A Date That Will Live in Infamy
So today is mask day, a new low in the lockdown era. But rather than depress readers by linking to the BBC’s ridiculously upbeat guide to face coverings, I thought I’d confine myself to a few glimmers of hope. For instance, some supermarkets and coffee shops have said they won’t enforce the new rules. According to the Mail:
Sainsbury’s, Asda and Costa Coffee have said they will not police new coronavirus laws which force customers to wear face masks in all shops from today.
The major retailers say they have no intention of enforcing new rules which will punish people who refuse to cover their faces with a £100 fine.
In addition, the director of public affairs at Co-Op has said it isn’t the job of the supermarket chain’s employees to enforce the rules and the Association of Convenience Stores has advised its members not to challenge any customers without face coverings.
Meanwhile, the Telegraph has a list of places where masks are not required:
- Restaurants and pubs with table service
- Hairdressers and treatment salons unless specified by the venue
- Gyms and leisure centres
- Cinemas, concert halls and theatres
- Museums
- Heritage sites
- Dentists
- Opticians
- If you are exempt from wearing a mask
And here’s the Telegraph‘s list of who’s exempt:
- A child under the age of 11
- An employee of the transport operator, when they are acting in the course of their employment
- A constable or police community support officer acting in the course of their duty
- An emergency response member of staff, such as a paramedic or fire officer acting in the course of their duty
- An official such as a border force officer, acting in the course of their duties
- If you are on board public transport but remain in your own vehicle, such as a car ferry
- Other legitimate exemptions listed include those with a disability or a physical or mental illness, and anyone travelling with a deaf person who relies on lip reading to communicate.
- Wearers are also permitted to remove them if it is necessary to avoid harm or injury, as well as to eat or drink if required, to take medication, or if a police officer or other official requests you to do so.
- Customers in shops will also be allowed to remove them if they are required to present identification for purchasing alcohol and other age-restricted products.
And for four-eyed folks like me, here’s the Telegraph‘s advice on stopping your glasses steaming up if you’re wearing a mask.
Wales Bans Newspapers on Public Transport
Determined not to be outdone by England’s draconian mask rules, the Welsh Government has gone one step further. According to its recent public transport guidance, not only will travellers have to wear face masks from July 27th, they won’t be able to chat on the phone, eat or drink, must remain in “relative silence” and cannot read newspapers! Who knew reading newspapers could spread the virus? Oh, and you’re not allowed to run for the bus because the virus can be transmitted by “breathing heavily”.
The lunatics really have taken over the asylum in Wales.
Another Victory for the Free Speech Union
The Free Speech Union has helped a victim of cancel culture get his job back. Here’s the story, as reported by Guido Fawkes yesterday.
Nick Buckley MBE, who was ousted as chief executive of his own charity last month following some mild criticisms of the Black Lives Matter manifesto, is back in charge thanks to the Free Speech Union. As of today, the trustees who fired him have all resigned, new trustees have been appointed and Nick has been re-appointed as CEO of Mancunian Way, the award-winning charity he founded in 2011. Nick was sacked after an article he posted on Linked-In attracted controversy, including a Change.org petition demanding his head. In spite of the fact that the petition only attracted 465 signatures – and Nick himself founded Mancunian Way – the trustees terminated the charity’s service level agreement with Nick’s company within a week of the petition being launched.
Luckily, Nick is a member of the Free Speech Union. It got behind a counter-petition, which has attracted over 17,500 signatures, and found Nick a top flight solicitor in the form of Keystone Law’s Geoffrey Davies, an expert on charity law. After Geoffrey discovered some irregularities in the process the trustees had followed, and pointed these out to them, they agreed to resign. They have now been replaced by three new trustees, appointed by Nick. And Nick is now back at the helm.
Toby Young, General Secretary of the FSU, tells Guido: “I’m delighted Nick has been reappointed to the charity that he founded and which has done so much to help disadvantaged young people in Manchester. No one should lose their livelihood at the behest of a left-wing outrage mob. Nick’s sacking was an example of cancel culture at its worst and I’m pleased that the FSU and Geoffrey Davies have been able to get him his job back.”
And they would have got away with if it wasn’t for that pesky Free Speech Union.
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Lord Sumption: Why Have Human Rights Organisations Said Nothing?
In the recent Prospect webinar in which Lord Sumption admitted to breaking lockdown rules, the patron saint of lockdown sceptics also criticised Britain’s human rights organisations for being “extraordinarily silent” on the Government’s wholesale suspension of our liberties.
A case in point is 38 Degrees, a lobby group that describes itself as “progressive” and claims to “campaign for fairness, defend rights, promote peace, preserve the planet and deepen democracy in the UK”. You’d expect a group that “defends rights” to object to the fact that the UK Government has placed 67 million people under virtual house arrest, but not a bit of it. Like most “progressive” organisations it has enthusiastically sided with the lockdown zealots, giving its unequivocal support to our beloved leader. Indeed, it has just made a special offer to its members – a mask that has your support for the NHS emblazoned across the front (see above). A reader, who’s also a member of 38 Degrees, received this “special offer” via email yesterday:
From this weekend we’ll all be required to wear a face mask. It’s a great way to keep our friends, family and neighbours safe from coronavirus.
