The moral imperative, social safety and certainty

Nick Dixon, the online pundit, has written:

The Screwtape Letters is one of C.S. Lewis’s most enduring and prophetic works. Adopting the voice of the demon Screwtape, Lewis predicts everything from virtue signalling, to porn addiction.

He also shows us the folly of political utopianism, and, as is typical of Lewis’s oeuvre, exposes how the modern world has dispensed with truth and reason in favour of fashionable ideas and materialism.

At the personal level, we are implicitly warned (by taking the opposite view to the evil Screwtape) of how an obsessive focus on the future causes anxiety, and how the pleasures, though divine in origin, can be corrupted and perverted.

Lewis also makes it clear that our thirst for novelty and concerns about social status are further avenues for evil to exploit.

Charles Baudelaire, the French poet, first wrote a version of this thought in his 1864 prose poem "Le Joueur Généreux" ("The Generous Gambler"), writing: "La plus belle des ruses du Diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas!".

The stance itself has existed since time immemorial. Every possessed person in the public eye is well aware of it ... Madonna, Swift, Diddy, Amanda Bynes, let alone, going back, Anton LaVey, Albert Pyke ... the possessed have not the slightest problem with the concept ... it's just the Eloi, the normies of the society, deliberately miseducated, who continue the "eyes wide shut", standing in that river in Egypt.

Philosophers are there to invent clever alternative notions, once people are duped into thinking there can be no personification of evil, that it's only human nature, that no one created humans that way at the dawn of time, that it all happened as a big bang or through evolution from the amoeba.

One pesky concept is the moral imperative. We see it in the society we once had (the majority being too young to have experienced it) ... it was going to work each day, newspaper in hand, having had a safe, folic acid and bovaer free brek, with cuppa ... modestly dressed, chatting to the usuals with no fear of being stabbed, raped or both, ordure and rubbish everywhere on the streets, pitholes.

It was civilised and based on a code of precepts none dare mention the source of ... because then you'd be a far right fascist or Jesus freak.  To becsure, it was also Plato, Aristotle and those lads, John Stuart Mill (yes, a philosopher), David Hume et al.

You can see that society in the remaining architecture, the art, in the natural civility in our dealings, instead of the obline potty mouthed abuse of the net today.  It was in gentlemen's agreements ... your word is your bond.

It (largely) worked, always remembering that there were major enemies who had snuck in through portals, from Them behind the pollies, to the Chinese, to middle-east fanaticism, to the sub-continent, to darkest Africa and the Caribbean, to Net Zero and Agenda 30 etc.  The banksters.  Blair, Obama.  Some say Donny, the Vatican ... no end to the accused foes.

You can't revese societal decline ... there's the duping of the people, the enemies causing that and playing the people.

In lucid moments, think back to what the hegemony actually was in the west at the point of its greatest security, domestically, its philosophical underpinnings.  But the bstds behind, in the shadows, still got in and started pointless wars ... slaughtered millions.  WMD, MAD.

No powerful theocrat, no Paisley, no C19th bible thumper is going to be able to reverse this steep decline now ... against the juggernaut ... and yet I see thousands of ordinary folk, mainly American, on X, calling out to soc-medders ... and yet sidetracked by denominational cults, you can tell them by their rainbows.

The change starts within ourselves. Politically, yesterday I was debating with a friend, past fellow blogger, on holding the nose and voting with the controlled opposition ... just to get rid of Labour, as if the other Uniparty branches would be any better once in power.

Descending into their clever political game ... that's going to lead us out to some sort of political nobility? Hardly ... it just changes the rosettes ... red to blue, light blue, green, yellow.

Civil war?  Who leads it?

Oh, just adding this from our DAD at Unherdables today:

UK. 20-year-old British free speech advocate and Restore Britain party operative Montgomery Toms was attacked by an angry mob during one of his public debates in Brighton, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday, 10 October.

He uploaded multiple videos of the incident to his X feed. The footage shows him being swarmed by a mob of mostly young men who tore down his tent.

https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/current/montgomery-toms-free-speech-attacked-brighton/

Do we stand firm on our principles these days ... or do we fall for this "strategic" ... that is, morally bankrupt voting, that clever foolushness which Them wish us to eternally remain within?

Local Councils Should Refer To The Police...

...not be expected to investigate themselves.

A paedophile nursery worker was cleared by an investigation overseen by a local authority three years before he was arrested.

