They Are Getting Worried, Aren't They?

Good!

Office workers in central London are spending on average 2.3 days a week in the workplace, according to a report that warns against a wholesale switch to working from home.

And who has commissioned this report? Someone with an agenda? 

The thinktank Centre for Cities carried out polling of office workers in the capital and found they were spending 59% of the time in their workplace compared with pre-Covid levels.

But the report, entitled Office Politics: London and the Rise of Home Working, warns that, despite the upfront benefits for staff in terms of better work-life-balance and less commuting, there may be longer-term costs for the capital in terms of lost productivity.

Ah. Of course. Who else commissions reports these days? 

He pointed to firms’ ability to hire staff from a local pool of high-skilled labour, as well as the benefits within companies of the creativity that comes with face-to-face interaction, and the on-the-job learning that takes place between colleagues.

Yup, we hear the same crap from my workplace, disregarding the fact that many teams are scattered around the country and so never meet (except virtually) anyway... 

The report, supported by the Eastern City business improvement district, which includes firms in that part of London, calls for policies to encourage workers to return.

These could include scrapping peak-time fares on a Friday morning to tempt commuters, and launching a public information campaign to underline the benefits of office life.

Well, who could argue with a public information campaign? We all know how truthful they are... 

Western suicide instigated by utter nutters

Consider:

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/06/01/department-for-work-and-pensions-transgender-diversity-ambassador-says-defenders-of-womens-rights-are-genocidal/

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/06/01/the-demonisation-of-kathleen-stock/

Both of those are by M25 bubble high flier Toby Young, so that’s an ameliorating factor … the London factor, high upper-middle and aspiring, so to speak.

It still illustrates how the formerly detestable feminazis, with precious little concern with, respect for nor safety of women but who are certainly all for providing women with men’s jobs and driving in deep hatred for men as a sex, can now be cast as some sort of tragic victims.

The whole thing is purely and simply self-interest for the activists themselves … and any collateral “opportunities” for other women can’t be helped. Big deal … my mother was part time working, it was being done during and since the war and why not?  Before rabid feminazism … that sisterhood of perpetual hatred for all things male.

But it’s a huge jump from an obvious need to move from wives bringing hubby’s slippers and compulsorily fawning all over him, whilst doing every job in the house and still being a great lover on perpetual, 24/7 duty that way … it’s a giant leap from correcting such things to the rabid feminazism of communist Betty Friedan, perhaps even she not fully understanding, nor Steinem … the full implications of a constructed mass narrative.

And the most fierce anti-feminazis are from the ranks of women themselves … they’re the ones I quote and if you think these are sad sack quiet mice, you’ve not been watching … they are fine, bold specimens of that sex who believe in some sort of sane middle ground of dignity and respect for both sexes for worthy members of both … not for the unworthy, as a matter of blind gender loyalty.

In this case, in the two DS articles, it concerns a woman showing scant regard for men, so why should men show the slightest regard for her, herself, now being under the hammer from the rabid demi-male?

Yet we must do, as males of any sort of nobility at all. Speaking personally, I’m not remotely interested in Mgtow and its detestation of women, nor am I remotely interested in the feminazis’ detestation of men. My gender politics is finding ways both can work together, to the satisfaction of both, without greedy cribbing the entire time, mocking and doing each other down.

Call it tilting at windmills to hope that a middle way can be found, deeply aware as I am of the folly and foibles of both sexes.

With, Of Course, Exceptions For The Right People?

Joanna Lumley has suggested that a system of rationing similar to that seen during wartime, under which people would have a limited number of points to spend on holidays or lavish consumer goods, could eventually help to tackle the climate crisis.

Gosh, where to start? Apart from, 'What 'climate crisis'..? 

“These are tough times, and I think there’s got to be legislation,” she told the Radio Times. “That was how the war was – stuff was rationed – and at some stage I think we might have to go back to some kind of system of rationing, where you’re given a certain number of points and it’s up to you how to spend them, whether it’s buying a bottle of whisky or flying in an aeroplane.”

I know as you get older you tend to fetishise the 'good old days' but this is utterly barking even by usual luvvie standards! 

In a new documentary on ITV next week, Lumley travels around the UK...

On foot? By bike? 

...following the adventurer Sacha Dench – known as “the human swan” – as she attempts an epic 3,000-mile journey around the British coast in an electric paramotor.

