In this week’s episode of London Calling, James and I discuss our daily intake of vitamins and other magic pills to stave off the inevitable effects of old age; the Mandela Effect, which is when people share a false memory; whether I’m a different generation to James because he was born two years before me; the civil unrest in China and if it means the beginning of the end for President Xi; whether there’s a moral difference between China and the West (James doesn’t think there is); the advertising campaign for Balenciaga featuring children holding up teddy bears in bondage gear; why Matt Hancock finished I’m A Celeb in the final three; Jonathan Van-Tam’s forthcoming role in Call The Midwife; and, in Culture Corner, Tokyo Vice (which I like), Ancient Apocalypse (which James likes, although he’d like the presenter Graham Hancock to stop reminding viewers that most archaeologists disagree with him about lost city of Atlantis); Thackeray’s Barry Lyndon (which I’m enjoying); and Trollope’s The Way We Live Now (which James is loving).
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It is really painful to listen to Toby’s obtuseness.
It’s staggering that he can’t see that the nasty, authoritarian controls always come in the same way.
It happened with lockdowns, masks, experimental jabs and vaxx passports.
It will happen with CBDCs.
Toby is barely redeemed by the fact that in stage 4 he actually admits he was wrong.
I was also amazed to hear Toby’s refusal to admit that CBDCs represented any form of threat to free speech and liberty. Particularly amazed after he was recently cancelled in a very similar manner by PayPal. Can he not see the similarities?
I think he does recognise that it could be used for authoritarian control, but simply doesn’t believe it will. Whereas my last shred of doubt disappeared a long time ago, Toby is still struggling to wrap his head around what’s coming. A good bloke though, just incredibly naïve.