- “Britain’s competitiveness will suffer if we don’t return to work” – It is vital for the development of new, fast-moving technologies, to have people collaborating in the same environment, writes James Dyson in the Telegraph.
- “Record number of children on NHS waiting lists for eating disorder treatment amid Covid pandemic” – Nearly a third of the children waiting for eating disorder treatment have been waiting for up to three months for care, while 11% have been waiting even longer, reports MailOnline.
- “Face mask divide in Parliament as MPs recalled for Afghanistan debate” – The majority of Tory MPs opted not to wear coverings as the Commons returned to full capacity for first time since before the pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pfizer Covid vaccine 86% effective after third shot” – The Pfizer Covid vaccine has been shown to be 86% effective in preventing infection among over-60s after a third dose, according to initial results published by Maccabi Health Services, as reported in the Jerusalem Post.
- “Booster vaccines should not be administered, WHO warns as U.S. gives green light” – The World Health Organisation says Covid booster vaccines are not necessary and calls on countries with high vaccination rates to donate surplus vaccines to poorer countries rather than administering third doses, reports the Telegraph.
- “The role of the BBC in emergencies” – “It would have been reasonable to have read this BBC News piece and to have formed the (false) impression that Covid now poses a greater hospitalisation risk to younger adults,” writes Jamie Walden in his latest column in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “Covid recovery: public health, services and justice system reforms” – The Scottish Government is inviting views on its “Covid recovery” programme.
- “Is it time to stop blaming China?” – “The outcomes of our response to Covid include a bankrupt country, record waiting lists for NHS treatment, some remarkable statistics regarding suicide and a host of other problems regarding child abuse, domestic violence and mental health problems. China did not do this to us… our own Government did.” A blistering piece in Unity News Network.
- “Texas school district requires masks after finding dress code loophole to bypass ban” – A district website announcement says the Governor’s recent executive order doesn’t allow his office to usurp the school board’s power, reports the Guardian.
- “Trump claims Covid booster shots are ‘money-making operation’” – Former President Trump says that rolling out ‘booster’ vaccine doses “sounds like a money-making operation”, reports MailOnline.
- “NYC to Impose Up to $2,000 Fines on Businesses Serving the Unvaccinated” – Businesses that fail to comply with New York City’s vaccine mandate will face up to $2,000 in fines, Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced, as reported in Breitbart.
- “Tucker Carlson: Self-Censorship Turning America into ‘Soviet Society’” – Tucker Carlson warns that America is becoming a “Soviet society” prioritising conformity over freedom of behavior and thought in an interview with Breitbart.
- “Decadence and hubris have finally brought down the American Empire” – The U.S. is in retreat on all fronts, and its incompetent politicians are incapable of reversing the decline, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “I’m guilty of going against The Science: a defence of my condemned, censored ‘dangerous’ speech to parliament” – Most of the research touted about around masks and Covid is based on observational studies and not randomised control trial studies that are considered the gold standard in science, writes George Christensen in the Spectator Australia.
- “Australian health official flees press conference after question over spike in teen suicides, as Victoria locks down again” – Victoria’s Chief Health Officer abruptly left the stage during a Covid press conference when a reporter asked about a surge in suicides among teenage girls, reports Russia Today.
- “Australia’s Qantas says all staff must be vaccinated” – Qantas says all of its employees must be vaccinated against Covid, making it the latest global airline to mandate jabs for staff, reports BBC News.
- “Vaccinations, Coercion and the Rule of Law” – “The Australian Constitution prohibits any form of compulsion, which would subject citizens to medical or pharmaceutical services, including mandatory vaccination,” writes Augusto Zimmermann and Gabriël Moens in Quadrant.
- “Cattle don’t cause global warming, they’re already net zero” – “The Green Wreckers who destroyed Australia’s cheap, reliable electricity are now targeting our cattle industry,” writes Viv Forbes in TCW Defending Freedom. “They use fake science and false advertising to threaten our right to produce and consume real meat.”
