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And Finally…

by Toby Young
9 January 2023 11:52 PM

In this week’s London Calling, James and I discuss my recent trip to Iceland where I gave a talk at the inaugural meeting of a new free speech society, whether we need a New Enlightenment to tackle the hijacking of science by woke leftists, the Duke of Sussex’s misjudged admission that he killed 25 Taliban insurgents, whether the arrest of Andrew Tate is an elaborate hoax, my uncomfortable interview with writer-director Charlie Kaufman on stage at the National Film Theatre about 15 years ago, the riot in the Brazilian capital and what it’s likely to be blamed on, and, in Culture Corner, The English, season 2 of Slow Horses, Oblomov and Hell’s March by Taylor Anderson.

You can listen to the podcast here and download it on iTunes here.

For a taster, click here to hear our version of the audiobook of Spare. James plays Harry and I play Meghan.

Thinking of buying the audiobook of 'Spare?' May we suggest the version read by @JamesDelingpole and @toadmeister?
Also: Iceland redux , riots in Brazil and Andrew Tate. Oh, and of course Culture Corner.https://t.co/JyGYc1F7ph pic.twitter.com/lR1XcClRmb

— LondonCallingPodcast (@calling_podcast) January 9, 2023
Tags: BrazilCharlie KaufmanHarry and MeghanIcelandLondon CallingOblomovSlow HorsesSpare

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
2 years ago

Pandemic Treaty is legalised tyranny. Sadly, puppet Sunak has already got his fountain pen out, itching to sign.

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Stand in the Park Make friends & keep sane 

Sundays 10.30am to 11.30am
Elms Field 
near Everyman Cinema & play area
Wokingham RG40 2FE

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FerdIII
FerdIII
2 years ago

Another whackjob nutbar conspiracy theory coming true.
Just a cockup however.
No evil, demonic, fascist intent.
Just hard working experts saving the world.

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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
2 years ago
Reply to  FerdIII

Experts. Who approve mRNA shots in 6 month old babies. Those guys?

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
2 years ago
Reply to  FerdIII

Really? So you are content that the WHO could mandate that you take whatever medical treatment they demand? Bodily autonomy is perhaps THE core human right – the state STOPS at my skin. The WHO agreement will throw this away. Maybe you like being a slave? For that is what this will make you.

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Epi
Epi
2 years ago
Reply to  JeremyP99

I’d rather assumed he/she(?) was taking the p***.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

Are we now on daily login?

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

That happened to me a while back. Seemed to happen more with my phone for some reason. Touch wood it’s all back to normal as it’s a pain in the arse, but at least now we don’t have to click on multiple pictures of dodgy fire hydrants or traffic lights! lol Morning to you, btw. 🙂

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Seems fairly random to me. Sometimes go for weeks without logging in, others times I need to log in more often.

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Epi
Epi
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I have to sign in most days.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

Excellent piece from Prof Fenton et al, supporting what we sceptics have been banging on about since the start. Flu never did disappear did it? But now the sneaky b’stards want those deemed ”high risk” to rock up for a double-whammy of Covid plus flu jab. Insane!

”Despite the similarity of the symptoms of flu with those of SARS-CoV-2 it was, at least initially, the infection fatality rate for SARS-CoV-2 that differentiated it from the flu – its novelty was dependant on its perceived elevated lethality. However, over time the infection fatality rates for SARS-CoV-2 have converged on that for the flu and now the deadliness of one is indistinguishable from the other. Why then do we, three years later, do we consider SARS-CoV-2 to be more novel than flu or any other respiratory viral infection?

Given that the symptoms of both overlap to an extent which makes each completely indistinguishable from the other based on clinical presentation, legitimate questions have been raised as to the circumstances that led SARS-CoV-2 to be identified as a novel virus in the first place.
Given we cannot trust PCR tests for SARS-CoV-2, why should they be accepted as proof of the absence of flu? The evidence suggests that influenza and SARS-CoV-2 do not significantly interfere with each other, and given no false positives for flu were reported at all, how else can we explain the disappearance of flu except by changes in the PCR testing process?

These are no doubt controversial conclusions but, given the evidence, a reasonable question to ask is: Was covid-19 disease actually entirely new, or is it simply caused by misattributing flu, or the myriad of other causes of respiratory illnesses, as SARS-CoV-2? Or is there some other unknown mechanism that generates one or the other or indeed both?”

https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/peek-a-boo-flu

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

SARS-Cov-2 was obviously a cure for flu 😁

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Monro
Monro
2 years ago

‘What governments should do’

Britain’s government should bring back the Common Cold Unit and put Professor Carl Heneghan in charge of it.

