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I have come to the conclusion that everything and everyone I used to trust and/or admire is fake. I grew up believing the BBC was unbiased and reported things honestly. I thought David Attenborough was a lovely man who showed us nature in an honest fashion. I trusted the NHS to not kill us with carelessness. I trusted teachers to teach unbiased truth and to inspire us to investigate and think for ourselves. And I trusted the government to always be governing for the UK's best interests. Over the years, even before Covid, I began to realise I had been a naive fool in many respects. The moving goal posts of Global Warming/Freezing/Acid Rain/CO2. The nonsense of closing coal mines and then power stations and pretending solar panels in a northern country would suffice. The Brexit Fiasco where the people voted to leave and the elite ignored them. The migrants, both legal and illegal, that nobody asked for but arrived anyway. The pandering to Islam and the fading away of Christianity. The obesity and medicalisation of normal life. And then came Covid and the orchestrated hysteria and the sheer stupidity. And the poisonous solution to the fabricated crisis. And the deaths that are explained away as perfectly normal. Then the arrival of Transgenderism and the attempt to obliterate Women. The Mental Health Crisis. Ukraine. Palestine. It goes on and on. 30 years ago I wouldn't have joined any dots but once you see them, you can't unsee them!

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Dear Caroline,

It's funny, my thoughts (while not as strident) have wandered down similar gloomy paths recently, but I will not stop honouring those who serve honourably (that qualification is important to me).

Case in point, here's an extract from a comment I wrote yesterday in response to a post lamenting the rise of antisemitism on the left and the right:

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I dread to think this, but I cannot help but wonder if this kind of hatred isn't purposefully stirred up from time to time as an appalling distraction tactic. It was rather noticeable that there were some political alliances forming that straddled the old left-right divide on a few inconvenient political issues, and then suddenly we were back to rampant antisemitism like it was the 1890s all over again.

Maybe it's a coincidence. Coincidences happen every day. But I do not trust coincidences.

Regardless, as an old school lefty I abhor and denounce blanket hatreds, even and especially that intolerant tolerance that has so utterly corrupted what used to be the left.

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As for Paul, I too was enormously disappointed. He was just at the point of suggesting a path forward, and then almost overnight he became obsessed with who has the money (a complete dead end in my view). I ended up unsubscribing, it was too depressing. I think this happens a lot with the anarchists, I would not presume it was necessarily the result of 77th Brigade action, but neither would I rule it out.

Do check out this month's pieces on Stranger Worlds if you have time. I am tracing the broader problem and offering political solutions, all drawing against thoughts from 350BC to 1958. I think it will be of interest.

First piece is "Pickwickian Democracy", and serves as prologue:

https://strangerworlds.substack.com/p/pickwickian-democracy

With unlimited love,

Chris.

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