- “There’s a huge problem with the Government’s hydrogen strategy” – Hydrogen won’t just lead to higher energy bills, it could even increase greenhouse gas emissions, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “New Confirmation that Climate Models Overstate Atmospheric Warming” – Two new peer-reviewed papers from independent teams confirm that climate models overstate atmospheric warming and the problem has gotten worse over time, not better, reports Watts Up With That.
- “Nigella Lawson’s pal accused of racist cooking” – Pippa Middlehurst, a friend of Nigella Lawson, has been forced to fight back after being accused of racism for daring to publish a Chinese cookbook even though she’s white, reports the Mail.
- “Biden’s most heartless betrayal” – The American Government cares more about pronouns than the fate of Afghan women, writes Ayaan Hirsi Ali in UnHerd.
- “Twitter Tests New Feature for Users to Flag ‘Misleading’ Posts” – Twitter has announced it is testing a feature that lets people report tweets they think are misleading, with with the objective of scaling up its “broader misinformation work”, reports the Epoch Times.
- “‘Colonialism’ flap at the opera as Madam Butterfly is put under the microscope” – Ticketholders to new Welsh National Opera production will be offered talks on how Puccini’s classic tale raises issues of ‘imperialism’, reports the Telegraph.
- “The competition watchdog is set to investigate sky high PCR test prices” – Travel writer Ben Clatworthy tells talkRADIO: “It’s ridiculous that providers are charging hundreds of pounds. It’s a complete racket and underhand way of travel restrictions by stealth.”
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“Bill Gates says ChatGPT-like AI is ‘as revolutionary as mobile phones and the internet’ – and says it could speed up creation of new vaccines”
He’s obsessed. Can’t we just lock him in a room with some Lego.?
Brilliant !!! Made me howl !
I suppose testing “vaccines” on talking mannequins is one up on not testing at all.
I love lego always have, but I want to play with him!
Don’t Don’t!! Want to play with him!
Too late, its on the internet now…
You could build a fairly good prison out of lego if you had enough blocks. You could convince him to be on the inside…”you do the furniture Bill, I’ll just build this (unopenable) door….”
“Wolf-whistling to be made illegal – and claiming it’s a joke won’t be any excuse”
From personal experience the best way for men to stop wolf whistling is for a pretty girl to tell them to ‘fuck off’. Why do we need laws, more laws, for minor human interactions.
The gov will be making laws about farting and breathing next!
I was trying to recall the last time I heard a ‘wolfwhistle’. 1980’s..maybe..? Perhaps its got something to do with the insistence of women in recent times to add 30-40lbs to their backsides, and wander around in make-up that makes them look like a cheap marrionette. I’m going to suggest that it doesn’t need to be make illegal, as it will become an act that no-one will want to perform for Weeble-esqe, clown painted women anyway.
They did already for breathing.
Remember those masks?
“Fury at woke barristers refusing to prosecute eco warriors: 120 top legal professionals to sign ‘Declaration of Conscience’ to try and keep climate activists out of the courts”
Do I detect the smell of Soros’s wallet..?
Aye. Are there going to be future splinter groups of lawyers who no longer wish to represent rapists, pedophiles, murderers, GBHers and others on the grounds of conscience too? If not, why not?
“Fury at woke barristers refusing to prosecute eco warriors: 120 top legal professionals to sign ‘Declaration of Conscience’ to try and keep climate activists out of the courts”
What they will actually be signing is a ‘Declaration of Incompetence’ which makes these people unfit to practice.
There is only one remedy, they must be struck off.
I think you’re right, HP. Strike them off!
“Why doesn’t Britain regret lockdown?”
I confronted someone on Twitter yesterday, who was still taking the line that if we’d locked down three days earlier it would have saved 100,000 lives. Shame there isn’t a vaccine that would open their eyes, and kickstart their brains. I’d jab people myself, for free….
