- “Summer travel will be filled with ‘hassle and delays’, warns Boris Johnson” – The Prime Minister has said that Britons face a “difficult year for travel” whether or not the proposals to scrap quarantine rules for double jabbed travellers go ahead, the Telegraph reports
- “GPs too busy to administer Covid booster jabs, warns Royal College” – The head of the Royal College has warned that GPs are too busy to administer booster jabs without more support, according to the Telegraph
- “Anti-lockdown activists clash with police over ‘Freedom Day’ delay” – MailOnline reports on yesterday’s anti-lockdown demonstrations in parliament square
- “Government accused of ushering in national ID cards ‘by the backdoor’ after jab passport deal” – Global IT firm Entrust received £250,000 to provide computing software for Covid status certificates. According to the i, the company has helped roll out ID systems in Albania, Ghana and Malaysia and suggested that vaccine passports could be used to “consider a national ID strategy” and “become part of the infrastructure of the new normal”
- “Matt Hancock: PM was ‘stressed’ when he called me hopeless” – Matt Hancock insists that he is not embarrassed by Dominic Cummings’s publishing messages about him from the Prime Minister, the Times says, ascribing the “f***ing hopeless” comment to “stress”
- “Covid: Lifting outdoor centres school trip ban ‘absolute joke’” – Primary Schools in Wales may now go on overnight trips the BBC reports, but the about-turn, three weeks before the end of term, has been described as an “absolute joke” by Clive Richley who runs an outdoor activities centre
- “Sight loss: Lengthy waiting lists ‘cost me my driving licence’” – Former teacher Dianne Gill believes she would still be able to drive if she had not had to wait 11 months to see a specialist, the BBC says, and she fears the situation would get worse for thousands of others due to backlogs that have developed
- “Oxford Road hotel quarantine facility to close” – The Penta Hotel quarantine service on Oxford Road is to close at the end of this month, the Reading Chronicle reports, amid council concerns about the spread between residents, staff and the local community
- “A bleak new era of Covid socialism threatens to end in carnage for the Tories” – “If Johnson is to have any chance of levelling up the country, he must reopen it now,” says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph
- “After a year of fear, will we learn to take risks again?” – A Telegraph feature by Caroline Williams, looking at how a year of fear effected people’s perceptions of risk
- “Today was supposed to be our Freedom Day. If we can’t open on July 5th, how can we open on the 19th?” – Andrew Lillico casts doubt on July 19th becoming “Freedom Day” in the Telegraph
- “We should be unlocking – so why is the Government gearing up for more restrictions?” – “This madness will not end until we make it end,” says Michael Curzon in Bournbrook Magazine
- “Flawed modelling is condemning Britain to lockdown” – “Again and again, worst-case scenarios are presented with absurd precision,” writes Matt Ridley in the Telegraph. “And the problem goes further than Britain’s slow reopening”
- “Riven by divided leadership and without a strategy, the anti-lockdown movement has decisively failed” – “Britain’s lockdown sceptics have lost this war,” says Benedict Spence, delivering some home truths in the Telegraph
- “Church worship restricted, devil worship fine” – Roger Watson notes in the Conservative Woman that “Christian worship may be conducted only under strict and completely unnecessary restrictions” whereas heavy metal fans were permitted to crowd into a concert in Castle Donington over the weekend
- “The Innova scandal Part 4: Questions the Government must answer” – In the fourth and final instalment of the Conservative Woman’s investigation into the Innova lateral flow test, Sonia Elijah examines the record of the Chinese-American owner Dr Charles Huang
- “Hancock pulls the plug on the National Health Service” – In the Conservative Woman, Kate Dunlop picks Matt Hancock up on his suggestion that treatment for Covid on the NHS could depend on vaccination status, which undermines Aneurin Bevan’s “great and novel undertaking”
- “My life as a carer sacrificed for refusing the jab” – Frontline worker Claire Ball reflects on her potential loss of employment for her decision to decline the jab in the Conservative Woman
- “Inflation at most dangerous point in decades” – Andrew Neil warns on GB News that if post-lockdown inflation hits 4% the average household will be £700 a year worse off
- “Rachel Elnaugh on the Delingpod” – Dragon’s Den investor Rachel Elnaugh joins James on the latest Delingpod to discuss never ending lockdowns, tyranny, vaccines and more
- “Government by consent: comparing seat belts and masks” – The Rev. Phill Sacre critiques the comparison that is often made between wearing seatbelts and wearing masks
