- “Keep wearing face masks, Britons to be told” – The face mask law, and social distancing, threatens to be turned into “advice”, the Telegraph reports, even if “freedom day” goes ahead as planned on July 19th
- “Minister says travel quarantine rules do not apply to ‘important people’” – The Independent reports that John Whittingdale, Minister of State for Media and Data, has provided a frank clarification about the rules on quarantine when coming into the country
- “‘He’s full of…’: What the Queen and PM said about ‘poor man’ Matt Hancock” – As Prime Minister one-to-ones with the Queen resume, Sky News shows a brief clip in which Her Majesty, receiving Boris Johnson, refers to Matt Hancock as a “poor man”
- “Guests stick to the rules at one of first weddings since new rules” – Guests were on their best behaviour, MailOnline says, as Chris and Sue tied the knot at one of the first weddings to take place since the cap on guest numbers was lifted
- “Double-jabbed Brits could go to ‘amber list’ countries quarantine-free” – The Government is set to relax the quarantine rules for the double jabbed, according to MailOnline, but a number of destinations, including the U.S., Italy, Germany and Poland are not too keen on the prospect of seeing British tourists return, and Angela Merkel has urged EU member states to force visiting Britons to quarantine
- “The countries that could go green, amber and red today” – The Telegraph is expecting the ‘green list’ to grow from 11 destinations to 25
- “Exams face Covid disruption next year and beyond, warns Gavin Williamson” – Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has indicated that he “very much expects” mitigations to be in place for GCSE and A-level exams in coming years, according to the Telegraph
- “Official data: People working from home work 45 minutes less a day” – MailOnline reports that home workers only spend six-and-a-half hours a day on work compared to those still commuting who spend around seven-and-a-quarter hours working, according to figures released by the ONS
- “Decadent Britain is sleepwalking into a vortex of permanent decline” – “Lockdown has precipitated a pernicious cultural revolution that will make us poorer and less free,” writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph
- “The latest Smiley myth: it’s not the jabs, it’s just seasonality” – Writing in CAPX, Christopher Snowdon challenges the hypothesis that it is seasonality we have to thank for the relatively low rates of Covid infections, hospitalisations and deaths, rather than the jabs
- “What do you give the lab that started the pandemic? A Nobel Prize, say the Chinese” – “No one can deny that the Chinese researchers have indeed produced impactful work,” writes Kate Dunlop, commenting in the Conservative Woman on the glittering prizes that may be heading the way of the Wuhan Institute of Virology
- “This retired PC standing up to the government vaccine fanatics is a hero” – The Conservative Woman salutes Former Police Constable Mark Sexton who has reported Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock, Chris Whitty and the rest for misconduct in public office and provides a transcript of the evidence
- “Health Freedom Ireland questions the spike of deaths in our nursing homes” – An episode of the Joe Dalton Show by Dublin South FM investigating the spike of deaths in Ireland’s nursing homes with Health Freedom Ireland
- “An open letter to Nadhim Zahawi, U.K. Vaccine Minister” – An open letter to the U.K. vaccine minister from concerned citizens about adverse reactions to the vaccines
- “WHO expresses concern over eased restrictions at EURO 2020 matches” – The World Health Organisation regrets “that some stadiums hosting the tournament are currently raising the number of spectators allowed to see a match”, Euronews reports
- “Estonian PM warns West of damage from Covid-induced authoritarianism” – “What we have seen in this Covid crisis, this urge for a strong hand or an authoritarian way of governing is deep in our societies, even in some countries you would never believe,” said Kaja Kallas, Prime Minister of Estonia, in an interview with the Financial Times
- “CDC safety group says there’s a likely link between rare heart inflammation in young people after Covid shot” – There is, the U.S. Centre for Disease Control has said, a “likely association” between 1,200 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis in people under 30 and the Pfizer and Moderna jabs, CNBC reports
- “Are Covid Vaccines Riskier Than Advertised?” – “There are concerning trends on blood clots and low platelets,” say Joseph A. Lapado and Harvey A. Risch in the Wall Street Journal
- “Lawmakers seek probe of possible Wuhan ‘superspreader’ event in October 2019” – Members of Congress are calling on the Biden administration to investigate whether the October 2019 Military World Games, which were held in Wuhan, may have been a “super spreader” event, the New York Post reports
- “Children’s Birthdays May Have Spread COVID-19 Infections” – A new study suggests that in countries with high levels of COVID-19 households had a 30% higher risk of infection in the two weeks following a birthday celebration, the Scientific American reports
- “McDonald’s COVID-19 Vaccine Pop-Up Clinics” – McDonald’s Californian franchisees are partnering with the California Department of Public Health to offer free vaccinations at 70+ locations throughout the state, and offers a free menu item to all who come forward as a “thank you for doing their part”
- “Morgan Stanley to bar unvaccinated employees, clients from NY offices” – According to Reuters, Morgan Stanley only wants fully vaccinated staff and clients in its New York Offices
