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There are some quite interesting (I think) things happening in China which don’t seem to get much mainstream media attention.
Last year, Evergrande, once a giant in China’s property market, collapsed due to mounting debt triggering a wider crisis in the Chinese real estate sector. A Hong Kong court ordered the company’s liquidation in January 2024. Evergrande’s debt surpassed an astonishing $300 billion. Moreover, there are many other Chinese property companies which are also over-indebted and on the brink of collapse. And several new Chinese cities which are just ghost cities:
There are an estimated 65 million Chinese homes which are unoccupied.
Many Chinese families have invested in property expecting a continual rise in property prices. But when a country with a falling population keeps building ever more properties, economic gravity will eventually win over uncontrolled speculation.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will inevitably claim that China’s economy grew by the planned 5% this year. But the truth is that in many cities, Chinese property prices have fallen by up to 50% and this is having a negative knock-on effect on consumer confidence, consumer spending and the Chinese economy.
And now that Trump has imposed massive tariffs on Chinese exports to America, many Chinese factories are closing as they can’t sell their now unwanted production in the Chinese home market and up to 20 million Chinese workers may lose their jobs. Moreover, around 12 million students graduate from Chinese universities each year and unemployment for new graduates is at around 55%.
Faced with this situation, after years of bullying its neighbours with its aggressive expansionist policies, Chinese mafia boss (sorry, I meant the head of the much-respected CCP) Xi PingPong has just been on a charm tour of South-East Asian countries to try to make friends and create a group of countries who will oppose the new US tariffs. Judging by the video linked below, Xi’s attempts to seduce China’s neighbours into an anti-US trading block are backfiring as most countries seem to prefer getting into bed with the US rather than China. South Korea has already finalised a new trade deal with the US and many other countries are expected to follow.
Much of this is explained in the video below. It’s rather long and the presenter is not (IMHO) the most stimulating speaker. But you only need to watch a few minutes to get the picture.
Why this situation might be important to us is the issue of how Chairman Xi will react if China goes into a serious recession and he feels his position is under threat. In such a situation, totalitarian leaders usually try to find a foreign enemy so they can use the cover of patriotism to rally their disaffected people. If Xi goes that route, an invasion of Taiwan might look extraordinarily convenient for Chairman Xi.
Anyway, here’s the video explaining why Xi might be becoming a ‘Norman No Friends’:
When historians look back at the first quarter of the 21st Century, what will be the over-riding theme of their conclusions? The first half of the 20th Century could be seen as The Age of Slaughter with several hundred million killed in wars, man-made famines and Communist terror campaigns. The second half of the 20th Century was The Age of Globalisation. But what about our times? I humbly suggest that we are living in what could be called “The Age of Insanity”.
Here are just a few pieces of evidence of “The Age of Insanity”:
The belief that men and women can change sex/gender: It took years of campaigning and no doubt millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money for the greatest legal minds in our country to produce 88 pages of legalise lawyer-speak to conclude that peope are born as either male and female and no amount of dressing up in the opposite sex’s clothing and no amount of cutting bits off or adding bits on to people’s bodies can change their sex:
But even though our most brilliant legal brains have managed to discover the bleeding obvious, thousands of enraged lunatics are still protesting and claiming that a man can become a woman and vice versa:
This whole issue is madness, insanity.
The great scamdemic: We now know what most of us suspected all along:
the Covid-19 virus leaked from a dirty lab at the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology
the ludicrously-misnamed World Health Organisation and leading scientists across the world conspired with the Chinese Communist Party to mislead us about the origin of the virus
the virus was only a danger to a small percentage of the population – the elderly and those with some serious existing health conditions
there was a cheap anti-viral drug available, Ivermectin, which was effective in treating the virus
But in spite of the virus being relatively harmless to most of the population, our economies were closed down, we allowed ourselves to be imprisoned in our homes, the Big Pharma companies pressed governments to ban Ivermectin for treating Covid-19 and instead pushed politicians into coercing us all to be repeatedly injected with a new, hastily-developed, hugely profitable, untested and often dangerous new medical product
This whole issue was madness, insanity.
