UK’s Covid death toll rises by ONE
In spite of all the hysterical talk of a ‘second wave’ this Winter and rising cases in England, the number of people who died in Britain on Sunday was precisely one. The Mail has more.
The country’s death toll is remaining low as just one person died after testing positive for the disease bringing the UK’s total fatalities during the pandemic to 41,499.
Figures on Sunday are usually smaller due to a delay in processing over the weekend.
There were no new deaths in Scotland for the fourth consecutive day. Wales and Northern Ireland each had no new fatalities for the third straight day.
Scotland reported 123 new cases, taking the total number of positive infections to 20,318.
The Mail says that 1,715 people tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday, the biggest daily rise in 12 weeks.
But the death toll continues to fall.
And 40 B&H Please
A reader has an amusing story.
A surreal scene, recounted to me by my elderly neighbour as he queued to pay for his groceries at the local store.
The chap ahead of him (fully masked up) got to the till and said to the girl at the checkout “and 40 B&H please…”
It’s a strange world we live in!
Perhaps the chap had heard that smokers are at a lower risk of ending up in hospital with COVID-19 than non-smokers.
Humiliation for Kim-Jong Dan
A few days ago, an Australian reader cautioned me not to treat the 18-month extension of emergency powers being sought by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews as a done deal – and he was right. After trying and failing to get an 18-month extension, Andrews had to settle for six. The Mail has the story.
Daniel Andrews has sensationally backed down on his plans to extend Victoria’s state of emergency by 12 months, after top doctors branded his government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis a ‘slow car crash’.
A state of emergency – which gives police extraordinary powers to search, arrest and detain – was first declared in Victoria on March 16 and is due to expire on September 13 after several extensions.
Mr Andrews wanted to change legislation so it could be extended for a further 12 months, but was met with furious backlash from the public, civil rights groups and his political friends and foes.
As a compromise with upper house independents and minor parties, who vowed to vote with the Coalition next week and oppose his plan, Mr Andrews has now offered to accept a six-month extension instead of 12.
The premier is also willing to compromise on the terms of the extension and the powers the state of emergency would give police and health authorities, according to the Age.
Let’s hope the mad dictator can’t even get a six-month extension through the Victorian legislature.
Largest Academic Trade Union in UK Uses Covid as Excuse to Down Tools
The University and College Union (UCU), Britain’s largest academic trade union, has advised its members against returning to work because it’s “too dangerous”. The Guardian has the story.
Plans to reopen universities have been thrown into serious doubt as the UK’s largest academic union warns today that it is “too dangerous” for face-to-face teaching to resume, and calls on the government and vice-chancellors to prevent students returning to campuses this autumn.
Around one million students are expected to move around the UK as they head back to universities over the next month, which union leaders and public health experts fear could lead to a dramatic increase in outbreaks of Covid-19.
The University and College Union (UCU), which represents over 120,000 academics, lecturers and university workers, accused the government of “encouraging a public health crisis”, warning that British universities are just “weeks away” from “sleepwalking into a disaster”.
“A million young people are being encouraged to travel all around the UK, move into halls of residence and congregate in large numbers. This could lead to universities being the care homes of any second wave of Covid,” general secretary Jo Grady said in an interview with the Observer.
Jo Grady must know that the chances of the Covid death toll in Britain’s universities matching that in care homes are vanishing to zero. Readers of Lockdown Sceptics won’t need reminding that under-65 year-olds with no co-morbidities are more likely to die in a road traffic accident than succumb to COVID-19. So what is she up to?
The answer, I’m afraid, is that the UCU, like the teaching unions, is trying to exploit the crisis to score political points against the Government – and to hell with the welfare of young people.
Unforgivable.
Eye-Witness Accounts of Saturday’s Rally
A reader has emailed us to tell us about her experience at Saturday’s anti-lockdown rally. She describes it as “crushingly depressing”, I’m afraid.
