- “A ‘new level of baffling’ as Scots are banned from Manchester” – Scots are not allowed to go to Manchester or Salford for “non-essential reasons”, as they are virus hotspots, but they are free to go to Dundee, which is also a virus hotspot, according to the Telegraph
- “Tartan Army’s night of carnage: Scotland fans trash Leicester Square” – Huge numbers of Scotland fans massed together in Leicester Square, MailOnline reports. They knew from the G7 meeting that they didn’t need to worry about social distancing
- “Brits in 30s now more risk of Covid than blood clots from AZ jab” – The risk/benefit analysis is swinging round to favour giving the AstraZeneca jab to people in their 30s, according to MailOnline
- “Andrew Lloyd Webber backs down over threat to reopen theatres at full capacity” – The former Tory peer was warned that his entire staff and the audience could have been fined hundreds of pounds each, according to the Telegraph
- “Yorkshire dad facing prison in Singapore for not wearing mask on train” – Benjamin Glynn, from Helmsley, faces up to six months in prison, according to YorkshireLive, for his failure to wear a mask while on the train home from work in Singapore
- “Deloitte tells staff they can work from home forever” – Homeworking forever a reality at the top accountancy firm, the Telegraph reports
- “None of us knows how long we’ll live so we’ll take our chances and flee the country to see our son” – Writing in the Telegraph, Guy de la Bédoyère, a contributor to Lockdown Sceptics, explains why he is jetting off to Mexico
- “Pupils forced to isolate after Covid test result wrongly recorded as positive” – Staff and pupils at Warren School, a special needs school in Lowestoft, were warned to self-isolate after a negative test was recorded as positive online, the East Anglian Daily Times records
- “Bloomsbury staff must be vaccinated before office return” – The publisher Bloomsbury has decided that all its staff must be vaccinated before they return to the office in July, according to the Bookseller
- “Against Vaccine Passports” – A directory of businesses that believe the enforcement of identity barriers or passports for entry will create division and discrimination
- “The global elites’ exemption from travel restrictions will become a problem for the Tories” – “There is no ‘for all’ about the society that our leaders are building in the wake of Covid,” writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph about the Government’s decision to allow in 2,500 UEFA VIPs to attend the final fo the Euros without having to quarantine. “Rather it is one in which the gap between the powerful and people over whom they wield their power is growing wider than it has been for decades”
- “Science journals, Wuhan and a truly bizarre Twitter episode” – Matt Ridley casts a critical eye over the role played by scientific journals and their reporters in the debate about the origins of SARS-CoV-2
- “The joylessness of the Covid-secure wedding” – Writing in Spiked, Ella Whelan takes aim at the absurd rules confronting those trying to plan a wedding
- “The lockdown lobby” – Spiked’s Tom Slater examines how COVID-19 exposed the conformism of Britain’s media in his contribution to the People’s Lockdown Inquiry
- “We are hostages to Government fear” – “Having once offered itself as the strong, paternalistic shield against Covid, the Government will find it hard to back away,” writes Timandra Harkness in UnHerd
- “The roadmap to enslavement” – “It is necessary to understand all this in exclusively political terms and abandon any pretence to the contrary,” writes Daniel Miller in the Conservative Woman. “The ‘delay’ to the end of restrictions is not a delay; freedom won’t arrive in July either”
- “Our neverending lockdown” – In the latest podcast from Spiked, contributors Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers wonder if they are ever likely to get their old lives back
- “A whole new level of lunacy” – Latest episode of the Planet Normal podcast from the Telegraph in which Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan discuss the risk of a winter lockdown with guest Iain Duncan Smith
- “Lockdown has turned us back to superstition” – Rev Phill Sacre explains how he thinks the lockdown narrative has taken us back to a pre-scientific way of thinking
- “Truth and Deception: The Conscience of Public Health” – In his latest podcast, Omar Khan interviews Dr Tess Lawrie, Director of the Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy, about her enthusiasm for ivermectin and her “stand against the flight from facts on the vaccine front”
- “Restaurants body initiates lawsuit over ‘discriminatory’ COVID-19 dining regulations” – A body representing more than 2,500 restaurants and gastropubs is taking the Irish State to court over rules allowing hotel restaurants to open in full while other establishments can only serve customers outdoors, the Independent reports
- “AstraZeneca claims victory over EU in vaccine deliveries case, but will be fined for late supplies” – Both sides have claimed victory from the EU court ruling that AstraZeneca does not have to supply 100 million COVID-19 vaccines by the end of June, CITY AM reports
- “Spain follows France in lifting outdoor face mask rules” – As of June 26th, it will no longer be mandatory in Spain to wear a mask while outdoors, Euronews reports. The rule was first introduced in May 2020 and applies to everyone over the age of six
- “One in four Covid patients hospitalised while vitamin D deficient die” – A study carried out in a hospital in Galilee in Israel found that COVID-19 patients are more likely to die if vitamin D-deficient, the Times of Israel says. Twenty-six per cent of vitamin D-deficient Covid patients died, compared to 3% of the rest
- “Re-Evaluating Mask Mandates Part I: Science Gives Way to the Talisman” – A reminder from Masha V. Krylova in C2C Journal that the effectiveness of masking against COVID-19 is not scientifically proven.
