- “U.K. sees more than 20 cases of the ‘Nepal variant’, officials reveal” – Public Health England are urgently investigating a new spike mutation called K417N, the Telegraph says, with more than 20 cases identified in the U.K. so far
- “R rate back above one across U.K. with daily cases highest since March” – The virus is advancing in all but three parts of the country, according to the Telegraph, with 5,274 new positive cases reported yesterday and the R rate calculated to have crept above one
- “Nicola Sturgeon accused of hiding behind ‘Scottish exceptionalism’ over pandemic mistakes” – The Telegraph reports that the Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has attacked the First Minister, saying that SNP mistakes were “often more fatal” than those in England
- “COVID-19: Health staff in plea for better protection” – A number of healthcare organisations are calling for stricter guidelines on face masks and other PPE, the BBC reports. They are saying that the current rules leave them vulnerable to infection through the air, especially by new Covid variants
- “Plymouth mum-of-three dies with blood clots after AstraZeneca jab” – The Plymouth Herald reports that Tanya Smith suffered multiple blood clots after taking the AstraZeneca jab and died in Derriford Hospital, aged 43
- “There will never be Covid figures to keep the boffins happy” – If the end of lockdown gets “pushed back by a few weeks” says Rod Liddle in the Sun “it will get pushed back again”
- “Child vaccination – implications for fully informed consent” – The HART team consider the issue of consent raised in promoting and administering vaccines in schools. Part of their latest news bulletin
- “Don’t be fooled: Keeping restrictions in place beyond June 21st comes with a hefty price tag” – “It is unsurprising”, says Graham Brady in the Telegraph, that siren voices warn it is too soon to open, but “thankfully, Boris Johnson’s instinct is to move back to a world where people make their own choices”
- “Letter to the future” – Year 11 student April’s letter to her future self about the madness of the year gone by on the Quaranteens blog
- “Anarchy in the history lesson” – On the Lockdown Satire blog, Andy Lambeth imagines a history lesson in the year 2121 where students will learn how we saved the NHS
- The Covid blame game could destroy trust in science” – “Vaccinations are a triumph of science and expertise,” writes Dr. Norman Lewis in Spiked, but “contrast this with the unseemly scramble of politicians and scientists to rewrite their roles in the Covid crisis to avoid being held responsible for any errors”
- “COVID-19 – the spike protein and blood clotting” – Dr Malcolm Kendrick explains the difficulties in disentangling cause and effect in respect of COVID-19 and the spike protein, vaccines and blood clotting and considers the implications
- “All of us in lockdown are equal, but some are more equal than others” – “Attempts to celebrate the middle-class silver-linings of lockdown prove the grotesque abomination it has been for many people still has not been acknowledged” says Jamie Walden in Bournbrook magazine
- “Why discard the pandemic plan in favour of a senseless lockdown?” – A letter by Emma McArthur in the Conservative Woman sent to parliamentary lockdown sceptics asking precisely why it was that the U.K. Government abandoned its pandemic plan
- “Covid came from a Chinese lab? No s**t, Sherlock!” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Frederick Edward lambasts the journalists who, suffering from a severe case of ‘orange man bad’ syndrome, took nearly a year and a half to consider the lab-leak hypothesis
- “The pandemic may end but will Covid-fascism ever go away?” – Roger Watson thought he had “encountered all the Covid-inspired nonsense there was” he says in the Unity News Network, but then he embarked on the process of moving house
- “SAGE and the prophets of doom” – “None of the predictions made by Warwick, by Cambridge, by Imperial or by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine actually got it right,” says the Rev Phill Sacre in his latest video. “You might just as well ask Mystic Meg what the numbers are going to be”
- “Will the third wave disrupt the end of lockdown restrictions?” – Dan Astin Gregory has a rant about the hysteria brewing over the third wave on the latest episode of the Pandemic podcast
- “Danish ISP temporarily blocked access to BitChute over ‘coronavirus misinformation‘” – According to Reclaim the Net, authorities in Denmark have blocked access to the video sharing platform BitChute on the grounds that it contains misleading information about COVID-19
- “Lockdown ‘had no effect’ on coronavirus pandemic in Germany” – New research carried out at Munich University has found Germany’s infection rate was already falling before lockdown was imposed, the Telegraph reports
- “Covid mismanagement: German Government under fire” – Health Minister Jens Spahn has announced he wants to take tighter control of testing centres to counter reported embezzlement, Deutsche Welle reports
- “Thousands of Britons in Portugal face weekend scramble to beat amber list restrictions” – The homeward dash from Portugal has begun, the Telegraph reports
- “Ford government to allow ‘brief hugs’ for old folks at care homes” – Doug Ford’s Government in Ontario, Canada has announce some small roll-backs from the lockdown rules, the Post Millennial says, such as allowing “brief hugs” in long-term care homes, whether or not the resident and the visitor have been vaccinated
- “The Lab Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins” – An investigative feature by Katherine Eban in Vanity Fair, finding that conflicts of interest within the U.S Government, including the funding for virology research, hampered the initial U.S. investigations into the origins of COVID-19
- “Six Bombshell Revelations from Fauci’s Emails” – Spencer Brown highlights the juiciest revelations from Dr. Fauci’s recently published emails for Townhall
