- “Vaccines ‘highly effective’ against the Indian coronavirus variant” – Public Health England has “changed its tone”, the Telegraph says, and now hail real world data showing double doses of the jabs to be “nearly as effective against the emerging Indian strain as they were against the Kent variant”
- “Millions ‘unwittingly tracked’ by phone after vaccination to see if movements changed” – Phone data of people who’d been vaccinated were tracked in February without their owners’ express knowledge, the Telegraph has learned, for SPI-B research into people’s behaviour post vaccination
- “Sewage testing ramped up in England” – The BBC reports that the Government has accelerated its programme analysing wastewater for signs of the coronavirus, with sewage testing now taking place in over two thirds of the country
- “Dangerous Dominic Cummings just wants to be proved right” – Dominic Cummings is to give evidence to MPs about the Government’s handling of coronavirus, and “the ultimate data geek will deploy everything to win the argument” says Tim Shipman in the Sunday Times
- “No 10 ‘tried to block’ data on spread of new Covid variant in English schools” – According to the Observer, Downing Street leaned on Public Health England not to publish data relating to the spread of the Indian variant in schools ahead of its decision to drop masks from classrooms
- “M&S profit seen crashing 90% in ‘lost year’ of pandemic” – Marks & Spencer is set to report a pre-tax profit before one-off items of £43 million for its year to April 3rd, according to Reuters, down from £403 million in 2019-20
- “Why do we still tell people to isolate – even after two jabs?” – Pat Fagan in the Mail On Sunday asks why people who have had both jabs are still being asked to isolate by the Test and Trace system when evidence suggests that they are unlikely to pass the virus on
- “America has chosen to be free. Why hasn’t Britain?” – “America is on the move,” says Douglas Carswell in the Telegraph. “Flights are full. Bars and restaurants are flourishing.” Meanwhile, “Britain dithers about whether to fully re-open on June 21st”
- “Vaccines: truth, lies, and controversy” – Sebastian Rushworth reviews and recommends a book by Peter Gotzsche which slaughters the sacred cows of both the pro- and anti-vaccine camps
- “Of Chainsaws and Moralism: What Does the Covid Moment Tell us About the Contemporary Left?” – Covid was a challenge for “the politics of resistance, struggle and change,” and one which “the left has failed disastrously”, says Keith Johnson at LeftLockdownSceptics
- “The pandemic has revolutionised public data and there’s no turning back” – In an article published on the ONS website, Professor Sir Ian Diamond celebrates the “gains of the pandemic” in the recording and use of public data and points to its potential to provide “much faster answers to all of the big questions about our economy and society”
- “Waggle your eyebrows, lockdown lovers!” – A story of a conversation with a masked-up lockdown enthusiast by Mavis Despond on the Conservative Woman
- “It’s up to us to resist the insanity of the new normal” – An insightful dialogue between Daniel Miller and the American playwright C.J. Hopkins on the present moment in history and the forthcoming ‘new normal’
- “No Deaths, No Pubs and No Standards” – The team at Bournbrook look back at the week gone by, taking in the hysteria over the Indian variant and the death of the British pub, for the 20th episode of The Week in Review
- “James and Laura’s Chinwag #21” – For the 21st time, James Delingpole and Laura Perrins give it both barrels on the subjects of lockdown and Boris Johnson’s premiership
- “Coronavirus: One death as daily figure falls to double digits again” – The Cyprus Mail reports that one person in the country was reported to have died from Coronavirus yesterday, a 95 year-old being treated at Nicosia General Hospital
- “Saskatoon police aim to crack down on pandemic-restriction protests by outing attendees” – CBC reports that police in Saskatoon shared 41 photographs of people who attended the May 9th ‘freedom rally’ and asked the public to help identify them
- “Their lives haven’t changed since getting vaccinated. This is their new normal” – CNN interviews fully vaccinated members of the public who intend to keep their masks on. “I think it’s crazy that they are loosening these restrictions so wildly,” says Kimberly. “I don’t see myself giving up the mask in public for a long while”
- “Frontline doctors file motion to stop FDA authorisation of Covid vaccines for children” – America’s Frontline Doctors have filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama “to prevent the expansion of the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) for COVID-19 vaccines to include children under the age of 16”, LifeSite News reports
