You Should Have Spoken Up Before...

A group of academics at the world-leading institution say its policies on harassment and social media are in breach of its legal duty to protect freedom of speech as they prohibit 'speech that is lawful'.

They claim the policies 'frustrate academic freedom - the life blood of this university - and harm academic careers'.

...but of course, you're only doing so now because one of your own is affected. You kept remarkably quiet when other careers were threatened, didn't you?

In a statement, the university said: 'The university is both allowed and obliged to take action in response to concerns about the treatment of a member of the university community by a fellow member of the same community and the university is confident that its policy and procedure on harassment and its social media guidance reflect and comply with its legal obligations.'

Let's see how long that confidence is upheld when you start having to pay out, shall we? 

The Victoria Cross and war service medals

My dear ole dad had a few of the latter, quite a few indeed.  

I would ask the question of all today whose fathers and mothers had these ... where are those medals right now?  Who knows about them, which campaigns they represented?  

These men and women fought for God, King and country [1939 to 1945] and for how much longer is that commemorated?  There is the equivalent in the U.S. of course, equally revered.

We are plunged into a very bloody war indeed right now ... a war upon us run by global demi-humans who have our own pollies in thrall against us.  Why, for example, would Boris return to power and start trumpeting this Build Back Better guff?  

What's that to do with a new, post-EUSSR Britain?  Emanating from some Swiss trougher-fest's deliberations in Davos ... what the hell has some clown called Schwab, of nazi roots [see his father's details], to do with us and, for example ... our NHS?

On the strength of some conference called Event 201 in October, 2019, we now have a situation such as Grandpa's.  Go ahead, enter his moniker in the search box, read the posts here and weep. 

On valour awards themselves, Wiki has:

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British Armed Forces and may be awarded posthumously.

It may be awarded to a person of any military rank in any service and to civilians under military command. No civilian has received the award since 1879. Since the first awards were presented by Queen Victoria in 1857, two thirds of all awards have been personally presented by the British monarch. The investitures are usually held at Buckingham Palace.

I would dare to suggest that though many risking flak daily are hardly in the VC category such as ... I don't know ... a Dr. Naomi Wolf, say ... these pundits and readers are just doing their duty and drawing fire.

Some draw more fire than others and we have a chap, chapess or two right now who require artillery support.  As for their mental approach, may I take a few words from the bible which has fallen into disuse and paraphrase for these chaps and chapesses:

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men [and demi-wimmin, harpies] shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely [for the sake of right and wrong]. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

Each and every one of us must decide which hill it is we'll be prepared to die on.  Meanwhile, we continue fighting this abomination going on out there.

The sheer penny-pinching stupidity of our ‘Beloved’ NHS

 

I had Cataract Surgery this morning upon my right eye, courtesy of the NHS. Previously I had been examined by the Consultant, been measured for a new Eye Lens by the latest and most accurate equipment on the market (they do spend some cash on new toys, but not as much as they should), and after a six-odd week delay because I’d been bitten by Covid (Nasty, but not too serious), I was given the appointment for this morning.

I shall not go into the gory details, mainly because I was on the receiving end, and it was my eye; but I was duly impressed with the surgeon, the gear, the precision operating binoculars, the manner of the operating room staff, and the general smart attitude of the staff. They gave the impression of routine excellence, and an attention to detail which impressed me: and I don’t impress easily. As the the operation was done before on my left eye, I was able to compare the two, and the NHS came out on top, mainly because I was able to relax easily, whereas before I was wound tight as a drum.

But here’s the thing. When the operation is over, your eye is lightly padded, and then a hard cover is taped over the whole caboodle for your eye’s protection for the first day. You are also handed various types of eye drops, along with instructions on how to use them. As I had had one operation already, and knew how things went, I remembered that the most important thing to be kept to hand was a full roll of the adhesive tape which keeps the hard plastic cover in place; so I asked if I could have a roll of tape.

