I guess I’m a bit slow on the uptake as I’ve just discovered that there is a ‘Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’ (DESNZ).
This confused me slightly as, from what little I understand, ‘energy security’ and ‘Net Zero’ are two mutually exclusive concepts. If you want energy security, you need lots of locally-sourced coal, oil and gas with a bit of nuclear thrown in. If you want Net Zero, you need loads of solar panels, which are useless when the sun doesn’t shine, and loads of wind turdbines, which are useless when the wind is either too weak or too strong:
Just a note for any of our good-for-nothing, expenses-fiddling, parasitic, UK-loathing politicians reading this, the sun doesn’t shine at night so you’re not going to get much energy from solar. And even during the day, Britain and Northern Europe are not known for having quite as many sunny days as say Spain or Morocco or Timbuktu. That’s why the boss of Germany’s largest energy company said that trying to get electricity from solar in Germany was like trying to grow pineapples in Alaska. As for wind, well you don’t get much wind on the coldest winter days when energy demand will be at its highest. So where will our electricity come from then? These are just some of the reasons why supposed ‘renewables’ – wind and solar – can never provide energy security.
This (IMHO) absurd incongruity of a department is run by possibly Britain’s most gifted and trusted politician – the right honourable Grant Shapps – and reminds me of the fantasy animal from Dr Dolittle – the push-me pull-you which apparently believed it could walk in two opposite directions at the same time:
Dr. Dolittle’s two-headed wonder is an obvious metaphor for the problem of trying to provide energy security while closing down all the sources of energy security to achieve the ludicrously-unnecessary and economically-ruinous Net Zero. If both heads want to go in opposite directions, nothing happens. If one head wins out, you get more of one thing (energy security or Net Zero) and less of the other.
It seems incredible to me that anyone with even the slightest hint of a few brain cells could take this absurdity of a government department seriously. Moreover, I fail to understand why nobody in the mainstream media has spotted the more than striking inherent contradictions in this preposterous department’s supposed aims.
Here’s a photo of two employees of this fatuous, farcical excuse for a government department hard at work:
I recently wrote a short article for The Conservative Woman about how all our supposed experts have repeatedly misjudged what is happening in Russia.1 All our mainstream media have claimed that the Wagner mutiny had weakened Putin. Typical headlines were ‘Ukraine can now end Putin’s crumbling regime‘2 and ‘How Wagner’s mutiny left Putin catastrophically weakened‘.3 But I argued that the rapid demolishing of the Wagner revolt and the exile of Wagner’s leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, had actually strengthened Putin’s position.
However, the recent claims about a supposedly weakened Putin are just the latest examples of Western media’s dubious reporting of what is really happening in Russia. After all, ever since the start of Putin’s misjudged invasion of Ukraine, we’ve been assured that Putin was suffering from a long list of possibly fatal medical conditions. These included cancer – ‘Putin suffers breakdown after changing cancer medicine‘4: dementia – ‘Vladimir Putin has dementia and is being driven insane by paranoia‘5 and Parkinson’s – ‘Vladimir Putin does have Parkinson’s and pancreatic cancer‘6 It does seem that for a while Putin did suffer from some kind of nervous condition as his invasion turned into a disaster. But he has looked fairly sprightly recently, especially since the Wagner mutiny collapsed. So it may be that media reports of Putin’s imminent demise from a variety of illnesses are more than slightly premature.
I believe that the latest misreporting by our media concerns Putin’s statement that the Russian State paid the Wagner Group over $1 billion in just the last year. This was called an ‘admission’ in most Western media as if it was a sign of weakness.7 One typical Western media report claimed that Putin said this ‘in an apparent attempt to take full credit for earlier battlefield successes of the mercenaries‘.8
But yet again I believe our ‘experts’ have completely misjudged what Vladimir Putin is really doing. When Putin revealed how much money Russia paid the Wagner Group, he added that he hoped: “no one stole anything — or, let’s say, didn’t steal much. But we will certainly get to the bottom of this.“9 These additional remarks don’t appear to have been widely reported in any of the British mainstream media. But it seems clear to me that Putin is about to launch an investigation into how the Wagner Group used the money they were paid and I’ve no doubt that eye-watering levels of corruption will be revealed giving Putin the excuse to persecute Wagner bosses. So, while Western media interpreted the announcement of massive payments to the Wagner Group as another sign of Putin’s weakness, I think they’ve (probably deliberately) got it wrong yet again. What Putin was really saying is that he’s going to get revenge on Wagner for what he perceives as their treachery and he’s going to use a financial investigation to bring down what remains of the Wagner Group.
