Ben Irvine
Author ▫ Philosopher ▫ Campaigner

1.

Ben Irvine, ‘Intellectual Obesity’, September 2019: http://whistleblowerphilosopher.blogspot.com/2019/09/intellectual-obesity.html

3.

myself performing Bob Dylan’s song ‘Like a Rolling Stone’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs6NIkGK1Xg

4.

The Truth About the Wuhan Lockdown: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Truth-about-Wuhan-Lockdown-Became-ebook/dp/B09XWLRWC7

‘I think we’re heading towards general pressure’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/07/messages-reveal-how-britain-plunged-lockdown/

publicly defending the government’s laissez-faire approach: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/covid-lockdown-year-on-how-23761949

Vallance wrote an article for the government’s official website: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/its-a-national-effort-to-win-coronavirus-fight-we-all-have-crucial-part-to-play

still calling Britain a “land of liberty”: https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1240336719100227584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

he “hoped” he would get to see his elderly mother: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-mum-coronavirus-mothers-day-self-isolate-tv-address-today-a9415496.html

“Sod this, I’m gonna go and see her”: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/25/queen-had-lucky-escape-boris-johnson-sod-it-attitude-to-covid

Johnson faced a “‘full scale mutiny’: https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/boris-johnson-coronavirus-lockdown-cabinet-mutiny?bftwuk&utm_term=4ldqpgm#4ldqpgm

A YouGov poll on March 24: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/health/articles-reports/2020/03/24/public-overwhelmingly-backs-governments-new-measur

5.

an ‘Organiser’ from GMB declared: https://www.gmb.org.uk/news/nhs-staff-exposed-coronavirus-not-given-protective-clothing-or-sanitiser

they would take ‘whatever action was required’: https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-joins-other-tube-unions-in-call-over-coronavirus-fears/

a “burden” on public services: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/51859553

‘Ministers are looking with grim bemusement’: https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-12/british-government-wants-uk-to-acquire-coronavirus-herd-immunity-writes-robert-peston

‘’Having canvassed the views of many of you last week’: https://twitter.com/PFA/status/1239627836392189953

The PFA will always focus on your health and wellbeing’: https://twitter.com/PFA/status/1239627836392189953

‘We will continue working hard to protect you’: https://twitter.com/PFA/status/1239627844390662145

As one socialist commentator later recalled: https://isj.org.uk/covid-19-in-the-workplace/

agitating for all schools to be closed: https://web.archive.org/web/20200316160759/https://neu.org.uk/press-releases/coronavirus-school-closure-policy

calling for all universities to close: http://whistleblowerphilosopher.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-road-to-lockdown_02121758366.html

they began stoking a work from home mutiny: https://www.tuc.org.uk/events/webinar-coronavirus-work

they had “forced” the government into the furlough scheme: https://www.tuc.org.uk/archive-congress-2020

they had met with the “Cabinet Office”: https://twitter.com/pcs_union/status/1240016652072353792

One PCS leader later disclosed: https://pcsleftunity.org/2021/01/10/covid-19-section-44-and-industrial-action/

on March 17, the NEU published another open letter: https://twitter.com/NEUnion/status/1239879529570742275

On March 17, Dominic Cummings told Matt Hancock: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/07/messages-reveal-how-britain-plunged-lockdown/

On March 14, GMB launched a campaign: https://twitter.com/GMB_union/status/1238762090489405441

Labour backed the campaign: https://www.gmb.org.uk/news/labour-backs-gmb-call-requisition-private-hospital-beds

‘bowing to pressure to make private beds available’: https://twitter.com/GMB_union/status/1238973581138309121

reports that 8,000 hospital beds would be ‘rented’: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/coronavirus-nhs-steps-up-fight-21694418?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

8,000 was the figure that GMB had originally called for: https://www.gmb.org.uk/campaign/success-requisition-private-hospital-beds-help-nhs-coronavirus

GMB called the outcome ‘obscene’: https://twitter.com/GMB_union/status/1239116140498034692

‘a major deal to expand hospital capacity’: https://www.england.nhs.uk/2020/03/nhs-strikes-major-deal-to-expand-hospital-capacity-to-battle-coronavirus/

Matt Hancock explained: https://www.england.nhs.uk/2020/03/nhs-strikes-major-deal-to-expand-hospital-capacity-to-battle-coronavirus/

Later, the British Medical Journal disclosed: https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/the-nhs-paid-private-hospitals-2bn-in-the-pandemic-but-some-treated-more-private-patients-than-nhs-ones/

a union called Legal Sector Workers United reared up: https://twitter.com/LSWUnited/status/1238129025845014528

‘a duty’ to ‘take immediate action to stop the spread’ / send your workers home: https://twitter.com/LSWUnited/status/1238129027174608897

Our members are organising in workplaces across the sector: https://twitter.com/LSWUnited/status/1238369181550157825

Two days later, the message intensified: https://twitter.com/LSWUnited/status/1239276738154319877

Chris Philp tried to calm the situation: https://twitter.com/CPhilpOfficial/status/1239680265544503297

SHUT DOWN THE COURTS: https://twitter.com/LSWUnited/status/1239692976445624324

calling on legal employers to implement working from working from home: https://twitter.com/LSWUnited/status/1239578613650948096

legal employees being ‘forced to go into work’: https://twitter.com/LSWUnited/status/1239906734426279936

‘many many members are organising now for right to WFH’: https://twitter.com/LSWUnited/status/1240024321575223297

condemned the government’s “business as usual” approach: https://twitter.com/LSWUnited/status/1240224362512474112

some of its members at a “major legal aid firm”: https://twitter.com/LSWUnited/status/1240320272034598912

they had ‘withdrawn all staff from face to face contact’: https://twitter.com/PSPLAWUK/status/1241842426182066178

LSWU crowed their support: https://twitter.com/LSWUnited/status/1241843079944048644

a major concession from the government: https://twitter.com/LSWUnited/status/1242002987842748416

99% of other hearings: https://twitter.com/LSWUnited/status/1242002989008785408

‘an immediate stop to jury trials’: https://twitter.com/TheCriminalBar/status/1239938358396289025

‘there is an ongoing public health risk in our courts’: https://twitter.com/TheCriminalBar/status/1239917489712238598

‘do not reflect realities on the ground’: https://twitter.com/TheCriminalBar/status/1239917489712238598

‘political pressure to keep courts open is unacceptable’: https://twitter.com/TheCriminalBar/status/1242043308895019008

‘There should be no physical hearings’: https://twitter.com/TheCriminalBar/status/1242042455572299776

‘we will not advise members to attend court’: https://twitter.com/TheCriminalBar/status/1242042587327934470

‘if you decide not to attend court’: https://twitter.com/TheCriminalBar/status/1242041899160080387

‘When, and only when, it is safe, can hearings be resumed’: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/23/crown-court-trials-on-hold-while-judges-seek-ways-to-protect-juries

Summarising the quotes: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51935320.amp

LSWU published a poll: https://twitter.com/LSWUnited/status/1241980401721229313

a zoom meeting that evening at 7pm: https://twitter.com/LSWUnited/status/1242159750583812097

Today the entire criminal bar will refuse to attend court: https://twitter.com/LSWUnited/status/1242366951617429508

nine teaching unions: https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/education-unions-statement-safe-reopening-schools

conditions on the reopening of workplaces: https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2020/may/statement-to-members-from-len-mccluskey-on-government-back-to-work-proposals/

