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Comments by "Edward McLaughlin" (@edwardmclaughlin7935) on "The Spectator" channel.

Lock down those who have chosen not to have the jab that doesn't stop or even hinder infection, nor transmission? How does that logic work? That's being locked down, not to protect anyone. It's the bludgeoning of those who resist. Bit of a giveaway that we're not talking about a health issue, but the exertion of control.
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So, Rod Liddle reckons it's all in order that I shouldn't be able to go into a pub, because I make the judgement that I don't need a 'vaccine' for a virus that has a better than 99.8% survival rate?
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Lockdown has worked perfectly in the west as it was designed. Lockdown has almost destroyed the small/medium business sector along with the society it serves/served. Anyone who thinks the government is going to let up before the job has been completed, is living in a dream. The plans are already in place to take us back into lockdown in the fall. Nothing to do with 'saving Granny'.
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This woman's sound advice is all well and good, and very welcome; but what we must ask ourselves is, why is our PM refusing to alter his course one little bit? He is solidly wedded to the advice of SAGE who themselves seem determined to lead us to ruin. People are being thrown on the scrap-heap in their thousands, daily, while SAGE are adamant that we cannot ease lockdown until we reach the point of zero infections.
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Yet another doom narrative piece from the Spectator. How many businesses have gone bust today Mr Nelson, while you preside over this shitshow?
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There are still way too many small/medium businesses whose proprietors still fancy their chances of returning to trading and to making money. Until they are cured of their hideous traits of free enterprise and self-determination, there can be no lifting of lockdown. Or, translated into SAGEspeak: 'until we have a zero infection rate, we can not think of lifting lockdown'.
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But, Professor, we would 'get out of this epidemic' just as we have dealt with every epidemic of corona virus: we would develop natural herd immunity. That's how the whole world dealt with corona virus outbreaks right up until 2020 when people like you were bought by China.
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Anyone fancy a little quiz question to pass a few moments of our three-week lockdown? What do the following years have in common: 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996? Answer: all-cause excess death totals per capita were greater than the figure for 2020. So why are we trashing our economy for this?
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The Spectator is a shill. 100%
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Whether the Koof was from a lab (not one mention of the phrase 'gain of function' here for some reason) or some other source, its 'inception' came at just the right time. No sooner had the World Economic Forum completed its training exercise in preparation for 'an event', and here it was, that very event. Then within days of our curve-flattening lockdown, we were assailed by world leaders popping out from everywhere, with indecent haste, to tell us that we could never go back to the way we had lived just a week previously; and that we must prepare for a 'new normal' which we would...altogether now comrades: "Build Back Better." Were we to adopt a questioning stance on the whole affair, we might justifiably think the whole thing had been somehow orchestrated? Personally, I feel that the worst part of the three week lockdown has been the first two years.
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Walport is just one more BigPharma mouthpiece posing as a voice of reason.
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'Vaccine reluctance'. Well there are 30 people in Norway who were perfectly happy to be experimented on this week. They're all now dead. But it's apparently no big deal as they were all elderly people 'who were near death anyway'. Strange that the mantra of 'saving Granny' which has underpinned so much of the lockdown that is exterminating the economy; is casually jettisoned when we have a vaccine to enforce on the public.
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Have the people at The Spectator lost the plot - or are they in on it?
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The Spectator has spent a whole year plying the lockdown narrative trade. Why change now?
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"It's just a mask." "It's just six feet." "It's just two weeks." "It's just non essential businesses." "It's just non essential workers." "It's just a bar." "It's just a restaurant." "It's just to keep from overwhelming the hospitals." "It's just to make the cases go down." "It's just to flatten the curve." "It's just a few inmates." "It's just to keep others from getting scared." "It's just for a few more weeks." "It's just church. You could still pray." "It's just a bracelet." "It's just an app." "It's just for tracing." "It's just to let others know you're safe to be around." "It's just to let others know who you've been in contact with." "It's just a few more months." "It's just a large gathering but for protests." "It's just a few violent protests." "It's just a vaccine." "It's just a little microchip." "It's just a blood test." "It's just a scan." "It's just for medical information." "It's just a vaccination certificate." "It's just like a credit card." "It's just a few places that don't take cash." "It's just so you can travel." "It's just so you can get your driver's license." "It's just so you can vote." "It's just a few more years." It's just the NEW WORLD ORDER..... Shawn Stephens
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"The Spectator's crack team." This explains much.
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@anthonyhughes2402 Well, exactly. As in, why would an advisory body comprised at least in part by communists, not be inclined to err on the side which prohibits the freedom of free traders to trade?
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@chicotthejester9341 My pity turned to despise a while back.
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It hits people the same as a bad flu. Flu kills tens of thousands of people every year just in the UK.
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"...will 'freedom day' be delayed?" Only three things could explain such a question: crack cocaine; a massive brown envelope; or ideologically-driven, well-crafted duplicity.
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Meanwhile in Florida Meanwhile in South Dakota Meanwhile in Texas Meanwhile in Sweden
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The Spectator is now full-on woke bollocks.
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@kaiserchief9319 Don't know about any of that. All I can say is he looks like he's going downhill fast lately. People living in shop doorways looking after themselves better.
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Quoting Neil Ferguson: "...we didn't know if we could do lockdowns." We had a pretty good idea because we had taken part in a series of training exercises from 2018 which gave us the confidence to try....if we should ever.....you know......need it at any time in the erm.....future.