But why settle for a plain mask, when you could get one that sends an important message? Today, thousands of us are buying this new mask that helps reduce the spread of Coronavirus and shows our support for the NHS.
Masks like this one usually cost over £9. But you can get one for just a fiver to cover the costs! And if thousands of us buy one and wear it, our message will be clear for all to see: we, the public, love the NHS and want to protect it.
So there you have it folks. If you’re concerned that wearing a face nappy doesn’t send a clear enough message that you’ve abandoned your dignity and are submitting to Britain’s dictatorial regime, you can make it even clearer by wearing a mask emblazoned with pro-NHS propaganda. All courtesy of a human rights organisation that “campaigns for fairness”.
I wonder if, for a little extra money, 38 Degrees could create a mask that administers an electric shock to its wearers if they don’t burst into applause every time Matt Hancock appears on television?
More Dodgy Data?
A lecturer in neuroscience (and a reader of Lockdown Sceptics) has got in touch to point out there’s something a bit fishy about Scotland and Wales’s Covid hospital admissions data:
I noticed that Covid hospital admissions in Wales are not falling as one might expect, while those in Scotland have dropped to zero. Currently, Covid admissions to hospitals in Wales are running at a similar level to those in England, which is strange given the very different populations (and reported deaths).
Admissions figures for patients suspected of having COVID-19 for every nation in the UK are updated daily here. You can infer the length of stay for Covid patients in the different nations by comparing patient totals with daily admissions. Discharges are equal to the change in numbers of patients minus any admissions, and the average length of the stays is approximately equal to (discharged per day)/patients.
For England, the average length of a hospital stay for a Covid patient is just under nine days since the start of the lockdown. This seems reasonable and has been relatively constant.
For Scotland, the data are less current because it stopped reporting admissions after July 9th. Based on the older data, the equivalent calculation gives an average of 40 days. That cannot be right.
For Wales, the data are up-to-date, and give an average stay before discharge of five days. However, this has been falling and for July the average was just 2.6 days.
There are two possible explanations. One is that Scotland has a particularly debilitating and long-lasting form of the virus – COVID-19+ – while Wales has a very short-acting one. On the other hand, Occam would suggest that Covid admissions and patients are being counted differently in the two nations. I suspect that Wales is counting anyone arriving at hospital with an elevated temperature and cough as a “Covid admission”, but only counting patients with a positive Covid test. In contrast, Scotland seems to be significantly undercounting admissions, perhaps by only including patients who arrive with a positive Covid test.
I am sure that it is a complete coincidence that these happen to play into the particular political narratives of the two First Ministers: Sturgeon’s line is “Covid has been banished but we may have to close the border to keep it out”, and Drakeford’s is “Covid is much much worse over here, so we have to keep everything shut”.
Anyway, I thought it was curious, although admittedly not of the jaw-dropping “count everyone as a Covid death whatever they actually died of” PHE variety.
This is curious, to put it mildly. I know it’s hard to compare Covid hospital admissions and fatalities in the UK with those in other countries because of different recording methods, and in some countries, such as the United States, it’s hard to compare regions for the same reason. But I wasn’t aware that the different UK nations used different methods. Is it possible that the Welsh and Scottish governments are choosing to record Covid hospital admissions differently to suit their particular agendas? If any readers can throw more light on this anomaly, please email me here.
More Under-25 Year-Olds Died From Influenza in a 16 Weeks in 2014/15 Than COVID-19 This Year
I’m grateful to a reader for pointing out that I used the wrong table from the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication when comparing deaths from Covid in 2020 with deaths from other causes in previous years a couple of days ago. The table I used compared deaths to July 3rd in 2020 with deaths from other causes in England and Wales over a year, when the table I should have used was the one above, comparing deaths to July 3rd with deaths in England and Wales over a typical 16-week period in previous years.
The data is still pretty startling. For instance, it shows that more under-49 year-olds died of suicide and injury/poisonings in a typical 16-week period in 2018 than Covid in 2020 and fewer under-25 year-olds have died from Covid than from road traffic accidents in a typical 16-week period in previous years.
