A Conservative Womans Review of the Week
Kathy Gyngell Editor, TCW Defending Freedom |
THIS was going to be a calm and unemotional review of my TCW week. That was my plan. Until I realised the full enormity of the return of the mask maniacs – more alarming even than Roger Watson’s early alert on Monday. Each day the MSM's ‘superflu’ hype and scaremongering has gone up a gear. All the hallmarks of highly co-ordinated campaign, it struck me – accompanied by non-stop mask-wearing appeals. Back to a future of the covid hysteria that drove lockdown in the spring of 2020.
I won't disguise it. They have learnt nothing and it alarmed me. To the extent of putting aside other work I needed to do (on TCW’s Christmas schedule) in order to go to war on X. A waste of time, you might say. But I just haven't been able to read the onslaught of pro-mask propaganda and stay silent. I almost felt a desperation to get the facts out there – all the negative facts on masks, on the science and the psychology – everything we'd researched and reported on TCW over the lockdown years. I had, at least, to try and get them out there again; duty-bound to challenge as politely as I could the sheer idiocy and ignorance of the 'Big Brother' flu scaremongers, mask pushers and shamers.
It’s been a test of my civility. I was hard put to retain my cool when I saw that the dangerously silly Kate Garraway of Good Morning Britain had asked schools minister Georgia Gould whether the government would consider implementing face masks for students in schools. How could she? No! I shouted back.
But I fear I have been whistling in the wind
It's demoralising. (I come to that later.) All that work done by Gary Sidley and UsForThem on behalf of children, all our own reporting on the issue and it has had no impact at all it seems on either doctors or MSM broadcasters.
Will any naysayers in or around government dare speak up or will they be silenced all over again? Are we going to have to wait after the event again before any MSM outlet admits masks are useless, that it is terrible to stop children singing, let alone calling them out them for what they really are – a form of social control?
Getting back into positive territory, I thought there's one place where I bet my bottom dollar I won't be seeing masks worn. At the Whitehall ‘Unite the Kingdom’ carol service (yesterday, after I wrote this article). There's no way muscular Christians or choirs of Gospel singers will be stopped from singing. Look out for my report tomorrow or Tuesday.
But how predictable was that response from the ‘coalition of the woke' to putting the 'Christ back into Christmas' celebration? I am referring to the coalition of denominations including the Church of England, Baptist Union of Great Britain, Methodist Church and United Reformed Church’ who instead of endorsing this need have attacked it.
I'd laugh if it wasn't so sad. In the few days they have bombarded local churches with a hastily put together ‘rapid response’ resource pack, encouraging prayers, sermons, and actions on December 14 (the day after the event) not to promote the Christian faith but to address what they label 'Christian nationalism' and the 'co-option of Christmas for a nationalist agenda'.
The joke is that it is the threat to their woke Christian politics that has prompted this meltdown. A W Edensdale’s brilliant spoof on the C of E’s response gets it in one. That 'unspeakable bounder Tommy Robinson' has had the audacity to walk into their preserve! If you haven't yet read you must. It is brilliant! This is my favourite line from it: ‘One of the bishops was openly sobbing while her wife did her best to console her.’ Many a true word spoke in jest, as one BTL commentator opined. Quite so. But this fading church just doesn't get it. The former Queen's Chaplain, Gavin Ashenden, does. He has promised to share his thoughts with us on the C of E’s panicked, defensive 'We open our Christian arms to all asylum seekers' response. Look out for it. Every boatload of them where you're hard put to find even one fleeing refugee mother and baby.
I am left once again at the end of the week wondering what other site can boast a stable of such courageous, perspicacious and talented writers as we have at TCW or that delivers that rare combination of humour (Ellwood and McKibbin as well as Edensdale) and cutting-edge analysis and reportage (Jupp, Newsome, Walsh, Jalife, Watson, Hodgkinson – naming just some). Compared with even a few years ago, whenever I read the latest iniquity I am spoilt for choice as to who to ask for comment. When I read the Telegraph's report on the Sandie Peggie judgment last week I turned to Daniel Jupp. I wrote: 'We are all being bullied into submitting not just to unreason but forced to tolerate it, like children being forced to watch terrifying drag queens telling stories,' and asked ‘Why are they doing this to us? Are there any historical precedents of such forced depravity?’
As ever, Daniel cut through to the core of it: 'I think it’s deliberate demoralisation. Hit them with so much of this stuff, destroy the family, and you get an atomised individual who won’t fight back. It’s the psychological equivalent of pummelling people until they curl up into a ball . . . then saying “endorse any absurdity we tell you to, and we will stop hitting you". It works as a control mechanism. As for historical precedent, the closest would probably be the more decadent Roman Emperors like late Tiberius, Nero and Heliogabalus and how Romans had to ignore their depravity in order to survive their rule.'
If you haven’t yet read his analysis of the absurdity of the Peggie ruling that this correspondence prompted, setting out absurdity that we are meant to buy into, please do. It's here.
Labour’s cynical decision to appoint a Labour peer to chair their already defunct National Grooming Gang Inquiry is more of the same thing. Yet another two fingers up to the victims while the perps and their public sector conspirators go about their business. Pushed into the long grass – it will take another three years, if we believe that. So not urgent. And we are meant to suck it up.
Yes, Daniel is right: it is all designed to demoralise us. But we have to refuse to be! There is a straightforward response, Gustavo Jalife reminded me in an email this week. Fight, fight, fight. We will!
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Kathy