The RMT explicitly threatened to strike: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/13/packed-tube-trains-prompt-union-anger-at-johnsons-back-to-work-message-coronavirus-lockdown

Unite demanded masks on all public transport: https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2020/may/government-must-introduce-maximum-public-transport-capacity-rules-and-face-masks-to-ensure-safety-warns-unite/

‘fought for, and won’: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coronapanic-Debacle-Ben-Irvine-ebook/dp/B0BDVNG5JL

The advice on self-isolating was paused on August 1: https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/documents/c0661-letter-to-nhs-7-july-shielding-guidance-changes/

strike to force through working from home: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coronapanic-Debacle-Ben-Irvine-ebook/dp/B0BDVNG5JL

harsher restrictions over Christmas: https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/bma-says-government-must-review-christmas-covid-plans

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18 hours for the first government U-turn of 2021: https://twitter.com/cyclingkev/status/1345077356910825472

he went on national TV to reassure the public: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yESpx-R-Oc

A message for the teaching unions: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1345446978323435521

over three times as likely to die from Covid: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9183967/School-staff-NOT-likely-die-Covid-19-general-population-ONS-survey-reveals.html

teachers were slightly less at risk of Covid: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9312065/Teachers-NOT-risk-catching-Covid-ONS-data-finds.html

upping the Covid ‘threat level’ from 4 to 5: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/covid-19-alert-level-update-from-the-uk-chief-medical-officers

At 8pm, Johnson addressed the nation: https://news.sky.com/video/in-full-boris-johnsons-address-to-the-nation-12179478

The NEU had demanded the measure: https://web.archive.org/web/20210204213505/https://neu.org.uk/media/14226/view

145 Conservative MPs were remainers: https://ukandeu.ac.uk/the-return-of-conservative-dissent/

‘let the bodies pile high’: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-dominic-cummings-lockdown-b1837326.html

‘no more fucking lockdowns’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000ygcg/bbc-news-special-dominic-cummings-the-interview

‘I should have been the Mayor of Jaws’: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/world/europe/cummings-johnson-covid.html

Johnson bullishly announced: https://twitter.com/MetroUK/status/1412083618340556807

On Freedom Day, Johnson dropped a bombshell: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-statement-at-coronavirus-press-conference-19-july-2021

7.

‘hardly any’ schools opened: https://twitter.com/jenclarkmusic/status/1676654593600638976

the teachers would again demand masks for the kids: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/29/teachers-call-for-masks-to-be-mandatory-in-english-secondary-schools

the RMT would again demand masks on trains: https://www.rmt.org.uk/about/health-and-safety/health-and-safety-circulars/ricf-wearing-of-face-coverings221121/?preview=true

USDAW would again demand masks in shops: https://www.usdaw.org.uk/About-Us/News/2021/Nov/The-Government-was-wrong-to-water-down-safety-in-s

the BMA and NHS Confederation (which is a sort of TUC for the NHS) began campaigning relentlessly for the policy: (BMA) https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/20/british-medical-association-says-time-is-now-for-covid-plan-b (NHS Confederation) https://www.nhsconfed.org/news/health-leaders-urge-parliament-vote-through-plan-b-measures

the policy was mothballed in September: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/09/12/vaccine-passport-plan-nightclubs-large-events-scrapped-england/

in December, a ‘Plan B’ was introduced: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-confirms-move-to-plan-b-in-england

masks were mandated in school corridors: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/schools-bring-back-facemasks-and-isolation-for-close-contacts-of-new-covid-19-variant-wzdtbx65c

‘following pressure from PCS’: https://web.archive.org/web/20211210084213/https://www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/news/plan-b-impact-changes-covid-restrictions-pcs-members-dwp

four teaching unions were agitating for a vaccine rollout in schools: https://www.gmb.org.uk/news/bring-back-face-coverings-schools-limit-coronavirus-disruption

under pressure from the teachers: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1596774713405059073

‘Children’s Covid jabs are being scheduled at schools even though approval is yet to be given.’ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/06/schools-scheduling-childrens-covid-vaccinations-even-though/

compulsory vaccination for all NHS staff in England: https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2021/12/C1470-vcod-for-healthcare-workers-planning-and-preparation-guidance.pdf

the government announced on January 31 that the policy would be pulled: https://www.channel4.com/news/government-set-to-scrap-mandatory-vaccines-for-nhs-and-social-care-workers-in-england

the government advised masks in classrooms for the kids: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/01/schools-in-england-told-wear-masks-in-class-as-fears-mount-of-omicron-surge

With the schools reopened successfully, Johnson announced: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/19/boris-johnson-announces-end-to-all-omicron-covid-restrictions-in-england

8.

The Solidarity Center published an article: https://www.solidaritycenter.org/from-haiti-to-kenya-unions-take-action-on-covid-19/

‘From the very first cases of infection in Wuhan’: https://sharanburrow.medium.com/tackling-the-covid-19-pandemic-at-the-workplace-5af1e335a874

the ITUC wrote an open letter to the G20 leaders: https://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/trade_union_letter_to_the_g20_heads_of_state_meeting_re_covid19.pdf

https://www.ituc-csi.org/g20-covid-trade-unions-call-for

Burrow again appealed to the G20: https://www.ituc-csi.org/g20-summit-shows-global-leadership

On March 27, she called on governments: https://www.ituc-csi.org/putting-people-first

the human race’s ‘biggest ever challenge’: https://sharanburrow.medium.com/the-greatest-display-of-solidarity-in-human-history-d63b67a449d5

On the same day, the ITUC urged the World Bank: https://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/global_unions_statement_imf-wb_4-2020.pdf

the ITUC was still insisting on being involved: https://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/ituc_-_key_issues_on_the_return_to_work.pdf

On March 9, the ETUC issued a statement: https://www.etuc.org/en/document/etuc-declaration-covid-19-outbreak

the ETUC wrote an open letter to the EU’s five presidents: https://www.etuc.org/en/document/etuc-letter-presidents-michel-von-der-leyen-and-centeno

the introduction of furlough schemes in 18 European countries: https://www.etuc.org/en/pressrelease/etuc-reveals-measures-won-unions-protect-jobs-and-wages-across-europe

‘suspend labour and social rights’: https://www.etuc.org/en/pressrelease/etuc-reveals-measures-won-unions-protect-jobs-and-wages-across-europe

a similar letter pressuring the Hungarian PM: https://www.etuc.org/sites/default/files/page/file/2020-04/20200401%20Letter%20to%20President%20and%20Prime%20Minister%20Hungary.pdf

the ETUC wrote to the EU Commission: https://www.etuc.org/en/document/joint-letter-european-social-partners-european-commission-situation-poland

the ETUC wrote to all EU Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Heads of State: https://www.etuc.org/en/document/letter-sent-eu-institutions-emergency-measures-save-jobs-and-protect-workers-rights

9.

the American Federation of Teachers drove many of the country’s schools closures: https://nypost.com/2023/04/28/cnns-scott-jennings-shreds-randi-weingarten-over-school-closures/

“Boris versus the NEU: The Second Lockdown explained”: http://whistleblowerphilosopher.blogspot.com/2022/10/boris-versus-neu-second-lockdown.html

the full-length footage of the January 3 NEU zoom meeting: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=2252357238232655

