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News Round Up

by Jonathan Barr
14 April 2021 3:08 AM

  • “Why is Boris talking down Britain’s vaccine success again?” – Kate Andrews responds in the Spectator to Boris Johnson’s comments yesterday, giving lockdown the credit for Britain’s drop in Covid infections
  • “Boris Johnson needs a lesson in communication” – “There was once a time when medical and scientific communication was undertaken in a measured, restrained way, with statements caveated accordingly,” writes Amy Jones (the pseudonym of an NHS doctor) in UnHerd, but “this seems to have been discarded in the age of Covid”
  • “‘Prophet of doom’ experts warn easing lockdown restrictions may delay route to freedom” – Another day, and MailOnline reports another warning about the waves of infection that are heading towards us as restrictions are eased
  • “4.6m people missed out on hospital treatment in England in 2020” – The Guardian reports on the huge numbers of people who missed out on NHS treatment last year, many of whom have turned to crowdfunding to finance private medical care
  • “I can’t celebrate this token return of freedom” – “The photographs plastered over the newspapers do not depict carefree trips to the pub,” says Ross Clark in the Telegraph. “They are highly-controlled episodes of state-sanctioned fun, with serious conditions attached”
  • “Older drinkers risk discrimination says charity, after pub refuses to serve man without smartphone” – Older folk who don’t use smartphones are being denied service at some pubs and restaurants who have made ordering via an app mandatory, the Telegraph reports
  • “Only two in five pubs in England reopen” – Less than half of England’s pubs were able to reopen on Monday, according to the BBC, and none is expecting to turn much of a profit from trading outdoors only
  • “Why do I need to shield if I’ve had the vaccine?” – The question asked by an 82 year-old Scottish Grandmother who, according to MailOnline, was fined £60 for attending a seven-person 70th birthday party. Every person there was fully vaccinated
  • “Police apologise for halting church service on Good Friday” – Police officers visited Christ the King Polish Church in Balham, London on Sunday to apologise for halting a Good Friday service, Christian Today reports
  • “Frederick Forsyth, why have you let us down?” – Frederick Forsyth has been sound on all everything to do with Covid from the beginning, writes Gary Oliver in the Conservative Woman, so it was “surprising and disappointing” to see him go wobbly on vaccine passports
  • “How they’re ‘nudging’ us into tyranny” – “We the public are being played, or ‘nudged’, into this tyranny” by specialists who use confusing and misleading terminology, says Mark Pickles in the Conservative Woman
  • “Sickening Lies” – “The fact that Johnson has said something is always a good start in identifying that it must be a lie,” says Alistair Cavendish “but these latest comments about lockdown must be denounced as widely as possible for the poisonous rubbish they are”
  • “British veterans need to speak up about lockdowns” – “After a year of the civil liberties and ideals that I and my peers joined the British Army to protect being crushed, it’s time for British veterans to speak out,” writes James Jeffrey in the American Conservative
  • “Lockdown legacy facing future generations” – In the latest episode of the Pandemic Podcast, Dan Astin Gregory speaks to Dr Rob Verkerk of the Alliance for Natural Health about the potential long term impact of the year of fear
  • “AstraZeneca: Irish health body recommends vaccine restriction” – The Irish health regulator has said the AstraZeneca vaccine should only be given to people over the age of 60, the BBC reports
  • “Masks for children, Muzzles for COVID-19 news” – YouTube censorship of Ron De Santis’s COVID-19 roundtable discussion “violates basic standards of scientific conduct” and “runs contrary to American norms of free expression”, writes Professor Jay Bhattacharya in the Wall Street Journal
  • “The free world died of COVID-19” – “The Covid era has exposed that these values that supposedly united the West are nothing more than a facade,” says Jordan Schachtel in AIER
  • “On vaccine passports and the interpretation of reality” – Donald J. Boudreaux writes for AIER on how he and his friends and acquaintances are interpreting the Covid world very differently. “Where other people see a dream, I see a nightmare”
  • “Johnson & Johnson vaccinations halt across country after rare clotting cases emerge” – The New York Times reports that the Johnson & Johnson Jab is ‘paused’ after six recipients went on to develop blood clots, one of which proved fatal
  • “Australia won’t buy Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose Covid vaccine due to AstraZeneca similarities” – The Australian Government will not be buying the Johnson & Johnson jab, the Guardian reports. A spokesman explained that it “is an adenovirus vaccine, the same type of vaccine as the AstraZeneca vaccine”
  • “International borders might not open even if whole country is vaccinated” – Australia’s health minister Greg Hunt has refused to guarantee that the country’s borders will reopen, even if the whole island is vaccinated, as they still have to look at “transmission, longevity [of vaccine protection] and the global impact”, the Sydney Morning Herald reports
  • “The Covid dissidents taking on China” – Ian Birrell in UnHerd heralds the work of ‘Drastic’, an “informal guerrilla group of internet sleuths, scientists and data experts” in unmasking Beijing’s science stooges
  • “Is Boris preparing us for lockdown four?” – The Prime Minister’s defence of lockdown makes Dr Clare Craig “really nervous about what’s coming next”