- “Some Chicago Restaurants To Create ‘Vaccinated Only’ Sections Allowed Under New City COVID-19 Guidance” – Chicago restaurant owners are hoping to ease concerns people may have about dining out by creating areas reserved for vaccinated people only, according to CBS
- “California Governor Newsom Ordered to Pay $1.35M in Legal Fees for Shutting Down Churches” – CBN news reports that a court in California has approved a case brought by church groups against Gavin Newsom, introducing the first state-wide injunction in the U.S. against Covid restrictions on churches and places of worship
- “Florida and DeSantis Defy COVID-19 and the Critics” – “As the country tries to recover from the pandemic… Florida is way ahead of just about every other state in the U.S.,” says Joe Nocera in Bloomberg. “The reason, of course, is that in Florida, the pandemic is being treated as ancient history”
- “We cannot let the WHO re-write the pandemic history” – “The organisation’s about-turn on lockdowns has not gone unnoticed,” says Toby Green in UnHerd
- “Science has become a cartel” – Writing in UnHerd, Matthew Crawford examines why the medical establishment initially dismissed the ‘lab-leak’ theory
- “Vaccine Coercion – Professor. Risch and Dr. McCullough Speak Out” – An episode of the Ingraham Angle covering the U.S. vaccination campaign’s entry into “creepy coercion territory” with Professor Harvey Risch and Dr. Peter McCullough
- “How To Create An Epidemic” – “Is an epidemic always a true epidemic?”, asks Dr Sam Bailey in her latest video. “Or perhaps, is the anatomy of the alleged epidemic something completely different from what is being widely portrayed?”
- “Lockdown has taken away freedoms & liberties from the public” – The next broadcast from UnlockedTV is an interview with Peter Hitchens
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This is good news. The vast majority of the population are utterly sick and fed up with the alphabet menacers so this announcement should lose votes for the Liebour party.
Trebles all round.
I think they’ll still win, sadly.
Quite so. The reason being that most people are bored by politics in the first place; they draw conclusions from headlines and the headlines are written by the left. The comforting illusion that Labour’s extremism will prevent it from gaining power, therefore, is to be avoided.
It is little use, I know, advocating a Tory vote on the pragmatic grounds that wind is preferable to dysentery, but those grounds – notwithstanding all the objections which might plausibly be mustered – remain the only hope of mitigating disaster. Note that I say “mitigating” – I offer no pretence that the current Tory party offers anything more than a stay of execution. But that is all we can hope for; and what is the proposed alternative?
Wherever I find people advocating abstention or “Reform” or even direct vengeance upon the Tory party by means of a Labour vote, I discern two illusions.
First, that with massive Labour incompetence will come sufficient unrest to usher in a truly right of centre party in five years’ time. This is to underestimate the control of society which Labour plans to take; to underestimate the demographic transformation to which we are already being subjected and the sheer age of the right wing population. Let Labour in now and it’s curtains. Sternly confronted with this argument, the purists and the vengeance takers often reveal their despair, by confessing that they no longer care, they just want to kick something.
The second illusion of the purists is that even supposing a properly right wing government is ever elected again, it will have to spend years and years undoing – to the extent that it can – the damage inflicted by an all powerful left. And this is to say nothing of the conclusions which many will draw from a Labour victory, which – of course – will be that the public actually wants, desires and wishes for hard left policy.
Yes, there is a lack of hope in this message but it differs from vengeful despair. Because by holding off the very worst of disaster, it will remain possible to gather an anti-left coalition within and outside the Tory party which might then produce a sustainable form of resistance. That, I respectfully suggest, is the way – the only way which remains to us – to avert a final slide towards the total eclipse of freedom. Now, to all those who oppose this message, rather than simply downvoting it, or offering abuse, or lazily pouring scorn on our easily condemned Tory party, why not confront the argumentative heart of this case? I would be genuinely interested to read a reasoned objection.
