The fog of the COVID era is lifting, and what remains is stark. Only after the storm does the damage reveal itself in full. I look back not just on what happened, but how it happened, how an entire population was brought to heel, how critical thought was sidelined, and how something so obviously destructive was sold as public health.
Above all, I see how pernicious the role of the mainstream media was. They didn’t merely echo the government line, they shaped it, sanctified it and sold it. Without their complicity, none of it could have taken hold.
The BBC, Sky, ITV, and Channel 4 weren’t passive observers. They were willing players in a choreographed deception, a closed loop of narrative control, where dissent was excluded and fear was amplified. They sang from the same hymn sheet and made sure we did too.
What struck me most wasn’t just the silence, but the spineless conformity of some of its most celebrated voices. Take Emily Maitlis, James O’Brien, and Andrew Neil as a sample few, jo…