- “Hillary Clinton Privately Warned France that Wuhan P4 Lab May Lead to Bioweapon Research” – A cable obtained by Wikileaks reveals that Hilary Clinton, when Secretary of State, had some concerns about the Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to Human Events
- “COVID-19 Gene Data That Could Have Aided Research on Early Epidemic Removed From Database” – A Chinese researcher told the National Institutes of Health to delete key gene sequences of early COVID-19 cases from its database, the Wall Street Journal reports, raising concerns of a cover up
- “Countries relying on Chinese Covid vaccines reporting surge in infections” – China’s vaccine diplomacy is faltering, the Business Standard reports, as countries which made extensive use of Chinese jabs, such as Mongolia, Seychelles and Bahrain, now grapple with rising rates of infection
- “Everest climber Tsang Yin-hung yearns for home, but stuck in Nepal” – Hong Kong resident Tsang Yin-hung, who made the fastest ascent of Mount Everest by a woman, and other Chinese climbers are stuck in Nepal due to restrictions imposed by Beijing, according to the Standard
- “Why we petitioned the FDA to refrain from fully approving any COVID-19 vaccine this year” – Linda Wastila, Peter Doshi, Hamid Merchant and Kim Witczak explain in the BMJ why they believe there is no reason to rush to give the vaccines full regulatory approval
- “Bret Weinstein and Dr. Pierre Kory” – Episode #1671 of the Joe Rogan Experience looks at the benefits of ivermectin in treating COVID-19 with Dr. Pierre Kory of the Frontline Covid Critical Care Alliance and Bret Weinstein of the Dark Horse Podcast
- “Ivermectin: Indian Bar Association Serve Legal Notice on WHO’s Chief Scientist” – The first episode of the CATalyst by TrailSiteNews sees host Shabnam Palesa Mohamed, advocate Dipali Ohja, Dr. Pierre Kory and Dr. Tess Lawrie discuss the Indian Bar Association’s legal action against WHO scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan
- “When are we going to start putting Children First?” – “It really does seem that children are at the bottom of the heap,” said Liz Cole of Us For Them on GB News. “And they’ve been there right throughout”
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Imagine how much money we could save and output we could improve if we got rid of both the civil service and Royal Air Force.
Would we miss them?
To your list of organisations for abolition, it is with a heavy heart that I would add the RNLI for its enthusiastic (and presumably paid) complicity in illegal immigration and the National Trust for abject wokeism.
In both cases their sensible and laudable founding principles would be better served by County or area based organisations that could focus on the core job in hand and be less susceptible to being hi-jacked by National political Dogma.
5G Consistent pattern of adverse effects
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Your neighbours must really be getting fed up with all the rubbish you are stuffing through their letterboxes.
I hope it is rubbish ! Imagine if the 5G could actually damage health , it’s reassuring that at least you are here to tell us that’s it’s nothing to worry about , phew
We can also live in the confident belief that the BBC and HMG would investigate objectively and tell us fairly if there were any risks from G5. Neither of them would be influenced by the big business lobbyists nor by the sunk costs narrative.
Two more of the FEMALE terrorists released as part of the prison exchange deal. Yes, I guess it’s an actual fact that they do indeed exist, and to deny reality just makes one look very, very silly indeed. I think Israel needs to take tips from Egypt on how to reinforce their barrier after having people like this now freed and living next door;
”Part of the exchange today to free 2 year old Aviv Asher involved having to exchange Hamas terrorist Asraa Jabes.
The 38 year old Palestinian woman detonated a car bomb back in 2015 attempting to kill Israelis.”
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1728222214011453515
”In exchange for the release of Israeli hostages like 5 year old Emilia Aloni today,, Israel had to exchange Palestinian prisoners, as part of the deal
One of the prisoners sent back to Palestine today was Shorouq Dwaiat.
In 2015 she went on a stabbing spree, stabbing 1 Israeli man and attempting to stab another.
She received a 16 year sentence.
While Israeli hostages are simply innocent civilians the Palestinian prisoners being exchanged are terrorists.”
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1728221322625356207
Hopefully the Israeli’s managed to attach miniature satellite trackers to the terrorists and will get them in the next airstrike.
Yeah, this must be true ‘cos there’s no way the virus could spread as far as 1,000 miles. Stands to reason dunnit?
Er.
Those bloody scheming bats, they’ve clearly been planning this for millions of years in those caves in China. Clever barstewards…
At last, their cunning plan is being put into action! Today, the cave, tomorrow, the whole cave system!
Why the hell don’t we just keep the f#@k away from them? They politely stay in deep dark caves all day, then when we’re asleep the come out to eat, surely they are doing their bit to keep away from us! Why don’t we do the same for them?
If this is true (and there are lots of reasons to doubt it – it’s had 4 years minimum to spread to other bats FFS), then maybe it’s not a “freak” mutation after all. Perhaps it’s fairly common and not actually something world-ending to panic about.
