Facts and fiction

Last week was a topsy turvy week for me. I was at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, admiring the way Chelsea Pensioner Victor Lucas dealt with a 24 kilogram Montgomery Cheddar by wielding a sabre to cut it on Wednesday. It is a delightful event every year and it hearkens back to previous times before the internet, when getting one’s cheese and ale (plus cake, but that’s Thursday’s event at the hospital) was the priority.

I sat there and looked at the wooden panels inscribed with the very many conflicts that the UK has been involved in, and had a great conversation with the Ulster Farmers Union representative about their memorial on the Somme. My annual asking for the War of 1812 flag taken from the US to be given back was again laughed off as well.

Then, went back to the office and my colleagues were asking me about the dairy additive Bovaer and dumping of milk here in the UK. I said, it has been regulated for use in many countries for years, and helps cows to emit less methane, which is a good thing. There is no impact on consumers or the cows. Further, poor Bill Gates has nothing to do with all this. I think that’s almost a big clue – when something is alleged to be true, and they use either George Soros or Bill Gates as some kind of behind the scenes manipulator, then that story is false.

I find it worrying when even people I consider to be fellow travellers start spouting conspiracy theories, which is what I heard when the US election was over. People telling me it was a Republican conspiracy. I said, the very fact that you’re discussing a free and fair election in the US this way means the conspiracy theorists have done their job there. My other friend, who is an election day vote counter, was very offended and for good reason. One has to accept the results of elections, even if they don’t go your way. Democracy is not easy, but it must be upheld.

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