- “Boris Johnson faces Commons defeat over vaccine passports” – Labour spokesman says making people show proof of Covid jabs for access to venues “costly and impractical”.
- “How England is starting to IGNORE Test and Trace” – Experts said the data was reminiscent of the start of the second wave, when the performance of the £37 billion programme also dipped.
- “‘Plausible’ evidence that Covid may have been circulating in Italy in October 2019” – Researchers say findings are “interesting” but conclusive evidence of widespread early infection is still needed.
- “Covid: Officers told not to check green and amber arrivals, union says” – Passenger locator forms and mandatory tests will not be routinely reviewed in England, a union confirms.
- “Suffolk hospital records first Covid death in months” – West Suffolk Hospital has recorded its first coronavirus related death in several months.
- “Don’t celebrate the end of lockdown be angry it was ever there at all” – Peggy Grande in the Daily Express with a rousing defence of liberty.
- “COVID-19 antibodies detected in 67% of India’s population” – The figure compares with 24% in January and shows how the Delta variant has ripped through the nation of 1.3 billion
- “What to expect when attending English theatres from tonight | WhatsOnStage” – Scotland and Wales will follow from next week.
- “USA swimmer Meyers withdraws from Paralympics” – USA Paralympic swimmer Becca Meyers, who is blind and deaf, withdraws from the Tokyo Paralympics because she was prevented from bringing her mother and care assistant with her to the Games.
- “Keir Starmer to self-isolate after one of his children tests positive for Covid” – One of the Labour leader’s children tested positive on Wednesday lunchtime, spokesperson says.
- “More than 150 care homes suffered at least 20 Covid deaths” – Figures released by the Care Quality Commission today showed every care home in the country saw at least one coronavirus death from April last year to March this year.
- “Boris beset by technical issues as he takes PMQs from self-isolation” – Hopes of a packed and rowdy chamber for the final weekly session before the summer break were dashed amid renewed concerns about rising cases and the ‘pingdemic’.
- “We’ve made a tragic choice to enter a new era of permanent Covid terror” – The irrational shifting of goalposts means there is no logical end to this debilitating state of fear.
- “Why the young should tell Boris where to stick his vaccine passports” – Over the last year and a half, Boris’s persistent dithering and consistent U-turns have turned a nation of plucky Brits into cowed, fearful, compliant bots, writes JANET STREET-PORTER.
- “Even the vaccinated aren’t safe from the consequences of vaccine passports — Bournbrook Magazine” – If your unvaccinated neighbour can be blacklisted from society then let me assure you that you can be as well.
- “‘I never thought this would happen in France’: day one of showing Covid vaccine pass” – Showing a health pass or negative PCR test is obligatory if people want to access cultural venues.
- “Parisians split over new Covid ‘health pass’ as France battles fourth wave” – Emmanuel Macron’s new coronavirus passports branded “scandalous” as nation struggles with surge in Delta cases.
- “Israeli lab: Some existing drugs could stop COVID at almost 100%” – A Hebrew University of Jerusalem research team found 18 drugs that they felt could be effective in the treatment of patients who contract COVID-19.
- “The Fallacy of Climate Financial Risk | by John H. Cochrane – Project Syndicate” – The idea that climate change poses a threat to the financial system is absurd, not least because everyone already knows that global warming is happening and that fossil fuels are being phased out. The new push for climate-related financial regulation is not really about risk; it is about a political agenda.
- “New book offers look at trans-activism including toddlers transitioning” – Helen Joyce, who is Britain Editor for the Economist, was prompted to write Trans after speaking with detransitioners who compare their experience to being “in a cult”.
- “Parkin probed by council for links between the cake and colonialism ” – Connections between the ginger and treacle cake and colonialism will be probed in research by Leeds City Council.
- “Don’t Apologize” – If the mob comes for you, stand up for yourself. A free society demands it.
- “California couple whose gender-reveal party sparked a wildfire charged with 30 crimes” – The pyrotechnic device sparked the destructive El Dorado fire, which destroyed five homes and killed one firefighter.
- “Facebook cracks down on discussing ‘hoes’ in gardening group” – Facebook’s censors are digging deep – flagging the word “hoe” in a western New York gardening group because they apparently confused the tool for a disparaging term for women.
- “Heresies Ep. 5: BBC Bias Exposed – An Insider’s Story” – Former BBC employee Robin Aitken takes Auntie to task for the New Culture Forum.