My small query was received with sheer amazement by the female flunky in nurse’s uniform. “What do you think this is, Sir, a free clinic? If we give a roll to you, we’ll have to give it to anyone. Just think of the expense! No, impossible!” was the reply.

I didn’t verbally blast her sideways, but only because I retain a modicum of how one should address women, but it was a close-run thing. Of course, I should have remembered that this was the NHS, and they operate in a parallel universe. I also recalled that, when operated before on my left eye, that was performed privately, at a fair expense to me. But I also recalled that, when being furnished with exactly the same eye-drops as this morning, I was handed a full roll of that same 3M tape with which to hold the plastic cover against my eye ; and that was handed to me without my asking for it, with the simple explanation: -

“You’ll need this for the hard cover, everyone uses it; no worries!”

"Do Something About Knife Crime....Wait, Not That!"

The Met says the scheme, known as Project Alpha, helps fight serious violence, with the intelligence gathered identifying offenders and securing the removal of videos glorifying stabbings and shootings from platforms such as YouTube.

The unit, comprising more than 30 staff and launched in 2019 with Home Office funding, scours social media sites looking at drill music videos and other content.

Who could possibly object to th...

Oh. Of course.

Stafford Scott, a veteran community campaigner, said he feared the project was part of a continued assault on young black people.

Only the ones that want to shoot or stab their fellow black people, Stafford. Are you in favour of that, then?

“Young people use social media to magnify their lived experience. It is a tool for projection, you can’t rely on it for detection,” he said. “It is racially motivated, racially driven and involves racial stereotypes.”

Ever wonder why there's no unit set up to monitor young people of other origins? Why there's no Portugese, Spanish or Samoan drill videos?

Fact: A Man Cannot Get Pregnant!

 

I have written before about Blood Donor Organisations, of the ethics of certain unplanned ‘donations’, of the slightly hilarious visit to an Australian Blood Clinic, and of the Government’s intrusion into what should always be a very private and personal family decision. I have also seen comments regarding the real reluctance of homosexuals to accept the very real worries regarding their exclusion from donations, if they have had unprotected sex within the last three months, culminating in the authorities caving in to the bent communities call for this disbarment being removed. 

But this is possibly the first time I have written or spoken about a man being barred from a NHS blood donor session because he did not agree that men can become pregnant. A Scotsman, Leslie Sinclair, 66 years of age, has donated a formidable 126 pints of blood to the NHS. He stated that, when last he went to the clinic, he was handed the usual questionnaire, which Mr. Sinclair has always scrupulously filled in because all the questions are relevant to safety. He scrutinised the form, but baulked when he found one question which just did not follow natural biology.

The form question asked “Are you pregnant, or have you been pregnant in the last six months?” As Mr. Sinclair knew that not only had he not been pregnant, he also knew that, being a Man, it was biologically impossible to become pregnant, so he told the Blood Bank staff that he could not in all honesty, in truth, answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to that question. 

Mr. Sinclair stated:- “There is always a form to fill in and that’s fine – they tend to ask about medical conditions or diseases – and clearly that’s because the blood needs to be safe. This time around, there was a question I hadn’t seen before: ‘Are you pregnant, or have you been in the last six months?’ which required a yes or no answer. ‘

I pointed out to the staff that it was impossible for me to be in that position but I was told that I would need to answer, otherwise I couldn’t give blood. 

‘I told them that was stupid and that if I had to leave, I wouldn’t be back, and that was it, I got on my bike and cycled away.

‘It is nonsensical and it makes me angry because there are vulnerable people waiting for blood, including children, and in desperate need of help. But they’ve been denied my blood because of the obligation to answer a question that can’t possibly be answered.’

It emerged last night that all potential donors are asked if they are pregnant to ‘promote inclusiveness’ and because pregnancy is ‘not always visually clear’. 

Last night Professor Marc Turner, director of SNBTS, said: ‘We appreciate the support of each and every one of our donor community and thank Mr Sinclair for his commitment over a long number of years. Whilst pregnancy is only a relevant question to those whose biological sex or sex assigned at birth is female, sex assigned at birth is not always visually clear to staff.

