- “Booster jabs will be compulsory for foreign trips” – Although double-jabbed Brits are currently free from quarantine restrictions when travelling to Amber List countries, this is expected to change with the introduction of booster shots, reports the Mail on Sunday.
- “‘Concern’ over lack of second jab uptake ahead of winter, says JCVI member” – A member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has expressed concern that people are not getting fully vaccinated against Covid due to disinformation, reports the Telegraph.
- “New Covid variants ‘would set us back a year’, experts warn U.K. Government” – A vaccine-beating variant is “realistic possibility”, say scientists, amid calls for contingency plans to be revealed, reports the Observer.
- “NHS blocks MoS revealing thousands died after catching Covid on a ward” – Roughly one in ten Covid patients hospitalised during the first wave of the pandemic picked up the virus on a ward where they were being treated for something else, reports the Mail on Sunday.
- “Zero-Covid zealotry wreaks havoc in economies around the world” – Repeated lockdowns in China due to the Delta variant and a limited vaccine roll-out threaten global growth, writes Tim Wallace in the Telegraph.
- “U.K. vaccine mega-factory working on combined flu and Covid jab” – VMIC is evaluating whether a single-jab model would work in a bid to cut down on manufacturing time and make roll-outs easier, reports the Telegraph.
- “Covid deaths rise 56% in a week from 39 to 61” – Department for Health bosses reported a further 26,750 infections on Sunday, a 2% drop from the 27,288 cases reported last Sunday, reports MailOnline.
- “The Variants of Covid Madness: Stepping Into the Breach” – “All over the world, there is no correlation between mask mandates and sustained Covid result,” writes Omar Khan in Uncommon Wisdom.
- “What a Choice! – The Week in Review (ep. 32)” – In the latest episode of the Bournbrook Magazine podcast, Michael Curzon, S.D. Wickett and Luke Perry discuss censorship, exam results and Afghanistan, a week after being censored by YouTube.
- “The BBC’s vaccine cheerleader Jeremy Vine gets his comeuppance” – “The entitlement and arrogance of the BBC’s top-paid presenters is no secret. To that we must now add sheer ignorance, studied denial and cruelty,” writes Kathy Gyngell in TCW Denfending Freedom.
- “The unravelling of the West” – Melanie Phillips and Brendan O’Neill discuss identity politics, anti-Semitism and the retreat from reason in a recent Spiked podcast.
- “YouTube Suspends Senator Rand Paul for Posting Anti-Mask Video” – U.S. Senator Rand Paul has been suspended from YouTube for a week for posting a video claiming that masks are ineffective in fighting Covid, reports Newsmax.
- “If You Question Government Covid Response You are Considered A Domestic Violent Extremist” – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security seems rather paranoid in their need to label anyone who would question the Covid response, reports the Conservative Treehouse.
- “L.A. man stabbed when anti-vaccine protesters collide with suspected Antifa activists” – A man has been stabbed at a rally against mandatory vaccinations in Los Angeles after violent clashes broke out between demonstrators and suspected ‘anti-fascist’ counter-protestors, the New York Post.
- “As it happened: NSW now in statewide lockdown after 466 new cases, four deaths on Saturday, eight mystery cases in Victoria” – New South Wales, Australia, entered a snap statewide lockdown on Saturday after recording 466 new cases of Covid, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
- “So is this really an A-level ‘triumph’… or a cruel betrayal?” – “I can still remember when a set of English A-levels were regarded as the equal of an American college degree,” writes Peter Hitchens in his latest Mail on Sunday column.
- “This pushover Government is merely storing up problems” – The exam grades fiasco is the latest disaster to befall a Government incapable of taking tough choices and standing up to vested interests, writes Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “The Church is on the brink of revolt” – “A quiet but unmistakable rebellion is taking place within the Church of England,” writes Giles Fraser in UnHerd.
- “The self-defeating rage of Owen Jones” – “Owen Jones seems to engage in public discussion not to understand or clarify an issue, but to berate or reward people,” writes James Heartfield in Spiked.
