- “The case against new Covid restrictions” – “There’s no reason to believe that, now cases have stopped being able to grow exponentially despite there being no restrictions, they will start doing so again any time soon,” writes Andrew Lilico in UnHerd.
- “Businesses warn the threat of a return to working from home will cripple the economy” – Experts say a return to working from home in Britain will cripple the economy and will come at the worst possible time when companies are getting back on their feet, reports MailOnline.
- “Vaccinating children is a decision for families, not the Government, to make” – Parents have to give permission for a child to have a school photograph taken or a plaster applied – why not to have a novel mRNA jab, asks Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “What happened to ‘following the science’?” – To state that children must be vaccinated because schools will be closed if they aren’t is a circular argument, reads the lead article in the Telegraph on Tuesday.
- “The utter shambles of child Covid vaccine consent” – “The disease having proved far from fatal, experimental treatment may therefore not be administered in this case,” writes Tom Penn in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Vaccinating kids against Covid is a big mistake” – The proposed Covid vaccination plan for 12 to 15 year-olds is not worth the risks, writes Alex Starling in Reaction.
- “Why are we jabbing millions of kids simply to keep teachers at work?” – Gavin Williamson and his department have been pushing for such a roll-out, terrified of the militant teaching unions who refused to work at the height of pandemic, writes Dan Wootton in MailOnline.
- “Mother of cancer victim says her daughter contacted GP over 20 times” – Jessica Brady, 27, from Stevenage passed away from liver cancer in December after a series of virtual appointments over the course of five months failed to spot her tumour, reports MailOnline.
- “Many civil servants will work from home for good, says Whitehall boss Alex Chisholm” – Many civil servants will continue to work from home permanently after the pandemic, reports the Times. What kind of example are they setting?
- “Cover-up: Why the ‘experts’ want to eliminate the Covid control group” – “Over the course of the last 18 months, our ruling class and their go-to ‘public health experts’ have uncloaked themselves as nothing more than power-hungry charlatans,” writes Jordan Schachtel in his latest substack update.
- “Risks of Vaccines for Those Recovered from Covid” – “There has been no study demonstrating clinical benefit with Covid vaccination in those who have well documented or even suspected prior Covid illness,” writes PeterA. McCullough in TrialSite.
- “U.K.’s already hard-hit travel sector to see even more jobs culled, industry body warns” – Britain’s travel sector is preparing for even more jobs to be slashed, as an executive for the industry’s trade body has warned that over two thirds of employers who still have furloughed staff are planning to make cuts soon, reports Russia Today.
- “Our Most Reliable Pandemic Number Is Losing Meaning” – A new study suggests that almost half of those hospitalised with Covid have mild or asymptomatic cases, writes David Zweig in the Atlantic.
- “China loses grip on soft power in Latin America as vaccine take-up wanes” – China’s efforts at vaccine diplomacy in Latin America have stalled after key nations scaled back plans to buy its jabs, reports the Times.
- “Andrew Neil was wrong about GB News – a ‘British Fox News’ is just what we need” – Learning from Fox could have helped GB News become a successful populist channel. With Neil gone, it might now stand a chance, writes Robin Aitken in the Telegraph.
- “Line up for the ‘Based Draft’” – “As Mancur Olson discovered, the organised minority is always more effective than the unorganised majority, frequently managing to dominate (or rule) societies,” writes Alexander Adams in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “This Government will be swept away unless they find a story to tell” – It will take more than an unconvincing vow that the pandemic is over to weather this surreal new era, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Booker prize’s colonial roots are problematic, say organisers as shortlist revealed” – The roots of the Booker prize are problematic because they lie in colonialism and the British Empire, its organisers said, as is reported in the Times.
- “Of course AOC went to the Met Gala” – What passes for ‘left-wing’ politics has perhaps never been more palatable to the mega rich, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “The state could start pressuring young people into other things against their parents wishes” – Covid Recovery Group member Sir Geoffrey Clifton Brown says on talkRADIO: “It’s totally wrong’ for children to get jabbed without their parents permission.”
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“Cancer victim died after series of virtual appointments missed tumour”.
There was a SAGE estimate last July, wasn’t there, that 75,000 would die because of lockdowns in the UK alone. Sadly, I suspect this may turn out to be a bit of an underestimate. And still no proof that lockdowns have saved lives from Covid (see for example Belarus) let alone the 75,000 plus lives that they would have to save to be a net benefit .In terms of saving lives) after all the deaths they cost from other causes are taken into account.
You mean SAGE expected the lockdown corpse count to be more than half the covvicorpse count? And it didn’t worry them?
Oh, why am I still surprised by this sort of thing?
Even if lives saved equalled lives lost; how many covid deaths would have been people in their 20s. They may have saved 75,000 elderly and seriously ill people and killed 75,000 kids and young adults as a result.