The ‘freak’ mutation they’re talking about is a particular sequence which is often used in laboratory constructed genetic material. It’s presence in the Covid bug was part of what drove the lab-created-leak theory – as distinct from the naturally evolved bug leaked from the lab or the ‘wet market zoonosis theory. The sequence hadn’t been seen in nature so finding it was a bit like finding a zipper in a leather jacket and saying it evolved in a natural animal skin.
Given that the other theories on the origin of Covid require a bug that evolved in another animal to make the leap to humans and given that the Covid bug has changed over time (Original, Alpha, Delta, Omicron etc etc ad nauseam), it does not seem impossible that a lab-created Covid bug spreading through mankind (considerably further than 1,000 miles) might not cross the species barrier from humans to bats and continue to evolve there – complete with its man-made ‘zipper’ (OK the analogy does break down there).
Not entirely sure what the bat story is trying to prove.
Finding a bat with a virus 1000 km from Wuhan.
How funny…
“Compared with birds, bats are relatively short-distance migrators, with maximum migration distances being <2000 km”
I think the point of the story is the fact that the virus was genetically very similar to Covid and this is meant to be proof that it didn’t leak from a lab. It’s theoretically possible that someone from Wuhan caught covid from a bat while on holiday and returned home before becoming ill. Obviously the evidence in favour of a lab leak is still far stronger than the evidence for a natural origin.
It’s a red herring, in my view, designed to bring the Covid story back to what they originally said it was and take blame away from any pesky little lab just innocently GoF’ing its little way towards designing better and nastier viruses. In fact, in honour of Prince Philip, since it was his wish, I feel we should call the next ‘virus’ Philip so people can claim a mild does of the ‘Philips’ or ‘I’ve been Philiped’ etc.
Knowing the way that China deals with its perceived problems I can imagine a bat eradication plan…similar to how they dealt with the little birds eating the grain in the ‘Great Leap
ForwardsBackwards’. It’s a peculiarly Chinese govt thing which is to blame everyone and everything for the myopic shortcomings of their paranoid grip on power.Are you sure you meant 2000 Km range?
Laden or unladen?
Laden with a coconut, like the swallows!
Which bit of “stop messing about with bat coronaviruses” don’t they understand from last time? Leave it alone.
I haven’t seen any news outlet prioritise the horrific stabbing of little children in Ireland as the story. It’s all about the riot. Yet if it was a gunman in America shooting little kids at school it would be front page news.
He was an Algerian immigrant, what more reason do you want for the lack of media attention.
Was he far right? Or was it all caused by systemic racism and colonialism and not his fault at all?
Mental health problems! The go to get out clause for embarrassed governments!
“Yet if it was a gunman in America shooting little kids at school it would be front page news.”
Unless the shooter was black or a muzzie.
“An about-turn on tobacco” It’s interesting to look at the whole Tobacco story. Tobacco was a herb much revered by the Native American Indians and other indigenous peoples. It is considered the ‘master teacher’ plant in fact and for reasons more to do with spiritual and shamanic uses. It was never meant to be a plant to be abused the way it has been but of course the fact that it contained a highly addictive substance, just like caffeine did for coffee and tea and sugar also, meant that it was the perfect consumer drug with a ready, willing and addicted clientele. I used to be one of them and back in the day loved nothing more than a ‘roll up’ and a cup of coffee or a pint. They just seemed to go so well together! During Native American ceremonies, Tobacco is used but not a pack of Marlboro or Camels, but a rawer purer version that hasn’t been adulterated with chemicals to make it burn better and faster .
Of course, tobacco became a huge industry and the marketing of tobacco was one of the success stories all the way through to the eighties or whenever it was banned. I do remember going into a pub, aptly named The Blue Flame, near Bristol but out in the sticks, sometime in the early 2000s to smoke in a pub legally for the last time. Nowadays, I can’t stand the smell of commercial tobacco but sacred raw tobacco is different. It is stronger and you don’t take the smoke into your lungs but only into your throat – don’t ask! Conversely, it is also one of the most powerful shamanic purification tools, the smoke being blown over people to dispel bad energies. And if you think about it, it does dispel gnats and other flying biting mites. Anyway, just thought I’d share that with you on this murky November morning…
In “The Cosmic Serpent”, anthropologist Jeremy Narby comments that Amazonian tobacco can contain up to 18x the nicotine of tobacco used for industrial cigarettes and is not contaminated by chemical fertilizers or the added ingredients. It’s considered a remedy and cancer rates amongst Shaman that use copious quantities of the Amazonian variety were non-existent.
Very interesting – thanks for sharing…
We need an “about turn” on all the other drugs too: “save our youth! End Prohibition!”
Just as the alcohol prohibition gave rise to Al Capone, so the continued drug prohibition has given rise to mobsters like Escobar in Colombia and Guzman in Mexico.
Since then, they have suborned police and all institutions of government, drug money has corrupted all the banks and gangsters have infiltrated corporations until all the power sources in America have devolved to criminals. Thus has America become a Mafiosi state.