- “Matt Hancock faces sack if affair becomes ‘Barnard Castle moment’” – Cabinet Ministers are warning that the fury of the public’s reaction to those photos will determine Matt Hancock’s fate, according to the Telegraph
- “Gina Coladangelo: the millionaire lobbyist quietly appointed to top government roles” – The woman caught in the affair with Matt Hancock first crossed paths with him when they were working on student radio at Oxford University, according to the Telegraph
- “Gina Coladangelo’s brother works at health firm that won NHS contracts” – Roberto Coladangelo’s firm was awarded a £28million contract last year to carry out work for the South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust, MailOnline says, reporting on another side of the story
- “Sorry string of Matt Hancock scandals as he admits breaking his own Covid rules” – The Health Secretary believes he didn’t break the law, the Mirror understands, as he and Mrs Coladangelo were in the Health Department for legitimate work purposes
- “U.K. health chiefs say rates of myocarditis are higher than expected” – British cardiologists have told MailOnline that a change in language on the MHRA’s website signalled that it could be about to issue a warning about the link between the jabs and “very rare” and “typically mild” cases of myocarditis
- “Conflicts of interest alleged in ‘multi-layered web of influence’ as Big Pharma pays millions to informal Parliament groups” – Health-related semi-formal working groups of the British Parliament are taking millions in donations from the pharmaceutical industry, according to RT
- “Six cases of Lambda Covid variant first found in Peru confirmed in England” – The variants have reached the next letter, but, RT reports, Public Health England say there is no evidence to suggest that the variant has the capability of causing more serious illness or diminishing the efficacy of jabs
- “A plea from a pollster: stop listening to the public” – “We are increasingly finding ourselves in an unhealthy position,” says pollster James Johnson in the Spectator. “Politicians are not just looking at polls as a reflection of opinion, but taking them as a call to action”
- “The hypocrisy of Matt Hancock” – “I haven’t enjoyed a story so much since Neil Ferguson was outed for having broken lockdown rules which he played a part imposing on the rest of us so as to meet a comely married blonde woman,” writes Melanie McDonagh in the Spectator
- “Matt Hancock is now a national joke and must go today” – “As Hancock was enforcing the most inhumane and draconian limits on our interactions by law, he was flagrantly ignoring the social distancing rules to engage in a tawdry affair,” writes Dan Wootton in MailOnline
- “We’ve sacrificed our children on the altar of Covid” – “The damage goes beyond lost schooling to all the life experiences they missed that cannot be repeated,” says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph
- “Hypocrisy is too small a word for Matt Hancock’s betrayal of the public’s trust” – “Those who govern us are drunk on absolute power, and it’s made men like Hancock reckless,” writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph
- “Matt Hancock voted to invade our privacy, yet now he asks that his be respected” – There is an irony in Matt Hancock’s request for “privacy for my family”, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph. “A great many other families would have been grateful for more privacy over the last 15 months”
- “Time for more TV tears, Mr Hancock?” – “It would take a heart of stone not to laugh,” says Frederick Edward in the Conservative Woman, responding of course to Matt Hancock’s indiscretions with a married member of his staff
- “BA refuse to deny pilots died after covid jab” – Sally Beck investigates the rumours surrounding the deaths of four British Airways pilots for the Conservative Woman
- “We are being guided by the National Conscience” – It is the idealistic National Conscience, “zealously guarded by the mainstream media who express their righteous outrage at every opportunity” that led us into lockdown, says Ian Ashworth-Kirkham in the Conservative Woman
- “Watch: Three times Matt Hancock was a hypocrite” – The Telegraph montage of Matt Hancock condemning his own behaviour
- “Will European workers take mandatory Covid jabs lying down?” – A feature in Euronews about the prospect of ‘no jab, no job’ policies in companies throughout Europe
- “Vexation not vacation for Europeans hoping for US voyages” – The European Union is letting Americans back in, but the United States is still blocking European travellers from its shores. Deutsche Welle takes a look at what’s holding things up