- “Liberating Yourself from Faucism” – “The issue isn’t Fauci’s failings,” says Barry Brownstein at AIER, “the problem is Faucism, the fantastical belief that wise and beneficent experts should rule”
- “How Ron DeSantis saved America from Covid tyranny” – Much of the western world is stuck in “perpetual Covid hysteria” says Jordan Schachtel, but America is not and it is the Governor of Florida who the country has to thank for its narrow escape
- “Ivermectin obliterates 97% of Delhi cases” – Hospitals in Delhi began using ivermectin on April 20th and it has “obliterated their Covid crisis”, Dr Justus R. Hope says in the Desert Review
- “Recession and violence among Covid side effects in Africa, report finds” – The 2021 Ibrahim Forum Report has found that “the global economic shutdown has driven Africa into recession for the first time in 30 years, with severe repercussions for unemployment, poverty, inequalities and food insecurity”, according to Reuters
- “Olympics 100%’ on – Tokyo 2020 president” – The Tokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto is “100%” certain the Olympics will go ahead, the BBC reports, but she has warned that they “must be prepared” to proceed without spectators
- “Victoria Covid cases on Friday after Brighton and Metricon home cases declared false positives” – Victoria has recorded another low day of COVID-19 cases after two cases that sparked “stranger-to-stranger” transmission fears were reclassified as false positives, 7News reports
- “Gain-of-Function Godfather” – Sharri Markson and Chris Kenny discuss the fallout from the Fauci emails on Sky News Australia
- “The WHO is a lost cause” – Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, was the guest on the latest episode of the Telegraph‘s Planet Normal podcast and he had some stern words for the World Health Organisation who, he said, had been “manipulated by China”. Listen in full here
"The WHO is a lost cause"
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) June 3, 2021
In an explosive interview on the latest #PlanetNormal podcast, former head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove tells @AllisonPearson and @LiamHalligan why the body has been "manipulated" by China over Covidhttps://t.co/EBw3EnT09x pic.twitter.com/795902wfHn
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The trans zealot brown shirts are bullying us again!
I have never read a word of Harry Potter or anything else that JK Rowling has ever written, but I have huge admiration for her..
The time may be coming when those of us who understand biological reality may need be to stand with HER!
It is time everyone realised that if it is to be a crime to misgender anyone then it would be a crime to deny the genders of 99.9% of the population.
What does this mean?
It means not calling a boy a “boy” or not calling a girl a “girl” could become a criminal offence like this:
So what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Time to wake up and smell the coffee.
Lock ’em all up and throw away the key.
And if one calls a trans woman a ‘woman’ as that is misgendering all women should indirect misgendering be a crime too?
Just as the law recognised direct and indirect discrimination then it surely will have to recognise direct and indirect misgendering for not just trans people but also for everyone else.
I can’t see a billionaire going to prison. Those less well known or wealthy – not so lucky.
Her “Solve et coagula” tattoo is quite fitting for the times we live in. Society is being broken down before it can come together in a new imagining.
Denying biological reality is going to become a hate crime, but telling people to punch a TERF in the face is OK! Could this country be any more f***ed up?
“Hate Crime”——It doesn’t get much more sinister and totalitarian than that.
“Could this country be any more f***ed up?“
I’m sure someone will think of something.
They have not let us down so far.
We’ve had 13 years of it under this government. Sur Kurr Stammer’s lot don’t look like giving up any time soon even after they win the next election.
I will defend her free speech BUT….What was her position on jabs, Lockdown. What was her position on free speech before the Trans attack on her? would she defend people like us with such rigor. From what I remember (this was Twitter around 2015) she was a bit of a feminazi!
Hi Ron – it doesn’t matter. When she’s right she’s right, when we think she’s wrong, we call her out. No one is perfect and I have certainly got things wrong in the past.
Every divorced man knows women are always right.
Its one more reason for men wanting to be trans.
[Only joking].
She will have lots of company in jail then, with those of us who do not do personal pronouns; like me an adult female.
But wait jails are full we are told, so could we have our own barge for biological reality prisoners, with waiter food service, like illegal migrants have.
I think Labour will need more than one prison as we are many.
Hasn’t Starmer finally confirmed he knows what a woman is though? Or is the slippery parasite going to insist there are different types of women. Some of them being indistinguishable from men. Maybe there is no need to do any distinguishing though since as Occams Razor (the most likely thing is usually the real thing) would tell you——-Maybe they are really just men after all.
“Hasn’t Starmer finally confirmed he knows what a woman is though?”
No. That’s what he wants you to think. He is a politician. He hasn’t got a clue. Just ask his wife. He still doesn’t know where children come from and that is after having two.
Just because he does not know something does not mean he can’t pretend he knows when necessary to get votes.
So that’s the truth.
Only joking.
If you read my whole comment instead of just replying to the first sentence you would have seen that I am perfectly aware that him saying he knows what a woman is doesn’t fool me at all.
Try reading my comment again.
And then read the one immediately after it which says “Only joking“.
yawn———you were joking …ok then
Thanks for the comment.
