Category Archives: Politics and sociology

Credit where it’s due

Posted on 04/11/2026 by Jon Garvey

Since the capitulation of the entire medical establishment to COVID, I have tried to keep my distance from my old profession. It’s not that hard, because GP medication checks are a thing of the past, and I avoid today’s regular vaccinations, having read the literature. The most I’ve required has been a shoulder injection for a rotator-cuff syndrome, which worked very well

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Safeandeffective – the psychic power of mantras

Posted on 24/10/2026 by Jon Garvey

I’ve just read Do No Harm, the account by Dr David Cartland, a Christian family physician now living in Cornwall, of how COVID made him a dissenter from the “trusted narrative,” leading up to the time the GMC struck him off permanently last year. His persecutors, since then, have also managed to get the DBS to pronounce him unfit to work with children, and the Football Association has barred him from refereeing matches. As we all know, hanging,drawing and quartering is too good for vaccine sceptics and whistle-blowers. Read the book.

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Christian violence

Posted on 18/10/2026 by Jon Garvey

In France and Belgium, what are euphemistically called “student protests” are actually, or have now become, riots intended to overthrow the entire civil order, and are fomented by anarcho-communists and Islamists.

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Deceived and deceiving

Posted on 26/09/2026 by Jon Garvey

Satan went out, not long ago, to deceive the whole world, including, if possible, the elect. And he succeeded, by and large.

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Allison, Wilberforce and national Christian renewal

Posted on 23/09/2026 by Jon Garvey

If you rely on mainstream media for news, you might be forgiven for being totally unaware of the recent Allison Inquiry in Ottawa, as it’s been virtually ignored by the press not only here in Britain, but even in Canada. Whether, in 2026, you should be forgiven for relying on mainstream media is another matter. Willful ignorance, as the Book of Proverbs points out, has a moral dimension.

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Sideways with the people!

Posted on 03/09/2026 by Jon Garvey

I was listening to a discussion on Karl Marx, in the context of contemporary politics and culture. It seems likely that his famous dictum that “Religion is the opiate of the people” arose, at least in part, from Friedrich Engels’s reports from England, whilst Marx was still in Germany.

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The psychology of materialism

Posted on 27/08/2026 by Jon Garvey

Apparently, a recent survey of some 1,700 physicists (who knew there were so many?) asked them their preferred explanation for cosmological fine-tuning. I’m sure all my readers are well aware of the absurdly tight limits of various cosmological constants and boundary conditions of the early universe that seem, to so many ordinary people, to point to a divine Creator.

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Cambridge professors and Evangelical beliefs

Posted on 13/08/2026 by Jon Garvey

How do you complete a close study of the Book of Acts, and conclude that it teaches that miracles are to be expected routinely (though they “sometimes” don’t occur) without noticing that the book specifically attributes miracles only to “the apostles,” and overwhelmingly to Peter and Paul?

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The lab-leak is slowly leaking out

Posted on 26/07/2026 by Jon Garvey

I was quick to become sceptical about the whole COVID civilisation-bust of 2020 and onwards, as a mountain of my posts here from March 2020 demonstrates. But I believe my first mention of the possibility of the escape of a manufactured virus was only that September, and it took several more months before the evidence I was seeing for a lab-leak became overwhelmingly convincing.

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Faith in feelings

Posted on 14/07/2026 by Jon Garvey

I’m getting tired of how many Bible Studies nowadays seem to base all, or most, of their questions on the formulae “How did X feel when ..?” or “How would you feel if…?” or “How does this make you feel?”. I question how much progress in the Christian faith can ever be made by exploring (and discussing) either one’s own feelings or those of Bible characters, on which Scripture is notably reticent.

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