- “Germany fans urged not to travel to England for Euro 2020 clash” – According to Deutsche Welle, the World Medical Association believes that, given the prevalence of the Delta variant, it would be “irresponsible” for German football fans to travel to London for the Euro2020 match on Tuesday
- “Malta imposes quarantine for unvaccinated Britons, hours after addition to green list” – The Maltese government has reintroduced self-isolation for unjabbed British holidaymakers, the Telegraph reports, amid growing concern over UK rates of the delta variant
- “Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi contracts COVID-19” – The Prime Ministers of Tunisia is cancelling his meetings and working remotely, according to Reuters, after he became infected with the coronavirus
- “Russia mandates vaccinations for some as virus cases surge” – Having fallen short of the target to vaccinate 30 million, regional governments across Russia are now, according to the Associated Press, obliging many workers to take the jab and requiring vaccination for entry into restaurants and other businesses
- “Iceland to lift all COVID-19 restrictions from Saturday” – Svandís Svavarsdóttirlonger, the Minister of Health in Iceland, has announced all Covid restrictions are to be dropped as of Saturday, Reuters reports, including masks and social distancing
- “National Institutes of Health defends deleting COVID-19 genetic data pointing to lab leak origin” – A National Institutes of Health spokesperson has defended its decision to delete its record of genetic sequencing of COVID-19 cases, the Washington Examiner explains, on the grounds that the request for the deletions fell within internationally agreed guidelines
- “Inside Wikipedia’s endless war over the coronavirus lab leak theory” – A cnet feature on Wikipedia’s ongoing internal editor battles over the coronavirus and its origins
- “From limousine to lockdown: How Sydney’s outbreak got out of control” – The Sydney Morning Herald reports on how the city ended up with another lockdown
- “Nearly one in 10 Victorians ‘seriously considered suicide’ during COVID lockdown, report finds” – According to ABC, researchers surveyed 1,157 residents of Victoria, Australia during September 2020 and found that 33.4% reported symptoms of anxiety or depression, 26.3% reported burnout, 12.3% has started using or increased their use of substances and 9.5% seriously considered suicide
- “An abundance of dread as Daniel Andrews’ comeback looms” – In just days, John Simpson warns in Spectator Australia, “the architect of one of the worst chapters in the life of Victoria (outside of war and the Great Depression) returns from three months away due to injury”
- “WHO’s behind Facebook?” – “The World Health Organisation surprised everyone,” says Rebecca Weisser in Spectator Australia, “by advising parents to hold off on vaccinating their children for COVID-19” but no one was more startled than Facebook
- “They called it a conspiracy theory. But Alina Chan tweeted life into the idea that the virus came from a lab.” – Antonio Regalado interviews Alina Chan, the post-doc researcher who used her twitter account to help change the debate about the origins of SARS-CoV-2, for the MIT Technology Review
- “COVID-19 origins still a mystery: Study finds virus was ‘highly human adapted’” – Medical Xpress reports the findings of researchers at Flinders University and La Trobe University in Australia, who, seeking to help identify an immediate animal vector, found that the virus was “ideally adapted to infect human cells”
- “Covid pandemic fuelling major increase in drug use worldwide: UN report” – A press release about the new United Nations report which found that around 275 million people took drugs last year, up 22% over 2010
- “Child labour: The hidden costs of Covid” – A BBC report on 9 year-old Teddy in Uganda. After her school closed in response to COVID-19, she went to work mining for gold
- “Shocking revelations’ on gain-of-function research ‘raise questions’ about CSIRO” – Sky News Australia’s Peta Credlin covers the revelations that the Australian Government agency CSIRO has undertaken research on live bats with the Wuhan Institute of Virology
- “Matt Hancock needs to go and he needs to go today” – TalkRADIO’s Mike Graham lays out the case against the Secretary of State for Health
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‘Hancock Out’ should not be the rallying cry for today’s demo. It would take attention away from the bigger objective.
Would the odious toad be replaced by an even more odious toad?
Would the replacement be following a similar agenda?
