- “Lockdown’s destructive impact on children’s confidence laid bare” – Boris Johnson has been warned lockdown must never happen again because of its impact on children, writes Michael Curzon in the Express.
- “How Dangerous Are Masks for Children?” – We may be faced with catastrophic consequences for what we did to our children over the last two years of unsound Covid restrictive policies, writes Dr. Paul Alexander at the Brownstone Institute.
- “Online child sex abuse up by 27% in two years” – The NSPCC calls for tougher laws to combat “digital breadcrumbing” that signposts paedophiles to illegal content, the Telegraph reports. Oddly, lockdown isn’t blamed for any of the rise, despite it greatly increasing children’s time spent online.
- “World’s first COVID-19 breathalyser approved in the U.S.” – The machine can return results in three minutes and is more than 90% accurate, according to the Telegraph.
- “Proposal to Sanction Countries Disobeying WHO Pandemic Response Rules Concerning: Author” – Failure to cooperate with the World Health Organisation during a pandemic should prompt sanctions on a country, some officials and experts are proposing, prompting concern, the Epoch Times reports.
- “U.S. Covid test positivity rates by vaccination status” – Yet another set of evidence that vaccines are not working to stop Covid spread and that boosters wind up making you more likely to contract Covid in the long run, says El Gato Malo.
- “They Walk Among Us” – Niall McCrae in Country Squire tells the disturbing story of how he was kicked out of a pub in Brighton for being an “anti-vaxxer”.
- “Devices to stop drivers speeding could be mandatory in all new cars” – Measures, which would be introduced for safety reasons and to fall in line with a controversial European Union ruling, would be likely to be backed by environmental campaigners, reports the Telegraph.
- “The climate scaremongers: An open letter to the Daily Telegraph” – The Daily Telegraph regularly publishes articles by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, its International Business Editor, which eulogise renewable energy and claim that fossil fuels will soon be a thing of the past. But they never seem to tell the other side of the story – here is that other side, says Paul Homewood on TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Sorry, Nature, Associated Press, etc., Climate Change Is Not Making Hurricanes ‘Wetter’” – With the current limited state of knowledge, attribution studies are sideshow carnival crystal ball gazing, tea leaf reading stuff, not serious scientific research, says H. Sterling Burnett in Watts Up With That?
- “The Government has set an eco trap for homeowners – and it’s going to cost us £330bn” – A bodged plan to make Britain’s homes more eco friendly will cost us billions and ministers are refusing to fix it, says Isabelle Fraser in the Telegraph.
- “‘We’ll be here as long as we can’! Eco-chaos at three oil plants could last entire Easter break as Just Stop Oil activist vows to stay on top of Birmingham plant with six others until he’s removed – as dozens are arrested after dawn raids on terminals” – Eco-zealots from Just Stop Oil managed to climb on top of a loading bay at Kingsbury Terminal in Warwickshire after gaining access to the facility this morning, the Mail reports.
- “The war on the West: How Western civilisation and all its astonishing achievements in culture, science, medicine and free thinking are being erased from history as the product of ‘dead white males’” – They talk of “equality” but do not care about equal rights. They talk of “anti-racism” but sound deeply racist. They speak of “justice” but seem to mean ‘revenge’, says Douglas Murray in the Mail.
- “Twitter CEO tells employees they are the ones ‘in control’” – Parag Agrawal took questions from staff on Thursday that were posted on the company’s Slack messaging service during an all-hands meeting, the Mail reports. Employees in control? Sounds like producer capture to me.
- “Twitter launches ‘poison pill’ tactic to wreck Elon Musk takeover” – The social media company seeks to scupper the billionaire’s $43bn hostile bid by flooding the market with cheap new shares if Musk attempts to buy up its stock, reports the Telegraph. Which is in the best interests of shareholders because…?
- “Why Elon Musk has rattled them” – His attempted takeover of Twitter has revealed just how terrified the ‘liberal’ elites are of freedom of speech, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Did a sex offender really expose ‘her penis’?” – The media and the justice system are totally lost to trans ideology, writes Charlie Peters in Spiked.
- “How the Guardian enables Owen Jones” – Trans people are pawns in his narcissistic war, says Suzanne Moore in UnHerd.
- “Sorry, but women don’t want changing rooms open to all… Public spaces where women and girls are undressing should be sacrosanct” – Following a complaint by one ‘non‑binary’ teenager this week, Monsoon, whose entire range is designed for women and children only, has opened changing rooms to “all customers”. Jan Moir in the Mail is not impressed.
