Academics debating history. Where will it all end?
Nigel's angry too. He's watched The Eagle has Landed 14 times and knows that Winston Churchill dodged Michael Caine by using a body double.
Just waiting on Anthea Turner and Lozza Fox
In Russia the school history books now edit out the inconvenient bits like the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. It is essential that we teach our kids and ourselves "history" not "propaganda". Debating Churchill and his place in things and encouraging balance is a good first step in that
The great irony is that the Faragist tendency - for all its hot air talk of cancel culture and "rewriting history" actually wants to do both things. It wants to cancel debate and rewrite history.
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‘Covid denier’ Gary Matthews dies from virus day after testing positive. He didn't wear a mask, or take precautions and continued to meet friends after falling for conspiracy theories online. A victim of the anti-mask, anti-lockdown brigade. standard.co.uk/news/uk/covid-…
Gary isn't the first or last person in history who has fallen prey to conspiracy theories, propagated by "smart people" or well known names. Hitchens and Hartley-Brewer and co are well known and erudite people. By endorsing this stuff they have justified it for many.
But of course they'll never accept they're wrong. There will be a lot of other Garys.
Boris Johnson knew Brexit was a great cart of mildewed dung from the start. He only hooked his ego to the wagon because he wanted to be Head Boy. The Tory true believers are a cult of fantasists, weirdos and oddballs who clung to this nonsense to satiate childhood fantasies.
Of course it was never going to work. Of course it was going to be a disaster. Just a cursory look at what Brexit meant showed that it would harm ordinary Britons, make life harder and send us into a downward spiral. You didn't have to be Paul Nuttall brilliant to work it out.
But I would say that.... because I'm a Remoaner or something... actually I'm not a *Remoaner* it's more simple than that. I'm just sane.
I genuinely thought this was a joke. But it isn't. The UKIP candidate for London Mayor really is called 'Peter Gammons' and his twitter account and campaign slogan genuinely is 'Gammons 4 London'.
I mean how on Earth are satirists meant to find work in this climate? Aren't things hard enough? It's like Richard Braine all over again.
According to Joe - Dr Gammons' qualifications are a BA, MA and DMin (Doctor of Ministry) degrees from Presbyterian Faith Theological Seminary. I've just watched his campaign video on Facebook - apparently he's given talks to millions of people and is an adviser to world leaders
If you're some think tanker who backed Johnson and Brexit and trolled the life out of everyone, saying it would be fine, while branding facts "Project Fear" and experts and naysayers "Remoaners" - don't think you can just dust your hands and walk away. You created this nightmare.
Years ago there was a cartoon in (I think) Private Eye of a tortoise caught in a giant mousetrap in an entirely empty landscape and two other tortoises looking on. One of them says: "he never saw it coming."
That's Brexit summed up for me. All of this was so blindingly obvious
That Farage and co were listened to and taken seriously suggests that there was something else rotten at the core but it was all nonsense. Self-indulgent, self-destruction. Wrecking your country because you once had an Empire and liked 1970s passports. The philosophy of drivel.
So there you have it. The Conservatives deliberately did nothing to assess Kremlin's attempts to interfere in Brexit. They let it slide, even as it served their own agenda - that is a failure of leadership, a failure of security and a failure of the British people. #RussiaReport
Government exists first and foremost to protect the people in the nation. If they don't care about foreign meddling and foreign interference in our democratic processes they have failed in that duty. To then deliberately sit on that failure and obfuscate it for months is another.
But Boris Johnson doesn't care. He's PM now, sitting on a massive majority. So sod the lot of you. Move on. Get over it. La la la....