- “French nightclubs will reopen on July 9th, but you’ll need a health pass” – Nightclubs will soon be allowed to open their doors again across the Channel, but anyone looking for a night out will need a health pass attesting they have either been fully vaccinated, have been tested over the previous 72 hours or have recovered from COVID-19, according to Euronews
- “Swiss experts play down risk of Delta virus variant” – Christoph Berger, head of the Federal Commission for Vaccinations, has said that Switzerland is well prepared for the Delta variant and there is no reason for particular concern, SwissInfo reports
- “Covid surges, but Russians resist coaxing and compulsion to get vaccinated” – Vaccine uptake remains low in Russia, Reuters reports, despite surges in Covid cases, and despite offers of cash payments for getting jabbed and threats of dismissal for refusing. The Kremlin now complains of “nihilism”
- “Google is reportedly force-installing some COVID-19 tracking apps on Android” – According to Tech Radar, smartphone users in some parts of the U.S. have reported that the contact tracing app has been installed on their devices without consent
- “Fauci doubles down on claim that attacks on him are ‘actually criticising science’” – The New York Post reports on Dr. Anthony Fauci’s increasingly desperate efforts to defend himself from his critics
- “The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill” – An account by Megan Molteni in Wired of why it took so long for scientists to figure out how Covid is spread
- “Did Economists Really Favour the Corona-Lockdowns?” – Writing for Real Clear Markets, Jeffrey Tucker debunks the idea, widely put about in the media, that there was a pro-lockdown consensus among economists
- “Half of Zimbabweans fell into extreme poverty during Covid” – The World Bank has estimated that the number of extreme poor in Zimbabwe has grown by 1.3 million since the pandemic began, according to the Guardian, with children bearing the brunt of the misery
- “WHO to discuss Olympics COVID-19 risks with Japan, IOC” – The World Health Organization said on Monday it would discuss managing COVID-19 risks with Japanese authorities and the International Olympic Committee, according to Reuters, after organisers announced some spectators would be permitted to attend the Tokyo Games.
- “Morrison criticised for personal stops in the UK while defending Australia’s border restrictions” – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended the “innocent” visits he made to trace his ancestors in Cornwall while attending the G7 summit, ABC reports
- “Doctors spreading misinformation about COVID-19 may lose their job – Medical Council” – Dr. Curtis Walker, chair of the Medical Council of New Zealand, has warned that doctors spreading misinformation, questioning the severity of Covid or the safety of the vaccinations risk losing their position, RNZ reports
- “Addendum: competing interests and the origins of SARS-CoV-2” – Peter Daszak has added some detail about about his competing interests to the February 2020 letter in the Lancet affirming support for the scientists in China and restating his conclusion that the virus came from nature and pointing out that he is recused from the Lancet COVID-19 Commission’s work on the origins of the virus
- “Should you get vaccinated?” – Steve Kirsch, the Executive Director of COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund, examines the data on vaccine safety at TrialSiteNews
- “mRNA Inventor Robert Malone backs up Professor Byram Bridle” – In the latest episode of Trish Wood is Critical, Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Byram Bridle go after the critics who try to silence anyone who raises concerns about vaccine safety
- “Updated (June 21st) set of Warwick models used to justify the delay of the June 21st unlock” – An interesting comparison of the Warwick Model’s forecast of what would happen by June 21st against what’s actually happening
Updated (21-Jun) set of Warwick models used to justify the delay of the 21-Jun unlock.
— Richard
These models are without the announced delay so will be interesting to see how well they match reality up to 21-Jun.
The 2 hospital metrics are probably the most relevant. pic.twitter.com/h9ELfFFG96(@RP131) June 21, 2021
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“Summer travel will be filled with hassle”.
So, have the crooks got an exit plan yet, or was this shambles always meant to be permanent?
Not for the Fascist pigs it won’t. Their flying sties will offer all the comforts they are accustomed to.
Unless we revolt, we’re not returning back to normal, Hugh. The politicians are not going to run away scared while the majority of the public are onboard. There’ll be the occasional hiccup to their plans which gives us hope but this is so vast and long planned that it will take an enormous effort to reverse. But no matter how big and daunting it may seem, we MUST push back.
