- “Tablet that treats Covid could be available to take at home by autumn” – The Government has launched an ‘antivirals taskforce’, which is aiming to develop medicinal tablets which can be taken at home to treat Covid, the Telegraph reports
- “British Town Crier Championships to be held in silence due to Covid” – Criers will be judged on the basis of a 140 word written submission, the Guardian reports. Welcome to the new normal
- “Disabled Hertfordshire woman ‘pushed and shoved’ as outdoor seating areas reopen after lockdown” – The Hertfordshire Mercury reports the experience of Maureen Goodall, who says the increased street furniture has made it “very difficult” for her to move around safely
- “Activists threaten legal action over the Government’s ‘false imprisonment’ of care home residents” – John’s Campaign is preparing to challenge the Government over the guidance that care home residents who leave the home must isolate for 14 days upon their return, the Daily Mail reports
- “Letter to an MP from a daughter” – Published by John’s Campaign, this letter describes what continued isolation is doing to the author’s mother
- “Can we stop this lockdown inhumanity and get our lives back?” – “This used to be a country of profound good sense,” writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph. “Many of us would quite like it back”
- “Boris is barred from my pub too” – Spiked interviews Rod Humphris, the Bath landlord who kicked Sir Kier Starmer out of his pub
- “Keir Starmer has betrayed a chilling truth about lockdown” – Sir Keir’s response to Rod Humphris – that a majority are in favour of the lockdowns – reveals something troubling, writes Jonathan Sumption in the Telegraph: “When democracy becomes a mechanism for mass coercion by governments, with the approval of the opposition, it is surely heading towards its end”
- “Let’s all raise a glass to Rod, the landlord who spoke for millions” – Dan Wootton salutes our ‘Sceptic of the Week’ in MailOnline
- “Britain must be open for all” – “We must all resoundingly declare that we shall not, under any circumstances, demand Covid passports or certificates as a condition for entry, anywhere,” writes Alan D. Miller, co-founder of Open For All in Spiked
- “Church leaders: vaccine passports would be un-Christian” – Watch UnHerd‘s Freddie Sayers interview the Rev Dr. William Philip and the Rev Dr. Jamie Franklin about their open letter to the Prime Minister about vaccine passports
- “France is first EU member state to start testing digital Covid travel certificate” – The TousAntiCovid app, part of the country’s contact tracing programme, has been upgraded to store COVID-19 test results, according to the Guardian, making France the first country in Europe to begin testing a digital Covid status certificate
- “A very German way of handling the COVID-19 pandemic” – “Germany – ostensibly a nation of efficient, reliable and punctual people – is succumbing to chaos,” writes Jens Thurau in Deutsche Welle
- “Ministry stops mentioning underlying health condition of fatalities” – According to the Cyprus Mail, the country’s health ministry is no longer informing the public as to whether those who died from Covid were suffering from underlying health conditions
- “UK’s Gove in Israel to learn about post-COVID policy” – The Jerusalem Post reports on Gove’s visit to Israel, where he “plans to discuss the possibility of opening a travel corridor between the UK and Israel for vaccinated travellers” and to learn what he can about the country’s “lifting of limitations for those with the ‘Green Passport'”
- “An American Epidemic of ‘Covid Mania’” – There is a clear lesson to be drawn from COVID-19 which transcends ideological differences, say Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo in the Wall Street Journal: “Don’t put one illness above all other problems in society”
- “Lockdowns and the natural order” – “Lockdown policies has shown us once again the dangers of overestimating the capabilities of state power and disregarding the importance of naturally occurring institutions in society,” writes Ethan Yang for the AIER
- “Republicans open schools, Democrats still keeping them closed” – Matt Welch points out in Reason that there is a partisan split on what is allegedly a science-based decision, with schools more likely to be open in states with Republican governors
- “Save the country from lockdown, use as last resort, PM Narenda Modi tells states” – The Prime Minister of India is appealing to states to consider micro containment zones rather than lockdowns, the Times of India reports
- “The Pushback | The Day the World Stood Together” – A documentary from Oracle films about the protests which took place around the world on March 20th, 2021
- “Inspiring: Celebrities Spell Out ‘We’re All In This Together’ With Their Yachts” – The Babylon Bee expresses its deep admiration for the pro-lockdown celebrities who have led by example
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‘Town Crier Championship to be held in Silence’.
Servile surrender to the new puritanism, might as well write an essay about how you would win a game of football.
5 seconds of thought = Each Town Crier takes it in turn to do his/her thing from the town hall clocktower to the Socially Distanced crowd of the great and the good down below. Simples.
I thought that one had to be just taking the piss.
… but then I woke up, and remembered the last year of the piss being constantly taken.
‘Letter to an MP from a daughter’.
Clearly the author and her mum deserve our sympathies and let’s hope they go out walking again soon.
Going off topic, the letter says that her mum recieved a second vaccination ‘several weeks ago’.
“Despite all best efforts Covid did enter the home in January taking mums best friend .”
She does not link the two.
These care homes sound just like prisons. Better to take your elderly relatives out of them and bring them home to live with you, so they can have quality lives before they die.
‘Kier Starmer has betrayed a chilling truth about lockdown.’ Jonathan Sumption.
I saw Starmer being interviewed by the BBC after his fracas with the Bath hero publican and noted that he accused Rod Humphris of denying the Pandemic which he had not.
I was sure that I could remember Starmer further accusing him of ‘*spreading misinformation*’ about the well known negative effects of lockdown but could not subsequently find the clip, perhaps removed, so did not mention it yesterday.
I am grateful to Lord Sumption for confirming my memory.
I’m afraid Sumption betrays one or two fixed misapprehensions.
