Tuesday 15th July 2025

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

They're just speed running being Tories now

[Frog222]

Excellent long read from Hardeep --

The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly Misinformation
From Covid to climate change, understanding the role conspiracy theories fulfil for people's identity in a shifting world can better help explain our ‘post-truth’ age, writes Hardeep Matharu July 14, 2025

In the first wave of the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020, I interviewed an NHS nurse who told me that “people are being taken into hospitals and murdered”.

Those in her profession were running “death camps” that were “no different” to those of “the Third Reich”, Kate Shemirani said. “When I liken this to Auschwitz and the cattle trucks, you tell me the difference? I am science-led and I am law-led… I call it genocide”.

At the time, some criticised Byline TV for giving Shemirani ‘a platform’ for her conspiracy theories. When challenged on her outlandish claims, she called me a “special snowflake”. Admittedly, I found it difficult to know how to deal with such an interaction as a journalist. One viewer commented that I looked almost “frozen” while listening to her impenetrable monologues. The interview stayed with me for days afterwards. It was disturbing.

Byline TV decided to speak to Shemirani because, at the height of a public health emergency, her fringe views – and others like them – were spreading on social media. In the uncertainty and upset of lockdowns and socially-distanced deaths,

https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the- ... e-identify

Definitely not a 'minority interest'," just a few cases to be examined", we are surrounded by those who believe the craziest things , and they can win elections for their handlers , buggerit !

[Frog222]

PS to the Hardeep article .

In the first year of covid my visiting cpap techie assured me that hospîtals were greatly exaggerating the numbers as they got a bonus for each patient .

He changed tune the next time as the president of his local football club and his wife had both been intubated .

Fascinating subject, essential too !

[Frog222]

" Well, it turns out that Trump was so angry at Putin, he protected the Russian leader from sanctions until September."

Also, this gave Putin fifty days to advance up to the administrative borders of all four oblasts his troops are in, and then ... declare Victory .

Another point -- how many AA mùnitions are actually going to be delivered within these now 49 days ?

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/ ... he-delayed

[Sky'sGoneOut]

[refitman]

If only there was some easy to reverse this trend for Labour. Oh well

[refitman]

So, they've changed the language on the RSE guidelines. It's better than it was, although it still states that *no-one* has a gender identity (which I'm sure will come as a huge shock to all the cis people out there, who thought they were the gender they were born to). At least it's not full S28 now.

[refitman]

Cool. So Nick Frost is a dick then.

[Frog222]

[Frog222]

[Frog222]

[Sky'sGoneOut]

It had had been raining here for 10 hours straight but finally seems to have stopped. I'd started looking up 'arks' on Ebay. You can pick them up pretty cheap second hand. There was even one guy in Ilfracombe giving his away as long as you paid for the postage and packaging yourself. He says in the listing...

"After spending many decades building a massive ship large enough to contain a breeding pair of every creature on the planet all by myself my wife is now complaining because it's just sitting in the garden taking up space gathering moss and I never use it. Also my neighbours have become agitated because it's blocking their sunlight. I offer it for free to anyone who can give it a good home, in the absence of a global flood the postage cost will be in the order of £50,000 as it will require at least 6 Chinook helicopters to get it off the ground".

If I could spit a mile I'd have been within spitting distance of Reeves today as she came out with this desperate Tory bollocks.

Reeves to say rules and red tape are ‘boot on the neck’ of innovation

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... sion-house

Reeves plans to water down a series of regulations introduced following the 2008 financial crisis, after strong lobbying by City firms, and push for more risk-taking by both businesses and consumers.

However, she argued that the government is “regulating for growth”, and that weaker regulations will ultimately have trickle-down benefits for consumers.

Fuck off.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

So she's happy to listen to bankers and non-doms about their concerns but when it came to the sick and disabled they could go fuck themselves.

She's talking about removing regulation that was put in place to protect us from the avaricious greed of the financial sector after it caused a crash that cost the public £138 billion to stabilise the economy and protect peoples savings and pensions.

In 2008. It's not like it was a century ago and everyone's forgotten. We're still suffering the consequences today.

It's desperate stuff. A Labour chancellor spouting Thatcherite dogma promising the trickle of banker's piss down our backs.

[refitman]

They're all Tories.

[refitman]

Can anyone else spell authoritarian?