If Blair and Hague get their wish we’ll not be permitted to leave our house without one …

 

I am ever so grateful to poor old ‘staff’ who has to work on producing a proper headline for Auntie Beeb’s early-morning compilation of the dead tree press front pages! How else would we  be able to savour the ‘guidance’ produced by Whitehall’s mouthpieces! Today’s is no exception: “Newspaper headlines: Putin ‘rips up treaty’ and fruit and veg rationing” (link).

I’m now on the look-out for the editorial shuffling-around of ‘important’ articles, shown in the difference between print and online editions. Today it’s The Times and the DT who managed it nicely. If you’re so inclined, compare and contrast the images of the print font page of both as published on the Beeb’s site with those online. Here’s the DT, and here’s The Times, both at the time of writing (6am).

It’s noticeable that the warmonger-in-chief, the DT, now has yesterday’s speech by Mr Putin right at the top which disappointed the western MSM. Still, ‘blood-crazed’ had to be used ‘because: reasons’:

“Putin shelves blood-crazed bombast as he prepares Russia for a long war – In his first state-of-the-nation address since the war in Ukraine, the president made it clear to his citizens they were in for a long ride” (paywalled link)

Meanwhile, The Times has shuffled their article on Mr Putin’s speech to give place to a most scary report on Blair and Hague being united in demanding digital ID for all (link, paywalled). More on that below. The strange thing is that the speech held by the leader of the Western World (don’t laugh – it is what we’re meant to think!), a certain Mr Biden, has virtually vanished from the front pages, printed or online.

Since this speech was meant to provide a counterpoint to Mr Putin, one would have thought that there’d be analyses. One would have thought that our MSM would’ve given the cold-shoulder treatment to the Russian PM, punishing him with utter disregard. But no: there’s nought from or about Biden.

Of course, given that our MSM believe we plebs are too dumb to use VPN and are thus unable to find the text of that speech, never mind watch the nearly two-hour long transmission, broadcast on Russian TV, they believe they can tell us whatever they like.

If you have a machine translator in your browser, here is the full text, in Russian. Let me just note that Mr Putins observations on the degeneracy of western society and on the damage we do to our children has of course not been mentioned in the analyses who prefer to paint him as ‘blood-crazed’. 

Next: the vegetable shortage … oh dear. Empty shelves on front pages are of course a nice way to get people to panic. Not only have prices risen – there’s ‘rationing’ already. Here’s the DM in full flow –  it’s actually hilarious:

“Perishables like tomatoes, potatoes, cucumber and broccoli have been restricted to just two or three per customer in a host of stores up and down the country.” (link)

The author of this report, a Ms ‘Chloe Louise’, cannot possibly have had any experience with the much vaunted ‘cooking from scratch’ if she thinks that potatoes are ‘perishables’. And handing out two or three potatoes per customer? Really? Words simply fail me. The Times meanwhile is a bit more clinical:

“Severe weather across north Africa and southern Europe has damaged crops that would normally feed the UK through the winter. Transport routes have also been disrupted, and high gas prices have led to less being grown in heated greenhouses in Britain and the Netherlands.” (link, paywalled)

Bad weather happens elsewhere? Who knew! Don’t even dare to think that this evident weakness in the food supply chain will lead to a re-thinking in Whitehall! We’ll get Net Zero if it kills us – food security is unimportant as long as we have more acres of arable land under ‘solar farms’, more bird shredders and more farms taken out of production for ‘re-wilding’. Eating grass is definitely vegan and omnivores can eat crickets and worms …tomatoes and lettuce are for the posh, hard-working Westminster denizens only. 

And so to the truly unholy alliance of Messrs Blair and Hague. What was this about the Uniparty? We have to wait for the actual publication of their appeal, but The Times clearly was permitted to report some summaries. See this (my emphasis)

“Everyone in Britain should be given a digital ID incorporating their passport, driving licence, tax records, qualifications and right to work as the cornerstone of a “technology revolution”, Sir Tony Blair and Lord Hague of Richmond say today. Writing in The Times, the former prime minister and former Conservative leader say that the British state is no longer fit for purpose and must be dramatically reshaped if the country is to avoid being left behind by global technological advances. The two men, who stood opposite one another at the dispatch box, say that there must be a cross-party consensus to “radically” change politics, putting technology at the heart of the NHS, schools and other public services.” (link, paywalled)

They provide a list of things which are meant to make our government ‘fit for purpose’, but re-organising Whitehall and the whole public service isn’t one of them. How giving a digital ID to everyone is going to achieve this ‘transformation I cannot fathom.

I’ll not list the points selected by The Times, except this one: “Encouraging the use of artificial intelligence assistants in schools to help teachers and provide personalised support to pupils at home.” (link, paywalled).

AI has been shown to be a wonderful instrument for indoctrinating the smartphone-obsessed population. With a bit of ‘sensitivity editing’ thrown in, we’ll soon live in a world with no racism, full of gender-fluid transpeople, and never mind if their education has made them too dumb to develop IT solutions.

They argue that digital ID isn’t the same as ID cards, and that “we” are living in a smartphone age anyway, so it wouldn’t hurt:.

“As part of the plan they call on the government to introduce a digital ID that people could have on their mobile phones. This would enable people to prove who they were and also potentially contain their educational qualifications and right to work in the UK.” (link, paywalled)

But rest assured – this is only to enable the UK to be at the forefront of yon digital age, and to outcompete places like China and India. How they plan to ‘protect’ us from Chinese and Russian hackers, how they aim to pay for all this when the NHS is still not capable of executing IT solutions across the board, something a certain Mr Blair tried to implement all those years ago – no answer. 

There’s also no answer in this Times excerpt about how a Net Zero country can afford to run the electrical infrastructure needed to use yon smartphones. “We” can always ration electricity, can’t we … just as “we” can ration tomatoes and lettuce when, thanks to ‘events’ in countries we rely on, having run down our own food production, there are ‘shortages’. 

I wonder if they demand in their text yet to be published that the Treasury hand out smartphones to all who don’t have one. At which age will children need to have their personal smartphone? Six? Three? Brave New World! But Mr Putin is ‘crazed’ when he insists on protecting Russian children …

That’s all I have for today. The ‘news’ are quite suitable for Ash Wednesday. Perhaps I ought to give up reading the MSM for Lent. Have a good day.



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