“Why has Sir Keir failed to live up to his initial promise?”
What initial promise? The recent leadership election was the first in which I couldn’t see a candidate worthy of any vote.
And then :
“No sensible person disputes that there is a pandemic or that it is serious.”
Sorry – but facts are facts. It is only a ‘pandemic’ because the WHO eliminated the part of the definition that related to unusually high mortality. In terms of ‘seriousness’, judged by mortality, this is at a lower level than a third of ‘flu seasons. And this in a country that has a relatively high rate!
Yes, and below the line I also pointed out to him that all of this evil is not just murderous and wilful ignorance – there is clearly a plan (Agenda 30 etc)…and he needs to re-analyse. Lord Sumption’s use of ‘limited/trimmed argument’ reminds me a bit of someone else…..
Kev’s response was basically ” He’s entitled to have an opinion, but I profoundly disagree with his opinion. So much so, that I got Big Vern to rough him up a bit”
The last year we’ve seen politician, after politician being caught in what would normally be career ending episodes and yet, not a single one has been kicked out.
Dan Wooton in the Màil also comes down in favour of the Hero of Bath, noting how he was bullied on Good Morning Britain the following day (worth watching btw).
Dan also says
“I believe what the government is putting us through to socialise is inhumane.
On Friday night I booked to see five friends in one of those outdoor dining pods. But it was rendered completely useless because the sides had to be left open to the buffeting winds thanks to another stupid state sanction.
I deeply resent having to sit outside in the freezing cold to see a loved one”.
Good. Now you know how smokers felt after the indoor ban with Council wonks worrying publicans about what constituted a ‘covered smoking area’ or what they considered to be an ‘enclosed’ one.
Not off topic because it’s all part of the same divide and control strategy.
Not at all like being a smoker, however (I was one). Smoking genuinely affected other people other people (as I came to realize).
My point was about forcing smokers not only to go outside, fair enough, but getting petty and vindictive about how little shelter they were allowed from the elements. Non smokers were not involved.
Probably just a limited trial run to gauge reaction for the big one.
There is a designated smoking area at my small regional airport. It consists of a bus stop shelter from which the perspex walls forming the sides have been thoughtfully removed.
If not the shelter is considered an ‘enclosed working space’ since someone has to clean it once in a while.
Hahahah….loved the pic of celebrity yachts spelling out shite. Who are they appealing to…. aliens or satellites?!
It’s a satire site.
By ‘they’ I was referring to the celebrities with their yachts….message seen from above!
I keep reading reports of
many people not wearing masks in supermarkets and putting staff in danger on e-news reports.
My wife and myself go shopping in our local Sainsburys at least once a week since mask wearing became mandatory and I have seen no more than 6 people (exempt) not wearing them in all that time.
So where are all these people who go to supermarkets that don’t wear masks?
Perhaps I live in a parallel universe?
I see a far higher proportion of unmasked staff with Exempt lanyards than customers and good for them.
Risk to their health from extended wearing is much greater, as we all know.
Agreed.
Our younger son is one of them.
Tim Spector in the ZOE app disparaging Vit D. He is however focussing on it’s ability to stop people catching Covid rather that it’s proven ability to enhance the immune system, which is designed to fight infection not stop it.
Although the App has done some good I believe Spector is a ‘tame critic’. He makes it look as if he’s standing up to ‘The Science’ but when it matters he’s totally ‘on message’.
That’s my impression, too.
Never trust any app especially if its collecting medical data.
Inspiring: Celebrities Spell Out ‘We’re All In This Together’ With Their Yachts.
Photoshop on steroids. I reckon that only six different yachts are used.
“UK Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove arrived in Israel Monday night on a fact-finding mission to see how the country is opening up from COVID-19 restrictions.
He and Jonathan Van-Tam, one of England’s deputy chief medical officers, met with Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi Tuesday morning.”
Be afraid. Be very afraid – wherever the state of Israel pops up its head.
The links between Israel and the black arts of the government, Cabinet Office, ‘security’ services and international affairs in general well known and documented, usually manifesting itself in the interference of what, for shorthand is called the ‘Israel Lobby’.
Never good news for democracy and liberty.
Just one word; Rothschild.
May 6th and a habitual Tory voter?
Then do this quick test:
1. Type Conservative into your search engine
2. If you are or ever have been a Party Member, please apply some critical thinking
3. Ding, dong the conservative party is dead, long live the WEF Great Reset party!
4. Cut up your membership card and join the resistance
Just a thought; if more than 6 people meet up/if you don’t wear a face nappy/ if you don’t eat all your meals outside/ if you don’t use a gallon of hand sanitizer each and every day then “You have blood on your hands and everybody is going to die”.
Thousands of unmasked football fans gather to protest, etc and ( unless I’ve missed something) there has not been a squeak from the government, heath experts and most of all the MSM.
It has occurred to me that the ‘spreading misinformation’ comments made by that idiot Starmer may have opened a door. They were made outside of the protected bubble of Parliament hence they are subject to the laws of slander/libel. If challenged in court he would have to prove his statements were true. At the very least this would provide a public airing of the arguments on both sides, something that the Government and MSM have suppressed up to now.
I for one would chip in to a Crowdfund for this. Maybe the FSU might take a look?
To be frank, you couldn’t build a viable court case on that issue – and trying to do so would cost a fortune. It’s not slander or libel.
That’s debatable. It’s an accusation of lying from a public figure. A statement that simply isn’t true and is intended to damage the reputation of the target.
Also known as oral or spoken defamation, slander is the legal term for the act of harming a person’s reputation by telling one or more other people something that is untrue and damaging about that person. Slander can be the basis for a lawsuit and is considered a civil wrong