in the UK. They have obviously not been in breach of the law (the law, that is, not the wishes of Little Matt Hancock, or the arbitary decisions of the local police superintendent).
He was well-spoken and mostly polite, but his words were completely baseless and dangerous. I do not know how anyone could downplay the severity of the virus after hearing what he had just heard.
Conor Gogarty is the Chief Reporter for the Bristol Post. It is no longer surprising that someone in such a job can call words “dangerous“. Police State UK, 2021…
I guess there are probably parallels between Covid-deniers’ blind refusal to accept reality and what we saw at the Capitol yesterday. I think social media is having a toxic impact on our world in so many ways
Conor Gogarty, Chief Reporter for a provincial newspaper, would much prefer the people to get their news from “trustworthy” and “accurate” outlets, such as the Press and breakfast television. Oh, no, wait…
Read that thread. Read some of the comments by the Twitterati-twits, wishing death, illness, humiliation, imprisonment on that defendant.
What had that bad criminal done? Oh, he had attended a demonstration against “lockdown”, so of course had to be dragged to a court before a “judge” (district judge, i.e. magistrate), lectured by that purse-lipped woman (who seems to think that she is a female Judge Jeffreys), then fined £1,500. All for having tried to exercise normal civil rights in the midst of a bout of public hysteria whipped up by government and the mass media.
Not sure if you read it properly but he wasn’t fined for protesting, he was fined for breaking lockdown rules.
Smug typical Twitterati-twit “@nickbates67”, patronizingly misunderstanding. Wilfully misunderstanding. The defendant was fined for having opposed the “panicdemic” measures, in effect.
Very true. A shout put for Gab and PurgedTV as well. Great shame that #DonaldJTrump didn't get on the #freespeech platforms while he had a voice. But he's always been a businessman & populist figurehead rather than a revolutionary leader, so we are where we are. Share & act! pic.twitter.com/INSf026akt
Please stand firm against the nasty McCarthyite wave of spite, abuse and plain lies now being directed against dissent. Even if you utterly disagree with me and other sceptics (which is a legitimate and well-intentioned position)these Red Guards threaten us all in the end.
Another Red Guard McCarthyite. I do not 'deny' covid. The claim is false and absurd. It is used as a dogwhistle to plant in the minds of the reader a non-existent parallel with Holocaust Denial. Despicable. Areal threat to reason and law. https://t.co/78v5q4vf4c
Hitchens is up the creek here. There is more evidence for “Covid-19”, even in the extreme nonsense form, than there is for (non-existent) “gas chambers” in WW2!
Even holocaust denial more often than not isn't a denial of the holocaust, rather questioning certain aspects of the holocaust that have become taboo to question because of strictly political reasons.
McCarthyism reborn. The left rightly hated it when it was done to them. But the only thing some of them ( example here) learned was how to do it themselves. This repellent Red Guard stuff is multiplying at the moment. https://t.co/WZx2yiJMwi
In fact, though he was certainly not a very “nice person”, Senator Joseph McCarthy was largely correct. There was a Communist conspiracy in places such as Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s, and most of the conspirators were Jews.
Prayer for the Day, the Three Wise Men, and James Mason
Prayer for the Day, Radio 4’s ludicrous and platitudinous “god slot”, broadcast daily at about 0540, once again hits comedy gold. Chris-Someone, with a possibly Indian surname that I could not catch, tells the assembled listeners (though quite subtly, not expressly) that the so-called “Three Kings” or “Three Wise Men” of Biblical legend (mentioned in the Gospel of St. Matthew) were equivalent to the present wave of “refugees” (migrant-invaders), i.e. people who deserve or at least should be proffered our hospitality.
Leaving aside the politically-correct 2021 gloss, the “Three Wise Men” have proven to be a puzzle to historians as well as theologians. Wikipedia has this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi.
[Update, 8 January 2022: please refer to the comments section below for identities of two of the figures].
The main SS figure in the painting looks rather like James Mason [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mason]. Was that deliberate? Mason’s political views seem to have been obscure. There are a few faint indications, though. He was a conscientious objector during WW2, and the basis for that is (as far as I know) unknown. There is no known religious reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mason#Second_World_War.
In fact, Hitler did tolerate persons in high positions who were at least ambiguous in their views, so long as not proven to be actual traitors. Canaris was another example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Canaris.
Like Hitler, James Mason the actor was very interested in architecture, having been awarded a First in Architecture from Peterhouse, Cambridge, at a time when a First was worth something.
