- “Schools will need to reintroduce tougher Covid measures in weeks, warn unions” – Families have been warned to expect significant disruption to learning by end of September because of rise in virus ‘cases’, reports the Telegraph.
- “We must urgently invest in mental health” – Young people suffering from the effects of lockdown are in dire of need proper support, writes Stephen Fry in the Telegraph.
- “NHS bosses fear Rishi Sunak will leave them billions short” – NHS leaders fear that Rishi Sunak is offering them £5 billion less than they need to deal with Covid next year and have warned of a “frighteningly large” shortfall, reports the Times.
- “The pandemic exposes human nature: 10 evolutionary insights” – “Understanding human nature will enhance our ability to address the aftermath of Covid, as it has disrupted so many of our fundamental human activities,” write the authors of a new paper published in PNAS.
- “Up to 700,000 vaccine passports hit by NHS blunders as officials record wrong data” – Hundreds of thousands of jab records contain errors, leaving some double jabbed people without proof they need to travel, reports the Telegraph.
- “Beware, Boris: Britain is hurtling towards a winter of discontent” – Soaring inflation, spiralling public debt and stroppy trade unions have created the perfect storm, writes Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
- “Look her in the eyes” – “How much did we spend on the policies intended to prevent death from Covid, and how does it compare to the amount we usually spend preventing death,” asks Richard Lyon in his latest substack update.
- “Covid Vaccines and the Delta Variant” – “Government agencies should be studying North Dakota to see what they are doing right and Hawaii to see what they are doing wrong, because the answers are not vaccination rates,” writes Gilbert G. Berdine in AIER.
- “Covid, a brilliant way of transferring money from the poor to the rich” – “The old saying ‘Follow the money’ is truer today than it has ever been,” writes Harry Hopkins in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Where lockdown is a fairytale” – In Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto, hostages are happy, writes Suzannah Lipscomb in UnHerd.
- “Judge orders Ohio hospital to treat Covid patient with Ivermectin” – Desperate to save her husband’s life, Julie Smith appealed to Butler County Common Pleas asking for a judge to order staff at the hospital where her husband is ventilated to try it on him, reports MailOnline.
- “A widely shared study on ivermectin might be wrong” – “I don’t know whether ivermectin is effective for preventing or treating Covid. But this study doesn’t provide strong evidence that it is,” writes Noah Carl in his latest substack update.
- “As Australia’s Politicians Enforce Yet Another Lockdown, Small Businesses Keep Suffering” – “As Melbourne’s latest lockdown is extended yet again, small business owners such as myself are forced to determine at what point continuing to incur more debt becomes pointless,” writes Geoff Parkes in Quillette.
- “Zero-Covid is wishful thinking if Australia wants to rejoin the world” – “Even if Australia changes direction soon, Covid’s near-fatal infection of its body politic will take a long time to eliminate,” writes Terry Barnes in the Spectator.
- “Distressing moment a little girl sits in her handcuffed father’s lap” – A father was stopped by police on a Sydney walking path and arrested as they spoke to him for not wearing a mask, reports the Mail Australia.
- “Is Thailand’s PM Advancing Beyond the Chinese (Zero-Tolerance) and American (Vaccine-Centric Eradication) Paradigm Acknowledging the Need to Coexist with Covid?” – “According to local media sources there is a growing recognition that at least among the heads of this Southeast Asian nation that the people will have to learn to live with the virus,” reports Trial Site.
- “How much will it cost the U.K. to get to net zero?” – Experts call for clarification on who will pay for upfront investment to achieve carbon emissions goal, reports The Week.
- “Newly-single Michael Gove parties the night away at Scottish nightclub” – The usually reserved minister, 54, was filmed throwing shapes on the dance floor at Bohemia in Aberdeen city centre, pausing only to shake hands with fellow partygoers, reports MailOnline.
- “BBC plagued by partisanship? Row over appointment of ‘left-wing’ Editor continues to fuel debate about broadcaster’s impartiality” – A controversial new hire at the BBC has reignited discussion about the outlet’s political neutrality, while also prompting allegations that the British Government has too much influence over the public broadcaster, reports Russia Today.
- “Extinction Rebellion gets to protest while Covid goes on holiday” – “Their concept of law and order does not exist to ensure stability by providing fairness and an accepted arena in which to play politics, but in the friend/enemy distinction,” writes Luke Perry in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “Pensioner repaints black figure on totem pole white after ‘woke’ neighbour’s ‘racism’ claims” – Native American enthusiast Brian Connery has painted over the grinning face on his 10ft statue after a villager complained of its “racist overtones”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Met police force ‘considers plan to introduce gender-neutral uniforms’” – The force could be in breach of the 2010 Equality Act by not providing separate uniforms for non-binary and gender-fluid officers, reports the MailOnline.
- “The Manchester Pride video shows you can now be ‘the wrong kind of gay’” – A young man being mobbed by trans rights supporters highlights the delusion of those who imagine themselves to be progressive, writes Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
- “At Manchester’s alternative Pride march a supporter of gay rights group LGB Alliance was surrounded by a howling mob of trans activists” – Helen Joyce, author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, says on talkRADIO that this recent incident marks the return of homophobia.
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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?