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@SAHBfan Indeed. We have been/ are being scammed. A very powerful and sinister game is being played.
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"...a huge spike in cases and deaths..." Meanwhile, in Florida.
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Keep on cranking out the words, Spectator. Still a way to go before the economy is trashed.
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One of these days, Fraser Nelson will jab one of his colleagues with a stick and get them to look into the destruction of our currency that has been going on for the last couple of years, while we've been encouraged to think of the common cold as being ebola. Then again, maybe more lesbian divorce trends are what we really need to know about? Martial law in Canada, anyone?
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@balancer182 We're safe then? Until the communists of SAGE, carefully selected by a Tory PM, decide it's time to peddle the sheep some more misleading stat's; and get back to tearing down the small/medium business sector.
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Yes, tragic isn't it, that a nation of near-on 70 millions cannot do anything to feed itself. In fact we are completely hopeless without Mother EU aren't we - and all that remainer bollocks. But the most important thing is, all of this piffle gives The Spectator and its staff another few days' excuse to leave its real job unattended - the inexorable take down of the UK economy can be carried on with not a word.
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Clavier Best of luck to you. Keep your eye on the way elections have been held in Western countries lately. The 'handling' of postal votes is an increasing concern. Also has France availed itself of the Dominion system that was so 'influential' in last year's US election?
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Lionel Shriver voted for Biden. She sees what the Biden administration has done regarding immigration, and she deplores the situation. Yet she says she will vote for Biden again. Could anyone explain the logic here?
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@vindaloovince2194 Wow that's a good job the prop bomb has done on you mate. Firstly, the mutation thing is way overplayed. Flu', a different virus, is infamous for its propensity to mutate. Corona not so. Further: any 'mutation' is cut down by a shorter period of circulation; enabled by a prolonged period such as lockdown is designed to assure.
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Tim Chapman He's a great critic and analyst of trends and movements. A great mystery as to why he has said nothing about that movement that was started in March 2020 and is ongoing.
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No surprise that if you seek the advice of a scientist who happens also to be a communist, that science might be presented in such a way as to destroy the capitalist economy that pays both you and the scientist. Take out the 'if'. This is what is happening in UK.
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More covid-narrative bollocks. Just keep prattling on about hope and vaccines; keep the numpties occupied while the economy that feeds them is trashed daily. The Spectator is a complete disgrace.
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@adriang2053 How do any of us know what level flu is at right now? What is the basis of your figures?
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@adriang2053 Fantastic news! So now all we need to do is lockdown every year and we all get to live forever!
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It's not whether or not lockdowns cause harm; it's just getting to grips with the order of magnitude. This is the biggest scandal in our era. The people responsible - those who instigated this and preside over it still - need to be tried in a court. They are criminals. They have committed crimes against the people who, above any other duty, they are supposed to protect.
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Pension pots hit by an unsteady stock market? How about the cratering of the economy due to the criminal lockdowns? Maybe a discussion about the stealth tax of inflation through the printing of £££££billions that is going to reduce all of us to penury? No? Thought so. Same old cosseted middle class working from home on full pay so don't give a shit, Spectator. Best bit is: you lot are the prime target this time. Enjoy the slide.
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Because The Spectator is fully behind the whole covid scam.
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German re-unification could not have happened without the withdrawal of Russian forces. The agreement was that if they did this, NATO would not make any advances eastward. Obama then spent $billions setting up the dictatorship which is Ukraine, and now Russia is faced with a prospective NATO member on its doorstep, all tooled-up. Putin is continually portrayed as the ex-KGB spy up to no good when he protests on behalf of the Russian people, of this encroachment. Meanwhile, the heads of Western states engage in a war against their own respective peoples. Look at what they have done over this past two years; whole countries traumatised by state-funded propaganda, into the belief that a middle-ranking coronavirus was about to cut them down if they ventured out to get the milk. The economies that feed people have been strangled on the pretext that war must be waged on a virus that it turns out, is utterly incapable of keeping a 95 year-old Queen from attending to her work. The people of the once-free, once-democratic West are indeed facing the most savage assault from an immensely powerful and determined force. Putin is not that force.
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The NHS waiting list, and 'what's gone so wrong'? How about the fact that our government, when faced with a middle-ranking viral outbreak, chose to select a range of specialist advisers that had no virologist in the ranks at the outset, nor and epidemiologist - instead a whole team of behavioural psychologists, bristling with schemes by which the people could be made to cower in their homes as a preliminary step towards their mass formation psychosis? The bright idea (because it will signal the potential horror so vividly) of building the Nightingale Hospitals....and then disbanding them, some without ever admitting one patient - none ever having treated more than a handful. Money no object. First signs of warning came, when thousands of elderly sick people were turfed-out of hospital wards and taken back to their nursing homes not only to die, but to take sickness back to all their fellow residents. All those pensions nipped-off eh? Result. The £billions thrown into the Track and Trace scheme, and testing regimes generally - the millions of NHS hours expended - that were more to do with inculcation towards digital identity surveillance than dealing with any virus? The other £billions spent on coercing people into taking part in the experimental mRNA injections - the 'light at the end of the tunnel' - that turn out to offer no light at all? The continuing priority given to people who have woken up with a bit of a sniffle, over those whose known tumour is daily figuring out how to spread and progress through their body. The chest pain that might go away, but didn't etc etc? The absolute crime of forcing people to die alone 'because covid restrictions'? The two-year and counting, transformation of GP services from 'sit down and talk and be listened to', to 'don't bother unless tested positive we really are under extreme pressure as you must understand DO NOT COME TO THE CENTRE'? The, by now widely realised, fraud in the classification of causes of death so as to keep the doom narrative stoked with daily death figures for the BBC to trumpet? How to alienate a population from its health service, in a series of well-planned moves.
