I will remember him as much more than a "comedy turn". You pay tribute to the astonishing success of the vaccine roll-out, something that was by no means a certain event; it remains one of the best 'after the fact' justications for Brexit. Where he let us down was by not applying the same energy to the virus of woke-ism, a pathogen which is just as deleterious as a respiratory complaint in the long run. But he also destroyed Corbynism (another word for "wickedness"), as he had previously destroyed Livingstone-ism, and smashed the idea of the Tories as a party of the home counties. Whether that triumphal realignment can be made to last is uncertain - what *is* certain is that no Tory politician in my lifetime has ever had a tenth of the reach of Boris. (A day spent canvassing with him in Camden in those far-off mayoral re-election days was so extraordinary I will never forget it. Think of Starmer being chased from that pub by the erstwhile Labour supporter, then reverse it.) I think it's a bit tight to ascribe that simply to "luck" - his virtues have always been at least as apparent (to me) as his flaws. And I'd rather have flaws than some shiny-faced Blairite android, squawking its instructions on How To Live at top volume.
Classics (particularly at Oxford) was once the route into politics/high office for Britain's elite. Now its PPE (at the same place). How much of contemporary decline is related to that, do you think, with depth of thought and knowledge of the canon replaced by intellectual superficiality?
One thing that's striking about PPE as a degree course is how quick its recipients are to disparage it (I had a successful journalist describe it to me once as a 'wazzock's degree'):
Remember. Pfizer have been fined more than any other BigPharma company, in toto, number of times, and size of award. These people are nailed-on bastards and I would never touch anything they created.
"Pfizer Asks Court to Dismiss Whistleblower Lawsuit Because Government Was Aware of Fraud
BY MICHAEL NEVRADAKIS TIMEJULY 5, 2022 PRINT
The lawyer representing whistleblower Brook Jackson said Pfizer is arguing the court should dismiss Jackson’s lawsuit alleging fraud in Pfizer’s COVID-19 clinical trials because the U.S. government knew about the wrongdoings but continued to do business with the vaccine maker.
A lawsuit filed by whistleblower Brook Jackson alleging Pfizer and two of its contractors manipulated data and committed other acts of fraud during Pfizer’s COVID-19 clinical trials is paused following a motion by the defendants to dismiss the case.
In an interview with The Defender, Jackson’s lawyer said Pfizer argued the lawsuit, which was filed under the False Claims Act, should be dismissed because the U.S. government knew of the wrongdoings in the clinical trials but continued to do business with the vaccine maker."
Corporate manslaughter would be what I would charge them with. Over 1100 dies in their trials.
Sorry to bang on about this, but the level of ignorance about what has been done to us by the proxy of Covid is beyond alarming.
Somewhere, from a while back, there's a video of Dr.Faustus Fauci statng clearly that the best defence against flu is the natural immunity gained by getting it.
The same applies to ALL respiratory viruses, even the evil Covid
Along with Frank Furedi's essay at Spiked, this is the analysis which makes the most sense. Boris, like Scomo in Australia, didn't see the significance of publicly battling neo-pagan progressivism, or as Ed surmises, he was superficially of that frame of mind himself. But who knows, a Churchillian revival at some point can't be ruled out just yet.
On Covid. I started gathering papers and articles in Feb 2020 on problems and possible problems, on the suppression of perfectly effective early treatment prophylactics, on the demonisation of medics who wanted to use them (struck of the list), the demonisation of those of us such as I who refused the jab. And now almost ALL who are still getting Covid are the multi-jabbed.
What a RESOUNDING success!
btw, my very sick 87 ma-in-law survived Omicron, as did my not well 86 year old pa-in-law, and a 94 year old friend of ours (still a beauty at 94) got the original bug and was fine.
Covid itself is very nasty, as it was designed to be so. It was invented in a lab and escaped from a lab. How else could a virus with multiple patents on it get loose?
Same for the climate modellers. Chunks of UAE code were part of the Climategate leak. I coded hard core for 25 years. The samples would have had you sacked in a private company overnight,. No QA. No data archiving. No outside testing. Next to no comments bar one "I'm not sure what I am doing here..." and at one point the code traps an error and drops back into "not an error" processing.
Result? The rabid insanity of NetZero is where these USELESS models have led us.
Grrrrrrr.. Public sector coding is almost ALWAYS hopeless, as all the good hackers work freelance r for private companies.