- “Rumours swirl that China’s top spycatcher has defected to the U.S.” – If Dong Jingwei has jumped, the Telegraph says, he would be the most high-profile Chinese official to do so, and could aid the U.S. in Wuhan lab leak investigations
- “Donald Trump criticises vaccines for American children aged over 12” – Donald Trump has attacked the U.S. Government’s drive to vaccinate school-aged children, the Times reports, on the grounds that younger people are normally unaffected by the virus
- “Whitmer rescinds Michigan’s gathering, mask rules starting Tuesday” – Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a lockdown zealot, has announced the easing of restrictions in the state of Michigan, the Detroit News reports
- “The Origin of SARS-CoV-2” – David R. Henderson and Charles L. Hooper take a close look at the evidence for AIER and conclude that the ‘lab-leak’ theory is the best fit
- “‘I remember it very well’: Dr. Fauci describes a secret 2020 meeting to talk about COVID-19 origins” – Alison Young in USA Today investigates the secret conference call on February 1st, 2020 in which Dr. Fauci discussed the possibility that the virus was engineered with an international group of scientists
- “Uganda imposes new anti-coronavirus measures to stem raging pandemic” – Uganda’s president Yowreri Museveni has introduced sweeping new anti-coronavirus measures including a ban on all vehicular movement except for essential workers, according to Reuters, to help curb a second wave of COVID-19
- “Prolonged lockdown not solution to end pandemic” – The Mokokchung Chamber of Commerce in India has called for a fresh approach to COVID-19, according to the Morung Express, stating that “the price of flattening the curve should not be costlier than the pandemic itself, or the cure worse than the problem”
- “Hundreds of vaccinated Indonesian health workers get COVID-19, dozens in hospital” – More than 350 Indonesian medical workers have become infected with COVID-19, Reuters reports, and dozens of them have been hospitalised despite having been given the Sinovac jab
- “Tough Questions and Sense-Checking” – Reflections from Australian economist Cameron K. Murray on debate and censorship in discussions about lockdown, following a TV appearance that did not go well
- “New Zealand PM Ardern gets ‘pain-free’ COVID-19 vaccine shot” – Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was smiling under her mask as she received her first shot of the Pfizer jab, Reuters reports
- “Head of NHS asked if Matt Hancock is hopeless” – Sir Simon Stevens couldn’t quite bring himself to answer
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“Tartan army don’t socially distance”.
Like those Scotland fans at the pub in Aberdeen when Scotland qualified… good for them anyway. Maybe we could learn something from them?
I notice stamping and clapping instead of singing and shouting at footy matches doesn’t seem to have caught on. I wonder if any Scots will take any notice of the nut jobs who said they shouldn’t go to Manchester?
“Bloomsbury staff must be vaccinated”.
Seriously, what jobs will be left for us second class citizens in apartheid Britain? lying government scum. Even plumbers who occasionally do a job in a care home have to comply if they want to keep their job, apparently.
Against Vaccine Passports is a worthy cause, but there seem to be precious few businesses in their directory. Early days.
Anyhow, such things could be a lifeline in apartheid Britain.
There’s a similar site called openforall with a lot of businesses on it, but there doesn’t seem to be a search function, so not easy to use.
“Covid secure wedding”.
I tell you now, we are no way “out of this” as long as such crap continues.
Followed by a socially distanced honeymoon?
I thought that was normal? 😱
I’m due to attend a wedding soon but I’m having severe reservations. The couple aren’t too obsessive but other family members are. I’m absolutely through with all this crap so it’s going to be….interesting.
Go anyway, and when any of the vaxxers get a bit snarky, demand to know what they’re so afraid of if they’ve been vaccinated? If their vaccine works, then they’re at no risk from you, unless they don’t believe the vaccines work, in which case, why did they have a potentially cytotoxic poison injected into their veins?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Du2wm5nhTXY
Spike protein is very dangerous, it’s cytotoxic (Robert Malone, Steve Kirsch, Bret Weinstein)
“One in four Covid patients hospitalised while vitamin D deficient die”.
Tallies with what some of us have been saying for ages, and explains a lot – including why Norway and Finland appear to have done so well.
Sir Simon Stevens as Sancho Panza….his faith in Quixote’s imaginary world clearly wavering……..
So Saint Ardern got the Holy Snake Oil without pain. Amen, O Most Holy One.
Soon all Kiwis will have been jabbed, amen amen.
And then they will open their borders,will they?
Only to other jabberwocks, for sure,
And then we’ll see how effective the snake oils really are.
Or if the shots do snicker-snack!
Hope the cunt dies
Agree.
she got the saline one obvs – lets see if she keels over or gets some hideous rash all over her face within a week of getting it – can’t risk the people in charge of this awfulness not being alive and kicking to be in a position to exert their authority and keep that madness going until the job is done
The risk/benefit analysis is swinging round to favour giving the AstraZeneca jab to people in their 30s, according to MailOnline
Yeah, right. All my friends in their 50s who got covid, and there are quite a few, were all absolutely fine and no-one went near a hospital. If you are in your 30s and get covid, you will be fine and won’t go to hospital. If however you get a blood clot you might need medical assistance, I would suggest.