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"We're talking about the most seismic, political, economic health event of our times." We're actually talking about the biggest crime in history; perpetrated by the British Government on its own people. Who selected the people who comprised SAGE? Why did Hancock lie about 'the so called' Great Barrington Declaration?
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@hmq9052 ...except be honest.
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@adriang2053 But PHE stated that from Oct 8 the flu figure would be rolled into the covid figure.
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@adriang2053 If it were just Carl Vernon saying it you might have a point. However, it is Carl Vernon showing the actual report (did you even watch it?) from Public Health England - now, mysteriously no longer available. It might of course just be a hologram or CGI of course.
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Nachos with a slice of lime Could I impose on you by asking for a link to one of these please?
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Lionel Shriver rightly states that we are "in the grip of people". Her description of them as morons is less sound. There is nothing at all stupid in that small cohort who are imposing the 'climate crisis/net zero' scheme on Western economies in such suspiciously regimented fashion and with such damaging effects. They know perfectly well what they are doing and they are pursuing their aims very astutely. Their power and grip on our legislative bodies is such that even now, when we are largely aware of what is being perpetrated, we can do nothing to put a brake on their progress. By Mass Formation we are being ushered into penury.
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Why is The Spectator colluding with the government in their push to make people who are in no danger from the virus, accept what is still an experimental medication that will not stop them becoming infected and will not stop their passing infection to others?
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Fraser Nelson needs to do some research. "If it's not lockdown, what else could it be?" Lockdowns don't work Fraser. It's an airborne virus; it spreads, finds hosts who are susceptible until it runs out of them, thereby waning. It's what they do every year and lockdown does not stop it. That's why even the WHO and health authorities the world over have for decades not advocated lockdown as a means of controlling viral outbreaks in the long term. But because we are 'led by the science' which turns out to be a highly selective bunch of malcontents, we have absolutely destroyed so much of the small/medium business base which employs millions of people. Lives have been torn to pieces by this dreadful team of people; and the Spectator has stood idly by, watching them do it.
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Covid Shmovid. The mRNA medication being pushed on the public has from the outset been declared as not a bar to gaining infection and transmitting to others. It's selling point has been that it restrains the progress of the virus within the individual concerned. (Even that claim is looking increasingly flaky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vUJKgtinvg) The blatant illogicality then, of the whole passport/selective lockdown argument should at least cause concern. Not so it seems. Just confront those in the ranks of the jabbed with this and then watch as they go off to that hazy little place they have formed in their heads to escape reality - that bunker to which they know they can resort, after having been bombarded by twenty months of MSM propaganda, into their state of mass psychosis. And just this morning we have the next missiles whistling in from plandemic central command - the next 'mutation' from Botswana, unlabelled as yet so as a working title we might refer to it as the "BlowJob's excuse to destroy two UK Christmases in a row" strain. Not a moment too soon eh?
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@DieFlabbergast Same here. She's so astute and almost always finds ways to express things I'm thinking but failing to put into words. But the Biden/Trump thing seems to have her run-ragged.
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@winstonsmith2079 Great, so to save infections we must stop living. How long do we have to not live before flu is eradicated, never to return?
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@winstonsmith2079 Very young. I had the vaccine and I had TB vaccinations later. My non anti vax credentials are in place. I am anti experimental and coerced vaccinations. Any news on when the White Horse might be open again?
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@winstonsmith2079 I've come to youtube to comment on the captured Spectator initially. I've said nothing about my parents, nor should you. 'Most studied', as in rushed-out and just this week thinking they might mix vaccines, as it might work. Maybe if they put a bit of Dettol in there, shake it round a bit? That's worth squirt surely?
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What an appalling introduction by Katy Balls. Putin did not 'threaten to use nuclear weapons if he doesn't get what he wants in Ukraine'. Utterly scandalous reporting.
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@hmq9052 You're the bearer of good news then: that Mr Whitty's two year prediction is up and we are free? (By the way, had you meant to say 'putting the brakes on, perhaps? That would actually make sense)
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@adriang2053 Adrian, I supplied that to you or one of your 77 colleagues recently. You're slipping. Long watch eh?
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@bigphil1229 I need no warning mate honestly. I've been telling people for years that he will one day unveil a very dark secret. Here we are.
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Lockdown cannot be eased until we have a zero infection rate. This, according to Susan Michie of SAGE. Go figure.
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Why does Rod Liddle, along with all the other big-hitters at The Spectator, remain silent on the subject of the World Economic Forum, its stated aims and the extent to which its acolytes occupy positions of power in our government and institutions?
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@lynnyoungman1280 Any death will do. Just death, death, death to scare the sheep.
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@rufusreloaded1043 Susan Michie; she of the diktat: 'we cannot ease lockdown until we have a zero infection rate'.
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@wonbadood8243 I stopped my subscription weeks ago because it became clear I was contributing to yet another outlet for the lockdown project to kill the nation's economy and way of life. From the editor down, they have all been inculcated to the cause.