The Great Replacement: For some reason, which a minuscule brain like mine fails to understand, our rulers are intent on destroying our societies and economies through mass, open-borders, Third-World immigration. According to the Irish Government’s “Project Ireland 2040” plan, around one million migrants from Africa and Asia will be brought into the country with the result that a third of the Irish population will be foreign-born:
By 2060 or 2070, Irish will be a minority in their own country. Similarly in Britain, we have over one million mostly uneducated, mostly unemployable and many criminal Third-Worlders flooding into our country each year. White British are already a minority in about 10 of England’s 55 cities. By 2050, White British will be a minority in most cities, By 2080, White British will be a minority in their own country. The only possible result of this invasion will be civil war as predicted in Christopher Priest’s 1972 dystopian novel – Fugue for a Darkening Island:
The whole issue is madness, insanity.
The climate catastrophist doom cult: We’ve now had about 40 years of apocalyptic, end-of-the-world prophecies of imminent extinction of humans due to supposed anthropogenic climate change. This end-of-times cult even has its own Saint Joan of Arc in the form of the (IMHO) ghastly Swedish school-skiving Swedish doom goblin:
Not a single one of the climate catastrophists’ predictions have actually happened: sea levels aren’t rising, polar bears are thriving, the Great Barrier Reef has never been so healthy, the Antarctic ice sheet is growing, the Arctic sea ice hasn’t melted yet, crop production is at an historic high, the Earth is greening due to increased atmospheric CO2, the number of deaths due to weather events has fallen by over 90% in the last hundred years in spite of a tripling of the human population and human life expectancy is at a record high. In fact, we’ve never had it so good:
Yet, in spite of all the evidence that there is no sign of man-made climate changse doing us any harm, many Western countries have decided to impoverish their citizens by committing economic and societal suicide by reducing the use of cheap, reliable fossil fuels and by replacing them with expensive, intermittent and unreliable supposed ‘renewables’.
This whole issue is madness, insanity.
I’m sure readers can think of many more examples that we are living in “The Age of Insanity”. Just click on the title of today’s blog if you wish to add your no doubt extensive wit and wisdom to my modest efforts.
Welcome to Pathocracy
There are lots of ‘ocracies’ – democracy, autocracy, bureaucracy, kleptocracy, theocracy, aristocracy etc etc. But there’s one you may not be familiar with – pathocracy.
Pathocracy is a concept developed by Polish psychologist Andrzej Łobaczewski, referring to a system of government where individuals with personality disorders, particularly psychopathy, gain power and influence, potentially harming society. Is ‘The Age of Insanity’ a form of pathocracy?
Britain’s greatest intellect and towering colossus of international diplomacy, David ‘Lamebrain’ Lammy, is just one of many (IMHO) UK-hating idiots demanding reparations for Britain’s past involvement in slavery. He, of course, ignores the fact that many British sailors and soldiers lost their lives in abolishing slavery. But I agree with Lamebrain Lammy. I think reparations should be paid for our slave-owning past.
The average GDP per capita in Sub-Saharan Africa, where many of the slaves came from, is approximately $1,581. Now if we look at the countries where the slaves were taken, we can seen that leaving Africa was absolutely the best thing which could have happened for their descendants. The average GDP per capita of African Americans is around $23,000. The average GDP per capita for the Caribbean countries is around $18,000.
Moreover, the life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa is 62.6 years. For African Americans it is 77.4 years and for the Caribbean it is 73.7 years.
Admittedly, being moved to America and the Caribbean to work as slaves probably wasn’t particularly pleasant for the Africans who were originally enslaved. I guess their GDP per capita was pretty much non-existent and their life expectancy wasn’t too great either.
