- “Nicola Sturgeon and Jeane Freeman bought ‘burner’ phones in 2020 Covid lockdown” – The Scottish Daily Express reveals that Nicola Sturgeon and Jeane Freeman, then the Scottish Health Secretary, purchased cheap mobile phones and prepaid top-up cards during the early months of the Covid pandemic, despite having access to official communication devices.
- “Covid’s origin may never be discovered, Britain’s top scientist warns” – The Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor says we will probably never know whether COVID-19 occurred naturally or escaped from a lab in China, reports the Mail.
- “They still won’t quit pushing the mRNAs” – A recent New York Times opinion piece shows how completely public health bureaucrats, and the doctors who love them, have lost the plot, says Alex Berenson on Substack.
- “The SARS-CoV-2 transmission riddle” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan explore whether respiratory viruses can lie dormant, leading to unexpected outbreaks.
- “Challenging pandemic orthodoxy: a quick update” – Neil Datson takes aim at Patrick Vallance’s cautious approach to pandemics, preferring health regulations guided by more flexible thinkers like Dr. John Campbell.
- “Landmark Covid vaccine injury win” – On Substack, Rebekah Barnett reports that an Australian tribunal has ordered compensation for a youth worker’s pericarditis due to the Department of Child Protection’s workplace Covid booster directive.
- “The 13 year-old reporter challenging Gaza protesters: ‘The BBC are too neutral’” – A Jewish schoolboy, frustrated by unbalanced coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, has decided to uncover the facts for himself, reports the Telegraph.
- “Not just Claudine Gay. Harvard’s Chief Diversity Officer plagiarised and claimed credit for husband’s work, complaint alleges” – Harvard University’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer appears to be guilty of extensive plagiarism as well, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis.
- “Major Harvard donor withdraws financial support amid ongoing antisemitism backlash” – A major Harvard donor has halted financial support for the university and accused elite U.S. colleges of producing “whiny snowflakes” instead of future leaders, reports the Telegraph.
- “Police investigate special constable over Christian busker video” – Scotland Yard is investigating a special constable after she told a Christian busker that she was “not allowed to sing church songs outside of church grounds”, says the Mail.
- “Net migration to push U.K. population over 70 million, 11 years earlier than expected” – The Office for National Statistics has estimated that net migration will increase Britain’s population by nearly 10%, or 6.1 million, by mid-2036, reports the Telegraph.
- “The U.K. is fast approaching its immigration breaking point” – The idea that simply adding people to the population leads to general prosperity has toppled over, writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “Telegraph sale: Government concerned by principle of foreign state media ownership” – The Media Minister says she is concerned in principle about a foreign government owning a British media organisation, according to the Telegraph.
- “The Laurence Fox ruling is a disaster for freedom of speech” – No one should ever be dragged to court for a rhetorical flourish, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “I ban, therefore I am” – Nanny statism is the last refuge of the pointless politician, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Universities should want brilliant British minds, not dumbed-down foreign cash cows” – ‘Diversity’ candidates are preferred over white applicants by U.K. universities and British students are losing out, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “University expansion was a reckless mistake – and this crisis proves it” – The supposed scandal over ‘cash for courses’ shouldn’t distract us from the real problem with higher education, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph, which is that there are too any places.
- “Germany opens citizenship to 1.5 million Turkish immigrants then gets the vapours when Recep Erdoğan’s AK Party reveals plans to establish a German offshoot” – Germany’s citizenship reforms – making it easier for immigrants, particularly Turks, to get citizenship – raise concerns as a party linked to Turkish President Erdoğan plans to operate in Germany, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “The betrayal of Charlie Hebdo” – The French intelligentsia has reneged on its commitment to free speech and embraced a pervasive culture of censorship, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Critic.
- “Victory to the French farmers” – European farmers are right to rise up against our eco-obsessed elites, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “America is hitting the brakes on electric cars. Has Biden noticed?” – It’s one thing to manufacture EVs, another to sell them, as Americans still prefer petrol cars and the environmental benefits are murky, claims Irwin Stelzer in the Times.
- “Keir Starmer pledges to ban conversion ‘therapy’ under Labour government ” – Keir Starmer promises that a Labour government will modernise the Gender Recognition Act and ban conversion therapy, according to Diva Magazine.
