I belong to a privileged generation. Not that I was raised in affluence; far from it. Born in 1958, to a mother who worked all her life as a weaver in the textile industry and a father employed as a maintenance mechanic at the local factory, I lived on a council estate for the first decade of my life. Money was tight, holidays were basic and infrequent, and treats – in the form of confectionary – were rare, usually restricted to a Turkish Delight chocolate bar each Sunday evening. Although I never realised it until I was 62, I was, however, part of a cohort who possessed something sacrosanct, something so very precious and – deplorably – something future generations may never enjoy again: individual freedom.
To be clear, the world I have lived in has been far from perfect. My era has been one incorporating fundamental inequalities and injustices, widespread poverty, discrimination and – particularly in my young-adult years – a recurring risk of physical assault. But despite this context, each of us took for granted a range of basic human rights: to meet with whomever we wished; to leave our homes whenever we chose; to eat whatever we wanted; to express opinions others might not agree with; to take risks, make mistakes and learn sometimes painful lessons; to wear whatever we wanted; to work to improve our career prospects and earn more money to enhance our lives and those of our families; and to decide what drugs and other medical interventions to accept. When cheap flights emerged in the 1970s and 80s, the whole world became wonderfully accessible.
My perception (probably a naïve one) of successive Labour and Conservative Governments was that, although often inept and guilty of policy errors, they broadly sought to improve the lives of their citizens and could at least be relied upon to protect us against external malignant forces. Furthermore, it seemed that the life-spans of our elected politicians were dependent upon keeping us – their constituents – satisfied by acting primarily in the interests of U.K. citizens.
But 30 months ago, this illusion was shattered.
I knew something was awry as early as February 2020. By March the same year my early-warning detector would not rest. While the media, politicians and the science ‘experts’ informed us – incessantly – that a uniquely lethal pathogen was spreading carnage across the world, and unprecedented and draconian restrictions on our day-to-day lives were essential to prevent Armageddon, I wasn’t buying it. I formed the view that a momentous event, unparalleled in my lifetime, was unfolding, but it was not primarily about a virus.
Why, at that point in time, did I recognise that something sinister was underway while almost everyone else I met seemed to be swallowing the dominant narrative? It is a difficult question to answer. Perhaps my time in the early 1980s as a psychiatric charge nurse in an NHS hospital, occasionally interfacing with the ‘infection control’ department, gave me insight into how this professional group operate. Although well-meaning, their advice regarding how to minimise the spread of contagion on a ward often seemed impractical, revealing an apparent inability to see the bigger picture. Or maybe my in-depth knowledge of risk assessment (gleaned in my doctoral thesis during my time as a clinical psychologist) had impressed upon me how woefully inaccurate we are in gauging the relative threat levels posed by various hazards inherent in our environment. What I did know for sure was that Big Pharma – arguably the most corrupt industry in the world – would exploit the emerging ‘crisis’ for its own ends. And how right I was.
The list of state-driven human rights abuses we have endured under the pretence of ‘keeping us safe’ and the (ominous) ‘greater good’ is long: prohibition of travel; confinement in our homes; social isolation; closure of businesses; denial of access to leisure activities; de-humanising mask mandates; directives (scrawled on floors and walls) dictating which way to walk; an arbitrary ‘stay two metres apart’ rule; exclusion from the weddings and funerals of our loved ones; the seclusion and neglect of our elderly; school shutdowns; children’s playgrounds sealed off with yellow and black tape; muzzled children and toddlers; students denied both face-to-face tuition and a ‘rites-of-passage’ social life; and coerced experimental ‘vaccines’ that turned out to be more harmful and less effective than initially claimed. Equally egregious were the strategies deployed to lever compliance with these restrictions, namely psychological manipulation (‘nudging’), pervasive censorship across the media and academic journals and the cancellation and vilification of anyone brave enough to speak out against the dominant Covid narrative. All-in-all, a state-driven assault on the core of our shared humanity.
