This England a really disturbing programme about the COVID pandemic in the UK.  It details how Boris Johnson was surrounded by yes men and unwilling to face facts about the progress of the virus.   Well worth watching.  It details how useless Johnson was.  9 out of 10.  Well worth watching.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...  ::) ::)

Interesting.

I wonder if it talks about Johnson saying "No more f...ing lockdowns - let the bodies pile high in their thousands" in 2021 (which he denied, of course).

Mind you, I'm certain he was only saying out loud what most of the world's "leaders" (including our own here in Australia) were thinking at the time - and they still think that even now regarding Covid and any other dangerous virus that may go on a worldwide 'rampage' (the Nipah virus with no vaccine, no treatment and a 40 to 70 percent fatality rate could be next).

Disgraceful stuff.

Yes, I remember watching that show.

It was very good.

Boris is a dope.

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/this-england

Boris should have followed the Swedish model.

No lockdowns and the same outcome.

Fancy shutting down society and harming children so dementia patients in nursing homes don't get a runny nose.

Disgraceful selfish entitlement by the boomer generation.

Such selfish cowards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwD6raNSGak

This video brings to life the powerful lyrics that symbolize the hopes and dreams of the animals as they rise against tyranny.

'George Orwell's satire of the Soviet Union is primarily encapsulated in his famous works Animal Farm  written from the perspective of a democratic socialist who believed Stalin had betrayed the original ideals of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Orwell aimed to expose the reality of totalitarianism, which he saw as a perversion of socialism that resulted in poverty, fear, and the suppression of human agency.'

Today it's enacted by Ukraine's response to Russia.

George Orwell's satire of the Soviet Union became reality in WOKE EU

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The Soviet Union under Stalin became the greatest Far Right government in the world's history, establishing in its own country a literal reign of terror and total and absolute government control in a far greater form than any Tsar, and giving to its Greatest Tsar, Stalin, more absolute and capricious power than any King or emperor past....  the guise that it was a great 'international socialist' movement dedicated to creating the 'socialist' utopia worldwide was just the camouflage for despotism and oppression on the grand scale by a capricious minority lead by a total maniac.

When I warn you about how the 'feeling' laws effectively place an informer on every street corner, in every bar, and in every apartment block and work place etc - I am not joking...and the clear and present dangers of allowing claimed 'feelings' to over-ride reality must be becoming clear to even you lot by now.

Footnote - a court just found in favour of twenty-odd year old plaintiff - a girl who had her breasts removed at age sixteen (we are repeatedly told this does not happen with minors), the court finding that medical mapractice had occurred and awarding her two million dollars.

https://www.womensforumaustralia.org/detransitioner_fox_varian_wins_landmark_malpractice_case_over_gender-affirming_surgery?fbclid=IwY2xjawPs9G9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeQtYJtZ0lhypg-NIt8WvQs_y_MZBzoga9ag5sIq24TfZWGPVviyQx74MD38E_aem_nqYVFjnoxsHyDxpDvC74iw

At last and at least we are seeing the beginning of the end for that travesty of reality, and I must thank the rabid Leftie for alerting me to it and putting me into the fray... every clod has a silver lining.

England:-  Disarm the IRA!

Australia:-  Arm the Muslims!  We can't discriminate on the basis of ethnicity!

tallowood wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2026 at 11:50am:

George Orwell's satire of the Soviet Union became reality in WOKE EU

That's the complete opposite of Orwell's opinion. So the Russian invasion is un-invasion in tallowood's mind.

chimera wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2026 at 1:46pm:

tallowood wrote on Feb 2nd, 2026 at 11:50am: George Orwell's satire of the Soviet Union became reality in WOKE EU That's the complete opposite of Orwell's opinion. So the Russian invasion is un-invasion in tallowood's mind.

chimera search for Orwell's opinion   :o
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aquascoot wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2026 at 9:03am:

Boris should have followed the Swedish model. No lockdowns and the same outcome. Fancy shutting down society and harming children so dementia patients in nursing homes don't get a runny nose. Disgraceful selfish entitlement by the boomer generation. Such selfish cowards