- “I don’t need my sexuality affirmed at a railway station – I just want the trains to run on time” – Network Rail’s ‘Pride Pillar’ is full of shapes and colours that represent different groups… but ultimately it means nothing, says Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
- “The cowards, the pretenders and the woman-haters” – The time to claim ignorance about the issue of gender identity in the U.K. has passed, writes Jean Hatchet in the Critic.
- “Glenn Hoddle and the birth of cancel culture” – Glenn Hoddle was sacked as England manager after an ill-thought-through comment about reincarnation and disabled people. The episode seems to have foretold an imminent shift in our culture, remarks John Sturgis in the Spectator.
- “Royal Academy outs past members for links to slavery” – The Royal Academy has revealed that one of its prestigious academicians was a slaveowner ahead of an exhibition in which it details its own extensive links with colonialism, reports the Times.
- “The surprising truth about ‘nanny state’ Britain” – When it comes to food, drink and public health in Britain, the nanny state is coming. Look busy, warns James Kirkup in the Spectator.
- “Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in West Bank hospital raid” – On X, journalist Andy Ngô shares a video that could be straight out of an episode of Fauda, showing an elite undercover Israeli team carrying out a targeted execution of three jihadist fighters at a hospital in the West Bank.
An elite undercover Israeli team carried out a targeted manhunt and execution of three jihadist fighters at a hospital in the occupied West Bank. The team, made up of men and women, were dressed as Muslim civilians. Hamas said one of the militants killed was their member. pic.twitter.com/6THMz7S2tM
— Andy Ngô(@MrAndyNgo) January 30, 2024
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It is but a short step from narcissist to psychopath.
Clinical Narcissism is a serious personality disorder, whether one sees it as sociopathy or psychopathy.
I tangled once with one such, friend from college, senior acupuncturist, who I found was sexually abusing a former student friend who I knew
Exploded when I challenged him about it. Lied to all our mutual friends about me.
However ….
I married the girl. And now I can spot a Narcissist a mile off.
ps. Trump is not such. He may be a braggadocio – but that’s another matter altogether,
Many things are said about Trump, but most people just haven’t spent time with these kind of highly driven entrepreneurs (a disorder in itself..). He’s really an open book, and there is less edge and manipulation about him than TDS sufferers imagine. He’s actually too honest for a politician, but you know where you are with him as Zelenskyy has found out.
I saw the Cambridge Union debated him as a nazi tyrant, or something, which Tom Slater from Spiked rebutted. They just dont understand what that kind of person is like, and I think it fair to muse that Trump knows he is the figurehead of the movement to save western democracy as we know it, from itself. He is using his twilight years to work this, his chance of being assassinated is quite high, so this is actually a really selfless act to fight to become POTUS again. Others wont see it like that of course, but I think they are wrong.
I agree with your observations.
“According to this analysis, by going around acting like idiots in public for the benefit of naught but their own towering moral egos, the grown toddlers”
Indeed toddlers. Narcissism is but one characteristic of the mentally ill. Nominalism and subjectivism includes;
-ignorance
-stupidity
-criminality
-mendacity/massive hypocrisy
-predilection for fascism
-hyper individualism
-no reality exists (evthg is ‘relative’)
-violent anti-white, christophobia
-laziness
-hatred of our history…..
Such are the benefits of The Enlightenment and ‘Reason’. None of it enlightening, all of it unreasonable informing cults like warming, Rona, open borders, statism, trannyism, queerism etc.
Well, the whole thing is very interesting.
Yes, these individuals are extremely narcissistic. However, it looks like as an act of extreme narcissism, they actually perform some kind of ritual self-sacrifice through surgery, for example by tying their Fallopian tubes.
This is fascinating and reminds me a religious analysis I heard some years ago by an orientalist who explained that in some extreme cases the Ego becomes so unbearable for the individual that they go into self-destruct mode. (Anything to get rid of that monster that controls me!) In a similar way, the behaviour of the alcoholic, drug addict, etc. can be understood by realizing that yes, actually they are trying to kill themselves.
Steven’s not wrong about the narcissism, as anyone who frequents platforms such as Twitter or Tiktok can attest to. They’re all over the shop, these idiots.
”Transgender Hunger Games star Hunter Schaefer has unhinged meltdown after his passport was changed to list him as male; blames Trump.