‘As a public body we take cognisance of changes in society around how such questions may be asked without discrimination and have a duty to promote inclusiveness – therefore all donors are now asked the same questions.’

Now I have a fairly uncommon blood type, uncommon enough that when I was booked in for a major operation about , the hospital’s blood bank had to ensure that my needs were capable of being met. Are we seeing possible donors being turned away because the people in charge believe that if a man says he is now a woman, he is also capable of giving birth? 

Are the LUNATICS in charge of the Blood Donor Service so shackled to being ‘INCLUSIVE’ that they would either force a person to fill a form’s answer which they instinctively know to be false, or do without that person’s blood donation; all in the sacred name of ‘INCLUSIVITY’?

Madness, sheer unbridled Madness!

The biological father

Father's Day in the U.S., possibly other places too.

It's a sad state of affairs that we can grab stats from 'studies' to support anything.  Dearieme, avid blog contributor, pointed out, about covid actually:

"From April 2020 through at least the end of 2021, Americans died from non-Covid causes at an average annual rate 97,000 in excess of previous trends." That's an odd time period to choose because the results are going to muddle together the results of Long Lockdown and Long Vaxx.

And that was mild ... when we get onto climate change stats, these chaps here and here, for example [use the search box] point out the sheer falsification or at least massaging of stats to 'prove' a point.  

Briggsy explains how to manipulate stats.

This site below is Catholic and so you'd expect this:

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/fathers-day-reminds-us-of-the-vital-role-dads-play-in-our-families-and-society/

According to the Child and Family Research Partnership at the University of Texas:

Children who grow up with involved fathers are: 39% more likely to earn mostly As in school, 45% less likely to repeat a grade, 60% less likely to be suspended or expelled from school, twice as likely to go to college and find stable employment after high school, 75% less likely to have a teen birth, and 80% less likely to spend time in jail.

Focus on the Family states: “In an analysis of over 100 studies on parent-child relationships, it was found that having a loving and nurturing father was as important for a child’s happiness, well-being, and social and academic success as having a loving and nurturing mother.”

This site below though, top ranked on Google, you'd expect to be anti-father and yet it allows this through:

https://childpsychotherapy.org.uk/resources-families/understanding-childhood/fathers-understanding-vital-role-fathers-father-figures

The best start fathers and mothers can give their children is to create a happy atmosphere at home. The way to do this is for parents to sort out and agree arrangements between themselves. This applies to all sorts of issues such as looking after the baby, changing nappies or sleeping in the parents’ bed.

Children, including very young infants, are very sensitive to the emotional atmosphere around them. If things are fraught between the parents – maybe about money worries or other stresses, not just about their relationship – children will react.

This may show up directly or in other ways, such as sleep difficulties, tantrums or other behaviour problems.

I did search for the blurring of the biological and the 'male brought in to service mama and be substitute dad' in that last one but whilst looking for that [as someone involved years ago], I was sure there had to be something Woke in the article [excuse my cynicism] to see it blue-ticked and there it was ... it started talking acceptingly about 'two dad' families, which is utter bollox trying to equate that with a father-mother family.

Single mothers are very quick to bring out the artillery of pointing to how wonderfully stable things are with substitute dad and while it's definitely a massive help for a calm, loving male to female adult atmosphere in the home, it is not the same thing and I can speak on that myself, no matter how much he fills the role.  This is particularly so where girl children are involved.

As for a rotating list of males brought in to service mama, on the basis that it hardly matters, the least said the better.  Plus I'm not engaging on the abomination of single-sex pretend parents and the damage that does in the longterm.

All of which begs the question, the elephant in the room ... why was the father abusive to the mother anyway?  What did the mother do to create this herself?  Chas and Dave have a view on it but it's more.  