- “Justin Welby backs removal of slave trader memorial in Cambridge college” – Guardian report that the Archbishop of Canterbury has decided to keep digging as he voices dismay with the judgment of the church court that the memorial must stay, saying: “If we are content with a situation where people of colour are excluded from places of worship because of the pain caused by such memorials, then clearly we have a lot further to go in our journey towards racial justice.”
- “The police are hitting us!” – Watch police in Shanghai arrest people who break the lockdown barricades.
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Hello everybody. Well Good Friday was good. Alabama 3 at the hippodrome.
Great Gig.
Good morning, hp. Good to receive your generous greeting, as always.
I note this from the Express, regarding the effects of lockdowns on tomorrow’s adults:
Personal, social and emotional development continues to be affected. Children were lacking confidence and were shy in childcare settings, especially when taking part in group activities…
If we lose our capacity to socialise, to communicate politely with each other in all sorts of ways, we are truly lost.
Let’s hope that the warnings given and read in the Express make it harder to ever impose these inhuman, cruel lockdowns ever again. Perhaps we can all agree on that.
My apologies – forgetting to italicise Express in the first instance and an unnecessary additional “ever” in my last sentence. I plead a very long night …
AE, no need to be so critical. Your eloquent postings are always a delight to read.
God Bless.
Have you read the readers’ comments on the Express article? Unfortunately, they don’t agree with you at all – children are running amok, their parents are to blame, children are resilient and lockdowns saved lives.
Admittedly there are very few comments but I was shocked by their content
I hope that the sane comments were edited out …
Presumably they existed?
There were those who weren’t in support of lockdowns; who thought that children should not be put under such stresses?
A French Muslim explains why he’s voting against the sanitary dictatorship:
“I am a Muslim and I will vote for Marine Le Pen”
Thanks, arany – another excellent article; impressively written, with important conclusions:
In summary, while Marine Le Pen’s programme does attack certain concrete but actually superficial aspects of my religion, Macron’s programme threatens the fundamental values of all spirituality and threatens the bases of our humanity. Values such as freedom, the sacredness of the human body and that of childhood are for me non-negotiable.
It is because I prefer women to be prevented from veiling rather than 6-year-old children being forced to wear masks, because I prefer ritual slaughter to be prohibited rather than being treated like cattle with health and vaccination passes, because I prefer to have Christmas celebrated at school rather than LGBT propaganda in school textbooks, because I prefer the popular referendum initiative to a concentration of all powers, and because I am afraid of the long-term establishment of a sanitary-technological tyranny if we let this opportunity pass, that I will be voting for Marine Le Pen on April 24th.
So glad you appreciate it, Alter Ego. I’m starting some full-time work soon and so won’t be able to do any more subtitling or translating. This is my last little surge of it. Anyway, today is the day of the Manif Anti-Macron in Paris. Let’s hope this is enough to swing it in Le Pen’s favour: https://www.francesoir.fr/politique-france/samedi-16-avril-manifestations
I have wonderful memories of Paris, as most people do. One of my favourites was being handed a request to participate in a demonstration “pour les chômeurs” on arrival; and seeing graffiti outside my hotel, asking (very neatly), “When do we set fire to the Bourse?”
LOL. Sounds like Paris.
Here is another one for you:
To remove Macron: forget about your “credibility”, it is useless!
Another illuminating paragraph in an excellent article:
Many would love to vote for Marine Le Pen, but the weight of censorship, shame, and collective vindictiveness ramped up by the media and powerful caste influencers promises heavy punishment for anyone who gives in to their urge to remove the current hated President.
This is the danger of the philosophy ridiculed by Hilaire Belloc:
And always keep a-hold of Nurse
For fear of finding something worse.
“Nurse” ends up being somebody like the loathsome Macron, for God’s sake.
Let’s hope that the French decide instead to screw their courage to the sticking place, and punish Macron by a means far less brutal than has been used in the past: removing him from office.
Marine Le Pen will not be perfect and she will be savagely attacked. But her election would at least provide a signal that Macron’s behaviour was intolerable and not to be repeated.
Really good point, Alter Ego. I don’t think Marine is anyone’s idea of a perfect candidate, yet she is vastly superior to what is currently there. She also opposes mandatory vaccination, the vaccination of children, will reinstate the thousands of sacked nurses and careworkers and will reimburse their lost salaries.
It’s clear whom any lockdown sceptic should be voting for, and for whom anybody with a simple concern for democracy should choose.