“I don’t give a f**k that they put an ‘M’ on my passport…it doesn’t change really anything about me or my trans-ness.”
The actor, whose passport previously listed him as ‘female’ has blamed Trump’s Executive Order- that proclaimed there are only two genders- as the reason his passport has been changed to list him as ‘male.’
Schaefer posted an 8 minute video about the passport change on TikTok.
The actor ended the video saying “f**k this Administration.”
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1893114728114688306
And as for the feminism thing, stating the obvious here but: All feminists are female but not all females are feminists. If I were one of the so-called feminists who is still sound of mind I’d be wanting to distance myself from such a label and it’s obviously negative connotations. I’m with Maggie;
We live in a hysterical age. Blame mass communication. Also hold somewhat accountable the inexorable rise of estrogen in the public domain.
Testosterone brings its own evocations and exhortations. Brave chap who takes on a compulsive narcissist (and vice versa).
As for politics, if memory serves right the Cleese-Skynner dialogues from over 40 years ago are an interesting read…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1518412.Life_and_How_To_Survive_It
“…Before we can laugh at something, we need to experience ‘a momentary anaesthesia of the heart’.”
I do get the feeling you don’t like feminists?
Excellent article and source info, thankyou. My two memorable takeaway points, ‘a disproportionate number of nutters are feminists and a disproportionate number of terrorists are Muslim.’ Additionally, who would have thought that Dylan Mulvaney and Eddie Izzard are raging narcissists?
Feminism is a Marxist ideology that has wrapped itself in a cloak of victimhood and relies upon the tried and tested female bent towards self-indulgence, status, and bullying. And that is what our society is now built upon – a narcissistic feminist agenda that unwittingly opened the door to Marxism. The proof of which sits firmly in the slightly confused, starting to curdle, pudding. A better disguised Trojan Horse you could not build.
Back to a basic level, we are on this earth to procreate! just lately, we are doing a very poor job of that
Any animals that fail at this natural action tend not to last for long, it’s called extinction!
Surely there is a simpler and far less invasive method of not getting pregnant, even if it makes for less of a grand gesture? Formerly known as abstinence. If they can’t manage that to avoid a fate “worse than death” then they’re not really committed, are they? And anyway, surely they could just carry on as they are until such unlikely time as Trump does actually ban all abortions and contraception?
Of course, they’re not being rational about it, my mistake.
Woke is profound Narcissism, via the belief in one’s moral superiority,
My response?
Fuck right off
Hijacked? The Left is the Kingdom of Narcissists – akways has been.
These are the beautiful, bien-pensant people whose mega-intellects and cleverness makes them gods with divine right to rule and control the mortals.
And are we to believe without the narcissists the Left would be all cutesy, cuddly, well-meaning folk?
Left = Socialism = vile, wicked, evil. (See: UK Government)
Wasn’t it in Michigan where all those women got together on the foreshore of one of the lakes and started howling at the sky? There’s something definitely a bit medieval about the left; worshipping precocious goblins, a mystical belief in Gaea, the Cargo Cult solutions for the economy, the belief in ‘evil’ Tories, the weird NHS worship.
There is no Left in America. It underwent systematic destruction from the 1930s to the 1970s. There is a book called The Death Of The Liberal Class which provides adequate exposition. There has been no Left in England since 1990. This talk about the left is nonsense. The real left or spirit of the Left has transmogrified into its opposite. For example J D Vance. He is more more advanced than any of his opponents and he is full of the real revolutionary spirit. Forget left or right it is the revolutionary spirit that you want and we certainly aren’t short of that right now. Trump certainly isn’t Karl Marx but he is probably the closest approximation that you will find in the world today.
Talking about narcissistic lefty whackos, I’ve not seen Eddie Izzard popping up in the news lately.
I just look at these examples and cannot help feel that these women must be lacking self esteem. They need to be ‘liked’ by the outside world. They need to feel ‘morally superior’.
Social media now gives these people a platform.
Wonder what they are like if you were to meet them face to face.
That lipstick wearing male Scottish hospital doctor fits the description of someone with NPD perfectly.
To add to the understanding, the other strong factor in extremist behaviour is PARANOIA.