There was a young mother at a railway station who got talking to me and she was visiting the father in prison.  Regularly.  I said nothing about bad-boy syndrome but there does exist such a thing ... the initial choice of the to-be mother, often out of wedlock.

And then of course the professional benefits receiver, the CSA or equivalent ... and so on. Not even going to start on the professional benefits and IVF artist. Isn't govt support wunnerful?

I was reading an article where a woman was going on about how bad the father was ... a long list of faults ... and I wanted to ask her ... why the hell did you marry him in the first place then?  The answer was, before I could even ask it ... she never married him.

There's the breakdown of the Christian paradigm across the west to consider.  I have a question - why was she not well enough brought up in the first place to play the field and refrain from nooky until she, and family, were reasonably sure it was workable, then marry in a sanctified way, then have children with four grandparent support?  You know ... the old-fashioned way?

Yes, perhaps I am in cloud cuckoo land after all.  Or am I?

[Notes: I wrote that post both as biological and 'brought in' father at different stages and no, I'll not expound on those sorry tales.]

Dented, or Unbending?

When discussing anything at all to do with religion, I suppose I must, although these days being agnostic, confess that I was brought up in the belief structure of the Catholic Church. Although these days long departed from any religion, I still hold a deep admiration for some, only some, of the Church’s philosophies and strictures. One philosophy which I admire is that the Church has always spoken out against ‘same-sex marriage’. While the Church accepts that civil unions have been legalised, it has always remained firm in the statement that marriage is, and always will be, a union between a man and a woman. 

The Nativity School of Worcester had commenced flying both the ‘Black Lives Matter’ banner and the multi-coloured Gay Pride flag on the same pole as the American flag. According to reports and statements from R.C. Bishop Robert J. McManus of the Diocese of Worcester, the Nativity School of Worcester is “prohibited” from identifying as “Catholic” and may no longer use the word to describe itself. In addition, “Mass, sacraments and sacramentals are no longer permitted to be celebrated on Nativity School premises or be sponsored by Nativity School in any church building or chapel within the Diocese of Worcester.”

The bishop stated “it is my contention that the ‘Gay Pride’ flag represents support of gay marriage and actively living a LGBTQ+ lifestyle.” He also differentiated between the statement “black lives matter” — which he styled in lower case letters — and the Black Lives Matter movement. “The Catholic Church teaches that all life is sacred and the Church certainly stands unequivocally behind the phrase ‘black lives matter’ and strongly affirms that all lives matter,” he wrote. “However, the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement has co-opted the phrase and promotes a platform that directly contradicts Catholic social teaching on the importance and role of the nuclear family and seeks to disrupt the family structure in clear opposition to the teachings of the Catholic Church.”

I admire and applaud the bishop for both his statements, and for the courage in stating, categorically, that although his Church approves of the civil status of same sex couples, it is, and always will be, against homosexual marriage. I also categorically oppose such acclaim about what I consider to be an abomination. As for the BLM movement, I note that the movement coalesced against the death of a career criminal by the police, and that same movement resulted in the worst riots, burning, uproar and, naturally, looting on an industrial scale in cities controlled by the Democratic Party; all crimes being carried out by mostly the oppressed black people who were supposed to be targeted by the police.

As with the ‘same sex’ and ‘blm’ brigades, so with many other ‘modern’ developments and attitudes. The Advocacy bunches, inclusive of Peter Tatchell’s Stonewall, are forever speaking and preaching of the former ‘injustices’, all of which need remedial action. I reckon that a straightforward acceptance that many, if not most; have long adopted stances in direct opposition to that of Stonewall’s and its contemporaries: and just fervently wish that the opposition should just pipe down and get on with their lives.

Beef shortage eh?

It's already in our local shop.  Question is when it will come to the supermarts.