Reverting to the Three Wise Men, it has been said that they were the representatives on Earth of the three main types of practical occultism (Hygienic, Eugenic, and Mechanical). Valentin Tomberg [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Tomberg] made that claim in his Anthroposophical Studies of the New Testament and other works.
@andrewschramm The issue is not ‘proving that lockdowns don’t work’.As in all such arguments, it’s the duty of the one proposing the action(in this case strangling civil society & the economy, crippling the NHS, wrecking education,putting thousands out of work) to show they *do*. https://t.co/KvoD8GwmhF
People talk here, stupidly, of the American "Deep State" and yet the CIA's leadership is so stupid it traded its historic symbol for some management consultant's idea of what an insolvent architecture firm would use for a doorplate and mousepad. Utter Muppetry. https://t.co/7m3ZJHTw3o
In less than a year, our government has dictated 1) when we can leave our homes; 2) if we can work; 3) what we can buy; 4) what we have to wear in public; and 5) who we can see in private. All from the initial ‘ask’ of a two-week lockdown to “flatten the curve”. Let that sink in.
Nobody tells you this in Parenting School, but the biggest hack you can do to start enjoying taking walks with the stroller—on cobblestone, city streets with tram or rail, gravel, forest paths, beach sand etc. is getting properly thick wheels. Thin wheels are good for malls only. pic.twitter.com/JOpE9yAZGs
寶藏巖: Treasure Hill, Taipei, Taiwan. An illegal micro-village funded in the 1940s by Kuomintang Army veterans of an anti-aircraft position. Cut off from the grid, it had to evolve organically and sustainably, recycling water, farming, etc. Redeveloped in 2010, artist community. pic.twitter.com/zPiQIAjhco
"By 2008 food gardens, despite their small scale, made up 8 percent of the land in Havana, and 3.4 percent of all urban land in Cuba, producing 90 percent of all the fruit and vegetables consumed." https://t.co/dbDJq9twr2
Interesting. I have blogged previously about the situation historically in the Soviet Union, where from 1936-1989 private plots (from tiny strips of garden to about 2 acres at maximum in some oblasts and republics, particularly in Georgia) produced at least 40% of all fruit and vegetable production despite being less than 4% of the country’s productive land area.
How Cuba went from a petro-industrial and hugely disruptive agriculture to one of draft animals, no pesticides, traditional fertilizers and small urban farms, virtually overnight. And vastly increased harvests doing so. https://t.co/WwwqXBuyDjpic.twitter.com/O3pmqg1tgw
You know a town or a city is full of good people when the cats are cool and relaxed even with strangers. #GoodUrbanism is also good our pets. pic.twitter.com/b54iGT2XxW
Quince fruit is naturally very rich in pectins, which is a must if you want to make long lasting marmalades, jams, preserves, jellies, etc. Growing lots of fruits without being able to preserve them wasn't optimal, so every kitchen garden had a quince until lemons became common. pic.twitter.com/O12uEngnb3
The idea is to leave the fruit to fall to the ground by themselves, when they are ready, so you just let the tree grow as tall as it pleases, the fruits will come down with a big plonk just in time for when you need it to make jam out of all the other fruits you have harvested. pic.twitter.com/h12w8Eva6V
But here is why you should plant one and why every city where you can not grow lemons naturally, should have at least 10-25% of its fruit stock in quince: should the hard times ever come, should global shipping fail, should the industrial lemon orchards be wiped out by disease…
It you live in New York I recommend going to see the quinces at the Cloisters Museum. There's four of them in the main garden. Medieval architecture too, and it is outdoors or old fashioned natural ventilation so you won't catch anything (other than UV and vitamin-D). pic.twitter.com/JfwE3wZz6P
Well worth reading, especially the research on comparisons with flu hospitalisations in previous years. Has anyone done the same for here? https://t.co/nrcn5aMiBE
Replies don't matter @sarakeelcube . Most of these boobies can't reason. What matters is – how many people write. Because all MPs can count….votes. https://t.co/sPs4L9hnP2
What Peter Hitchens forgets is that most MPs are in what even now are “safe seats”. Yes, if such MPs were each to get 5,000 or 10,000 letters from actual constituents all demanding an end to the “panic” measures of the “panicdemic”, they might sit up and take notice. As it is, even after Hitchens’ best efforts, they will each get a few hundred at most, which will not affect them in the slightest.
