- “Moment girl, two, sobs and begs to use the toilet after five shops and cafés refused to let her use their bathrooms” – Adults in five shops and cafes in Sheffield refused toddler the use of the bathrooms due to Covid safety rules, MailOnline reports
- “Horrified Edinburgh mum smacked on head while she pushed pram as men shouted ‘Covid’ at her” – An Asian-looking mother was assaulted by a group of teenagers, Edinburghlive reports
- “I will fight in court to get pubs open again, writes Punch Taverns founder Hugh Osmond” – The entrepreneur writes in the Daily Mail to explain why he and Sacha Lord are taking the Government to court
- “Public should be ‘really worried’ about new crackdown on right to protest, ex-police chief says” – The ex police chief appeared on Times Radio to accuse the Government of putting rights “fundamental to our democracy” at risk, reports the Independent. Includes a clip
- “Covid-Status Certification Review – Call for evidence” – Michael Gove has announced a review into vaccine passports. Let him know what you think of them by clicking on the link
- “Andrew Bailey’s note of Covid caution” – Kate Andrews provides some analysis on the prospect of inflation in the Spectator, following the Bank of England Governor’s forecast that economic output will be back to its pre-Covid level by the end of the year
- “Britain enjoying greatest ever surge in economic optimism amid COVID-19 vaccine rollout, poll shows” – The Evening Standard reports on an opinion poll which suggests that economic optimism is recovering magnificently
- “Do Some Workers And Business Owners Secretly Prefer Lockdown Misery?” – John Tammy speculates in Forbes that some businesses are not unhappy about the loss of economic freedom in lockdown, as it means there is no pressure to compete in order to survive
- “Conspiracy Theories” – Conspiracy theories abound when official explanations are weak, says Alistair Cavendish. For example, lockdowns
- “The madness of Zero Covid” – Christine Padgham points out for ThinkScotland that “as long as we test, we will always find Covid”
- “The psychology of crowd control – and why the UK may see violence escalate before lockdown ends” – Things could easily tip over into serious rioting, writes Dominic Bliss in the National Geographic
- “This Government has no right to demand answers from the Met Police” – It’s not the police at fault, Ross Clark points out in the Telegraph. It’s the lockdown laws
- “Peter Hitchens: Police have become overbearing, shouty militia” – Hitchens welcomes the fact that people are finally questioning lockdown rules in the wake of the break up of Sarah Everard’s vigil on Clapham Common
- “Italian prosecutor seizes batch of AstraZeneca Covid-19 jabs ‘as a precaution,’ launches manslaughter investigation after death” – RT reports that a prosecutor in Biella has opened a manslaughter investigation following a post-inoculation death
- “The EMA COVID-19 data leak, and what it tells us about mRNA instability” – Leaked documents showed that some early batches of the Pfizer vaccine “had lower than expected levels of intact mRNA”, reports Serena Tinari for the BMJ, “prompting wider questions”
- “Chaos in EU over AstraZeneca Covid vaccine concerns” – The Telegraph reports on the growing list of countries suspending the AstraZeneca Jab, to the bafflement of British scientists
- “Vaccine death or coincidence?” – Kate Dunlop looks at the difficulties in distinguishing a causal effect from a coincidence for the Conservative Woman
- “Europe’s vaccine suspensions could come back to bite Britain” – Writing in the Spectator, Dr Mark Toshner fears the impact of the vaccine rollout slowing down in Europe
- “Fact check: does the AstraZeneca jab cause more blood clots?” – Steerpike at the Spectator applies some scepticism to the concerns causing European countries to suspend rollout of the vaccine
- “Is Europe’s AstraZeneca jab decision-making flawed?” – Nick Triggle asks why so many European countries have suspended the roll out of the AstraZeneca vaccine for the BBC. They’re using the precautionary principle, he writes, “which can sometimes do more harm than good”
- “Portugal and Mauritius removed from England’s ‘travel ban’ red list” – Portugal and Mauritius are coming off the red list, Sky News reports, and Ethiopia, Oman, Somalia and Qatar are going on
- “The gradual return of good sense” – Outside of a few states, America is practically back to normal, says Jeffrey A. Tucker of AIER
- “The one-year anniversary of lockdowns” – Edward Peter Stringham marks the anniversary of lockdowns with a piece for AIER noting that even some lockdown supporters have stopped arguing that they work
- “Non-Covid death epidemic of the future” – The cost of lockdown will be accounted for, says Parvez Dara at AIER, in a “rash of deaths that could have been prevented in the recent past and more so in the coming future, from not screening, [and] not diagnosing”
- “Free States vs Lockdown States: Freedom prevailed, while Communism failed” – Jordan Schachtel analyses the unemployment data from the US Bureau of Labour Statistics. No prizes for guessing which state has the lowest unemployment… South Dakota
- “Virus tolls similar despite governors’ contrasting actions” – AP News puzzles over the mystery of why Florida and California have an almost identical number of Covid deaths per million in spite of their different approaches to managing the pandemic
- “The World Health Organisation’s appeasement of China has made another pandemic more likely” – Writing in the Telegraph, Matt Ridley lambasts the WHO’s failure to properly investigate the origin of SARS-CoV-2
- “This house criminalised the freedom of protest” – Charles Walker MP asks the Home Secretary if she agrees that now is the time to decriminalise freedom of protest
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I don’t know how Chris keeps going in the face of the msm lie machine and the dishonest scientists on the other side. Well done though I do notice climate scepticism becoming more mainstream especially on the right.