If they are being selfish, caring for society, how about you volunteer to be infected, you wanker?  I don't think anybody would miss you, if you died.  This disease consisted of far more than a mere, "runny nose".  People couldn't breathe and were choking on their own Mucus.  Your unfeeling nature is stupid but typical of a Right-wing fool.  Piss off.  Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::)

The last dozen years or so have sponsored a rapid succession of social ­manias. A sudden fetishisation of once vanishingly rare transsexualism. An explosion of female resentment over sexual harassment. Unquestioned mass imprisonment of the healthy during the pandemic. International foaming at the mouth over racism during a period that’s never been less prejudiced. Berserk prophesies of “climate breakdown”, after the average global temperature rose roughly 1.1 degree Celsius over 150 years. Widespread trooping about the streets of nearly every major city, as throngs declared fealty to a terrorist organisation that freely admits its ambitions are genocidal. Good grief, what’s next?

Yet during this febrile period, the West’s arts and arts ­establishments have hardly covered themselves in glory. In times past, artists by reputation were mavericks and outsiders – visionaries who sometimes paid a price for the trespass of their daring ideas. They were rule breakers who challenged authority and pushed back against social consensus. Not any more. For how did the arts respond to the above hysterias? If anything, they made the hysterias worse.

As programatically as they’d previously inserted gay characters, television promptly began slotting trans characters into scripts (Orange is the New Black, Transparent, Designated Survivor, to name a few). Writers of children’s and young adult fiction have eagerly fed right-on educators’ appetite for books celebrating dissatisfaction with one’s sex (My Princess Boy, Growing Up Trans, If I was Your Girl – but don’t go looking for I Cut Off my Willy and It was a Bad Idea). Fashion ­designers and retailers began using models who were either conspicuously trans or whose sex was obscure.
...


Fiction and film love a good plague. But why haven’t scriptwriters ever inverted the standard zombie scenario? A relatively mild virus triggers a wild political over-reaction in an easily terrified population unaccustomed to threat. A vaccine is developed in undue haste, preventing thorough testing and tempting evil corporations to make a killing. This ostensible prophylactic is then forced upon the entire human race. Lo, the vaccine turns everyone into zombies. Having risked pariah status, only the few libertarian holdouts who refused to have a chancy substance injected in their bloodstreams now preserve a fragile future for humanity.

Rather than a raft of children’s and young adult fiction about underage protagonists concluding they’d prefer to be the opposite sex, how about a truly imaginative storybook, in which the rage for transgenderism continues to spread? Until all the women and girls decide they’d rather be male, and all the men and boys decide they’d rather be female. Alas, this worldwide Changing Places leaves most born-again males and females incapable of reproducing, often in chronic pain and unable to enjoy sex. Within three generations, the human race dies out. But that’s all right, because at least before they expired everyone was their authentic selves.
Lionel Shriver

Shriver shares something in common with aquascoot.

She's a big DeSantis fan too.

;D

Brian Ross wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2026 at 2:29pm:

aquascoot wrote on Feb 2nd, 2026 at 9:03am: Boris should have followed the Swedish model. No lockdowns and the same outcome. Fancy shutting down society and harming children so dementia patients in nursing homes don't get a runny nose. Disgraceful selfish entitlement by the boomer generation. Such selfish cowards If they are being selfish, caring for society, how about you volunteer to be infected, you wanker?  I don't think anybody would miss you, if you died.  This disease consisted of far more than a mere, "runny nose".  People couldn't breathe and were choking on their own Mucus.  Your unfeeling nature is stupid but typical of a Right-wing fool.  Piss off.  Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::)

Twilight zone

A Muslim woman tells us objectively and clearly what's happening in UK: "In UK, Muslims are in power. British culture not exists anymore. British politicians have betrayed their people." They understand this too. British politicians have sold UK to Islamists. The British must wake up now.

https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/2017892816219709481



Ditto Australia, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Canada, US.

greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2026 at 3:37pm:

Shriver shares something in common with aquascoot. She's a big DeSantis fan too. ;D

I like  quite a bit of what frank wrote.
We are now entering the century of" you can't be too safe" and " pleasure yourself with sugar, porn and comfort ".