Diagnostic pathologist Dr Claire Craig is worried that Boris Johnson is preparing us for Lockdown 4: "It makes me really nervous about what's coming next".@mrmarkdolan pic.twitter.com/acvDSvsXCZ

— TalkTV (@TalkTV) April 13, 2021
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Jonathan M
Jonathan M
6 months ago

I was going to say “unbelievable!” – but unfortunately it’s only too believable.

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DickieA
DickieA
6 months ago
Reply to  Jonathan M

My reaction was far harsher and very sweary. The bowdlerised version is: “You’ve got to be chuffing joking, all they’re doing is extracting the urine”.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
6 months ago

Has anyone else clocked that Keir tweeted yesterday that he intends to make Britain grow by making it an investment hub for the world, citing as an example … Black Rock.

So now we can see farmers are intended to be taxed off the land, which is then sold to Black Rock at high prices (putting the remainder of farmers out of business) for housing, wind-farms or Big Food production.

Such corporations are, as we all know, leaders of innovation in enterprise almost as much as Collective Farms were. And so the country will grow, at least for the 0.1%.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
6 months ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

Yes I saw that. The visit from Fink, the visit just before the budget was announced from Gates…and we know where Starmer’s allegiances lie anyways as he told us ages ago. The writing’s on the wall. He’s a duplicitous shyster, with no other intention then screwing over the British public in order to ingratiate himself to his overlords.

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RTSC
RTSC
6 months ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

It’s the WEF plan.

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Myra
Myra
6 months ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

Is there any legal way to call elections now?

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Gezza England
Gezza England
6 months ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

And in response to Two Tier Free Gear Never Here call for growth it has now slumped to 0.1% with an expectation that in the last quarter the economy will shrink as the private sector responses to the Thieves tax theft and cost increases. With business sentiment in retreat since the election, reinforced by the budget, contraction of the economy in the first quarter of 2025 will deliver a recession. The May elections look more interesting by the week.

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JXB
JXB
6 months ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

Apparently Black Rock via proxies is buying up large tracts of farming land in Ukraine since hostilities kicked off.

I wonder if Ukraine being reduced to rubble requiring inward investors to rebuild gives Black Rock an opportunity, heroically, to lead the investment surge and acquire more land, and that prolonging the conflict is good for business… as it were? Or am I being cynical?

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FerdIII
FerdIII
6 months ago

Unbelievable.
Endless, massive, stupid, incompetent, incoherent, corrupt, grafting, grifting, money laundering government.
The lust for ever more state control ends up in such lunacy.

  • Crush your own farmers, destroy your own food security through uber-taxation, so you can money launder through solar farms and bird manglers…
  • …but hand out the same value to foreign farmers in which undoubtedly, more money laundering is going on.