I had umm’d and ahh’d about whether to attend, because I believe that all the conspiracy theorists are counterproductive to the immediate problem of getting the Coronavirus Act repealed/stopped. But I am also so worried that the governments behaviour during this very strange time is going to continue unless something big makes them change. I guess I looked at a lot of the sites with my rose tinted specs, and although I already knew that Piers Corbyn was going to be speaking tripe, Delores Cahill gave a good speech in Dublin, so I thought we’d make up another couple of bodies and get up there.
The rally was crushingly depressing. The main organisers were SORUK I think, their FB page certainly seemed to have the most sensible pre rally information regarding what NOT to put on your placards..
PLEASE think carefully about what you put on your placards, tshirts, etc…
ON TOPIC, YES MESSAGE SUGGESTIONS ARE:
*No Covid Vax
*Tell the Truth
*We want a real democracy
*Save Our Rights
*Stop New Normal
*Anything related to statistics & cover ups of the truth
*Anything highlighting the devastating effects of the lockdown (eg. cancer deaths increase, domestic violence, suicide rate increase, etc…)OFF TOPIC, NO TO MESSAGES ARE ANYTHING MENTIONING OR ALLUDING TO:
*Bill Gates
*5G
*anti-vax (in general)
*New World Order (NWO)Needless to say, there were plenty of placards highlighting the ‘Plandemic’ ‘5G’ ‘Bill gates, evil mastermind’ ‘NWO’. Probably 50/50 conspiracy theorist placards to those with a more reasonable message. There were no masks and no social distancing.
We arrived just before 12 and most of the protestors were in the fountain area of the square, with the speakers shouting from the base of Nelson’s Column. There was some problem with the PA system, something about the police confiscating their video screen because they hadn’t applied for the right license I think, so for the first 50 minutes we could barely hear the female voice shouting. But then they got some big speakers working and we were able to hear better, although the police helicopter that continued to circle the square for the rest of the rally did make all but the most able speakers hard to hear properly. But that is probably just as well.
It is hard to estimate the numbers of protestors, but I would suggest the numbers were more like 5,000 than 35,000.
The loons were there in number. I had no idea people were linking so many things to the virus. If you believe what they are all saying the outcome is truly apocalyptic. And worse… David Icke spoke. He didn’t actually say anything controversial, thank goodness, but he is the front man of monster raving loonies and his presence there was manna to the theorists and flattening for the rest of us.
I was unable to identify any of the other speakers apart from the three mentioned, so cannot attribute announcements to individuals I’m afraid, but we heard claims that the vaccinations would change us at a genetic level, and once changed we would no longer be considered human and could therefore be killed. We heard that the swabs used for PCR testing contained nano particles that would roam around our bodies for some reason (I didn’t hear why). We heard that something in fluoride was doing something to us (I didn’t hear what). There was chanting including ‘Choose your side’ – great unity message then.
I was tempted to leave on several occasions, but stuck it out because I felt I should try and listen to what was being said. It was a long 3 hours.
It is the first protest that we’ve attended. It was interesting to see the policing of the event. A couple of community support officers walked by, masked up, and I caught their eye and commented that I couldn’t see their lovely smiles. They engaged in a little small talk, bless ‘em, and actually posed for a photograph with me. I had a gilet jaune on with the message ‘REPEAL THE CORONAVIRUS ACT 2020. RESTORE OUR FREEDOM. ACT NOW TO STOP THE ACT. CONTACT YOUR M.P. A.S.A.P.’ A young lady saw us chatting and came and asked if she could take a photo of our backs, 2 yellow met police vests and one protestor vest. The officers agreed. The officers made sure they were facing front so they couldn’t be identified, (even though they were masked up) but I made a point of looking up and smiling at the officer next to me. I wonder if I’ll ever see that photo? The officers then started to walk off before remembering they were supposed to be doing a job, and came back to tell us that we were participating in an unlawful act by being at a gathering of so many people. We said we knew, and understood that they were just doing their job. And off they strolled. Apart from the police helicopter drowning out (thankfully) most of the speakers, we weren’t aware of much of a police presence until we had had enough, and started to stroll down towards Parliament Square.