Of course, I may be wrong and all the ‘experts’ claiming Putin is a gravely ill despot fatally damaged by the Wagner incident may be right. But I suspect that our ‘experts’ have all along been guilty of at best ‘wishful thinking’, but more probably have deliberately worked to mislead us about what is really happening in Russia.
Without exception, every media commentator has claimed that the one-day Wagner mutiny has mortally wounded Putin and that it’s only a matter of time before he’s deposed.
I believe this may be an excellent example of ‘Confirmation Bias’.
Confirmation Bias is defined on Wikipedia as ‘people’s tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with their existing beliefs. This biased approach to decision making is largely unintentional, and it results in a person ignoring information that is inconsistent with their beliefs.’
All our media want to believe that Putin has been weakened. So that’s how they report recent events in Russia. But I’m not so sure that the Wagner fiasco has weakened Putin. In fact, it might have made him stronger. Here are some of the reasons I suspect Vladimir ‘$200bn’ Putin and his multi-billionaire kleptocrat cronies will be celebrating:
Putin faced down the mutiny and refused to take any phone calls from Prigozhin. I imagine that’s when Prigozhin realised he’d gone too far and decided to do the Russian version of a reverse ferret and scuttle back to Rostov-on-Don
Putin’s people confiscated around $50m in foreign currency and gold bars from the Wagner Group’s HQ
the Wagner Group has effectively been disbanded and is handing its heavy weaponry to the Russian armed forces which is what Putin and the Russian military wanted to happen when they started a confrontation with Wagner
Prigozhin has been exiled to Belarus and is at risk of arrest if he visits any other country
Prigozhin’s fighters must either join the Russian army, go home or go into exile with their boss in Belarus
Putin never forgives and never forgets. It seems likely that Prigozhin will have difficulty buying life insurance and will either fall out of a window or eat a polonium burger in the near future
So, it seems to me to be a win for Putin. He has remained in power; Prigozhin is a (possibly soon to be dead) exile; the Wagner Group has been dismantled and any other challengers will have seen that it’s not so easy to deputinise Russia.
But hey, maybe it’s just stupid ignorant me who is suffering from ‘Confirmation Bias’?
I have written several times on this blog about how I believe that the freedoms and material well-being we have in the West, and which so many people take for granted, are just a tiny unrepresentative historical blip. I have proposed that 99.9% of all the people who have ever lived or who live now have spent their lives in misery and poverty oppressed by gangsters, crooks, despots and clowns. And, as the son of an immigrant who fled to Britain to escape oppression, I can’t understand the loathing our ruling political, academic and media elites have for Western culture and society. I can’t understand why they want to destroy everything the West has created with their weapons of choice – replacing us using mass open-borders immigration, trashing of our history, anti-white racism, ludicrous deindustrialisation through Net Zero, cancellation of free speech and denial of basic biology.
Here’s Neil Oliver saying pretty much the same thing though much more eloquently than I ever could:
I’m writing and posting this blog on Thursday everning. So I don’t know if the mainstream media will cover this story. If they do, I apologise for wasting your time. But I suspect this won’t be mentioned as it contradicts the mainstream-media narrative that youth and diversity are wonderful and white middle-aged men are a curse on humanity. So the more diverse we are and the fewer white middle-aged men we listen to, the more the world will be a modern paradise. Or so we’re told. Especially on Windrush Day when we celebrate the ‘amazing’ contribution people from the Carribean have supposedly made to our country.
Stockton Rush, CEO of the OceanGate company responsible for the Titanic exploration (tourist trip?) submarine currently lost at sea, seems to have prioritized diversity over experience when putting together his company. “When I started business… other sub operators [were] out there but they typically [had] gentlemen who are ex-military submariners… a whole bunch of 50-year-old white guys,” he said during a 2020 intervuew.
“I wanted our team to be younger, to be inspirational… [A] 25-year-old who’s a sub pilot or a platform operator or one of our techs can be inspirational,” he said while an image of a female crew member showed on screen, adding: “We also want our team to have a variety of different backgrounds.”
