In this week’s episode of London Calling, James and I talk about why we’re on opposite sides of the world – me in Canada, James in Hong Kong – and whether jet lag gets worse as you get older; James says Hong Kong may not be a democracy any longer, but then, neither is the UK; I tell him how much I’m enjoying being in Canada, not least because there are plenty of conservatives in rural areas who have no time for Trudeau; we go on to discuss the news of the hour – Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News – with James claiming it’s because he’s too Team James and me going for the more prosaic explanation, namely, the Murdochs were embarrassed about having to settle the Dominion law suit for close to a billion dollars and were looking for someone to blame; that prompts an argument about ‘the Steal’, with me pointing out that the Murdochs wouldn’t have spent $787 million to settle if they thought Fox News could prove the 2020 presidential election really was stolen, and James claiming the Murdochs settled it because they don’t want the truth about the stolen election to come to light; we then pay tribute to the late Barry Humphries, although I suspect the only reason James brought him up is so he could drop in the fact that he was Barry’s favourite Spectator columnist (according to his son Oscar); we briefly discuss the candidacy of Robert Kennedy Jr, although James doesn’t trust him; I tells James about the pro-natalist movement and James is sympathetic, although he gets sidetracked into talking about his new theory that Greta Thunberg is a small, smooth-skinned man; and, in Culture Corner, we discuss The Playlist, The Night Agent, The Whale, Anna Karenina, which James is reading in Hong Kong, and Andrew Roberts’s magisterial Churchill biography, which I’m listening to in Canada.
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“The steal… a crackpot ‘conspiracy theory” (Team Toby).
Whether or no, I still think it’s a stupid idea to put politicised big tech in charge of election counting machines. Why do they need these machines anyway? I have always used a pencil to vote. If the “United States” did likewise, Dominion would not be an issue anyway (although I suppose you could still have postal voting, insisting on “photographic i.d.”, and various other ways of gerrymandering results).
Anything that works using software can be instructed to have a different oucome to that expected, like switching every few votes from one party to another. In fact I saw a Youtube video (can’t find it now, obvs…) where someone was demonstrating this very thing using Dominion hardware. 5 identical votes in, 3 to 2 voted coming out. Biden won by 42,000 in the key counties and states. That’s not many voted to conjure up out of nowhere. Stalin himself said (reputedly) that the most important man in an election is the one that counts the votes.
James is bat0shit crazy…..
“Why would I want to see new films? it’s all just part of the ‘psyop’ ” (Team James).
I’ve been wondering for a while, are there any genuinely decent new films out (or for that matter decent music)? Since at least the new Dunkirk film from 2017 was shunned at the Oscars for not having enough “black” people in it, it’s been all too obvious the way things are headed.
I have no idea but I will say that when I go abroad and return home it is like returning to a prison in that the surveillance machinery is far more developed here. You can’t even hustle in this country anymore. If you can’t hustle then why bother. A Jamaican friend of mine returned home to dire poverty for just that reason. The feeling that you can go out in the morning and maybe by luck or skill you might’ve made a difference to where you were going. This has gone here.