In February, Vincent Chan was jailed after pleading guilty to 56 offences, including assault by penetration on three-year-old girls in his care at a Bright Horizons nursery on Finchley Road in north-west London. After his conviction, prosecutors described him as a “prolific sexual predator”.

But as a man, and one with an ethnic identity, he was a valuable hire for the nursery, no doubt

The Guardian can now reveal that Chan was the subject of an earlier safeguarding investigation, carried out by Bright Horizons, with the oversight of Camden council. It followed what were described as “significant concerns” raised with the nursery in 2021 about Chan’s conduct and behaviour by the parent of a young girl, including concerns about what her daughter was saying to her about Chan.

Bright Horizons referred the matter to Camden council, which advised the nursery to investigate. Chan was put on duties that involved no contact with children while the investigation by Bright Horizons took place. After it was completed, Chan was cleared to return to his role caring for young children in the nursery.

And must have thought he could get away with it - because he could, as the nursery and council were allowed to mark their own homework, in effect.

The revelation that Camden council and Bright Horizons were aware of concerns about Chan three years before his arrest, and that there had been an investigation into his behaviour, will raise questions about whether there were earlier opportunities to stop him.

Local authorities have the ultimate responsibility for managing allegations raised that relate to adults who work with children. LADOs can recommend that a matter be referred to the police if they believe it meets a criminal threshold. It is understood that the Metropolitan police did not receive a referral in 2021 regarding Chan, and were only notified of the concerns subsequently.

All allegations that suggest criminal behaviour should result in automatic referral to the people who we pay to uphold the law, and not the people we pay to empty the bins and fix the potholes. 

This goes back a long time before folic and bovaer

There’s much about on folic just now … word is getting out …

… plus IYE has the bovaer story (Arla) over at Unherdables … but if we think for one moment that that’s all it is … sorry but that’s looking increasingly naive:

Once more and more people start waking up, then the more the owners of the clowns in parliament will feel the pressure to go to their next stage. Same goes with invaders and us uprising or Eloi-ing or sleepwalking to oblivion. To my mind, the solution must be lateral, not the way they’re designing it to turn out. Our framing, not theirs.

Folic acid and bovaer free recipes ... part two ... Flour-less Rich Fruit Cake

Thanks IYE:

1 cup dried apricots roughly chopped
1/2 cup medjoul dates roughly chopped
1/2 cup dried figs roughly chopped
1/2 cup dried cranberries (optional)
1/2 cup currants
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup stoned 🤪 prunes roughly chopped

1 large orange – zest and juice
3 tablespoons coconut oil
3 large eggs, beaten
2 heaped teaspoons mixed spice
1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger
1/2 cup of chopped pecans or walnuts (optional)
2 cups ground almonds
Pinch of salt

A generous 1/4 cup brandy 😇

20 cm loose bottom tin lined with greaseproof paper, baking parchment or whatever it is called in your neck of the woods
Oven temp 150 C or gas equivalent?
Cooking time 1 hour 15 – 1 hour 25 mins.

Method

Day before you want to bake put all the dried fruit in large bowl together with zest and juice of the orange and the brandy. Stir well, make a wish, cover with a plate or cling film and leave overnight. (No nibbling now!)

Day after, gently melt the coconut oil – don’t over heat. In another large bowl mix ground almonds, salt, spices, beaten eggs and the melted coconut oil. Mix well. Add the dried fruit and any remaining liquid ( won’t be much!) and mix thoroughly. Add the chopped nuts if using at this stage too.

Empty into prepped tin and bake. Check after 1 hr 15 – stick a skewer in the middle – should be cleanish and the cake firm.

When done leave it in the tin to cool completely then wrap in grease proof paper and then in tin foil. Keeps well for a couple of weeks.

It makes quite a dense cake. Delish served with a chunk of farmhouse cheddar and a glass of port.
Note there’s no sugar in it – sweetness comes from all the dried fruit.

Hope that all makes sense – have written it in my bestest writing. 😉

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(JH: Pic BBC Good Food guide)

Folic acid and bovaer free recipes ... part one ... mincemeat

Ta, Andy, also Toodles and IYE

 

Andy

Mum used to make her own mincemeat. I e got her old 1930s recipe book. I’ll have a gander and put it up.

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Here we go, late night and just got back from the pub. Apologies for misspellings etc.