Then we might get more of the sense for which the Common Cold Unit was, rightly, famous:

‘It is therefore arguable that in the case of infections like coronavirus or rhinovirus colds, which are normally quickly self-limited, the best approach would be to relieve the patient’s discomfort and disability and leave their immune system to take care of the virus.‘

D.A.J. Tyrrell, Head of the Common Cold Unit, 1992

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago

In truth the WHO has no control over us and this treaty doesn’t really change that. This is simply providing our government and other bodies with something to hide behind, should it suit them.

But certainly anything global beyond the most basic common sense e.g. ISO codes is to be treated by default as suspicious, probably evil.

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

Nothing to do with health and everything to do with power, control, money and (in the case of Governments) deniability.

“We were following The $cience.”

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RW
RW
2 years ago

Insofar I recall this correctly, one health is supposed to mean health of humans, animals and the planet. The planet is a ball of stone with a mass of 5,972,000,000 trillion metric tons hurtling through space at a speed of 29.87 km/s and it has no health, especially none the WHO could somehow influence. That’s the good reason to reject this: It authorises the WHO to act to the detriment of living animals (humans being a primate species) if it believes this would somehow benefit the aformentioned ball of stone. What such a benefit could conceivably be is anybody’s guess.

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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
2 years ago

The WHO is an evil supranational vampire body literally sucking the life out of world. The mRNA platform is a sick joke, literally, and Gates & Co should be in court.

Luckily we’ve got Jeremy ‘burner phone’ Farrar stepping up to save the world as the new WHO excess deaths czar or something. Best of British!

In other news: what’s VAIDS?

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john1T
john1T
2 years ago

There should be a debate on a referendum after the online petition, but I doubt we will allowed a vote. There should be a referendum on any significant transfer of sovereignty. We lend our politicians these powers, they are not theirs to give away.

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Myra
Myra
2 years ago

Great article.
And for me the biggest argument it is that supranational or national forced measures are causing massive harm at individual level, as we have seen with Covid. Public health should only ever inform, advise, support and re-assure.
On a side note One Health means something entirely different. In short it is collaboration between human-, animal-, and environmental health. These often work in silos and should work together as interventions in one area often have (unintended) consequences in other areas.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  Myra

The fact that this differentiates between humans and animals should already ring a bell: Humans are a primate species. As opposed to other animals, they have the unpleasant ability of articulating their own wants. It’s better to claim to speak for polar bears because these are not going to voice contradicting opinions.

Environmental health is a completely ill-defined term. It’s based on the notion that someone knows what state a very complex system such as animal and plant life on earth, should really be in. What this someone believe to be the right state fot this complex system is then called healthy to express his deep-felt conviction that he is really omniscient and that all opinions except his own are seriously bad and must be eliminated to maintain a healthy state of affairs.

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Martin Frost
Martin Frost
2 years ago

If WHO had its way we would be in lockdown over monkeypox. Our Government will sign the Treaty nonetheless. There are not enough independent minded MPs to block it. With phantom environmental emergencies to contend with too, it begs the question what are the advantages of having a population in a state of permanent fear? Ask yourself what vested interests stand to benefit? The very people that promoted the global panic in the first place

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scillygirl
scillygirl
2 years ago

The WHO treaty will facilitate the introduction of digital IDs and CBDCs by enabling the shutdown of parts of the economy they want to destroy (small businesses) and help the parts they want go grow (global businesses). Rather than tackling inflation head on with interest rates, sparking a global recession and drawing attention to themselves the central bankers) are using mechanisms like the WHO treaty to do it under cover of fear-inducing “pandemics”. Listen to Catherine Austin Fitts:
https://theconsciousresistance.com/the-activation-23/

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SomersetHoops
SomersetHoops
2 years ago

The WHO continues its anti-democratic agenda and is trying to change from an advisory organisation to a controlling one. It’s time we kicked the WHO into touch and set up a new organisation with a group of top scientists from like-minded countries who can advise governments with a full explanation of their advice, so governments can correctly balance health benefits against cost and other impacts. After recent events, it’s clear that science is not a single solution thing and democratic governments should have the option to use their own trusted scientists to analyse the recommendations from any organisation and make their decisions based on what is best for their country. It might also be better in the UK if ministerial appointments are decided by the education and knowledge of the minister about the subject they are supposed to be administering. Let’s not have another Hancock disaster.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago
Reply to  SomersetHoops

There is absolutely no chance of having ministers with education and knowledgerelevant to the department they represent. The slithering serpents would not accept anyone who was vaguely qualified. Their own incompetence might be shown up.

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