Naturally, as a constitutional purist, Hitchens wants to believe in a peaceful and reasoned transition to or return to actual “democracy”, but that is pie in the sky in a situation where corporatized msm propaganda is easily manipulating (mainly) uneducated, cultureless and unthinking rabbit-plebs.
Ah…seems that Hitchens agrees with me, at least in part:
Then there is the Royal Mail, but I agree with you @no_leaderhip. The numbers need to be bigger to achieve anything. https://t.co/oRJWCCSri9
Why @jenniferthornb do so many people not know the basic rule of argument? The *proposer* has to give evidence for his assertion. There is *no* evidence that lockdowns work. There is nothing you need to counter. https://t.co/cPug9FksAJ
Yes. Naturally, people think that it stands to reason that if human interactions are reduced, as in “lockdown”, virus transmission must also be reduced. However, if people are confined together in small houses and flats, as many British people are, that alone may increase transmission, in view of the fact that outside contacts cannot be reduced to zero.
Nostalgia corner part 2. What U.K. Chief Medical Officers said in August about reopening schools: pic.twitter.com/oob4E2Rv8S
God, how sad. A 150-year-old tree, with its neighbours, it seems, felled so that more hutches for immigrants can be built. I have never seen that particular tree, but feel sad when any tree is felled or cut back, even if for better reasons, such as coppicing. As Chekhov wrote (not sure where, offhand, not I think in The Cherry Orchard, maybe in Uncle Vanya), “there are men to whom a tree is sacred“. It may even have been in Gorky’s book Literary Portraits, where Chekhov is quoted several times, Gorky having been well-acquainted with Chekhov.
Trees, even when few in number in an area, even when solitary, add so much to human perception, to the whole feel of an area, or a street, or even an individual house and garden.
This is no longer just “infringement of civil liberty” but straight tyranny, and if the police act as the goons of the tyrants, then they themselves deserve to be treated as tyrants or goons thereof.
“Wonderful” might be going too far, but still generally better than today. Amazing to see how empty of traffic was London Wall in 1966.
I recall going to London one Saturday in 1970, I believe, with a friend from school. We wandered in, out of curiosity, to a small gallery in Jermyn Street. The door to the street was open. The day was hot. We were just admiring some Old Master painting when the (?) young owner came in. A very relaxed Old Etonian type. Instead of clearing us out, he was very friendly and polite, and told us a little about the painting, before we left to explore further. London had more character then, and was still overwhelmingly an English city.
Oh, no! (see below)…
Clap for Carers looks set to return this Thursday at 8pm, under a new namehttps://t.co/CUqdlH9MHW
Not that utter shite again! This is an Orwellian fake communitarian North Korea-lite cringe-fest and virtue-signal Twitter-fest. The public services clapping themselves, just at the time when they offer the British people less than they have done for a century. That, and scared rabbits in muzzles, clapping because they feel socially-pressured to do so.
The whole thing is a disgrace; absolutely stupid.
Instead of #clapforheroes can I propose a weekly Two Minute Hate where we can all go outside our front door and scream obscenities? Genuinely feel like it would be much more therapeutic for everyone right now.
I'm sorry but #clapforheroes just lets the government (and a weak opposition) off the hook again. Applause doesn't pay the bills or keep workers and others safe.
— Prof Gayle Letherby 💙 #PeaceAndJustice (@gletherby) January 6, 2021
Can we just boycott this clapping nonsense. What we need is pay rise for all the key workers#clapforheroes#clapforcarers
Made mistake of doing it last time before I realised what was going on , wont be fooled again , lives are being destroyed through lockdown , those people are the real heroes
Agreed. The ‘key workers’ are the lucky ones. Full pay whereas thousands are struggling to make ends meet through no fault of their own. Let’s keep THAT perspective.
No, as a carer, I’m telling you we don’t want it. It would mean more if everyone made an effort to hold the government to account for their ineptitude.
Not in Warrington, they had pipers & singers outside which then made the general public wander over every week for their chance to get there picture in the paper. They were organised by hospital management who all week wanted you to stay in. Bonkers.
I sincerely hope that everyone will boycott this stupid System “clapathon” (again).
As for “@AnnemariePlas”, I think that that was the idiotic woman who started the first “clapathon”. Danish, I think. Ah…just looked her up on Google. Dutch.
Despite her Twitter and Facebook (etc) activism, despite her “clapathon” nonsense, only 730 Twitter “followers”. Even I had 3,000 by the time the Jews had me expelled, and were I still on Twitter now, 2-3 years later, that would probably have been 6,000 or more.