2lb cooking apples, 1lb raisins stoned (#metoo), 1lb sultanas, 3/4lb mixed peel, 1lb suet, 1lb caster sugar, grated rind of 2 lemons, juice of 3 lemons, 1 nutmeg grated, 3/4 lb raspberry jam (optional)

Put all fruit, peel and suet through a mincing machine or chop together as finely as possible. Texture will be slightly different, matter of taste. Stir in sugar, grated lemon rind and the juice, the nutmeg and jam if used. Sprinkle in a few whole currents, and, if possible a little brandy or whisky. Mix thoroughly. Put into pots and cover closely. These quantities make about 8lb of mincemeat. Smaller amounts mean reducing ingredients proportionally.

Mmm, I might give this a try. Good luck finding SFA free suet. If you do let me know please.

IYE

Thanks Andy, have noted and passed it on. No such thing as suet over here though 😕 Shall have to research what the alternatives are. Watch this space….

Also food processors back in the day were our mums and grandmums – thinking of mincing machine – no doubt a modern food processor carefully controlled would do the job.  Goes away with dreams of a mincemeat plait and custard….😋

Btw have got a flour free fruit cake recipe if anyone is interested.

(JH: Yes please, kindly.)

Okay, suet substitutes. Have conferred. The resident Domestic Goddess recommends either butter or coconut oil. Butter has been used for over a decade in our Christmas puds.😲 Make sure the butter is cold first then grate it. Same with coconut oil but trickier to handle. For savoury uses use lard.

Toods summarised

Andy! Yum! I really love minced meat. Ashamedly I must confess I usually buy it. The brand was pretty good. My mother used to make it. I have no idea where her recipe is so I am anxious to try your ‘mum’s’! Thrilled to have it. It makes so much I might put it in jars as gifts for friends too!

‘1lb raisins stoned (#metoo)’  🥴

Photo credit: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/22621/old-time-mincemeat-pie/

Late note from Isilme

IYE – have you tried asking the butcher for some suet. Originally that’s where you’d get it from.

I’m loving all these recipes. Trouble is, my Beloved is drooling over them and now it looks like I’ll have to try them out. Only to keep him happy, of course. I hate to say it, but I already have all those ingredients in my larder. It seems I have no excuse.

I’m making some bread and butter pudding for tonight’s dessert. I found some hot cross buns in the freezer and felt it was about time they got eaten!

They’re mini ones, so I’ll simply cut them in half and butter each piece, then lay them in a dish and scatter a bit of mixed dried fruit over them, plus a tablespoon of demerara sugar.

Then beat together an egg and half a pint (300ml) milk and pour over the top.

Quite often I do two eggs and a pint of milk because beloved likes the eggy bit.

You leave it for half an hour to all soak in, sprinkle the top with another tablespoon of demerara sugar and then cook it for 1 hour at Gas 4 / 350F / 180C / 160 fan oven.

Yummy!

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(JH: This is the issue though, Isilme … milk, butter (bovaer poison), bread flour (folic acid). We need independent sources of milk and flour. This is what we’re banging on about.)

Isilme adds:

"Today, not long after reading your blog about the folic acid stuff, I received an email from this online company with the title "Check out our range of unfortified flour" and it explained in the email that none of their organic flour had folic acid in it (white bread flour, plain flour, self raising etc). How did they know I wanted 'non folic acid' stuff? I could have just bought the wholemeal flour because that's what I wanted, nothing to do with folic acid. How do they know I glanced to the side of the page to see the ingredients? Very weird!"

Because You Can't Appease Zealots

And you shouldn't even try:

Her walk was poised, her outfit – crop top, tailored trousers, high heels – so on point that when Josie Knowles strutted down a London Fashion Week catwalk last month she could have passed for a model. That is, had it not been for the sign the Peta protester held saying “H&M: Wool is Bloody Cruel.” Still, as one social media commentator put it when praising her strut: “you cant tell me Peta didn’t know what they were doing when they hired this diva”.

Well, if you want to infiltrate a place, it helps to look like you fit in... 

For the record, Knowles’s clothes were all vegan and secondhand; the trousers were Spacegirlz, a now defunct early 2000s label; her high-heeled boots were from the Peta prop cupboard.

Wonder why it's defunct?  

One of the reasons Knowles’s catwalk moment engaged so many was because it felt unlikely that someone clearly steeped in fashion’s visual codes would also be prepared to protest against the industry so fiercely.

Knowles has never worked in fashion. She studied philosophy at university, went vegan after falling into an internet rabbit hole, appalled by what she saw about the treatment of animals. She interned at Peta for six months before she was hired there.

She came a little late to the party, but of course, activists never say 'Jon done!' and retire, do they? 