Three days earlier would have saved 100,000 lives?! Where do they get this nonsense? Oh yes, it’s everywhere…
““Why doesn’t Britain regret lockdown?” – Freddie Sayers writes that three years on, voters remain in favour, according to polling for UnHerd.”
Isn’t it principally because no-one likes to have been taken for a sucker?
Sayers goes on to say “My view on these results is quite simple: in order to justify a policy as monumental as shutting down all of society for the first time in history, the de minimis outcome must be a certainty that fewer people died because of it.” I suppose it depends on what he means by “fewer” and how long this “shutdown” lasts. Would I support a one-day lockdown if it saved millions of QALYS? Maybe. But with regard to a low-consequence mild-for-most virus of the type we’ve coexisted with for millions of years, no I don’t want to restrict my life in any way even if it might change the date of death for a small number of people by a few months.
https://www.gbnews.com/opinion/we-must-continue-to-fight-against-the-official-lockdown-narrative-here-on-gb-news-says-dan-wootton Dan Wooton’s opinion. Worth noting that GBN is relatively new, and manages to sell adverts despite telling the truth!
Within limits set by OFCOM. See Mark Steyn.
“Why doesn’t Britain regret lockdown?”
Soft, convenient, never known any hardship so this made me feel like I was part of something, don’t rock the boat, please make decisions for me, I’ve had the vaccine so I must agree with lockdowns, I believed implicitly and now feel ashamed, to trusting, can’t think for myself, please move on I don’t want to talk about being made a fool of! Hands over my ears, close eyes, hum loudly! I’m a sheeple, Barrrrr
That about answers the question!
Oh, and months of paid holidays!
“The EU’s censorship regime is about to go global”
Reading this article is truly alarming and I’m wondering how this will affect sites such as the DS and all the other places I go to and things I read and watch that are about alternative information, pushing back the dominant narratives. With this, people will only get the squeaky clean, pine tree fresh, antibacterial version of events where everything is fine in the digital prison. Seems there has been little or no push back. They clearly don’t like us talking about the lies we’ve been fed about Ukraine, climate change, Covid, 5G etc. and that we should just accept that.
Well, William Caxton set up his printing press in London around about 1475. It meant that books could be printed for the first time and in the late 1500s, translated bibles were printed so that finally people who could read, could read what the bible actually said. Although from our viewpoint 500 years later, this seems a small and insignificant thing, it was in actual fact a huge thing. It took power away from the clerics and those who could read Latin and gave it to the people. They could read the words of the bible and make up their own minds.
My point is that although the ramifications of this DSA (Digital Services Act) are awful, truth will always find a way because you can feel it in your heart. It resonates in a different way to lies. Look at Johnson desperately piling lie on lie and tell me he is coming from a place of truth. Look at Blinken in the Senate Covid Committee squirming away with his obfuscations and lies while Rand Paul slowly grills him.
A recent exchange with my local MP shows how his words fall flat when he talks about depleted uranium as being able to pierce armour plated vehicles but with absolutely zero mention of the toxic residue left on the land. And this man actually went to Iraq!
Our local town council meeting on Tuesday night when a councillor justified climate change by saying “you only have to look outside” as if a bit of bad weather allows them to implement plans that will severely restrict freedoms. One of our group wittily remarked ‘Well it’s dark!” – after all, it was 8pm.
I don’t fear this bunch of a..holes trying to imprison us in the digital prison and shut us up. If anything, it makes me even more determined to have my say and to confront all these liars and tyrants with the truth. So although they pass their laws and play their games, the truth will always rise to the surface like cream. Like I always say, you can’t stop an unstoppable force or an idea whose time has come. People want change and change is coming but nothing like Obama’s lying version. Real change where we all get a say about our futures and where we get rid of the tyrants and would-be tyrants and all the bullshit
I like your sentiment that ‘truth will always find a way’. I do wonder if it gets so bad whether the blockchain would be a place to set up something like this. I really don’t know enough about it all but read that the bitcoin blockchain can’t be destroyed by governments. At least not at the moment and I hope never although they are doing their best.