But getting out of the hopeless, rotten hell-hole that is Africa has been like winning the lottery for the living descendants of slaves both in terms of their incomes and life expectancy. So perhaps these descendants of slaves should be showing their gratitude by paying the descendants of slave-owners lots of money for giving them much improved life chances?
First: An apology if my “Not an Easter Bunny” Good Friday blog put you off your dinner. Having seen that thing, I can well understand why women and girls would not want a creature like that in their changing rooms, hospital wards, women’s refuges, prisons and other private spaces.
I don’t know if you saw a BBC report about a project we suckers are paying millions for to extract CO2 from seawater to supposedly save the planet. I was useless at chemistry. But from what little I understand seawater is to be siphoned off and treated with some kind of acid to release CO2. Then the acidic seawater will be treated with an alkali to hopefully reduce its acidity before it is pumped back into the world’s oceans where, being lower in CO2 than the surrounding water, it will then supposedly absorb more CO2 from the atmosphere.
There are so many things wrong with this exercise in utter futility that it’s difficult to know where to start:
I wonder if adding acid to seawater will be good for or harmful to all the micro-organisms which are at the base of the whole of the Earth’s marine ecosystem?
How much energy will be required to produce all the acid and alkali for this idiocy?
How will that energy be produced? From CO2 emitting fossil fuels?
Don’t a lot of the things which thrive in the sea need CO2 to survive?
It seems this briliant idea will expensively remove in one year about as much CO2 as China produces in a couple of minutes or less
And then of course, there is the whole issue that rising CO2 is good for the planet as it causes increased plant growth and a greening of the planet:
The inverse is also true. At the start of the 20th Century, atmospheric CO2 levels (the black line on the image below) were at around 300 ppm (parts per million). This was an historic low:
It is estimated that were CO2 levels to fall towards 250 ppm, then plant life would start to wither and we’d all starve. It would actually be rather amusing if some green grifter ‘scientists’ did find a way to reduce atmospheric CO2 to below 250 ppm and thus wipe out all life on Earth. I wonder how the increasingly climate-bothering Mr Attenborough would make any ‘Life on Earth’ programmes when there wasn’t any life on Earth any more thanks to the climate catastrophist idiots cutting the Earth’s atmospheric CO2 levels?
And. of course, there is no ‘climate crisis’:
I could go on. But instead I recommend you look at the readers’ comments on this insanity below an article about this on THE DAILY SCEPTIC. Clearly DAILY SCEPTIC readers are a lot more intelligent that Britain’s supposed ‘scientists’ and useless politicians: (click on link below)
Great celebration for our useless government. Apparently UK inflation is down from 2.8% last month to 2.6% in March 2025 compared to March 2024.
But I suspect that very few people actually know what the inflation (CPI – Consumer Price Index) figures include and what they don’t include.
Here’s the structure of the main items in the CPI inflation index:
Looking at the different inflation rates, I struggle to see how they all add up to only a 2.6% rise in the CPI. I guess it must have something to do with the weighting of the various items.
But the real issue for me is that these CPI figures give little idea of the real cost of living increases which are crushing many UK households and businesses. For example, the CPI doesn’t include:
Council Tax – up by a minimum of 5%. For 2025-26, the government is letting six areas introduce bigger rises. Bradford Council increased bills by 10% and they rose by 9% in Newham, and Windsor and Maidenhead. Birmingham, Somerset and Trafford put bills up by 7.5%
Water bills – up 26% on average, but up to 47% in some areas
Electricity and gas – For a typical household paying by Direct Debit for dual fuel, the energy price cap will increase by 6.4% to £1,849 per year
Rents – In 2024, UK private rents saw an increase of 9.0% in the 12 months to December 2024, with London experiencing the highest rent inflation at 11.5%
House prices – In 2024, UK house prices experienced a rise of 4.7%. However, this growth wasn’t uniform across all regions. Northern Ireland saw the highest increase at 7.1%, while England’s overall increase was 3.1%. Scotland experienced a 4.4% rise, and Wales saw a 2.7% increase
Private education – up by 10% to 20%
Cost of employing someone – National Insurance rates up by 8.7% from 13.6% of salary to 15% of salary and the threshold that employers start paying National Insurance on an employee’s earnings fell from £9,100 to £5,000 a year.
