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offsite link The Proof That Lockdown Critics Were ?Debanked? Because of Their Views Sat Jan 18, 2025 19:00 | Toby Young
PayPal has finally admitted that the reason it shut the account of UsForThem is because it disapproved of the lobby group's stance on mandatory Covid vaccines for children and school closures.
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Keir Starmer's Attorney General Lord Hermer fought the Home Office in the courts to try to help migrants stay in the U.K. The Lefty lawyers are in charge now, and don't we know it.
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offsite link SNP Takes Teachers Out of School for ?Racial Microaggression? Training Sat Jan 18, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
An SNP training programme allows teachers to take the equivalent of?three days out from the classroom?to learn how to "decode racial microaggressions".
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Asda?has publicly backed farmers in their row with Labour over its?inheritance tax raid?following tractor protests outside of supermarkets in a new blow to Starmer and Reeves.
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offsite link David Lammy?s Vision is So Awful It Gives Me Hope That Something Has Got to Give Sat Jan 18, 2025 11:00 | Dr David McGrogan
Foreign Secretary David Lammy set out "the future of the U.K.'s foreign policy" this week. It's an abysmal vision, says Dr. David McGrogan, but it gives hope that the edifice of 'progressive realism' will soon collapse.
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category national | miscellaneous | opinion/analysis author Friday June 01, 2007 11:45author by Sean Crudden - imperoauthor email sean at impero dot iol dot ieauthor address Jenkinstown, Dundalk, Co Louth.author phone 087 9739945 Report this post to the editors

The Tyranny of The Consensus

Looking out on a balmy morning (1 June 2007) listening to a Haydn quartet on the hi-fi it seems churlish to question the concept of "consensus" for indeed, today, it appears as if God is in his heaven and all is right with the world.
Sean Crudden
Sean Crudden

"I have a few different swings which I use - although not all of them work all the time."

That is an accurate paraphrase of a statement made on TV by the professional golfer, Scott Hoch, a few years ago on a Monday morning after he defeated Jim Furyx in a delayed finish to an event on the PGA tour. If I am not mistaken it was Hoch’s last PGA tour victory - he is now a member of the senior tour in America.

One remembers from "apologetics" class (in the 1950’s) that St Thomas Aquinas proved the "existence" of God seven or eight different ways and in maths class we often found more than one "way" to solve a problem or prove a proposition.

Remembering vaguely I think that Aristotle commenting on politics asserted that there were various systems and different peoples were suited by different systems i.e. he eschewed the idea that one particular political system is inherently superior to others. (I hope the revered Aristotle is not revolving in his grave - wherever it is - at the cast I am ascribing to his thought).

We are all influenced to one degree or another by fashion - in clothes, hairstyles (for those who have hair), art, music. Whether fashion represents a true or false consensus does not seem to be a very important matter and we are all vaguely aware that changes in fashion have a lot to do with keeping the wheels of industry turning.

Equally we are all aware of the recent and enduring monopolistic political consensus of the Thatcher/Reagan/McDowell era backed up by a sort of simplistic Orwellian rhetoric "Right is good: Left is bad." The whole "Anti-Terrorist" movement in justification of recent wars is another example of a contrived consensus which has proven to be misleading and destructive.

My own concerns are about the consensus which reigns in education and in mental health. Everyone feels that there are major deficiencies in each of these areas yet society persists in a very restricted approach and a totally impoverished way of doing things when dealing with the young and also with the mentally ill.

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