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Five years on: When TCW was a lone voice in the lockdown wilderness
We marked last month’s fifth anniversary of the imposition of lockdown on the British people by republishing some of our articles from that week. While the mainstream media were baying for stronger and longer restrictions, we were almost alone in criticising lockdown and showing that it would have catastrophic results for zero benefit. We continue to remind readers of the weeks – and the insane policies imposed on us – that followed.
Five years on: When TCW was a lone voice in the lockdown wilderness
We marked last month’s fifth anniversary of the imposition of lockdown on the British people by republishing some of our articles from that week. While the mainstream media were baying for stronger and longer restrictions, we were almost alone in criticising lockdown and showing that it would have catastrophic results for zero benefit. We continue to remind readers of the weeks – and the insane policies imposed on us – that followed.
Five years on: When TCW was a lone voice in the lockdown wilderness
We marked last month’s fifth anniversary of the imposition of lockdown on the British people by republishing some of our articles from that week. While the mainstream media were baying for stronger and longer restrictions, we were almost alone in criticising lockdown and showing that it would have catastrophic results for zero benefit. We continue to remind readers of the weeks – and the insane policies imposed on us – that followed.
Normative cortical activation patterns in children distinguishing one or two tactile sensory inputs points: An functional MRI study
1 INTRODUCTION Understanding the ability to process and interpret sensory information clinically is crucial when assessing motor skills. The somatosensory system is responsible for the perception of touch, proprioception, pressure, pain, and temperature (Dijkerman & de Haan, 2007; Rice & Albrecht, 2008). This information is critical to avoid injury and to enable motor control (Baars et al., 2003).
Hypotonic cerebral palsy
Corresponding Author Monica S. Cooper Department of Neurodevelopment & Disability, The Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Neurodisability and Rehabilitation Research, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Correspondence Monica S.
Why we won’t be watching Nigel in the jungle
WHEN I heard that Nigel Farage was to appear on I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, my immediate feeling was disappointment. Truth be told, the man has been sliding this way for a while; from commodities broker to activist, politician to presenter, it wasn’t going to be long until he fell into the realm of mainstream celebrity, butt of more jokes from the Left-wing media.
The vulnerable are targeted to save the government money
THE government have announced new proposals to help people with disabilities to work from home as part of an effort to reduce government spending. According to the BBC: ‘The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched a consultation on proposed changes to the work capability assessment – the test aimed at establishing how a disability or illness limits a claimant’s ability to work.
Take in boat people? No, send ’em packing
FORMER Tory Party chairman Brandon Lewis has endorsed the idea of rehoming Channel migrants, à la Homes for Ukraine scheme, calling on charitable Brits to open their doors to newcomers to our shores. This is what he writes in a foreword to a Policy Exchange report on the small boats emergency. (You can read the report by Dr Rakib Ehsan here.) ‘But should our generosity and humanitarian spirit be directed towards healthy young men from safe countries illegally crossing the Channel?
On coronation day I’ll be toasting the crown, not the man
WHAT will you be doing on Saturday May 6? Will you, like the British people of June 2, 1953, be rising from your slumber to a beautiful day, getting ready to celebrate the crowning of a monarch? Maybe you will have planned the day in advance, either going to the Mall to watch the newly crowned King pass you in his golden carriage. Maybe you’ll have packed a picnic or will be joining one of the street parties up and down the country.
Golly, what a farce
I’VE returned to writing my first novel. Though I’m still filtering through memories and researching bits and pieces, I’ve started to rewrite my prologue and first chapter and all being well, might actually get through it this time. My aim was to stay away from distractions, try not to allow outside interferences to muddle my brain and crack on.
The government listens us? Don’t make me laugh!
WE got a Tesco home delivery the other day. For those who receive their shopping this way, you’ll know that a driver carries your order in crates to your door, and you unload them. Over the last year or more, one thing has changed – the shopping no longer comes in plastic bags, which means you have the annoying task of unloading everything individually. I talked to the driver the other day about it and he said, predictably, that this was Tesco’s war on plastic.