It's a backward step for a species which has got to where it is by courage and grit.

And once  advancement stops, mother nature tends to rid itself of the errent species.

AI and nukes should see to that  ;)

And yes  I love ron. Much better then trump .
Not obese and not starting to lose it
A man in his prime

tallowood wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2026 at 2:14pm:

chimera wrote on Feb 2nd, 2026 at 1:46pm: tallowood wrote on Feb 2nd, 2026 at 11:50am: George Orwell's satire of the Soviet Union became reality in WOKE EU That's the complete opposite of Orwell's opinion. So the Russian invasion is un-invasion in tallowood's mind. chimera search for Orwell's opinion   :o https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q70/922/Kznb3U.jpg

Chimera makes no sense.
I think is a bot with a very poorly coded large language model running it

While not addressing how the arts glommed onto each and every global infatuation this century, let’s do take Black Lives Matter. All seven new productions on Broadway in 2021 were written by black playwrights. Publishing went into overdrive to promote as many black writers as these companies could get their hands on. Even period dramas embraced casting “colourblind” by rhetorical convention alone, given that the racial substitution works in only one direction. Presumably planting “diverse” actors in British historical re-enactments helps young Britons whose country was ethnically homogenous for a thousand years regurgitate the American truism that the UK, too, “has always been a nation of immigrants”; see Les Mis, Wolf Hall, and Bridgerton.

In Britain, whose black population is 4 per cent, over half of TV adverts were abruptly stuffed with black actors. In dramas and procedurals, the few sympathetic white characters were always in interracial relationships, and wise police detectives were always black women.

You’d think a group thumbnailed as “creatives” would have the odd original bone in their bodies. With every social obsession that spreads around the world in seeming seconds thanks to you-know-what, how is it that people self-selected as inventive operate as an undifferentiated mob and do nothing but imitate one another? After all, their very jobs are to come up with new ideas and fresh angles in a competitive marketplace where attention is gold dust and novelty is therefore prized. In the face of mass conformity, why haven’t creatives been creative?

The short answer is that artists are the same as everyone else. They’re pleasers. They respond to social pressure and are terrified of being ostracised. Artists are conformists because most people are conformists. Artists are cowards because most people are cowards. Bucking trends is dangerous, while going along with just about anything, so long as everyone else is going along with it, feels safe. Being ahead of your time, failing to get with the program even if the program entails mass delusion, doesn’t pay.

Shriver

chimera wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2026 at 11:14am:

'George Orwell's satire of the Soviet Union is primarily encapsulated in his famous works Animal Farm  written from the perspective of a democratic socialist who believed Stalin had betrayed the original ideals of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Orwell aimed to expose the reality of totalitarianism, which he saw as a perversion of socialism that resulted in poverty, fear, and the suppression of human agency.' Today it's enacted by Ukraine's response to Russia.

What part of that is hard to grasp?

A related question is why veritably all the creative fields are colonised by left wingers. I can’t think of a single post-2016 novel that portrayed Brexit as a positive development. If they have a slant, most films, plays, visual art and song lyrics have promoted Palestinians, open borders, climate apocalypticism, racial grievance, socialism and gender ideology. The most ­obvious explanation? Artists of every stripe were once self-made, often self-taught eccentrics and free spirits who nurtured an inborn gift. Most contemporary creatives went to university (confession: as I did), whose monoculture is latterly so far-left as to fall off the edge of the world.

Otherwise, the answer is money. Demographically more likely to lean left these days, prosperous parents are more likely to have children who feel free to pursue careers with economically poor odds. The arts establishment also leans left, and London’s National Theatre is unlikely to stage your play if it deplores discrimination against straight white males. You’ll have a tough time securing a contract with one of the Big Five (except maybe HarperCollins, which will even publish me) with a novel whose valiant protagonist is a thinly disguised Nigel Farage.