If you haven’t done so yet, you should research Agenda 21-30 (the name tells you the timeframe). So-called ‘conspiracy loons’ were warning about this long before we first heard of covid-19.
You will notice when searching for Agenda 21-30 a government page will be included in the results. You should pay close attention to it. You should then compare what is outlined by the government with their Agenda 21-30 and the Great Reset.
Thanks, have now ordered End Game and will hopefully get around to reading. Apparently “they” need people to starve to death. The Nazis used to do that to children didn’t they? Well into crimes against humanity territory if true, methinks.
“Protesters offering free hugds”.
Yes, that’s my sort of protest. Good work.
Is the 26th still on?
Hope so, I’ll see you there
“I.d. cards by the back door”. Looks like we’re not going back to normal any time soon. Pandemic my foot.
“Care worker hero will lose her job under mandatory ‘vaccination’ plans” (The Conservative Woman).. And no doubt many more besides her. Worth repeating, this is evil.
“Where the hell has the British sense of fairness and duty gone?” Quite.
It’s a very powerful article by Claire Ball.
“Google installing Covid tracking apps on android”. One reason why I won’t have a smart arse phone.And one reason why I’ll probably be forced to eventually…
Hancock ascribes Johnson’s comment of him being ‘f*****g hopeless’ was due to stress.
It’s probably one of the few truthful things Johnson has ever said.
“80 ivy league economists say what they’re supposed to say for fear of their reputations and professional standings” (Real Clear Markets, paraphrased).
Are people like these the real craven villains?
“Half of Zimbabweans fell into extreme poverty during Covid”.
Can they have a say on all this nonsense as well as ivy league economists? Evil what’s been done to the world’s poor, and where are Keir Starmer and the Grauniad?
Smarmer doesn’t care about anybody except Smarmer.
Grauniad doesn’t care if you starve so longer as you starve wokely.
I watched the Hancock talk in Parliament a couple of months ago and he was questioned about the reduced aid to poor countries. He said that the Oxford vaccine was the greatest gift to them. Suspect that those in poor countries would prefer food but okay.
Devil-worship at Donington?
How thick is the writer at Conservative woman?
In fairness to the writer in question, he didn’t write a piece about supposed devil worship at Donington, but rather correctly questioned the reopening priorities of the regime. The couple of references to devil worship can easily be read as hyperbolic, illustrative or comedic, and in any event imo have little bearing on the thrust of the piece, which is why give other activities priority over church going.
It’s clearly written by a Christian for Christians.
It’s written by a moron for morons. The gesturing of rock fans is irrelevant, the writer wrote contradictory rubbish.
The Wired story about aerosols is telling with regard to how flawed science becomes engrained and unassailable, but unfortunately, the aerosol researchers then commit the very same mistake by mindlessly concluding that masks indoor would make a positive difference.
There was and is zero evidence for this, above all in their case the physics argue totally against it, and in practice this was, is and will always be absurd and impossible, as it would require the correct use (3x hand wash per change of a sterile mask only, to be changed immediately when moist aka after having spoken 2 sentences) of suitable fitted masks only.
How about used for months bit of cloth left in pockets and dashboards of white vans?
Another absurd discussion of how the spider’s internal divisions and failure to have a coherent strategy were to blame for its getting squashed by the descending boot. “Blaming the victim”, as the lefties call it when it’s one of their ideologically special victim classes involved.
Presumably, although I don’t recognise the name of the writer, there’s an unmentioned subtext of “if only they’d all listened to me and followed my preferred strategy, they could have done so much better”.
I think it’s true to say we are losing the war, but it’s not over yet.
I’ve not read the article, but looking at the headline, I would say that it’s slightly unfair. There’s no “leadership”, no “strategy”. There are various individuals and bodies doing what they can to fight the madness. What is true is that there are different strands of opinion (though actually a lot of broad agreement) and that so far these disparate groups have not coalesced around a single or small number of groups or movements. I think that is not a great surprise – we are outgunned and outnumbered, and anyone with enough power or money to make things happen knows that getting involved with the fight comes at a very high cost indeed in many ways.
I don’t think there is a magic bullet. We just have to keep plugging away as best we can, and seize opportunities when they arise, and try to convince sceptics with money and power to join the fight.