As the state-orchestrated infringement of our basic human rights continued, I felt compelled to act in ways that were far outside of my comfort zone. The 61-year-old man who had never been on a protest march until summer 2020, and who had innocently assumed that most of society’s leaders were decent people who tried to do what was right, had changed. I found myself walking with tens of thousands of others along Regent Street, London, screaming “Freedom!”. I pushed “Back to Normal” leaflets through the letterboxes of hundreds of my neighbours. I stood on the corner of our local shopping street with a placard held aloft stating, “Say No To Vaccine Passports”.
Throughout 2020 and 2021, I struggled to find reasons for the irrational, masochistic Covid restrictions and the ubiquitous infringement of our basic human rights. My explanations evolved. Initially I clung to the ‘panic and incompetence’ rationale, that our governments had been spooked by the images coming out of China – remember the videos of people falling dead in the streets – and the mono-focused, blinkered and catastrophic prophecies of our so-called epidemiological experts. As the atrocities persisted, this explanation was rendered inadequate, and it morphed into an ‘opportunistic agendas’ account where activists – promoting green aspirations, digitalised IDs, social credit systems, a cashless society, universal income, a biosecurity state – had exploited the anxieties associated with the emergence of a novel respiratory virus. By 2021 these conclusions, in turn, seemed insufficient to explain the persistence of the horrors we were enduring and it – belatedly – became clear that globalist and ‘deep state’ powers were at work, striving to realise their inhuman aspirations. My further reading about the activities of World Economic Forum, the United Nations, the European Union, the World Health Organisation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, Anthony Fauci and Big Pharma, and others, confirmed this emerging conclusion.
As the Covid event fades from media attention (replaced by a focus on similarly dehumanising and totalitarian responses to environmental threats, the war in Ukraine and the imminent cost-of-living crisis) it is intriguing to reflect upon its residual effects.
I continue to mourn what I have lost, a process associated with a complex mix of fluctuating emotions. For two years, our Government, aided and abetted by state-funded scientists, denied us opportunities for fun and human connection, stymied our freedoms and orchestrated a systematic campaign to coerce us to both accept experimental ‘vaccines’ and to slavishly cover our faces with cloth or plastic. Consequently, I feel anger and disgust towards many of our politicians, epidemiological ‘experts’ and behavioural scientists who were complicit with this shameful period in our history. And I now distrust all sources of information, whether it be the media, the ‘scientific’ world or public health experts. Without an anchor for truth, I float – incredulous – in an ocean of mainstream-generated misinformation.
My 60-plus years of naivety have been shattered. I believe only those few who have shown selfless integrity throughout the Covid debacle. Also, I am now sceptical about much of the green agenda: state-funded scientists lied to us about Covid so why wouldn’t they show the same self-serving dishonesty about the climate?
Closer to home, it is clear my life has changed. I feel disappointment and irritation towards many people who I previously respected and liked, such as friends who colluded with the catastrophically damaging Covid restrictions because of fear, ignorance or a desire to avoid hassle and condemnation. Many relationships are now more distant. On the rare occasions we meet there is often an ‘elephant in the room’, and when the Covid issue is touched upon I typically feel frustrated that many do not want to consider the implications of what has been inflicted upon us.
I feel similarly towards mental health colleagues who, for years, I had stood alongside and respected, collectively fighting the tyranny of biological psychiatry (its human rights infringements, coercion, overuse of drugs and vilification of those who questioned them) but who failed to recognise a much bigger tyranny when it emerged in 2020. While a handful of this anti-psychiatry lobby did soon recognise the totalitarian threat inherent to the Covid response, most bought into the dominant narrative. Heated disagreements ensued with a few, followed by ongoing mutual resentment; for most we just avoid each other.
But the residual effects of the Covid debacle are not all negative. New friendships have emerged with people from across the political spectrum. Based on a mutual respect, enduring bonds have formed with fellow sceptics both locally (through the Community Assembly and the Stand in the Park initiatives) and nationally via joint endeavours in HART, Smile Free, and PANDA. And it was uplifting to recently discover – via a chance meeting in the local pub – that the family I had lived across the road from for the last seven years, yet had rarely spoken to, had always been as sceptical as me about the dominant Covid narrative.
