The first original essay we’re pubishing on the Daily Sceptic is by Dr Freddie Attenborough, a former lecturer in sociology and a Lockdown Sceptics regular. Freddie’s contributions to the site have been among the very best – he wrote the essay about how Britain responded to the 1957-58 Asian Flu epidemic that you can read here, as well as this angry tribute to those laid low by the lockdowns on 1st January.
His latest essay – which you can also read at his newly-minted substack account – is about the BBC’s double standards when it comes to ‘misinformation’. On the one hand, it publishes ‘fact checks’ that supposedly expose the crackpot conspiracy theories being peddled by ‘Covid deniers’; but on the other it regularly pumps out hysterical, pro-lockdown propaganda that, by any rational measure, is also ‘misinformation’. Here is an extract:
In March 2021, the BBC reported that one of their investigative teams had, “Been tracking the human toll of coronavirus misinformation”. During this investigation they claimed to have found links to “assaults, arsons and deaths”. Worryingly, experts also told them that, “The potential for indirect harm caused by rumours, conspiracy theories and bad health information could be much worse”. Sounds like an interesting investigation, doesn’t it? Public service output at its finest, you might think. Just the kind of article we’d all like to read.
Alas. Not quite.
The problem with the BBC is that it simply can’t help itself. Having teed an ostensibly interesting story up in this open, investigatory journalistic type of way, its authors then proceed to devote a good-ish chunk of what follows to that most favourite of all BBC pastimes, namely, implicating Donald Trump in the act of mass murder. As with the butterfly so beloved of chaos theory (you know the one: that little blighter who’s always flapping his wings and causing tsunamis to crash into the coast of Bangladesh) no sooner have the BBC shown us Trump tweeting about the FDA’s preliminary research into hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic against Covid than the magic of non-deterministic linear physics kicks in and people all over Nigeria and Vietnam suddenly start mopping up the old bleach-based products like vacuum cleaners.
In the end, then, the only interesting thing about this article is the way it reminds us just how little time and attention the BBC have paid to exploring the link that surely must exist between Covid ‘misinformation’ (as they themselves insist on calling it) and the huge rise in cases of psychosomatic disorder – health anxiety in particular – that we’ve witnessed in the UK since the dawn of the Age of Lockdown (2020-present). Let me explain what I mean.
And to do so, let me start by asking a question: what might disinformation likely to precipitate new, or to heighten existing, levels of anxiety amongst those suffering from psychosomatic disorders look like? How, in other words, might we define such a thing? Well, perhaps we might say that it would be information that unduly exaggerated the risks associated with Covid. Perhaps we might go further and say that it would represent the risks associated with Covid in a highly misleading and/or a sensationalist way. Come to think of it, perhaps we might end up concluding that it would look rather like the BBC’s recent article, “Long COVID funding to unearth new treatments.“
Worth reading in full, as is Freddie’s recently published collection of essays about the pandemic Notes From the Blunderground.
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Concentrating on the symptoms rather than recognising and understanding the disease will provide the wrong diagnosis and treatment.
The race riots, precarious energy grids, fake pandemics, inflation, high taxes, censorship, stifling of dissent, the explosion of woke, proxy war with a nuclear power, involving all developed, so-called democratic Countries, are the direct result of the disease.
The disease? A global cabal of vested interests, which has infiltrated our institutions and governments with their place men, to work against the interests of the people, to hurt and weaken the people by provoking social and economic collapse in order to serve the interests of the cabal to achieve total, global power and control in a single governing body.
And in this case, the mechanics of it began a long time back, in the colonial history. It was quit well described in, of all places, the BBC propaganda channel which occupies the R4 channel overnight.
Best annalysis I’ve ever seen.
And so true of modern medicine and imposition of all “vaccines”
Rings depressingly true.
One picky point – the headline seems to me like it’s contradicted by the content of the article – misleading. Perhaps I am missing the point?
One picky point – the headline seems to me like it’s contradicted by the content of the article – misleading. Perhaps I am missing the point?
Have to agree. I’m struggling to understand this article. Probably my own fault.
France burns in another Intifada. Its Black, Musulman, disaffected white youf are revolting, or taking an opportunity for loot and plunder.
Less than 1 year ago a WHITE 12 year old French girl, Lola Daviet, was abducted, raped, and murderd by a Muslim Algerian. She was cut up and her pieces put into a suitcase.
No riots. No ‘mostly peaceful burnings and looting’. No political speeches against the sex and rape Jihad. Nothing.
I’m so glad you posted that, because it sums everything up succinctly..
We have the same thing in Rotherham, Telford etc. There is this determination to dilute crime based on the ethnicity of the culprit (s). In Sweden you can be arrested for disagreeing with Immigration Policy, or for saying that crimes are being committed by certain ethnic groups, even though it is clear that rapes and sexual crimes are committed twenty times more often by these groups than by indigenous Swedes.——–At one the truth would set us free, but now it gets us locked up or cancelled.