Scepticism in science is essential. Otherwise it isn’t science, it is activism.
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
Richard P. Feynman
“It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period.”
Richard P. Feynman
An incredibly smart man, he knew that he didn’t know. This is how scientists should think.
$cientists on the other hand…
nod———-Or “Ah yes, science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture from such a trifling investment of fact”——Mark Twain.
Scepticism = science; consensus = religion.
One of the main controllers of climate is El Nino and El Nina events. But data regarding these huge weather changing oscillations only goes back to 1989. ——It is worth pointing out to people who have already decided what is true about climate that there is actually nothing unusual about current temperatures or climate. To those people who are always saying things like “Climate Change is real and is happening now” what are you talking about? These kind of statements are about as scientific as a monkey with a test tube.
I’d say that climate change is normal; the climate is not normally stable at all. The real scam is manipulating the language, and perhaps the lack of understanding, so as to promote a campaign.
Remember when you say that “climate change is normal”, that the term “climate change” has come to mean changes allegedly caused by humans. It does not mean changes that occur naturally.
And Malenkevich cycles. The wobbles and orbits of the earth are not stable and affect hownclose we are to the sun.
And sunspot activity. Climate change and global warming are lies by green communists
I still worry about the polar bears.
“When Al Gore was born there were about 5,000 polar bears, today only 25,000 remain.”
Someone forgot to tell them bears they are supposed to be in deep sh.t
“The arctic will be ice free by 2015”
– John Kerry 2009
A true visionary.
It must be catastrophic. There are no penguins left in the Arctic and the polar bears obviously can’t cope with the lack of ice in Antarctica.
I was about to politely correct you and then saw what you did there, faffor
…and the fish population of Mt Everest has been utterly devastated.
I don’t see anything soaring. What I see is an incredibly stable pattern which confirms to me the absolutely staggering and amazing predictability of our weather.
The seasons come and go almost like clockwork. Temperatures move within the narrowest of bands.
How something so vast and complex works so elegantly is really a thing of beauty. Much like the human body or any living organism.
Which is what makes the idea that you can just control the weather by fiddling with CO2 so comical and preposterous.
Thanks beautifully expressed post.
Played for Fools
Great article, as ever. It seems to me that the western world are being played for a bunch of fools on climate change;
China has announced its new climate envoy;
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202401/1305432.shtml
Whilst at the same time China continues to burn coal as if butter would not melt in their mouths!
”There are a total of 3,092 operating coal-fired power plant units in China. As of January 2023, the province of Shandong, which lies to the south of Beijing, houses the greatest number of coal power plants, at over 400 units.3 Jan 2024”
As I say, it seems to me that we are being played for a bunch of fools, while China, Russia etc. plan the demise of the western world.
We are being played for fools? ——-But the western world is complaint with this. To understand why, you need to realise what the politics are all about. Then to realise that the Sustainable Development Politics isn’t really about the climate. The climate is simply the excuse given to the public for the politics.
Western world is compliant. Exactly. Fat, lazy and stupid we have become.
Lucky you realised I meant compliant rather than complaint.
Club of Rome 1972.
China and Russia don’t have to play us for fools we are doing OK just destroying ourselves.
nod——–Then you have to figure out why. Once you do, it will explain why there really isn’t a climate crisis and why a crisis is essential for putting political agenda’s in place and government never want to let a good crisis go to waste.
Excellent article as always, Chris. I wish there was some mechanism within the DS software to give articles ‘likes’ (as on FB) or…stars? (As on Off Guardian.)
There used to be, but what works better for ranking is activity, i.e. comments BTL.
Seconded
There was a large increase but November was rather low so it doesn’t take the level to anything extraordinary. As you can see from this chart, if you look at the whole of 2023 ice extents followed the the 2010-20 average pretty closely.
Tony Heller you are emphatically not; is there no end to the Diversity of your Expertise?
Yeah I saw this story on the BBC