That is way better than some of the people here who mindlessly downvote.
Are you sure he fathered them?
Presumption of legitimacy – legal term for – “I know they have the milkman’s nose but you have to give Dad the benefit of the doubt“.
Can be rebutted though.
Sometimes I admit there can be grudge pregnancies – where someone had it in for him.
Yes maybe they are really just men after all.
Transgender people? Surely they mean transvestites?
Actually no.
I used to shop at a supermarket frequented by a six foot four man who dressed as a woman and who had some surgery including implants in the derrière.
The surgery had been done very very badly and the implants were lumpy and all over the place.
It was at that moment I realised how sad and hard it must be for someone to want so much to be physically the other sex to their birth sex that they would go to such lengths to achieve that.
I cannot think of an analogy which might put this into a context which has resonance to those of us who do not have such desires.
Truly terrible.
And I am not sure misgendering such a man to be a woman [because it is misgendering in the biological sense] is going to help someone with such a strong desire.
All of this woke trans crap is not in fact helping anyone like that. It is making it us vs them when it should be us vs the people pushing all this wokism.
What we all need is a true understanding of the nature of the problem for trans people and to find ways of helping them live as normally as it possible in all the circumstances.
It is clearly tough.
And of course there are complications like sexual predators who pretend to be trans.
That does not help us one little bit to help true trans people.
It’s time for a “I’m Spartacus” moment !!..
…”an.”
A brave stand, but then she knows the Authoritarians wouldn’t dare “take her on” in Court.
Instead, they’ll pick on some poor sap who has no money for defence; no public profile and “make an example” of them.
It’s what bullies do.
If someone has decided to identify as a hippo and I identify them as a person is there something wrong with me or is it the alleged hippo that is in need of help? It really is a crude as that. Ordinary people cannot be expected to be told a pillar box is now an aeroplane because the pillar box says so and be prosecuted for insisting the aeroplane is actually a pillar box and identifying it as such.
Am I in an episode of Postman Pat? Talking pillar boxes?
Someone in my street put a knitted wooly hat on the pillar box but I can’t tell if it is a trans pillar box or not.
What do I call it? He or she or it?
Will calling it ‘it’ be misgendering under Sur Kurr Stammers Labour government next year?
Blimey. The French have a serious problem. All their nouns are either male or female.
What is a noun decides it is going to be trans?
They won’t be able to speak French in the UK next year without facing hard time in chokey.
I read somewhere that someone has invented a trans pronoun for the French but I don’t have the full details.
Will they have a defence if they use it?
The Germans do similar stuff as Mark Twain pointed out in his “The Awful German Language”
Deleted. Posted in the wrong place.
I (and a couple of friends of mine) have experience of wanting to call a trans man ‘he’ and wanting to call a trans woman ‘she’ – two people we knew in two different situations – and it is actually extremely difficult. When talking among ourselves about either of them when they weren’t there, we would constantly unintentionally ‘misgender’ them. We’d try to get it right but about four times out of five we get it wrong, and then laugh about how difficult it was to get it right.
It’s difficult because informally talking is something we generally do without thinking too much, it’s spontaneous, and if in your mind you perceive that a trans woman is actually a man, and a trans man is actually a woman, then it’s very difficult to remember in normal spontaneous conversation to refer to them in a different way from how you think about them.
So although nobody is suggesting it should be a ‘hate crime’ to unintentionally ‘misgender’ someone, it could be extremely difficult to determine if the misgendering was deliberate or not.
How things get blown out of proportion. This whole thing derives from this sentence in Anneliese Dodds’ speech at the Labour Party conference:
Under Labour, everyone who falls victim to hate crime will be treated equally under the law, and the perpetrators of anti-LGBT+ and disability hatred will no longer dodge longer sentences.
Note
It is about enforcing sentences for existing crimes.
It is not specific to transgender – it refers to LGBT and disability hatred
There is no implication that it means simply using the wrong pronoun
This is the Daily Mail twisting things to create a false scare about what Labour might do.
I would watch those cornflakes your munching on this morning if I were you. I think they might be a bit tainted. But then again it is all down to personal taste isn’t it? Wokery would run riot if left to it’s own devices so stop being an apologist for it.
It is striking how many people on this site respond to my comments with stuff about me as opposed to the issues being debated – perhaps I should be flattered?
“Flattened”?
Spelling?
Your cornflakes are more important than you though and it was them I was commenting on.
It’s not specific to transgender, nobody said it was, but if a Labour government enforces its policy of stricter sentences ‘for abuse targeted at transgender people’, it could include the ‘hate crime’ of deliberately misgendering, as “Deliberately misgendering someone is already a hate crime if it is motivated by hostility to the victim’s transgender identity, the Government said last year”.
Although they are wrong in cases where it is motivated by not believing a man is a woman and vice versa.
Just another way of looking at it.
“This is the Daily Mail twisting things to create a false scare about what Labour might do.”
How can you be confident it is a false scare? They might be bang on the money.
Vote independent – it’s the only thing we can do. This has just popped up and may be worth a look https://theindependentalliance.org/