The MSM – ‘professionally’ not reporting important news

 

There’s covid, there’s France, there are The Troubles – and then there’s a tiny piece woke to have a giggle about. These news items all serve, yet again, to demonstrate the professional decline of our MSM. 

Let’s start with covid – yes, I know, it’s getting more tedious by the day but some of the utterances of yon Matt and of the SAGEs must be looked at and kept for the record. In the DT Ms Knapton has written a report on the modelling driving BJ’s ‘policies’. She quotes Ferguson who spoke in a radio interview, the gist of it being that there might be more hospitalisations if the muzzle- and anti-social distancing were to be dropped, jabs notwithstanding (paywalled link). 

Next, Ferguson admits, through gritted teeth, that the covid situation is becoming ‘normal’, with the caution that it could become ‘very bad’ again. This comes under ‘just in case, so I can say ‘I toldya’:

“We now need to have much higher levels of infection in society in order to risk overwhelming the NHS, and we think that it’s actually unlikely to happen unless a variant comes along which resets that relationship again,” (paywalled link)

And finally the weaselling out, the point which has to be kept on record in case the covid emperors, a.ka. BJ and Hancock, indulge in backsliding. This is also important when NHS chiefs and Labour politicians come back wailing that they need more money. Ferguson said:

“We do expect transmission and to some extent hospitalisations and deaths in late summer if we completely go back to normal, but at a much lower level that we saw back in December and January. We don’t see any prospect of the NHS being overwhelmed.”  (paywalled link)

Ah – so we no longer need to save ‘our sacred cow’? Meanwhile, the vaccine machine is gearing up for more of the same. The covid tsars are now working on ‘inviting the over 50s’ for a third ‘booster’ jab in autumn (link, paywalled; link), alleging that mixing the jabs might give better results. It looks to me though as if this is an attempt to let vaccine producers who’ve come late to the table will also get a slice of the cake (link). 

The price for an utterly inane graph though goes to the DT. They reproduced a graph from Imperial College showing a fearsome rise in deaths, titled: “Modelled deaths could begin to rise from autumn” (paywalled link). Yes, “we” must be afraid of ‘modelled’ deaths – you couldn’t make it up! Reality is clearly irrelevant inside the covid bunker. Rounding up the covid saga, take a look at this report in LockdownSceptics, on a SAGE professor reminding politicians that demanding vaccine passports might lead to people refusing the jab. We peasants are just soo pigheaded and unreasonable …!

Well, those passports will be needed for travelling to that holiday in France – but frankly, why would anyone want to do so when French politicians are now trying to blackmail the government about fishing ‘rights’! When a French minister threatens to shut down the electricity supply to Jersey unless French fishermen get what they want – now! – then surely it’s totally unpatriotic to go to France for that summer holiday, non? The DT’s Remain correspondent lovingly quotes the French minister: 

“On Friday, the UK authorised 41 ships to fish in waters off Jersey. The French fisheries ministry said this was accompanied by new demands “which were not arranged or discussed, and which we were not notified about”. The new measures set out “where the ships can go and cannot go”, as well as the number of days the fishermen can spend at sea and using what machinery, the ministry claimed. “This is absolutely unacceptable,” Ms Girardin said. “If we accept this for Jersey, it would imperil our access everywhere.” (paywalled link)

Oh dear. We need to go to RemainCentral to read what this ‘unacceptable demand’ is about:

“The British authorities are demanding electronic logging evidence, but few French vessels measuring less than 12 metres in length have electronic systems, meaning they have been unable to obtain licences. […] In a statement, Jersey’s government said it had “issued licences in line with the UK-EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement, and in line with the data submitted by the French and EU authorities”.” (link, paywalled)

One might of course ask why the French government didn’t see fit to support their own fishermen with a grant to install those electronic systems, but the next quote shows why the Macron ministers wouldn’t, why they’d rather stamp their feet:

“Clément Beaune, the Europe minister, warned that Paris could prevent British financial services firms from receiving authorisations to operate on the Continent if the government continued to keep small French boats out of UK waters.” (link, paywalled)

It’s clearly not about a few fish or even about French fishermen – it’s about Macron’s dream to punish us for Brexit by waging war on the City, on our financial services industry. Yes, travelling to France can be regarded as an unpatriotic act – but then Remain was never patriotic.

And so to the Troubles, to the collapse of the trial against the two veteran soldiers. The DM has two reports – here and here. There’s this paywalled report in the DT and here’s the report in the Times. They all write that the judge told the court that the evidence by the prosecution was inadmissible. The judge’s reasoning is important:

“The first statements given by Soldiers A and C were made without the presence of lawyers and not under caution. The soldiers also had no option to refuse to cooperate because such insubordination could have ended their military careers. In other words, the rules that apply to criminal suspects, allowing them the full protection of the law, did not apply to troops serving in Northern Ireland at the start of the Troubles. In secondary interviews with the HET Soldier A, who had suffered a stroke and resulting memory loss, could not add to his recollection from 1972 and Soldier C had little further to say. Moreover, the HET [Historical Enquiry Team] statements had been made under caution but the soldiers were not told they were being investigated for murder and thought they were helping out the McCann family. Mr Justice O’Hara consequently ruled that neither the 1972 or 2010 interviews were admissible. Without them the prosecution had no case.” (paywalled link)

So far so good – but then there’s this extraordinary piece of information which the ‘great and good’ dealing with this collapsed case, condemning the prosecution, surely must have known. The legal representatives for the two soldiers had already made submissions in 2016, stating that the evidence – now thrown out by the judge – was inadmissible. However:

“Barra McGrory, the Northern Ireland’s director of public prosecutions, went ahead with the case. He had represented the Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and Adams’s colleague Martin McGuinness while running a private practice and also played a role in securing amnesty for hundreds of people suspected of being IRA members.” (link, paywalled)

Yes, that’s correct: the NI director of public prosecution was a former IRA lawyer. Do we really believe that nobody – not Mr Mercer, not any of the various lawyers involved –  had any idea that the persecution – not prosecution! – of those and other veterans were instigated by an IRA representative?

Has it come to this, that former IRA and other paramilitary killers of British soldiers can rest safely, having obtained amnesty, have leeway to persecute – not prosecute! – those who did their duty as demanded by the British government? Obviously, it has also come to this that our intrepid reporters were yet again derelict in their duty to inform by keeping this allegiance of the NI DPP out of their various reports. Why?

I leave you with a tiny piece of giggle-worthy woke. The Times writes about one (!) study, of skeletons found in Henry VIII’s “Mary Rose” (link, paywalled). This study, analysing bone and tooth isotopes, having looked at eight (!) skeletons, found that three (!) of them could have been ‘born far from England’. Therefore, they concluded that – yes, you guessed it! – Tudor society was ‘multi-racial’. 

The proverbial biscuit goes to the analysis of the skeleton of an archer found with a longbow at his side. His teeth show that he might have been from North Africa. Oh dear. How someone in North Africa could train to be a longbow archer – no, I dunno either. Surely his skeleton should’ve shown the distinctive changes which are found in all proper logbowmen? Perhaps the archers we know about from Agincourt were not Welsh after all but – Africans? Perhaps even – slaves? Crikey. We really should be told! 

 

KBO!

 

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