- “Scotland’s new transgender guidance is a safeguarding nightmare” – “All children need to feel safe and secure. That requires boundaries and policy grounded in facts and reality,” writes Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “ICYMI: ‘The Scottish Government has – in my opinion – a dismal record across the board’” – Neil Oliver criticises the SNP for its attempt to let children as young as four to change their gender, and attacks its record on drug deaths and handling of Covid on GB News.
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“JCVI member concerned people not getting “fully ‘vaccinated’ ” against ‘Covid’ due to disinformation”.
Surely the JCVI should be more concerned about people getting “vaccinated” due to disinformation. I hope they’re mentioning all those adverse reactions on those “invites” they’re insisting on sending out to healthy children (who won’t benefit from “vaccines”).
And I repeat, what are the differences between what scientists and organisations (such as the CDC) linked to Big Pharma and their proxies are saying about the “vaccines”, and those that are not (such as the OMNS)? And can articles which mention such organisations and scientists please make it clear which category they fall into? Informed consent requires full disclosure, not conflation of information from those with an interest in selling the “vaccines” with those who don’t.
You surely don’t mean Prof Wen of the JCVI – he of the Pfizer donations conflict of interest not publicly disclosed..?
Exactly. However as it appears the majority of them are ‘owned’ by Gates we can only mistrust everything the so-called ‘experts’ say.
I understand that test subjects are being given a leaflet explaining the Clot Shot risks so that they can make “an informed choice”… after the shot.
People should start suing individual members of JCVI for vaxxine injuries – then perhaps they might STFU about it. We need to bring this to a halt and stop pandering to their egos.
But there are no adverse reactions. Jeremy Vine said so.
Oh for a return to the days when even the BBC had Investigative Journalists. There’s a huge story not being reported.
The problem is not just the BBC – although, of course, its output touches a lot of people. The decline from reasonable and intelligent proper journalism over 50 years is marked, with Nick Davies’s ‘churnalism’ being substituted.
Vine is just a bit of litmus.
In this week’s episode of “we told you so”
good luck organizing that foreign holiday now and trying to squeeze it in between your 100th booster and the 101st being announced.
Yes, another “conspiracy theory” is being refiled in the history section.
How long before the flu jab is added to that list of requirements? Those drums have been beating for months now. And when the combined covid and flu injections come along (very soon by the sounds of it), will people be given the choice of having this or separate injections (my money is on this becoming the only option offered). What could possibly go wrong?
Only this morning the DT are running a story about both covid flu jabs being integrated into one jab!
According to our favourite destination in western Germany, visitors do not need proof of vaccines or a negative tests, but need a mask to be worn from the entrance to the bar….then it can be removed at the table…how does that work?
Ze German viruses are very disciplined. They only attack walking, not standing or sitting people. Sehr gut, ja?
Indeed: “Oh dear, citizen, your Freedom Passport is flashing an angry orange. Roll up your sleeve.”
Nightclubs in September, then it’ll be pubs and restaurants in October, non-essential retail in November, and VaxPass in Supermarkets to Save Our Christmas.
You do want to Save Our Christmas, don’t you, citizen?
It’s a dead cert that Christmas will be totally cancelled this year. By November onwards, I fear many people will die because their immune systems have been compromised by the fake vaccine. They’ll use these deaths to press harder with their narrative and the coercion towards us will increase ten-fold.
It’ll work either way.
No unusual deaths = vaccines and vaccine passports are working, we need more of them.
Unusual deaths = vaccines and vaccine passports aren’t working, we need more of them.
” ‘Covid deaths’ rise 56% in a week”.
Yes, and they’re less than the Sunday before last. And 15th August last year, 3 were reported. Those “vaccines” working well aren’t they? Meanwhile, there are still more reported deaths than in “vaccine” resistant France.
“thinkcriticall” linked this in a comment against an earlier story:https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00392-3/fulltext
Some evidence that the experimental injections may worsen outcomes of “Delta” infections. Possibly, they will get the IFR, for young people, up to a level that demands some concern.
(Source comment: https://dailysceptic.org/2021/08/15/tens-of-thousands-of-12-15-year-olds-vaccinated-in-ireland-as-roll-out-extends/#comment-573141 )
“A member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has expressed concern that people are not getting fully vaccinated against Covid due to disinformation”, but “Booster jabs will be compulsory for foreign trips”. So, the “disinformation” appears to be that you can get “fully vaccinated against Covid”!