But the Antifascists are protesting Le Pen…Oh the irony!
Perhaps some of them would like to read a book about what fascism actually is?
This is the problem. Fascism now masquerades as “anti-fascism”, as was predicted to happen many years ago. I grew up on the Left, so it is especially disconcerting for me to see how the most fanatical, illiberal, brainwashed control freaks around the world are mainly people who identify as “Left”.
When it comes to blinkered fundamentalism and a willingness to use violence to enforce their worldview, most of these people would give the Ayatollah Khomeini a run for his money,
From the second paragraph of this article:
which I find both tragic and amusing, in that, prior to the current Iranian regime, women were free to dress as they wished, and did, in mini skirts, crop tops etc, with their hair down and uncovered.
Their choice was between that and wearing veils, and those who wanted to were free to wear veils. Not so today. Religious fundamentalism seized the country and women were once more forced into subjugation.
Why aren’t male Muslims compelled to wear veils, other than when committing violent or objectionable acts?
I’m reminded of a school visit my wife took children on to our local synagog, where they were guided round by a lady Rabbi.
My ever curios wife asked why Jewish men frequently wear the Kippah. The Rabbi explained with some humour that, whilst it’s entirely voluntary, men are inclined to get carried away with their own sense of self importance and the Kippah serves as reminder that there is always a greater authority than them. She grinned and said “often God, but more usually their wife”.
As someone living in a very hot country, I was struck by the sight of the Middle Eastern women wearing black while their menfolk wore the much cooler white (it really does make a difference).
I have also known, in the Middle East and at home, Muslim men with very different attitudes: one very proud of his accountant wife with her stylish auburn hair; another of great and practical compassion to the poor and homeless, who adores his bossy Australian champagne-loving girlfriend.
Islam is incompatible with freedom, as the entire Middle East demonstrates
Absolutely agree. Wherever Islam predominates, everything heads backwards.
everything heads backwards…and off the shoulders.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
ITEM: “The police are hitting us!” – Watch police in Shanghai arrest people who break the lockdown barricades.
Very ugly stuff but it is the logical endpoint of full-strength lockdown in pursuit of Zero Covid which some Covid nutters in the West still pine for. The state of Victoria in Australia had a crack at it with numerous beatings of Covid miscreants, particularly if they got a little bit political and publicly protested the mid-strength but still insanely destructive lockdown in Chairman Dan’s fiefdom.
New South Wales (your Welsh Dungford and then some) had police helicopters broadcasting ‘Stay at Home’ messages to Covid rebels taking a stroll against regulations plus sending in the army to enforce lockdown, sometimes physically.
They were only mini-Maos, however, but, until they finally abandoned the folly of Zero Covid, the CCP model would have become theirs, too. Don’t think that state violence is an Asian thing only.
Don’t think that state violence is an Asian thing only.
Or that it cannot come to a place near you!
I never believed in an Australia that was a model of freedom and easy-going tolerance, but I did not suspect that the sheer scale of the tyranny of the last two years was possible. Or that the French would have endured their tyranny for so long.
People everywhere were taken by surprise.
I read an interesting piece at zero hedge last evening quoting the twitter thread of a Kyle Bass ref the lockdowns in China, including the apparently disproportionate wildly excessive one in Shanghai now, in which he argues that China’s lockdown policies have in fact been carefully and deliberately chosen mechanisms to manipulate the prices of global commodities, because lockdowns on the Chinese scale have huge effects on demand and supply. This explanation would fit with the observations that Michael PS Senger has made about how China appeared to lead the construction and worldwide use of the otherwise unprecedented lockdown response.
PS. And a comment on that thread, I think, pointed out how the Chinese lockdowns actually act as camouflaged sanctions or embargoes on the USA, because they disrupt trade and supplies to the US as effectively as any overt/up front embargoes would, but don’t involve taking any of the visibly public aggressive steps that official sanctions would ( and which might trigger global disapproval and penalties ). … China “is innocent”, is simply “fighting covid”.
PPS. And after all the idea of using a population, treating a large section of a population in a certain way, subjecting them to certain measures/policies which hugely impact their lives,in order to manipulate and improve a country’s economic and/or political standing and/or the interests of the elites/tptb is completely normal, we’ve seen it in the UK and the USA, how the policies of austerity, which benefited/”saved” the banks/wealthy etc, had terrible effects on many people’s lives.
Interesting word – liberticidal.
