And Finally…
In this week’s episode of London Calling, James and I discuss the recent easing of travel restrictions (unless you’re unvaccinated), my unsuccessful stalking adventure in Scotland, the new Sharpe novel by Bernard Cornwell, Purgatory’s Shore, the sequel to Taylor Anderson’s Destroyermen series, and Irwin Shaw’s Young Lions, which James loves.
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Toby correct, for me, on the appeal of the “Team James/Team Toby” dynamic. That is one of the main appeals of London Calling imo:
“That seems to be what interests people more than anything else, I think partly because a lot of people are struggling with that very issue themselves, and can’t work out the extent to which it’s an organised conspiracy and the extent to which it’s just an endless series of cockups“.
Frankly I think anybody who thinks he knows with any certainty what the whole truth is on this issue is deluding himself.
I read a novel years ago, published before 2001, about a fictionalised New World Order takeover. What’s striking about it is that the world imagined in the dystopian nightmare they portray seems to me to be in some ways not as bad as some of the horrors that have happened in the last couple of years. (and worse to come if Dr. Mike Yeadon is correct). There was more of a resistance in this book for a start. Of course I don’t know the whole truth of what is happening now, and perhaps never will, but I am fairly sure that some of the things that are happening have been warned about in the past.
What happened to Mike Yeadon? Established his paradise for the unvaccinated in Zanzibar? Somewhere off the coast of East Africa?
I expect it’s a bit boring there – palm trees, waves crashing on the beach, fish for supper. Fish for breakfast. Fish for lunch.
Somali pirates. No trips by train. No walking in the English countryside along footpaths, no walking along canal towpaths. Weather always hot and sticky. No old pubs, ancient churches and cathedrals, or steam railways to visit. Airport five days ride along rough roads in a jeep.
Nothing to read, nothing on the television. No Waitrose. No Christmas turkey, just another coconut.
“What happened to Mike Yeadon?”
I believe he didn’t feel it was safe for him and his family in the UK any more, so he moved to the US.
Florida, I would guess, where he is able to continue to warn.
Dr Yeadon, at the expense of income, a quiet, easy life and unstressed leisure, stood up and spoke up – and still speaks up – for what he believes to be true. He might not have it all right, but he took a stand despite damage to himself for principle.
And you, Emerald Fox, haven’t even the guts to post under your own name.
You silly little sausage.
He posts multiple times daily on Telegram for starters.
He & Monotti have a dedicated channel with over 50,000 fol
Obviously he’s shadowbanned / blocked from low information channels like You’re a Tube etc.
https://t.me/robinmg
Oh he might find steam railways if he makes it to Eritrea.
Of course no-one knows the whole truth but to me “cock up” implies that the people driving this in the main sincerely believe the measures they are taking are going to help, and that just doesn’t wash with me.
“The people driving this” rather begs the question, though, doesn’t it? Many of the people actually driving this – the scientists who push fearful studies and give over-cautious advice, and who viciously attack their colleagues personally and professionally on social media if they step out of fearmongering line, the administrators and managers who enthusiastically impose and enforce totalitarian policies, the media journalists and editors who push scare propaganda and the celebrities who provide them with appropriate virtue signalling advice, etc, surely in many if not most cases have convinced themselves that they are the good guys. And if you say “ah but they aren’t the prime movers” – your Gates and your big money corporates etc, then you are into precisely the kind of speculation I was referring to. You can make plausible arguments based on cui bono and on stated plans and wishes, but little of it adds up to certainty, imo, and what does, does not amount to sufficient evidence to claim proof of a world-controlling organised conspiracy (the “conspiracy” end equivalent of claiming “it’s all cockup and there is nothing at all nefarious going on” at the cockup end). The truth is still most likely in the… Read more »
I was mainly thinking about the senior politicians and SAGE. I struggle to believe they don’t know they are lying.
The conspiracy IMO is mainly one of knowingly prolonging the “pandemic” in an opportunist power grab.
There are certainly things that many powerful people will collaborate on and are known to do so – eugenics, population control and such like. (And Charles Dicken’s warning about it in A Christmas Carol remains as relevant as ever.
If anyone still thinks this is a series of cockups isn’t thinking at all.
The main appeal for me are the cover images that accompany the podcasts. This one is a prime example. The trouble they’ve gone to in order to create that image – the hiring of the period costumes, paying all the extras in the background etc., it’s really impressive!
“We have to keep it fairly PG. So no incitement of mob violence, no comparisons to Nazis. That’s too X-rated James.” Avoiding direct incitements to violence is clearly necessary, but the “calling people Nazis” taboo is another social taboo that seems a little overplayed these days. Anybody over a certain age who was not a raging socialist most likely grew up being regularly accused of being a “Nazi” or a “Fascist” by some shallow, immature leftist, just for not agreeing with him or her over some arcane detail of class warfare, and many of the people on the left objecting to the use of Nazi comparisons for “vaccine” totalitarians were perfectly happy for Trump to be called a Nazi basically for, again, disagreeing with their holy writs. For sure it is controversial. But plenty of opponents of lockdown and of “vaccine” coercion believe and quite cogently argue that the perpetrators of the nastier aspects of these policies – especially the active, public discrimination against and scapegoating of dissidents in the most vituperative and demonising terms – are comparable with Nazi behaviours and attitudes. Bearing in mind that when people voted for the Nazi Party in the 1920s and early 1930s… Read more »
Yes indeed. One of my work colleagues compared me to Hitler fairly recently.
