Why Is The Answer Never 'I'll Start Up My Own!'..?

Kemi Alemoru on a controvery that had, admittedly, passed me by...

To understand the viral outrage and fierce gatekeeping over what at first appears to be an innocuous beauty tip, you need to understand some crucial context​...

Oh, you'll never guess..! 

...the beauty industry is a notoriously inequitable space for black women.

*sighs* 

Being able to walk into a high-street beauty store such as Boots or Superdrug and find products that cater to darker skin tones and afro hair textures is only a very recent phenomenon.

As commenters at Tim Worstall's take on this point out there's good reason for this, and the impression she gives is a false one anyway...

This lack of availability doesn’t reflect a lack of demand.

If there's a demand, why don't you fill it? 

Black hair shops are rarely black-owned, and their products often aren’t either (an irony highlighted in the new ITV drama Riches).

So the complaint has changed from 'Not enough!' to 'Not us!'..? 

Black women’s frustration (Ed: ah, the Royal 'We' here?) with the beauty industry is about far more than the inconvenience of having to travel further for the right product and paying a premium for it.

I think that's your frustration. Or did 'black women' elect you to speak for them? 

Black women are just tired: tired of being mistreated, and tired of being undervalued by the retailers and brands that market to and profit from them.

I'll echo Tim. Sod off. And when you get there, sod off again! 

A tale that too many know of across this land

... and for that matter, around the world:

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/accept-nothing-the-hospitals-tell-you-my-lesson-for-patients-families/

As I have previously written, we complained to the Cardiff and Vale health board about the DNR, later taking it to the ombudsman, but were told that as a legal document it cannot be changed, only ‘reviewed’ upon any future hospital admission.

The hospital notes state early on, ‘worsening inflammatory markers . . ? progression of Covid? consolidation consistent with bacterial pneumonia’. I am no ‘Covid denier’, but the facts of the case are contradictory at best given what we now know about the incubation period, therefore it is my belief that my aunt caught pneumonia or Covid once admitted.

It was only months later that it came to my attention that journalist Jacqui Deevoy was researching the drug midazolam and that many people believe that their loved ones had been administered this drug as an end-of-life ‘care pathway’, similar to the Liverpool Care Pathway in England which was allegedly phased out around eight years ago. 

Upon hearing this, I returned to my aunt’s notes and indeed found this drug in her PRN (Pro Re Nata or list of anticipatory medications) along with morphine (although at the top of the triage notes, it clearly stated, ‘allergies – morphine’) and 50 mg of cyclizine, an anti-sickness drug.

There's our Grandpa here we've seen the sorry saga about and over at our place, reader Steve lost his mother, writing this yesterday:

They did exactly this to my Mum: difficulty breathing so they prescribed these respiratory suppressing drugs - until I stepped in and threatened to call the police. Bastards have it all worked out with plenty of help from Midazolam Matt Hancock.

Time is almost up for these medical crims ... it's not going to be pleasant.

Baby Steps, Baby Steps...

Hundreds of doctors and midwives have signed a letter urging the NHS to scrap a £100,000 training programme to encourage use of terms including ‘chestfeeding’ and ‘human milk’.

It should be 'hundreds of thousands', but hey! 'More joy in heaven..', and all that...

The Maternity Gender Inclusion Programme is to be rolled out nationwide with a focus on improving maternity care for pregnant transgender patients.

Or as we would say, 'women with mental health issues that make them believe they are really men'.

Following a pilot last year at the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust, the NHS is looking to roll out the training to at least 40 NHS maternity services. Rebranding its maternity department as ‘perinatal services’, it claimed ‘gender identity can be a source of oppression and health inequality’.

If by 'health inequality' they mean that men they allow themselves to call women will never bear children', then they'd better take that up with human evolution.

One midwife, who asked to remain anonymous for fear over her job, said colleagues were very concerned by the proposal – which was based on research that lacked independent evaluation or assessment on how it could impact non-trans patients and other disadvantaged groups.