The big issues for more are not about his hypocrisy, his lying, his infidelity, his incompetence, his cronyism / corruption but about his agenda and who has set it for him.
There is a danger that focusing on the pleasure of seeing this despicable person knocked off their pedestal will waste the opportunity of exploiting the current situation as a catalyst for challenging the whole narrative.
Perhaps a better rallying cry would be ‘Expose the Cabal’
Apologies for talking to myself again…
I have now looked through all the items above the line.
What an incredible number of damning indictments of this whole stinking shit show.
The world must now be ready to listen to the voice of reason and decency.
Our time has come!
Quite. It is truly shocking that alternative voices, a good many from highly intelligent and respected individuals and groups, have been sidelined and esentially tagged as cranks.
I think the cry has to be “end the great reset” because that is what it is
Totally agree
Satire is truly dead.
From the Sydney article:
“Epidemiologists say each vaccination is a point on the board and a reminder that we will never know how many invisible cases could have shown up but didn’t because of effective vaccines.”
Can anybody make sense of this for me? Sounds to me like a recipe for lockdown hysteria for ever, coupled with jabs for ever. The ultimate nightmare.
Also, this rock keeps tigers away. I don’t see any tigers around here, do you?
If the memes are anything to go by the placards today should be amusing at least for hands, face, back to my place Matt.
I think it’s very obvious to anyone with an IQ above 50 that we are at the stage now, where they are not just torturing us for tortures sake, but where they are also openly and brazenly taking the p*ss out of us while doing so.
First the G7 BBQ, then Hancock and soon Merkel, travelling back and forth to Delta infested Britain without any tests, let alone quarantines, whilst having introduced most draconian ones and demanding even more of them for the German and British plebs.
Sadly, the only conclusion we can draw is, that the percentage of people with an IQ above 50 is now in the low single digits, unsurprisingly more or less equalling that of the people still not gene therapied.
The morale of the public has been crushed. The government can do whatever it wants with us. We will put up with anything. We’ve shown it over and over again.
I never thought I would see anything like this in my lifetime but unfortunately you are right. The British public have clearly demonstrated they will put up with pretty much anything. In a genuine war footing this may not be a bad thing but far too many have mistakenly likened the Covid ‘threat’ as some sort of Blitz spirit scenario but it is no such thing. It is fact the sceptics who have the real Blitz spirit and not those who have accepted the ‘we are all going to die’ narrative and have blithely gone along with every bit of nonsense SAGE, the government and MSM have dished up and continue so to do.
Stoicism in the face of the inevitable (a virus) is admirable and desirable. Stoicism in the face of folly and evil is misplaced.
It’s not about IQ. It’s about gullibilty, and the courage to admit you were wrong/you’ve been had (even to yourself) and to admit that the world is indeed as truly awful as it seems, and to speak out against the herd.
A lot of people I speak to grudgingly admit I am right and then say “but what can you do?”.
I find a lot of those in my acquaintance who are essentially sceptical have a very clear rationale – they avoid the issues for their own psychological health, because they feel that they have no agency, and that in itself is disempowering.
It’s understandable. As individuals, we are largely powerless on our own. All one can do is one’s best, with whatever we have at our disposal and within the limitations of what we are prepared to sacrifice, and to face those limitations and at the same time face the fact we are in very very deep trouble is painful. Without my wife and kids and mother in law being solidly with me on this, I may have flagged.
A lot of stuff about Hancock. IMO just another distraction. The majority WILL NOT connect his philandering with the covid lies.
And no mention of protests today:
upcoming protests.
London:
Glasgow
See also:
For most people I chatted to about it yesterday it was the infidelity that either amused or outraged them, not the hypocrisy. So I think you’re right.
I was a bit down after the last demo given the almost total media blackout, but I’ll be there again today.
Yes, first the infidelity, then (especially for anyone who hates Tories) the cronyism (esp. in relation to the lady’s brother) then the rule-breaking – but it will mainly be that they think the “rules” should be followed, not that the “rules” are nonsense.