Round-Up
Here’s a round-up of all the stories I’ve noticed, or which have been been brought to my attention, in the last 24 hours:
- ‘People with treatable cancers will die due to Government scaremongering, warns NHS nurse‘ – A district nurse tells the Telegraph‘s Planet Normal podcast there is “no reason” why routine treatments were paused through lockdown
- ‘Coronavirus lockdown ‘made no difference to number of deaths‘ – The Evening Standard reports on the recent study in the Lancet that I flagged yesterday showing lockdowns around the world had no impact on Covid mortality
- ‘Lockdowns DON’T work, study claims‘ – Ditto, this time in the Mail
- ‘Coronavirus school closures could hit pupils’ earnings for the next FIFTY years, report says‘ – A new report from the Royal Society says the effects of coronavirus school closures could last 50 years
- ‘British tourists are warned air bridges could collapse at short notice leaving them facing 14-day quarantine on return to UK‘ – Yikes! I’m still in Italy
- ‘Why should we be forced to pay for a BBC that portrays Winston Churchill as a mass murdering racist?‘ – Dominic Sandbrook in the Mail poses a good question
- ‘How long will we have to wear masks for?‘ – James Forsyth in the Spectator says no one in the Government has a clue
- ‘Cancel culture takes the fun out of life, says comedian John Cleese‘ – Timely reminder from the great British comedian
- ‘Warning of “cancer deaths tsunami” as disease claims almost 1,000 more lives at home in lockdown‘ – The Telegraph reports on the catastrophic impact of postponing 400,000 cancer checks during lockdown
- ‘We can learn a lot from Amsterdam, where life is blissfully normal‘ – Nice travel piece in the Telegraph. I think I know where I’m going for my next holiday
Theme Tune Suggestions by Readers
Only one today: “Roni Got me Stressed Out” by Chromeo.
Small Businesses That Have Re-Opened
A couple of months ago, Lockdown Sceptics launched a searchable directory of open businesses across the UK. The idea is to celebrate those retail and hospitality businesses that have re-opened, as well as help people find out what has opened in their area. But we need your help to build it, so we’ve created a form you can fill out to tell us about those businesses that have opened near you.
Now that non-essential shops have re-opened – or most of them, anyway – we’re now focusing on pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants, as well as other social venues. As of July 4th, many of them have re-opened too, but not all. Please visit the page and let us know about those brave folk who are doing their bit to get our country back on its feet – particularly if they’re not insisting on face masks! Don’t worry if your entries don’t show up immediately – we need to approve them once you’ve entered the data.
Note to the Good Folk Below the Line
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Gone Fishin’
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Salem 2.0
I thought I’d give my readers something to chew on while I’m away: Salem 2.0: The Return of the Religious Police to the Public Square. This is a book about cancel culture that I’ve been working on for a while now, but which took a back seat during the coronavirus crisis. Hoping to get back to it as the crisis recedes – although that’s happening more slowly than any of us hoped. It’s a work in progress, so don’t expect too much.
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Russia does not persecute gay people – it bans sex propaganda from minors. Unlike the UK where sexuality education about increasingly heterodox ways of living and behaving are promoted. eg Warwickshire’s teaching of 6/7 years olds how to “touch” themselves.
This country is now so ruinously saturated with lying propaganda it is impossible to believe anything we are told or even discover the truth about anything on the planet from UK Media and our politicians – we live in unprecedented times – the Golden Age of the Political Liar has arrived!
Tomorrow the “New Word Order’!
Yes, it’s part of the strategy of the Globalists to destroy the family unit which is what they are doing in the West !
Do you have a source for that claim, just for once?
I disagree: Putin’s opposition to the homosexual and transvestite agendas is one of the ways in which he is superior to our political class.
As with all of these ways to divide us, be aware that the people who are pushing out this woke crap, especially the trans stuff at the moment, do not represent the people they are screeching about, and most of the stuff they are pushing for is not useful for the so-called victims. They are doing it to push extreme-left ideas, confuse the population, cause cognitive dissonance, attract funding from super-criminals, and make people angry enough to turn to the extreme-right (an enemy they need to return). By all means, we should challenge the idiots who are pushing this nonsense, but every minority should be free to live their lives in whatever way they want, so long as it doesn’t harm others. I say this as our politicians try to stir extreme racial hatred towards Russians. Soon enough we might all find ourselves persecuted.
Just how much more Orwellian, (f*cked up), can the UK get than this…
https://www.womenarehuman.com/rape-crisis-centre-selects-male-as-ceo-despite-position-being-open-to-women-only/
We are certainly at the limit – next step over the edge into the Abys.
How “appropriate’ then that we should be led by a philandering Black Comedy clown who has difficulty with the truth and like his father supports World Population reduction Medical Tyranny and Zero Carbon lunacy!
“Cometh the Times cometh the Man!’
It used to be ‘cometh the hour, cometh the man’, so that’s inflation for you!
Yes, yes, the pen is mightier than the sword.
But seriously – the fact that the West appears to think the tweet is mightier than the tank undoubtedly plays a large factor in why Putin rolled into Ukraine in the first place.
We should not only remember our hard won freedoms, we must restore them across the West. Starting in Canada, Australia, Austria, Italy, France and any other Western country that excludes and marginalises people because they hold on to their fundamental right to bodily integrity.
Also in the Telegraph: chief Telegraph bedwetter, Michael Deacon calls Putin a bedwetter. Not sure he understands irony.
He also says the West’s vaccines are better than Russia’s:
As opposed to ‘just useless’ like ours are.
Michael Deacon… What a prick!
Well as “ours” are useless that would indeed make Putin’s worse than useless. But given that “ours” are worse than useless themselves where does that leave Vlad.