But another reader emailed with a much more positive account.
I travelled two hours by train to the protest yesterday (no issues using the ‘exemption’ badge printed from your page – thanks) and wanted to add a couple of things to the report you published yesterday.
Firstly it’s worth people of all sorts getting out and joining these kinds of rallies. Even if you don’t agree with the 5G conspiracy, etc., the issues at stake here are far greater than that. Going by the signs held aloft and from speaking to a few people, the vast majority there were not conspiracy theorists. They were advocates for freedom pure and simple. Freedom not to be forced to take a vaccine. Freedom to question the authorities without losing your job (as happened to several speakers from the medical profession). Freedom to send your children to school without a mask. Freedom to see your family especially on their deathbeds.
Secondly it’s necessary to break the law when your basic rights, such as that of free assembly, are being suppressed. If you do so in enough numbers, the police cannot act and so the suppression will end. The entire gathering was of course illegal given its size. Almost nobody wore a mask (illegal given our proximity?). During the rally we were encouraged to hug and shake hands (illegal?) with the people next to us. It felt good, having not done that with a stranger since March. The police did try to stop the rally in a couple of ways: firstly by confiscating the organisers’ amplification and video equipment, then by trying to drown out the speakers by means of a constantly circling helicopter. We waved or made other gestures to the flying cops in a show of defiance. Even so it was slightly intimidating.
Thirdly, in amongst the nonsense of Bill Gates being behind it all, there were some really interesting ideas discussed. For example:
*’peoplescourt.org‘ intends to defend whistleblowers in the courts and hold officials promoting unagreed DNRs accountable
*apparently ‘notice of liability’ letters can be sent to teachers opening them up to charges of malfeasance if your child is adversely affected by anti-covid measures taken in school
*most interesting was a proposal to depoliticise the NHS and return hospitals and surgeries to the local institutions they once were, accountable to the patients in their areas. This would be accompanied by disbanding the GMC and other politicised medical bodies.I left part-way through David Icke’s speech in order to catch a train but from what I heard, I noticed that even if he has some mad ideas, he had to appeal to the loss of freedom and the need to fight facism so as to get the crowd on board. I conclude from this that there is a massive body of sensible opinion out there waiting to be led by someone rational. If such a person or group would appear it could be the start of a new political group that many people traditionally from the Left and Right would join.
Stop Press: Piers Corbyn, who was arrested at Saturday’s rally, has been fined £10,000. The Standard has more.
Round-Up
- ‘The China Syndrome Part I: Outbreak‘ – Part one of a four-part series in Quillette by Philippe Lemoine
- ‘Finally, CDC Admits Just 9,210 Americans Died FROM COVID-19‘ – Principia Scientific highlights the CDC’s admission that only 6% of all Americans recorded as dying from coronavirus had no co-morbidities
- ‘New CDC guidelines are aligned with science‘ – The new testing guidelines are much more sensible, says Jennifer Cabrera in Rational Ground
- ‘Brompton riding high as Covid gets us in the saddle‘ – Nice to see some companies are doing well (and I’m a Brompton owner myself)
- ‘We wanted the toughest possible lockdown, and now we will pay the price‘ – Excellent column from Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph
- ‘“Our service was dead”: NHS worker under investigation after claiming coronavirus is “a load of b*****ks” and admitting she did “f*** all” during the pandemic‘ – Shocking story of an NHS worker being penalised by her employer for dissenting from Covid orthodoxy
- ‘Finally, states are retracting Hydroxychloroquine bans’ – Prohibitions on the use of HCX in the treatment of COVID-19 have been lifted in Ohio and Minnesota
- ‘Entire flight to Cardiff told to self-isolate after seven confirmed COVID-19 cases‘ – Absurd over-reaction. The evidence that Covid can be transmitted on planes is threadbare at best