The happy family of TCW
I LOVE this site. I’ve been coming here for nigh on five years and it’s just as much fun now to engage either above or below the line as it was then. Well, to be honest, it took a year of reading the articles and comments to work up the nerve to add my own thoughts to the discussion. I didn’t start writing for the site until three years ago and that took a bit of courage too.
Another rubbish idea from the Green Gestapo
HERE’S a question for you. Have you got one of these? Almost certainly not, unless you live in the Broadland area of Norfolk. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed one had arrived at the bottom of our garden and, peering up the street, realised that everyone else had got one too. For those who can’t read the writing on the lid, it comprises two separate food waste bins: the larger for outside, the smaller for your kitchen.
I won’t stand for BBC licence fee harassment
THE BBC have a cheek. Last month, Tina and I received a letter from their hired thugs asking us to contact them to find out if we need a TV licence. We ignored it. Ever since we gave up the licence a couple of years ago, we haven’t watched live TV or any live broadcast. We gave up the licence for a good reason – the BBC’s bias, by omission or commission, their constant campaigning on climate change, diversity or Brexit, and their compliance with and promotion of anything remotely Woke.
Today’s talking point: Keep TV out of the courtroom
I WAS disconcerted when I heard Kevin O’Sullivan on Talk Radio celebrating the first televised court case in the UK, the sentencing at the Old Bailey of 25-year-old Ben Oliver to life imprisonment for the manslaughter of his grandfather. Like Dominique Samuels, who agreed with him, O’Sullivan appears to think this theatre will be beneficial to the British public. Do you agree? Personally, I couldn’t be more against it. What if the person accused is innocent of the crimes they are being accused of?
Are people really stupid enough to wear masks again? Yes, they are
Every morning, with six-wheeled precision, at the very same hour and the very same minute, we get up, millions of us, as though we were one. At the very same hour, millions of us as one, we start work. Later, millions as one, we stop. And then, like one body with a million hands, at one and the same second according to the Table, we lift the spoon to our lips. And at one and the same second we leave for a stroll and go to the auditorium, to the hall for the Taylor exercises, and then to bed.
Nannies, nannies, everywhere
THE AA is advising motorists to take shorter car journeys and walk or cycle when possible as fuel costs rise ever further. This will be music to the government’s ears as drivers reduce their carbon footprint and leave their cars at home. It doesn’t matter that the proles are already being asked to cut down on many of the things they love as they’re forced to pay for the follies of lockdown, billions sent to Ukraine and the ridiculous Net Zero policies foisted on us. Nope.
Today’s talking point: What 'Eurovision contest'?
NOT that I give a damn about the European Pride Festival, otherwise known as the Eurovision Song Contest, but if they’re virtually going to announce the winners before the supposed ‘contest’ has even started, shouldn’t they rename it Eurovision Songs? No surprise that Ukraine won it, because they are fighting a war, and the UK came second, because they’ve given more in aid than any other country.
Today’s hot topic
DURING the last week radio, television and newspapers have been obsessing over the court case between the actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Who to believe, who not to believe, how terrible the various testimonies are, yadda yadda yadda. Why do people care about this? Why take up valuable minutes or column inches discussing what, for me, should be a private affair?
Partygate is not about a few drinks on the lawn. It’s about cynical double standards
ON Mike Graham’s Talkradio show yesterday, caller after caller said they couldn’t give a monkey’s about whether Boris Johnson had drinks or birthday cake at the party for which he has been fined by police. The unanimous view on what is called the ‘commonsense’ radio show is that we should forget about it and let Johnson carry on. Even Mike Graham shares this view. In my opinion, they’re all missing the point. This isn’t about whether Johnson had a few drinks during lockdown.
