My reaction when checking today’s “News” …
Take your pick to indulge in a bit of outrage: “Strep A Death of Six Children” or ‘Matt Hancock’s Diaries’ – these are the ‘problems’ facing the nation, according to the headlines in this morning’s dead tree MSM (link). Only The Star is out of step, warning of a Christmas ‘without chipolatas’. It’s all so very cosy, isn’t it, now that “we” have had our fill of ‘Racism at the Court’ and before England playing at yon footie thingie tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the nurses will strike on the 15th and 20th of this month. It’s interesting to note that, so far, the MSM aren’t yet demanding that Sunak ‘do something’, now, while Starmer used his platform at Wednesday’s PMQs to attack the pernicious influence of Public Schools.
I wonder why that is! Are our Westminster opinion makers, the ‘sources’ and ‘experts’, are the peacocks in the HoC afraid to tackle the NHS bosses? There’s a piece leading The Times online this morning, warning that Nurses’ strikes will hit cancer wards and A &E departments (this and all following emphases are mine):
“The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said emergency departments, maternity care and cancer wards would not be excluded from its strike action on December 15 and 20. Only five areas of care will be protected: chemotherapy, critical care, kidney dialysis, paediatric intensive care and neonatal services. The action could leave A&Es potentially unable to treat patients with problems not deemed immediately life-threatening. Pregnant women face disruption and cancer patients are in the dark about whether radiotherapy and surgery will go ahead on strike days” (link, paywalled)
Cynical old me wonders if this means A & Es won’t be cluttered by all and sundry, by those who can’t see their GPs or who are told by the telephone ‘triage nurses’ to go to A & E. In any case, it’ll only be us plebs who’ll be affected, either by having our healthcare disrupted even further or by having to pay even more in taxes to give the 19% pay rise to yon ‘angels in blue’. Better not ask if this would lead to further wage demands, driving inflation ever higher.
Meanwhile, we’re in for more ‘lecturing’ about health and culture. There’s a museum run by Wellcome, one of the pharmaceutical giants whose now retired director, a certain Sir Jeremy Farrar, was heavily implicated in suppressing scientific papers debating the origin of covid, and who loved Lockdown. The founder of this company, Mr Henry Wellcome, was an avid collector of medical ‘curiosities’ and books. In 2007, Wellcome opened a museum to show his collection. Now they’re closing it because it was (my emphasis):
“perpetuating “a version of medical history that is based on racist, sexist and ableist theories and language”. (link, paywalled)
Note the next item on the woke list of which we must be ashamed: ‘Ableist’! Isn’t it thoroughly ‘ableist’ though when people want to be healthy? Isn’t the whole medical profession shamefully ‘ableist’? But rest assured, this collection will be opened to the public again, after they’ve rearranged it a bit. The director of that collection, Sir Jeremy Farrar, and the chair, Julia Gillard, defended closing the collection, writing:
“When ‘Medicine Man’ opened in 2007, we chose to focus on the collector. This was also a choice not to focus on the people, often marginalised and excluded, who made and used the objects collected. We no longer consider this the right choice.” They added that “Henry Wellcome’s vision, of advancing health through science and culture, remains central to Wellcome’s work. It means exploring broader experiences of health than those in Medicine Man. We continue to do this through objects from our founders’ collection, set in their full human context.” (link, paywalled)
Yay! Let’s focus on the ‘marginalised and excluded’! Looking at the elderly would be a good start, but I’m not holding my breath. I’m no longer astonished that the ‘elite’, those who run educational establishments, health services and the ‘information industries’ from their great, woke height, believe that we, the paying but unwashed public are too stupid to evaluate museum pieces on our own. It’s as if this ‘elite’ doesn’t trust their educational establishments and MSM to brainwash us correctly. Thinking for ourselves has become the greatest crime.
People used to be able to think for themselves and superiors not only trusted them to do so but demanded it. This is demonstrated in exemplary fashion in the memo by Horatio Nelson at the eve of Trafalgar. One of the copies of this memo is being auctioned in a New York auction house. The Times quotes from that memo:
“Horatio Nelson’s reputation as a brilliant naval strategist is laid out in a handwritten document in which he told his fleet how they would overcome their enemy. “Something must be left to chance,” he told the captains who would follow him at the Battle of Trafalgar on October 21, 1805. “Nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others. Shot will carry away the masts and yards of friends as well as foes; but I look with confidence to a victory …” (link, paywalled)
This is about his plan to sail through the French and Spanish lines, splitting them. Those of us who had a good historical education know what happened next. What intrigued me very much was the interpretation of Ian Ehling, valuer at Bonhams, who explained that:
“ […] Nelson spelt out his radical approach in a clear battle plan. “This is one of the most important documents in naval history, and the purest expression of the ‘Nelson Touch’, […] It shows Nelson’s brilliance and, in particular, his notion of spontaneity in battle. He is giving his captains the freedom to act freely and decisively in response to the changing circumstances of the battle. That was an outstanding tactic, never seen before, which has been used ever since.” (link, paywalled)
Well, it might still be used ‘ever since’ in certain remnants of our Armed Forces but I have my doubts if this approach, of permitting officers of lower ranks to act freely, is going to remain when the educational system is no longer teaching people how to think for themselves.