Or using new words like some are resorting to online in place of words not allowed on YouTube etc or short science fiction stories. I don’t know but I like you find the EU’s new censorship regime very scary
“Well, William Caxton set up his printing press in London around about 1475. It meant that books could be printed for the first time”
I wonder Aethelred if Caxton’s presses might need to be revived, albeit clandestinely?
We’re already on it, HP…posters, leaflets, information sheets, books, badges etc
I’ve seen QR codes stuck to subway walls.
Could you explain this please?
Great stuff.
“Claim: Insurers are Writing Off Electric Vehicles with Minor Damage”
Apparently the UK does not currently have any facilities for re-cycling EV batteries and scrapped and damaged EV batteries are being stored in special storage facilities, I understand there is one of these sites near Doncaster.
This is yet another confirmation that we are being ”gaslighted” over Electric Cars, they are never simply going to replace petrol/diesel (ICE) cars and allow us to carry on motoring as at present. In my estimation, given current technology and resources; the UK can only hope at best to replace 20% of ICE cars with EVs. At which point motoring will just be for the well paid elite, the 80% of the rest of us hoi-polloi will be reduced to public or community transport, cycling or walking.
But I guess that may well be the least of our worries as by the time that happens the UK finance system will have collapsed and most of us will be living on social credits and turnips
I happened to be in a taxi the other day, a Renault Zoe, which the driver said he’d had for three years. It is due a service, but the garage can only book him in in 7 weeks time, as they have ONE trained technician.
“Commercial development of gene-edited food legal in England”
Why is this not a headline on DS?
While we weren’t watching!
By having the jab on mass you have voted by proxy to allow genetically modified foods, and any thing else that it can be used for! And, no lengthy testing periods, and, no requirement for labelling !
God help us all!
Which is why it is so important for those who have space, time & inclination to grow some fruit & vegetables using open pollinated seed which can be saved to ensure that untainted food is still available.
It’s about preserving our heritage as well as spending one’s hard earned cash with the good guys.
I’m in the middle of old house renovation atm but as soon as I’ve got more time that’s exactly what I’m going to use my half an acre for
Brilliant! Learn how to save your seed, store your veg, preserve & can your surplus. If there are any folk nearby who are struggling, you’ll know the valid cases, a little bit of sharing your good fortune goes a long way.
I’ll be drowning in potatoes if my crop is good (ordered the bare minimum of seed potatoes for the varieties I wanted & got loads too many!) & will be sharing my bounty with those in need in the village.
Maybe take a bit of time out in the fresh air to sow a few potatoes, beans & the other sort of things which tend to look after themselves.
Good luck with your project!
Yes my dad did all the above and was very good at it, home grown all the way!
My wife is going to kick start the gardening this year and when I’ve popped a new roof on the house,dug a new well in the garden, and cut back 30 years of jungle! I’ll joint in!
By the way, do you live at number 30?
I don’t live at number 30. Haven’t a clue where in the country you are!
Eat organic, forage for wild food, grow your own, guerrilla gardening on vacant lots, barter, share etc. We can do without their crap food.
We’re going to demand the local council make more land available for allotments due to rise in food prices etc. We have to take this local and demand our rights and having access to healthy food and/or growing it is a right in my opinion under natural law.
Touché!
You have kept your second language a secret Dinger.
Dinger – ‘on mass.’
……..en masse. From les francais.
Always start any conversation with a pro-lockdown pro-vaxed by stating CoronaV was never deadlier than seasonal flu; it was never an existential threat, never.
And everyone knew this by February 2020, before lockdown began, courtesy of some easy Math based on the experience of the cruise ship the Diamond Princess.
This new world is too much! Too fast!
I prefer pre 2019!
You’re thoughts?