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Yet another week of the entire Spectator staff choosing to ignore the fact that our wages/savings/pensions are purposely being drained away by the Bank of England, pulling the middle and working classes into eternal, digitally-monitored penury. Thanks to you all for your service.
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Hancock's message files are chicken feed. Where are Johnson's? Whitty's? (not just to Hancock) Vallance's? Susan Michie's? So many more. Covid and the Ukraine: different phases; same war. Youtube "HANG ON! Ukraine's new digital transformation program JUST started, WE ARE NEXT | Redacted News"
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Look at this comment section, Spectator - can you see a pattern of sentiment? Does the direction of comments cause any concern at all, given that Lisa Haseldine and her colleagues have spent the period since February 2022 resolutely in the 'totally unprovoked' school, and totally rejecting any notion that NATO and the EU have done anything that might have contributed to this catastrophe? Then look at the shambles that the Spectator site comment section has become, with its cadre of enlisted Russophobes and the recent technical 'developments' that have seen to it that any ability to develop discussion has been taken-down. The Spectator is a zombie magazine.
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Fake news! He says 6 o'clock, clock says 7. Only joshing - this is a much needed source and I wish it all the best. BBC News, hope it's hot down there.
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The West's economies are in terminal, designer decline, their fall imminent, with all the horrors of the societal mayhem that will entail; and Fraser Nelson has his stable trotting aimlessly and full-salaried through the heather.
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No-one who has the slightest intention of extricating us from the clutches of the technocrat/World Bank programme, will be allowed anywhere near the top. The suits will be shuffled and business will be carried on in precisely the same manner.
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Vaizey would do well to avoid debates with people who have debating skills. He is more at home in parliament.
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Sir Mark Walport seems to be fully behind the move to have the state jab every arm in the land, multiple times. His 'nothing sinister going on here' has itself a sinister ring to it. His claim that the mRNA treatments for which no long-term effects can be available in this short term deployment; can be regarded as every bit as wholesome as the polio or the TB vaccinations we all know to have been safe; less than convincing. (Safe, who knows yet, maybe because they were actual vaccines and not modifications to our RNA?) His assurance of the ability of the jabs, to stop the passing of infection, is contrary to previous information from ministers and advisers that in fact the jabs do not stop people becoming infected, nor do they stop that infection being passed to others - their saving grace being that they alleviate symptoms and can curtail the onset of serious illness. If, as he states, almost 90% of adults have been jabbed at least once, then how is it that we are not just totally in the clear now, instead of being held in this doom-narrative grip? What percentage of cover are we to aim for? How can he be sure that in fact the jabs are the sole reason for our improved ratio between 'cases' and hospitalisations? Have our abilities to develop natural herd immunity been reduced to zero? The 'India' or 'Delta' variant as it became known, has turned out to be, as he must surely be aware, nothing of concern. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtOu7jx3snQ Meanwhile, the economy that feeds all our kids and pays Sir Mark's salary, is being slow-bled by the day; it's workers thrown onto state dependency.
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After a year of rampant Russophobia in the pages of The Spectator, it seems that there's a bit of an under-the-covers attempt to wake up to reality while saving face. However, even now, Owen Matthews sneers at the Russian economy as being insignificant in terms of its GDP. What sets the Russian economy apart from all of those in the West, is that it is running a surplus. That quaint old habit of spending less than you earn, has its merits. The Western economies are increasingly bankrupt and only survive, courtesy of the scam being run between their respective treasuries and central banks whereby they simply hit the keyboard to produce out of thin air, new 'money' for their supine populations to buy more stuff. This mis-match is the real war. An increasing number of countries (and Russia is merely the one being 'focused-on' right now) have had enough of being expected to stump up so that the profligate West can carry on holding all the goodies. Russia's stand is against an arrogant, effete and vainglorious band of thieves. This is a bigger war than any we have known, yet the flaccid reporters of the West just cannot think outside their comfort zone of those other times of "starting off weak, then getting stronger to finally come through". Not this time. The West is putting itself to sleep as painlessly as possible.
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Good to see Prof' Mearsheimer being given a platform to speak in the established media. Across the alternative scene he has from the outset been a central source of truth regarding the origins of the Ukraine conflict, offering much to counter the tub-thumping, Russophobic memery that generally prevails in the UK on this crucial issue. He honestly admits that he is flummoxed by Trump's antics. Anyone who, at this stage, claims they have a sure grasp of Trump's direction, is either a fool or a manipulator. There are those who are so desperately in need of some antidote to the nonsense of the Biden administration, that they hang on to every Trump move and read it as salvation. This faith stands little chance of being rewarded. When the Trump ego comes up against the hard rock of the Russian predicament, things could become very dangerous. Russia's predicament then and the problem we all now face, is that it has to reach that point at which it feels once again that it has scotched permanently the project that seeks to dismantle its state and to wrest control over the Russian land-mass along with its globally important resources; thereafter to direct aggression toward its other imagined nemesis, China. Whatever Trump promises to the Russians, whatever deals he might propose, they know he is, with all his flamboyant gesture, just one more US President - they come and they go, while in their supposed exclusion, the Nulands/Blinkens/Sullivans etc who brought us to this impasse, remain dedicated to their mission, assiduously preparing for the next phase.
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Great timing with the sneeze at 3:12!