Thus we have a raft of dystopian fiction about climate change (The Drowned World, The Deluge, etc.). But if our writers were true rebels, the odd speculative novel might instead portray a dark future in which the West embraces a misanthropic, technologically regressive eschatology that leads to deindustrialisation, bankruptcy, sky-high energy prices, and blackouts. Meanwhile, China deploys the same ideology to slyly sell the West the hardware to facilitate its own destruction. Record numbers of Westerners unable to afford heating freeze to death. Meanwhile, planetary greening proceeds apace and more temperate weather saves lives in harsh climes, but China takes over the world. The bitterest pill to swallow: the scientific construct that brought about the West’s demise turns out to be plain wrong.

ibid.

Lefties are right brain  dominated Frank.
They are more of the dreamers then the doers.
They are more woo woo.

A bit of that is ok and adds balance to the left brain dominant conservatives who tend to be focused and driven.
The guy who wrote the master and his emissary is all over this and has done some excellent podcasts

Interesting also that lefties tend to be more concerned with mother nature ( Bob brown )
Righties tend to see mining farming logging as their focus.( Joh bjelke petersen)

So again, some credit to the true lefties like Bob.

But at a subconscious level, I think the woo woo creative dreamy lefties want to have their cake and eat it too.

They don't want a non air conditioned mud hut and a bowl of insects for dinner , though thas what the planet wants. That's what Bob brown would tell them they should want .
So they are mightily confused

I think their subconscious strategy is to depopulate.


Anti family, lots of gender changes, make every woman think every man is going to be a DV threat. A rapist .
Don't have kids, they are a pox on the planet.
Destroy the family unit . Isolate people into little boxes. Make sure the sexes hate each other.

This population collapse is mainly driven by leftie governments trashing the family, taking over the role of welfare , being the mother figure to men who don't want to grow up and procreate and women who find these soft men kind of disgusting.

So the right brain dominant lefties are unfocused and lost just like the younger generations ( raised in the leftie welfare nanny state) who need a constant supply of ADHD drugs, anti depressants , psychological counselling to cope with this world the lefties have created.

A self fulfilling prophecy  :-[ :-[

The left used to have a large honourable, honest, intelligent faction.

It also always had a limpen, ratbag, deranged faction.

The latter is now dominant. The emotional incontinence, the irrational sloganeering, heretic denunciation, deranged preening are all.
There is no reasoning, only hurt emotions or loud demonstrations of emotional excess and correctness.
A hundred years ago this was called hysteria. Now it's infected most of the left.

aquascoot wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2026 at 4:11pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 2nd, 2026 at 3:37pm: Shriver shares something in common with aquascoot. She's a big DeSantis fan too. ;D I like  quite a bit of what frank wrote.

Frank didn't write a thing.

He copied & pasted garbage from a racist Ron DeSantis fan.

Frank wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2026 at 5:40pm:

A hundred years ago this was called hysteria.

Now it's Frank and the darkies.

greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2026 at 5:45pm:

aquascoot wrote on Feb 2nd, 2026 at 4:11pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 2nd, 2026 at 3:37pm: Shriver shares something in common with aquascoot. She's a big DeSantis fan too. ;D I like  quite a bit of what frank wrote. Frank didn't write a thing. He copied & pasted garbage from a racist Ron DeSantis fan.

He brought it up for discussion.
Frank has a good brain.
You have your hand lotion.
To each their own

greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2026 at 5:45pm:

aquascoot wrote on Feb 2nd, 2026 at 4:11pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 2nd, 2026 at 3:37pm: Shriver shares something in common with aquascoot. She's a big DeSantis fan too. ;D I like  quite a bit of what frank wrote. Frank didn't write a thing. He copied & pasted garbage from a racist Ron DeSantis fan.

There is no reasoning, only hurt emotions or loud demonstrations of emotional excess and correctness.

chimera wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2026 at 6:08pm:

Frank wrote on Feb 2nd, 2026 at 5:40pm: A hundred years ago this was called hysteria. Now it's Frank and the darkies.

Are you a darkie?