I was lead to believe that the Sputnik clot shot was based on stolen intellectual property from Astra Zeneca?
I was lead to believe that the Sputnik clot shot was based on stolen intellectual property from Astra Zeneca?
A pointless theft, the Russians might as well have just injected their people with a motley assortment of known carcinogens, nerve poisons, clotting agents and a splurge of graphene self-assembling micro electronic components that are controlled by 5G.
They already had Novichok, so why did they bother with AZ?
Always has been!
Wouldn’t the combination of a bedwetter and irony result in rust?
Yes, LGBT rights are important but hopefully, very soon, they will be so mainstream no one will mention them again.
LGB rights are already enshrined in the Equalities Act, and rightly so. Homosexuality and Lesbianism has been part of humanity since we first walked upright I would guess. Trans rights too are covered by the act, as individuals. I can respect trans people as individuals, but thats not what they seem to want. They seem to want to have privileges above that, and to impinge on the rights and privileges of others especially women. I have known a number of people who decided to ‘change sex’, full treatment and surgery. Having a beard and balls and a little black dress isn’t that. It is a narcissistic and sociopathic existence, and should not be included with the L, the G and the B. Neither all the rest of the QWERTY+ bits on the end. These are attempting to normalise perversions that are really not normal.
Have things improved since they legalised sexual degeneracy?
Were things better when people were jailed for being honest?
Perversions by what standard? If you accept the L, G & B, from what ‘standard’ is ‘T+’ deviating?
If you feel that you’re L, G or B, then axiomatically, you are. It’s an entirely internalised and subjective state, and as long as they stick to sticking it to other consenting adults, I don’t see why anyone would have a problem with it.
T (and most I) are different, as these are statement of fact that fly in the face of observable physical reality. They require other people to believe something that’s patently untrue, and to accept behaviour that puts them at discomfort, or real risk.
One outlier is P (or MAP, as they’d like to be called). Nonces just require self identification, same as LGB. Given that nonces are inherently predatory, that‘s where we need to keep the moral and legal line firmly drawn.
Please define ‘have a problem with’. In a moral and rational society, homosesexuality and bisexuality ought not be normalised and taught to children as something that is good, something to be celebrated.
So what? By what standard ought ‘Ts’ conform to physical reality? It is a physical reality that reproduction is necessary for the human species to carry on existing, yet on your scheme it doesn’t matter if men and women stop reproducing and the human species ceases to exist. L and G are in rebellion against the very created order responsible for their existence. So what if the ‘Ts’ rebel against physical reality and the creted order?
We have a tension here. Already you have backed yourself into a corner. You cannot, if you want to remain rational, arbitrarily pick and choose which physical realities you accept and which physical realities you reject.
So what if it is patently untrue? By what standard ought they conform to what is true?
1. Why is P an ‘outlier’? L, G & B has its share of predators, so why do they get a swerve?
2. By what standard do we ‘need to keep the moral and legal line firmly drawn’? Is child rape objectively wrong?
Total misunderstanding of trans people.
Are “trans people” a uniform collective? We’re a subject matter expert on that.
Then why don’t you share your understanding instead of downvoting. Its all just opinions. I’m happy to read a few paragraphs if you have some knowledge you’d like to give.
I’d have guessed that more relaxed positions than walking upright would have been responsible.
Talking of Russia… and the big buffoon’s “largest-ever” package of sanctions….
Say it ain’t so!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/teen-who-tracked-elon-musks-private-jet-starts-following-flights-russian-oligarchs
Off topic, but as everyone has forgotten about covid:
Covid Vaccines, Embryogenesis, and LINE-1 RetrotransposonsInsights from PhDs, Anonymous Whistleblower Engineers, and an Ordinary Lab Tech.
The first data dump from Pfizer occurs today. Don’t let the media war distract!
https://themariachiyears.substack.com/p/covid-vaccines-embryogenesis-and?utm_source=url
” Johnson Ukraine hysterics designed to cover poison vaccine revelation”
Headline: if only we still had Free Press
Or, if the News of the Screws were still around:
‘Boris: Vax Whore to War Bore’
We are totally free in the West – provided we make no criticism of the LGBTQ+ agenda.
Or would rather not be vaccinated; or wear a mask; etc. etc …,
After the last two years out doubt whether the British state is very strong on ethics nor for that matter Zelensky’s Ukraine
https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-crisis-what-you-need
https://maajidnawaz.substack.com/p/russia-ukraine-nato-the-eu-and-a?utm_source=url
https://dcweekly.org/2021/12/11/united-states-not-so-secret-bio-weapons-program-in-ukraine-increases-tensions-with-russia/
None of us have freedoms. Or inalienable rights, that much has become clear in the last to years. We are reduced to “freedom from” is we comply rather than the pure freedom to, regardless.
When they force through their Bill of Rights we will have no protection of ‘bodily integrity ‘ ( Nuremberg) and no freedoms at all thar cannot be removed at their whim., Their plans violate the most basic Common Law , Magna Carta protection and the 1688 Bill of Rights- Lawyers Wake Up!