The scenes in France remind me of the English riots of 2011 which kicked off when the police shot and killed Mark Duggan.
Over 4 days the riots spread from London to Birmingham, Bristol, Coventry, Derby, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester and Nottingham. More than three thousand arrests were made, there were five deaths, at least 16 others were injured, and an estimated £200 million worth of property damage was incurred.
At the time I remember thinking that the young people participating in robbing Foot Locker and setting fire to cars seemed to be enjoying themselves.
2011-I took pics in the Tottenham Court road area post the ‘mostly peaceful destructions’. I actually talked to owners of their small businesses who were sifting through the charred or destroyed remains of their small business. Burn Loot mindless hate. No fake news was there. They never bothered to show up. The BBC said it was poverty. So I took a stroll around the council flats in the area, and took vids and pictures of BMWs, Mercs, Land Rovers etc large numbers of them. Hospitals, schools, parks, endless agencies, sports clubs, transport etc all free for them in the area. Poverty my ass.
When you invite the 3rd world into your land, you get 3rd world results.
France burned because the morons allowed islamists into the counrty
The political class has promotes and still promotes multi- cultural use. That means no need to integrate or even to understand others in the country.
meanwhile they have trawled the work for more and more immigrants: non-Judeo-Christian background the better.
it has worked well for them. They wanted a different public and they are well on the way to achieving it. IMHO they really want race riots so they can give ann excuse to impose permanent Covid style restrictions on liberty.
next time they will use the Canadian method of control through bank accounts. Maybe we should promote a libertarian bank that issues it’s own bank notes and coin?
What I’m going to say will sound well Islamophobic but it’s all backed up with the receipts. These Muslims literally worship a paedophile. Is this common knowledge do you think? Do you think this might have just a smidge to do with the attitudes of Muslim men towards not just women but young girls? It’s not like we have to look too hard for the evidence of this, right? We’ve all heard and read the news stories in all different countries. If their holy book is something they adhere closely to then it provides all the justification for violent, sick scumbags to go out and get their deviant kicks or just treat their wives like dirt. Yes the Koran says it’s OK to beat your disobedient wife too. But first, Muhammad was a paedo and child marriage is just the norm, apparently;
“The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)” (Bukhari 7.62.88).
”Marrying young girls was not all that unusual for its time, but because in Islam Muhammad is the supreme example of conduct (cf. Qur’an 33:21), he is considered exemplary in this unto today. And so in April 2011, the Bangladesh Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini declared that those trying to pass a law banning child marriage in that country were putting Muhammad in a bad light: “Banning child marriage will cause challenging the marriage of the holy prophet of Islam, [putting] the moral character of the prophet into controversy and challenge.” He added a threat: “Islam permits child marriage and it will not be tolerated if any ruler will ever try to touch this issue in the name of giving more rights to women.” The Mufti said that 200,000 jihadists were ready to sacrifice their lives for any law restricting child marriage.”
And lastly, check out this sick, Turkish b*stard;
”President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ally, radical Islamist New Welfare Party’s (YRP) leader Fatih Erbakan in 2020 stated that 14-year-old children can get “married” because they reached “sexual maturity.” His statements caused a great reaction on social media and among opposition politicians when it was resurfaced on Twitter.
Speaking on a Youtube program he participated in at the time, Erbakan said, “For years in Anatolia, our ancestors have married at the age of 14, 15, 16 and established happy homes. Since a 14-year-old has reached sexual maturity, her consent is valid. This is how it has been done in Anatolia for centuries.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/07/turkey-erdogans-ally-erbakan-says-14-year-old-girls-are-suitable-for-marriage
Not a phobia, and you only concentrated on the behaviour and teaching of their prophet on under age marriage. Goof focus ,but here are many other things to criticise,especially the Verse of the Sword 9.29.
Despite being further along the tunnel on 7/7 and not even hearing a blast my wife was not to know and feared I was dead. Many,many people remember these experiences. Politicians do not talk of them as they believe the aggressive religion can be appeased. It cannot be.
Because I didn’t want to turn my post into an essay, and it was relating to that new article by Robert Spencer. It’s an aspect of Islam I don’t think as many people are aware of as the violence and terrorism we’re all unfortunately familiar with by now. TPTP are allowing limitless people into our countries, knowing nothing and caring not about their background or even if they’ve got criminal records, and they adhere to a very hostile, intolerant and misogynistic world view that’s not remotely compatible with Western cultures. And the fact that in their own countries they’d be allowed to commit atrocities which are against the law here, all because some paedo “prophet” says it’s all good does rather explain most if not all of the violent and sex crimes that have been committed in the West since the flood gates for mass immigration opened. We definitely should be scrutinising their motives for coming here because they’re certainly not all coming from war-torn countries either, and I’m still not clear why they can’t go to other countries that are of the same culture. And what are the plans for the 1,500+ men ( presumably ) who will be living at the RAF base in Essex, a stone’s throw from a small village? Will they get help and guidance assimilating into English life i wonder? Or will it become like living next to an open prison for the villagers, only with no staff on-site? I’d be afraid to let kids, that usually go on bike rides and have some healthy independence with mates, out of my sight.