Of course, I am not an undersea exploration expert. But I am a qualified ‘day skipper’, so have a basic understanding of things like water and waves and suchlike. And I imagine that had the submersible company employed what the big boss seemingly contemptuously refers to as ‘a whole bunch of 50-year-old white guys’, who were ‘ex-military submariners’, then these ‘50-year-old white guys’ might have suggested things like:
what about having a transponder, like they have in planes, so rescuers can find us if something goes wrong?
what about having a big metal loop on the top of the submersible so we can be winched to safety if we have problems? From the little I have seen, I believe that had the submersible been found in time, the rescuers would have had the almost impossible job of looping a cable round it as there was nothing to attach a rescue cable to
what about having back-up electrical systems as the electrics had already failed on several previous dives?
is it a great idea that the submersible can only be opened from outside, so people inside have no means of escape under their control as they are bolted in? So, even if the submersible had floated to the surface, the people inside could still have died from lack of oxygen had rescuers not reached them in time to unbolt the craft
is it a great idea that parts of the submersible were bought from the local branch of the American version of B&Q? After all, the pressure at 3,000+ metres is rather more than in the typical DIY home improvement. Though, I do appreciate that, if you open an account at many DIY stores, you do get better prices on everything you buy
shouldn’t we get some kind of safety certification before taking paying passengers to what is probbaly the most dangerous place on Earth?
is a vessel piloted by a gaming controller really a serious design to travel to what is probbaly the most dangerous place on Earth?
Maybe there are good reasons why other submersible companies employ ‘50-year-old white guys’ who are‘ex-military submariners’ who could pose awkward questions based on their real-life experience rather than ‘inspirational, diverse’ young people with little to no experience and who probably wouldn’t have the confidence to question questionable decisions made by their big boss?
Here’s the interview in which the CEO of the submersible expresses his admiration for the ‘inspiration’ of young diverse people and his contempt for 50-year-old white guys’ who are ‘ex-military submariners’.
I suspect the BBC and C4 News won’t be mentioning this:
He’s directly responsible for over 7 million deaths from the Chinese Wuhan lab-leaked plague. Though, if you add in all those who died from being unable to asscess medical care for other conditions, all those killed by the ‘safe’ and ‘effective’ vaccines and all those whose businesses and lives were destroyed by the lockdowns, perhaps the death toll is nearer 20 million?
But this guy is laughing. Why? Because he just got away with mass murder. Nobody in the Third World dares criticise him as many countries there are victims of Chinese debt colonialism. And nobody in the developed world dares criticise him because with its population of 1.4 billion, including a rising middle class of about 500 million, China is a key export market for the larger Western companies and so nobody wants to upset Mr Xi Pinpong.
Let’s remember how we were lied to
While everyone has been treading on eggshells to avoid any criticism of China, I thought it might be useful to trace the timeline of the start of the Chinese lab-leaked plague to remind us of the criminal dishonesty of the corrupt Chinese government.
Realising that there was a new infectious disease spreading, the Chinese Communist Party banned all internal domestic travel by the end of January 2020. However, the Chinese government has been accused of putting pressure on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to refrain from recommending international travel restrictions till the end of March 2020 – a full two months after China’s Covid lockdowns. At the opening of the WHO’s Executive Board meeting on 3 February 2020, the WHO’s chief, Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was quoted as saying: ‘There is no reason for measures that unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade. We call on all countries to implement decisions that are evidence-based and consistent. The WHO stands ready to provide advice to any country that is considering which measures to take’.
In Europe, the plague first spread to Northern Italy as there are a lot of supposedly ‘Italian’ (particularly fashion) companies there actually owned and staffed by Chinese. So there were a lot of people travelling between China and Italy. From Italy, the plague quickly spread throughout Europe.
When the USA under President Donald Trump did start to advise against travel to or from China, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hua Chunying, criticised the U.S. travel advisories saying: ‘The U.S. government hasn’t provided any substantial assistance to us, but it was the first to evacuate personnel from its consulate in Wuhan, the first to suggest partial withdrawal of its embassy staff and the first to impose a comprehensive travel ban on Chinese travellers’. And, of course, leading Democrats and most of the U.S. press accused Trump of being a ‘racist’.
