… but it’s pretty clear that this has gone beyond tree hugging soft left versus gruffer types such as us … this has become a situation where three groups occupy the land … us, the loony Woke far left (plus a mix of globopsycho and gummint) … plus the foreign imports … millions of very dangerous men awaiting the order to pounce.
Easier for the latter if the first two have a civil war and wipe each other out … not unlike Russia and the Ukraine just now, while Biden US/NATO supply the money and weapins to enable and encourage it.
So with us … we are sooooo diametrically opposed, cannot stand the other … yet are occupying the same landmass. Something has to give. One side plays by rules … the other doesn’t and grins at its lawlessness.
Quite sure it’s the same sorts of ruffled feelings over here. We can’t exterminate nor deport our Woke loony left over here … so, what to do with them?
Coz they’re not going anywhere near policymaking over us once we’re rid of em. What a way to live in a once proud country.
Jane Graham has been a school nurse for nearly 20 years – and during this time the nature of her work has completely changed.
I'd be surprised if that wasn't the case, frankly....
"When I started, the majority of the support we provided was for physical health, like asthma, allergic reactions and injuries," she says. "Now it's mental health."
She has seen a surge in schoolchildren struggling.
"It really impacts pupils at secondary school, but some are as young as seven," she explains.
"We're seeing children with depression, anxiety and stress – and that's leading to panic attacks, self-harm and eating disorders. They're not making it to school or are so anxious they cannot attend classes."
Why is this being tolerated? Is it bad parenting?
What's less clear is why this is happening now.
Well, actually, there are some people for whom it's not such a mystery.
Plenty of explanations have been offered by experts: the pandemic, the cost of living and the advent of social media have all placed additional pressures on the generation now starting out.
But some experts in the field of mental health have raised another question: that is, is there really a mental health crisis or are young people simply not resilient enough?
This question is a polarising one. The word resilience could be interpreted by some as disparaging, or even toxic, in a similar vein as the term "snowflake generation".
But one of the country's leading experts in child and adolescent psychiatry, Prof Andrea Danese, from King’s College London, believes that resilience needs to be taken seriously.
While greater awareness of mental health "has generally been a positive thing", according to Prof Danese, who is general secretary for the European Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, he says that he is concerned that it may also have "inadvertently contributed to over-pathologising distress in young people".
I suspect this is spot on, as it's always been a truism that what you tolerate, you will get more of.
Ms Graham, the school nurse, is also of the opinion that many children who she has seen struggling - particularly those with more low level mental health problems - would benefit from becoming more resilient.
She believes that if they were equipped with better coping skills, young people would likely be better placed to deal with the challenges they may be facing before they develop into a full-blown crisis – and this in turn would help ease the pressure on services to focus on those who are at high risk of harm.
"We need to do much better at teaching resilience in schools and how to stay mentally healthy," she says. "But the way we treat children, such as primary school sports days where everyone is declared a winner, doesn't help."
Who has been saying this for decades? Oh, right. Us!
"Not a public rape inquiry, but another Quango Baroness stitch up. The ever-forensic Mark Steyn's 'The Baronesses won’t save you' article nailed it; what they do is 'chair the issue under the carpet'."
Hmmmm … extending that, what of the Uniparty agreement to keep swapping red blue, blue red ad nauseam? What of the viewpoint held by an increasing number that Farage was only ever controlled opposition to cater for the dissident peeved … us? There was never any intention of taking power … it was to split the “P’d off” vote … the 52%? Lowe will be dealt with later.
On the other hand, by the vilified FPTP system, were there a vote of, say, around 25% by all three majors, with LibDums, Greens etc. making up the numbers … then whoever has more after the count is the govt.
More dangerous for the Uniparty? Or still in the bag?
Transgender patients say they have been left "devastated" by a Nottinghamshire GP practice's decision to stop providing treatment enabling them to transition. Jubilee Park Medical Partnership, which runs practices in Carlton and Lowdham, announced it would stop prescribing transgender healthcare to patients, including those currently on hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
The move has prompted anger from transgender patients and the wider community, with dozens of people attending a protest organised by Nottingham Against Transphobia outside Park House Medical Centre in Carlton on Tuesday, December 31.
Dozens! Wow! I guess there was something better on TV that day.
Among the crowd were patients who said the withdrawal of treatment would have "crippling" consequences.
"I've been so stressed and upset about how I'm going to access healthcare," said Samathy Barratt, 29, who has been receiving oestrogen and testosterone blockers from the practice.
"If I weren't to receive testosterone blocking meds I would experience a reversal of the transitioning effects.