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Any chance The Spectator might spend a little time covering some worthwhile topic sometime? Yes, I know it must be difficult when there's just nothing of any significance going on right now; but maybe, an occasional mention of the catastrophe that our small business sector is experiencing due to criminal and needless restrictions on their ability to trade? The anniversary of our first year of enduring the virally oriented propaganda bombardment at the hands of 'the science' that turns out to be - how to put it - ideologically influenced? Or how about the escalating coercion that is forcing perfectly healthy people to allow themselves to be injected with whatever medication their local health authority 'invites' them to accept, or it's no Ibiza for you this year? Thin gruel perhaps, when there is so much delicious stuff-royal to prattle on about; but it might just bring back memories at the magazine, of that time when it had a pair.
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Our own government are in the process of flying the economy into the ground on a gentle, imperceptible gradient so that the passengers do not notice and just keep on watching the movie and ordering from the trolley. The latest crisis caused severe turbulence and a few anxious glances in business class. The £65bn has us back, smoothly drifting downward to the crash.
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Consuelo Patagonia The plan is extensive but as a starting point, if you are genuinely curious https://odysee.com/@QuantumRhinoQ:c/Thierry-Baudet-exposes-the-Rockefeller-Foundation-in-parliament:2
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Consuelo Patagonia The link I provided is of no use to you at all in this matter?
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Consuelo Patagonia I viewed it originally on youtube but it was taken down within the day. Basically, a session of the Dutch parliament; an MP has in his hand a document published in 2010 by the Rockefeller Foundation which is a fine detail playbook for what has happened in 2020: virus starts in China, they lock down, western governments follow suit. Lockdown is observed long term. The plan it is estimated is to take 13 years. This enables total reset of global economy. So many more sources/other players if you are interested.
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Consuelo Patagonia WEF and IMF, the Davos community are all fully on board. Klaus Schwab is central. "By 2030 you will own nothing, you will have no privacy, and you will be happy" The virus is now known to be laboratory-engineered so as to be transmissible between humans. All western governments have had their strategic positions occupied by globalist/marxist sympathisers for some time now - as such, the destruction of the west is manna from heaven. You must have heard their mantra, 'Build Back Better'? Pretty much code for communism.
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Consuelo Patagonia To follow up: just caught this today. Long video but well worth the watch. Ivor Cummins has been providing vital data throughout this past year and more. I hope this is useful.
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Interesting that The Spectator just keeps on backing the doom-narrative. Two years of failing to report on the plandemic and who did the planning. Total Spectator acquiescence throughout the entire lockdown process by which the economies that feed us are torn-down 'because covid'. At the same time, total failure to inform readers of the antics of the Bank of England and The Fed' etc; with their unprecedented dilution of respective currencies, so that wages, savings and pensions are in effect re-allocated in the biggest transfer of wealth in history. Now labelled 'borrowing and spending due to covid'. Borrowed from where? Borrowed in order to do what to a virus? - that turns out to be so lethal that our 95 year-old Queen cracks-on with it. And so the trolley rattles onto the next 'crisis'. Every word on the war in Ukraine is given as though the Russians are the unquestioned aggressors. Not a single mention of the relentless march by NATO and the EU right up to Russia's front door; building bases and siting missiles to the repeated reasoned protest from Putin. If we want unthinking propaganda we can simply go to the BBC. We want responsible, independent reporting on these crucial issues and it has been patently absent here at the Spectator, right from the inception of what increasingly identifies as our current period of concerted, global deceit. One can only place The Spectator as being firmly part of that deceit. For anyone interested in what is actually being played-out in Ukraine, here are a couple of links - one from a former US Army Colonel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6mw9U62ZJU ...and one from a senior US academic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnwRBH5jGvY
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"People are scared...they're kind of feeling their way" Scared of what? Thirty somethings all edgy after two years, wringing their hands over a virus that the 95 year old Queen batted off in a couple of days? How miraculous are the 'vaccines' that leave these people scared? What is wrong with you people? "Great cities have survived far worse than this...". "It's just silly to think that an event like covid would take London to its knees" Never have great cities been faced with the events of the last two years. For the first time ever, those charged with looking after the interests of the public, have chosen instead to throw in their lot with the scheme to destroy the economy that feeds us all. 'Covid' was never capable of taking London to its knees - the criminal lockdowns floored it. Businesses were prohibited from opening their doors to customers for extended periods. When they were allowed to re-open, we had the ridiculous pantomime of barcodes and the taking of people's temperature as they strolled in for a pint or a coffee "..put your mask on until you are seated" and all that utter bollocks. Now two years in...'people are scared'. Pathetic bedwetters. Over that whole period, in the background, the Bank of England has been playing its part of debasing the pound so that people's wages, savings and pensions are taken away from them by the stealthiest tax: the money printing and inflation. Never a word of this in the Spectator. Why? The 'cost of living' is not going up. The pound is going down. Why does the Spectator never delve into this, the biggest transfer of wealth in history?
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Really good that the Spectator has a war to focus on, now that the wheels have fallen off the plandemic cart. Heaven forbid that peace and normality should break-out before the wholesale destruction of the dollar and all its dependent currencies is completed; whole populations made into paupers. What a drear task that would be for the Spectator writers, having to actually get round to telling their readers of their newly designated status.
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@moominberries Many thanks.
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'...a background of cases which have been rising pretty quickly...' So, that same casedemic bollocks that is tearing down the UK economy as well. Just for the record: Oct 8...1 death Oct7...5 Oct6...1 Oct5...0 Oct4...0 Oct3...9 Oct2...n/a Oct1...2 Sep30...1 Sep29...1 Sep28...0 Sep27...0 Sep26...5 Sep25...0 Sep24...3 Who is paying Holohan? Why is Holohan not conversant in the well known path that is taken by viral infections?