Since 2023, activists have rushed the catwalks of top fashion shows including Burberry, Gucci, Hermès, Victoria Beckham and Fendi. Many of them have been young men and women who could pass for models themselves. Peta activists often blend in so well that before some recent catwalk ambushes, they have mingled with show-goers and even sat front row before leaping to action.

But Peta still protested because the organization is shifting emphasis. It’s now calling for the eradication of nearly all animal-derived fabrics including, perhaps most divisively, wool.out the dedication of the fannatic.

Wool. Which is obtained not through killing animals at all. Tough sell, you'd think, in these 'natural is better than artificial' days, but you'd reckon without the desire never to get a proper job nd to spend your life in student politics.

For a fashion world patting itself on the back for dropping fur, calls to ban wool have been met with “a breath of exasperation from some fashion insiders, and confusion from others” according to a Vogue Business piece which ran in response to the protests.

Many farmers, fashion brands and wool producers, meanwhile, maintain that they adhere to ethical standards. They flag social and environmental concerns inherent in abandoning wool production, and argue that – because sheep have been bred for generations to grow very thick fleeces – not shearing them would also be cruel.

Anyone else would see this as an insurmountable challenge, but no... 

Some have also accused Peta of pushing synthetic fibres just when the environmental nightmare of polyester use needs to be abated, though Peta say that’s a false dichotomy. The Peta activists I spoke to were advocates for vegan plant-based alternatives such as bamboo, cotton, hemp and tencel.

Gen Z activists will be a big part of this. Having grown up with unfettered access to information online, Byrne says they are “less surprised than other generations when they learn that wool and leather are a product of cruelty”.

Imagine admitting that they have all this access to information, and yet they are dumber and more driven by emotion than other generations? 

Adulteration and misrepresentation

Trying to escape folic acid (and bovaer) while still buying from UK supermarkets. An increasingly difficult task with so much subterfuge going on.

Starting here:

Morrisons sell one bread sourced from a private baker afa customers can know … Jason’s. Here it is:

Clearly labelled wholemeal all over the packet but it also mentions ciabatta … so I’m expecting wholemeal ciabatta:

Note Arla Foods there (bovaer peddlers). Also note the front label:

Read the fine print below. “Meets”? At this stage, I ask … do all UK food customers have to go through forensic investigation, just to ensure non-toxic nutrients, esp. when the firms show not the slightest interest in providing pure foods? Is it unreasonable to demand non subterfuge and non adulteration?

And demand it where? In the MSM? In parliament or congress? Hardly. Obviously only on socmed. What of all the other poor sods in society?

Clutching Vipers To Our Bosom

The latest case involves a 16-year-old from Nottingham, who is originally from Poland, and cannot be named due to his age. The Old Bailey heard last week that the police received a report on September 10 of a person who had provided an online link to a number of terrorist documents. In one of the documents he is said to have made clear how much he hated the British people, referred to his hatred of society and made reference to having joined a true crime community, known as a 'com network'.

Then why is he still here? Deport him!

In a second document, he said that he was 'unlike other mass murders who discriminate against race, skin, colour or gender identity'. 'Each and every one of you piece of s*** humans are disgusting to me,' he allegedly wrote. 'If it is not clear already I am doing this mainly due to suicidal ideation and misanthropy.'

’Suicidal ideation’ yet has failed to successfully kill himself, I note. A liar or just incompetent?

Julia Faure-Walker told a hearing that the prosecution alleges that misanthropy – the hatred of humankind – 'is the ideological cause for the terrorist acts'. It means that the CPS has been able to charge the teenager with preparation of terrorist acts, which carries a potential life sentence.

Great, so we spend more taxpayer money on prosecuting him and if successful keeping him in jail, when a taxi to Heathrow and a one way plane ticket would suffice. 

'If humanity is the reason I am not able to live how I want, I might as well make them hurt as much as I do.'

Not able to live ‘how he wants’? That sounds like a clue to his major malfunction to me! 

It is more than a year since Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, recommended a new offence of preparing a mass killing without an ideology.

Just in time. How fortuitous. 

The October 7th, 2023 massacre in Israel

Two opposing views on the massacre ...

But Ben Swann in Florida says:

Each reader will have his/her own view on it, his/her own intel. My slant is that of a Restore oriented Brit and ✝️ian within these isles. I believe that the gangs in control of nations are the enemies of their peoples … I’ve blogged on that since 2006.