- ‘How the media has us thinking all wrong about the coronavirus‘ – Decent piece by Emily Oster in the Washington Post about how people have a tendency to over-estimate the risk posed by COVID-19
- ‘A bluffer’s guide to surviving COVID-19‘ – Statistician Tim Harford calculates that the risk of becoming infected and dying from COVID-19 in London are about one in two million
- ‘Investigation: African migrants “left to die” in Saudi Arabia’s hellish Covid detention centres‘ – Harrowing story from Saudi Arabia about the appalling conditions in Covid detention camps
- ‘The BBC has a real chance to reform after losing sight of its purpose‘ – Robbie Gibb with some advice for the BBC’s incoming Director-General Tim Davie
- ‘Red-listing of Ibiza and Mallorca a disaster for local businesses‘ – A report in Euronews about the catastrophic impact of red-listing the Balearic Islands
- ‘Treasury officials push for bombshell tax hikes to pay for virus‘ – And there we were thinking it would all be paid for by a magic money tree
- ‘Refusal to wear a facemask linked to sociopathy‘ – What nonsense is this in the Times?
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Five today: “Living in Fear” by the Power Station, “Scaremonger” by Total Science, “Nothing is Safe” by Grannysmith, “Make It Up As We Go” by Jason Derulo and “We Are Led By Fools” by Jayo From Cpt.
Love in the Time of Covid
We have created some Lockdown Sceptics Forums that are now open, including a dating forum called “Love in a Covid Climate” that has attracted a bit of attention. We’ve also just introduced a section where people can arrange to meet up for non-romantic purposes. We have a team of moderators in place to remove spam and deal with the trolls, but sometimes it takes a little while so please bear with us. You have to register to use the Forums, but that should just be a one-time thing. Any problems, email the Lockdown Sceptics webmaster Ian Rons here.
Small Businesses That Have Re-Opened
A few months ago, Lockdown Sceptics launched a searchable directory of open businesses across the UK. The idea is to celebrate those retail and hospitality businesses that have re-opened, as well as help people find out what has opened in their area. But we need your help to build it, so we’ve created a form you can fill out to tell us about those businesses that have opened near you.
Now that non-essential shops have re-opened – or most of them, anyway – we’re focusing on pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants, as well as other social venues. As of July 4th, many of them have re-opened too, but not all (and some of them are at risk of having to close again). Please visit the page and let us know about those brave folk who are doing their bit to get our country back on its feet – particularly if they’re not insisting on face masks! If they’ve made that clear to customers with a sign in the window or similar, so much the better. Don’t worry if your entries don’t show up immediately – we need to approve them once you’ve entered the data.
“Mask Exempt” Lanyards
I’ve created a permanent slot down here for people who want to buy (or make) a “Mask Exempt” lanyard/card. You can print out and laminate a fairly standard one for free here and it has the advantage of not explicitly claiming you have a disability. But if you have no qualms about that (or you are disabled), you can buy a lanyard from Amazon saying you do have a disability/medical exemption here (now showing it will arrive between Oct 2nd to Oct 12th). The Government has instructions on how to download an official “Mask Exempt” notice to put on your phone here. You can get a “Hidden Disability” tag from ebay here and an “exempt” card with lanyard for just £3.99 from Etsy here.
Don’t forget to sign the petition on the UK Government’s petitions website calling for an end to mandatory face nappies in shops here (now over 31,000).
A reader has started a website that contains some useful guidance about how you can claim legal exemption.
And here’s a round-up of the scientific evidence on the effectiveness of mask (threadbare at best).
Stop Press: King David High School in Manchester is insisting that children aged 12 and above wear masks in classrooms.
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I certainly think the tweets should be allowed to stand as I am more or less an absolutist as far as free speech goes.