Redeemed Patriot:

Reported? Usual MO is to force sign NDAs. Sheer extortion. We see this paradigm over and over--first in the UK and now all over the west. Mass casualty animal event/"health crisis" gives "emergency" powers to fringe agencies, who then use those powers to circumvent all due process. People at existential gunpoint offer little resistance. "Plata o plomo" ("silver or lead") is the drug cartel version

BTW: The most recent figures from the Iowa Cattle Auction Summary (where cattle and cattle futures are traded), show that the average beef cow costs between $100 and $160 per hundredweight (100lbs), depending on the age and weight of the cattle.

https://faunafacts.com/cows/how-much-does-a-cow-cost/

There is NO frickin' way you let an investment like that die of "heat stress," "dehydration," etc. 

Someone had commented:

It could be the result of bloating or compaction from too much fine grained feed. Although with the numbers of dead ones I don't think I'd bet on that yet.

Burnt down warehouses en masse, suddenly dead cows in the field?  As the usurper himself says: 'C'mon man!'

Should've Gone To SpecSavers Hooters!

A self-proclaimed preacher who attacked a takeaway boss and left him with severe brain damage after complaining about an ‘inappropriately dressed’ female member of staff has today been jailed for more than eight years.

Blimey, the Church of England is getting a bit feisty, isn't it? 

Oh, wait...

Hamdi Braiek was offended that a woman working at Mukhtar Hussain’s business Mix Grill 91 in Maidstone, Kent, ‘had her boobs hanging out in his face’ and told her she should cover-up.

Just a few hours earlier he had punched another woman in a shopping mall in an unrelated transphobic attack, a court heard.

Lovely! 

Braiek, an Uber Eats delivery driver who did national service in Tunisia and has no previous convictions, will have to serve two-thirds of his jail term before he can be considered for parole.

When can he be considered for deportation? Or is the answer, 'never'..? 

The court heard Braiek was on police bail at the time of the offences on May 30 having been charged in respect of punching his landlord in the street just two days earlier. That matter is yet to be dealt with by magistrates.

Don't bother. Put him on the next flight to Rwanda. 

How’s about charging the clowns who strapped the pair into the bloody boat

Many disabled people complain about the absence of easy access to shops, offices, workspaces, especially from a wheelchair-user’s viewpoint. I have had some personal knowledge of these problems when my wife was still alive, as the only way she could move was, in her later years, in that wheelchair. She loved the possibility of moving out from her bedroom, and I was able to get her into a car, and drive to the Metrocentre in Gateshead. I specify the  Metrocentre because it is extremely wheelchair friendly, with good lift access between the two floors, specially reserved parking for wheelchair users, and absolutely no kerbs anywhere. I only once took my wife into Durham City in her wheelchair, but found that the hills, slopes and kerbs nearly defeated my old muscles. There is a YouTube user who ‘tests’ access to Electric Vehicle charge points in supermarket parking areas; he has a point regarding access to the charge bays, but I cannot see him getting much bite-back, because, as far as I can tell, he doesn’t follow-up any access problems.

But, sometimes, it seems as thought the ‘Disability Lobby’ is either getting ahead of themselves, or not thinking through all the possibilities of things just ‘going wrong’. For example, allowing two wheelchair-bound people to access a boat on Roadford Lake in Devon. Seems there were six passengers on the boat, and the two people seated, as I am led to believe, either in wheelchairs, or were strapped down for safety reasons.

Yep, I know the strangest ideas crop up, but why these people were even allowed onto the craft at all is beyond me; I know and accept that we must make access easy for all disabled people: but strapping down disabled people in a boat, which, for one reason or another, then overturns, drowning the two disabled people who could not get up from their seats, with another passenger gravely ill in hospital! Some six-odd decades ago, I was in water 27,000 feet deep in the Pacific Ocean. I cannot swim a stroke, being shit-scared of the water, but I had a life-jacket on me, and the Captain made me swear to keep within the lee of the ship, as we were drifting at a rate of five knots, or six-odd miles per hour.

No doubt there will be an enquiry, with lots of learned people shoving their oars into the pond, but I would place good money on no-one being charged with either culpable manslaughter, or just being really, really thick!