On 11 March 2020, the WHO belatedly declared Covid a global pandemic. But by that time the number of cases globally has grown thirteen fold. By then, according to the WHO’s own website, more than 118,000 cases had been reported in over 100 countries and over 4,000 people had died. But it wasn’t till 27 March 2020 that Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to limit international flights from China. China’s Civil Aviation Administration announced that: ‘ninety percent of international flights would be temporarily suspended and the number of incoming passengers cut from 25,000 a day to 5,000 a day’. But by then it was too late as Covid had become a global crisis. By the end of April 2020 the U.S. had lost around 60,000 lives and Italy, Spain, France and Britain around 20,000 each. Worldwide, there were over 200,000 deaths and that was doubling every two weeks.
What about the Ethiopian?
Here’s the big boss of the WHO, Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, with his Chinese BFFL:
I’m sure Tedros is a wonderful human being who loves dogs and children and whose favourite film is The Sound of Music. But some people, cynical people, might think he’s a worthless, corrupt, self-serving, money-grabbing, incompetent bureaucrat who knowingly aided and abetted Xi Pingpong’s mass murder in order to ensure China’s support for his own continuation in the wonderful WHO top job. After all, despite his catastrophic mishandling of the lab-leaked Chinese plague pandemic, in particular his refusal to announce a pandemic and his refusal to propose an international travel ban, in May 2022 our friend Tedros was re-elected to a second very lucrative five-year term as WHO boss. And he would never have got that without Chinese support.
Anyway we’re not allowed to criticise Tedros as he’s more than suntanned and so any criticism would be ‘racist’ and ‘neo-colonialist’ and ‘white-supremacist’ and suchlike.
And so there is a deafening silence amongst world leaders and the media about the seemingly minor matter of between 7 million and 20 million unnecessary deaths caused by the laughing Chinaman and his Ethiopian chum.
The Wuhan Song
And for any new readers who haven’t seen it, here’s a video I made three years ago about the Chinese lab-leaked plague at the time when we were constantly being told it came from the Wuhan ‘wet market’ and any suggestion it came from a lab leak were condemned as psychologically deranged conspiracy theories:
I have previously written blogs about two individuals who a really cynical cynic might suspect were promoted more for their woke credentials than for any proven ability or experience.
First there was the (IMVHO) utterly useless Dame Cressida ‘Dickless’ Dick who seems to have almost single-handedly wreaked havoc in the collapsing Met police. And I speculated that the NHS’s new (seemingly invisible whenever there’s a problem to be solved) new boss Amanda Pritchard might be hewn from the same marvellous material as Dame Cressida:
More recently I wondered whether Dame Sharon ’empty-shelves’ White, a lady with no retail experience that I could see, might really be what the formerly respected and now loss-making John Lewis and Waitrose needed to save the company from a coming collapse:
And now I think I’ve found yet another individual who could be following in the noble tradition of Dame Dick and Dame Empty-Shelves.
Last week the BBC reported on the Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Police Force, a certain Sarah Crew, saying she believes her own force is “institutionally racist”. Sarah Crew said she came to that conclusion after applying a series of criteria to Avon and Somerset Police following a report into the local criminal justice system: “I’m in no doubt that, by Baroness Casey’s criteria at least, Avon and Somerset Police is institutionally racist,” Ms Crew said. “I must accept that the definition fits – it does for race,” added Ms Crew.
Not content with accusing her own officers of racism, Ms Crew went even further: “I think it’s likely too for misogyny, homophobia and disability as well, though the gaps in the data don’t give us the sense of scale, impact or certainty that we have for race.”
A cynic might think that Ms Crew has just learnt a lot of big, new, important words like ‘institutionally racist’, ‘misogyny’ and ‘homophobia’ on her Critical Race Theory and other woke training sessions and is keen to use them to demonstrate her woke credentials.
Personally, I’m somewhat doubtful about her claim that her subordinates are ‘institutionally racist’ as I rather suspect that the region of Avon and Somerset probably has the lowest proportion of multi-cultural enrichers of any police force in England. So there probably aren’t too many people for the Avon and Somerset police to be racist to.
Moreover, I’m no expert in human motivational theory. But I have managed project teams for most of my working life. I imagine that if I went around telling all and sundry that my teams were all made up of pig-ignorant racist thugs, that really wouldn’t be a great way to generate loyalty and improve performance. But I suppose I must bow to Ms Sarah Crew’s greater experience. Or maybe it’s just that in today’s public sector, demonstrating your wokeness is much more important to your career progression than actually delivering results.