She said: ‘To give £100,000 on the basis of this really rather kind of shoddy piece of work appears to us to be not based on improving outcomes for mothers and babies, but based on driving an ideological agenda.’

Yes, of course it is. The very fact that this midwife feels she can't use her real name shows that pretty clearly, doesn't it? 

An NHS spokesman said: ‘The NHS has paused this programme while we look into its scope and so that it is based on the latest evidence.’

Translation: "We would have got away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids!" 

The recent plunge in quality of non-Woke social media

 

Dam wall cracking

This:

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/01/13/covid-vaccines-are-obviously-dangerous-and-should-be-halted-immediately-say-senior-swedish-doctors/

There follows a public statement by a group of five senior Swedish doctors who, in collaboration with Dr. Johan Eddebo, a researcher in digitalisation and human rights, are raising the alert about the Covid vaccines, which they describe as “obviously dangerous”. They say there should be an “immediate halt” to the mass vaccination pending “thorough investigations” of the true incidence and severity of adverse effects.

The true character and scope of the harm caused by the unprecedented mass vaccinations for COVID-19 is just now beginning to become clear. Leading scientific journals have finally begun publishing data corroborating what the underground research community has observed over the last two years, especially in relation to complex problems of immune suppression.

… among all the mounting evidence, has now started this sort of thing:

Well, karen, it’s up to you. For two and a half years, you’ve loudly wanted the hesitant to be punished, rounded up and put in internment camps … you reap what you sow.

And They're Right To Be...

The Guardian can reveal that the government’s upcoming land use strategy will not include a reduction in area used for animal agriculture in England.

Thus annoying all the right people. So, it seems the Tories can do something right after all! 

Climate groups have long been urging the government to take steps to reduce meat consumption, and are now accusing ministers of “worsening the cost of living crisis and continuing to lead us towards climate and ecological catastrophe”.

We aren't going to eat the bugs. Or your 'plant based' crap, either. Tough luck. 

Speaking at the Oxford farming conference, the agriculture minister, Mark Spencer, defended the government’s decision to have a hands-off approach when it came to telling landowners what to do.

...

He said meat produced in the UK was more sustainable than that from other countries, and said that, for example, beef from the UK would be better for the environment than imported beef from Mexico.

You frequently see eco-nutters pointing at carrots flown in from other countries on their hectoring Twitter feeds as 'utter nonsense!', so isn't it strange they don't take the same view about meat?  

Is questioning Wokery antisemitic?

There's an element in what we do as citizen journos which worries me ... beyond the ills besetting society due to the creeps above and the no-think normies and kool-aid karens ... and that is the danger of falling into becoming some sort of hackneyed, day-by-day net-commuters.

Then we see even one utterly horrific thing done to a child by these gender monsters and I for one know we simply must keep at it.  This below is hardly at that level of horror but it's still completely wrong. I can't even remember where I found it (maybe at TCW or TDS) but about 1.30 a.m., falling asleep, I felt it needed saving:

Gareth, a Planet Normal listener, wrote to tell me he retired last year from his job as a lawyer to a major public inquiry after three-and-a-half years engaged by the Cabinet Office. “The CO strives hard to promote a ‘woker than thou’ attitude (about the only department in which it does strive hard!) and since the pandemic this went into overdrive,” says Gareth. 

“It encompassed the entire woke canon from compulsory ‘unconscious bias’ training through finger-wagging lectures on ‘micro-aggressions’, ‘white fragility/privilege’, critical race theory, BLM and structural racism, aka all the shibboleths of the progressive Left, but under a supposedly Conservative Government.”

According to Gareth, the Cabinet Office “is symptomatic of the whole civil-service culture which treats the elected Government with disdain and pursues its own ultra-woke agenda which is entirely contrary to official policy”.

Like many members of staff his age, he was appalled by the “all-pervasive propaganda”. He couldn’t stand a climate in which often entirely innocuous comments were treated as “micro-aggressions” and any deviation from the official view (formerly known as “a difference of opinion”) was treated as heretical.