(Oh, and these experimental injections are not vaccines, of course.)
“A vaccine-beating variant is ‘realistic possibility'”, and we’ve quite possibly already a vaccine-aided variant: https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00392-3/fulltext
Using “vaccine” rather loosely, there!
Credit: “thinkcriticall” (https://dailysceptic.org/2021/08/15/tens-of-thousands-of-12-15-year-olds-vaccinated-in-ireland-as-roll-out-extends/#comment-573141 )
Please watch this on Rumble:
Dr. Robert Malone ~ The Liberty Forum ~ 8-10-2021He thoroughly debunks the “vaccine” as a “one spike protein” pony and he should know, and discloses attempts to gag him by the US Intelligence community, with whom he is very closely connected, about key aspects of this gross fraud.
Every gun licence will be reviewed: 560,000 firearms owners are facing new checks and scrutiny of their social media in wake of Plymouth atrocity
Typical cynical exploitation, in our sick society. A nutter kills someone, and the state, pushed by the usual zealots, tightens its grip on the innocent majority yet again. Now apparatchiks will get to pore over decent folk’s social media accounts hunting for offences against pc dogma to serve as excuses to ban them from owning a gun – something that in a healthy society is just assumed by right.
Meanwhile, as this occasional freak event dominates headlines for weeks and provides political opportunities for exploitation by the usual suspects, nobody notices the other DM headline yesterday, because it’s so routine and commonplace, in a country with some of the tightest restrictions on gun ownership in the world:
Pensioner, 73, ‘who was asking for the music to be turned down’ is among three women hurt when drive-by gang opened fire gun at London BBQ party
I’m sure stopping people who say politically incorrect things on the internet from having a gun licence will address the real sources of gun violence in our society. Not.
Couldn’t address the real sources, it’d probably upset the “woke” mob. I seem to remember a story that, a hundred years or so ago (perhaps a little over) many people had guns in the UK, and yet it was a remarkably peaceful society. I think it would be too much to ask for politicians to learn lessons from this though. Elsewhere, apparently, in a city in the so-called United States that eased gun restrictions, contrary to the expectations of some, apparently crimes, including the violation of women, actually reduced. Maybe the BBC will run a story on it…
“I seem to remember a story that, a hundred years or so ago (perhaps a little over) many people had guns in the UK, and yet it was a remarkably peaceful society.“
Accidents and the occasional nutter aside, gun crime, like all violence, is always a cultural issue.
England in the early C20th was awash with privately owned guns, but they were vanishingly rarely used to commit crimes. The early drive for gun control was very much political – fear of rising socialist sentiment and of the possibility of revolutionary violence. There are vast swathes of the US where guns are near universal, but gun crime likewise vanishingly rare. The large numbers of gun crimes there, as here, are driven by the dysfunctional American urban cultures.
But you might have noticed that we live in a safety and control-obsessed culture and in such a culture the hoplophobes will always have the upper hand. But they will still never be safe enough to be happy.
“I think it would be too much to ask for politicians to learn lessons from this though.”
Of course. That would mean admitting that many (not necessarily all) of the “progressive” social changes of the past long century have been disastrously costly.
“hoplophobes” …reaches for dictionary. I suppose many years ago I might have been put off the US by the presence of guns, perhaps in a time when I would have preferred to live in a city. Depending on the city, that may have been sensible, though as you point out it’s the level of crime rather than guns that matters. With the zeal of the converted I’m now astonished when seemingly well-informed, rational acquaintances tell me they’d never go and live in the US, when I mention a desire to go and live in a remote rural area, because there are too many guns, despite the certaintly that the level of violent crime wherever it is that they live in the UK is way higher than anywhere I would choose to live in the USA.