I believe that a state enabled pro-Hamas march in London on this specific day is an offence against God and nature, especially given the state sponsoring of the invasion here, e.g. at Gosport, where the state, under Mahmoud, turned on local people.

The inversion of society

... with the dumbos in positions of influence.

Two-thirds of the day looking for something new to post for “my day” … drew a blank, so let’s re-run some of the old:

Or to put it a simpler way:

A major error is to allow this to be called “suicidal empathy” … this pundit gets close:

I still don’t think we’re quite there … homicidal “empathy”? Us going along with it all? I’d suggest maybe over half do not, no way known but a very vocal third do, like that girl on X today saying that free speech impedes socialism … which of course brings in Orwell:

Which women? The ones in higher education, to the financial ruination of either them or a parent and don’t forget the Ardays in higher education. Who is controlling it? The professors, lecturers, tutors. My own last role was professor, so I know these people.

But they are appointed, are they not? Voted in? By whom? The word self-perpetuating raises its ugly head.

An even better question is why. Why do all these people wish to destroy civilised, functioning society? If academics and higher students are asked … it’s supposedly for the good of society, for fairness, for love … always framed that way with them as the goodies.

But the third who can see … the real intellectuals … can look around and know the hell for leather destruction for what it is … we can see it all around.

So we have three societal groups among western natives:

• The intellectuals who can see … in Britain mainly Restore
• The normies into anything but thinking … bread and circuses
• The dumbo and/or evil supposed “Intellectuals” in “higher” education … the agents of destruction

The last lot poison the kids … esp. aspirational females today. Who controls the Intellectuals? Their ideological idols and sources of their funds. Simple. Evil muvvas.

Or even the devil himself, unbeknowns?

We're Still 'Special', Even Though We're Old!

As a 75-year-old lesbian, Mindy Meleyal has lived through every major milestone in the modern LGBT rights movement, from the start of decriminalisation in 1967 to the first same-sex marriages in 2014. But now she says this important part of her identity is frequently overlooked due to her age. She's part of England's older LGBTQ+ community, which a new report suggests often experiences poorer health, more limited finances and greater social isolation than the wider older population.

Being different from the majority of people brings…difference in old age. Who could have predicted that?

The report, from the Centre for Ageing Better, says without specialist support, this growing demographic could be forced "back into the closet" when accessing care, warning they may even delay getting the care they need because of concerns about homophobia.

Such as? 

Adam Preston, a housing development manager from the LGBT Foundation charity, says he regularly meets older members of the community in exactly that situation. "It's very common for people to hide things if they have a carer visiting their home, for example hiding their wedding photos or taking down a trans flag," he says.

He says he has been "horrified" by some of the stories he has heard meeting older LGBTQ+ people, including some who have had carers offer to "pray for them" regarding their sexuality.

That says more about the people employed as carers than anything else, doesn’t it? And I suppose a ‘No, thank you!’ won’t suffice? 

On one occasion, while Mindy was in hospital after a stroke, a nurse referred to Linda as Mindy's husband. She said it was not only "insulting", but made her consider what sort of training the staff might have had.

When your loved one is in hospital, do you really have the time to wonder that? Shouldn’t you be more concerned about their medical competence given the current state of the NHS, than about how well they are schooled in political correctness, which anyway changes with the wind? 

The report, external says older LGBTQ+ people are less likely to have children - someone born in 1950 would have been in their 50s by the time same-sex couples could legally adopt - and that they are more likely to be estranged from their families when compared to their heterosexual counterparts.

Again, difference from regular societal norms means just that. 

What is it to be English?

... or Scots, Irish or Welsh?  Manx?

Steve in a comment at Unherdables:

Reform can’t be trusted with our identity. Tice completely swerved an ethnicity question put to him on GB News this morning. Long story but it’s to do with a reply made by Reform’s Suella Braverman MP on the BBC’s Question Time last Thursday. Was she British or English?

Though she was born in Harrow, London, she (dis)averred that she was a British national because her origins were elsewhere. In her case India. In other words she is not ethnically English. Her answer prompted the white Labour MP on the panel to accuse her of racism.

Decades of mass uncontrolled immigration we didn’t vote for and now, for good measure, they want to cancel our origins. You were right about Reform UK, James.

Tyler on X:

The argument is reinforced by the fact that James Goddard lives in Thailand, but describing him as ethnically Thai would be absurd.