The civil service, the NHS, higher education and far too many private companies have become a paradise for “recreational offence-takers” who love to air their concocted grievances. 

On one occasion, Gareth had a complaint lodged against him for using the term Anglo-Saxon. “Apparently, it has negative connotations for the woke. Who knew?”

All right ... over 50s increasingly being made to feel irrelevant, Them above playing on the aging-angst as on a violin, young ignorati chanting Woke mantra at us. 

The current talking point was provided by "criminal" Hancock ... a change from "criminal" Sunpak or fellow traveller Braverman I suppose.  With "criminal" Starmer waiting in the wings. "Criminal" Hancock had been haranguing the unjabbed (the sane in other words) and could not resist calling it antisemitic. 

Whaaaaa? Clown world or some sort of bestial end times?  Will these creeps ever look back and say to themselves ... how on earth was I ever under the spell of globowoke?

THE END OF PRIVACY IN Great Britain & Northern Ireland

Remember the fuss and palaver when Gordon Brown wanted to issue everyone with ID Cards. Naturally, there was opposition everywhere, I myself joined in with many others, and, together, we beat the Socialist/Communist/Heathen idea back into the mediaeval void it had emerged from.

But now we see the Digital I.D. has suddenly erupted before our very eyes, and, apparently, nobody even bloody noticed: because it was done stealthily, quietly, and with, for a very rare change from This Government, competently.

But, with this ‘Digital I.D., comes the end of privacy.

The Government Departments which will now be able to look at every skein of your life, from medical to financial history and onwards; is explained in this list:-

• Home Office

• Ministry of Justice

• The Lord Chancellor

• Ministry of Defence

• HM Revenue and Customs

• Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

• Department for Education

• Department for Work and Pensions

• Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

• Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

• HM Land Registry

• An organisation which provides services to a specified public authority in connection with the specified objective

• A county council in England

• A district council in England

• A London borough council

• A combined authority established under section 103 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009

• The Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a local authority

• The Council of the Isles of Scilly

• The Greater London Authority

Welsh bodies

• The Welsh Ministers

• The Welsh Revenue Authority

• A county council in Wales

• A county borough council in Wales

• A community council in Wales

• A person providing services in connection with a specified objective (within the meaning of section 35) to a specified person who (a) falls within this part of this Schedule; and (b) is a public authority.

Scottish bodies

• The Scottish Ministers

• A council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.

• A person providing services in connection with a specified objective (within the meaning of section 35) to a specified person who (a) falls within this Part of this Schedule; and (b) is a public authority.

New public authorities to be added to Schedule 4

• The Cabinet Office

• Department for Transport

• Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

• Disclosure and Barring Service

FUNNY THING, NO-ONE NOTICED: THE END OF YOUR PRIVACY.

And When Will They Hold A Hearing Into The HR Department?

A hearing to decide Mr Karim's compensation will be held at a later date.

Because he should never have been taken on in the first place!

The tribunal in central London heard the trainee joined the Metropolitan Police in 2015 as a probationer police constable, and passed an initial hearing test.

How?!? And is that initial test now being revised as a consequence of this debacle?

...the police officer was also made to complete role play tests to prove his ability to work at an operational level. Senior officers conducting the tests were concerned Mr Karim was over-reliant on the Rogers Pen and that if he used it in a real street policing scenario, someone could knock it out of his hands, the tribunal was told.

During a 'police chase' test, the officer's hearing aid battery ran out, and Mr Karim had to stop and change it, the panel heard. In another test scenario, moreover, Mr Karim had to ask for messages to be repeated and said the blue lights were giving feedback to his hearing aids - describing the sound as 'torture.'

All the officers who conducted the tests believed 'Mr Karim was not capable of becoming a fully operational and effective police officer'.

Maybe they should be moved to HR forthwith to oversee future recruitment? 

I'm not saying that being deaf should rule someone out of any job in the police, but it should be clear as daylight to anyone with a smidgen of common sense that operational front-line coppering is not that job...