10.

more than 50 articles paid for by the Chinese Communist Party: https://www.opindia.com/2020/04/daily-telegraph-drop-china-watch-paid-propaganda-section/

‘our instincts are likelier to push us into over-reacting’: https://conservativehome.com/2020/03/18/daniel-hannan-the-virus-our-instincts-are-likelier-to-push-us-into-over-reacting-than-the-reverse/

‘the lockdowns were too long and too harsh’: https://twitter.com/DanielJHannan/status/1510297152509120514

‘Has the government overreacted to the Coronavirus Crisis?’: https://thecritic.co.uk/has-the-government-over-reacted-to-the-coronavirus-crisis/

“Children shouldn’t be touching playground equipment full stop”: https://twitter.com/CamillaTominey/status/1241798466793353217

‘Imagine you are a medic working all hours…’: https://twitter.com/CamillaTominey/status/1240391353772769282

‘Stop socialising, for your own sake as well as others’: https://twitter.com/CamillaTominey/status/1240636997942870018

‘the stupidity of this narcissist is actually mind-boggling’: https://twitter.com/CamillaTominey/status/1241039654150901761

She railed against “selfish idiots”: https://twitter.com/CamillaTominey/status/1240635193846833157

‘How Boris Johnson will have to sacrifice his liberal principles…’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/03/19/boris-johnson-will-have-sacrifice-liberal-principles-save-britain/

‘people won’t do it voluntarily’: https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1240383320439099394

‘We all want to see our mums today’: https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1241673305666605056

‘soldiering on bravely by going out’: https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1241801314105020418

“Just Stay In, You Idiot”: https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1241672034171617282

‘This is a colossal misjudgement…’: https://twitter.com/IsabelOakeshott/status/1242349659064016902

Moran’s March 13, 2020 offering: https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1238174404875563012

‘He’s lounging about at home, why aren’t you?’: https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1240349814354829314

of a British bulldog obediently sitting beside his kennel: https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1242886696833896449

Johnson as a fitness instructor: https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1241434875611226119

a builder sitting on some bricks: https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1245406210364489730

Johnson dressed as a schoolboy: https://www.bobmoran.co.uk/shop-originals-2020/040420

‘deserves to be verbally abused in public’: https://inews.co.uk/news/media/telegraph-cartoonist-bob-moran-angry-covid-tirades-have-seriously-alarmed-his-peers-1229744

a wheedling letter of apology: https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1446193705610776576

“ridiculous, logically bonkers”: https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1576889057279287296

‘the idea that leaders were “pressured” into acting by the media’: https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1576878296905969664

‘the government summoned media editors to Downing Street’: https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1546755781353250817

‘Which media editors?’ https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1546781473910521856

‘I felt that a three-week lockdown was justified’: https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1558776991528124420

She asked, all innocently: https://twitter.com/IsabelOakeshott/status/1638855645964189697

At 5.28pm on January 4: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/04/debate-should-teachers-moved-front-vaccine-queue/

one retweet which mentioned her podcast: https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1349658317858209792

Pearson’s Telegraph column on May 19, 2020: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/fear-not-science-stopping-children-educated/

Does lockdown mean the return of the ‘Trad Wife’?: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/work/does-lockdown-mean-return-trad-wife/

No fewer than nine teaching unions: https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/education-unions-statement-safe-reopening-schools

This looks to be illegal strike action by @NEUnion: https://twitter.com/lensiseethrough/status/1345826620188336128

someone called Mark Lehain had written: https://web.archive.org/web/20210103195858/https://twitter.com/lehain/status/1345821911079677953

NASUWT had condemned the upcoming NEU action: https://web.archive.org/web/20210103172655/https://twitter.com/sputniksteve/status/1345783254759124992

‘It’s gone, what did they say?’: https://twitter.com/hicksyalex/status/1632718487532568579

‘It must have been about the Section 44 action’: https://twitter.com/UsforThemUK/status/1632743124932886530

The Children’s Inquiry: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Childrens-Inquiry-society-Covid-19-pandemic/dp/1780667809

‘the government decision to introduce face-masks into classrooms’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/23/face-masks-classroom-insult-children/

Telegraph journalist Camilla Turner reported: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/01/07/children-forced-face-masks-fears-teachers-might-not-show/

‘won’t engage with me in any way on the topic’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1573980390330716165

‘There’s no more to say’: https://twitter.com/lensiseethrough/status/1573992914816045056

I replied with a direct question: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1573993596713320448

Kingsley’s response was legalistic and obscure: https://twitter.com/lensiseethrough/status/1573994416158687232

‘you have no place trolling me or @UsforThemUK like this’: https://twitter.com/lensiseethrough/status/1574000637183918080

Kingsley tried to blame Cole’s departure on me: https://twitter.com/lensiseethrough/status/1582048205675429894

they could have gone both which is what we did: https://twitter.com/UFTScotland/status/1573959584376569858

‘strategic mistake’: https://twitter.com/UFTScotland/status/1573954045324189697

Unconvinced, I remarked: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1573670981830410240

‘I don’t know what happened in England at that time’: https://twitter.com/UFTScotland/status/1573672515016294409

vaguely acknowledge what happened on January 4: https://twitter.com/UFTScotland/status/1573957547266084865

‘UFT Scotland know exactly what went on’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1638195099078205445

‘we did no such thing’: https://twitter.com/UFTScotland/status/1638199927472902148

I asked them outright: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1638221684661420032

‘We focus on Scotland not England’: https://twitter.com/UFTScotland/status/1638230194107326497

‘Yes or no questions’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1638233269488459789

‘We didn’t cover up the NEU’: https://twitter.com/UFTScotland/status/1638234182907207688

‘So you knew about the NEU mass walkout’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1638234592833314832

The response was again unsatisfactory: https://twitter.com/UFTScotland/status/1638235038708801541

just not interested in your issue with English unions: https://twitter.com/UFTScotland/status/1638255097590214681

‘You never mentioned Scottish issues’: https://twitter.com/UFTScotland/status/1638252719663116302

‘your English insinuating snide comments’: https://twitter.com/UFTScotland/status/1638262093022482445

‘numpty’: https://twitter.com/UFTScotland/status/1638291578803421184 

‘prize idiot’: https://twitter.com/UFTScotland/status/1638291769740738563

‘laughable’: https://twitter.com/UFTScotland/status/1638263183939862528

‘very strange behaviour’: https://twitter.com/UFTScotland/status/1638805483313319942

‘You’re delusional. Go and get help’: https://twitter.com/UFTScotland/status/1638280416992940052

‘Zero honesty for 2.5 years’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1558562364391362560

‘Ben has completely lost it’: https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1558756890099810304

‘horrible person’: https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1558877383058497537

a ‘mea culpa’ for not ‘speaking up earlier’: https://twitter.com/AlexStarling77/status/1558811747984842752

still shrieking her support for the lockdown: https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1254006132592476160

she “warned” about the harm the lockdown would do: https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1597351329038364672 / https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1557478451828908034

In June 2022, Moran wrote a tweet: https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1547011454586478593

‘some people kept their heads down’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1547268510975496192

‘And then curiously they never mentioned the whole episode’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1547270155041906690

‘Why don’t you talk about what actually happened, Bob?’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1547277246238433281

‘Dan, like most conservative journalists’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1510554854950850561

‘Not before it happened’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1510591879917846536

‘Great Big Sulky Baby’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1510604399269355524

‘Do you regret supporting the communist lockdown?’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1647330391726911488

‘Say what? Have you googled me lately?’: https://twitter.com/IsabelOakeshott/status/1647335203776372736

‘lockdowns in 2020’: https://twitter.com/Angela83023129/status/1647336009741520896

‘I clearly did not’: https://twitter.com/IsabelOakeshott/status/1647338028174647300

11.

