It has long been my contention that, well before Wuhan, there was a pandemic occurring that in the end will be more lethal than the Communist Chinese one. A pandemic of infantilism. Arrested development. The retention of childish physical, mental or emotional qualities in adult life.

I have tried to draw attention to the fact that nowhere is the pandemic more manifest than in speech. All over the English-speaking world, speech has been supplanted by a plague of shrieks, squawks, grunts and quacks set to cadences and inflections that we would once have considered retarded in a 10-year-old. Now, contamination by this plague is a prerequisite for female newsreaders and female rugby presenters of the kind who almost ruined the coverage of the England-All Blacks match last Saturday.

Thank goodness the actual commentary was still in the hands of Grant Nisbet, a surviving adult. I shudder to think what will happen when he and Tony Johnson depart, and Woke Sky unleashes its fry-quackers on the commentary proper. Sky has gone not so much to the dogs as to the ducks.

And, while I'm Sky-bashing, shame on you Sky for not broadcasting Wimbledon! What sort of sportscaster ignores Wimbledon?! Imagine not covering Wimbledon forty years ago when Chris Lewis played his way to a final against John McEnroe. It may have taken that long to have another New Zealander covering herself in glory, but that's beside the point. Wimbledon is the premier tennis event in the world. Whether Kiwis are in it or not, it should be covered, and any sportscaster worthy of the name WOULD cover it. For shame, Sky, for shame. I call bullshit.

BULLSHIT AWARD

But I digress. Infantilism. How it permeates everything, including what passes for speech. I am going to play you a clip now from Sky News Australia in the immediate aftermath of the second round of voting in the French parliamentary elections, which saw a hastily cobbled-together coalition of Marxists and Muslims triumph unexpectedly over a surging National Rally.

Two things I'd point out. The Islamo-Marxists were rioting because they had won. The week before that they were rioting because they had lost. Life, for these children, is just one long temper tantrum. Infantile. But the other thing I'd draw your attention to is the speech patterns of the presenter. The self-same nasal, upward inflecting quacking-followed-by-frying that has become universal in the pandemic of infantilism. The Australian lass is by no means the worst example. American podcaster Lisa Boothe, whom I would agree with if I could bear to listen to her, just about wins the fry-quacking gold medal.

Of course, when you add infantile rhetoric to infantilised speech, as on the Left, the noise is far worse. This gargoyle is President of America's National Union of Teachers.

That's the President of the National Education Association? That is an educator?????

Only during a pandemic of infantilism.

During such a pandemic, one would expect another symptom to be the abandonment of decorum in favour of the likes of Islamo-Marxist thuggery. In the British election last Friday, the hallowed tradition of the reading of final vote tallies in the presence of all candidates and supporters was repeatedly soiled by From the River to the Sea infantiles.

These infantiles took the shine off Labour's so-called landslide (where only 20% of eligible voters voted Labour). Muslims in five solid Labour seats withdrew their support from Labour and voted for pro-HAMASS independents, enabling them to win. Anti-Semite Jeremy Corbyn was one of them. Thankfully George Galloway lost his recently-won seat back to Labour. Pro-freedom Reform Party performed spectacularly to come in third overall, but with a mere five seats, thanks to the vagaries of First Past the Post. The beautifully-spoken Nigel had to deal with some infantiles during his victory speech.

To Nigel Farage and The Five Musketeers: the Freedom Award.

FREEDOM AWARD

The Muslim ruse of withdrawing support from Labour if it doesn't toe the line on HAMASS is being threatened against the Albanese government in Australia, where an infantile fry-quacking Senator, a child, a refugee from the Taliban who now seems to support the Taliban, has walked away from Labour and is making noises about forming a Muslim Party. Making noises being the operative expression.

Now watch out for this “Political Literacy” project: it's an Orwellian misnomer, an Islamo-Marxist project to kill free speech, just as the newly-created positions of Envoy against Anti-Semitism and Envoy against Islamophobia are.

If a similar ruse to Senator Fatima Payman's were to be tried here, of course, there's already a pro-HAMASS party in our Parliament, the Shoplifters' Party. But, the Shoplifters' Party seems constantly to have distractions: Brace yourselves for a phalanx of fry-quackers.

Children, elected by children. The Pandemic of Infantilism.

In a world which accepts quacking and croaking as speech, in which infantilism is all-pervasive, you can be sure there'll be all sorts of things going wrong.

Including a corrupt, senile American President who sells out his country, with a cackling airhead waiting in the wings. Including a British Prime Minister who sells out his country.

The Davos Diabolists just love infantilism. Infantiles are pushovers for their diabolical schemes. Adults love their countries.

Jerusalem and God save the Queen – Last night of the Proms 2012