I leave you with the latest ‘scientific news’. According to a report in the DM, there’s no such thing as ‘man flu’. Wimmin suffer as much as men but are shaking it off more quickly (link). I’m sure this piece of scientific literature will find a prominent place in the rearranged Wellcome Collection! Don’t ask if that doesn’t make wimmin ‘ableist’!
I wonder why I am suddenly reminded of yon old fillum by the Two Ronnies, “The Worm That Turned”. Since it’s Saturday, you might like to watch it – here! – instead of the stuff presented on telly. Have good Advent weekend!
On a slightly more serious note….Matt Hancock, that thoroughly discredited imbecilic twerp has said that he was informed 820,000 people would die of Covid. Get lost you utter mug, and don’t darken the corridors of power ever again. How about forming your own opinion and not believing every word that you’re told in the belief that you are following the science. Why hasn’t his constituency association petitioned for a ‘Recall of a Member of Parliament’ appoint a more suitable candidate for that constituency and hold a by election with a view to replacing him. If they did that, the Conservative Party might just claw back a little bit of self- respect, in the eyes of the electorate. It’s because he had no common sense, when common sense needed to be exercised, which has resulted in the economic mess that we’re in right now.
Third time this week there has been a cat picture at the top. Is this Pauline’s talking cat, and if so, why hasn’t he/she left for London to seek an audience with the latest no hoper in 10 Downing Street?
CHussey : Sunak : No- hoper for us, but a winner for Globocap. Far more lethal (for us) than you suspect. Goldman Sachs man, Schwab and Soros fixer and and corporatist with knobs on who was forced on us against Tory party members will I believe by means of a disgusting coup . He will have us locked into Digital ID, CBDC, Social Credit system in no time unless we’re very careful and lucky. It will take more than a domestic cat to sort out a disaster (for us) like him.
As for your previous comment “On a slightly more serious note….Matt Hancock…”on the contrary your rant gave me a good laugh. Much needed in these evil times.
Indeed Mary; we no longer have our own government but a puppet one controlled from elsewhere. However I believe there is some growing opposition which I won’t comment further on for now.
Well, Jack, Nigel Farage has been talking of a growing second political insurgency just recently on his GB News programme. And yes, I want there to be one, but not one that involves Reform UK which is led by the politically naive at the moment that somehow believes that councilors and MP’s can be gained without local constituency associations and an activist base. If Reform UK is to be the base of a second insurgency against the woeful Conservative Party, then it is imperative Richard Tice has to step down as leader as he does not have a clue how as to how to run a political party and nor does his deputy. Only Farage can provide the springboard to political success, and I would much prefer that he does this with a brand new political party run along the lines of UKIP. Reform UK had supposedly gained a 9% opinion poll rating in recent weeks, which was not borne out in the Chester by election this past week, when they achieved a very derisory 2.73% share of the vote with only 773 votes. A new leader and a new approach is required if ever they are to gain true momentum which will never happen under the present leadership.
Talking of ‘go broke’.
Alas, due to the Ukrainium conflict, Russia Today has pulled the Max Kaiser show.
At this time it would be good to hear a different tune to the ‘wonderful, stable state of the World economies’. And the financial aftermath of the outpouring of money for arms.
It is an area of news that is taboo, but affects all of us.
Extreme left wing rags such as ‘the economist’ don’t cut it.
There are a couple of articles today about the decline of the Women’s Equality Party whose membership has declined from over 65,000 (more than UKIP at its peak) to under 8000 (and no doubt fewer still soon as more fail to renew).
Apparently, the WEP is now in financial crisis as well as a membership one after the latest leader, Manu Reid, forced through a motion at its last conference supporting self-ID for any man who wants to be a woman! That is, the WEP no longer considers a woman to be an adult human female based on biological sex. No wonder women, real ones, are leaving the WEP. Manu Reid is one of the people who attended the Buckingham Palace reception with Fulani/Headley and ‘witnessed’ the ‘racism’ by Lady Susan.
As a campaigner against violence on women does this mean that the WEP will support a bloke self-identifying as a women that I thump when he invades a women only space (such a changing room) being used by my wife? A possible scenario – me thumping the perv, not support from the WEP which I doubt would be forthcoming. Wokeism and race grifting are like metastasising cancers and appear to be reaching an untreatable stage with these tumours like Reid and Headley popping up everywhere and ever more frequently.
Anyway, go woke, go broke seems to apply to the WEP. LoL!
“go woke, go broke”. That result is what we need for all those organisations on that path.
You are right! But I’m sure it is “Get woke, go broke”. if I may say so.
Well, if my memory serves me correctly UKIP in its heyday and the height of its powers and ascendency, achieved a membership of 44,800, and that was with an annual membership fee of £30.00. It was a job and half when I was branch chairman going round to former members who had allowed their memberships to lapse and get them to renew and become more involved. I doubt somehow that the Womens Equality Party had an annual membership of £30.00, and that it was more like £5.00 per year as they were on the receiving end of large donations from well-wishers etc. Even Labour at one time reduced
the annual membership to £5.00 for new members in the Corbyn era. I often argued that UKIP should have done likewise to encourage the expansion of its activist base. Any organisation has to speculate to accumulate as it were. If we had been able to expand the activist base significantly who knows what we might have been able to achieve. Maybe a few more MP’s in the House of Commons and certainly a substantial number of councilors. However, I think UKIP’s finances were never in a very healthy state shall we say….