- “Boris Johnson will be forced to decide on child Covid vaccinations” – The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation is set to provide Boris with options about vaccinating children, forcing him to take a political decision, the Telegraph reports
- “Glasgow to stay in toughest lockdown level as Covid cases rise” – With cases rising in Glasgow and Clyde, the Guardian says that First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has decided it would be unwise to move the city down from ‘Tier 3’ to ‘Tier 2’ this weekend
- “U.K. intelligence helping U.S. investigate Wuhan lab leak theory” – British intelligence officials are co-operating with the new American investigation into the origins of SARS-CoV-2 ordered by Joe Biden, according to the Telegraph
- “COVID-19 lab-leak theory puts Wuhan research in spotlight” – The FT looks in to ‘gain-of-function’ research, the controversial experiments which lie behind the lab leak hypothesis
- “Ex-Herefordshire firefighter took his life after struggling to get doctor’s appointment” – Bryan Jenkins took his own life back in January at the age of 59. He had been “desperate” for a face-to-face appointment with a doctor, his sister said, but “all he got was telephone responses and a pharmacist that changed his medication”
- “Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre cancelled for second year” – According to the BBC, the Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre, which usually attracts about 130,000 visitors, has been cancelled for the second year in a row
- “One-parent rule for boy’s cancer treatment cruel” – Nineteen-month old Carson Josephson has leukaemia and needs regular treatment at a children’s’ hospital in Cardiff but, the BBC reports, due to the Welsh Government’s Covid rules, only one parent can go in with him at a time. His father has called the rules “cruel”
- “UK scientist feels vindicated as focus turns to Wuhan lab” – Professor Angus Dalgleish who was shunned for claiming that the coronavirus was manufactured and leaked from the Wuhan lab has welcomed President Biden’s demand for an inquiry, the Times reports
- “The Wuhan lab leak was always a credible theory – so why did scientists dismiss it?” – “In silencing all mention of the theory at first, professors have shown just how political they can be,” says Ross Clark in the Telegraph
- “The manufacturing of fear” – Laura Dodsworth gives Spiked an account of the significant role the media played in making sure that the British “were one of the most frightened populations in the world”
- “Our vaccine rebuttal competition – Honourable mentions, Part 1” – The first instalment of entries to the Conservative Woman’s competition for the best answer to that inevitable question: “Have you had your jab yet?”
- “Cummings – portrait of a weak-minded fanatic” – “Cummings’s presentation of the lockdown argument was no more sophisticated than anyone else’s,” says Daniel Miller at the Conservative Woman. “It depended on systematic evasion and falsified predictions delivered in hysterical language”
- “Sketch Notes on A Pandemic – Lucy Thorne” – The Sunday Express‘s Lucy Johnston talks to Lucy Thorne, who wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister describing the struggles young people have faced during lockdown
- “£17K Fine, ASBO & Arrest for Lady at Christian Bookshop & Tea Room” – Alex Belfield from the Voice of Reason interviews Chris, the owner of the The Mustard Seed Christian Bookshop & Tea Room in Nottingham, who was arrested and fined by the police over lockdown rules and is now fighting back
- “Thoughts on ‘A State of Fear’” – Rev Phill Sacre shares his thoughts on Laura Dodsworth’s bestseller and recommends that everyone should read it
- “No-one likes a grass, Cummings” – Watch comedian Andrew Lawrence’s take on the evidence Dominic Cummings gave to MPs this week
- “Pfizer’s Covid jab is first in EU to be approved for 12-15 year olds” – The European Medicines Agency has now approved the Pfizer jab for use by 12-15 year-olds, Euronews says, after deciding that the benefits outweigh the risks
- “It doesn’t seem like Covid’s here at all” – Thousands of Chelsea and Manchester City fans are delighted to be in Porto for the football, but some locals are concerned about the Covid risk, Sky News reports
- “Israeli breakthrough Covid treatment gets approval for advanced trial” – The Jerusalem Post hails the development of a new drug called EXO-CD24 which has shown a positive effect in treating COVID-19 and is heading for double blind placebo trials
- “These Florida concert tickets are $18 if you’re vaccinated, $1,000 if you’re not” – ABC reports on a new instance of vaccine bribery, this time at a concert in Tampa where there is a massive discount on offer to those who have been jabbed
- “Fauci failed to alert White House about gain-of-function research ban being lifted, claimed the risk outweighed potential pandemic” – The Post Millennial with more detail on why Dr Fauci is up to his neck in it
- “The Twilight Zone, Hogan’s Heroes, and the Emotional Support Mask” – “It’s time to ditch the emotional support mask and those who advocate its use,” write Lockdown Sceptics‘ contributors Donald Siegel and Robert M. Sauer for the AIER
- “Remarks by Spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in the US on the Origin Tracing of COVID-19” – “Smear campaign and blame shifting are making a comeback,” the Chinese embassy spokesperson said, but “out of a sense of responsibility towards the health of mankind, we support a comprehensive study of all early cases of COVID-19 found worldwide and a thorough investigation into some secretive bases and biological laboratories all over the world”
- “Overrun with kids attempting suicide’: Children’s Colorado declares state of emergency” – Beckers’ Hospital Review reports that a state of emergency has been declared at Children Hospital, Colorado. The CEO Jena Hausman explaining that the inpatient units are “overrun with kids attempting suicide and suffering from other forms of major mental health illness”
- “Qantas Dangles Free Trips for People Who’ve Been Vaccinated” – Seeking to spark some renewed interest in air travel, Quantas is considering dishing out free loyalty points to frequent fliers who have been vaccinated, Bloomberg reports
- “These are immoral restrictions derived from a refusal to consider any aspect of this crisis other than Covid” – The former Supreme Court Justice tells Julia Hartley-Brewer that there may be a “moral justification to break the law” if the lockdown does not end in June
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Blar Blar Blar! Self important tw*ts!