The common usage of the word paranoia is “delusions of persecution” or “unjustified suspicion and mistrust of other people”, but that is not the whole story. Paranoia stems from a deep sense of “badness” inside the individual which can only be assuaged by finding someone or something outside oneself to hate and fight against.
It starts like this:- the tiny child is helpless and totally dependent on the parents. The child knows nothing, and the parents know everything. If a parent punishes the child or is cruel, the child concludes that he/she is bad and deserves this cruelty. Over time, the child comes to believe he/she is an innately bad person. The feelings are so painful that they are unconscious, deeply buried in the psyche and unacknowledged. But the painful feelings are acted out in later life by finding outside objects or persons to hate even more than oneself. This is paranoia. This is neurosis.
So the paranoid has to find someone or something to hate. And of course the internet makes it so easy to do. The extreme Labour left is populated with paranoids. They’ve chosen socialism, so Britain and the USA as the bastions of capitalism are the perfect target for their hatred. The same reasoning explains extreme Woke activists and IRA terrorism, extreme right-wing and left-wing parties; extreme climate activists; anti-vivisectionists; Hamas’s policy to wipe Israel off the map; etc, etc. They are all based on paranoid irrational hatred.
As a corollary to the hatred comes an abnormal identification with the oppressed. So paranoids will, for example, identify with the Palestinians as the oppressed, with Israel as the oppressor. Never mind that the Palestinians are arguably oppressed mainly by their Hamas leadership who do not want a solution, because this is irrational stuff, and logic is not involved.
Paranoids will infiltrate existing organisations and distort their purpose to achieve their fix. So Extinction Rebellion and Black Lives Matter may have started with worthwhile aims and methods, but become distorted by extremist infiltrators. And because the infiltrators are driven by strong neurotic forces they are convincing and influential.
Paranoids can also distort good causes. For example, climate warming is undeniable, but governments climate policies seem to be driven more by paranoid ideology and guilt than rational debate about options and the costs of these options.
Let’s be clear – this is not to criticise these people, it is to try to understand them. They are damaged neurotic people. They can’t be reasoned with or negotiated with, because neurotic behaviour is irrational and not receptive to negotiation.
Nobody has a perfect childhood, and we all get mildly abused by our parents from time to time as well as being loved, praised, encouraged, etc. So we are all perhaps mildly paranoid, but for most people it is assuaged by, for example, going to a football match and shouting at the other side, or the referee, or….
Fortunately, paranoids are not very successful overall. Their extreme views are not very persuasive to most people. And because they cannot trust anybody, they find cooperation difficult, and extreme groups often break up into factions. That is why there are dozens of extreme political parties, both left and right.
Paranoids are unhappy people, fighting to save their sense of self all the time. They can be helped, but maybe only by analytic psychotherapy, which can be long-term. And before finding help, they first have to recognise that they have a problem, and that may only happen when they have a mental breakdown.
The psychoanalyst Alice Miller, in her great book “The drama of being a child”, states that “all criminal behaviour is retribution for cruelty received in childhood”. Frightening stuff, and closely related to paranoia behaviour.
Interesting read…but do you really believe, as Alice Miller wrote, that “ALL criminal behaviour is retribution for cruelty received in childhood”?
I suggest there is a tendency in most of us which goes directly from “I like” to “I want” wihout needing to detour into a psychoanalytical subroutine on the way.
I always go to Mr Tucker’s articles first…incisive and funny.
And he’s written “over 10 books”!
Today a friend told me about a form she found recently. It was from 2020. She received it prior to travelling. The form instucted her on how to avoid becoming infected by the “virus”. She then mentioned how lucky she and hubby were to not die from covid, then she repeated the story of the old people in Italy who died from covid and the 20,000 people who died in New York from covid.
I was astounded and asked her if she knew anyone personally who died from covid, because I knew of no one. She did not. I also explained the elderly in Italy had rec’d the wonderful quad flu vaxx prior to getting “the virus”, setting them up to die when got covid and the 20,000 who died in NY, died from medical negligence, unnecessary medical ventilation, remdesivir, administration of respiratory depressants such as morphine and midazolam and withholding antibiotics when some developed bacterial pneumonia.
yes folks the far left will cling onto these lies they were told in the msm and by their gov’ts medical experts. They will also buy into the next plandemic with enthusiasm. You simply cannot convince someone who refuses to learn the truth, to believe the truth. It is disturbing to witness.