‘we are all using someone else’s platform’: https://twitter.com/juneslater17/status/1541398573786533891

‘That is a totally irresponsible comment from Hancock’: https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1237049223981522945

‘Just can’t believe it’: https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1238379395305410560

Madness: https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1239550123123838978

Week off: https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1242132902873350144

‘Stay safe out there’: https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1242132902873350144

On the first day of the lockdown: https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1242571997290409985

The government’s list of key workers was too long: https://www.fenews.co.uk/skills/list-of-key-workers-whose-children-will-be-prioritised-during-the-period-of-school-closures/

Writing for the Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/30/course-must-stop-coronavirus-not-cost-becoming-police-state/

no downside to wearing a face mask: https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1250442744553549825

‘Why did it take three months?’: https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1282955206611939328

‘Say NO to another lockdown’: https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1307705864271409152

On March 19, Robinson issued a warning: https://web.archive.org/web/20200319172550/https://twitter.com/DSaull/status/1240684959813087234

Robinson’s response was no less sanctimonious: https://web.archive.org/web/20200319172550/https://twitter.com/DSaull/status/1240684959813087234

Robinson approvingly paraphrased an article: https://web.archive.org/web/20200321212841/https://twitter.com/bardathe111/status/1241473595446112257

‘I find myself agreeing with [Courtney]’: https://web.archive.org/web/20200322194831/https://twitter.com/calvinrobinson/status/1241810244919078917

‘I agree with @calvinrobinson’: https://web.archive.org/web/20200322223424/https://twitter.com/cyclingkev/status/1241834875931570179

‘The juxtaposition here is ridiculous’: https://web.archive.org/web/20200322195936/https://twitter.com/RickyThomasblog/status/1241771038242938883

‘That was beautiful. #clapforNHS’: https://web.archive.org/web/20200326200859/https://twitter.com/carole_awebb/status/1243268443790553090

‘Of course we have to take extreme measures’: https://web.archive.org/web/20200328212102/https://twitter.com/Bongeh/status/1244004004990005248

In a Telegraph article on June 15, 2021: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/15/teaching-unions-powerful-can-demand-kids-teach-vaccinated/

there was also a section by Robinson: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/04/debate-should-teachers-moved-front-vaccine-queue/

A few days after the lockdown, he blathered: https://twitter.com/calvinrobinson/status/1347262082647994368

‘The world is now living through an unprecedented pandemic’: https://twitter.com/danwootton/status/1238205769029496834

avoid “hysteria”: https://twitter.com/danwootton/status/1239586071102607360

‘This is the worst I’ve ever felt… like I’ve been hit by a truck’: https://twitter.com/danwootton/status/1240005304592498688

Wootton used his Sun column: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11236292/coronavirus-start-self-isolating-nightmare-over/

Now we must repay that generation: https://twitter.com/danwootton/status/1242454514147512322

his newfound scepticism: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11521152/lockdown-time-think-about-freedom/

I’ve done my back in entirely: https://twitter.com/danwootton/status/1349836432597258240

I’m joining the on air team of GB News: https://twitter.com/danwootton/status/1354816413416841223

Pumped to get started: https://twitter.com/danwootton/status/1354833013222342659

‘If you have symptoms, isolate as instructed’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1239333966685048838

‘I’ve been stuck indoors now since Tuesday’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1239273316046774273

‘Hope you feel better x’: https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1239333749499797506

‘all good hun thanks’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1239334605678919680

‘one of the most sobering press conferences’: https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1239610492349538305

sad face emoji: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1239655131177762816

‘moping around’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1240353485931139073

The burden of social drinking: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1241053287169830913

‘InThisTogetherUK’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1241147452645879813

‘Be like Pooh’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1241480884257198080

‘Tried to be sensible’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1241775585896079360

‘It’s a staged plan’: https://web.archive.org/web/20200323060059/https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1241855869505212421

They’ll (sic) be lockdowns and curfews for a long time imo’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1241855869505212421 

‘The Government knows more than us’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1241785132710801409

‘How the hell was you ever a Barrister’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1241831114962067460

‘Stop being selfish bastards’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1242179287865856002

‘This is [sic] national emergency’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1242240181958316032

‘And police will enforce as instructed’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1242245862576840714

‘This is bonkers’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1242250339195158533

‘This is ridiculous’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1242484722069987328

‘Remember it might not be you’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1242488697817378817

‘Try and imagine EVERYTHING you touch’:  https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1242404757853143040

‘It couldn’t be anymore simple’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1243211031834267649

‘Do your bit, #savelives by staying at home’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1242976688851406849

‘Team UK. So proud of this country.’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1243206990849073153

‘Tonight 8pm. Do your thing UK’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1243110923038056448

‘Wolf whistles and “whoooos” optional’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1245730870306144258

‘I’m not expecting pubs to reopen until 1st July’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1244223957982744576

‘Pubs will be July 1st’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1253390100932833282

he signalled his support for various ludicrous measures in pubs: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1275216203057856514

Then you wouldn’t have a job: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1275028838473437185

‘Oh piss off’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1389588922183860228

he nominated UsforThem as his ‘Greatest Briton’: https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1511839137694892038

‘Taking all reasonable precautions’: https://web.archive.org/web/20200316234346/https://twitter.com/bam57581565/status/1239698064341979136 

‘that loan we gave the banks’: https://web.archive.org/web/20200316191647/https://twitter.com/Charlot05475465/status/1239629232659214337 

‘We are being reminded of how much we need each other: https://web.archive.org/web/20200318215451/https://twitter.com/alisonb4242/status/1240389912345620484

‘desperate times call for desperate measures’: https://web.archive.org/web/20200324014112/https://twitter.com/SezTPompey27/status/1242247770699857920

“Beware the sunbathing police’: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1265914/laurence-fox-news-brockwell-park-lambeth-council-coronavirus-closure-Boris-johnson

On January 6, the campaign released a video: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=394922881811987&ref=sharing

It was ever thus.