Locally in the early months of lockdown a hospital went to the newspaper to tell parents not to avoid taking their children to hospital. This was after 2 young kids died of routine illness (one was appendicitis) after parents tried to avoid going to hospital, even though they knew their child was in need of treatment.
There was a horrific case reported of a young child who turned out to have appenditis, but the parents were fobbed off over telephone conversations over several days. The child eventually expired on the floor, having received no treatment. I can only begin to imagine the suffering of the child, and parents, during this time. Unforgivable. Every scout and guide in the 20th century knew how to spot a possible appendicitis, yet here we are in the 21st century, with amazing medical tools for visualising inside the body, and the NHS will allow a child to die in agony of appendicitis. Unbelievable. Historians of the future will marvel at the cultural and societal environment our government created to allow this shocking state of affairs to come to pass.
I think the difference between the ‘with COVID’ deaths and those of people either not diagnosed, diagnosed late or not/delayed treatment of other life-threatening ailments is that the latter will happen over a longer period, say 2-5 years, so they can pretend they are overall lower than the ‘with COVID’ deaths, and to blame the government for underfunding the ‘precious’ NHS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNi7y3HBRz0
The comment section… No one is buying it.
Yep. It’s these little things that give me hope.
I can’t see the comments under that video – I assume they’ve been hidden?
I’ve just seen them. Scroll down to the BBC logo and below it says comments, click on the number and you get them.
Go to any of the mainstream news items on YT featuring government covid propaganda, and they’re all heavily downvoted, with comments to match. Even the BBC news items where the “thumbs up” were always suspiciously high, they’re now struggling to maintain power!
They allow comments!?
“The ruling class has declared war on the non-compliant class”. (Substack, eliminating the control group).
If it’s war they want… In any case, I always thought it was a stupid idea if their strategy is really to try and eliminate the “unvaccinated” control group. I mean, they’ll never get everyone, certainly not in a country like Romania, and probably not in other countries either.
But if the aim was simply to create a schism, it’s worked an absolute treat.
I don’t think it is their aim, otherwise they’d simply make the jab compulsory for everyone, from the womb up. Yes, that would be a gross breach of human rights, but since they have long ago crushed every other fundamental human right, up to and including the right to a face, why should it worry them?
The truth is they need us. We are Goldstein. ‘The face will always be there to be stamped on. The heretic, the enemy of society, will always be there, so that he can be defeated and humiliated over again. .. The more the Party is powerful, the less it will be tolerant: the weaker the opposition, the tighter the despotism. Goldstein and his heresies will live for ever.’
Holy God, if we heretics didn’t exist, they’d have to invent us.
They will make it compulsory as soon as they can.
Two sides, each convinced of their own biological superiority. What could possibly go wrong?
States Gear Up for Legal Fight Over Vaccine Mandate
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From our friends in Buckinghamshire:
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Saturday 18th September 12pm at Chequers meet up point as below
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– with a couple of guest speakers and a stroll thought the town centre at the end
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ITEM: “Our Most Reliable Pandemic Number Is Losing Meaning” – A new study suggests that almost half of those hospitalised with Covid have mild or asymptomatic cases, writes David Zweig in the Atlantic”
Funny how when, during the year and a half of statistical inflation of the threat posed by Covid was all the rage, that hospitalisations featured heavily as a metric (along wth statistically-padded deaths and hyper-inflated ‘cases’ ) but now that the ‘vaccines’ are supposedly doing their White Knight thing, it is convenient for the establishment media to play down the significance of the hospitalisation metric. Covid bad, Vaccine good!
Conflating patients admitted ‘with’ Covid and ‘because of’ Covid served its purpose back then when fear was desired by the Covid panic-peddlers and the lockdown loons. Not so much now – “those patients who are there with rather than from COVID don’t belong in the metric”, ends the article, along with an encomium for the Wonder Jabs.
The study finds that 48% of all hospitalised patients “may have been admitted for another reason entirely, or had only a mild presentation of disease”. Well, blow me down, wasn’t this always likely right from the beginning of the Great Panic. Pity the authorities didn’t decide then to withdraw statistical life-support from a pretty run-of-the-mill seasonal respiratory virus. Still, they had a product (Virus Terror) to sell and statistical integrity had no place in the PR campaign.
Phil, South Australia
Hi, Phil. You’re right of course. In the same lying vein, they are playing down the corpse count and refusing, as always, to publish statistics on recovery, which would prove beyond all possible doubt that there’s no pandemic.
Be strong, Australian brother! Truth will out in the end, because we will dig it out.
We should clearly stick to Farr’s nostrum that anything other than death is an assumption.
I have been dismayed at the complicity of the number of ATL articles here that have gone along with scrappy data about hospitlizations, ‘cases’ and ‘infections’.
It is now well over a year since it was known, irrefutably, that only all-cause mortality figures could give us a reasonably reliable picture.
… and still the duff data keeps getting quoted.