The age of insanity
AS some readers know, Tina and I gave up paying the BBC licence fee in May 2020, not too long after the death of George Floyd. I’d been badgering Tina for a couple of years already, pointing to the BBC’s obfuscation, bias by omission, general campaigning for minority interests, divisive programming and Covid fearmongering, but in the end it was the death of a career criminal and the fawning that followed that eventually made her agree that enough is enough.
Today’s hot topic: What about our own homeless?
AS the UK continues to clamour for the award of virtue signalling, ahem, sorry, global goodwill capital of the world, it has now decided to offer £350 to any household that brings in a Ukrainian refugee. Notwithstanding our own problems at the border or the fact that this will incentivise another huge migrant shift across the continent, I wonder why it is that when economic migrants and refugees decide to move, they always come here?
We suffer, they prosper
FOR those who’ve been living in a cave for the last year (I wouldn’t blame you if you had), energy bills are going up next month. Notwithstanding the levies for green energy, which have been part of our bills for the last few years, this hike has been blamed on a shortage of oil and gas. Whatever the reason, the poor and the vulnerable amongst us will be making a hard decision come next winter on how to divide their paltry income so they can stay warm.
Djokovic and the Aussie vaccine turncoat
AFTER Novak Djokovic was ejected from Australia over his refusal to be vaccinated for Covid, he was interviewed by the BBC’s Amol Rajan. The tennis World No 1 said he didn’t mind missing tournaments over his vaccine refusal, adding: ‘That is the price I’m willing to pay.’ He distanced himself from the fabled anti-vax crowd but said that ‘I’ve always supported the freedom to choose what you put in your body’.
Now even the menopause is a race issue - The Conservative Woman
I DON’T know how many readers here pick up and peruse their supermarket magazines. We do, because we like the recipes and it’s good not only for the body but for the mind to try new things every once in a while. Our supermarket, Tesco, tends to have a wide range of recipes to try in its publications. So every month, without fail, we pick one up and have a root around.
This unjust war on petrol and diesel drivers
READERS of TCW might be forgiven if they thought my article a week ago on the revamped Highway Code was about the government’s persistent war on drivers. Maybe if I’d seen the following story I would have been more specific and said that the war isn’t on all drivers. Only those using petrol or diesel. According to the BBC: ‘The UK needs to create a new motoring tax to plug the revenue gap as drivers switch to electric cars, MPs have said.
Highway Code or road to disaster? - The Conservative Woman
WITH the distraction of Covid, the people could be forgiven for having missed a public consultation about changes to the Highway Code which come into force today. According to a government press release, the consultation ‘ran from July to October 2020 and received more than 20,000 responses from the public, businesses and other organisations.
My New Year’s wish: To have ordinary life back
I DON’T do New Year’s resolutions any more, since ‘finish the book’ (still incomplete) and ‘lose weight’ (still fat) remain unfulfilled. However, I do have some wishes for the New Year. First off, I’d like to see an end to lockdowns, restrictions, mandates and state-induced fear propagated by government, MPs and media.
Have yourself a cheesy Channel 5 Christmas
IT’S just turned 7pm. It’s dark outside, the curtains are drawn, the fairy lights are twinkling. We’ve finished dinner and are curled up on the couch with a glass of sherry, preparing to watch a Christmas film and, boy, are there a lot to choose from! Do we rewatch the classics such as It’s A Wonderful Life or Alastair Sim’s excellent version of A Christmas Carol? Or of course we could go for something high octane such as Die Hard 1 or 2?
You are not alone
AFTER reading Andy Thomas’s article ‘Life as an anti-vaxxer’ on Sunday and many of the comments below the line, I admit, I was disturbed. Notwithstanding the labels thrown at us by the compliant politicians and media, some of which appear to be sticking, many people seem to be in a state of despair, exasperation and isolation, just as so many were last year. It breaks my heart.
’Tis the season to be bonkers
IN A time when where crazy happens virtually every day, a few things in particular have caught my attention over the last couple of weeks. The first is a Christmas advert from the Norwegian postal firm Posten. I’m hoping somebody under the line can explain to me what the deuce this has to do with the postal service.