"That would be devastating for my mental health to be forced to detransition. I'm lucky I haven't had any surgery, if I had there would be significant health risks.
"I'm particularly worried about that for other patients."
Misery loves company. Of course you want more people like you around, or you'd feel like a freak, wouldn't you?
"Jubilee Park Medical Partnership continues to be very supportive of our transgender patients," said a spokesperson. "This work is more appropriately provided by a specialist as it is beyond the clinical expertise and knowledge of the GPs to provide this service in the way that it should be provided."
The only thing that needs to be provided is mental heath care. That's the real issue here.
… or at least not to hide their true intent from voters’ eyes.
To a point, it’s up to voters to wade through manifestos, even within this flawed system. But when there’s prima facie that a criminal gang of incompetents really did hoodwink the suckers (us), then we get into an area where no division of the Uniparty … LibLabConGreen … are going to do anything to ensure electoral integrity.
There are enough issues with the disappointing Farage who seems to me compromised somehow (might be wrong), whilst lesser members are doing wonderful things … just who truly will reform electoral integrity?
Many have turned Mangione into a “martyr”, said Dr Joseph Richardson, a professor of African American studies, medical anthropology and epidemiology at the University of Maryland. But, he adds: “We clearly know had [Mangione] been a young Black man, the narrative would be different”.
'We' know that, prof? That's the Royal 'We' is it?
The wall-to-wall coverage of Mangione has been interpreted as a result of Thompson’s status as a healthcare industry executive in a country where many people are frustrated about rising healthcare costs and lack of insurance coverage. But the acceptance of that explanation itself reflects a racist double standard. As Richardson sees it, the empathetic media coverage is a symptom of “white male privilege”.
Says someone feted and courted by the MSM for his take on something well outside any expertise he may have learned at a while man's university, in a majority white country.. One might say he himself was a recipient of some kind of privilege..
Multiple studies have shown that white male perpetrators of gun violence, especially ones in high profile incidents such as mass shootings, are often depicted more compassionately by news outlets. According to one study, publications routinely speculate about white perpetrators’ mental health as a possible explanation for their actions, painting a complex picture of their motivations, whereas suspects of color are reduced to racial stereotypes.
Is that because their crimes are mostly predictably stereotypical?
Back in April, reporting on Terry Clark Hughes Jr, a Black man who was accused of killing four police officers in Charlotte, North Carolina, during an attempted arrest, focused on his criminal record and THC later discovered in his bloodstream. (Hughes was shot and killed by police during the incident.)
In 2021, Jason Nightengale, also a Black man, shot and killed five people at random during a rampage in the Chicago area, before being fatally shot by police. Subsequent coverage of Nightengale highlighted his arrest record and “menacing” videos he had posted to Facebook.
You mean the media concentrated on factors that 'explained' the crime? How unusual! Haven't you realised that they do the very same for other races too?
As early as the 1920s, Duxbury said, crimes committed by Black people would often be used to “justify narratives of biological inferiority” or advance claims of Black people having “less developed morals than white people”.
The media is just calling it as they see it. Perhaps if the members of your race weren't always behaving like animals they wouldn't be regarded as less than them.
In a break from HQ “tradition”, here’s a piece based on Ruairidh’s “Utopia”, concerning not just BA’s break from national tradition itself but the tale of the complete pig’s breakfast it became once its national identity died. What’s more, I’m running it in three places … here, at Unherdables and at Jstack … on the grounds that it is important enough for this nation supposedly known as “Britain” for it to appear in three places. First the youtube:
Long ago, I was part of various educational curricula which sold a particular brand … a “British” education, and that included in other countries where it was known as EFL and other acronyms, complete with examination systems which the world valued.
Interesting, upon my return, to see that Jack Straw’s loathing for the “English” would be embraced by anyone at all within “England”, esp. those enjoying her benefits, along with Blair’s loathing, Brown’s, Sturgeon’s etc. History is history and the Irish and Scots do have a historical case imho, to be not all that enamoured of the English but then there was the Barnett formula and the West Lothian question, was there not?
It was the “British” army, it was pretty clear that the mass of regions within regions … well where is the line drawn? The line of national consciousness? Does this land really want another Wars of the Roses? Really? Another ’45? I only have one flag in this place, can’t remember where now but it’s the St George’s Cross. In day to day affairs, I’m mainly dealing with those thinking of themselves as British, though some think of themselves as Scouser or Mancunian or even Salopian.
Judging by the Scottish referendum, sufficient people subscribed to “Britishness” to make day to day living and travel, even fighting abroad a “doable” thing, a workable concept … it had been Rule Britannia ruling the waves rather than Rule Anglia, though in Russia I was called Anglichanan and the Americans keep using the term English … no argument from me but within these shores, British is a workable concept.
