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
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.
I see no reason to disagree with any of the above. In fact, what I saw happening then —Twitter (etc) expulsions, suspensions, censorship, shadowbanning— has intensified since then. The latest news is that Twitter has actually suspended, for 12 hours, the Twitter account of Donald Trump, the current President of the United States! Facebook has done the same or similar.
Those who have read my tweets will be aware that I have never had much time for Trump, though I wanted him to beat Hillary Clinton in 2015 because that ghastly bitch was pushing (as NWO/ZOG puppet) for conflict and indeed war with Russia.
Trump was the prisoner of the Jew-Zionist lobby, as are all US presidents (certainly since Kennedy), and since his election he has become little more than a squawking parrot in a gilded cage.
Still, Trump is for the moment the President of that great and greatly-flawed superpower, and for a mere commercial quasi-monopoly to purport to censor the American head of state is stunningly dystopian.
As to the events themselves, and to borrow, appropriately, the McDonald’s slogan, “I’m lovin’ it“!
I love seeing and hearing the outrage of all the NWO/ZOG puppets and hypocrites: Macron, Boris-idiot etc.
An evening foray
Yesterday was first day of the latest disastrous “lockdown”. Went mid-evening to my local supermarket, a Waitrose. Roads almost empty going there (less than 2 miles), and even less busy on the return journey.
Waitrose car park almost empty. One difference noticed was that the by now usual solitary black-clad Handmaid’s Tale militiaman (a “marshal” from some security company, hired by Waitrose) had been joined by a couple of colleagues, one of whom loitered inside the store not far from the entrance. With their black masks, and in one case a black scarf as well, they differ from those seen in the Handmaid’s Tale TV series only in that they are unarmed (and presumably unlikely to drag unbelievers off to execution).
Not sure what their job is. Mask enforcement? The Waitrose customers (rabbits) are often seen wearing facemasks even in the car park, so effective has official fear-propaganda been. Anti-shoplifting? Seems doubtful; they rarely patrol inside the store and, frankly, look as if, in the old phrase, they “could not catch a cold” (a most appropriate phrase at the present time, arguende…). They do seem to help the car park/shopping trolley fellow to clean said trolleys.
As for the store itself, very few customers. I noticed that there had been little “panic buying” this time, unlike during the earlier “lockdown” shutdown(s). The “usual suspects”, tinned tuna and loo paper, were not cleaned out but had evidently taken somewhat of a hit. Everything else in abundant supply.
Bought some lottery tickets (Lotto/Thunderball) and a scratchcard. Outlay of £40. Result— one £30 win, one £3 win (Thunderball) and one £5 win (on the scratchcard, which cost £5). £41 in toto. Profit of £1 overall, so no Scottish estate purchase this week…
Tweets seen today
Who cares @starittjames? If you don’t know that’s an evasion of the point, then I am sorry for you. https://t.co/wTREG8hWOo
Tweeter “@StarrittJames” seems to be yet another unthinking person whose answer to the censorship and “deplatforming” now rampant is to bleat “Twitter/Facebook/YouTube/etc are private enterprises, and you have no right to be on those platforms; they can remove you at will“.
That is legally correct, as things stand, but the point is that that should not be the case. As I have tweeted and now blogged for years (and spoken, at the London Forum in 2017), these organizations are quasi-monopolies (as are Amazon, ebay etc), and the citizen should have rights there qua citizen, and not merely qua “customer” or qua “contracting person with few contractual rights”.
Yes @tinytim0101 . Opposition to these measures is feeble, and has failed. The suppression of ancient freedoms, where it is not actually popular, is widely accepted as justified. That is why HMG and its supporters feel free to ignore or suppress it https://t.co/PEdpuvAPfg
No @thatjudexxx it shows they feel free to suppress views they don’t like. Why should they be scared? What of? The supine behaviour of formerly free populations, especially their educated elites in media, politics, education and law, has permitted the end of those freedoms. https://t.co/PwLFSjpMHA
The usual unspecified ‘violation of community guidelines’ . Why do you even bother to ask? @pauschgr. Did you honestly expect a detailed, challengeable indictment or an opportunity to contest it? Where have you been? https://t.co/b5lbm32Nak
Well, there is still some way to go before we sink to the depths of the PRC. Exaggeration weakens the cause of freedom . But what is happening here is quite bad enough. https://t.co/vMYxvsNp15
This morning, or yesterday, I heard some BBC drone on the Radio 4 Today Programme talking about the Chinese repression in Hong Kong. Well, all very bad, I’m sure, and I have no doubt that Hong Kong was better when under British rule (and when I was there in 2006, several Chinese and Indians said the same to me), but the UK is now sinking so fast into unfreedom that it really has little locus standi to criticize others.
Exactly. The rabbits prefer to believe that “the man in the white coat”, or the man with the clipboard, or the —allegedly— terribly clever part-Jew, part-Turk who went to Eton and Oxford and remembers a bit of Greek and Latin, “knows better” and has some kind of authority. Nein danke…
I think of how, when I was a local councillor, even the smallest change had to have an impact assessment. Yet you can lock the country up and close businesses and schools without so much as a query. Absolutely terrifying. https://t.co/STGfzYTCBS
I am very pleased that no-one was out clapping like an idiot today. I was driving around at 2000 hrs, and not a clapping idiot to be seen. Yay! Annemarie Plas can now get back in her box until she can think of some other way to attract attention to herself and have her 15 minutes of fame on Twitter.
The people where I live must have higher IQ levels, because they were not clapping, most of them, even in the summer.
Medical staff may not be prime movers in this conspiracy, but they're certainly aware that it's all bullshit. Likewise the police and the world of journalism.
There is not a snowball's chance in hell that many of these people believe the BS. But they're happy to play along!
It's still looking that way. Dare to dissent, and people will demand your sacking,even your prosecution, and allege all kinds of evil intentions against you. Hardly anyone knows what McCarthyism was like now, but if you ever wondered how you would have behaved then, you know now. https://t.co/c3FUnjtJtn
2/2 'The question is what are those deaths attributed to.. a lot of them are being wrongly attributed to Covid because of a flawed testing regime' , Dr John Lee, retired Prof of Pathology. https://t.co/fV5RpA8VsI
1/2 'Huge question marks over the reliability of the information' …'The government don't understand anything…they are totally reliant on SAGE' 'Mortality well within the envelope of what normally happens at this time of year' Dr John Lee, recently-retired Prof of pathology. https://t.co/fV5RpA8VsI
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
Ian Robert Millard 