Regarding the “cancel culture” aspect, she hasn’t lost her job, just a “title”. I’m not clear what being an “Emeritus Professor” gives you/entails, but losing the status doesn’t seem like it’s a disproportionate “punishment”. I guess it might be a bit like being a “brand ambassador” – you represent the organisation so maybe the organisation is justified in getting rid of you if you say things you feel bring the organization into disrepute. But then let’s say you are a car salesman – should it be possible to sack you for tweets you don’t like if the tweets are not about cars? Probably not…
There are many paradoxes with free speech. I have always tended to think that speech should be free with no ifs or buts, except when inciting violence or causing public disorder, eg shouting “fire” in a busy building when there is no actual fire. ——–But let’s suppose I work for a company making Televison’s and I go out into the street and loudly proclaim that those televisions are heap of crap? ——-Just because speech should be free does not mean we should always exercise that right. As Gerald Ratner found out.
Yes, as I posted a minute ago somewhere else in this thread regarding the Ford car salesman.
The phrase about the conference attendees as “racist, nonce and shithouse in Britain” is quite accurate.
That’s one of the reasons many of us left the Labour Party.
What made you join the Labour Party in the first place and what made you leave?
As a peace loving libertarian old socialist I joined the Labour Party to vote for Jeremy Corbyn as leader a long with hundreds of thousands of others.
The eurosceptic Corbyn was the best person in my opinion to lead us to Brexit which would benefit ordinary people.
The EU wets and Zionists within the Labour Party and media fabricated a hate campaign against Corbyn and when he honourably resigned thousands of us left the Party.
Starmer is an “establishment” tool and Labour is almost as bad as the Tories.
Thanks for your answer. I am not a fan of Corbyn but I think he would have been better than Starmer (not a high bar). I also thought the campaign against him looked pretty bogus.
I struggle to see how libertarianism and socialism can be at all compatible, though of course we all know that capitalism at least as currently practiced doesn’t guarantee liberty either.
I don’t know if they ever speak to each other but I would have loved to be a fly on the during conversations between Jeremy and his brother Piers who of course was such a stalwart and early opponent of lockdowns.
Many people see the word “socialism” or “socialist” as meaning USSR type government control. I don’t believe in that.
I believe all governments should be looking after the interests of the many and NOT the interests of the moneyed few and I would tax the rich to pay for it which makes me a “socialist” in it’s broader sense.
I support all types of freedoms particularly freedom of speech and therefore I am libertarian.
There are many references to “libertarian socialism” on the internet.
I had been following Piers Corbyn for years and loved his stance against global warming.
I wrote at the time that I was hoping some of Piers scepticism would rub off on his brother. Unfortunately it didn’t and both were set up to fail as they were dangerous to the “establishment”.
Thanks. I see private property as an essential part of liberty. Also I think it’s easy for appeals to the “common good” to lead to removal of individual freedoms unless most people are sincere in their belief in freedom and vigilant – probably you are, but if so then I think you are rare. Who decides who the “moneyed few” are, and how much they should be taxed, and who the “many” are, and how much the “many” should be given.
Anyway, it’s good that there are at least some lockdown/climate sceptics on the political left.
What a total cowbag. And from somebody in her position, I definitely think she deserves to be stripped of her titles, because her behaviour is completely unacceptable and should not be tolerated. No wonder higher education establishments are a breeding ground for this sort of hate and intolerance if people like her are molding young, impressionable minds and are held up as role models. Antisemitism is on the rise everywhere, as is general anti-Israel hate. It does make me laugh that the woketards and useful idiots that bleat on about tolerance are evidently the least tolerant of all, but I’m sure their lack of self-awareness ensures the hypocrisy is lost on them. This latest report from Germany;
”A survey published this week by the German Central Council of Jews reports that a third of Jews in Germany have experienced some type of antisemitic attack since October 7th. The attacks have ranged from antisemitic graffiti to personal insults, and almost all communities report increased psychological pressure, receiving threatening calls and threatening emails.