[quote author=aquascoot link=1769949163/20#20 date=1770016051]Lefties are right brain  dominated Frank.
They are more of the dreamers then the doers.
They are more woo woo.

A bit of that is ok and adds balance to the left brain dominant conservatives who tend to be focused and driven.
The guy who wrote the master and his emissary is all over this and has done some excellent podcasts

Interesting also that lefties tend to be more concerned with mother nature ( Bob brown )
Righties tend to see mining farming logging as their focus.( Joh bjelke petersen)

So again, some credit to the true lefties like Bob.

But at a subconscious level, I think the woo woo creative dreamy lefties want to have their cake and eat it too.

They don't want a non air conditioned mud hut and a bowl of insects for dinner , though thas what the planet wants. That's what Bob brown would tell them they should want .
So they are mightily confused

I think their subconscious strategy is to depopulate.


Anti family, lots of gender changes, make every woman think every man is going to be a DV threat. A rapist .
Don't have kids, they are a pox on the planet.
Destroy the family unit . Isolate people into little boxes. Make sure the sexes hate each other.

This population collapse is mainly driven by leftie governments trashing the family, taking over the role of welfare , being the mother figure to men who don't want to grow up and procreate and women who find these soft men kind of disgusting.

So the right brain dominant lefties are unfocused and lost just like the younger generations ( raised in the leftie welfare nanny state) who need a constant supply of ADHD drugs, anti depressants , psychological counselling to cope with this world the lefties have created.

A self fulfilling prophecy  :-[ :-[/quote]


In other discussions I've been warning the 'feminists' - those 'leftie women' - that once they get finished trashing the Western man and his rotten patriarchal society - they will be left to contend with the True Patriarchals who continue to breed like flies and whose 'men' will then invade and impose their hand maid's outfits on them all.  They they will know what they have wrought.

aquascoot wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2026 at 7:29pm:

Frank has a good brain.

This is correct in aquascoot's mind.

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2026 at 11:07pm:

[quote author=aquascoot link=1769949163/20#20 date=1770016051]Lefties are right brain  dominated Frank. They are more of the dreamers then the doers. They are more woo woo. A bit of that is ok and adds balance to the left brain dominant conservatives who tend to be focused and driven. The guy who wrote the master and his emissary is all over this and has done some excellent podcasts Interesting also that lefties tend to be more concerned with mother nature ( Bob brown ) Righties tend to see mining farming logging as their focus.( Joh bjelke petersen) So again, some credit to the true lefties like Bob. But at a subconscious level, I think the woo woo creative dreamy lefties want to have their cake and eat it too. They don't want a non air conditioned mud hut and a bowl of insects for dinner , though thas what the planet wants. That's what Bob brown would tell them they should want . So they are mightily confused I think their subconscious strategy is to depopulate. Anti family, lots of gender changes, make every woman think every man is going to be a DV threat. A rapist . Don't have kids, they are a pox on the planet. Destroy the family unit . Isolate people into little boxes. Make sure the sexes hate each other. This population collapse is mainly driven by leftie governments trashing the family, taking over the role of welfare , being the mother figure to men who don't want to grow up and procreate and women who find these soft men kind of disgusting. So the right brain dominant lefties are unfocused and lost just like the younger generations ( raised in the leftie welfare nanny state) who need a constant supply of ADHD drugs, anti depressants , psychological counselling to cope with this world the lefties have created. A self fulfilling prophecy  :-[ :-[/quote] In other discussions I've been warning the 'feminists' - those 'leftie women' - that once they get finished trashing the Western man and his rotten patriarchal society - they will be left to contend with the True Patriarchals who continue to breed like flies and whose 'men' will then invade and impose their hand maid's outfits on them all.  They they will know what they have wrought.

At a subconscious level, western women don't want the timid weak victim mentality loser that most western men have become.
The hirsute high testosterone boss from Middle Eastern countries had more appeal.
At least he has some self confidence and swagger

What was this thread about again?  :-/

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Carl D wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2026 at 8:52am:

What was this thread about again?  :-/

Political mismanagement.

Carl D wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2026 at 8:52am:

What was this thread about again?  :-/

This England
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