“I’ve not read the article, but looking at the headline, I would say that it’s slightly unfair. There’s no “leadership”, no “strategy”.”
Indeed. Instead of “blaming the victims”, the writer should be directing his fire at the institutions that have failed to provide opposition to the power grab.
Opposition that failed to oppose.
Media that failed to report.
Journalists who failed to question.
Courts who failed to uphold laws and principles.
Medics who failed to defend their oaths.
Academics and scientists who failed to defend freedom of thought and speech, and therefore science.
The linked article is loathsome, I read it yesterday, blaming the victim for the government’s complete refusal to think.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/06/jon-rappoport/covid-three-men-who-own-corporate-america/
The real reason and connection why doctors, big corporations and their employees are all supporting the official Covid narrative?!
https://welovetrump.com/2021/06/21/revealing-58-of-doctors-in-the-association-of-american-physicians-and-surgeons-didnt-take-the-jab/
58% of US doctors not taking the jab: Do as I say, not as I do.
And some related news from Down Under.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/06/paul-craig-roberts/is-the-danger-covid-or-the-vaccine/
Dr. Mccallough’s viewpoints, pretty simipar to our good doctor’s, Mike Yeadon, to whose interview with Steve Bannon there is a link.
“Government by consent: comparing seat belts and masks” – The Rev. Phill Sacre critiques the comparison that is often made between wearing seatbelts and wearing masks
This is a confused and ignorant piece.
Sacre’s argument, in summary, is that because he thinks seatbelts are fine, and because a majority have been persuaded to accept them, this justifies making them compulsory. This of course is a simple non sequitur.
At root, wearing a seatbelt is a measure to protect the person choosing to do so, alone. (There are fantastically rare or irrelevant situations where it can affect others, but they can and should be disregarded as de minimis in the real world). Nobody should have the right to compel another adult to take measures for his own safety. The fact that a majority might think that he should do so, or that the measures should be compulsory is irrelevant. And no, the fact that a coercively imposed national health service pays for treating injuries in no way gives others some kind of magical power over a person’s behaviour.
There is the further argument that seatbelts transfer risk from car users to bystanders, by the process of risk compensation, but for me that is far less important than the argument from principle, because I am not a simple utilitarian. That’s an area Sacre needs to research for his own education on the issue.
“I don’t think there’s anyone in the country who would argue that seatbelts are a terrible thing. They don’t make your journey different, you hardly notice them when you’re in the car…so noone is arguing that we should abolish seatbelts”
This is basically just the ignorant coronapanic authoritarian’s “just wear the damn mask” nonsense, transferred to seatbelts.
Anybody who has proper respect for principle and for liberty should oppose seatbelt coercion. Not seatbelts per se, but the imposition of their use by law.
When I grew up I was trained to put a seatbelt on automatically when I got into the car, and after passing my driving test it was a habit ingrained in me, and I understood the sense in that practice and accepted it. Some years later, this illiberal law was passed, so I took the trouble to train myself out of that habit. Now I make a more or less conscious choice whether to put on my seatbelt when setting off on a journey. Broadly, I assess the likely risks against the costs of wearing the seatbelt and make a risk/benefit decision each time. That’s what free adults do every time they act.
The fallacy of seatbelt laws is in part the same as that of lockdown. If the state and the majority cannot persuade people to behave in a particular way by honest persuasion, the response should not be the paternalist one of coercing them instead, it should be to accept that they are entitled to make their own choices. That applies absolutely where the measures are for the supposed good of the person himself. It also applies when dealing with the kind of mostly trivially low and traditionally disregarded risks involved in seasonal respiratory viruses – but that’s another issue.
Sacre’s criticisms of masks and mask coercion are correct. But more thought needs to be given by Sacre to the real issues of seatbelt wearing and seatbelt coercion. If it’s so widely accepted, why is it necessary to impose it coercively on the few who dissent? The argument that free adults must be protected from the consequences of their own choices is the paternalist creed of the nanny state.
The real fallacy that underlies both of these bad policies is the idea that government has responsibility for health. Once that has been conceded, defending liberty is almost impossible. The tendency to move towards nanny statism is almost irresistible once that line is crossed. And indeed we have seen that happening to our society and culture over the past century.
And masks are actually deleterious to ones health, physical and mental.
Indeed, though I wasn’t criticising his attack on mask policy, which I agree with.