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@joycejnn Thank you. I'm livid with both the NHS and everyone at the Spectator. They've sat by for two years knowing what all this is about.
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No mention of the way that so much of that '100,000 grim statistic' is made up of people who actually died of other causes. No attention whatsoever given to the fact that businesses are being killed off permanently with every day of the criminal and totally needless lockdown. No actual reporting done at the Spectator to question the covid/lockdown/vaccine-is-all narrative.
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Mr Sutherland raises the valid point that epidemiology 'works at the margins'. It certainly seems to be pushed to the side within the workings of SAGE - dominated as it is by behavioural psychologists who have managed to have those in the economic know, argue for the use of humour to win young people over to a lockdown that has one purpose only: that of bringing the economy that feeds them, to its knees. If he knows this and doesn't state it, he is a disgrace. If he doesn't he is incompetent.
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@bikerslow2598 We have fed ourselves up to this criminal act of lockdown. We have grown our own crops, raised our own animals and imported whatever we needed beyond that. We have fed ourselves. This was the case prior to our joining the Common Market. The shortages and transport difficulties are by design - part of the plan to kill the economy.
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@bikerslow2598 I never said we were self sufficient. I said we fed ourselves. Pay attention. You think we all need to be locked down do you, to wage war against a virus?
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In modern Britain, if you are in charge of a once-respected, once right-thinking magazine, and you witness the nation's economy being torn down by the elected Tory government, guided by a communist infested SAGE, under the guise of a bogus public health emergency; you say bugger all. For fifteen months.
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Britain has needed to be rescued from the ravages of criminal and needless lockdown for over a year. Britain has needed strong people in the media, who can stand up to the wall-to-wall doom narrative. Those at The Spectator, including Douglas Murray, should have been those strong people. Why have they not bothered to show up?
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UK LOCKDOWN EXTENDED TO JULY17th https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/750/regulation/19 (Look to 'Expiry' at bottom)
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This vaccine that is not a vaccine, James Forsyth says will be double-jabbed 'into all adults' by September. (He's wrong there because I won't be having one) He then goes on to envisage an NHS which could be overwhelmed by people for whom the treatment has been less than successful. Is it actually Lucozade they're jetting into people's arms as they munch on their grass and watch the Good Morning Britain pair sitting 2 metres away from each other for the cameras?
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Am I really hearing this? A political journalist for a British publication referring to the government's mistake in sticking with their generous grant to the nation, of a 'Christmas Relaxation Programme'? Yet another 'wake me up this cannot be real' instance.
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It's idiotic to remind ourselves how our currency has been debased?
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A 95 year-old Queen Elizabeth II becomes "a case", she catches the virus that has pinned down the economies of the West with such devastating consequences - and she carries on with a lighter workload. The Spectator has spent the past two years aiding and abetting the crime that was and is still being perpetrated.
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More koveed narrative bullshit. Keep it going you lot at the Spectator - nearly there now. Soon we'll have strangled every small/medium business to death. Well done all.
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jan go tiger
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Westminster porn-watcher to be disciplined by the chief whip. Likely to start a queue.
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@adamgrimsley2900 Could you kindly give just a couple of names of the people who offer solutions on this please? Or perhaps just give an outline of their main points?
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@adamgrimsley2900 What does Mr Stewart have in mind?
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@adamgrimsley2900 Just back from Stewart's plan. Basically, he suggests that NATO supply Ukraine - a dictatorship set up by Obama - with the very weapons that the Russians regard as a threat on their doorstep. Not the brightest is he?
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@adamgrimsley2900 Apart from my level of intelligence and Stewart's record though; how is it supposed to de-escalate the situation if we are to supply more weaponry to Ukraine, when such weapons capability is the very reason for Russia's alarm? Or is the aim to exacerbate the situation and go to hot war?
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@adamgrimsley2900 Yeah right. "...deterrent..." by the way.
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@adamgrimsley2900 It's just you were earlier so keen to question the intelligence of someone about whom you know nothing.
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@adamgrimsley2900 Ooh, an 'expert'! When they get expert status they're beyond challenge are they?
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@adamgrimsley2900 "I'm supposed..." How's that intelligence thing going mate?
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@adamgrimsley2900 Sorted.
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More tokenism from The Spectator. Health crisis as pretext. Professor Gupta has, from the outset, been giving us the scientific reality of how to deal with viral outbreaks. She is given a platform here once again because the people running The Spectator know they have to give the impression that they are engaging with competing scientific views; but they also know that there is only the one narrow band of science being followed by those in power, and they know why that is. We are now in the sixteenth month of this catastrophic breakdown. All of the measures taken by government have been guided by SAGE and they have all been aimed towards restricting - at worst, halting entirely - the operation of the small/medium business sectors which employ the greater part of our workforce. We are in the summer lull of respiratory death-harvest. Come the fall into winter and the government's toy box of statistics will be opened again - the 'modellers' will draw their parabolic lines and the trauma tap will be turned on once again. The horrors now being inflicted on Australians will be magnified here. Lockdown+ will be a thing and the coup de gras will be performed on the economy as we know it. The new economy can only be...ahem 'Built Back Better' when the old one has been razed to the ground. All of this is something that the people who run this magazine could perhaps consider worthwhile area of discussion. They have not told us a small part of it throughout these dreadful days. Peculiar, that.