This is dangerous propaganda and dangerous manipulation of statistics, if ever I saw it.
I wonder if the lazy incompetent journos have read about the record levels of post vaccine mortality among young adults in Israel. Or even care.
Absolutely disgusting and shameful. Why would LS highlight this article except to expose its deceitfulness.
Precisely because it is deceitful?
I’m not upset at seeing this kind of article, except at the politics behind it.
Indeed, the stats they’re trying to push in that article are amazing. Looking at the comments it seems no one is being taken in by them. For a start the figures don’t take into account the comorbidities of the ICU/hospital intake.
Trying to make a case using data points of 1.5 vs 1.9 per 100,000 is crazy. Approx 9m 30-39yo in the U.K. so 1.5 equates to 135 people and 1.9 171 people.
How many of those 171 would be morbidly obese? How many of those 135 would be perfectly healthy?
As predicted in April.
Ah but now they claim they can treat the blood clots. So that’s all right then.
Andrew Lloyd Webber backing down in the face of mild bullying from the govt is disappointing if predictable. Businesses rebelled in Italy and I believe largely got away with it, and Italy is a much more heavily policed country than the UK.
As I am apparently as ‘dangerous as a drunk driver’ I don’t really care what this twat does.
Spineless weirdo
the obvs bought him off with some kind of a bung or something – way they have bought off the bulk of the UK population with their furlough, business grants [which will never be repaid] and eat out to help out etc
He wanted to help the government by using the ‘passports’ as a show of ‘defiance’ but obviously not go enough tickets to push that one
Fat old cuck without testicles is all mouth and no trousers? Say it isn’t so !!!!
The hand wringing about the Tartan Army from the Daily Fail was hilarious. More of this please !
Was quite interesting also that the Daily Fail is now trying to scare under 40’s into taking the shot and doing the Governments dirty work for them.
How can an increase from 0.8 to 1.9 every 100,000 cases be regarded as significant? I’m amazed they didn’t have a headline claiming over 100% increase !!!!
Number of healthy people, aged 0-40, who died within 28 days of a positive test in the past 10 weeks I hear you ask? 2 !!!!!
OMFG
Clownworld !!!
supposedly “healthy” people. As was broadcast to the world last weekend, just because you appear to be in peak fitness doesn’t mean there’s not something potentially fatally wrong with you.
Relative risk reduction is their playpen. The zombies are all in the playpen, unaware that there’s a world outside the barrier of lies.
Have “dipped in” to GB news on and off since it opened and perhaps I’ve been unlucky but I was expecting a albeit more moderate tv version of TR, but, oh dear, it comes over as a “all day breakfast tv” station featuring the usual “brain dead” content you would expect from daytime tv and the one show.
What do my fellow sceptics think?
Sadly I agree, had high hopes but the presenters talk over each other all the time and it’s just irritating to listen to and the content while less biased than that if other outkets us pretty much drivel.
Haven’t heard that they’ve had any of the alternative experts on regarding lockdowns or the vaccines, but then, as you say, I only dip in and then pretty quickly dip out.
Lozza Fox was on in the evening a couple of nights ago – good interview – made good case, plus Andrew Neill the other evening also made the case well and concluded with “so the public health emergency is clearly over” which was heartening, but otherwise would tend to agree – less biased than other MSM and the talking over each other and low production values are a bit irritating
Yes, I have occasionally hit an interesting bit, but overall it is pretty dire so far.
Agreed. I had to retune my Freeview recorder to get it and soon realised I needn’t have bothered
I’ve been similarly unimpressed so far. Their only plus point is to have proper interviews with people who’d never get invited onto other MSM news channels except to get shouted over and accused of being some sort of -ist.
Dan Miller’s piece in the CW is a must read, as ever.
The image about who is really in charge is also worth sharing….
best article I have read yet
I thought the country was already thoroughly trashed by the government and gullible arseholes.
“Brits in 30s now more risk of Covid than blood clots from AZ jab” – The risk/benefit analysis is swinging round to favour giving the AstraZeneca jab to people in their 30s, according to MailOnline”
There we go. Right on time.
Who could possibly have predicted that?
Just a basic observation. Nothing particularly new, but illustrative.
I’m sitting in a pub, waiting for a meal.
I was challenged about a mask on entry. Well – I guess they have to.
“Exempt”
But – then – ”Have you anything to prove it?”. A year on, FFS.
I restrained myself – I have every sympathy with serving staff. But I think that the steam from ears was noted.
Two things :
– The sheer absurdity of the interior mask regulations (putting on masks for a piss, otherwise no masks etc etc) are so absurd that anything with a brain would fall about laughing rather than observe them.
– The reactions of my companions : “Don’t make a fuss” as I (quietly) fumed.
We are truly fucked.
WEF twitter page promoting books the other week.
I wonder if Bloomsbury will be selective, under instructions what to publish.