- “Dr Fauci is still downplaying the lab-leak hypothesis” – The former Chief Medical Advisor gave an evasive interview this weekend, says Peter Franklin in UnHerd.
- “The Covid lie that drove lockdown and the mRNA ‘vaccine’ experiment ” – Would so many have accepted the experimental vaccines so readily if they had known that the science on which they were constructed had a huge lie at its base, asks Neville Hodgkinson in TCW.
- “‘The media failed to do their jobs during lockdown’” – Isabel Oakeshott talks to Spiked‘s Brendan O’Neill about what the Lockdown Files tell us about journalism today.
- “Karl Lauterbach, in substantial reversal, says vaccine injuries are ‘dismaying’, complains of ‘exorbitant’ pharmaceutical profits, calls for vaccine manufacturers to fund an institute for those harmed” – With his popularity in free fall, Germany’s “foremost virus pest”, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, has given an interview in which he makes some unusual concessions about the vaccines, writes Eugyppius.
- “There Is No Energy Transition, Just Energy Addition” – While renewables claim a larger fraction of a growing pie, fossil fuels are expected to grow faster in absolute terms, writes Leen Weijers in WUWT.
- “Children as young as seven might be ‘mixed berry gender fluid muffins’, Welsh teachers told” – Children as young as seven might be a “mixed berry gender fluid muffin”, teachers have been told in a sex education resource promoted by the Welsh Government, the Telegraph reports.
- “Former star of The Office Rainn Wilson says there’s anti-Christian bias in Hollywood after episode 8 of The Last Of Us has Bible-reading character turn into a ‘horrific villain’” – The Christian is always the baddie, Wilson complained, the Mail reports.
- “Welsh decolonisers target English ‘oppressors’” – The memory of the English as oppressors of the Welsh should be taken into account when statues and monuments are checked for glorifying colonialism and slavery, archaeologists say, according to the Times.
- “The Frank Report LV” – Frank Haviland’s witty take on the week in the New Conservative.
- “Trans surgery ban for children is ‘close to sinful’, says Joe Biden” – Joe Biden has described efforts to block children from transgender medical treatments as “close to sinful” as he hit out at Ron DeSantis’s restrictions in Florida, the Telegraph reports.
- “BBC Sport at war: Huge rift over Linekergate as management are attacked by angry staff in confidential snap poll seen by Sportsmail over lack of leadership in handling of debacle” – Management are not popular at the BBC right now, reports the Mail.
- “Editor of prestigious medical journal the BMJ warns trans children in America are being rushed into sex change surgery ‘without any psychological support’” – Kamran Abbasi said in an editorial in the British Medical Journal that the approach by doctors in the U.S. is “not in line with the strength of the evidence”, reports the Mail.
- “Glenn Greenwald eloquently exposes the fraudulent title of ‘disinformation expert’” – There is no such field of disinformation expertise – it doesn’t exist, and view anyone claiming such a proficiency with extreme suspicion, says Greenwald.
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I’m glad you’ve closed down London Calling. Because your interlocutor has gradually transformed from a reasonable right wing dandy into some species of cultic fruitcake, complete with thin skin, it became impossible to sustain discussion. In the first place he responded with peevish insults to the first suggestion of disagreement; and worse, his “theories”, for want of a better word, boil down to a childish belief in a tribe of all powerful bogeymen. I stopped listening months ago for just this reason. Not only did JD reject the perfectly obvious point that there will never be a single explanation for all things; not only did he dismiss the role that accident plays in life, he wouldn’t even accept the perfectly proper point that in “woke” we are dealing with a tide of intellectual fashion among the whole educated class. No, for him it was bogeymen. At this point I have just heard the typically moderate and generous Young-point that JD is not mad, he’s just evangelical. Well, that sort of Christianity verges on madness in any case, does it not? Anglican, Catholic and Orthodox faith allows for science and reason – free-floating, late-comer’s amateur Protestantism amounts to a belief in UFOs and the Loch Ness Monster. It also explains his appalling sympathy for Islam – among the deadliest enemies freedom has ever had. Finally, to Mr Dixon, no it is not an insult to be called an ethnic nationalist. Ethnic nationalism is there in the belief systems of Churchill and de Gaulle and is wholly distinct from the beliefs of their famous German antagonist.
Clearly there are at least twenty-six religious nuts who worship at the shrine of Little Jim and his fight against the all-powerful Bogeymen. They can’t seem to muster an argument between them. What a surprise!
Like all religious fruitcakes, anything that it is beyond his intellect to understand is ascribed to a god or gods.
