Today’s headlines .........

[pulisa]

What civil liberties are you referring to, Dorabella?

[Lencoboy]

Well you couldn't make this stuff up!!

Just one 'crisis' after another - think the populace at large has just grown indifferent to so much stuff splashed all over the news and social media 24 hours a day. Won't have much effect on people until it starts to affect them personally ... i.e when their supermarket bill or energy bills suddenly shoot up.

As for public marches ... a lot of people still hiding behind their sofas and the front door for fear of the 'rona or getting arrested by policy under 'rona emergency powers to break up public gatherings ... unless you are supporting XR that is.

I am more worried about the apathy of the populace with respect to the amount of civil liberties that have been eroded in the last eighteen months and which the government seems not to want to re-instate ...

You're dead right Dorabella, it's as if crises in general have basically become normalised over the past 20-odd years or so, to the point where most people simply stop caring, that is, until it affects them directly, of course.

In fact, even the very word 'crisis' itself has become hyperbole and so trite over the same period, sometimes used as lazy language!

[pulisa]

That must have been hard for poor Grivel to digest..Not sure that Messrs Uture and Catsnipper would winalot of fans over that debacle?

[Lencoboy]

Almost all of today's national papers had hysterical Armageddon-type stories on the front page about the (allegedly) looming energy crisis. I wonder how long it will be before all the mass panic-buying starts?

There's a real sense of deja vu about all of this, as if it's like 2008 all over again!

First Covid, now all this as well!

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Australia Earthquake

[pulisa]

I suppose a "tsar" is better than a "champion"?

Too many lazy GPs just reach for the (virtual) prescription pad, especially with chronic pain conditions.

[Lencoboy]

I've just been reading a rather interesting article on the Sky News website that was published on Wednesday but still remains extremely pertinent to today's headlines. It was about the so-called Energy Crisis, and they claim it's not all as black and white as it seems on the face of it, plus said article also gave us more in-depth explanations on many other factors behind said crisis that virtually all other news outlets so far don't tell us, and reveals some more reassuring shades of grey in the mix too.

One in particular was about the lack of wind across mainland Britain since July, and others were about technical issues with supplies from France and Russia, both of which have been more or less resolved and resumed now.

While Sky did actually say that the UK is currently the worst affected territory in Europe, it's by no means exclusively a UK-specific issue, contrary to popular myth. Mainland Europe and the USA are also affected.

That's what I like, a sense of perspective and context.

[dorabella]

Almost all of today's national papers had hysterical Armageddon-type stories on the front page about the (allegedly) looming energy crisis. I wonder how long it will be before all the mass panic-buying starts?

There's a real sense of deja vu about all of this, as if it's like 2008 all over again!

First Covid, now all this as well!

It's all just journalistic (if you can even call them journalists) click-bait ... no fact-checking or research into wider issues, no attempt at anything like responsible reporting. Unfortunately there are too many unquestioning members of public ... made over-anxious by the hysteria of the last 18 months ... who react to these headlines and start to panic. These journalists must be laughing their heads off at all the cr** they are stirring up.

[Lencoboy]

It's all just journalistic (if you can even call them journalists) click-bait ... no fact-checking or research into wider issues, no attempt at anything like responsible reporting. Unfortunately there are too many unquestioning members of public ... made over-anxious by the hysteria of the last 18 months ... who react to these headlines and start to panic. These journalists must be laughing their heads off at all the cr** they are stirring up.

Correct. The papers should hang their heads in shame right now!

Panic buying at petrol stations has already started, despite constant reassurances that there's no actual shortages of petrol and diesel.

Bit like the toilet roll thing just after the start of the pandemic in March last year, which as you know full well was heavily blown well out of proportion.

It seems that a lot of people get some sense of excitement from such phenomena.

I mean, look at Black Friday almost every November and the tribalistic nature of it. In fact it now seems to go on almost for the entire week, so technically no longer a day-specific event.

[pulisa]

I believe that there will shortly be an app available to download on everyday commonsense thanks to an in depth study carried out by the University of Westminster.