- “The CDC has doubled the number of Covid vaccine death reports in the past week” – Alex Berenson on Twitter points out that the number of deaths following the receipt of a Covid vaccine recorded on VAERS has increased from less than 6,000 to 12,313 in the last week
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So far I like the cut of Milei’s jib. A breath of fresh air and common sense.
Billing the head of JSO would certainly be appreciated. A pay up or porridge deal should do the trick.
I strongly disagree.
“Security” is an imposition by the state. Its the state that wants to deploy police officers to provide “security” so it should foot the bill itself.
Although, of course, the state has no income. It’s income cones from shaking down the public.
It didn’t take Milei long to act like a hypocrite.
You are total granite Stewart always totally consistent.
JSO can protest and I would not charge them for security, but I would certainly charge them or jail them for damaging art works, buildings etc.—- Damaging things is not legitimate protest. ———I would expect no leniency if I had a JUST START OIL T short on and threw paint at my bank window, and I don’t think I would get any.
Its that thing that the left don’t do terribly well. Consequences for their actions…
I strongly disagree.
“Security” is an imposition by the state. Its the state that wants to deploy police officers to provide “security” so it should foot the bill itself.
That’s not really true. In 2017, there was a G20 meeting in Hamburg. These are traditionally also gathering points of the (so-called) anticapitalist/ anarchist hard left who’ll stage ‘protests’ against them. The city was essentially stripped of police in order to ensure the safety of all the meeting politicians. Because of this, the protestors went rioting in several city districts, smashing up and looting shops, torching cars etc.
Milei’s argument still doesn’t hold water, though: The largest parts of these costs will have been paying all the security-related government employees who would have needed to be paid come rain or shine, ie, regardless of the demonstration. And the actual numbers deployed were chosen by the government for some reason only known to it. People have freedom of assembly, however, should they actually assemble, fines in the order of thenthousands of dollars will be issued to people not guilty of any criminal conduct effectively means There’s no freedom of assembly.
I tend to agree
My starting point would be that the right to peaceful public mass protest is sacrosanct and charging people for it isn’t appropriate. If people are engaging in deliberate obstruction then they should be moved on or arrested. The greyer area is when the obstruction is a natural result of a lot of people being in the same place at the same time. I think it’s reasonable to encourage protestors to choose where they go in order to minimise inconvenience to others without losing the impact of the protest but I don’t feel that coercion is warranted
I like the idea of charging JSO for any damage done, then passing that on to donors. Never happen though
What a Christmas gift, that headline really did make me laugh out loud
Good for Milei, if I’m not mistaken a similar principle applies to football matches and pop concerts, so why not.
If you truly believe in what you’re protesting, you’ll be happy to foot the bill, in the knowledge that you will be safe while protesting and as a taxpayer you will not get further burdened.
Merry Christmas everyone, have a good one.
Yep, we are on the same page Jane.
Have a lovely Christmas
There’s a very real danger that this could end up being the thin end of the wedge. Once a government charges protesters blocking roads during a protest it’s a very small step to charging other protests for the policing costs involved and before we know it protest is the preserve of the well off.
The best solution would be to massively increase the fines given to people who have been found guilty of breaking the law during a protest to help cover the cost of dealing with their law breaking rather than simply charging groups who organise a protest.
“massively increase the fines given to people who have been found guilty of breaking the law”
I largely agree with your comments but the problem is that the legal system is now largely corrupted. JSO routinely break the law with their pathetic vandalism and deliberate road closures. Bill the tw#t funding this crap and things might change. If he doesn’t pay send him down.
Looking forward to the day when Extinction Rebellion are charged for the disruptions they cause. 10,000 motorists on the M25 x £10.42 an hour…. A few days of that will soon drain ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶ the George Soros funded twats of funds.
Damn right.
“a heavy deployment of police, paramilitary officers and anti-riot forces, cost 60 million pesos, or about £57,500, at the official exchange rate.”
We should employ Argentinian police. At those prices we could fly them over here to deal with protests and riots and fly them back and it’d still cost less than using ours.
Yes that’s 1,043 pesos to the pound if my calculator is correct.
They will also strip protestors of Welfare. That’s going to hurt.
No. Just those protesters who block streets – if I understood that correctly.
Mind you that also means they expect to be able to identify these people.
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Have a peaceful Christmas everyone.
In order to do this they must be closely surveilling the event and have the technology to trace the protesters they have identified. Its easy to applaud the concept of charging the protesters but the mechanics involved in that process are part of the apparatus of the surveillance state which, I think, most here would be against.
Correct. Trudeau tried it against the Canadian trucker protest during Covid. Not just cutting off welfare payments but freezing their bank accounts. I don’t think many on here would have supported that action.