As with Russia/Ukraine, don’t believe everything you read about China.
There is a perpetual narrative that they want to take over the world or some such nonsense. I don’t think Russia would be too keen on that being they are only a generation or so from communist repression.
I think what we should be considering as more of a threat to the western world is the cavalier rush to globalism, where borders are considered as inconsequential lines on a map, and that land, property and businesses are simply commodities for anyone to buy and sell.
Then we wonder why the Chinese shrug and say, “OK, lots of land and minerals in Australia, let’s just buy it”. Then the Aussies squeal when they realise half the country is owned by the Chinese.
The Chinese regime is no more cruel and repressive than our own British empire was only a few hundred years ago. You would think they might learn from our example, but the USSR didn’t until 1988.
We also seem to forget that whilst the Russia and and Chinese are identified as spying on the west, we have been spying on both for generations (and more) only our spymasters and media just don’t tell us.
What do we all think MI6 does for a living?
That was pretty much my point, ref austerity measures that were/are pursued in the west in the interests of bankers etc being as distressing and impactful for the poorest etc as the Chinese lockdowns..
On the contrary, the Chinese Communist Party is many orders of magnitude worse than the British Empire ever was.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics implemented communism the only way it can be implemented, while is why it collapsed, in the end.
Btw, free countries are fully entitled to spy on their enemies.
When masks were mandatory in Australia, a man exempt from wearing one was rugby tackled by the police, I recall.
Masks are still mandatory indoors in the western third of the country.
How is the aggressive Brighton pub landlord any different from some posters one here calling me an anti-semite and a pro-Putin whatever simply for not believing what NATO or Boris Johnson says on the Ukraine situation?
The difference is that he kicked them out of the pub – he didn’t just disagree with them or argue the point.
There are many of us on here who don’t take what NATO or Johnson says about Ukraine at face value, given that the situation is nowhere near as simple as the MSM likes to portray.
It’s his pub.
Arguable point as the British public almost certainly paid to ensure it’s continuance as a business over the past two years.
No, the British government shut it down.
I had a look at Tripadvisor to see if this was a general problem with the landlord and there are reports of creepy / abusive behaviour towards young women as well. All the reviews from 2020 to 2022 have been highly critical.
How is not swallowing NATO lies anti-semitic anyway? I’d say anyone throwing that kind of insult around is probably not that confident in the validity of their argument. If you’re taking flak, you’re near the target.
The anti-semitic trope arises from the fact that in doubting Zelensky you are casting doubt on a person of Jewish origin. Anti-semitism is a well used card thrown by the state of Israel to silence its critics. I am not doubtful of the validity of my argument. However, I am surprised that some people on this forum – who know what liars the Bozo government are in relation to convid – are suddenly true believers in the integrity of the collective West.
And it seems to me tthat we are all in much greater danger – by orders of magnitude – by what is happening in Ukraine than we ever were from a respiratory virus. In 1962 we had rational people in charge.
If anyone believes the authorities after what they’ve done for two years and more, they must have been converted to masochism.
Stupid people rarely consider they might be wrong.
That’s a good point. I hope people don’t think I’m anti-semitic as well. Maybe we should complement Zelensky’s dancing skills, or his idiosyncratic piano playing when we doubt his veracity, just to balance things up a bit.
“Anti-Semitism is a well used card thrown by the state of Israel to silence its critics.”
The State of Israel refers to those who claim that it has no right to exist or that it is an apartheid state as anti-Semitic and I think Israel is right.
Correct. There was a pro-Putin fanboy here, calling Israel Zionazis, ignoring the fact that the Palestinians are the actual Nazis, literally. They fly Swastikas and admire Hitler.
The perpetual nonsense that somehow everything gets back to race/culture/religion etc.
I had a row with a 27 year old guest of ours last night about BLM/LGBT indoctrination of children at school. Despite me, my wife, his mother, father, and his girlfriend rationalising it for him, he refused to accept any argument or evidence that it might be detrimental to children.
The discussion deteriorated from there, into climate change. Believe it or not that was an even more frustrating discussion. He’s been an obnoxious oaf since birth and in 27 years has learned nothing other than the sound of his own voice.
I could blame it on his dearth of education and life experience, but my eldest daughter is much the same over climate and covid. She has a Masters qualification and her B/F is a lawyer.
Belief is more important than evidence to many of the emerging generation.
Go figure…….as they say.
Belief is more important than evidence to many of the emerging generation.