James Goddard:

Amir Khan is NOT English Sadiq Khan is NOT English John Barnes is NOT English Bukayo Saka is NOT English Frank Bruno is NOT English Priti Patel is NOT English Rishi Sunak is NOT English

Carl Wilkinson:

The English are the historic people formed in England through a particular ethnogenesis: the interaction and consolidation of Anglo-Saxon, Brittonic, Norse, Norman and other elements into a distinct population, with its own inherited language, institutions, customs, historical memory and continuity across generations. No other people on earth have that exact history of formation. The French do not. The Japanese do not. The Nigerians do not. The Scots do not. Each has its own ethnogenesis. That particular history is what makes English ethnicity English. So saying “everyone is mixed” proves nothing. Mixture is universal in the abstract; ethnogenesis is particular in reality. What matters is which peoples mixed, where, when, through what historical processes, and what continuing people emerged from them. Only the English descend from the specifically English ethnogenesis. That is precisely why “mixed” cannot be used as a magic word to dissolve the English into humanity in general.

Culpability

The point of this post now is not to analyse the deathjab any further … there is much med lit out there, esp. on X … the purpose is to look at three sshots and see what can be concluded about culpability.

That last one … admittedly you’d need to go into X, to that account, find and expand the chart. But you still get the idea, unexpanded. The one I’m looking at closely, on the grounds that being male, prostate is an issue and having a stent in … ditto … before even looking at the other poisons in sky, land, water now ... is the folic acid.

in short, these bstds are most certainly trying to kill us. And the political class? Acolytes, believing the guff about being the “useful eaters” saved, safe in their leafy suburbs, knowing that the genocide of the masses was well worth it for their own healthy longevity. In Britain, we’re talking “good areas” of the leafy south-east … the post war, aspirational, NIMBY middle class.

Now, from my style of writing, it must be obvious that I too had “an education”, so why should I be concerned with dead plebs? Simple … I don’t think like the political class or above them, the Rothschild-Sabbatean or European Old Families, pitiless and sicko, psycho. Our people are our people.

And that lot in power are trying to kill us. The supermarkets did not wait for December, nor gladly accept the the exceptions … jope, they got in as quickly as they could to add health-averse substances. Who made those decisions? The boards, the CEOs, warrnt it. That managerial class, low on ability, high on ego, lacking moral compasses.

Do you see your own progeny as “below you” in intellect, no class, fit only for abuse or for sending to the war front, as the Ukrainian monsters are currently doing to their orphanages? Silly question when applied to you and me … by no means a silly question for those with no state, no loyalty to any cultural maxims … people such as Peter Sutherland. Gates. Fauci. Blair.

If They Ever Invent A Time Machine...

...they should go back in time and run this survey again, during the Blitz.

Accusations that the young are a snowflake generation are wrong, the head of an independent review into mental health, ADHD and autism has told the BBC. Prof Peter Fonagy said in an exclusive interview that there had been a real rise in mental distress among children and young people, with anxiety, depression, self-harm and eating disorders the most common.

Because it’s been accepted and tolerated for too long, too many people have heard sob stories about how hard the millennials have it, and haven’t challenged that! 

He said it was "harder to be young" now given the economic and employment uncertainty young people face, coupled with the challenges presented by social media.

His review was ordered nine months ago by Wes Streeting after the then-health secretary claimed in an interview that young people were over-diagnosed and "written off".

And so all those who owe their very positions to the ‘need’ for cosseting professions to suckle at the taxpayer teat immediately scrambled to try to disprove it.

It is likely to feed into government policies on everything from NHS services and benefits to support for young people who are not in education, employment or training. Fonagy said he chose to speak to the BBC ahead of the publication, which is expected later this week, because he was concerned the debate around ADHD and autism would "obscure" the wider issue of mental health.

He said it will conclude that the rise in mental health problems since the 1990s was real, with about one in four 16 to 24-year-olds now struggling.

'Struggling' with what exactly, compared to other generations? How is this 'data' gathered? It sounds dodgy to me...

The data on this is contested as some sources rely on self-reporting, while sceptics argue greater awareness and reduced stigma around mental health mean more people are coming forward.

Aha!  

Last year, the BBC found that many GPs had concerns about over-diagnosis and felt normal life stresses were being over-medicalised.

They are, and they are often the one's doing it! 

"Adults have let them down. We're the first generation that probably collectively feels we had a better life than our children will have. 

"So, to the person who says it's a snowflake generation, just try living 24 hours as a 16-year-old."

If I could take the tech that we have now back with me I'd happily go back in time to my teenage years. Never has the phrase 'You've never had it so good' be more appropriate.