Anyway, here’s a link to the BBC News article featuring Chief Constable Sarah Crew’s views and then you just click on the first image to watch the short video of this fine lady liberally crapping all over her own subordinates:
On Friday 9 June, I received an email from Waitrose telling me to “Get ready to celebrate Pride”.
This email flaunted how woke Waitrose was: “It’s Pride month, and we’re looking forward to celebrating with family, friends and colleagues – and of course, delicious food and drink!
“At Waitrose and John Lewis, we’re committed to inclusion – and our LGBTQIA+ network, Pride in the Partnership, is always busy. So far this year, we’ve celebrated LGBTQIA+ History month in February and International Trans Day of Visibility in March with events and educational packs for Partners.”
Copying this from the email Waitrose sent me, I was reminded of a few lines from a job ad for a Diversity, Inclusion and Equality assistant for Lincoln Community Health Services Trust which I included in an article I recently wrote for The Conservative Woman. The candidate’s responsibilities included: “Set up meetings, facilitate arrangements for EDI celebration weeks and days (to include Black History Month, LGBT+ History Month, Carers week and International Women’s Day’.
I imagine all Waitrose stores will be festooned with Gay Pride rainbow banners and suchlike. Well, I guess they need something to put in their stores as the shelves seem rather empty:
Apparently Waitrose recently used an Indian IT company to ‘upgrade’ their IT systems. As usual with any IT ‘upgrade’ chaos ensued. One tech website reported:
‘A bungled system update has left the chain’s stores with a shortage of fresh produce, while customers have also reported problems using its app and securing slots for deliveries. Waitrose, which is part of John Lewis, has 329 stores across the UK.
‘Waitrose customers started reporting problems over the May Bank Holiday weekend. A system update took longer than expected, which interfered with the delivery of fresh produce.
Tech Monitor has contacted Waitrose to find out more information, but a spokesperson for the chain told the Daily Telegraph on Friday that the problem had been fixed. “We’re really sorry for the disruption that some customers faced. We’ve fixed the cause of the problem, and have regular daily deliveries going to all our branches,” the spokesperson said. “Many shops now have good availability, and we’re addressing localised issues as quickly as possible.”
Well, I went to a large Waitrose store on Monday this week and I can assure you that ‘the cause of the problem’ has not been fixed – more than half the basic everyday items I wanted to buy were unavailable. The shelves were empty.
Meet Sharon ’empty-shelves’ White
That brings us to Dame Sharon White, who I have affectionately dubbed Sharon ’empty-shelves’ White. Though here she is in a Waitrose shop which apparently had some stock on its shelves
According to Wikipedia, Dame Sharon has had a stellar career:
White worked for a church in Birmingham before joining the British civil service in 1989. She worked first at the Treasury and later for the British Embassy in Washington. She also worked at the 10 Downing Street policy unit during the Blair Government, at the World Bank, and as a director general at the Department for International Development in 2003–09 and then at the Ministry of Justice in 2009–11, and also at the Department for Work and Pensions
In December 2014, it was announced that White would be the chief executive of Ofcom from March 2015. In June 2019, it was announced that White would be stepping down from her role at Ofcom to take a position as the sixth Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership. It was confirmed that White will be awarded an annual salary of £990,000 for her role at the John Lewis Partnership, a significant increase on her previous salary, which was £341,700 according to data released by Ofcom.
Hopefully readers will have noticed that all Dame Sharon’s previous jobs before taking over at the John Lewis Partnership (which includes John Lewis and Waitrose) were in public-sector organisations where you tend to be handed huge sums of taxpayers’ money for what many of us wouldn’t describe as ‘work’. Most of the people leading British retailers and supermarkets have spent their lives in retail and have a vast amount of retail experience. As far as I can see, Dame Sharon has never had to do the difficulty job of providing anything that a customer might want to buy at a price the customer would be willing to pay.
Of course, there’s nothing wrong with a company bringing in a new boss with a new perspective and new ideas. And Sharon has, I believe, proposed things like destroying the John Lewis partnership structure by bringing in new investors who will want to be paid dividends every year and also building flats above or instead of stores. But before coming up with brilliant new ideas, it could be useful if the new boss could prove they were capable of successfully running the basic business for which they are responsible. However, in March 2023, the magazine Retail Gazette reported: ‘John Lewis Partnership has plunged to a loss of £234 million and admitted it could not afford to pay staff their traditional annual bonus.’