I will remember him as much more than a "comedy turn". You pay tribute to the astonishing success of the vaccine roll-out, something that was by no means a certain event; it remains one of the best 'after the fact' justications for Brexit. Where he let us down was by not applying the same energy to the virus of woke-ism, a pathogen which is just as deleterious as a respiratory complaint in the long run. But he also destroyed Corbynism (another word for "wickedness"), as he had previously destroyed Livingstone-ism, and smashed the idea of the Tories as a party of the home counties. Whether that triumphal realignment can be made to last is uncertain - what *is* certain is that no Tory politician in my lifetime has ever had a tenth of the reach of Boris. (A day spent canvassing with him in Camden in those far-off mayoral re-election days was so extraordinary I will never forget it. Think of Starmer being chased from that pub by the erstwhile Labour supporter, then reverse it.) I think it's a bit tight to ascribe that simply to "luck" - his virtues have always been at least as apparent (to me) as his flaws. And I'd rather have flaws than some shiny-faced Blairite android, squawking its instructions on How To Live at top volume.
Classics (particularly at Oxford) was once the route into politics/high office for Britain's elite. Now its PPE (at the same place). How much of contemporary decline is related to that, do you think, with depth of thought and knowledge of the canon replaced by intellectual superficiality?
One thing that's striking about PPE as a degree course is how quick its recipients are to disparage it (I had a successful journalist describe it to me once as a 'wazzock's degree'):
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-an-oxford-degree-ppe-created-a-robotic-governing-class
Last one... this is an absolute BELTER
Remember. Pfizer have been fined more than any other BigPharma company, in toto, number of times, and size of award. These people are nailed-on bastards and I would never touch anything they created.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/pfizer-asks-court-to-dismiss-whistleblower-lawsuit-because-government-was-aware-of-fraud_4578832.html
"Pfizer Asks Court to Dismiss Whistleblower Lawsuit Because Government Was Aware of Fraud
BY MICHAEL NEVRADAKIS TIMEJULY 5, 2022 PRINT
The lawyer representing whistleblower Brook Jackson said Pfizer is arguing the court should dismiss Jackson’s lawsuit alleging fraud in Pfizer’s COVID-19 clinical trials because the U.S. government knew about the wrongdoings but continued to do business with the vaccine maker.
A lawsuit filed by whistleblower Brook Jackson alleging Pfizer and two of its contractors manipulated data and committed other acts of fraud during Pfizer’s COVID-19 clinical trials is paused following a motion by the defendants to dismiss the case.
In an interview with The Defender, Jackson’s lawyer said Pfizer argued the lawsuit, which was filed under the False Claims Act, should be dismissed because the U.S. government knew of the wrongdoings in the clinical trials but continued to do business with the vaccine maker."
Corporate manslaughter would be what I would charge them with. Over 1100 dies in their trials.
Sorry to bang on about this, but the level of ignorance about what has been done to us by the proxy of Covid is beyond alarming.
Somewhere, from a while back, there's a video of Dr.Faustus Fauci statng clearly that the best defence against flu is the natural immunity gained by getting it.
The same applies to ALL respiratory viruses, even the evil Covid
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/natural-immunity-97-percent-effective-against-severe-covid-19-after-14-months-study
Along with Frank Furedi's essay at Spiked, this is the analysis which makes the most sense. Boris, like Scomo in Australia, didn't see the significance of publicly battling neo-pagan progressivism, or as Ed surmises, he was superficially of that frame of mind himself. But who knows, a Churchillian revival at some point can't be ruled out just yet.
If you don't look &/or believe the media, all sorts of shit gets to happen and people just nod their heads
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/07/11/chile-higher-vaccination-rate-than-uk-large-spike-in-excess-mortality/
Long deep sigh...
On Covid. I started gathering papers and articles in Feb 2020 on problems and possible problems, on the suppression of perfectly effective early treatment prophylactics, on the demonisation of medics who wanted to use them (struck of the list), the demonisation of those of us such as I who refused the jab. And now almost ALL who are still getting Covid are the multi-jabbed.
What a RESOUNDING success!
btw, my very sick 87 ma-in-law survived Omicron, as did my not well 86 year old pa-in-law, and a 94 year old friend of ours (still a beauty at 94) got the original bug and was fine.
Covid itself is very nasty, as it was designed to be so. It was invented in a lab and escaped from a lab. How else could a virus with multiple patents on it get loose?
Makes me furious. Must have a lie down.
ps. These are the sort of deranged nitwits we get forming government policy now...
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/07/10/its-difficult-to-see-how-anyone-could-be-more-wrong-new-code-review-of-neil-fergusons-amateurish-model/
Same for the climate modellers. Chunks of UAE code were part of the Climategate leak. I coded hard core for 25 years. The samples would have had you sacked in a private company overnight,. No QA. No data archiving. No outside testing. Next to no comments bar one "I'm not sure what I am doing here..." and at one point the code traps an error and drops back into "not an error" processing.
Result? The rabid insanity of NetZero is where these USELESS models have led us.
Grrrrrrr.. Public sector coding is almost ALWAYS hopeless, as all the good hackers work freelance r for private companies.
May be a Classisicist - but seems he never learnt about Hubris and Nemesis eh?!