This is true of religious fruitcakes but not true of the more rationally religious, for example Dr Johnson, who had little truck with efforts at “theodicy” and dismissed all certainty as to the particular intentions or interventions of God.
And he would certainly not have ascribed all our misfortunes to some ongoing cabal of human agents as it seems the “born again” James is happy to do.
Indeed, with his obsessive focus on particular individuals he is close to viewing them as supernatural powers; and worse, he sees them as involved in a conspiracy over centuries.
Here we meet the ultimate nonsense which mutters darkly about secret societies, Freemasons et al – really, little better than taking Dan Brown seriously. And this, I fear, is why he reacted in such a prickly fashion – or so I understand – to some phantom accusation of anti-Semitism, for that is the really nasty creature which lurks at the end of so many such “rabbit-holes” – and he knows it.
Happily, he is clearly resisting that particular temptation; but one wonders how long it will take to overcome his resistance? After all, a once rational individual now rejects opposition, ascribes every evil to a thousand year conspiracy, denies evolution, palaeontology, the routine precautions of due scepticism and in their place relies on childish, fairy-tale explanations with horrible antecedents and horrifying possibilities. In claiming to be down this “rabbit hole” he evinces a last, uncomfortable sense that he is losing touch with truth; is, perhaps, giving out a final distress signal in hopes that someone might rescue him.
This, ultimately, is why I stopped tuning in. He needs help.
I stopped listening to London Calling simply because the show notes told me in too great a detail who thought what about which topic, so there was no need to listen.
I continued listening to hear Toby calmly and logically dealing with the ever more extreme Delingpole outbursts. I quite like JD and although I tend to dismiss his theories, I found it interesting to listen to them.
Interesting? Surely it was embarrassing? Like listening in on a private session between shrink and fruitcake. As for liking the poor fruitcake, well – he was once likeable, in his downright, right-wing hedonist days. Now that he’s a particularly aggressive member of some sort of pensioners’ Christian Union, complete with American Bible-bashing, he must be quite ghastly to meet.
Like all religious fruitcakes, anything that it is beyond his intellect to understand is ascribed to a god or gods.
Richmond was the capital of the Southern states in the Civil War. The men North of Richmond are yankees and bankers etc
Anthony wasn’t saying he lived there – he’s in NC I think
Good listen and good restaurant dish!! I used to listen to London Calling from the beginning, so will miss friends trying to work stuff out but there was getting less discussion about what might be happening.
I feel more optimistic after listening thank you but I wonder if one of you could listen to JDs latest podcast with the nice Irish guy about covid but worrying if he is right !?
Tuning in next week !
The ad-lib of “Re-wolving the Guardian” was so good that you must make the film. Toby drooling over the Moonbot trans-wolf going through Owen Jones like butter shows Toby’s inner psychopath, the more sinister for his veneer of urbanity.
I might add that I walked my dogs for years among leafy NJ suburbs less than an hour from NYC, happily co-existing with occasional bears and coyotes. Coyotes are half-wolf in the Eastern US and the ones I saw looked as big as wolves. Picking ticks off the dogs was more trouble.
It is hardly surprising that the podcast failed. It is one thing to punctuate something compelling by advertisements but times have moved on and there is no pretending that things are normal anymore. Such a conceit runs contrary to evryone’s lived experience and so such a podcast just gets consigned to background noise like a dog barking in the back garden. I don’t give advice except to say that God hates a coward most of all.
La Proudman is a wank-stain on the fabric of humanity
I was thinking skid mark. Even a wankstain had a degree of potential at some point in its existence.
Sadly I have reached a point with several sets of friends with regard to views on issues like leaving the EU, Covid, Lockdowns, Masks, “Vaccines”, Net Zero, DIE (yes there are HR managers among my friends). With one group we have had to agree not to discuss political issues. Another group (predominantly career long public sector employees) I have let go because we cannot talk about anything much any more due to their deep immersion in their narrative, which is infuriating.
It’s nuclear Toby, just say new-clear, not Dubya’s mangled nu-cu-lar. And regarding the crazy plane lady Nick, you should probably watch this, it may be helpful:
https://youtu.be/pInk1rV2VEg
NEW PODCAST OUT FROM THE REAL NORMAL PODCAST!
We’re back on the airwaves talking about the ‘Bibby Stockholm’ and her massive hull…plus we’re picking the bones out of light fingered museum curators. We cover the awful story of Lucy Letby, whilst also chatting about the usual madness that swirls around the woke, namely Graham Linehan.
https://therealnormalpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1268768/13442825-ep-53-get-your-big-bibby-stockholm-s-out
PLUS SILLY SONGS you unfortunate proles!