Someone said that the more safety we have, the more we want. I went to food and drink festival in my town yesterday. On the face of it, not much in the way of coronabollocks other than hand gunk. But the place it was held had been chosen partly because it could be easily fenced/barriered off, some attempt at a one way system had been put in place to enter and leave, and they had security ostensibly counting people in so they could stop people entering if it got too crowded. It didn’t really impinge on enjoyment, but was completely unnecessary, especially as they’d undercooked the number of beer stalls so any chance of drunken rowdiness was scotched by the impossibility of getting a bloody drink. The people attending behaved normally and sensibly – the dozen or so people whose job it was to plan it, put the signs and barriers up and generally busybody around would have been better employed manning the beer pumps or helping grill sausages.
I seem to remember a story the journalist Mark Steyn told about the part of America he lived, where he would always leave his car keys in the ignition – that way he’d know where to find them, he quipped. Apparently robbers are more likely to target places that don’t have guns.
How about “The Police Complaints Authority have suspended all officers involved in reinstating firearms licence of Plymouth gunman”….that might be worthwhile…
ITEM:
THE LOCKDOWN BLUES
(shamelessly nicked from Huddie Leadbetter’s Bourgeois Blues)
Me and my wife tried to go down town
But everywhere we go, the police hound us down
Lord, in a lockdown town
It’s a lockdown town
I got the lockdown blues
Gonna spread the news all around
Went to a club, tried to go upstairs
heard the boss man say I don’t want no unvaxxed up theres
Lord, he’s a jib-jab man
in a jib-jab town
I got the lockdown blues
Gonna spread the news all around
Home of the bold, land of the free
Don’t wanna be mistreated by no Covidiocy
Lord, in a lockdown town
Uhm, a lockdown town
I got the lockdown blues
Gonna spread the news all around
Me and my mate went all over town
And everywhere we go, the muzzlies turn us down
Lord, in a muzzlie town
It’s a muzzlie town
I got the lockdown blues
Gonna spread the news all around
Them white coats on TV they just know how
To throw you a bone just to see you bow
Lord, it’s a lockdown town
Uhm, a lockdown town
I got the lockdown blues
Gonna spread the news all around
I tell all you folks to listen to me
Don’t try to find in Sydney* no sanity
‘Cause it’s a lockdown town
Uhm, a lockdown town
I got the lockdown blues
Gonna spread the news all around
* insert, as appropriate, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra, Darwin or whatever Australian city the Zero Covid Lockdown Wheel of Misfortune has landed on today
It’s a pity ‘lockdown nation’ doesn’t scan, because that’s what Oz is, God help it.
“JCVI member concerned people not getting “fully ‘vaccinated’ ” against ‘Covid’ due to disinformation”.
Do they mean like Sir Anthony Pollard and Paul Nuki?
Have we had this on the round up?
https://www.city-journal.org/do-masks-work-a-review-of-the-evidence?utm_source=Twitter&wallit_nosession=1
An excellent review, well worth a read!
Yes, a good and thorough treatment.
To quote the song Star Trekkin.”It is worse than that Jim he is dead”
https://twitter.com/MartinKoss/status/1426426386625990658
Alex B. has a new post:
Gaslighting, a Covid love story
If at first you don’t succeed, lie about what you promised
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/gaslighting-a-covid-love-story
Well for the first time in a while, the DM front page is dominated not by covid panic propaganda, but by war propaganda.
We are to understand that we are somehow responsible for the lives and well-being of foreigners in a foreign country on the other side of the world.
That because some warmongers, ideologues, megalomaniacs and profiteers in our country manipulated our news and our politics so that we spent lives and treasure in a country, we have somehow now acquired a duty to “honour” those losses by committing to more. Ad infinitum.
That the crimes of those warmongers somehow create a duty on those of us deceived by them or overruled by them to pay to make good the costs of their crimes.
If we face threats here, it’s because we have interfered there in the past. The answer is not to engage in a futile attempt to help the power our elites serve – the US – to try to control the entire world, but to stop interfering there, stop importing the world’s divisions by mass immigration, and try to solve our own problems here, for a change.
Morning, rational extremists.
Very sad to once again see the Sceptic faithfully report “infections” and “cases” when we all know very well that a positive result from a 45-cycle PCR test is nothing of the sort.
Also, poor show on reporting daily “deaths” (again, deceptive phrasing) up 56% versus a week before, without the context that they were down 34% on the day before.