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Mother Mary Youtube 'Ivor Cummins'
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@winstonsmith2079 What are those reasons?
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@winstonsmith2079 Firstly, because I've got a good immunity system that is fully capable of dealing with flu and corona viruses. Besides that, the 'vaccine' is very new, experimental and people have died from it. Just little things like that, you know.
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@winstonsmith2079 Didn't think it needed to go before me; as your status as an MSM sponge doesn't need announcing. Although, if I were anti vaccine, I would never have had my polio nor my TB vaccine would I?
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"...models are designed to do a particular thing...". Things such as traumatising people into compliance? Keeping traders away from their customers so that they go out of business? What's that? There's a positive side to the work the modellers have put in? They let us have 'support bubbles' after their bizarre exponential and massively unfounded curves had done the work of shutting everyone in their homes for weeks on end? Whatever would we have done with that sterling effort eh? "What do you think SPI-M and SAGE really got right?" Everything they were tasked with, they got right. Their statistical histrionics put 68 million people into zombie mode. They managed to traumatise the public into a state whereby from this point onward they think of this and all future viral outbreaks as the one that is going to kill them and therefore all of society and the economy that feeds them should be locked-down, regardless of any other factor or cost. Poor Dr Brooks Pollock comes over as a very lovely but uncomfortable person - the one who drew the short straw in the SPI-M zoom meeting.
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Middlesbrough Central? Does Middlesbrough have a centre?
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End of Lockdown. Enter the next semantic gargoyle under which our restriction of freedoms will remain firmly in place, and by which the small/medium business sector can be finished off entirely.
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@hmq9052 Silly, why?
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@hmq9052 Up to you mate. You want to comment on the point made or you just here to nit-pick?
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@hmq9052 All cosmetic time consumption while the real task of strangling the small/medium business sectors goes on apace. You have been observing recent announcement by our leaders have you?
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@adriang2053 Which link?
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@adriang2053 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdCM3DLZ4B0&t=24s
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@adriang2053 So still no response to the fact that there is proof that PHE issued the statement then? Neglect is not 'seeing-off'.
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@adriang2053 Debunked how? It is there as a stated fact from source.
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@adriang2053 Therefore, the document which was formerly published regarding flu is no longer available on its own? Why not just do one report that covers everything? So easy.
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@adriang2053 Fact remains: the report and of course the statistics within that report, refer not to flu and to covid but to the pair combined. Why would that be?
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@adriang2053 Incorrect, as in, not how you want it to be viewed.
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@adriang2053 Give nothing up. It's a stitch up like so much else with the corona scam.
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@spearmint47 I disagree. An ebola or bubonic plague carrier would very much have to be strictly quarantined for the good of the wider society. SARS Covid -2 is not in the same league. It doesn't even play the same sport.
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@adriang2053 I think you mean 'hypocritical' perhaps? Where did you get the idea that I had no interest in, or feeling of responsibility towards, the people around me? Also, what conspiracy do you have in mind? Would be sort of in order to know what I'm supposed to be theorising about that's all.
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@adriang2053 Not with you there. Muted what?
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@adriang2053 Please remind me. What spelling error? Nice to see you back on watch btw.
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The title 'Rishi's Lockdown' is extremely unfair. Well OK then, maybe just a bit unfair. The lockdowns were not of his making; he merely failed to do the right thing, which would have been to tell the truth that lockdowns were not at all here to save Granny and they were going to start that process by which large swathes of the small/medium business sector were to be extinguished. The biggest transfer of wealth from the low-paid and middle earning strata, straight to the top, needed a very radical plan to be enacted and lockdown was it. Everything to be taken to the ground so as to "Build Back Better", as it were. We might just as well use the title "Nelson's Lockdown" or "Liddle's Lockdown" or "Shriver's Lockdown" or "Neil's Lockdown" or "Murray's Lockdown". For every one of you did precisely what Rishi did: you failed the people who looked to you for guidance. We need to talk about Klaus.
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The Spectator wants you to think you're up against a virus. This is what you are up against and you'll not hear anyone at The Spectator cover it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYzRE4QDMpg
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Why not take out a subscription to the Spectator? Because it's a globalist-driven sweetheart rag, that's why. Hence, the criminals who put us in this mess - such as this utter prick - are treated as if they really had the health of the world's people at heart.
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@PaulRoneClarke She is no idiot. She has a job to do and is very clear on how it's to be done.
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Why does this man say nothing about the plandemic - its dreadful, continuing impact on our economy and society?
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All valid points, very well stated. So was it China or Russia who shut down the economies that feed us, and allowed our government - in concert with so many others - to use the excuse of a middle-ranking coronavyrus to introduce legislation on the sly, that takes away our freedom? The behavioural psychologists who put so many people into the state of trauma that grips so many still and leaves them primed for further instant herding: were they sent from Moscow and Beijing to bend and cower the Western mind? Was it some external power that instructed the US Fed', the Bank of England, the ECB and others to simply flood western economies with trillions of $£€ etc, such that the wages, savings and pensions of the low and middle waged are denuded and they are forced onto the cattle truck towards subsistence and the total compliance that comes with being made to have nothing? It is the people in Biden's administration who are doing this; Johnson's, Von der Leyen's, Trudeau's; along with all the others who purport to stand up for Western liberty. Our own elected representatives are set to the task of tearing-down what the West has built. They are doing this through the systematic ruination of the very idea of the sovereign individual, and of the personal incentive to thrive by trading - core elements of the success of Western Civilisation. So why does the Spectator choose to leave all of this undiscussed? Why is no-one writing at the magazine, about what is being done to us directly, by those elected to govern the West? Yes, the MSM and academia are truly in on it in that wider, amorphous sense, but the actual day-to-day levers which are sending us to our absolute ruin are in the hands of named persons. The names and their actions are not being called-out.
