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.

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

'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.

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_mal...

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!

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


chimera search for Orwell's opinion   

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.
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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

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



Twilight zone