That is a very good and curious point. There is so much eagerness to express a sort of missionary fervour, and surprisingly little interest in exploring evidence. Asking questions like “How do you know” seems to slightly shock too many, at a time when one would hope they were particularly alert.
I see a sense of defending a virtuous order against attack from unbelievers.
The virtuous order requires belief in Saving the Planet from Catastrophic Climate Change, and regarding BLM/LGBT (and as much of the rest of it as you can remember) as something to be unquestioningly supported by all decent people. And I do mean, literally, unquestioningly.
I have had Climate Change arguments with I don’t know how many. Funnily enough when I ask for proof that so-called warming is anthropogenic they can’t provide it.
Most people are absolutely stunned when told that Co2 makes up just 0.04% of our atmosphere. They call me out when I mention that less people have died in extreme weather events in the last fifty years, that the Great Barrier Reef is not dying etc.
People generally, old and young, have lost the ability to question and investigate for themselves. Very disturbing.
“Virtuous order” eloquently sums up the drift to unquestioning obedience.
Anything with which a certain contingent disagree is inevitably A-S.
Or fascistic, or bigoted, or transphobic, or…
To my mind, the frightening aspect of the pub landlord article is the way the rest of the pub clientele seemed to support his actions. The public seem to demand a simplistic black and white approach, covid bad, vaccines magic cure-all good, do not dare try and make people think any further by suggesting otherwise. Now we have the same, Russia bad, Ukraine good, do not dare to question that incisive analysis despite that area of the world having had the most complex and tortuous geo-political and social history over the last 100 years.
The frightening result is that the powers that be then get public support for any measures that support this black and white approach to life. Russia is warning that the way NATO is pouring arms into Ukraine and training the Ukrainian military is tantamount to NATO being at war with Russia and using the Ukrainian military as mercenaries to do the actual fighting for them. Please do not get me wrong I am not on anyone’s side in this war, that analysis is way beyond my pay grade! All I am saying is that the public’s black and white approach is leading to them supporting NATO actions that seem to be taking us into very dangerous territory, maybe right? maybe wrong? but are the public really aware of what the consequences might be?
I’ve missed this pub landlord story. It wan’t the Rat and Bigot, was it? Least favoured tipple listed as ‘Freeze Peach’.
I think the public are very capable of taking a common sense approach and realising that to let Putin get away with it is highly dangerous and needs to be resisted so there may be consequences
But it’s OK for the west to ignore the deaths of 14,000 Russian speaking Ukrainians in the Donbass at the hands of western Ukrainians, whist condemning Putin for putting a stop to it.
It’s fine for NATO and the EU to court Ukraine in the full knowledge it would likely end in conflict. And it’s just peachy for NATO to site numerous military installations in Europe, close to the Russian border, with weapons exclusively pointed at Russia.
But sure, it’s all Putins fault for drawing a line in the sand.
Whatabout, whatabout, whatabout bollocks, attributing imaginary views to Putin who, no matter what else is true of Ukraine, is z totalitarian bag of shyte.
True. But in fairness, this is a very rare, isolated event. The behaviour is quite typical for the ‘progrwssive’ chattering class within its filter bubble and on.paper, but in contrast to Germany, Austria, France etc. this attitude has rarely translated into discriminating or mean actions in practice, let alone lynch mobs.
Thankfully, this seems still very un-English.
I’d have hoped if you disbelieved Bunter’s and NATO’s agitprop, they’d consider you sane.
most/all on this site realise the MSM has lied/been heavily censored on covid etc. while in a war situation everything in the media should be treated with caution this does not meant that everything coming from Russia should be accepted as gospel, just because their reporting on covid was better; or that somehow Putin should be seen as the saviour against the great reset etc.
Yes, Putin is what he is and has always been. Seeing him as anti-woke or anything else is moronic, he’s an extremely consistent opponent of liberty.
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Browsing through the news and caught an article over at GB news yesterday warning that those who have had the covid virus even those without symptoms were at risk from fatal heart attacks many months later after catching the virus.
Funny that there was no mention of fatal heart attacks being a consequence of catching the virus when it first raised its ugly head back in 2020 – in fact when I was doing my research into this virus last year and the year before that I don’t recall one expert describing the symptoms of the virus as a runny-nose, sore throat, coughing … oh and a fatal heart attack – and yet since the vaccines have been introduced and serious heart conditions being reported left-right-and-centre after having the jab it seems as if they want to pin the blame for potentially many thousands of fatal heart attacks in the coming months on the virus and not the jab.
