In case anybody outside the UK is unaware of this (which you almost certainly are, which is kind of the point) a journalist named Isabel Oakeshott signed an NDA with with Matt Hunt, who was the UK Health Security during early covid hysteria, to help him write a book, then breached the NDA and leaked ~100k WhatsApp messages to the press. The messages show - entirely unsurprisingly - that the UK government didn’t have a fucking clue what it was doing, then amidst all the lying and smearing to justify lockdowns, started lying and smearing to cover it all up as well.

Not that this in itself should be news to anybody, but two things stand out: i) there’s now undeniable proof in the public record of everything that has been a “conspiracy theory” for 3 years, and ii) the mainstream media is flat out embarrassing itself in a hilariously tone deaf way by giving precisely zero shits about the actual story and pretending that the “news” here is the breach of the NDA.

Absolutely nobody is buying it. It’s all very cathartic. Nature is healing â˜ș

But seriously, for a less naive take consider that this all feeds into the increasingly undeniable realisation that state control of information dissemination was key to the catastrophe. The Muskificiation of twitter may be a very slight reprieve - and one that makes the regime shit itself much more than it really ought to because it has no idea how anything actually works - but if they understood nostr even a little the level of self-shitting would be off the charts 🙏

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Have you considered the possibility that the nda breach is planned? They want us focussed on the covid story so that we don’t spend our energy, time and attention on what they are about to hit us with next?

You have to wonder I guess but that doesn’t seem at all plausible in this case. The only (and correct) lesson anybody is taking is that the state is not only incompetent but very eager to lie to cover it up. “Distraction” doesn’t seem even nearly worth it. You could make up any stupid bullshit if all you wanted to do was distract people.

like all the stuff on the homepage of the bbc.. I take your point.

I operate under the assumption that we are currently asleep at the wheel as a nation on the horror that is “15-minute cities” and all the variations on that theme.

By the end of 2026, we will know, but it will probably be too late.

Great Post. But was it Matt Hancock (did you mix Matt and Jeremy!!)

you’re right, sorry, so I did. I actually meant Hancock as I typed it but I guess I also have such strongly negative associations with Hunt it was a Freudian typo.

I assumed Matt Hancock oddly didn’t even see the mistake đŸ« 

It’s actually Matt Cunt

Thanks for this great summary! The news articles were so bad they effectively suppresed my intent to post a note about it last night. Alas, most normies will now shift the Overton window by embracing even more authoritarianism and the abusive relationship will grow stronger. I bet most leftists will say they are "glad the government did what was needed in the face of all the science-denying racists and need more power to do so again."

On whether to hammer the facts, the law or the table, it’s so clearly the table.

I feel all warm and fuzzy reading this 🧡

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can't wait for them to nostr-level shit themselves.

(wasn't it "Handcock")

yeah, soz, I didn’t even notice that. “Hancock” tho 😂

I wish I could zap the shit out of Isabel

Non-nostr people could interpret this sentence in different ways.. 😁

Yeh the silence from the Media is Goldent

It was not just the UK government.

"Your government didn’t have a fucking clue what it was doing, then amidst all the lying and smearing to justify lockdowns, started lying and smearing to cover it all up as well."

Fixed.

well yeah but I am referring to the Oakeshott story specifically.

When you have the monopoly on violence, you have the power to redefine what is right or wrong, so it doesn't matter anymore whether you _know_ what you are doing or not.

They lied through their teeth because the power grab made them delusional.

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Public information should be public.

Imagine reading this and still being scared of anarchy rather than scared of barbaric legacy governance protocols such as democracy. Nostr relays will end this tyranny and "govern" soundly.

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Not only the UK government. All the others as well.

When you don't know what to do and decide to play safe doesn't look like a bad strategy to me, especially when there are lives at stake, though.

This is for the first lockdown. All the other locks and the rules intoduced after, instead are completely another story. And this is the real problem here.

PS: the switch to hybrid model of working is not so bad as an outcome.

This has given me hope lately that things could accelerate markedly from here. When c19 is exposed as a fraud normies are going to start questioning everything and perhaps we won’t be led in ww3 as easily. Could speed up btc adoption as well.

Good summary of events. It seems that no matter how egregious the behaviour of our overlords, there are never any serious consequences for them.

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Good to have found you on nostr Mr Green. Look forward to your musings.

Isabel’s SpeakEasy Podcast appears to be down.

The podcast where, in one episode she interviewed Saifedean and in another she interviewed Matt Hancock where he pumped Binance.

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I only just clocked “Matt Hunt”.

Nicely done. They are indeed both gross and have done A LOT of slippery dirty work for the State over the years.