Category Archives: Politics and sociology

Grass roots and Astroturfs

Posted on 21/04/2022 by Jon Garvey

Amid the COVID insanity of 2020, you’ll remember, was the additional collective insanity of Black Lives Matter, exporting mass-action over here from a single unfortunate incident in the US, resulting in demolished statues, near-riots, and all the great and good of church, state and media coming out in solidarity. When the Marxist/anarchist roots of the organisation came to light, those insitutions bewailed how the movement had been “taken over” by activists, failing to notice that activists had started the movement to enlist the uncritical masses, and how closely its campaigns coincided with US elections.

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The world of stupid

Posted on 20/04/2022 by Jon Garvey

So the Russians offered a safe passage for Azov fighters holed up in the Azovstol Steelworks in Mariupol, including even the foreign fighters who, on Russian estimation at least, are technically mercenaries not covered by the Geneva Convention.

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Daily Skeptic gets the Hump

Posted on 20/04/2022 by Jon Garvey

Just a heads up that the above on-line publication commissioned an article from me on the state of British General Practice. It’s here.

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British unexceptionalism

Posted on 18/04/2022 by Jon Garvey

Just as COVID threw into sharp relief the capture of of our institutions by dark forces, acting as confirmation to those of us who had suspected we were being led into serfdom through propaganda, so the Ukraine war has clarified to what extent the mythos of the American military-industrial complex trying to impose its hegemony over the whole world is, in fact, sober truth.

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How to be an innocent witch

Posted on 12/04/2022 by Jon Garvey

Instinctively, you’d think that the longer propaganda goes on, the more cynical and worldly-wise the population would become. Maybe that’s true in the long term, but it ain’t so in the present psychological onslaught that we have experienced particularly in the last two years.

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Thank goodness we are being lied to

Posted on 08/04/2022 by Jon Garvey

I picked up on this one this morning. It’s an admission on NBC that much of the news stemming from “intelligence sources” on the Ukraine war has been based on shaky intelligence, or simply made up – by the intelligence services, that is, not by the journalists, whose task is merely to be totally compliant to the State and hype up the news so that we all hate the Russians enough to wage economic war.

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The slow suicide of the West

Posted on 07/04/2022 by Jon Garvey

Yesterday I picked up in alternative media (our legacy media being awash only with propaganda) the fact that Sri Lanka’s government has collapsed in the face of riots over food and fuel shortages, and power outages.

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Subversion, schism and reformation

Posted on 02/04/2022 by Jon Garvey

Apparently the inevitable has happened this last week at the Baptist Union, as it has in so many denominations in the western world. Although I only have the story through a casual conversation, it seems as if a group has introduced a motion for the Union to allow the ordination of openly gay ministers, although there is as yet no official change in policy even on the 2014 affirmation of traditional marriage. In response, a petition has been started in defence of the historical view of marriage. Fisticuffs will follow.

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What you feel is real

Posted on 01/04/2022 by Jon Garvey

So we had an old college friend to stay, a female Anglican vicar… sorry, priest … who is the same age as us and not a young product of the woke educational system, though she did do her seminary training in the age of the Anglican Church as “The Labour Party at prayer.

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Equipped for war?

Posted on 27/03/2022 by Jon Garvey

After five years my term as a church elder has finished. And at the same church meeting suggestions for the future direction of the fellowship were solicited.

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