— Neil Oliver (@thecoastguy) March 20, 2020

freelancers might not get their share of furlough money: https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1241061535545466885

‘Here’s a happy tree’: https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1242759651671846915

himself and his family walking in beautiful countryside: https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1243992065878429697

‘for now we must self-isolate’: https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1244270186481569792

‘Just to say I am eating a sandwich’: https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1295656518411595776

‘They’ll ban sex standing up next’: https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1310843631700451328

‘It’s supposed to be gov’s job to protect our rights’: https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1319968928525897728

‘on the subject of a freedom pass’: https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1330574898431995905

‘We hear you, Mick. Good man.’ https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1346178239568474115

‘the video featured a series of interviews with guests including Neil Oliver and the MP Lee Anderson’: https://twitter.com/Unlocked_UK_/status/1354512565716434945

Neil Oliver’s Unlock the Schools interview: https://twitter.com/Unlocked_UK_/status/1383748039240609800

‘Our government is a shower of shite’: https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1650142376088813571

‘taken for fools’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cACETqHXq94

‘a few hundred of the most unimaginably rich’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS2iU1cqqYU

‘the WEF ‘must be mocked and derided’’: https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1513488541795422210

‘they don’t want all the gays dropping dead’: https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/03/18/rush-limbaugh-show-mark-steyn-gay-coronavirus-homophobia-donald-trump-san-francisco/

‘How are you enjoying the self-isolating?’: https://www.steynonline.com/10146/testing-times

In his blog that week: https://www.steynonline.com/10142/pitching-the-wuhan

powerful people were being prioritized for vaccination: https://www.steynonline.com/10873/veinglory-in-the-highest

‘This video shows the best side of humanity’: https://twitter.com/PatrickChristys/status/1238538849585946630  

‘Stick to the rules’: https://twitter.com/PatrickChristys/status/1245020529238646789

‘Good to see police out stopping the idiots from sunbathing’: https://twitter.com/PatrickChristys/status/1246796238562963457

‘This makes medical, scientific and economic sense’: https://twitter.com/PatrickChristys/status/1250837956874682369

‘Fireworks, the whole street out cheering and clapping’: https://twitter.com/PatrickChristys/status/1250868501549637635

‘This is madness’: https://twitter.com/PatrickChristys/status/1251084293041983494

‘bring back the water cannons’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1663891359084756992

‘finally calling for compulsory face masks’: https://twitter.com/PatrickChristys/status/1251120380745564160

‘a giveaway that he’s not supposed to be doing that’: https://twitter.com/PatrickChristys/status/1257705842079653893

‘‘Scots should be terrified of lockdown easing’: https://twitter.com/PatrickChristys/status/1263563549336616964

‘He called for water cannons’: https://twitter.com/PatrickChristys/status/1261710729876512768

his support for “Immunity certificates”: https://twitter.com/PatrickChristys/status/1263746233497268225

‘eye roll’ emojis: https://twitter.com/PatrickChristys/status/1263817403462541315

from two metres to one metre: https://twitter.com/PatrickChristys/status/1270394700948738048

Absolutely no sympathy whatsoever: https://twitter.com/PatrickChristys/status/1288046555841400832

‘control over every aspect of our lives’: https://twitter.com/PatrickChristys/status/1319945569444466688

‘Why are people so tolerant’: https://twitter.com/PatrickChristys/status/1321151856639385601

‘a little bit of wiggle room’: https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1240274634928513024

Best self-isolation movies: https://twitter.com/mrmarkdolan/status/1240979083577757697

‘Do we need a police state at this moment in time? YES’: https://twitter.com/Pics_By_Tony/status/1241009035014541313

‘Bingo, well said’: https://twitter.com/mrmarkdolan/status/1241028631650078721

he interviewed a fearmongering ‘doctor and TV presenter’: https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1241027830105935872

‘Stay home. Stay home. Stay home. Gottit?’: https://twitter.com/mrmarkdolan/status/1241163440674267136

‘STAY IN YOUR FUCKING HOMES’: https://twitter.com/mrmarkdolan/status/1241743440758673409

‘COME ON BRITAIN’: https://twitter.com/mrmarkdolan/status/1241749944391909377  

‘Please watch this’: https://twitter.com/mrmarkdolan/status/1241869957316648967

‘Please listen to the prof. Stay home dudes!’: https://twitter.com/mrmarkdolan/status/1242035302493011968

‘Even my cat Harry is working from home now’: https://twitter.com/mrmarkdolan/status/1242146700896206848

‘Is Adele fat shaming the world by losing weight’: https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1258776056829489152

‘Matt Hancock deserves more praise by the media’: https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1251170016520736769

‘How is this confusing?’: https://twitter.com/mrmarkdolan/status/1259435606821818368

‘There are no guarantees’: https://twitter.com/mrmarkdolan/status/1261334914114424833

‘Is it too late for governments to learn…’: https://twitter.com/mrmarkdolan/status/1263105922508795904

‘END THE MADNESS NOW!!!’: https://twitter.com/mrmarkdolan/status/1297676007927881728

No fewer than seventeen times: https://twitter.com/search?q=hospital%20beds%20per%20(from%3Ajamesmelville)%20until%3A2020-03-25%20since%3A2020-03-01&src=typed_query&f=live

‘only has 4 Coronavirus treatment centres’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1236426896868548608

‘99% of doctors fear that the NHS is not well prepared’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1234610592616505346

‘The ABC of doom’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1235258028175347715

‘This is so disturbing’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1235706219597197312

‘‘A word of warning about #Coronavirus’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1236575532336263169

‘The key to avoiding rapid spread of Coronavirus’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1236706967537831937

‘the blame will lie firmly with the UK government’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1236750084848697349

‘Considering the gigantic economic impact of #coronavirus’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1237022771907002369

‘The government’s approach…’: https://bylinetimes.com/2020/03/09/the-government-must-bolster-its-coronavirus-response/

‘Boris Johnson – take it on the chin’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1237304832349949953

‘the Italy #coronavirus curve from 2 weeks ago’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1237321795855888385

‘Hospital doctors have raised concerns’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1237417978125340672

‘The UK government must delay the transition period’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1237341883694821377

‘The coronavirus comes at an exponential speed’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1237836102259572737

‘I’m ready for the lockdown’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1237831566413488129

’14 [days] behind Italy’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1237852041013157889

‘I want us to follow the WHO recommendations’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1238221054033657863

an article for Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/3/13/welfare-cuts-have-left-uk-undefended-against-coronavirus

‘exponentially rising cases of Coronavirus’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1238354694885564416

‘“Herd immunity” requires 60% of the population to get coronavirus’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1238621835392176129

‘I’m not ashamed to say’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1238826125180231683

‘I’m pretty good at handling adversity’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1239091140810465282

‘I will stick to politics’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1239301049028153344

‘Behave as if you might be spreading it’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1239449303099289600

all the European countries that had already closed their schools: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1239626191386132480

‘I never thought I’d say this’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1239661954379194371

‘It’s the most collective moment of global empathy’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1240655085203587072

he hat-tipped China: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1240531678419959808

‘wise words’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1240556752606842881

‘It’s time to take those wedding rings and watches off’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1241118870481571840

‘I’ve just watched a disturbing Sky News report’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1241091262163365888

‘Tim Martin, Wetherspoons boss on #r4today’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1240924861922529280

‘Let’s fight this together and flatten the curve’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1240897875594424320

‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1240969386715942912

he warned people against visiting his home county: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1241506429766381573

‘Covidiot’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1241468160655659008

‘How much alcohol’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1241678971344801793

‘This is utterly ridiculous and grotesquely irresponsible’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1241779932327489536

‘Hopeful news in Italy’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1241782315006787584

almost verbatim the next day: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1242143952599474178 

‘a month too late’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1242215391956475905

‘a month of iron discipline’: https://twitter.com/jenclarkmusic/status/1667907735847948289

‘we need to learn from them and do the same’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1242203888469540866

‘Good luck to everyone. We will get through this.’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1242190321729122311

