The Monster Under the Bed Is Real. But Most of Us Would Still Rather Bury Our Head Under the Pillow...

You are woken in the middle of the night by a mysterious noise. What are the first thoughts that go through your head?

  Mine - and I expect it’s the same with you - are: “Oh, God. Groan. Do I really have to go and investigate? Can’t I just lie here in my nice comfy bed and listen long enough to reassure myself that everything’s OK before I roll over and go back to sleep?”

  So that, by and large, is what most of us do. We lie there, ears pricked, listening for the sounds we most want to hear: ideally, a prolonged silence; or, failing that, a noise that confirms that there’s nothing to worry about. Perhaps it will be a strangled yowl: ‘Phew! Just bloody cats, fighting.” Or a bloodcurdling scream: ‘Phew! Foxes.’ Or the clatter of dustbins: ‘Phew! Cats or foxes and I really don’t care which…”

Something similar to this phenomenon can currently be observed in Awake and, more especially, Semi-Awake circles right now. People who were formerly on high alert for all manner of clear and present threats, from government-mandated killshots to 15 minute cities to Central Bank Digital Currencies, have suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and told themselves it was all just a bad dream. Turns out, there is no conspiracy by a sinister predator class to kill us or turn us into digital serfs of a Neo-Babylonian slave system. No, it was all just a cock up, by a punchable clown named Matt Hancock.

  Though I’ve already written one piece expressing my scepticism about the ‘Lockdown Files’ alleged ‘leak’, I think it’s worth revisiting the subject in light of the most recent London Calling episode with my good friend Toby Young.

  In the course of the podcast Tobes and I bickered, as we invariably do, about the ‘cock up v conspiracy’ issue. No surprise that we disagreed, violently, on the significance of Hancock’s WhatsApp texts. What did surprise me, though, were one or two of Tobes’s other comments on the subject of vaccine efficacy, vaccine safety and the very nature of the ‘pandemic’ itself. Where before Tobes had been edging towards a position almost as militantly sceptical as my own, now he was sounding more like a government spokesman. Yes, he did believe the pandemic was real. Yes, he did think the ‘vaccines’ were necessary for ‘at-risk’ groups. No, he wasn’t convinced that vaccine injuries were as widespread as I believed them to be. ‘What on earth has got into him?’ I wondered.

  Well, one possible explanation is the piece he wrote for the Spectator shortly after the Hancock story broke titled “Hancock’s Lockdown Files Show There Was No Covid ‘Plandemic’’. Having praised Isabel Oakeshott and the Daily Telegraph for their heroic public service, he concluded: ‘I’m also thankful for another reason, namely, the ongoing debate I’ve been having with James Delingpole and others about whether the pandemic and the response to it, including the development and roll out of the mRNA vaccines, were all part of a sinister plot to enrich a cabal of billionaires and enable them and their political allies, such as Klaus Schwab, to railroad through their globalist agenda. I’ve always maintained that it wasn’t; that it was cock-up not conspiracy and these WhatsApp messages confirm that analysis. There was no ‘plandemic’. It was just the usual political clown show.’

  I don’t find the logic particularly compelling here. The fact that ministers such as Hancock have been proved in leaked messages to be venal, arrogant, incompetent, blustering, bullying, dim-witted, philandering, cocky and clownish in no way disproves the existence of a higher-level conspiracy way above their pay-grade. For Tobes to assert that it does seems more like wishful thinking than anything based on reasoned argument.

  But maybe that’s the point. The mindset that went into the creation of that article is not unlike the mindset of the sleeper woken up in the middle of the night. What that person wants, more than anything, is an excuse not to have to think the unthinkable thought that they are on the verge of being murdered in their bed. They want that reassuring silence - or, failing that, all those reassuring fox/cat noises. Or, their nearest equivalent in the Covid saga, a bunch of phone messages ‘proving’ that it was just some almighty, semi-comical cock-up - and therefore nothing to lose any sleep over.

  Tobes is by no means unusual in his response to the ‘Lockdown Files’ revelations. I notice that far too many Awake stalwarts who really should know better - Laurence Fox, for example - have been treating this silly distraction as if it were some kind of game-changer. Even more hard-bitten, red-pilled cynics can be found on social media saying things like “Oh come on! It’s a start. At least, it’s going to make one or two of the Normies out there ask a few more pertinent questions…’

  One commentator, Dominique Samuels, has berated on Twitter those of us cynical nay-sayers who have poured scorn on the Hancock story. “I’m getting SO sick of the constant negativity from people whenever there’s a bit of good news.” But this is a Straw Man. The reason for our objection to the ‘Lockdown Files’ story is not that we’re a bunch of miseryguts with an ideological aversion to taking wins. It’s because we recognise that whatever it is that’s on offer here, it most definitely isn’t a win for our cause.

  My personal view - and it’s the one I take because the facts support it - is that the case for all this being a conspiracy is stronger than ever. If you still need convincing, a good place to start would be the Substack by Igor Chudov titled “‘Creepy Conspiratorial Globalists’ Were Behind Covid Lockdowns, UK Pandemic Files Show.” It’s persuasive because, in unhysterical language, it sets out the evidence clearly demonstrating that the ‘pandemic’ was planned in advance, with nefarious intentions, by an unholy cabal of vested interests including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organisation and the World Economic Forum.

   “The plan was quite simple: Lock down every state (and country); develop the COVID vaccine; only after the vaccine is given can people get back to work,” writes Chudov. Then he shows all the receipts which prove his point so unequivocally as to raise the question: how could any intelligent, curious, open-minded person read this stuff and still persist in claiming that it wasn’t all planned and co-ordinated.

  This is where my bump-in-the-night analogy falls short. After all, it’s one thing to roll over and go back to sleep once you’ve listened for a while and ascertained that all is well. But it’s quite another thing to do so when you’ve been presented with so much compelling evidence that things are amiss. To maintain it’s all just cock up at this late stage in the day is like waking bolt upright, hearing your downstairs window shatter, then hearing some creaky footsteps on your staircase, then watching a masked figure entering your bedroom brandishing a crowbar, and muttering to yourself: ‘Best just roll over and pretend it’s not happening. The sooner I’m asleep, the sooner it will all go away…’