It seems that Magna Carta did indeed die in vain.
A neat parallel with ‘died from’ or ‘died with’ and so entirely fashionable.
So MI6 is now yet another political organisation ! Just what we need, more politicians!
If that is the pinnacle of our ‘achievements’ as a nation, then I’ll take Russian citizenship all day long.
In truth, the head of MI6 is a virtue signalling, attenion-seeking waste of space who is talking utter garbage.
According to this quick search and scan online via duckduckgo… Ukraine don’t even have legal LGBT rights – or espouse them in the media.
https://ukraineworld.org/articles/ukraine-explained/ukraine-lgbt-rights
Not unlike Tony Radakin, the 24th Chief of the Defence Staff.
God help us…
The central point about Western freedom is that it is a condition of all living.
What western freedoms would they be Mr Moore ? You mean the ones we so eagerly ditched in return for a government promise that it could save us all from a virus? Because to be honest, I haven’t seen much of these much vaunted freedoms around lately that we claim to hold dear .. especially in places like Canada, Australia, New Zealand and even here in Britain where over these last two years our freedoms have been eroded so much so that I was planning on leaving simply to get away from the creepng authoritarianism that appears to have had been adopted throughout the UK and across most of the western liberal democracies since 2020.
Western freedoms?
Don’t make me laugh!
The central point about western freedom now seems to be that its a condition on you doing what the government tells you to do or they are taken away from you until you comply.
Thats western freedom for you.
https://off-guardian.org/2022/02/28/uk-govt-to-make-some-covid-laws-permanent/
Stealth Tyranny!
Yes this last to be confirmed by their iniquitous new Bill of Rights and their signing over of our Health Policy to the WHO and Gates.
Hear, hear.
One does get the impression that Charles Moore departs only a fraction from most of the mainstream orthodoxy, which is disappointing. But, I suppose he’s undergone the same two years of psy-ops as the rest of us…
If celebrating LGBTQIAP+ nonsense is what makes the West great, then we’re a degenerate and silly civilisation that will soon be cast into the dustbin of history.
Even as an issue of personal freedom, it’s like celebrating morbidly obese people or alcoholics. These are not the people that used their freedom to achieve great things. They take the seed of human life, the sacred seed that creates babies, and they inseminate members of the same sex with it by putting it in the same place they go to the toilet. The result is a degenerate sub-culture that glorifies sexual release as the be all and end all of sex. One of the results is AIDS, a disease they share with other Sodomites and drug addicts.
To accommodate this peoples use of their freedoms we tell ourselves the fiction that they are “born that way”. We invented the terms “homosexual” and “heterosexual” and forced a change in society’s attitude from something you did to something you were. It shows how ignorant and disinterested we are that we don’t realise that whilst same sex gratification existed in other cultures there was never any question of a person being born homosexual. It’s biologically laughable. “Homosexual” behavior had always been classified as something people did for gratification with their essential bodily functions, like drinking alcohol or smoking. To argue that it’s an intrinsic or immutable trait just doesn’t make any sense and it denies the existence of people that just stop behaving that way and go on to start families and have kids of their own.
The problem is that once you are forced to accept such a lie it doesn’t stop there. The next level is you have to accept that a biological male or female has a “gender” that is separate from their biological sex. You actually have to say that the person is what they demand to be called otherwise you can lose your job or even be charged with a hate crime. This isn’t freedom when it encroaches on the lives of others, it’s a monolithic corruption that demands you assimilate to it. Demands that you say 2+2=5.
Gay rights are something many of us have tolerated because they don’t violate the non-aggression principle. In the end it’s your business what you do with your body as long as it doesn’t harm anyone else. Apart from spreading diseases I think it’s up to you what you do. But when that wasn’t enough and they started pushing their twisted trans-ideology on kids and mutilating them with hormones and surgery, then maybe it’s gone too far. It has an authoritarianism and degeneracy of it’s own that needs to be pushed back against.
Seems the Westboro Baptists have arrived…
Calling people names is not an argument.
Satire dear boy. “a degenerate sub-culture” is hardly kind. Or constructive argument.
I constructed my argument in the rest of my writing. It has nothing to do with the ideology of the Westboro Baptists or any other religious underpinnings.
If the sex that produces human life can be characterised as “generative”, producing generation after generation, then “homosexual” behaviour is the definition of degeneracy.
Convoluted garbage but at 10 to 1 in the morning I have neither the time nor patience to take this rubbish apart.
I do find some of your comments offensive.
The amount of downvotes prove that there’s a whole lot of homophobes on this site.
Not necessarily causality, PM66. They could just dislike your posts. And that’s not even allowing for the phantom downvoters who treat it like a hobby.
Please define ‘homophobe’, point to anything Matt Mounsey said that fits the definition, and then articulate why ‘homophobia’ is ‘wrong’ and by what standard.
The term “homophobia” (or any other political abuse of the word phobia) is a weasel word intended to lock out any debate and empower those that hurl it with a sense of moral superiority.