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@spearmint47 Well, speaking as one keyboard expert to another: how do you think the government might respond to each of our offerings? Your mind is programmed if you are using terms like 'let the dead pile up.' How about 'let rip'? That's another belter. How long are you happy to be held in our three week lockdown that's lasted almost a year? Another couple of years maybe? Or let's just all lock in permanently eh?
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Covid is bollocks. The Spectator has worked with the liars who have kept the doom narrative going for over a year now so that the economy can be pinned down and strangled. Still going on despite the general feeling of our having reached the other side.
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A good thing to have here would be a list of topics covered, sub-headlined and with timings in the 'show more', so we can cherry pick, skipping those which we feel are irrelevant - such as Scotland.
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We have a living ecosystem. Your'e living in it.
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Jonathan Van Tam assures the nation's parents that the plan for injecting their children with a medication - in effect in its beta trial stage, the long-term effects of which are unknown - 'is going one way'? How obscene does this situation have to get before people wake up?
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The roaring of the 2020s is to be the sound of the remains of western economies being burned after their being strangled to death by continual lockdowns. These were devised in order to achieve that one thing while they pretended to deal with another: a middle-ranking viral outbreak. Those in charge of The Spectator, including Mr Murray and of course Fraser Nelson, know full well why this is being done, who is doing it, and what is to replace it; and yet all of this and the past 18 months of the disgraceful governmental abuse of the people has been given in terms of the rights and wrongs of the 'war on c0vid'. Why is The Spectator posing idly, talking about any associated problem except the economy, while that economy is destroyed and our people daily consigned to slave status?
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"It seems like we're in a worse spot now, perhaps, than we were in November 2020..." Well, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian families would agree on that one; victims as they are of the criminality that was enabled when Biden was put in place by the Orange Man Bad brigade. What is of real concern having watched this discussion, is the total absence in either - the seeming inability to give recognition to the real powerbroking beyond whatever stooge is allowed to sit at the Resolute desk. How long will it take, how many blatant acts of societal and economic vandalism will these two witness, before they shake themselves into the realisation that their framework has gone and a major re-think is needed? It really is quite disturbing to see Lionel Shriver is such a state of impotent dishevelment.
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"We might be able to move back to the tier system" Which is almost as effective as lockdown in closing down businesses. Yes, while these two NWO stooges keep the Spectator readership fixated on a viral outbreak which has had negligible effect on total death rates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8RFyHxUaYs ; the economy that feeds us all and pays for the NHS is being denuded daily of its workforce who are added to the pile of state-dependent serfs. The Spectator is clever in that it provides the occasional contrarian viewpoint to the 'death is all around us' mask-cult; but makes sure it is immersed in a constant brew of the pro SAGE, pro Imperial, pro government beverage that is keeping the nation stupefied while the job gets done.
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Same old, toe the pandemic narrative of doom, at the Spectator. Clicked the thumbnail to see if any of the people here have decided to do the right thing and to think of our children and the dreadful lives of abject penury we are allowing this fake situation to bring to them. Still, after all the speciousness of the politicians and 'the science' - that carefully selected, thin stratum of the field - there is yet again that same peddling of fear that will do the trick, keep the weak-minded at bay while the small/medium business sector is quietly whittled down even further. You should all be ashamed.
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We will be treated to a brief period of semi-normality. This will then be held up by Whitty and that other globalist liar, as a wild transgression that has led to one of the communists at SAGE projecting that 15 million people will die a horrible death before Christmas, therefore full lockdown will need to be re-introduced for three weeks just to flatten the curve until June 2022. This should be the one which convinces any remaining small/medium business owners that they really should stop this infernal resilience thing and accept Boris's socialism. All at the Spectator should be very proud at having watched this whole dreadful business play out while they attend to more pressing matters.
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Decades of scientific health policy established that lockdowns do not work and are not the way to deal with viral outbreaks. Why? Because they actually lead to more long term deaths - not just from collateral deaths but from the actual virus in question. The globally recognised policy was overturned in 2020 when western governments responded to China's call to emulate their lockdown approach. The result has been a world in which every economy has been crippled - except one. The BBC was just this morning asking members of the public what they were looking forward to 'when lockdown was finally over'. Expressions of light-hearted joy from all. All of which leaves me wondering just how many lies people need to be told, before they stop believing what the government and the BBC are telling them.
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Even now from these three, and despite the seeming show of a nascent re-think; not one mention made of the natural human immune system and its capabilities. How can we be so sure that any breaking of the link between infection and hospitalisation/serious illness/death, is not coming about due to the workings of our innate ability to fight viral infection, as developed over millions of years and recognised by the WHO and health-science specialists across the world and for decades, until 2020? That biological reality that went by the term 'herd immunity'?
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Why is there no-one at The Spectator, of any clout, who will speak of the situation in Ukraine? It has all gone very quiet.
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