What it is not is a Caliphate, nor a type of Punjab and in fact, no one was more “British” than the non-Brit coming in through “the right channels” … Somerset Maugham touched on it all in Mr. Know-All:
“ “I am Mr. Kelada,” he added, with a smile that showed a row of flashing teeth, and sat down.
“Oh, yes, we’re sharing a cabin, I think.”
“Bit of luck, I call it. You never know who you’re going to be put in with. I was jolly glad when I heard you were English. I’m all for us English sticking together when we’re abroad, if you understand what I mean.”
I blinked.
“Are you English?” I asked, perhaps tactlessly.”
I looked up the name Kelada … Egyptian, Indian, African, somewhere around there. The last thing Mr. Kelada would have wanted, I’m sure, is that pig’s breakfast on the tail of what should have been, in everyone’s mind, a British aircraft. The word “Chatham” for the Concorde’s livery was a black joke in itself … associated with destroying “Britishness” … ruled from Davos … yet the livery was readily identifiable as British.
What do you feel about Alice Weidel or Christine Anderson in Germany? I feel close to them, also Kassandra in Greece, Mandy Gall in Ireland … they’re loyal to their people … MAGA too. Subrosa in Scotland. Doonhamer, it goes on.
Those I feel not the least close to are those trying to wreck our respective identities, e.g. this EU excrescence. And the ones coming up with those awful tailfin designs for BA would have been better strangled at birth.
The Woke left mind virus is insidious, is it not? What you can never explain to them is that we’re already global in friendship on our side of the ledger, without claiming their land as part of some global, muddy mish mash mess. Artificial. Contrived. Like Net Zero.
… not unlike the coming crash they threaten us with in this fiat money economy, where the Carney types can crash markets whenever they wish and when it’s most politically expedient to Davos and the BIS.
Meanwhile, they maniacally pursue the country wrecking net zero, ferociously pursuing it no matter what.
Put that with digital ID, being forced through even now and it’s pretty clear the govt is not our friend, quite the opposite. The last link in this immediate chain is govt saying the gas will run out by the end of this week, leaving most of the country ready for the new freeze by the end of the week … which will just about soften western Britishers sufficiently for the fighting age invaders to be activated.
Sofia Brizo spends four hours a day on what she calls "disability admin".
The 27-year-old PhD student, who has cerebral palsy, said she needed to spend that time on making accommodations and planning alternatives, because "the world is not accessible".
Disability Wales said disabled people endured an "immense and often daunting" amount of administration.
Sofia, from Cardiff, who is also a disability activist (Ed: Funny how they always have time and enery for activism, isn't it?), said it was everyday things, such as planning a train journey or booking a routine medical appointment, which can take time.
"It's all of these little things that kind of add on to your day and something that, for a non-disabled person would take like 30 seconds, for me sometimes it could take half an hour," she added.
She said she was lucky as her work in academia meant she had a degree of flexibility in her job, recalling how she recently had to leave a meeting unexpectedly to get her walker repaired at a nearby bike shop.
"I feel like my disability is a full-time job sometimes, and it's not just because of my own body and the extra care it needs, but it's mostly because of the inaccessible world that we live in," she said.
No, that's just more 'poor me' whinging. Be specific.
The para swimmer, from Bergamo in Italy, said she recently decided to monitor how much time she spent on these tasks, after a series of problems, and calculated it was four hours a day.
"That's literally half of my working day and then I end up having to work weekends, but paradoxically, it's less stressful for me to do my job at weekends.
"I can't make phone calls about medical appointments on a Saturday or Sunday," she added.
The campaigner said a recent attempt to book her smear test was a good example.
Newsflash, love - no-one can.
"I have a disability as it states in my medical record, I need my legs supported so I need a bed with stirrups.
"They say they'll call me back in a few days. A week later I call again, it takes about an hour, it's a different receptionist, I have to explain everything again."
Gosh, the non-disabled have never experienced that, I bet....
Eventually Sofia was able to book an appointment at a nearby medical centre, although when she arrived, they had booked the wrong appointment.
"The whole thing was a disaster," she said.
And none of that is down to 'accessibility' but down to incompetence on the part of the medical staff - something non-disabled people experience too, in even greater numbers!
The professor said, at times, asking for reasonable adjustments in the workplace could feel like asking for "special favours".
Are they things every other employee gets? No? Then what else are they?
"The embedded ableism that's in the way that we've designed everything, because it's people who are able-bodied, who have done the designing," she added.