While her luggage goes by road, I guess? Will such a method of transport catch on?

...in September, just days from her journey’s end, Dench and her support pilot and photographer Dan Burton, who was flying a conventional paramotor, collided in mid-air over the western Highlands. Burton, 54, a father of two from Devon, died, and Dench, 46, was seriously injured and remains in hospital.

Reader, it's a 'No!' from me... 

H/T: TheOtherDavidBellamy via Twitter

It’s not just us noticing, is it?

As for the fine detail, we’d have to bring the content and comments of Julia’s and our blogs en masse, because we’ve been banging on with this for how long?

The obvious question is … for how much longer? As long as the clown MPs, the FCO, the masters of each as well … continue, hellbent, then there’s no end, just M.A.D.

Never A Truer Word Spoken...

Speaking at the vigil, one of Harvey's uncles said: 'We're all tarred with the same brush here, especially given what happened on Monday.

'But this is the true Ely. Look how many people have turned out to pay their respects.'

And how do they do that? By blocking the roads and littering the surrounding area:

 Pity the farmers in the surrounding area...

'The only difference between Monday and today is that the police aren't here.'

Don't really blame them, do you? 

'They were just young boys. Everyone rides bikes and scooters around here. Yes, we find them annoying but that's just what they do.

'But as soon as those coppers saw they had no helmets they should've stopped.'

There are no responsible adults in the place who feel it's their job to raise chilren correctly? Then build a wall around the place and leave them to their own devices... 

The multi headed hydra

Lest we forget:

We face a double foe here, before even taking into account other major players such as China, the deathcult, the Ash can nazis and half of Africa on the move.

The catalyst:

… and the regrettable ignorance of the normies, who quickly turn karen when ordered to by the MSM, controlled by this lot:

How to deal with this many headed hydra?

What precisely are they hoping to achieve?

Winning our hearts and minds?

And this?

The sheer stupidity of the myrmidons embracing this to the point of fanaticism, plus the poor kids brainwashed in schools into becoming vandals and little monsters:

… by these now depraved ghouls pales into insignificance compared to the globo-psycho-fiends dreaming up this ordure.

These are not just sickos, as we’ve said before … they’ve embraced sheer evil. And yes, there are victims.

When Campaigns Are Too Successful...

This year’s big week, run by the Mental Health Foundation, starts on Monday. Its theme is anxiety, a disorder affecting a quarter of adults, according to the foundation – a statistic that sounds unbelievably large until you read its description of the condition, which seems almost broad enough to take in the full sweep of human experience.

“Lots of things can lead to feelings of anxiety, including exam pressures, relationships, starting a new job (or losing one) or other big life events. We can also get anxious when it comes to things to do with money and not being able to meet our basic needs, like heating our home or buying food.”

We used to call this 'life' once, didn't we? And got on with it? In fact, wasn't it once a peculiarly British trait? 

Britain is certainly more aware than it used to be. Diagnoses have broadened – more of us see grief and stress as mental illnesses than we did a decade ago. Therapy-speak infuses the language: triggering, boundaries, projection, self-care – stiff-upper-lipped Brits have expanded their vocabularies.

No more, it would seem... 

The theme of last year’s mental health awareness week was loneliness. Previous years have covered nature and mental health, kindness and body image. These awareness campaigns seem to work by stretching the concept of mental illness into the realm of common experience – linking anxious feelings to anxiety, or relating depression to the stresses of everyday life.

Which isn't good for anyone. Except those peddling snake oil 'cures' and remedies. They must be making out like bandits... 

Studying regime change

It's unusual these days (on the blogpost count) for me to double or quadruple up an article at different outlets but it's occasionally necessary, when the theme is universal and worthy of study ... methinks this one is. It started with a series of tweets:

Don't They Say In Texas "You Can Run, But You Can't Hide"..?

I really hope it's true.

An investigation led by Republican Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, has sent doctors at an Austin hospital into a panic, causing all the physicians in its adolescent medicine department to depart.

Hmmm, 'adolescent medicine'? Treating acne and growth spurts? 

Not quite! 

Earlier this week, Dell Children’s Clinic, which provides gender-affirming care for trans children, announced to parents that they would need to find new providers for their children in transition.

Let's hope this is just the start of the pushback against this insidious trend... 

Paxton’s office claimed the investigation was being conducted on the grounds that the care these children were receiving was illegal because they were under the age of 18.

How much under, I wonder?