A further claim of direct discrimination - in which he accused the Met of making a 'stereotypical assumption' that his hearing impairment 'rendered him incapable' of doing the job - was dismissed, however.

As it should have been. But why did the Met ever think he would be capable in the first place? Did identity politics overrule common sense. Again? 

Questions for America

From the online pages of the Epoch Times, I bring you the cogent arguments and queries of Victor Davis Hanson, the conservative commentator, classicist, and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California.

Did someone or something seize control of the United States?

What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did President Joe Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the border and reside in the United States as they pleased?

Since when did money not have to be paid back? Who insisted that the more dollars the federal government printed, the more prosperity would follow? When did America embrace zero interest? Why do we believe $30 trillion in debt is no big deal?

When did clean-burning, cheap, and abundant natural gas become the equivalent to dirty coal? How did prized natural gas that had granted America’s wishes of energy self-sufficiency, reduced pollution, and inexpensive electricity become almost overnight a pariah fuel whose extraction was a war against nature? Which lawmakers, which laws, which votes of the people declared natural gas development and pipelines near criminal?

Was it not against federal law to swarm the homes of Supreme Court justices, to picket and to intimidate their households in efforts to affect their rulings? How then with impunity did bullies surround the homes of Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, John Roberts, and Clarence Thomas—furious over a court decision on abortion? How could these mobs so easily throng our justices’ homes, with placards declaring “Off with their d—s”?

Since when did Americans create a government Ministry of Truth? And on whose orders did the FBI contract private news organisations to censor stories it did not like and writers whom it feared?

How did we wake up one morning to new customs of impeaching a president over a phone call? Of the speaker of the House tearing up the State of the Union address on national television? Of barring congressional members from serving on their assigned congressional committees?

When did we assume the FBI had the right to subvert the campaign of a candidate it disliked? Was it legal suddenly for one presidential candidate to hire a foreign ex-spy to subvert the campaign of her rival?

Was some state or federal law passed that allowed biological males to compete in female sports? Did Congress enact such a law? Did the Supreme Court guarantee that biological male students could shower in gym locker rooms with biological women? Were women ever asked to redefine the very sports they had championed?

When did the government pass a law depriving Americans of their freedom during a pandemic? In America can health officials simply cancel rental contracts or declare loan payments in suspension? How could it become illegal for mom-and-pop stores to sell flowers or shoes during a quarantine but not so for Walmart or Target?

Since when did the people decide that 70 percent of voters would not cast their ballots on Election Day? Was this revolutionary change the subject of a national debate, a heated congressional session, or the votes of dozens of state legislatures?

What happened to election night returns? Did the fact that Americans created more electronic ballots and computerised tallies make it take so much longer to tabulate the votes?

When did the nation abruptly decide that theft is not a crime, assault not a felony? How can thieves walk out with bags of stolen goods, without the wrath of angry shoppers, much less fear of the law?

Was there ever a national debate about the terrified flight from Afghanistan? Who planned it and why?

What happened to the once-trusted FBI? Why almost overnight did its directors decide to mislead Congress, to deceive judges with concocted tales from fake dossiers and with doctored writs? Did Congress pass a law that our federal leaders in the FBI or CIA could lie with impunity under oath?

Who redefined our military and with whose consent? Who proclaimed that our chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff could call his Chinese Communist counterpart to warn him that America’s president was supposedly unstable? Was it always true that retired generals routinely libelled their commander-in-chief as a near Nazi, a Mussolini, an adherent of the tools of Auschwitz?

Were Americans ever asked whether their universities could discriminate against their sons and daughters based on their race? How did it become physically dangerous to speak the truth on a campus? Whose idea was it to reboot racial segregation and bias as “theme houses,” “safe spaces,” and “diversity”? How did that happen in America?

How did a virus cancel the Constitution? Did the lockdowns rob of us of our sanity? Or was it the woke hysteria that ignited our collective madness?

We are beginning to wake up from a nightmare to a country we no longer recognise, and from a coup we never knew.