Essays
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What Do Covid Marshals Do These Days?
By Tom Penn In 2010 the British Government set up the Iraq Historical Allegations Team to investigate claims of misconduct by British troops in the region. The bulk of staff were provided by the Red Snapper Group, the same recruitment agency who ten years later won a contract to provide Covid marshals to councils across
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Damage Done
An essay by Roy R M McIntosh The world is a lovely place and we know of the dangers in the oceans and jungles, but the real danger is the people. Old Mother Earth has been battling the poisoning and scarring that has been going on since day dot. In the last hundred years that
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This Is Not Freedom
An essay by Tom Penn The latest Covid-19 Winter Plan is a canard: a stratagem by which to dupe the masses once again into believing normality lies just around the bend. It reeks of fear. Content aside, even the title is portentous. It is not the Winter Plan at all, but the Autumn and Winter
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What Sort of Society Does This to Its Young?
A concerned read writes about Chris Whitty’s recent nonsensical statement: Professor Whitty has said that the programme for vaccinating 12-15 year-olds in the UK is necessary in order to reduce disruption to their education. He gives an estimate of 110,000 days that would be lost if there were no vaccination. It sounds a lot, but’s
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Chris Whitty’s Excuse for Having Children Injected With Unnecessary and Dangerous Covid Jab
Chris Whitty ‘will approve Covid jabs for teenagers because it will boost their mental health and social development’ Daily Mail, 10th September. Essay by Tom Penn Unfortunately for us all, Chris Whitty is one of the original cadre of physicians-cum-politicians tasked with guiding us through the pandemic since SARS-CoV-2 somehow ‘washed up on our shores’
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Ofcom’s ‘Misinformation’ Guide
By Tom Penn For the very first time in my life – and hopefully the very last – I woke up the other day and thought to myself ‘I wonder what Ofcom have been up to lately?’, and regrettably, I took a look. Navigating the ironically named ‘Making Sense of Media’ category, I stumbled across
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‘Protect the Vulnerable’, They Said
Tom Penn on the treatment of the elderly and the covid jab mandate for care home workers Once again it is the vulnerable elderly of society – those whom we have been commanded to protect by brutalising our self-governance; whilst they decompose alone in their holding cells – who continue to bare the brunt of
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The Road to Totalitarianism
People can tell themselves that they didn’t see where things have been heading for the last 17 months, but they did. They saw all the signs along the way. The signs were all written in big, bold letters, some of them in scary-looking Germanic script. They read … “THIS IS THE ROAD TO TOTALITARIANISM.” I’m
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Lockdown Restrictions: Poor Countries Become Poorer
By Tom Penn As ongoing infringements upon life continue to make the poor of the world even poorer, I recently received this message from a dear friend during a discussion concerning pre-‘Freedom’ Day restrictions: ‘On a personal level, as I mentioned before, I’m thoroughly enjoying the whole thing. I’m mostly interested to observe how western
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The Biggest Threat to Children and Young Adults Is Not Coronavirus But Culture Itself, and the Mental-Health Disasters It Feeds Off
By Tom Penn As arm-ageddon continues apace, the Westminster Guild of Magicians must surely by now have ranked Houdini Hancock’s inaudible ‘freedom cry’ as one of the greatest ever stunts performed by a Parliamentary illusionist to date. Remember? The one where he sucker-punched us all fatally in the gut with his false hope? According to