Furthermore, I have noticed that my behaviour has changed in subtle ways. I now make more of an effort to smile and gain eye contact with – unmasked – strangers. Similarly, when greeting acquaintances, I’m more inclined to hug or shake hands as compared to pre-2020 levels of bodily contact. (Non of that fist-bump and elbow-touch nonsense for me.) It’s as if I’m striving to compensate for the human connection deficit that we’ve accrued over the last 30 months. Or perhaps I’m making a defiant metaphorical one-finger salute to any onlookers who still adhere to the risk-averse and dehumanising dominant Covid narrative?
While we continue to drown in a sea of propaganda, censorship and coercion, who knows what the future might hold?
One thing is for sure: We must never forget what the political leaders and public health specialists inflicted upon us. Whether the reason was weakness, groupthink, conflict of interest or unadulterated corruption, the miscreants must all be held to account and pay a price for terrorising the people they are meant to serve. This assertion is not fuelled by a primitive desire for retribution – well, not primarily – but by an expectation that, if the guilty are not named and shamed, the same totalitarian impositions will be repeated again and again.
The conviction sheet is a long one. It includes political leaders at home (Boris Johnson, Keir Starmer, Nicola Sturgeon, Mark Drayford) and abroad (including Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, Joe Biden and Jacinda Ardern); Bill Gates and his various funding agencies; SAGE scientists who danced to the tune of their academic and political paymasters; the behavioural science ‘nudgers’ at the helm of the worldwide psychological manipulation strategy; the professional organisations that have manifestly colluded with the state-driven tyranny (including the British Medical Association and the British Psychological Society); the conflicted drug regulators (such as the MHRA); the powerful, profit-driven pharmaceutical companies, deploying their financial clout to influence health policy decisions; and the mainstream media, who have slavishly peddled the dominant Covid narrative while dismissing alternative viewpoints.
To successfully expose the wrongdoings of such powerful individuals and institutions is a big ask. Realistically, only bottom-up resistance and protests from millions of ordinary people could achieve this aim, and in this regard there are reasons for optimism. Truth will – eventually – reveal itself. Despite the ongoing censorship and manipulation, public dissent to the attempted imposition of a biosecurity state is becoming increasingly visible. Masking in the community is – at the time of writing – practised only by an eccentric minority. The net harms of Covid restrictions are more widely recognised. Ordinary citizens increasingly claim they will not be locked down and separated from their loved ones ever again. And – perhaps more importantly – the ‘safe and effective’ vaccine narrative is crumbling, as indicated by more and more people rejecting the jabs.
If we do not wish to live in a ‘transhuman’ society devoid of personal freedoms, where our day-to-day decisions – where we go, what we say, what we eat, how we spend our money, what drugs we ingest – are determined by the state’s version of the ‘greater good’, we must all continue to show visible dissent to the globalists’ new world order.
Together, I believe we can defeat the biggest threat to Western values witnessed in my lifetime. And even if we don’t succeed, history will show that at least we tried.
Dr. Gary Sidley is a retired NHS Consultant Clinical Psychologist and co-founder of the Smile Free campaign. He blogs at Coronababble, where this post first appeared.
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Somebody else who has their eyes wide open and can see right through the intention of installing a Muslim statue and what it really signifies. The giveaway is the timing, plus the ability to look around and be aware of what’s happening to our societies in the West. Why did they not install a war memorial for Muslims 20 or 30 years ago, for instance?
”Timing is everything.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that the government will fund a national war memorial to those Muslim soldiers who fought on our side during the two world wars and in subsequent conflicts. We have also been reminded that other religions have similar memorials.
And that is true. But is there anything more that this particular commemoration might represent?
Whether mass immigration was encouraged because it was seen as a solution to falling birth rates, a pension crisis or a darker death-wish for Christian culture, it was founded on a profound ignorance of what Islam believed and how it acted.
At the same time, an entirely false distinction was made between Islam and Islamism, as if Islamism described an entirely separate and unconnected political extremist variant among Muslims. Whereas, in fact, Islam is a well-balanced hybrid of religion and politics, aspiring to create a seamlessly faithful Islamic society in terms of both spirituality and political and ethical expression.