‘£1,500 a month for the next 3 months minimum’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1242481648504934403

some anti-capitalist cod philosophy: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1242242052852719622

‘Separate Lives’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1665456895514034180

he praised New Zealand’s ‘Zero Covid’ policy: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/new-zealands-rapid-response-to-the-coronavirus-has-put-the-uk-to-shame-187082/

On July 24, he was still praising Arden: [can’t find tweet]

a video in which he condemned the phrase ‘the new normal’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1298501542606245889

blaming the government for the ongoing atrocity: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1310994731611156486

a long thread: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1309741026999967744

The tweet including the following words: https://web.archive.org/web/20200926080645/https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1309741026999967744

‘Just an idea for the UK government’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1346223366810836998

a facile little poem he’d written: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1346508558003826688

he was spewing out pure propaganda: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1346815155045359616

‘a realistic post vaccine exit strategy’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1349271986950778881

‘the government are on the clock right now’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1349489696322301957

‘mask apartheid’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1367385726552317953

On May 17, the day that the mandate was lifted: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1394418299358875653

‘the real covidiots’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1352394119000313856

‘spent the last 25 years dealing in China’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1244604341371244545

‘Denmark in lockdown’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1237860428354445326

‘Mortality rate nearly 7%’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1237864557147590658

‘spot the problem’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1238075180477489153

‘Absolutely horrifying news from Italy’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1238076620679905281

‘Iran digs vast trenches to bury the dead’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1238146627380150272

‘unbelievably irresponsible, ignorant and dangerous’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1238539771179347968

Spofforth defended herd immunity: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1238781320823738368

‘I’m suddenly not happy signing’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1238840268310433793

‘I’d rather listen to them’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1238799734720135169

‘Matt Hancock is doing a very good job’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1239319282305114114

‘closing schools would result in many children being looked after by grandparents’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1239169187148423174

‘Bad times are ahead. Terrible news from Italy’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1239979147147063297

‘I just agreed with David Lammy’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1240250662312652800

London would be the first place in the UK to lockdown: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1240335009485119488 also: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1240334101900656640

‘Moral. Do as you are told’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1240364137684840450

‘Confirmed cases of COVID 19 outside of China’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1240418345758883842

‘many countries are only at the beginning of their crisis’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1240526897328672768

‘facing a virus that doesn’t care about A-levels?’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1240571599486672897

‘She reported that Spain’s death toll had ‘soared’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1240610705142931456

‘It’s about the massive requirement for health provision’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1240663219355729920

‘With pubs still full of idiots’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1240901506712383488

‘He should join the queue and speak to his bank’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1240996369491546112

‘Today I’ll be available’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1240916313943523331

‘Travel plans for the weekend’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1241425519159250944

‘We are exactly 2 weeks behind Italy’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1241593467337310208

‘651 lives lost in one day in Italy yesterday’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1241785294829096961

‘Are they reacting quickly enough?’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1241630750014930945

‘We aren’t listening. Why aren’t we?’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1241824142476935170

‘They should go home as instructed’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1242114714374717450

‘impressive in the commons’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1242128229684654080

‘Spoon fed politics for spoilt children’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1242218967537725442

‘No one has turned the corner in Europe’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1242541604256260096

‘On day 1 of lockdown’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1242448056529936384

Two days later, she shared another graphic: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1243102968137777152

‘The USA has now surpassed confirmed cases in China’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1243461622196326400

‘America First’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1243810688839168006

she went to the supermarket: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1243913838224965632

‘20 flights yesterday arrived into London from New York’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1244196122513506304

‘We need to be careful that public consent to the lockdown is maintained’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1244661737988788227

‘We were too late. We fucked up’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1260946877341741058

‘local lockdowns that didn’t restrict the movements of people’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1310870610306912256

‘Let’s talk about the NHS being overwhelmed’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1343656727657521157

‘Now let’s all stop panicking, get this vaccine show ramped up’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1344053667339661313

‘Just 3 weeks. To protect the NHS’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1346513671976058883

‘We are now in Lockdown & reversal is unlikely’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1346821381003079683

‘Lockdown sceptics should support this lockdown’: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lockdown-sceptics-should-support-this-lockdown/

‘This is a really well written articulation’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1346815159319326726

‘Vaccination roll out going well so far’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1347229708535144451

‘The U.K. Government has ordered 367 million doses’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1347545991612915718

‘Once the vulnerable are vaccinated by mid February’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1348606777999421441

‘exit plan’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1348606777999421441

‘Other countries manage it’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1349987421635665921

‘Over 4 million vaccinations’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1351214297502908424

‘Does the gov have a plan for tracing & contacting’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1354001069739794438

‘More vaccines enter the U.K. market’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1354719413619064834

‘Once the vulnerable are vaccinated it’s time to set the majority free’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1355219285359079424

‘It’s time to face the unions. We must open the schools and the universities’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1353841042760626176

‘Teaching unions push for an EVEN LONGER closure’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1354480474492719106

On March 31, Sky reported the following news: https://www.gmb.org.uk/news/bring-back-face-coverings-schools-limit-coronavirus-disruption

‘When we all watched China lock up their civilians’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1366841819598848003

‘I have NEVER celebrated any vaccine’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1644630934484811776

A State of Fear: https://www.amazon.co.uk/State-Fear-government-weaponised-Covid-19/dp/1780667205

‘We are the voice of education’: https://twitter.com/BareReality/status/1346224967021711361

‘I thought your article was excellently written and thought-provoking’: https://twitter.com/BareReality/status/1348578184690868224 

‘I have a lot of sympathy with “conspiracy theorists”: https://twitter.com/BareReality/status/1354194909675327489

‘The coronavirus story is going to get bigger and bigger’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1222110254097453057

‘Really?’ https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1224684902433656832

‘This is apparently standard procedure in the NHS right now’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1237669951764381697

‘This is the most 100 percent bollocks wrong’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1237672358825136128

‘WAY ahead of the curve on this’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1237697053012 

‘This’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1237702314779119621

‘Quite nauseating and dishonest’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1237806023949324288

‘It’s weird’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1237803463465197568

‘the other two thirds need their heads examining’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1238132648964472834

‘All those people on Twitter saying “meh – it’s just like flu lol”’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1238895136710504448

‘I’ve just been up to the Midlands on precisely this mission’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1238914642845544448

‘some weird, nasty, dangerous element to this Coronavirus – mutations?’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1239506660038709248

‘if I’m confined to the country’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1239504774753591297

‘The bigger the quantity of virus’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1239574616999432192

‘No, fuck right off I am not changing my tune’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1239854725157265409

‘What’s your explanation of Italy?’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1239906013295321088

‘This is actually really clever’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1239991062787129350

an article which ‘suggests that we are dramatically overreacting’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1241450022056734725

‘The NHS WILL be overwhelmed. That’s a given.’ https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1241469156945473538

‘I heard from my practitioner’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1241657299275599874

‘I’ve just been sent something by a doctor’: https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1242098214263820289

‘Yes – my own expert contacts tell me this is so’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1242100095857950722

‘a lot of the young’uns are asymptomatic’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1242126366876880898

‘Fuck. So that’s next week’s Pilates class buggered, then.’ https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1242188963663745024

‘So true. I’m eligible for a bracelet and I want it now’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1242215930928734211