But I’d guess you don’t think too highly of Marx and that basically means you cannot be a National Socialist.
I don’t know much about Marx, TBH, though the results of supposedly applied Marxism have not been all that appealing. But no, I wouldn’t consider myself a Nazi. Very much a moderate, or I was before the supposedly “moderate” centre got hijacked by what seem like crazed extremist views to me….
We need to resist the Covid nonsense with the following events https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f978.svg Friday 8th October 11amhttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f978.svg Parade through Wokingham Town Centre with signs and strange masks like in Edinburgh above – please bring your carnival/Guy Fawkes/Fancy Dress masks and overalls if you have them Meet in the Cockpit Path car park in the centre of the town RG40 2HD https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/2764.svg Saturday 16th October 1pmhttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/2764.svg MEGA Hold the Line Stand by the Road event – followed by walk to the Town Centre Combined Berks/Bucks/Oxon/Surrey/Hants Bring your Yellow Boards and other banners – Stafferton Way Maidenhead SL6 1AY https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f388.svgSaturday 30th October 2pm https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f388.svg SPECIAL STAND IN THE PARK WINDSOR Alexander Park (near Bandstand) Stand in the Park Barry Rd/Goswell Rd Windsor SL4 1QY Stand in the Park 2pm followed by walk to Stand in the Town Centre around 3pm About 2 hours in total. https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1ee-1f1f9.svg Saturday 13th November 2pm https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1ee-1f1f9.svg NEW EVENT – we enjoyed it so much Reading its happening again!! BERKSHIRE RALLY FOR FREEDOM – rain not guaranteed Forbury Gardens Reading Super Stand in the Park 2pm followed by walk to Reading town centre around 3pm About 2 hours in total. https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1ee-1f1f9.svg No Green Pass https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1ee-1f1f9.svg Stand in the Park Make friends – keep… Read more »
We need to resist the COVID nonsense with the following events Friday 8th October 11am Parade through Wokingham Town Centre with signs and strange masks like in Edinburgh above – please bring your carnival/Guy Fawkes/Fancy Dress masks and overalls if you have them Meet in the Cockpit Path car park in the centre of the town RG40 2HD Saturday 16th October 1pm MEGA Hold the Line Stand by the Road event – followed by walk to the Town Centre Combined Berks/Bucks/Oxon/Surrey/Hants Bring your Yellow Boards and other banners – Stafferton Way Maidenhead SL6 1AY Saturday 30th October 2pm SPECIAL STAND IN THE PARK WINDSOR Alexander Park (near Bandstand) Stand in the Park Barry Rd/Goswell Rd Windsor SL4 1QY Stand in the Park 2pm followed by walk to Stand in the Town Centre around 3pm About 2 hours in total. Saturday 13th November 2pm NEW EVENT – we enjoyed it so much Reading its happening again!! BERKSHIRE RALLY FOR FREEDOM – rain not guaranteed Forbury Gardens Reading Super Stand in the Park 2pm followed by walk to Reading town centre around 3pm About 2 hours in total. Stand in the Park Make friends – keep sane – talk freedom and have a laugh Wokingham Howard… Read more »
“please bring your carnival/Guy Fawkes/Fancy Dress masks and overalls if you have them”
Why? So that you look more like a ‘conspiracy nutter’? Meanwhile, the Welsh Parliament votes Yes to Vaccine Passes, and then Boris says “Well, if Scotland and Wales have them, we should also, for ‘long term safety’ of our citizens”.
Today is the twelfth day of jabbing kids in schools in the UK.
. . .”– please bring your carnival/Guy Fawkes/Fancy Dress masks and overalls if you have them. . .”
LS,
I’m inclined to agree with Emerald Fox’s comment. Think of the protest groups that routinely use fancy dress: top of the list is Extinction Rebellion. In the minds of the public, you risk being associated with their antics and being dismissed as a bunch of nutters. I admire hugely all that you’re doing to organise, promote and attend these events – but if you’re to ‘win the hearts and minds’ of Joe Public – then fancy dress is an absolute no-no. Just my £0.02p worth! 😉
The UK’s COVID Testing Extremism Testing in the UK is a serious industry. And some people are making a lot of money from it. There are about 250,000 positive tests a week in the UK, according to Worldometer’s reporting*. This level was reached in July 2021, and it has fluctuated around this figure since then. The proportion of tests which are positive is currently about 4.5%, according to the Office of National Statistics. That means, in round terms, there are around 5 million tests carried out each week. Typically, tests cost around £65, even if carried out at home. (The Government’s list of providers shows some as low as £20, but in my experience, when you ‘click through’ to those providers, only more expensive tests are available.) The most expensive can be as much as £500. Using the figure of £65, this means that perhaps £325 million is paid out each week for tests, around £1.4 billion per month. £16.9 billion annualised. This is paid by us – the ordinary people, and businesses. It is not paid from taxes. It is not tax-deductible, and as far as I know, it’s subject to VAT. (There are very few… Read more »
Apologies – formatting of the table undone by the system.