Covid warning as deadly side-effects can strike months after first diagnosis
https://www.gbnews.uk/news/covid-warning-as-deadly-side-effects-can-strike-months-after-first-diagnosis/273166
This is the insidious but (not so) subtle reporting happening now. Those with half a brain cell on active duty can see straight through their mendacious parroting, and they rely on the majority snoozing public to keep buying this bollox to keep their secret safe. But the box is open and the genie is out of the bottle. Hub and and I warned all our family and friends at the beginning about taking the V’s, to do their research and ask questions. We were met with scorn, laughter, and anger – how dare we question ANYTHING the government tells us to do! And now many are having problems. It only took TWO of us to get the message out to a lot of people. They may in denial of the facts but they can’t say that they didn’t know!
A bit like those adverts with kids collapsing on the Football Pitch.
Plausible deniability.
World’s first covid breathalyser more than 90% accurate.
Covid virus more than 99.5% survivable.
Virus wins Statistics Challenge.
Until people started getting the 3rd shot of the gunk, I had not known of someone who’d got “ill with covid”. But now it’s every next person.
Same people are fully jabbed. Me and my partner on the otherhand, are jab-free, have never tested and, besides a short bout of cold, have not been ill over the last two years.
Sooner or later the jabbed (and sceptics) will have to come to terms with the fact the fake vaccine is making them ill. It creates spike protein which replicates the symptoms they describe as being Covid.
‘The machine can return results in three minutes and is more than 90% accurate, ‘
Outside the exponential and peak epidemic period, as the infection rate declines and begins to tail off, like now, the rate is possibly around 0.5%
So in a sample of 100 000 people we would expect 500 positives. With a 90% accuracy rate, the test will produce 10% false positives, therefore in the sample 10 000 false positives. Total ‘positives’… aka ‘cases’… would then be 10 500. Yikes, quick lockdown!
That is nearly a 95% false positive rate. Just what we need.
We’re not in Joe Biden territory here. Nobody is suggesting that Albo is running on one brain cell. But you can’t screw up so many times, one upon the other, by accident.
Mr Albanese is trying to lose the election.
https://gregoryno6.wordpress.com/2022/04/16/lockdownunder-update-thoughts-on-a-befuddled-opposition-leader/
On his first day of campaigning he demonstrated a significant lack of clue about the national unemployment rate. Then he referred to his role in the 1980s as an economics advisor to the Hawke government – a role he never held.
Is he wishing he were Keating? The English may remember him as the man described as “the Lizard of Oz”; most Australians (whether they liked or loathed him) as a man of undeniable pizzazz, who was indeed the economic brains of the Hawke government.
Albo, who had an economics degree, was a research officer for the Minister for Local Government and Administrative Services, Tom Uren: a character in the days when politicians could get away with having one (former professional boxer and POW of the Japanese).
Albo does not have pizzazz. Very few would loathe him (I think only those who detest all Labor leaders on principle); perhaps because they’re not sufficiently interested in him to feel such strong emotions where he’s concerned.
As far as Covid policies and international affairs are concerned, I suspect that Albo would simply do as he was told.
Very few would loathe him…
That may be Albo’s superpower: he doesn’t attract or trigger strong emotional responses.
He certainly doesn’t set people off the way as do Rudd and Shorten.
Have you noticed, Alt, that May 21 has been labelled by some media figures as ‘the election about nothing’? That’s what gets my blood to boiling point. As if we were all living free, economically stable, and without a care in the world.
Yes – an election about nothing, according to certain people in a media which grossly distorted information and published absolute falsehoods in a manner which was extraordinary even by its own appalling standards.
Nothing. Nothing except the devastation of human rights, the most grotesque and largely self-inflicted economic mismanagement (we could have learnt from faraway lockdowns rather than inflicting them) and international bumbling (but at least we’re used to wincing at that).
In the land of the secret ballot, I wish to declare openly that I will be voting for individuals and parties which have been critical of the crimes committed against the Australian people over the last two years and more. Lib and Lab can get fucked: sitting at the bottom of my careful and formal ballet paper.
I see that I have said ballet paper – that may well be a Freudian slip. At least ballet is good to look at.
Social media out of China only goes viral when the CCP wants it to.
They want us to see what’s happening in Shanghai.
Ask yourself why.
Anybody in Sussex fancy a pint in the Edinburgh? I’m sure the landlord would not behave as such an animal if there were men his size there to get his behaviour modified/rectified
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