‘probably necessary now’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1242769282192285696

we need the antibody test asap… we need people with immunity back out and working: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1242880928839536642

‘we need the antibody test asap so we can get our lived back’ [Delingpole]: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1242777351425056768

‘we need the antibody test asap’ [Pearson]: https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1246501248968396806

‘Viral load can massively increase death chances’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1243165583807569921

‘It WILL overwhelm the NHS’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1242773538899136513

‘cure is worse than the disease’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1242509636072325122

He equivocated within a single sentence: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1242812403626147840

‘an urgent crisis’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1243625726051483648

hawking a drug called chloroquine: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1243604744079388673

“lunatic govt policy”: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1244283153151340547

‘China wishes coronavirus were its Chernobyl’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1244565146212671488

absolutely key to getting global economy moving asap: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1244595560570593280

‘People died on an epic scale in Wuhan’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1245374819295789056

‘the country is being held to ransom’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1248220490008838144

‘It’s time to start loosening the lockdown’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/11/time-start-loosening-lockdown/

‘We need to end the lockdown soon’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1249293252819390465

‘The Great Reset is the New World Order’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1308086591769006081

‘he heard from someone in the civil service’: https://web.archive.org/web/20200919195613/https://twitter.com/same_script/status/1307408077004640261

‘Yes, that’s right, I did, didn’t I?’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1307396954561875969

The NEU was also rearing up in September: see The Coronapanic Debacle

Mary Bousted was quoted: https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/half-term-national-lockdown-proposed-sage-scientists

‘You’ve lost me but I still like you’: https://twitter.com/apecoin_EVENT/status/1346897984336900100  

‘Sit[ting] on their arses doing nothing’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1353276078819860480

12.

‘Rishi Sunak’s lockdown mea culpa makes me feel sick’:  https://twitter.com/danwootton/status/1562758176797179905

‘The problem, Dan’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1562771110931808256

‘Allison, why don’t people get it, by this stage??’: https://twitter.com/BareReality/status/1511636565147140102

‘Because people like Allison won’t talk about the fact’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1511691377805041674

‘Very few people were opposed to lockdown’: https://twitter.com/BareReality/status/1511695222769659907

‘No. It’s unforgiveable not to *admit*’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1511701934817923074

‘I think Allison has been one of the bravest journalists’: https://twitter.com/BareReality/status/1511703209370431488

‘I am not directing anger at anyone’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1511704528583864331

‘Ok apologies, it reads angry to me’: https://twitter.com/BareReality/status/1511717771733786641

‘It was either a communist atrocity from day 1 or it wasn’t’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1511718794280017920

‘Well, I wrote a book about it’: https://twitter.com/BareReality/status/1511728060273500160

‘You haven’t answered my question’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1511728411177365512

‘Lockdown #3 was a spin operation by the government’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1467132304472645633

‘The teachers unions are overtly political’: https://twitter.com/calvinrobinson/status/1467141062905020420  

‘Have you seen my video about lockdown #3, Calvin?’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1467141379763896321

‘But Thatcher had public support for tackling the unions’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1467151320473821185

‘I’ve spent seven years reporting on the topic’: https://twitter.com/calvinrobinson/status/1467151832552284170

‘I’m referring specifically’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1467158154756636674

‘You supported the lockdown and then you deleted all your old tweets’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1592521857349058561

‘Ben, I think you’re having a moment’: https://twitter.com/calvinrobinson/status/1592522742527557633

‘All your tweets from March/April 2020 have been deleted’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1592548149721272323

‘Nonsense with your purity test’: https://twitter.com/calvinrobinson/status/1592557927285817346

‘Everyone was afraid’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1592605311961300992

‘You show content for people who fought with you’: https://twitter.com/calvinrobinson/status/1592556671229837314

‘Thanks for confirming to everyone’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1592561717892239361

‘You didn’t fight with me’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1592561520495718400

‘berated the government for not locking down soon enough’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1539936791918264321

‘Yes. And I changed my opinion’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1540099252646469632

‘We were told that lockdowns save lives’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1543925198675656704

‘people *were* speaking up from before the lockdowns happened’: https://twitter.com/wmWillBeHeard/status/1543925530822672384

‘of which I was one’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1543925711299280896

‘By the summer of 2020, I changed my opinion’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1544062173915267076

‘The UK government should have adopted the Sweden model’: https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1544065173526396934

‘No one had any idea what we were dealing with at the time’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1543957135960293377

‘Why didn’t you listen’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1543958145927618563

‘er I did. And I was completely against lockdown.’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1543958904668921859

‘No you weren’t. I’ve seen your tweets from that time.’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1543959145971388421

‘oh get a grip. Like I said enjoy your day’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1543962961949216771

‘Once the facts of infection and vulnerability were known’: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1551947145690976258

‘the only Great Reset we need’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1388097988791255041

‘This is far too gnomic for me’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1388106135614414852

‘Hi James. I’m trying to say that the government was blackmailed’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1388107943606988811

‘So the hill you want to die on’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1388134593744842761

‘He;s lost it, hasn’t he?’: https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1426850466714030091

‘Which part of my statement do you disagree with?’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1426851758085713922

‘Sigh. You’re desperately trying to bail the boat out’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1473234865814482944

‘His research into the unions is good’:   https://twitter.com/JMCDelingpole/status/1473286018350649353

‘It’s a shame that you and every other brave hero’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1637205304109563905

‘We allowed our legislature to impose medical martial law’: https://twitter.com/PietroPalmiero1/status/1637210019606175744

‘I didn’t’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1637210632058445825

‘When the day comes’: https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1637212741659140096

I asked her if she was ‘sorry for supporting the demented communist lockdown’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1591023611401605120

‘I have never for ONE day supported lockdown’: https://twitter.com/juneslater17/status/1591071598278123520

she complained about people still using cafes: https://twitter.com/KathyConWom/status/1239621211916832768

The next day, she repeated the complaint: https://twitter.com/KathyConWom/status/1239919055525548038

she crowed that TCW had ‘led’: https://twitter.com/KathyConWom/status/1239901003408986113

summarised the ‘point’ of the article: https://twitter.com/KathyConWom/status/1240285625544323073

‘huge reduction of emissions’: https://twitter.com/KathyConWom/status/1240266818947776512

‘Did I just hear that right’: https://twitter.com/KathyConWom/status/1241056688431603717

‘thank goodness’: https://twitter.com/KathyConWom/status/1241149893332402176

‘Did I just hear that right’: https://twitter.com/KathyConWom/status/1241056688431603717

‘The fine for flouting the stay-at-home rules’: https://twitter.com/KathyConWom/status/1242365159525539841

‘We must all do our part to #SlowTheSpread!’: https://twitter.com/KathyConWom/status/1242399387260792832

‘The police have extraordinary powers now’: https://twitter.com/KathyConWom/status/1244189896299986946

‘He nearly became our Prime Minister’: https://twitter.com/KathyConWom/status/1244907650317459456

‘Hey, idiot young people’: https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1240982122837561344

She supported the grotesque mask mandates: https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1277621187305185282?lang=en-GB

‘media shills like you’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1642493985972273153

‘What on earth are you talking about, Ben?’: https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1642512575215673346

Streets and parks: https://twitter.com/PG1981Twm/status/1241762018492899330 / https://twitter.com/Iromg/status/1241810650491469825