Nonsense people such as Caroline Criado-Perez are bad enough. Here’s another one trying to make a career out of pointless “activism”, and on a risibly poor level.
I see now that Annemarie Plas tried to get a Christmas bell-ringing thing going too:
Amazing scenes. What strikes me is that at least some Americans have begun to think out of the box. It may well be that, according to the antiquated system of voting etc, Trump lost. I don’t take a lot of interest in Trump anyway. What interests me is that at least some Americans have thrown out the whole concept of “well, we got 49% and the [other] unwashed got 51%, so they win, and winner takes all.“
In the UK, we see that the majority of the voters are either scared stupid manipulated rabbits, or non-Europeans of various kinds. So what if that “majority” gets a majority of seats in “Parliament”, a result of a manipulated, unfair, ridiculous voting, electoral, and overall political system? Screw that!
Typical covid doom porn headline. But it took me 45 seconds searching to find that in 2019 40% of excess deaths in England & Wales were due to respiratory disease. Mainly flu & pneumonia – both of which are often now recorded as covid.#lyingpresshttps://t.co/d6DFaffRSp
Vitally important that people understand that 'infections' (as BBC call them, actually positives, often without symptoms) are reflection of the number of tests done, not a measure of the level of illness. https://t.co/vbrIgiezKT
Because you don't yet have enough power @climatewarrior7.Alas, you'll probably obtain it before long. Then you'll find, like every revolutionary before you, that those who live by hatred & intolerance are in the end devoured by others who take the same principle a little further. https://t.co/Aprxd76yZM
Even the Johnson Govt cannot stomach YouTube's attempted censorship of dissent: Google restored TalkRadio's YouTube channel when UK intervened https://t.co/4TT7moh1zt via @MailOnline
A “holocaust” “survivor”, born in a WW2 camp in Austria, who spent one week there until American forces arrived. Don’t they see how mad this is (and reads)?
Incidentally, that Israeli report says at first that the said “survivor” was born at Mauthausen camp, and then lived there for a month; later it clarifies that, and says that she was only there for one week! How long was the stay? A month, a week, or maybe even only one day? I myself know nothing of the matter and, of course, cannot say whether the account is true at all, though there is no particular reason to disbelieve the entirety of the narrative .
Obviously, elderly persons cannot actually remember anything of what happened to them when they were a day, a week, or a month old. The report says that the person mentioned tells stories about her mother, on the premise that the mother had told them to the daughter.
Equally obviously, I know nothing of what happened to that mother during or before WW2. How long was she at that camp? It is unclear where she originated. From the surname, maybe in Czechoslovakia.
Mauthausen is in Austria, which joined with Germany after the plebiscite of 1938. Czechoslovakia was entirely annexed to the German Reich in 1939. The central Mauthausen camp was constructed from 1938, and became a labour camp in 1939. There were offshoots. In other words, it was in operation for up to 7 years.
We do not know whether the mother of the “survivor” mentioned in the Times of Israel report was at Mauthausen from the late 1930s, early 1940s, or only during 1945 when the Americans arrived. Later rather than earlier, in all probability. At any rate, the mother also survived the war and, according to the newspaper report, died in 2013 in the UK.
There is a continuing propaganda effort made by Israel and by Zionists resident elsewhere. We should never accept accounts, whether first-hand or, as here, secondhand (or third-hand), naively, meaning on trust. Not when there is a large-scale operation behind these sorts of accounts.
Moreover, the “historical” aspect is to some extent a red herring. The real purpose is to reinforce Zionist power now, in the contemporary world.
Tweets seen
Perhaps the most important document of 2020. Archived copy of the now memory-holed John Hopkins University study that confirmed the 'pandemic' has not caused an overall increase in deaths. The whole criminal elite narrative falls apart when you read thishttps://t.co/02cOL7LOQv
'Zhang Zhan had a feeding tube forcibly inserted and her arms restrained … Those who saw her in the courtroom before she was sent off to Peking’s Gulag say she appeared in a wheelchair, her hair cropped.' What happens to citizen journalists in China. https://t.co/KILC4bxZm4
China, for all its impressive achievements ancient and modern, is appalling. There is a self-interested cabal in Britain, centred on the financial industry, that is effectively a pro-China lobby group. Many MPs have also been bought or suborned by China. We should be joining with Russia to oppose China, NWO and ZOG (though Russia is itself not uncontaminated by the last).