The Retail Gazette also reported: ‘John Lewis Partnership chairman Sharon White has pledged to return the retailer to profit before 2026, adding that staff bonuses would only return “when affordable”. Following three years of losses, White’s five-year plan, kicked off back in 2021, would “get the partnership back to sustainable profit”.
And Dame Sharon is quoted as saying her recovery plan would create: “a broadly based business with brilliant retail at the core, built on excellent customer service, quality and ethics”. Though from the little I have read, I believe Dame Sharon’s great plan includes swingeing cost cutting, which usually means getting rid of loyal staff so the big boss can get a massive bonus.
Go woke, go broke?
That brings us to the cliché: ‘Go woke, go broke’.
A cynic might wonder if John Lewis’s and Waitrose’s current problems are yet another example of “go woke, go broke’. After all, Waitrose boasts: “At Waitrose and John Lewis, we’re committed to inclusion – and our LGBTQIA+ network, Pride in the Partnership, is always busy. So far this year, we’ve celebrated LGBTQIA+ History month in February and International Trans Day of Visibility in March with events and educational packs for Partners.” Yet at the same time shoppers are reportedly abandoning Waitrose in droves as there’s no point going to a shop with loads of empty shelves.
A really nasty cynic might even wonder if Dame Sharon ’empty-shelves’ White is following in a new tradition of ladies such as Dame Cressida Dick at the failed Metropolitan Police, Amanda Pritchard (who no doubt will also soon be a ‘Dame’) at the collapsing NHS and Alison Saunders at the useless Crown Prosecution Service who have possibly been hired more for their wokeness and diversity credentials than for their experience or abilities. But I’m not a really nasty cynic so I would never suggest anything like that.
As for me, I visit a shop to buy stuff, not to be bombarded with the latest woke garbage being inflicted on us by shouty (IMHO) mentally-deranged minorities. So I won’t be going back to Waitrose for some time, if ever.
In George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’ there was a Ministry of Truth. It’s quite difficult to see any difference between Orwell’s Ministry of Truth and our Government’s Counter Disinformation Unit.
Here’s what this important Government department does:
The purpose of the CDU’s work is focused on helping the government understand online disinformation narratives and attempts to artificially manipulate the information environment. The CDU takes an evidence-based approach to countering harmful disinformation online, through aggregated analysis of publicly available information, typically from social media.
And it contacts any social media platforms whenever the CDU finds information it considers potentially harmful disinformation so that the social media can remove any content considered disinformation:
If any of the content the CDU reviews may infringe the moderation policies of the social media platforms from which the content derived, the CDU may notify the relevant platform. The platform will make a decision whether to take any action consistent with their policies. The information CDU shares with social media providers is limited to sending links to content of concern, or aggregated overarching trends.
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said:
We need people to follow expert medical advice and stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives. It is vital that this message hits home and that misinformation and disinformation which undermines it is knocked down quickly.
We’re working with social media companies, and I’ll be pressing them this week for further action to stem the spread of falsehoods and rumours which could cost lives.
When false narratives are identified, the government’s Rapid Response Unit coordinates with departments across Whitehall to deploy the appropriate response. This can include a direct rebuttal on social media, working with platforms to remove harmful content and ensuring public health campaigns are promoted through reliable sources.
The unit is one of the teams feeding into the wider Counter Disinformation Cell led by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, made up of experts from across government and in the tech sector.
The Cell is engaging with social media platforms and with disinformation specialists from civil society and academia, to establish a comprehensive overview of the extent, scope and impact of disinformation related to coronavirus.
So I imagine anyone suggesting any of the following:
The Chinese plague leaked from a dirty, poorly-run Chinese lab
The miracle vaccines are not safe and not effective and are not miraculous
Lockdowns were a total disaster causing greater misery than Covid ever would have caused
Catastrophic anthropogenic climate change is a semi-religious cult with no scientific basis
Women cannot have penises and men don’t menstruate
and much much more
Would have been monitored by the Counter Disinformation Unit and often had their social media activity downgraded by helpful algorithms or else removed altogether.
And you may have thought we lived in a free, democratic society.
Before I blow a fuse in fury, I’ll hand over to Dr John Campbell to explain the many benefits the Counter Disinformation Unit has brought Britain. Though it seems that like myself, Dr John Campbell only became aware of the existence of the Counter Disinformation Unit recently:
David Craig, on July 3rd, 2023