‘the worst public health crisis ever’: https://twitter.com/Iromg/status/1241843226690179072

‘like nothing anyone has ever seen before’: https://twitter.com/Iromg/status/1242567875958910976

‘Hard to understand people ignoring the advice’: https://twitter.com/Iromg/status/1241125807407366146

‘I am scared’: https://twitter.com/sean_antrim/status/1242194401956429828 

‘Don’t be daft’: https://twitter.com/Iromg/status/1242197200450584584

‘Let’s all battle this #Covid_19 bastard’: https://twitter.com/Iromg/status/1253765782653341697

“get[ting] out of the #lockdown safely”: https://twitter.com/Iromg/status/1265035253321777152

‘I was in favour of the first lockdown’: https://twitter.com/Iromg/status/1315608254521774080

‘another speech he didn’t want to make’: https://twitter.com/Iromg/status/1346188580931182592

‘You supported the disgusting communist lockdown’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1625767263948136451

‘You’re obviously confusing me with someone else’: https://twitter.com/Iromg/status/1625767619201466368

‘a campaign to close schools’: https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1345717294350163969

‘They *tried* to reopen the schools first’: https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1279800844578369536

‘Opening pubs before schools’: https://twitter.com/Sarah_Dlish/status/1279749435405320192

‘The Great Lockdown Debate’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjTk4djCveY&t=331s

‘I am, for the first time’: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9129667/PETER-HITCHENS-time-afraid-future-freedom-country.html

‘I’ve had the Covid jab’: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9307363/PETER-HITCHENS-Ive-Covid-jab-cost-freedom.html

‘I suspect the pressure for obligatory futile muzzles’: https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1259849643229405186

‘Is shutting down Britain – with unprecedented curbs on ancient liberties – REALLY the best answer?’: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8138675/PETER-HITCHENS-shutting-Britain-REALLY-right-answer.html

‘The Road to Lockdown’: http://whistleblowerphilosopher.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-road-to-lockdown_02121758366.html

I accused Hitchens of ‘hiding’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1373588513325789185

‘as early as March 15, Hitchens was warning against panic’: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8113075/PETER-HITCHENS-Britain-infected-bad-case-madness.html

‘I did not ‘hide’ @benirvineauthor’: https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1373593160371298314

‘As usual the teaching unions want to less teaching’: [Perrins tweets are protected – not available for public viewing. I was sent a bunch of screenshots by a friend who has access to Perrins’ tweets. If you would like to see the screenshots, please feel free to contact me on benirvine@live.co.uk]

‘We’ll never recover from this lockdown fever’: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/well-never-recover-from-this-lockdown-fever/

‘there is a monstrous cruelty’: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-johnson-regime-is-an-abusive-partner-dont-let-it-break-you/

‘On January 19, Perrins wrote another article ululating about the lockdown’: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-moral-degeneracy-of-sacrificing-children-on-the-altar-of-covid/

‘In a Daily Mail article on February 9’: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9238803/LAURA-PERRINS-medics-refuse-bowed-Covid-teaching-unions-make-outrageous-demands.html

‘Liberty shackled and the future blighted’: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/liberty-shackled-and-the-future-blighted-rip-europe-312-2020-we-had-a-good-run/

‘total and absolute confinement of the entire population’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/19/shock-italy-475-people-die-coronavirus-day-death-toll-approaches/

‘On March 30, 2020, the NUJ published its ‘Informed’ newsletter’: https://www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj-informed-march-2020.html

‘adverts promoting schools closures’: https://twitter.com/cyclingkev/status/1347237897439752195

‘major new national advertising campaign’: https://twitter.com/NEUnion/status/1323603678809497600

an expenditure of more than £69 million: https://twitter.com/KateCox59582715/status/1564230346031464451

‘The BMA is working with social media influencers’: https://www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opinion/doctors-launch-campaign-to-promote-vaccine-to-ethnic-minorities

Michael P. Senger’s book Snake Oil: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Snake-Oil-Jinping-Shut-World/dp/1957083786

‘The Russia Report’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_and_Security_Committee_Russia_report

Rebekah Koffler’s excellent book Putin’s Playbook: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Putins-Playbook-Russias-Secret-America/dp/1684510031

‘the NEU’s president Daniel Kebede issued a statement that caused an outcry’: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11951759/Teaching-union-leader-criticised-Nato-Ukraine-war-says-Britain-brutally-racist.html

‘the government had spent at least £828.9 million (nearly £1 billion!) on advertising’: https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-government-spends-1bn-advertising-campaigns-1785241

‘The government paid social media influencers to promote the NHS Test and Trace service’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53968222

‘The Conversation’ provided some more context’: https://theconversation.com/why-the-uk-government-is-paying-social-media-influencers-to-post-about-coronavirus-145478

‘NHS bosses plan to enlist celebrities and “influencers”’: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/29/nhs-enlist-sensible-celebrities-coronavirus-vaccine-take-up

the army’s ‘77th Brigade’ was helping the government to ‘counter disinformation’: https://www.buzzfeed.com/joeydurso/coronavirus-british-army-information-warfare-77-brigade

the website Buzzfeed quoted a ‘government spokesman’: https://www.buzzfeed.com/joeydurso/coronavirus-british-army-information-warfare-77-brigade

a 2018 Wired report into the issue: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/inside-the-77th-brigade-britains-information-warfare-military

‘embargos were part of the government’s armoury’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/07/messages-reveal-how-britain-plunged-lockdown/

13.

‘The covidinquiryUK must find out why’: https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1673427136282066944

‘There was never a plan to shut down civil function’: https://twitter.com/BareReality/status/1355442450937032705

the Daily Sceptic website published my essay ‘The Road to Lockdown’: https://dailysceptic.org/2022/01/02/the-road-to-lockdown-how-unions-drove-covid-policy/

‘EXPOSE: The Role of the Unions in the Covid Panic’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK9GCLcYsYY

Astin-Gregory interviewed Liz Cole from Usforthem: https://www.facebook.com/danjgregory/videos/10159208204892402

‘Our question is – what has changed since he made that announcement?’ See above (23.43)

‘Listen to your Mind. Body. Soul.’ https://twitter.com/danastingregory/status/537359479986069504

‘Potential is inert. You can expand your potential all you want’: https://twitter.com/danastingregory/status/1192729565015236609

‘Did the unions lock us down’: https://www.facebook.com/events/474417664179028

‘You did cover up the NEU’s Marxist attack on children’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1676210205619638272 

‘Are you off your chump, @BenIrvineAuthor?’: https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1676331729005453312

‘Tripe, marinated in blige’: https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1676569415184154624

‘Why don’t you answer the question?’: https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1676230524132573184    

‘It’s the first I have heard of this event’: https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1676573897796321282

‘He is always pissed’: https://twitter.com/findmenowBillyG/status/1676335988925136898

Tragic, then. But I wish he’d go away’: https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1676574010056777729

15.

In June 2022, an early draft was rejected: https://www.infowars.com/posts/who-forced-to-back-down-on-pandemic-treaty-after-numerous-nations-reject/

The US Department of Health and Human Services has issued a statement: https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-world-health-organization-pandemic-treaty-212446302001

16.

‘and is well documented too’: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/22/generation-x-heavy-drinkers-will-anything-persuade-us-to-stop