A stunning 80% of the Jewish religious congregation leaders surveyed stated that life has become more unsafe for Jews—specifically Jews who wish to express their faith in public in any form—since the October massacre.
Central Council president Josef Schuster called the reports “shocking” and noted the growth of the trend, telling Die Welt, newspaper, “Since October 7, we have been experiencing an increase in anti-Semitic statements and actions from left-wing, unfortunately also academic circles.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/germany-shocking-rise-in-left-wing-antisemitic-acts/
More in this article. Max points for irony that she apparently specializes in ‘inclusion’. Jesus wept!
”The ex-Labour councillor has since deleted the tweet but other inflammatory posts by Bradley remain online.
In one she says about the conference: “God preserve us. I’d walk through mud and nettles rather than listen to these evil people.”
Another message from Bradley, posted on 5 December, reads, “All Zionist supporters should go straight to hell. They are demons not human beings”.
The professor has written about inclusion and discrimination. She describes herself as an “ex-Labour councillor”, a “passionate socialist” and an academic who studies “inequalities of class, gender, ethnicity”.
https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/academic-specialist-in-inclusion-calls-for-evil-jewish-conference-to-be-blown-up-rn4haveo
But – obviously as always – the good man cannot name a single, actual example that would lend some substance to his public handwringing. And while the article has Germany (!!1) in its headline, the closest it gets anything which actually happened is a quote from Yanis Varoufakis, ie, a Greek, and unspecific claims about stuff said to happen at US universities (according to a Washington Post journalist).
Political honesty at its finest.
I have no skin in the middle east sectarian clutter. I don’t even know many Jews or Muslims well or personally. All I know is that Jews don’t want to drive into me on a bridge. They don’t seem to want to blow my children up at a pop concert, and they don’t seem to want to behead a policeman. —-ie I don’t seem to have to worry about Jews so much, and it is our own personal situation that is the most important to us all.
There are those who have received honours who have foisted great physical and mental harms on the population of this country. They should be stripped of these as a priority.
We could address those who cause verbal harm next.
I’d understand this as sarcastic remark, especially when considering the Every racist-statement as blowing up the venue would certainly not demonstrate that whoever did was was morally superior to those gathering there, rather, that he was just the same kind of irrational, hate-driven person he claimed the others to be. But that’s obviously to subtle for peope with an axe to grind.
Well now you are seeing people arrested for words on placards:
“A pro-Palestine protester has been pictured waving a ‘Final Solution’ placard comparing Israel to Nazi Germany as thousands of people descended on the capital on Saturday to call for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Police earlier said they had arrested two people over ‘offensive’ placards as pictures circulating online showed signs referring to Israel’s sustained attacks on the Gaza Strip as ‘genocide’.
The march began at Bank Junction at midday on Saturday and is set finish in Westminster later this afternoon, following a route that takes it past St Paul’s Cathedral and Somerset House.
On X, the force said its Public Order crime team are investigating a series of signs for possible offences.
One of the signs made a reference to the ‘final solution’ – a term used by the Nazis to refer to the genocide of Jews.
A second read featured pictures of Gaza with the caption: ‘Israel’s Gaza Holocaust’, while a third added: ‘One Holocaust does not justify another’.
Protesters are calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza after the US vetoed a UN resolution last night, as the body warned a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in the region. “
Tell me again which side the power establishment is taking on this issue?
What is free speech here anymore?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12844903/pro-Palsestinian-protesters-London-ceasefire-Israel-Hamas.html
‘Retired sociology professor.’ The sociology part of the title has never been held in high esteem in the environs I frequent. An encounter between my Royal Marines pal’s father and a hitch-hiking student illustrates the point. En-route back to Burnley from a business meeting in Reading, father-Bill stopped to offer a lift to a uni-scarf wearing student hitching northwards. The journey proceeded amicably for over an hour when in the middle of nowhere, Bill happened to enquire what subject the youth was studying at Uni. “Sociology” he replied, whereupon the brakes were applied with gusto and the order “Get out” was issued.The student duly did so and Bill drove off.