It is not made clear why carbon neutrality is the concern of a group dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion
That’s absolutely clear: Just Like COVID-19 and systemic racism, it’s part of the same pseudo-revolutionary scam by the same (kind of) people. They have some set of policies they want to see implemented (like favoritism towards groups they want associate with), some set of fortunately silent (or even yet unborn) pitiful victims on whose behalf they claim to be speaking (like the poor and oppressed or our childrend and grandchildren) and some ill-defined problem with supposedly apocalyptic consequences which urgently needs to be addressed.
The only sensible way to deal with this is to reject it. The purposes of politics is to improve the present and not, to solve problems of future generations before they even manifest themselves. Future generations will have to look after themselves once the time has come for that, they’re going to face problems we don’t have an idea of yet and will address them with means which haven’t been invented so far. People who are permanently stuck in the middle of the 20th century ought to consider relegating themselves to museums instead of claiming their ever more distant past would really be the future.
If you go back to 1923 it would be impossible to predict what 2023 would look like. —–The Internet. Aeroplanes, Cars, Lighting, Gas central heating, Massive rise in life expectancy, Freedom from preventable diseases, Appliances to bring an end to back breaking labour etc etc etc etc. Trying to pretend you want to decarbonise for the benefit of future generations that will be 3 times wealthier than we are is mealy mouthed eco posturing that tries not to admit what climate change policies are really about, and they are mostly not about the climate. The amount of politicians who bleat about their “children and grandchildren” is vomit inducing. Especially as these same pretend to save the planet people are doing their best to remove the very fuels they will need to have the standard of living their grandfathers and grandmothers currently have. because you cannot power industrial society on wind, sun, hydrogen or tidal. Constant brainwashing today has a whole generation of young people who are clamouring for their own impoverishment and infact they glue themselves to the road and “demand” it.
“Trying to pretend you want to decarbonise for the benefit of future generations that will be 3 times wealthier than we are is mealy mouthed eco posturing…”
On current trajectories and unless we stop the Davos Deviants one thing I can absolutely guarantee is that future generations WILL NOT be three times wealthier than we are, three times poorer most probably.
What is having a “disproportionately harmful effect on the poor and the oppressed” is denying them fossil fuels. One billion people in the third world have no electricity. ——–Just take a moment to contemplate that. ————NO ELECTRICTY.— This is a diabolical disgrace. The EU (climate activists supreme) at one point spent vast sums on the idea that they could cover the Sahara in Solar Panels and import that electricity back into Europe. What a total smack in the face for the worlds poorest. The phony planet savers would deny these poor people access to fossil fuels that would bring them out of the abject misery of a stoneage existence, and then steal their sunshine and cable it all back to the wealthy EU.
And denying them food by closing down productive farms in western countries.
And trying to reduce CO2 (plant food) levels to reduce crop yields, even though this is not possible.
Talking of heights of absurdity, yet possibly sound business sense and an eye for money…
By co-incidence, an advert appeared today in my inbox for Boom Technology, which is seeking share capital and other funding to re-introduce supersonic flight. The brochure ingeniously leverages the customer desire for all things Green, by explaining how really expensive the pre-Green fuel bill was for supersonic flight, yet somehow fudges the issue of how Green fuel is even more expensive than aviation kerosene. Presumably the target customer base is rich Green virtue-signallers who will be persuaded that they are Saving The Planet by flying supersonic, “because it’s Green, innit?” Presumably government employees will also be encouraged to fly the green flag by going supersonic whenever possible, especially if they are Important People.
Assuming this is not mere pamphletware and prospectus fluff, I wonder where the money will actually come from? Will it be from early investors and government funding rather than customers, rather like domestic solar panels and windfarm owners? Who will keep it financially aloft when the Green Mania wears off, like the Railway Mania faded in the late 1840s ?
… which reminds me. Railway Mania was partly the invention of new technology but also partly the result of collusion between MPs and venture capitalists that caused all manner of Acts of Parliament to be passed to support building railways, some brilliantly conceived, some hopelessly economically, some unfortunate gambles, and some outright fraud on investors. Surely MPs these days don’t stoop to taking bribes, or aren’t just gullible dupes, to support massive financial scams perpetrated on small investors and the general public….???
But didn’t I read somewhere that internet servers worldwide use about 10% of all generated electricity, so putting stuff on-line only contributes to the need for that power and despite what claims are made, not all of it is “green”. Please correct me if I’m wrong.