- “Highest taxes since Second World War as Boris Johnson abandons manifesto pledges” – The Prime Minister has raised National Insurance and pulled the plug on the pensions triple lock to fund NHS and social care, reports the Telegraph.
- “Covid booster jab campaign may not be needed, says AstraZeneca boss” – Pascal Soriot warns that the NHS may come under unnecessary pressure if the roll-out begins without clear evidence, reporst the Telegraph.
- “There can be no justification whatsoever for an October lockdown” – It simply isn’t plausible that we could go from being at herd immunity for summer to having a new wave ten times as great this autumn, writes Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
- “Javid’s cash boost can’t fix a battered NHS” – “The Treasury is, true to form, anxious that the health service doesn’t just take the money without it appearing to touch the sides,” writes Isabel Hardman in the Spectator.
- “Exam contingency plans being made in case coronavirus forces more ‘unthinkable’ cancellations in 2022” – Schools Minister Nick Gibb says teachers and schools want advance details of “what data they might or might not need to collect should the worst happen”, reports Sky News.
- “It’s not up to my 12 year-old daughter to decide whether she gets jabbed” – These children aren’t old enough to buy gerbils, yet according to the Government they are able to make their minds up on the Covid vaccine, writes Judith Woods in the Telegraph.
- “Never again should Parliament sit via Zoom” – The more MPs are able to look into the whites of each others’ eyes, the better, writes Iain Dale in the Telegraph.
- “Four in five people aged 16 and over in U.K. have had both vaccine jabs, says Government” – A total of 43,535,098 people have had two jabs (80.1%) and 48,292,811 have been given one dose (88.8%), reports Sky News.
- “The Left’s science denial” – Beware sharing politically inconvenient stories on social media, writes Tom Chivers in UnHerd.
- “Covid Bosh: The Illicit and the Desperate” – “The lies are growing more desperate. Now more than ever, we have to cleave to what we can best discern and know to most likely, rationally, be the case,” writes Omar Khan in Uncommon Wisdom.
- “Young adults’ lung function is not affected by Covid, researchers find” – Scientists in two separate studies say the results are reassuring for those in this age group who become infected with Covid, reports the Telegraph.
- “Scientist Claims Anthony Fauci ‘Untruthful’ About Chinese Lab Research” – The U.S. Government helped fund research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, reports Breitbart.
- “Vietnam man jailed for five years for spreading Covid” – The man was sentenced to five years in jail for “spreading dangerous infectious disease” after breaching quarantine rules and passing Covid to at least eight people, reports the Guardian.
- “Sex, drugs and the Modern Review” – We wouldn’t have survived amid today’s echo chambers and cancel culture, writes Julie Burchill on the Modern Review in UnHerd.
- “Only connect” – “This,” according to Alexander Adams in Bournbrook Magazine, “is why meeting in person at organised events, social get-togethers and chance encounters is so valuable.”
- “E.U. wants everyone to pay the cost of going green – except the wealthy” – Climate change is for all us to solve. Leaving out supercars and private jets from plans is hypocritical, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “We won’t be bullied into going green, says China” – Beijing has told Britain that it will not yield to international pressure for bigger improvements to its climate change commitments at the COP26 conference, reports the Times.
- “Radical environmentalists need to get a grip – we’ll still need coal for the foreseeable future” – Without steel you can’t have wind turbines, or solar farms, or new energy-efficient homes. And to produce mass steel, you need coal, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Better-off workers will boost the war on woke” – “There is often more method to the madness of commercial wokery than is commonly supposed,” writes Andrew Cadman in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Train conductor sacked for referring to ‘alcohol-free caliphate’ on Facebook” – There was a time when one might have sacked for using the F-word in public, but Jeremy Sleath has been sacked for using a simile, reports Archbishop Cranmer.
- “BBC offers staff test to see how privileged they are” – The initiative has been ridiculed by critics as pointless, while MPs declare that the corporation’s “distorted view” is not shared by viewers and listeners, reports the Telegraph.
- “Can the perpetually underfunded NHS please just look after our health rather than wasting time and money lecturing us about race?” – “An NHS blog titled Dear White People in the U.K.’ emerged over the weekend. If this is the sort of rubbish we can expect added funds from the proposed raise in National Insurance to go on, Britain is being taken for a ride,” writes Paul A. Nuttall in Russia Today.
- “I am sick of being told I have to protect the NHS!” – Toby says on talkRADIO: “It has become our national religion. A lot of people are sick to the back teeth of this.”
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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?