Sadly, you are spot on although I suspect nearly everyone I see muzzled for virtue signalling effect in Tesco’s breaks the rules themselves when not out in public.
A lot of the indoor muzzling is IMO neither fear nor virtue signalling, just rule following to avoid conflict or disapproval
Yes, I agree. My sister-in-law is one such person. She claims she is a sceptic but will not demonstrate it and continues to wear her mask saying, “It’s not really such a big deal”. I tell her that that attitude actually annoys me more than that of a bedwetter.
JHB will be there today so expect at least some talk radio coverage, if she can keep herself far enough away from the ‘anti vaxers’ that is.
ITEM: “From limousine to lockdown: How Sydney’s outbreak got out of control” – The Sydney Morning Herald reports on how the city ended up with another lockdown.
Well, that now makes it a total of eleven state-based lockdowns since the Big One of 2020. But that’s ‘Zero Covid’ for you – just a tiny handful of community-transmission ‘cases’ (i.e. positive tests) and governments hit the Pause (or Ruination) button again, solely for the political optics of being seen to be manfully keeping a deadly virus at bay.
The lockdowns (and their doppelganger, the Magic Mask) are all pointless, of course, not just because they don’t work (they do precisely diddley squat virus-wise) but also because there isn’t a deadly virus out there. Sydney’s latest episode of house arrest is based on a daily incidence of around twenty or so new ‘cases’ of community transmission of a virus (that no one knows they have unless tested) from just shy of 50,000 tests per day for those in designated ‘hotspots’. For a highly transmissible variant (like the ‘Delta’ one that currently has everyone getting their knickers in a twist), this is a population infection rate of a mighty 0.04%, showing that we now have, and have had for a while, herd immunity from naturally-acquired (and mostly unnoticed) infection (the natural end-point of a virus’ epidemiological journey). The ‘pandemic’ (such as it was) is over!
Only the ‘Zero Covid’ fanatics (which includes the Australian federal and all state governments, alas) and the ‘vaccine’ fetishists are keeping the panic alive and inflicting lockdown, or perpetually threatening it, on a cowed population queuing in their droves for testing whilst facing practically no chance of contracting a now thoroughly innocuous virus. Well done, Zero Covid Australia!
Yep, they will never be free of Covid, because with each ‘new variant’, they’ll just have to continue a little longer (maybe forever)…..let’s have a small wager about how long before the penny drops?
I think they’ll keep it up this year but in the New Year it will all start coming apart.
If that complete cult Hancock is finally defenestrated not over his deranged despotism, but for over-sharing his little prick, well, I’ll take the win, but it’ll be a bitter pill to swallow.
And who would replace him? All the potential candidates seem, as hard as it is to believe, even more sneering, sleazy and corrupt.
Maybe not the best figure of speech there, in your first paragraph?
Hancock should be sacked immediately, no humming or haaing. That they’re watching to see the public’s reaction is symptomatic off how weak-minded and morally bankrupt this government is.
I think the sceptic cause is served by him remaining in place.
“Health-related semi-formal working groups of the British Parliament are taking millions in donations from the pharmaceutical industry, according to RT”
In essence, this isn’t news. It’s part of the legal corruption framework that shapes political decisions.
A lot on Handoncock – unsurprisingly.
My bet is that he will stay – he’s too useful an idiot.
And I’m happy with that – he provides a constant target of ridicule, a meme for the whole shit-show.
Bit of light relief: Caller to TR: “I’ve had my 2 pricks”: Bozzer and Wankcock?
“6 cases of Lambda Covid variant first found in Peru confirmed in England”
Hmm, Peru.
USA, Peru, Chile, UK, Brazil and South Africa were all used for trials for AstraZeneca.
We’ve had the U.K. scariants; the Brazil scariant; the South Africa scariant; Peru has now provided a scariant – Lambda!
I’m not aware of a USA scariant – I might have blinked and missed it.
Chile must be pending.
AstraZeneca playgrounds!
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-03-22-usa-chile-and-peru-interim-trial-data-show-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-safe-and