I am sure the Fake News media is all over this……

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Smudger
Smudger
6 months ago
Reply to  FerdIII

The Tories would not have gone down the IHT route to corporatise farming but they almost certainly would have knelt to the approaches of Blackrock in other ways.

Last edited 6 months ago by Smudger
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Cotfordtags
Cotfordtags
6 months ago

I think Robert Jenrick needs to stfu and crawl back under a suitable rock. Look at the article, at least one of these appalling wastes of our money goes back to 2012. The Tories are mired in exactly the same filth as the current socialist scumbags. This is globalists trying to destroy our country and he was just as big a suck up to them as Cameron, May and Sunak

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
6 months ago

British Farmers Crushed Foreign Farmers Helped 

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Jeff Chambers
Jeff Chambers
6 months ago

This is yet more evidence that we don’t have a government of and for our people – we have a government of and for the globalists, on the one hand, and the anti-white madleft, on the other.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
6 months ago
Reply to  Jeff Chambers

What they are doing is more or less what you’d do if your aim was to destroy this country – its culture, economy and people.

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Heretic
Heretic
6 months ago
Reply to  Jeff Chambers

Yes, this is what “Stealth Genocide” looks like, and Ethnic Europeans are the target.

Why? Because White People are the only things standing in the way of the Globalist Enslavement of the Rest of Humanity.

If only the Rest of Humanity, now some 93% of all humans on the planet, would wake up and stop helping the Globalists exterminate us, the 7%.

Last edited 6 months ago by Heretic
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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
6 months ago

It is a good method to find parity between certain amounts of money in order to understand what is really going on. For example in 2020 the average person lost or is in the process of losing about forty percent of what they have and the elite and enriched themselves to precisely the same amount. And that is on top of the enormous debt that we were all saddled with in 2008. Very difficult situation that cannot be resolved without the help of very disruptive circumstances.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
6 months ago

Sir Steel Knarmer is playing a blinder , the freak thinks his Tri Lateral WEF Overlords will reserve a seat at their top table for him once he completes his given mission of reducing the UK to a mere emptied out shell ! Muppet !!!

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Smudger
Smudger
6 months ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

Yes, Bunter is still waiting for his top table job for doing the globalists bidding. How on earth is the poor fellow going to pay for the upkeep of a ten bedroomed Cotswold Manor House ( where did that money come from) private school fees, luxury holidays, pony lessons etc from writing a column in the Daily Fail?

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Myra
Myra
6 months ago

My goodness this I triggering me! It is such n unjust tax and then to hear our tax money is used to fund foreign farming.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7uBYCJlmtZ0
One report from the farmers’ protest.

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Heretic
Heretic
6 months ago

I thought Rupert Lowe’s comments were spot on:

Reform UK lashes out at Labour’s ‘disgusting’ £500m foreign farmers’ stash – ‘A spit in the face!’

“Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has lashed out at Labour’s “disgusting” £536million foreign aid stash for overseas farmers.

The Great Yarmouth MP, who has a farming background, reacted with fury after it was revealed Labour was splashing cash on farmers in Africa, Asia and South America.”

Lowe said: “Just when I think my disgust with this Government has peaked – £536 million being sent to foreign farmers, their assault on British farmers might raise £520million.”

“I could not care less about Brazilian and Rwanda farmers. Not our problem. A spit in the face for British farmers.”

He added: “Not a penny of British taxpayer money should be given to foreign farmers. It is not our problem.”

Lowe later confirmed he had penned a letter to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office “requesting that the minister takes steps to ensure foreign farmers do not receive a penny of British taxpayer money”.”

Last edited 6 months ago by Heretic
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JXB
JXB
6 months ago

Somebody is going to get a PhD by making a study of Labour and how adept it is at making enemies of nearly every sector of society, by almost comical unenforced errors, own goals and shooting itself in the foot.

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