“wind is preferable to dysentery”
God made it more sociable.
In a crowded lift even the deaf can enloy it.
So at the next election, vote wind.
In order to begin any recovery of power from the elites and accountability by them, in order to get a proper conservative, patriotic party, we first need to break the Conservative Party. If they were to regain power they would deliver five more years of the same: poor economic management, unaffordable vanity infrastructure, high taxes and decline.
If Labour rule with LibDem support it will be even more left wing and woke than on iots own.
There is no choice – we are going to have to suffer and it is all the Tories fault.
“There is no choice – we are going to have to suffer and it is all the Tories fault.”.
Yes – absolutely agree. The Conservative Party has shafted all of us since Mrs Thatcher was pushed out of the party. Unfortunately, I’ve no confidence that current Tories will offer a light touch, low tax alternative to the uniparty shit show we have now.
We can swap the cover on the phone all we want, it will offer the same functionality until it breaks.
Identify as whatever you like. Just don’t expect me to accept as true your belief that a peach is actually a cucumber, or vice versa.
And certainly don’t expect me to design my life (or that of my children, for that matter) around your crackpot beliefs.
Can’t help but think of the short, but oft screened interplay on GB News between Lee Anderson and Michelle Dewberry. She’d joked about self identifying as a cat, so playing along, Anderson tried feeding her from an unmarked tin with a spoon. Dewb’s response was “I’m not eating that, it’s bloody cat-food. Have you gone mental?”
Will labour also criminalise maths teachers who teach their pupils that 2 + 2 is 4?
Misinformation must be criminalised.
My kids in a progressive school were taught how to choose an accountant.
“Now children, when you are starting up your net-zero carbon and gender neutral green LGBTQI+++ not-for profit enterprise you will need an accountant.
To decide who to appoint, make a shortlist and ask this question ‘what is two plus two?’
Then choose the one who says ‘what figure have you got in mind?’“
To my mind, this is the ultimate demonstration of what it is to be on the Left (with some honourable exceptions): Anneliese Dodds believes that it’s her role to interfere in the most harmful way imaginable in the lives of private individuals. And not just any old individuals: she means to criminalise people who are concerned that children should be allowed to grow up before being influenced, in the most intimate and private area of their lives, by political ideologues. Anneliese Dodds and the army of meddlesome, nannying, intrusive, delusional authoritarians she represents, are the quintessence of Woke. I believe they are the greatest evil faced by mankind. An adult man feels better wearing women’s clothes? Fine by me. And adult woman wants to wear men’s clothes? Fine by me. A confused pre-pubescent child should be encouraged to undergo grotesque chemical and surgical interventions? This is not fine by me.
Blimey – deja vu
“If only we had a democracy here too and had some say.
We give all the power to a handful of political activists – Con or Lab – who have never done anything useful but jabber about ideology to get elected and get power.
The worst possible outcome of our next big election is a landslide for any party.”
This “rising tide of hate” I keep hearing about, other than people getting pissed off that trans women keep winning sporting events, is there actually any evidence for this? Do people really think it’s worse to be gay or trans in 2023 than it was, say, 50 years ago??
They just redefine hate until they get what they want.
Fascinating, and illuminating, stat turned up during the recent coverage of the autistic girl arrested for saying the short haired female police office looked like her lesbian nana.
Turns out that nearly 50% of reported ‘hate incidents’ are being reported by police officers regards comments made to them.
My word … how pathetic they are … and it reminds us to keep in mind lies, damned lies and statistics etc.
I heard Analise Dodds on the radio the other day – I was just embarrassed at her use of English. Everything was about “solidarity”. If I hear that word again from a politician (or journalist) I swear, I will burst a blood vessel.