Oh…and look at this! I blogged about the egregious Professor Ferguson only yesterday or the day before:
“PETER HITCHENS: Guess where Professor Lockdown got his ideas … China’s police state…” [Mail on Sunday]
“One of the strangest things about our recent national madness has been the role of Professor Neil Ferguson, the physicist who has somehow come to dominate Johnson’s Covid policy.
Physicist? Yes, that is his main academic discipline. He doesn’t even have a Biology O-level, as he himself cheerfully admits. But that’s no odder than his repeated record of wild predictions of vast numbers of deaths, for a variety of diseases from foot-and-mouth to mad cow, which can kindly be described as exaggerated.
And then there’s his complicated private life, which resulted in a pretty clear breach of the miserable restrictions he had helped to impose on the rest of us. As with all such cases, I don’t blame him for breaking the stupid rules. I despise him as a hypocrite for supporting them and then thinking they didn’t apply to him.
Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, said at the time that it was ‘just not possible’ for Ferguson to continue advising the Government. But this was not true. The professor was said to have resigned from the SAGE advisory committee. But did he? Not really.
A current State website lists him as a member of the ‘New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group’ (NERVTAG). Minutes suggest he was only ever away from that for a few weeks. But this is small potatoes, set beside an amazing admission by Ferguson in a recent interview with the semi-official newspaper The Times.
Here, Ferguson spoke of SAGE’s growing admiration for China’s tyrannical attempts to contain Covid.
To begin with they thought – with good reason – that the dishonest and repressive Chinese state was covering up the truth about the Wuhan outbreak. I am sure they still are covering it up.
Modern China is a horrible place, cruel, ruthless and unembarrassed. But for some reason SAGE came to like Peking’s Covid strategy. Ferguson told The Times that ‘as the data accrued it became clear it was an effective policy’.
I’d be interested to know how the SAGE geniuses evaluated data from this police state, which lacks a free press or independent universities. But there.
Even so, they hesitated. As Ferguson says: ‘It’s a Communist one-party state, we said. We couldn’t get away with it in Europe, we thought.’
Aren’t those words ‘we couldn’t get away with it’ interesting? Is this the way in which public servants in a free country think of the normal limits on what they can do? I can only hope not.
But Ferguson and his friends then saw what happened in Italy, where a formerly free country reached for the weapons of repression and mass house arrest. And the rule of fear was so great that they got away with it. So we were next. Or, as Ferguson puts it: ‘And then Italy did it. And we realised we could.’
They could. But they did not have to. They chose the Chinese way. And so they ‘got away with’ beginning a disaster which still continues. There is still no evidence that any of this Chinese-inspired repression has worked.
Every country that has locked down has failed to control the disease and keeps doing the same thing over and over again in the hope of getting a different result.
If lockdown is an effective policy, then the guillotine is a good cure for a headache (except that the guillotine probably does cure a headache).
The shame of it is that the lockdown fanatics did ‘get away with it’, and continue to do so. That is, quite simply, because most of the responsible people in our society did not stand up for wisdom and freedom but allowed themselves to be swept away in a flood of State-sponsored fear, like so many pawns.” [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday].
Not sure that that is correct. It has been long since I was a practising barrister, and even longer since I had any substantial contact with private international law, or tax law (though I did both academically in the 1980s, and to a limited extent professionally in the succeeding two decades).
Still, it seems to me that countries (states) do not enforce the tax laws of other countries. I cannot see how that law can be enforced or even organized. I hesitate to say that that tweet is simply wrong, because I do not know, and because nothing that this bad excuse for a government might do would surprise me.
Stella Morris’s powerful plea against the extradition of Julian Assange in today’s Mail on Sunday. pic.twitter.com/yOgIyzo5rE
We support this or that, oppose this or that, do this or that, and all the while all that we are doing is, in effect, a re-arranging of the deck chairs on the Titanic, in the hackneyed phrase.