We might explore the demographic acceleration of Islamic presence in our country, but we would end up arguing about variables. The most useful wake-up call for many was provided by French novelist Michel Houellebecq in his novel Submission, in which he explored both the desire of Islam to change the face of French society and its means of doing so.
Is there an inherent desire to Islamify a society in which the numbers of Muslims and their political and cultural influence grows? There are Muslim voices that speak to this, but that might be countered by the argument that they are not sufficiently representative.
Either way, the present tensions in our democracy appear to reflect the growing leverage of Islamic preferences.”
https://catholicherald.co.uk/why-choose-now-for-a-national-muslim-monument-to-the-brave-soldiers-who-died-for-us-during-two-world-wars/
And is it just coincidence that the 2024 Brittania coin struck by the Royal Mint has Britannia, the personification of Britain, being looked down upon by a crescent moon which just happens to be exactly the same orientation as the crescent moon on so many Muslim flags?
https://www.royalmint.com/britannia/commemorative/2024-britannia/
Well-spotted! The crescent moon symbol is also the symbol of Shiva/Satan, “god” of Destruction. Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and other cults are all worshipping the same thing: KaliAllah the Moon Spider Goddess of Death and her Toyboy Shiva/Satan.
The Black Cube of Mecca is built directly upon the foundations of a Hindu temple to KaliAllah, also called Durga, the remains of the apsidal wall of which can still be seen jutting out from one side of it. And the rituals of white-robed people running counter-clockwise around the Black Cube is derived from Hinduism. The name Allah is not Arabic, but one of the many Sanskrit names for Kali.
The last several times I have looked at war memorials they did not have words to exclude soldiers, sailors or airmen of any race or religion. They were gender, race and belief inclusive.
If there is to be a separate memorial to muslim dead from the forces, why not for each other religion, for atheists, for men and women and for urban or rural fighters. Gay and straight.
Clearly this is a divisive proposal which is designed to divide.
Crime rate due specifically to non-Germans in Bavaria ( it’s not just in that state ) is on the rise. These figures will not be accurate given Germany’s new accelerated citizenship process for migrants ( unsure if that’s started yet ), which could see a foreigner arriving in the country five years ago, getting their German papers then any crimes they commit they’d go down on record as ”German”.
”An increasing migrant population has contributed significantly to a spike in crime across the German state of Bavaria, the state’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann claimed on Monday.
Speaking after his ministry’s publication of the state police’s crime stats for last year, the CSU politician assured the public that Bavaria remains a particularly safe area of the country, but bemoaned the fact that crime had increased across the state and attributed much of this increase to foreign nationals.
“We will not accept the increase in crime, even if it is a nationwide trend for which foreigners and immigrants are particularly responsible,” Herrmann said in a press release on Monday.
“We have commissioned the State Criminal Police Office and our police headquarters to analyze crime developments in detail in order to adapt operational concepts and police presence if necessary,” he added.
According to the crime stats, a total of 39.6 percent of the 266,390 suspects in crimes across the state last year were non-Germans despite only comprising 16 percent of the state’s population. This corresponds to an increase of 20.5 percent compared to 2022 when 32,037 immigrants were suspected of criminal offenses.”
https://www.rmx.news/crime/foreigners-to-blame-for-sky-rocketing-crime-stats-says-bavarian-interior-minister/
tells us:
In what fantasy world will we have spare energy to export? Lunacy.
Very occasionally we’re exporting to continental Europe – I think when the wind is blowing a lot. But net for the year we import roughly 10% from EU. We do export to Ireland, but that’s not what they are talking about.
Good point – but I was talking about what the situation will be in 2030/35 when so many more people will be plugging in their BEVs and running heat pumps. At that point I’d expect us to be importing energy from French nuke stations just to keep the lights on and warm.
When the wind is blowing for the UK it’s likely blowing throughout northern Europe. When the UK has a glut of wind power – so will they (mostly).
Of course, ‘we’ may miss our BEV and heat pump targets – in which case why can’t we also miss ‘our’ carbon-free grid target?
Indeed. If the 2030/2035 evil comes to pass I doubt the Europeans will have enough juice either. Either the targets will slip or we will have power cuts/power rationing which will either be enforced with quotas or huge price increases or both.