As I noted, seatbelts are also harmful, by transferring risk to bystanders, though the effect is probably small.
Indeed. I actually rage quit my gym today ( which I went to for the first time in weeks today ) after I was aggressively challenged by the owner (who was not wearing a mask and who was leaning in close to me FFS ) over not wearing an exemption lanyard ( despite there being no law saying I have to )
So I just said “F*** You! ” ( twice ) and walked out and cancelled my membership direct debit.
This guy should be providing a service and I ( used to ) pay his wages so he can f*** off as far as I’m concerned.
I’m not normally like this but 15 months of having my freedoms restricted has taken its toll on my mental fragility unfortunately !
You might have reacted in (justifiable) rage, but you clearly did the right thing.
How will these people ever learn not to patronise and bully their customers if they don’t lose customers?
The trick is to find alternative suppliers who are not bought into the panic.
Yes – my brother tells me his gym is a “Mask Free Zone” so I shall go there !
Sorry mate, these people are mentally challenged, God knows what the future will be like with these in it..
Yes exactly – I hope I’m not being overly dramatic when I say I feel I’m beginning to know what it was like to live as an “outsider” in say Nazi Germany or an oppressive Communist regime where you know and feel that something is “wrong” but *most* people go along with the propaganda and the danger is that if you kick against it too much you are labelled as a dissenter and then in extreme danger. And WORSE than that, many people who WOULD go against the propaganda are too afraid and so just go with it all
Another Fucking Mask Update that made my piss boil just now
I’ve just been on the phone attempting to book a Physio appointment for a bad shoulder ( and I don’t trust the doctor as it’s almost impossible to get an appointment )
The conversation went like this :
…
Her (Physio) “You’ll have to wear a mask ”
Me ” I’m exempt”
Her “What are you exempt for ”
Me: “You’re not allowed to ask me that under current legislation”
Her “Well, shoulder is quite intimate”
Me “Well, I’m not ill, you won’t catch anything from me”
Her “Hmmm, well, have you had both vaccinations?”
Me “That’s personal medical information and I don’t think you should be asking me that”
Her “I’m afraid I can’t see you then ”
Me – just hung up
(couldn’t be arsed to tell her to fuck off this time )
A good example of how the pressure to take vaccines is sustained without needing formal policies.
So long as there are at least a few providers not bought in, and the regulators don’t step in, we can vote with our feet.
I went for some physio a month or so ago for a sports injury and got in without any mask nonsense.
See above..the gym madness..
The DM has a piece today about ivermectin and querying why it’s not being routinely used here.
I think this is the first time I’ve seen a piece like this in the msm.
In my opinion we are now moving into the most dangerous period. Our abusers are beginning to realise we are going to leave them and they will ramp up the abuse to prevent us from doing so.
Bari Weiss didn’t know what Ivermectin was until yesterday.
And she definetely belongs to the ‘intelligent elite’ and generally is indeed quite smart.
I couldn’t believe it when I read that, but that too is what’s going on and what we’re up against.
There was a poll on LinkedIn recently ( where you’d expect reasonably intelligent awake people to congregate ) and only 35% of those polled had heard of Ivermectin !!
“A woman is held by police as covid deniers and other conspiracy theorists groups stage an anti-lockdown protest in Westminster” – Daily Mail
I thought how brave our police are last week when they tackled all those large covid rule breaking scots fans….. Oh wait, that was when they laughed as they had beer poured over them.
Policing by consent my rse.
“A woman is held by police as covid deniers and other conspiracy theorists groups stage an anti-lockdown protest in Westminster”
More media complicity in the evil that is lockdown. Just because you want hmg’s crapshow to end doesn’t make you a wackjob. In fact, it’s quite the opposite
They’re actually accelerating the preparations for the Great Reset. Pensions and property will be snatched, a global ID system is now the assumed default, human rights are suspended and all the human rights NGOs are happily nodding that along. Until the masses wake up – if they ever do – I see no way of stopping this.
How will pensions and property be ‘snatched’?
Extra taxes will be the simplest way.
Your allowed to keep them if you’re worth at least £100 million or were/are a senior civil servant or politician….
BBC 6’o clock TV News: First item: Football, 3rd item: Staff on an online dating website who are “burnt out and exhausted” so have to go on leave.
Please rearrange the following words: People/the/of/infantilisation/British.