It also presupposes that there is no argument to be had because the opponent is suffering from a lack of mental capacity. What the empowered never acknowledge is that by refusing to examine their own ideas and actually come up with some arguments for them, it is they that have the mental impediment. They are living in denial.
Well, it’s not that time any more and I’ve further replied below. Let’s see your arguments take either of them apart.
They say that the most anti gay in society are repressing their true sexuality. In that case Matt it’s about time you accepted who you really are and start celebrating your homosexuality.
Any excuse for a party?
They say that the most anti-child rape in society are repressing their true sexuality. In that case it’s about time you accepted who you really are and started celebrating your paedophilia.
First, I think it’s important to define your terms. I deny that homosexuality exists, not that people don’t engage in acts of sexual gratification with members of the same sex. I just think that these are acts of volition, not that you’re somehow born that way and compelled to follow through.
What is homosexuality? It’s the ideology that a biological male or female, let’s take male for example, with male biological sex and the reproductive apparatus (penis and sperm) can by some mental or developmental issue be born to have sexual relations with other men, not women. They have a different “sexuality” or “sexual orientation”. This orientation is not defined by the sexual process (which ends for them at ejaculation) but by the object of attraction.
The problem with this is that it could be extended to any object of fixation – and it is. There are people that are attracted to and ejaculate into cuddly toys. Do they have a cuddly toy sexual orientation? Why not apply it to any inanimate object? They’re stuck there for life with that “orientation”. Nothing they can do about it.
It shouldn’t take long to realise how absurd this is. It takes a biological process, like nutrition and excretion or respiration, and it uses the first part of that process for the gratification element. Similar to inhaling smoke or swallowing alcohol, the respiration and digestion processes are not engaged. In “homosexual” relations or cuddly toy relations the sexual process is not engaged because those objects do not have “sexual” potential. They do not have reproductive potential.
Now, you can read that and just say haha, that means you’re gay! Like a child. Or you can actually deal with the substance of the issue. You can say “they say” or you can say something yourself. The terms “homosexual” and “gay” are fabricated out of whole cloth in our society to accommodate a behavioral issue. It always was a behavioral issue before we started kidding ourselves.
The term that people most often use to fall back on is “bisexual”. They say we’re all bisexual. This is an equally silly term. But interestingly, there is far more growth in the LGBT community among the “bisexuals” than any other group. That’s because the behavior has lost its stigma, not because sexual orientation ideology has any truth to it.
I wonder how the Azov brigade are with LGBT rights?
Zelensky’s on board. Check him out in his music video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgOSrw9Q8rc
Real presidential material. Maybe Vlad’s got a point?
The west have no problem with the Azov regiment or their views:
“On December 16, 2021, only the US and Ukraine voted against a United Nations resolution condemning the “glorification of Nazism,” while the United Kingdom, EU, Australia, NZ and Canada abstained.”
Seems like our “leaders” have no boundaries when it comes to breath-taking hypocrisy.
No boundaries indeed – not even the backing of the runic insignia of SS 2nd Panzer Division “Das Reich” ( Oradour sur Glane June 1944) worn by the Azov regiment, very good at shelling civilians in Donbass.
I should imagine they hunt them down. But hasn’t Johnson declared his total support for the Militias? Truss wants to go and fight alongside them – Crowd Fund for the ticket anyone?
I will definitely contribute to any fund which will equip any of our MP’s who wish to go and fight in the Ukraine.
And I don’t care which side they fight on.
And so, as the sun sets on a once wonderful, though flawed, civilisation… ‘C’ will hopefully turn the lights off as he leaves the building, having tweeted our surrender.
Now that Parliament has granted the security services the ability to break any law they fancy, I hope to be offed with a standard issue rainbow coloured Walther PPK. The sooner the better. Please join me!
LGBT ‘rights’ have become weaponised against the UKs Christians.
What people get up to behind closed doors is their business, but stop imposing your militant homosexuality on us.
Deconstruction of heterosexual ‘ default normality’ seems to be the objective and with it Bourgeois Society – all in the Reset Plan.
Useful tool in long term population reduction in the West too?
‘Useful tool’ and ‘population reduction’ would seem to be mutually exclusive terms, surely?
“we should remember the values and hard won freedoms that distinguish us from Putin, none more than LGBT+ rights.”
[Emphasis mine]
Wot? Are these people actually insane? And this is the head of M16?
And we had the Defence Secretary bragging about us being able to kick Russia’s arse.
Lordy!
I think they must be putting something in the water.
We have SNP comparing the attempt by the SNP to get a majority in an IndyRef (and failing) with Ukraine’s fight to remain independent in the face of Russian warfare. We have all sorts of others comparing their particular pet interest with Ukraine and now a supposedly intelligent, politically alert, senior and well paid leader of a critical organisation, comes out with this tripe.
Is there any hope for us?
It’s not looking very good. The only way is down, it seems.
Humanity has well and truly lost it.