FFS. Want to understand where all the woke identity politics started? There’s a clue.
Irelands inept government strikes again!
Legally required posters at every garage displaying distances per 100km for petrol/diesel and ev performance!
There are so many variables to this it makes it absolute nonsense
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/filling-stations-to-be-required-to-display-ev-price-comparison-poster-1603312.html
erm. Usually 100km per 100km. Unless you’re going so fast that Einstein would be interested.
Yes, I do get your point – very silly posters. Mind you, they can hardly deny they ever told these lies if they publish them that widely.
The UK price of an entry level petrol Vauxhall Corsa is £22,255; the electric one is £32,445. So, the electric one is £10,190 (€11,924) more. Difference in price between petrol and electric per 100km is €10.04 – €3.18 = €6.86 per 100km. To save the €11,924 difference in purchase cost at €6.86 per 100km you will have to travel 173,823km or over 100,000 miles.
Happy motoring.
Sorry my mistake, price per 100km !
That’s if your ev can actually go that far according to all the manufacturers lies on range!
“King’s Cross station faces backlash after ‘Islamic’ message appears”
The “message of repentance” coming from a “hadith” is a total fraud. Repentance for sin is a Christian concept, and has no place in Islam or Judaism or any other religion, as far as I am aware.
Hadiths have no validity at all in Islam, being just imams down through the centuries making up stuff and sticking them into a list. They like copying things from other religions, and in the King’s Cross one they are just trying to imitate Christianity.
I don’t know whether it has validity in Islam, but it certainly does in Judaism.
See for example 2 Chronicles 7:14.
“if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
Also here:
https://www.brandeis.edu/jewish-experience/holidays-religious-traditions/2021/september/atonement-yom-kippur-mirsky.html
No, actual repentance for sin is replaced in Judaism by “atonement”, which is not repentance, but only a ritual to protect yourself from being blamed for your sins in the next year. The Yom Kippur “Day of Atonement” means performing a ritual in which you transfer all your sins for the past year into a helpless chicken, swing it over your head, slit its throat, watch it choking to death slowly in agony, then give it to “The Poor” to eat your sins. You also take the Kol Nidre Vow, which allows you to lie and cheat and break any oaths sworn during the next year.
Then you go on sinning as much as you want.
“Labour will bring back ‘boiler tax’, pledges Ed Miliband” – The Shadow Energy Secretary backs plans, previously abandoned by the Tories, to impose fines on homeowners for failing to install useless, unworkable heat pumps”
WRONG. The plans were not “abandoned” by the Tories. They were delayed by one year, until after the election.
In other words, Tory and Labour policy on the boiler tax is now identical – they would both impose it after the election. But they are both pretending there is a difference between them on this issue.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/boiler-tax-shelved-until-after-election-following-tory-backlash/ar-BB1jUqTZ
Wow. Well done for exposing that vital piece of information.
“Tugendhat lined up as ‘unity candidate’ as Tory plotters discuss Sunak replacement”
I think he’s a good choice, as he has often bravely spoken out about things that matter, defying the Globalists.
No, it turns out that he’s not legally eligible for the post of Monarch’s Prime Minster, as yet another of the extraordinary number of Catholics and Closet Catholics in the government, far outnumbering Protestants. Only Mordaunt and Gove are eligible, it seems.
Boris Johnson was a fellow left-footer.
Well, Boris did convert to the Protestant Church of England at university, when he found out that as a Catholic he would not be able to legally hold the post of Prime Minister. Teresa May was a Closet Catholic, like her father, and therefore secretly holding the post illegally, as pointed out by none other than Michael Gove when she was PM.
Jewish Disraeli also converted to Anglicanism in order to become Prime Minister, and Tony Blair had to wait until leaving office before announcing his conversion to Catholicism. Truss and Sunak both were given the post illegally.
What has he spoken out about?
I don’t remember a peep out of him during “covid”.
“Tories narrowly back Sunak to lead party into next election”
Great, Sunak’s staying, time to leave 🙄!
(All tories with a precarious seat, like Anderson!)