Business rates – 75% relief on business rates, charged on most non-domestic properties, will continue at a lower rate of 40%.
So, if you’ve got a feeling that your cost of living and your employer’s costs are really rocketing up well above the 2.6% suggested by the latest CPI figures, then you’re right.
As per usual, don’t believe anything our worthless mainstream media tells you.
Can anyone see that there’s a slight practical problem with this means of transport? If you can, you’re a lot smarter than 99% of our political leaders.
Our brilliant government is trying to save the Scunthorpe steelworks. Starmer’s idiots don’t want to nationalise the company. Instead they claim to be looking for a private-sector partner. But what private-sector company would invest in the uninvestible?
Here are industrial energy prices from a few countries:
Hooray, as you can see, thanks to our scientifically-challenged political elites, Britain is truly leading the world with its ludicrously high electricity prices.
Electricity makes up around a third of the cost of blast furnace steel:
So, how can a blast furnace in a country with the world’s highest energy prices compete with steel from countries with much lower energy prices?
This brings us back to the utter absurdity of our government’s (lack of) industrial policies:
If you and I can see this, why can’t the political elites?
Watching these two short videos, I just didn’t know whether they were fake or genuine. But the fact that I, and other people, might suspect they are genuine shows the extent to which our ruling elites hate us and are prepared to sell us out because of their contempt for us.
Here’s a voice only version:
And here’s a filmed version which leads me to believe the video is genuine:
🚨 Explosive leaked video of David Cameron exposes the Tories’ sinister plot to hand UK leadership to Muslims!
We’ve been screaming about this plan forever, and people had the nerve to call us conspiracy theorists!
I particularly like Mr Cameron’s proposal that we need more members of our favourite religion in senior positions in our armed forces. That will come in handy when civil war breaks out in England, not.
Everything I write in this blog is based on my worthless, uninformed and biased opinions. So please don’t sue me as I believe that I am still allowed to express an opinion in Starmer’s People’s Republic of Britain twinned with North Korea.
April 30th 2025 is an important and exciting day. Yes, you guessed it – April 30th is The NHS Confederation’s “Leadership for Inclusion: DIE (Diversity, Inclusion and Equality) professionals Conference”.
We’re told that: “The conference provides a unique opportunity to contribute to discussions with our influential speakers and help shape upcoming legislation and national policy”
Here are some of the astonishingly important individuals who will be key speakers:
Dr Navina Evans, Chief Workforce, Training and Education Officer, NHS England
Barry Mussenden, Deputy Director Comms, Department for Health and Social Care
Roger James, Interim Deputy Director, Care Quality Commission
Professor Habib Naqvi, CEO, NHS Race and Health Observatory
Max Edelstyn, Head of Programme, Equality and Human Rights Commission
Rebecca Grant, Senior Associate, Equality and Human Rights Commission
Joan Saddler OBE, Director of Partnerships and Equality, NHS Confederation
I don’t know whether any of these astonishingly important individuals has ever actually treated a person who is ill. But I bet they’re all really clued up on the latest ‘white privilege’, ‘micro-aggression’, ‘intersectionality’ nonsense. I also bet they’re all extremely well paid with money which could possibly be better used actually treating some of the more than seven million people stuck on NHS waiting lists.
The organisers of this important, ground-breaking, fantabulous conference tell potential participants why they should attend:
Network with peers and share best practice in the EDI and health inequalities space.
Contribute to discussions which will help shape upcoming legislation and national policy.
Explore solutions to challenges associated with this work within the current political climate.
Be inspired to continue the path of being an agent for change.