Good to notice there a lot of sensible people still around, I totally agree with this. A lot more should've been done to protect all of those who are most vunerable from all of this and the country needn't have shut down & still be in this mess #NoMoreLockdowns#openUKhttps://t.co/XPrEJrKWdw
Not just China, the rest of Asia is back to living normal lives, and no vaccine (well, not that we know of anyway) Only some countries still have limited travel and not yet allowing tourists in. Learn from them #wakeup#HerdImmunity#Asia#China#NoMoreLockdownshttps://t.co/eMMcvDTntM
Interesting historical note about Southern England
“At the end of the last glaciation, about 10,000 years ago, the area’s ecosystem was characterised by a largely treeless tundra. Pollen studies have shown that this was replaced by a taiga of birch, and then pine, before their replacement in turn (c. 4500 BC) by most of the species of tree encountered today – including, by 4000 BC, the beech, which seems to have been introduced from mainland Europe. This was used as a source of flour, ground from the triangular nutlets contained in the “mast”, or fruit of the beech, after its tannins had been leached out by soaking. Beechmast has also traditionally been fed to pigs.[7]
However, by 4000 BC, as Oliver Rackham has indicated, the dominant tree species was not the beech, but the small-leaved lime, also known as the pry tree.[8] The wildwood was made up of a patchwork of lime-wood areas and hazel-wood areas, interspersed with oak and elm and other species. The pry seems to have become less abundant now because the climate has turned against it, making it difficult for it to grow from seed. Nevertheless, some remnants of ancient lime-wood still remain in south Suffolk.[9]
Clearance of forests began with the introduction of farming (c. 4500 BC), particularly in the higher-lying parts of the country, like the South Downs. At this time, the whole region, apart from upland areas under plough, and marshy areas (e.g. Romney Marsh in Kent and much of Somerset), was heavily forested, with woodland stretching nearly everywhere.” [Wikipedia] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Lowlands_beech_forests
Ha ha! In fact, tweeter “katmonkey/@braidedriver2” is halfway right. “@rattus2384” is in fact house-husband, and one-time “film critic”, Stephen Applebaum (who also tweets as “@grubstreetsteve”). He has no job or profession, so she is right in principle.
On the wider point, that cartoon has it quite right. For those who, like me, are neither employed nor self-employed, the “lockdowns” or near lockdowns make little difference beyond being a general nuisance.
In my own case, being now 64, and having been disbarred in 2016 by reason of the machinations of a pack of Jews [see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/], I have nowhere to commute to or attend on a daily basis. I never attend (and rarely ever did) parties, or crowded nightclubs and/or discotheques. In fact, I lead —and generally have led— a fairly reclusive life (with some exceptions in previous times, admittedly).
My own everyday life is scarcely impacted at all by “lockdowns” etc. I oppose these stupid “measures” because they are trashing society, trashing the economy, ruining the very concept of law, and for what? Nothing.
It is obvious, as that cartoon expresses, that the public sector (including much of the NHS) is in fact working far less now but for enhanced or the same pay as pertained pre-“the virus”. The retired, unemployed and disabled are as well off, or better off, than they were “pre-Covid”.
Particularly well-off are MPs, who are getting more pay than before, who in many cases are getting more paid outside (and often fake) “work”, (almost bribes, really) “consultancy”, but are doing almost nothing for it.
@incytometry You should hear yourself, calling for the prosecutions of people you disagree with, making baseless allegations. You are a sort of tiny Andrei Vyshinsky . To boost my income? How? It would have been so easy to go along with the consensus, like most of the media. https://t.co/dUiQ8KLx3T
Quite @johnbakie . Everywhere I go compliance is total – especially with the scientifically baseless muzzle decree. This is not wishful thinking. https://t.co/A9bZ3zeSHh
The difficulty with the word 'Pandemic' @lls_property, is that it has no truly clear definition, so its existence cannot be established or falsified, but it is a dogwhistle suggesting (quite wrongly) that this outbreak is comparable in scale and fatality to the 1918 influenza. https://t.co/3KR54JHqYd
The truth is out there, as they say…or to use another well-worn phrase, you can lead a horse to water but cannot make it drink. The problem with the “virus” situation”, including the facemask nonsense, “lockdowns”, the economic consequences etc, is that most people do not want to think, and do not want responsible freedom; they want to be told what to do, when to clap, when to wear a face muzzle, and when to obey “official” directives, even if more or less made up by the local police superintendent.
We have been here before: most British people refused to take the threat of, and consequences of, mass immigration seriously. They preferred to direct their interest to whether the “England” team would win a football, cricket or rugby game on the other side of the world. Look at the results…
I'll say it again. I sense the approach of a strong wave of 'blood on your hands' denunciations of dissenters in the weeks to come. Dissent is the only limit on Johnson's power to close down our lives. I think sceptics must all be prepared to take some hard pounding.
Ian Robert Millard 