Covid hysteria, war in the Ukraine, demands for LGBT+ rights, eco fanatics glueing their hands to roads, you can now choose your own gender, etc., etc. Nervous breakdown territory.
It’s all too much. Beam me up Scotty.
Yes. Full-steam-ahead and no hand-signals.
The West has well and truly lost it…or is it being been deliberately taken down?
Since he had the technology, Scotty has already ‘left the building’.
Personal freedom? Lgbtq whatever rights? I must laugh. You mean 2 years of coercion? Mandating medical procedure you don’t need? Constant coercion? Violating your basic rights by green pass? Piss off richard moore with your utter nonsense.
The West is an increasingly degenerate multyculty shizer hole.
Free speech is continually throttled lest you offend a member of the mujahadeen or some gender queer mental case.
Your kids will leave school illiterate but they will know that the world will end next Wednesay because of climate change.
Going into any town or city is like taking a trip to the third world.
Soon many will be unable to afford to heat their stupidly expensive homes.
In Richard Moore’s defence, his team probably brainstormed a list of about 20 freedom examples that used to separate us from Russia.
Then they started crossing off anything that had been arbitrarily withdrawn by our unhinged psychopathic “leaders” over the last two years (nod to Will).
LGBT+ is probably all they had left on the list.
Boris has announced that from now on the Queen will be getting a 21 bum salute to mark her birthday as anything less would be homophobic.
Lines of unequal lengths? How unmilitary!
No it isn’t a “good piece”. It stinks. Vladimir Putin espouses the type of traditional conservative values which used to be the bedrock of our society but which have been long abandoned by successive British governments.
“[The} tweet trivialises the evil that Putin embodies – a tyranny attacking all human dignity and all human choice.”
Where has Charles Moore – the quintessential establishment stooge – been over the last two years?
I don’t recall him calling out western “leaders” as evil or accusing them of attacking human dignity and choice.
The silence is deafening Mr Moore, but your hypocrisy is staggering.
Moore is turning into one of those worried Aristocrats, who while “tut tutting’ the brutal crushing of freedom and democracy in Germany and the rise of Hitler’s totalitarianism and persecution of dissenters and the Jews … of course understood the point the Germans were making …and poured himself another port.
His ‘class’ must have received a “Keep Your Heads Down and Mouths Shut until we get there” memo.
Moore shares a Club with Johnson.
I share your puzzlement. See earlier post.
We need to discuss this. This gets to the heart of what is rotten about our society. This virtue signalling waste of space is saying, of all the ‘hard won freedoms that distinguish us from Putin’, the perverse LGB’T”+’ ‘rights’ is the pinnacle.
This of necessity raises some questions. What does ‘LGBT+ rights’ mean, exactly, and what is the plus? Is it open-ended? Can the waste of a good suit articulate all that the plus entails?
A ten spot says he can’t. So is he willing to affirm this undefined and undefinable plus when it inevitably leads to something even he won’t be able to stomach?
So, what is an LGB ‘right’? (Forget the ‘T’ and the ‘+’ – they are (for now) phantoms. Figments of the imagination. Moreover, the ‘T’ is a fundamental denial of the L, G & B.) The ‘right’ to participate in the sacred bond of marriage, that God-ordained union of a man and a woman? On a properly grounded conservatism, No. The right not to be killed or persecuted for their sexuality? On a properly grounded conservatism, Absolutely.
Of course, there are many things in between which need to be discussed, but the point is that, in any rational society, we would not merely assert ‘LGBT+ rights’ as if it is a self-evident truth, with no nuance given, no discussion, just a dogmatic assertion which by its very nature does not invite, and is not open to, discussion.
The ‘head of MI6’ presents himself as nothing more than a dogmatic activist, yet, when push comes to shove, he would be hard pressed to articulate his dogmas let alone defend them.
But of course, defending their beliefs is not something neo-leftists do, or believe they ought to do. It’s a constant free ride for these charlatans.
Very good points.
Never was sure about Number 10.
“rights”
Did Savile? He apparently did. He definitely had “influence”, and that translated into a essential “right” to do the things he did, without being held to account.
So … how about the following?
Between 1982 and 1990 in the UK, there were a string of 25 bizarre and inexplicable deaths of male scientists and engineers working for Britain’s General Electric Company (GEC) on highly-classified defense programs. Investigations at the time universally classified them as “suicides” (even though by ’87, they were beginning to look suspiciously like covertly-disguised murders – or perhaps, some form of “manslaughter”.)
One characteristic was that each victim had been under incredible stress, but possibly because of intense security, was unable to get it off his chest.
Toward the end of it, four of the victims had accepted new employment just days before their deaths, and had just made appointments to speak with their Members of Parliament.
To cite an author of an article on the deaths, each of the four had told family and friends that they’d been given “‘strange”, “impossible” and “unscientific” tasks by their supervisors.
Occam’s Razor indicates that an homosexual sadomasochistic sex ring was operating, and it was very-tightly “protected”.
What does that have to do with today? Research Herbert Marcuse, and then the content and openly-stated purposes of the Gay Liberation manifestos of the early ’70s.