In case you are inspired to attend this event which is vitally important to our nation’s health, here are the details you’ll need:
Places cost £100 + VAT for one delegate place and £160 + VAT for two delegate places.
Paul Deemer Samantha Rashid Head of Diversity and Inclusion Assistant Director NHS Employers Partnerships and Equality, Policy and Delivery NHS Confederation
I should have got suspicious when I Googled my GP practice’s website. Under the heading “Doctors and staff” the website informed visitors that: “We have a team of experienced practice nurses led by Sister ….. ” No mention of doctors. Though when you clicked on the heading “Doctors and staff” you did get a list of the doctors at the practice.
Anyway, I had been to see a private practice GP about a shoulder strain. But he noticed that I had another rather more serious health issue which needed investigation. I did then book about £780 of tests at a private hospital. But thinking I might eventually need an operation on the NHS, I decided to also try to go through my local GP surgery as I suspected the NHS would refuse any assessment done by a private hospital as the NHS would have its own ‘pathways’ that prospective patients would be expected to follow.
Step 1: E-Consult – the first step in trying to see my local NHS GP was to fill in an E-Consult online form which would then apparently be forwarded to my GP surgery for triage so the doctors there could assess whether I needed an appointment. I filled in the E-Consult form with all the relevant information and at the end a big red notice came up telling me that there was nothing the E-Consult system could do and that none of the information I had entered would be passed on to my GP. Fortunately, I am reasonably computer-literate. I wonder how 80- and 90-year-olds who have never used a computer get round this barrier to ever seeing a doctor.
Step 2: Surgery visit – I went to my local GP surgery and explained that the E-Consult system had rejected my submission. No problem, the receptionist was surprisingly helpful and filled in an E-Consult online form on her computer. She then told me that this would be submitted to a doctor at the surgery for triage and that I should get a response within a couple of days.
Step 3: GP response – After a couple of days, I got an email from a GP at the surgery asking me to briefly describe my condition. This, of course, added nothing to the information which was already on the E-Consult form the receptionist had filled in with me. Nevertheless, I wrote a couple of sentences in a reply email to the doctor which gave less information than that already on the E-Consult online system.
Step 4: I can see a doctor – the next day I got a reply from a GP at the surgery telling me I should call the surgery reception and ask for a “red” appointment with a GP at the surgery. I did this and was surprised to be offered a GP appointment for the next day. I did get to see a real GP – not the usual ‘Nurse Practitioner’ or ‘Doctor Associate’ which so many GP surgeries use to avoid doctors ever having to deal with patients. The doctor greeted me and said, “I believe you’ve had problems with your breathing“. Given all the information I had already put on the E-Consult system, I thought that was a rather lame effort by the GP. Clearly he had only glanced at the E-Consult system and hadn’t a clue why I had been told to get a “red” appointment to see him. Incidentally, the private practice GP told me that he had examined me with a stethoscope which also had an ECG function. When I mentioned this to the NHS GP, he told me that I must be mistaken as such a stethoscope doesn’t exist. I have just checked on Google and there are numerous suppliers offering a ‘dual function’ stethoscope incorporating traditional stethoscope functions and an ECG. Oh dear!
Since then things have started to move. I had a chest X-Ray at my local hospital the next working day and the results from the X-Ray should be with the GP surgery within 2 to 3 weeks. I am also booked in for some further tests at the surgery.
So, I guess I shouldn’t be complaining. I actually got to see a real doctor. Many other people never even get that far. From the little I understand about our NHS, most of GPs’ earnings come from the number of people registered with each GP practice and not from the number of people who are actually seen by a doctor. Though surgeries can increase their earnings by giving flu jabs and Covid boosters and suchlike which can all be done by nurses. So there is little incentive for GPs to see patients. In fact, it’s probably much more financially-rewarding for the surgery’s finances to fob people off with ‘Nurse Practioners’ and ‘Doctor Associates’.
Hooray for our NHS – the envy of the world – yet which no country seems eager to copy!
David Craig, on April 26th, 2025