He had the opportunity to engage with the student on the subject, understand their motivations for that area of study and perhaps offer them a different perspective but instead chose to leave the student with the idea that the preceding generations are ignorant. Student goes on to become a woke crusader.
It happened the best part of 50 years ago. Woke hadn’t been invented. That ‘gem’ was 30 years into the future.
Bill acted like a total prick.
Probably only picked-up the youth because he was hoping for a blow-job.
Governments blow-up real venues and kill real people for nothing more than greed and power and we’re supposed to get precious about comments from some retiree?
“Avon and Somerset Constabulary confirmed that the post was recorded as an “incident of malicious communications” and was being investigated.”
There is/was already a law in place for this ‘incident’. Freedom of speech is the right to say whatever you want as long as you don’t incite violence. Therefore this is NOT an “incident of malicious communications” but an incitement to violence.
It doesn’t seem like a very serious “incitement to violence”. I don’t know what that law says or what the case law is on “incitement”, but I think must be more subtle than taking statements at face value regardless of who said them, the context etc. If not then it just becomes yet another way for people with power to shut down speech they don’t like.
Also don’t think the police has any business investigating “malicious communications” of this kind.
Speaking of an ”incitement to violence”, I’ve got max respect for this patriotic lad. The clip does take on quite the comedy sketch vibe though with the ‘ladder off’ segment, but it’s a real shame we don’t get to see the outcome because he’s outnumbered at the end. If only he’d had a fellow patriot pal to even things up. Bless him though. He gets my ”Balls of Steel” Award of the Day;
https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1733340522863812927
Her comment seems to be no more offensive that Fat Girl Brand suggesting throwing acid over Farage. Funny how Brand was feted for her comment.
Or George Osborne seeking to have a chopped-up Theresa May in his fridge.
She has clearly broughther employer into disrepute and that is a sacking offence in most of private business.
She’s retired so isn’t employed. Possibly getting a nice USS final salary pension. The actions of the uni are a shield against a predictable campaign demanding x, y and z to appease those who would censor us all.
See my ramblings elsewhere in this thread on the grey areas I see with this kind of thinking. Let’s say you post on social media about your views on covid or net zero or whatever, and your employer sees them and decides it has brought them into disrepute. I think there should be protection for employees unless your speech is directly connected to the job e.g. you are a car salesman for Ford and you post stuff saying Fords are crap and people should buy an Austin Allegro instead.
One of the main reasons I post anonymously is that my political views are the polar opposite of the former owner of the firm I work for – I could easily have seen him firing me and I didn’t want to take the chance.
An Austin Allegro? You must be about my age mate. ——-People should always post anonymously. Because it is up to other people to attack the argument not the arguer.
It was inspired by the username of someone who posts on the excellent Lockdown Sceptics subreddit, and yes I do remember the Allegro
Good point about attacking the argument though I also agree with the point Peter Hitchens makes to those who attack him on social media – he posts as himself, whereas many who launch ad-hominem attacks on him post anonymously. I think anonymity should be used to give you freedom to express unpopular views rather than simply being an arse.
She must be prosecuted.
If the police send 4 heavies to intimidate a councillor in Northamptonshire for upholding free, Christian, speech, why should she be exempt?
Two wrongs don’t make a right. An offense named malicious communication shouldn’t even exist, as it’s impossible to define that. Any statement somebody makes in public will give rise to a wide variety of different interpretations, even to interpretations which completely contradict its actual meaning. This is even worse than Orwell’s thought crime because it’s a Someone else thought crime and people certainly shouldn’t be prosecuted or punished because someone else has chosen to think something about them.
The police should also have something more important to do than to investigate aimless Twitter babble.