We’ve got a cheek to call out Qatar over human rights
WHEN England’s footballers thrashed the San Marino minnows 10-0 last week, thus qualifying for the World Cup in Qatar, talk inevitably turned to whether England should be going to the tournament at all. I’ve listened to various commenters in the media complain about the appalling human rights record of Qatar and question why teams, and fans, would want to go there with that in mind.
Just sickening, these I’m All Right Jacks clamouring for Plan B
IN the space of 24 hours this week, three things occurred and though I don’t find much of what government or their hangers-on do surprising anymore, I feel each of these things deserves a mention. In chronological order, there was the vote that never was. Then Health Secretary Sajid Javid’s Covid press conference and lastly, the clamour by those whose wages have never been affected by lockdown calling for Plan B to be implemented.
An own goal by Insulate Britain’s clueless spokesman
ACCORDING to Liam Norton, spokesman for Insulate Britain, people who don’t plonk their backsides on the M25 and cause major disruption are ‘appeasers’ like ‘those who appeased Hitler’ and should we be offended by that label, we’re snowflakes. He gave the Talk Radio audience this nugget of wisdom (among other general insanities) on Cristo’s show on Wednesday afternoon. I give Cristo his due for getting through the interview. He didn’t need to give Norton a shovel.
The view from the panic-buying petrol queue
I HAD hoped that as the months slipped by after the first lockdown, more and more people would wake up to the daily doom-mongering by the media and parliamentarians. I’d hoped that having fear constantly pumped into their living rooms and car radios would shake the nation out of its apathy and it would start to question the lies and exaggeration filtered through print and broadcast media. How wrong I was. A shopping trip to Tesco yesterday should have taken only half an hour.
9/11: Warped agenda of the BBC
TODAY marks the 20th anniversary of the most horrific terror attack we’ve seen on Western shores. While America was waking up on a beautiful Tuesday morning, its citizens getting ready for work, its children going to school, the purest of evils strolled into Boston airport with the intention of causing maximum damage, and that they did.
Our vanishing countryside is what XR should protest about
IN HIS column for yesterday’s Mail on Sunday, Peter Hitchens asked: What is the point in Extinction Rebellion now that the government are doing everything they want? I feel the same about the so-called Green Party. The government’s plans to cut emissions by 78 per cent by 2035 and to replace petrol and diesel cars with electric, not to mention dumping gas boilers, should have the Greens and XR cheering from the rafters, yet they continue to take to the streets in protest. Why?
Today’s talking point
AN American football team, the Minnesota Vikings, have brought in an expert to tackle ‘vaccine hesitancy’ in the team. Apparently, a few of those superfit, healthy young players committed the cardinal sin of looking online for a variety of information about the jabs rather than listening solely to state-approved media. As a result they have decided not to take it.
Today’s talking point
THE popular children’s story The Tiger Who Came to Tea has come under fire from campaigners against sexism in Scotland (where else?) Zero Tolerance, a taxpayer-funded group, has highlighted issues of ‘old fashioned’ family dynamics in the 1968 story by Judith Kerr, and questioned gender stereotypes which may prove ‘harmful’. Strangely, they claim that stories such as this reinforce male stereotypes and could lead to violence against women and girls.
Is this a snowflake which I see before me?
AS IF we haven’t been treated to enough lunacy over the last 19 months, it appears the Woke (tagline: evil never sleeps) have decided that Bill Shakespeare is too traumatising for the new generation of bedwetters. The Globe Theatre in London have issued trigger warnings for their June-October production of Romeo and Juliet, pointing to ‘suicide, drug use and fake blood’ in the tragedy, with a phone number for the Samaritans offered at the door for traumatised audience members. Please.