Before African Colonialism by Europeans the North Africans terrorised southern Europe and South West Britain with raiding parties that captured and enslaved white people. The North Africans also terrorised any shipping in the Mediterranean. In Christopher Hitchen’s book ‘Arguably’ Chapter 12 (titled ‘Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates’) he writes about the US Navy’s first foreign action to free US sailors that had been captured and enslaved. Again, it seems similar to the formation of the RN. The required actions of the US in the Barbery Wars helped form the US Navy. in 1785 Thomas Jefferson and John Adams asked Tripoli’s ambassador to London by what right Barbary states preyed up American shipping. Abd Al-Rahman responded “It was written in the Koran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged their (Islam) authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make Slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Musulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”
There followed a few years where ransoms were paid and the odd skirmish to release ships and crew but eventually in 1815 the US attacked and put a stop to their humiliation by the North Africans (It seems the abolitionists drew parallels between this slavery and the Atlantic Triangle).
The Barbary
A few years back the BBC tried to “de-voice” the Rule Britannia hymn on the basis, apparently, of allusions to this country’s slavery history. Of course, using Covid19 as an additional cover-story justification.
In the 17th century the seas around Britain were ruled by North African Muslim Slavers. They stopped British ships and carried off the crews to be sold as slaves in Algiers and Tripoli. The situation became so bad that fishermen from Devon and Cornwall wouldn’t put out to sea in case they were captured by North African Slave Traders.
Between 1609 and 1616, 466 British ships were captured by Slave Traders in the Bristol channel, English Channel, Irish Sea and North Atlantic, and the crews were sold into slavery. In 1625 a raiding party landed at Mount’s Bay in Cornwall and 60 people who had taken refuge in a local church were dragged out, loaded up and taken off to Africa to be sold as slaves.
On 12 August 1625 the Mayor of Plymouth wrote to London for military help after 27 ships had been seized by North African Muslim Slave Traders in just 10 days. In 1645, 240 people were seized as slaves in Cornwall.
The situation only began to change after the end of the English Civil War when the Navy (future Royal Navy) started building up under Oliver Cromwell. By 1700, North African Slavers generally knew better than to bother the British Isles in the search for slaves because of the Royal Navy.
It was a triumph that Britain was finally able to control its own coastal waters. And it was in commemoration of this that in 1740, James Thompson wrote ‘Rule Britannia’. It is a hymn of thanksgiving rather than a proclamation of aggressive Nationalism’.
France colonized North African countries that had previously treated white Europeans with contempt. In most cases colonization ended the internal trade in black Africans and some time afterward the trade in white Europeans.
Many thanks for this.
great post – many thanks.
thank you for this so many wonderful and so smart writers here
All anyone has to do is research the Kalergi plan and all will be revealed. You might have to do some digging, and wade past Googles influence and a myriad of checkers (always a sign of being on the right track) but its real, and is being adhered to.
The likes of Tony Blair and Angela Merkle have been awarded the Chalemagne Prize for their contributions to it.. mass immigration.
Again.. I know its inflammatory language, but in a nutshell its what’s become known as the great replacement. To anybody capable of a little critical thinking it doesn’t take a lot of figuring out..
“The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today’s races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals.
Destroying National Identity and culture makes it easier for the global governance people as everyone will feel like citizens of the world rather than French or German or whatever. The Poles and Hungarians are a good example of the few that resist this by refusing immigration quotas, and the EU condemns them as racists for it. The race card being the globalists joker in the pack.
It’s been blindingly obvious for several years that the so-called “elite” are encouraging the Eco Nutter organisations (Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil etc) and the anti-Racism Marxists like BLM.
It’s a classic divide and rule tactic: support and encourage the (violent) minorities; suppress and demoralise the law-abiding majority who they really fear.
Well said RTSC..
Lola among others seems to be forgotten amongst the angst..
What the mass immigration of the last 40 years has shown is that the “magic soil” theory – That someone can move from any country to another and always become a functioning member of that country that only adds to it – is a myth. Cultures ARE important, so is language and ethnicity.
There are psychological effects on both immigrant and native of having people with different looks and cultures living in the same area. Several papers – Robert Putnam : Dinesen, Schaeffer and Sønderskov : Gereke, Schaub and Baldasarri – Show trust and social cohesion falls in multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-lingual areas. It is time to accept the facts, we are a tribal species and happiest and healthiest amongst people from our own culture who look like us and this is true of every race, creed and colour of people on earth.
Multi-cultural societies don’t work.
Multi-ethnic societies don’t work.
Never have, never will.
You will always have division and fighting and that is why countries are formed, so peoples can live together in harmony.