FOR A few days last week I allowed myself to labour under the happy illusion that the so-called right-of-centre MSM might finally be catching up with us. Even the Times came down against legalising assisted suicide and abortion to term legislation.
My optimism was short-lived. Last week the chasm between their worldview and ours when it comes to consistently focused critical thinking yawned wide again. A Times interview with Michael Gove which Laura Perrins alerted me to pretty much summed it up. The article by Janice Turner was headed ‘Michael Gove on divorce, gay rumours, dating and the Camerons’: click-bait journalism, an opportunity for him to have his say on his not-very-conservative private life and failed marriage that his ex-wife Sarah Vine has already cannibalised, presumably for financial gain.
Don’t bother reading it – the couple’s addiction to the limelight and apparent desperation for attention has been advertised by the Spectator for weeks now.
‘There is something very cheap about this. Have they no shame?’ Laura commented to me in her email. ‘The Goves almost cashing in on their divorce. They have children.’
Indeed. My beef today however is more with the Times’s Janice Turner and her publisher. It’s not simply that Turner didn’t question the unedifying behaviour of those who’ve ruled us, but the absence of any curiosity about what the Tory government Gove was part of for 14 years inflicted on us.
The depressing truth is that neither the Times nor the Telegraph (forget the Gove-edited Spectator!) will ever put him, Cameron or Johnson under the spotlight for the moral void that allowed them (so-called conservatives) to embrace the woke oppressions of climate lunacy, DIE, hate crime and transgenderism, to deliver a deeply flawed Brexit, that let immigration rocket and left education in the ever-stronger grip of left-wing anti British ideologies. Perhaps most unforgivably of all, they clamped down on freedom (locked down the country) and free speech, forced an untested, unsafe and ineffective ‘vaccine’ on the population, introduced a state censorship ‘online safety’ Bill and presided over the start of the most vicious era of censorship, deplatfoming and two-tier justice since Cromwell – paving the way nicely for Sir Keir Starmer’s authoritarianism.
How, Mr Gove, do you feel about your role in that lot, Turner might have asked. Forget it. I know I don’t need telling.
However that won’t stop me from setting out what a genuinely inquiring Times journalist could have asked Gove about. For example the MHRA’s latest data release on ‘Yellow Card’ covid vaccine ‘adverse events’ – 218 further deaths since last year’s booster programmes, bringing the total deaths to just under 3,000, plus half a million injured.
Getting any MSM attention for these figures is a very sore point with me this week. I don’t honestly expect the MSM to take it up but I did hope Guido would run the link I sent. They went unusually silent despite the nudge I sent. As for the vaccine-shy GB News – well, I got a ‘well done’ from one of their presenters on extracting the figures, but the promise of ‘I’ll do my best to get it mentioned’ came to nothing.
An inquiring Times reporter might also have asked Gove about academic cancellations. Take Niall McCrae’s shocking four-year inquisition by the nursing regulator for writing nothing but the truth on covid vaccine data, which he recounted yesterday. I would have asked the once-liberal Mr Gove if he is happy with a Government regulator using language such as this:
‘. . .failure to uphold your position as a registered nurse – in that you promoted health advice which is contrary to official health advice in the context of a global pandemic. In doing so you encouraged the public to distrust official government advice and undermined trust and confidence in the Nursing profession . . .’
Is it a crime to distrust government advice, Mr Gove, or to spell out the basis of that distrust, advice that was decided by left-wing academics and influenced by those in the pay of Big Pharma?
Why, I would also have asked, is covid dissent still such a hot potato that yet another event has been banned – this time a major conference oncology consultant Professor Angus Dalgleish was due to attend in Paris? Invited to give one of the main lectures to a health forum, Angus was informed it had been cancelled. He was told: ‘The director of Finance Innovation, which manages the venue, made the unilateral decision to cancel their reservation, citing “security” reasons.’ According to the official, the topics to be discussed during the forum were ‘likely to provoke a riot’.
Like Britain, like France. Mr Gove, what do you think is going on? Are all dissenting doctors and academics, whether on covid or climate change, regardless of their high reputations in their respective fields to never be heard from? Like Professor Norman Fenton, whose story of cancellation Tilak Doshi told last week.
In my hypothetical interview of course Mr Gove could say: ‘But I didn’t know, you haven’t published any of these stories.’
Exactly so. Hand in glove they hide the truth and from the truth.
The State’s war on family life and child welfare is another hidden truth. Figures obtained by the BBC last year reveal almost 20,000 reports of serious childcare incidents in England’s nurseries in the five years to March 2024, up 40 per cent on the previous five-year period, prompted by the latest daycare hell abuse story.
So what is the solution to this? Three guesses. No more maternal care but mandated CCTV across nurseries. ‘NO!’ Laura emailed me. ‘We don’t need more CCTV at nurseries. What we need is more mothers looking after their under-one-year-olds, at the very least.’ (In my view, their under-threes). ‘Remember when they told you that nursery was just great for babies?’ she went on, ‘another (expletive deleted) bare faced lie.’
I was hard put to it to find any good news in a week that Migration Watch told us that cross-Channel asylum seekers since 2018 now add up to a city the size of Oxford. However I do have some. I will be announcing three guest editors who are going to relieve me from work for three weeks from July 21. The thrilling thing was how enthusiastically they said yes to my invite! More about them in the coming weeks. Finally a big thank you for your wonderfully appreciative letters that keep me going and to the informal team of ‘informers’ who keep us in the loop about things we might otherwise miss. I am very grateful. Thank you.