Mullins, you’re plumb out of order
MULLINS has been at it again. No, not the one who stepped from an 80s rock video into the bosom of the Tory Party. That’s Pimlico Plumbers founder Charlie Mullins OBE. No, this time his son, Scott, appeared on TalkRadio to reiterate much of what his father has said in countless interviews regarding the insidious ‘no jab, no job’ policy. Except this time, Mullins Jr overstepped the mark.
Kurten, Fox and Tice unite!
AFTER my interview in February with David Kurten, I’d fully intended to join his Heritage Party and help him to sell its excellent policies online. Many of us on this site and across the country have seen the damage this government has inflicted on its people for the last 17 months and been more than disappointed (though not surprised) at the Opposition, who could win awards for being the standing-around, saying-nothing and being-useless party.
Vaccine twaddle from a right Charlie
I AM so glad that Charlie Mullins, celebrity plumber, isn’t in charge of the country. The Rod Stewart lookalike believes that ‘selfish people’ who don’t get the jab should be ostracised: no job, no opportunity to mix with people, no visits to sporting or entertainment events, nothing. I think this jumped-up Luigi would like us to sit in a darkened corner until our bodies give up and we die.
After Johnson’s Covid announcement, I’m angry and despairing
AFTER watching last evening’s press conference at which Boris Johnson predictably announced that Covid restrictions would continue for yet another 4 weeks, I opted to wait to write this short rant to give my nerves, and anger, time to subside. I won’t repeat the content of some of the posts I put up during and after it – colourful doesn’t begin to describe it. There were a few things that I took from this conference. Firstly, that this delay won’t be just four weeks.
Can anyone tell me why these cricket tweets are 'offensive'?
IN A ‘breaking story’ on BBC News yesterday, England cricket captain Joe Root said that the side have to face up to some ‘ugly truths’ regarding historic ‘racist’ and ‘sexist’ tweets by some players.
When is a protest not a protest? When the BBC decides
Are you listening @bbc? This is what the people think of you. Your lies and collusion with this corrupt government are on borrowed time. pic.twitter.com/tVexswa2bn — Laurence Fox ✌🏼🇬🇧✌🏼 (@LozzaFox) May 15, 2021 AFTER watching this tweet yesterday, I flicked to the BBC website to see how our ‘national’ broadcasters were dealing with thousands of protesters parked on their doorstep.
What woke, blinkered Labour should be saying to the voters
IN THE aftermath of the by-election in Hartlepool last week and amidst the Tory cheers, Labour trotted out the same tired excuses for the voters abandoning them in droves. From Brexit to lockdown fatigue, Labour were keen to suggest external factors that led to their defeat rather than blaming themselves. A Derbyshire council leader who lost his seat said: ‘The voters have let us down.
Lockdown politicians, you’re barred!
WITH the country partially reopening, the hospitality industry is desperately hoping that customers start flooding into its businesses so they can lift their ailing finances to some sort of parity. In many parts of the country, the weather has been lovely, albeit a little cold, and the public, whose leashes have been slackened (for the moment), have come out in support of their local boozers, restaurants and shops.
Vaccine passports to visit the pub? Sense, gentlemen, please
AS IF this country wasn’t totalitarian enough, Boris Johnson and his merry band of Stasi are considering whether to introduce measures by which pubs would ask customers for proof of being vaccinated against Covid. Notwithstanding the fact that such a measure could break multiple human rights and discrimination laws, a ruling on our fundamental rights could quite easily be put through using the shockingly unaccountable Coronavirus Act, where laws can pass with little to no debate or scrutiny.
David Kurten: My Heritage Party is the only home for true conservatives
DESPITE the shocking devastation wrought on our country and its people over the last year, rolling opinion polls tell us that voting intentions are still wrapped up in the duopoly. Yet the Conservatives’ lockdown policies have all but ruined this country and a grotesquely ineffectual opposition states only that it would have enforced these policies harder and faster than the Government. Despite both Covid and lockdown, illegal immigration across the Channel has continued unabated.
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