Why report Lügenpresse propaganda headlines verbatim?
Watch and share while it’s still up!
Dr Tess Lawrie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2EEDJuQNrI
“The BBC’s vaccine cheerleader Jeremy Vine gets his comeuppance”
The most notable part of this exchange is that the bloke had to lie to get his views heard on BBC. He had to pretend to be a repenting former sceptic who now has covid and is going to die within 28 days.
The brutish bullying way Vine attacked the guy for doing this really shone a light on the BBC’s own honesty. It showed without doubt that they will not let anyone go on the BBC and oppose TPTB. And in the end, Vine cut the guy off (“I hate cutting people off” – yeah right).
If you haven’t cancelled your TV licence direct debit yet, let it be on your conscience that you are directly funding this evil corporation.
I’ve nothing really constructive to say on the matter, but it’s important to me that I put on record that i think Jeremy Vine is a complete, gold plated, 100% cnt.
I hope you choke on your quail’s egg vol au vents and Vietnamese cous cous, you out of touch, overpaid, metropolitain elite tosser.
Neil Oliver is by far the best speaker on television. If only we had a real democracy that allowed us to elect people like him. Sadly, and regardless of democracy, I fear Scotland is so wrapped in their hatred of the English that they will always support SNP.
Your last sentence is completely, 100% wrong james; although if you live down south and base what you believe Scottish people think on what you read in the MSM I don’t blame you.
Believe me; the only people who “hate” the English are those that have swallowed the nationalist’s propaganda, and they are a clear minority…….in Scotland many, many more people hate the divisive SNP than they do any other group of people.
Apologies for taking the thread off topic
“Apologies for taking the thread off topic”
No need. You were simply responding to one of the attempts to ride hobby horses on the back of Covid.
Hold on pRick. How can I be off-topic if I’m commenting on one of the items posted by Daily Sceptics above the line? You have a terrible habit of trying to steer this website to suit your very own ideals.
I’m basing my views on experience as I spend a lot of time travelling around Scotland (not since the plandemic started though), and my fiancée’s family is spread across the whole Scotland. Her dad, even though he lives in England, still has a deep suppressed dislike of the English and supports SNP. I know there are parts of Scotland that are simply a no-go area for the English unless you are looking for trouble.
I will admit however that my comment was sweeping and generalising which I retract. I love Scotland and the Scottish people – even if a sizeable number will not like me for being English!
//BTW these round-up sections of Daily Sceptics cover more than just the plandemic and I am only talking about this subject because it is a selected item ATL – therefore it’s not off-topic.
And while I’m here…..How great it is for an English audience to hear on prime time tv, what the MAJORITY of Scots think about the behaviour, duplicity and sinister intent of the Scottish government. (And that it comes from a genuine, authentic Scot too).
Nothing irks me more than my English friends thinking that most of us condone, or even support, the endless bile from Sturgeon, Blackford & co that is reported as “scottish public opinion” in the MSM.
Well done Neil Oliver, keep it coming.
““Covid deaths rise 56% in a week from 39 to 61””
This is the sort of statistical illiteracy (misinformation) from official>MSM sources that the general public is constantly faced with.
Check out this thread in response to the BBC’s useful idiot Jeremy Vine
tweeting: “Is the vaccine more dangerous than the illness?” – People are
awake!
https://twitter.com/theJeremyVine/status/1426973428146393095
That Vine sequence is a marvelous self-condemnation by the Beeb to anyone who isn’t brainwashed. Talk about ‘The Party Line’!
On the big issue of the day, Afghanistan, here’s a well informed and well argued case from Unherd for the optimistic view, albeit from a lefty perspective that takes for granted that we should be concerned about how everyone else runs their societies. But at least it’s a lefty perspective wise enough to recognise that we can’t get away with direct military coercion to impose our ideology, at least in this case.
Can the Taliban bring peace?
Good question.
Looking at the state of the world, has anybody anywhere got the slightest faith in any leader in any country anywhere in the world?
No?, I haven’t either.
There isn’t one that I would trust to even run an hotdog stall.
From wence will our salvation come?