Thank you Paul for your excellent article. I would like to add also the comments by Neil Basu (an opportunist if ever I have seen one!) about (ab) using the Terrorism Act agaibst those ‘inciting’ the violence. The laws exist already to criminalise and deal with incitement, and this is stretching the definition of terrorism in my view. Terrorism of course carries stronger investigatory powers and periods of detention before charge, as well as carrying much more severe penalties.
No amount of censorship changes reality on the ground, the ‘revered’ lived experience of the voters. To achieve what Labour and the progressive state are wanting will require an Orwellian style police state. What really concerns me is that far from that being viewed as beyond the pale, Labour seem to regard it as their blueprint for government.
Hello Paul - very relevant comments as always. I was never an enthusiast for the “left” and “right” demarcations although for the most part, ten or fifteen years ago, they were fairly harmless. Now they are both useless and damaging, not least for the fact that no MPs can even define the “hard left” or the “far right”, never mind differentiate these from the “far left” and the “hard right”.
Much more damaging are those other clans which might collectively and tactically go under the alternative descriptions of muslim, islam, islamist, and so on. Whereas most others in this country who have religious beliefs generally just call themselves christian.
Hi Beau, you ask 'what is going on?' Over the last few years I have learned increasingly about the various long-term movements which have together undermined the West. Within the West itself there has been the increasing influence and power of the elitist 'global governancers', a movement which has undermined sovereign, democratic states. (It is evident too in things like the international response to covid, and the whole climate change malarkey, each of which has been used to consolidate globalists' power.) The Chinese Communist Party has had a long term strategy of infiltrating elites around the world, and corrupting them, with the aim of establishing itself as the dominant force in the world by mid-twenty-first century. There is the Islamist concern with establishing an international caliphate, by various means. Then there is the rise of identity politics/wokery, which has come to dominate so many Western institutions. Islamists have exploited the woke, through the use of the term 'islamophobia', for example, and also through demonising Israel and its attempts to defend itself from destruction by Islamists.
Naive indeed. Although the term 'conspiracy theory' has been employed to undermine people's thinking about this subject. Whilst there have been some whacky and harmful conspiracy theories, it is important to recognise that people do get together to advance their own interests and undermine other peoples' - i.e. conspiracies do occur. And one must factor in harmful ideologies as well as problematic character traits such as megalomania and psychopathy. Power, and harmful ideologies, attract people with such traits, and also inculcate and strengthen those traits. Also, consider just how many people a multi-billionaire could bribe with one billion pounds - through, for example, offering them jobs in a 'non-profit' organisation he has set up. Useful if one is, for example, an MP who could be voted out of office.
Indeed, such as the use of the term in a letter to the Lancet by Daszak and others denying that Covid was man-made, when Daszak, for example, was involved in getting money to the laboratory in Wuhan that was doing 'gain of function' research on such viruses. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30418-9/fulltext
And 'fact checker' typically really means 'paid liar'.
Thank you Paul for your excellent article. I would like to add also the comments by Neil Basu (an opportunist if ever I have seen one!) about (ab) using the Terrorism Act agaibst those ‘inciting’ the violence. The laws exist already to criminalise and deal with incitement, and this is stretching the definition of terrorism in my view. Terrorism of course carries stronger investigatory powers and periods of detention before charge, as well as carrying much more severe penalties.
No amount of censorship changes reality on the ground, the ‘revered’ lived experience of the voters. To achieve what Labour and the progressive state are wanting will require an Orwellian style police state. What really concerns me is that far from that being viewed as beyond the pale, Labour seem to regard it as their blueprint for government.
Good points as ever. Similar things going on in the US. Of the '25 ways to destroy the US' in this short vid, how many are being employed in the UK? https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1782215645041451242
Hello Paul - very relevant comments as always. I was never an enthusiast for the “left” and “right” demarcations although for the most part, ten or fifteen years ago, they were fairly harmless. Now they are both useless and damaging, not least for the fact that no MPs can even define the “hard left” or the “far right”, never mind differentiate these from the “far left” and the “hard right”.
Much more damaging are those other clans which might collectively and tactically go under the alternative descriptions of muslim, islam, islamist, and so on. Whereas most others in this country who have religious beliefs generally just call themselves christian.
Hi Beau, you ask 'what is going on?' Over the last few years I have learned increasingly about the various long-term movements which have together undermined the West. Within the West itself there has been the increasing influence and power of the elitist 'global governancers', a movement which has undermined sovereign, democratic states. (It is evident too in things like the international response to covid, and the whole climate change malarkey, each of which has been used to consolidate globalists' power.) The Chinese Communist Party has had a long term strategy of infiltrating elites around the world, and corrupting them, with the aim of establishing itself as the dominant force in the world by mid-twenty-first century. There is the Islamist concern with establishing an international caliphate, by various means. Then there is the rise of identity politics/wokery, which has come to dominate so many Western institutions. Islamists have exploited the woke, through the use of the term 'islamophobia', for example, and also through demonising Israel and its attempts to defend itself from destruction by Islamists.
Naive indeed. Although the term 'conspiracy theory' has been employed to undermine people's thinking about this subject. Whilst there have been some whacky and harmful conspiracy theories, it is important to recognise that people do get together to advance their own interests and undermine other peoples' - i.e. conspiracies do occur. And one must factor in harmful ideologies as well as problematic character traits such as megalomania and psychopathy. Power, and harmful ideologies, attract people with such traits, and also inculcate and strengthen those traits. Also, consider just how many people a multi-billionaire could bribe with one billion pounds - through, for example, offering them jobs in a 'non-profit' organisation he has set up. Useful if one is, for example, an MP who could be voted out of office.
Indeed, such as the use of the term in a letter to the Lancet by Daszak and others denying that Covid was man-made, when Daszak, for example, was involved in getting money to the laboratory in Wuhan that was doing 'gain of function' research on such viruses. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30418-9/fulltext
And 'fact checker' typically really means 'paid liar'.
Yep. Corrected!