(If you have the stomach, dig into the history of the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village, late-Sixties. The left-wing Village Voice exposed how the riots started, and how they were run. The rioters threatened to burn the newspaper’s offices.)
I hope someone comes along and yells … “Hey! GE’s an AMERICAN company!”
It might help to notice that those slamming Putin for anti-Querty are the same who elevated Pussy Riot in the cathedral to an act of “Worship”.
I suggest, look at what else they also wish to destroy.
It was known 15+ years ago that Putin’s mother had remained steadfast Russian Orthodox during the Soviet years, and that he was 100% on her side. The “Liberal/Progressive” crowd openly and loudly cheered Pussy Riot, and damned Putin to hell for his reaction to them.
I haven’t verified this, but I’m willing to bet it’s legitimate. The voice, with its affected Sista’s drawl, is perfect, and, while she is asked to put it in layman’s terms, Harris, intellectual powerhouse that she is, replies:
“Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country, Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine, so, basically that’s wrong.”
https://gettr.com/post/pxnl5d77bc
Now what do we have here? Is she dumb? Well, we know she’s pretty dumb, but is that the whole story? Is she so unskilled at dealing with ordinary people that she can’t help talking to them as if they are toddlers? Does she think they’re no more advanced than toddlers? All three? More?
Answers on a bloody postcard
(not intending to downgrade the imbecility of her statement) … Were you aware that, while she was DA of Alameda County, across the Bay from San Fran, she was Willy Brown’s mistress.
In his time as a legislator, Brown was known as the most powerful politician in California. The quip was that he could walk into a banquet with his wife on one arm and his mistress on the other.
He appointed Harris to two State boards. Neither required much work and/or attendance. One paid her in excess of $70K/year. I forget what the other paid.
If being a whore is defined by taking money for sex, then Kamala Harris is one.
Guess what? … During the election, American voters thought little or nothing of it.
My parents America is dead, and will never return.
I am indeed aware of this, though more the peripheries than the intricacies, and of course this doesn’t detract from the fraud’s stupidity. In fact, it offers valuable insight into how such a dumb specimen came to achieve high (the second highest, if you please!) office.
It was a complicated election. Yes, there was undoubtedly vote fraud. It’s become habitual in certain Democratic “locations”. But there was also a massive rejection of DT. I voted for Trump because I knew entirely too much about JB and KH. (JB’s been an open book for decades, and my father lived in Sacramento while Willy Brown was active.)
In the end, the 2020 election was like the classic clown act at America’s Ringling Brothers’ circus. The sputtering car roars around the arena, then into the center ring. 47 clowns crawl out and race around the ring doing stupid things to each other.
The international bottom line seems to be that we’re electing celebrities, instead of leaders. Social media rules the roost. What was the 30 second attention span back when TV came into vogue, has become the 5 second attention span.
Pogo said it. “We have met the enemy, and they are us.”
They hold us in contempt. They hold children in contempt. They are not afraid of displaying their contempt.
So this is now the philosophical ‘Great Debate’ and pitch for the ‘High Moral Ground’ from the newly ‘politically engaged’ M16
Putin is currently facing down Ukrainian Nationalist Militia who proudly wear SS Insignia and daily shell towns and villages in Western Ukraine inhabited by Russian civilans while the UK is putting down the banner for LBGT rights.
No further comment required.
I saw SS insignia openly on display during the Euromaidan protests. I was horrified – and waited for the international protests. Surely people knew what the SS had done – in the Ukraine, in Russia and elsewhere.
Then I discovered that they were the good guys who had helped bring about a Revolution of Dignity. They were supporting “dignity”, not looking to settle unfinished business with those who had pushed the Nazis out of the Ukraine.
Now the Russians are the villains and they are the ones we must defend.
How much bloody lower can we go?
We have a war in Europe and the head of our intelligence service sees fit to pontificate on sexual rights. And we are paying this prick from the public purse.
I duckin well despair.
What a shit hole we have become!
Surely Russia’s depiction of trans anything as ‘monstrous’ puts them ahead of us in the reality stakes?
Cancel me I don’t care.
Pretty much the only right we have left in the UK is to have a penis inserted into your bum hole.
Well, be fair, you are also allowed to have offensive objects poked up your nose!
Well said Charles Moore. That comment from the head of MI6 made me despair
UK Column looks at Moore’s rather bizarre statement and behind all the gobbelian propaganda being pumped out by the U.K./ international bankers controlled MSM which all to a man and woman supported all the aggressive wars against Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia and the coups plus economic blockades against Venezuela.
Oh yes, must do forget their support for clotshots!
https://www.ukcolumn.org/ukcolumn-news/uk-column-news-28th-february-2022
Is it possible to agree that respecting LGBT rights is important while wondering about the necessity of having the entrance to our government’s nerve centre adorned like a Barry Manilow tribute float at carnival?
The main thing that distinguishes us now from Putin’s Russia is our delusions that we are uniquely moral.
LGBT Rights? What are these and why don’t the rest of the population have them?