Another interesting bit of data in a surprising article to appear in Biden-leaning Atlantic, in the one ( and only) area that ‘vaccines’ can possibly provide any benefit, ie reduction in severity of symptoms, only 12% better than unvaxed. Which just shows that the virus is doing what all do, its getting easier to catch but less of a threat to its host. No wonder they are all desperate to remove the control group as soon as possible.
It’s quite apparent now that injecting yourself with one of the Government’s approved covid ‘vaccines’ is tantamount to giving yourself a form of lupus. I quite like my own immune system and I will continue boosting it with vitamins C and D, plus a dash of zinc.
D especially important in the UK now we are in the months when the sun is not strong enough to create it in the sun. Make sure you take a reasonable amount.
As this is the ‘general news’ page and I think the subject is very pertinent to the reporting of the pandemic and other matters of importance at the moment, I thought I would show you a comment from Telegraph (soon to be former) reader Keith Granger in the BTL area of today’s Letters Page.
It perfectly sums up how I felt by June of 2020, doing exactly the same then as he has done after 20 years reading the paper online and many before reading my dad’s daily paper copy.
I think his comments deserve to be voted best of the day there. It’s likely that the DT mods will, if it gains popularity there (they like removing Likes to stop that) they may delete it as ‘off topic’ (really that it embarrasses and angers them). Here they are (letters are paywalled but BTL reader comments can be accessed):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2021/09/14/letters-cabinet-incapable-radical-thinking-needed-help-nhs/
………………….
Keith Grainger
15 Sep 2021 8:40AM
“I have posted occasionally on here, but this is my last.This morning I am cancelling my Telegraph subscription.I have been a reader for 27 years.Since Chris Evans became editor, this once great newspaper (e.g MP’s Expenses scandal) has slid down the drain to the left.That is an editorial decision, but my hard-earned cash will no longer help fund it.
I am always for freedom of speech, and listen to many alternative views. Sometimes I change my mind upon reflection. However, I do not wish to pay for Guardian outcast Suzanne Moore to tell me how horrible Britain is, nor help fund Bryony Gordon’s troubles that she has brought upon herself. Misandrist Joan Smith is certainly no longer being financed by this male. As for Shane Watson ‘Celebrities have stopped washing – does that mean that we should too?’ – well, Hello Magazine can perhaps pay your wage when DT sees the light. Katie Glass ( I’m surprised by how suffocating village life is) can no longer rely on my subs to contribute to her slope from county to county.
I do not wish to finance Nick (how to lose an election in one easy lesson) Timothy’s lecture that we need to raise more tax . Thankfully William Hague scurried off, having being wrong about everything since he was 16, but sneering t Ambrose Evans-Pritchard remains – wrong about almost everything e.g. his article ‘The Cumbria Coal Mine is Economic Idiocy’. I think not. As for ‘Global Health Security Editor’ Paul Nuki – as one commentator says, ‘What a load of tosh!!! This story has been planted to soften us up and continue brainwashing the public.’ It is clear that ‘the old boy network’ and ‘metropolitan elite’ are alive, even thriving, at the DT (as well as in the current government).
Finally, there have been some great opinions in this ‘Letters’ section, one of the few open to comments. Yet why are no comments allowed on most important articles? I thank the many regulars who have given their views, many of which echo my own. However, the abuse from AmF, together with a few others has been tolerated, perhaps even encouraged, by the moderators and Editor, whilst other reasonable comments have been censored. Yesterday was a nadir. As I said, I am 100% in favour of free speech, but to insult the intelligence, knowledge, education and morality of so many commentators is nothing short of vile. But I have come to expect this from the left, and now the DT, that clearly holds the majority of its readers in contempt.
No doubt this post will disappear. Might I perhaps ask if some of you would be so kind as to consider copying this, and reposting when that happens? Thank you.”
Fully agree – so many gossipy, wet fart or ditzy columns that we could be reading Woman’s Weekly…….
…….and the sports pages are just as bad, so full of themes supporting BLM, women’s sport and gay sports star that it is basically a woke tribute act.
The Daily Telegraph is where the Guardian was 15yrs ago.
I have not paid for a copy for about 3yrs now.
I remember when I was in school Sixth Form in the early 90s, and the school library always (for some reason) had copies of The Daily Mail, Guardian and one other (not the Times or Telegraph – it could’ve been the Indie [if it existed back then] or the FT – I can’t remember).
Needless to say, aside from the obvious partisan commentary articles and a reasonable portion of the front page, The Guardian’s factual news reporting wasn’t that bad – comparing to current MSM newspapers – including The Times, Telegraph and FT.
For me, things at the DT took a downturn once current Editor Chris Evans took over (2013?) and the influence of him and the proprietors became more and more significant.
Things accelerated around the time of the 2015 General Election/2016 Referendum/2016 US Presidential Election, and the pace of change has increased rapidly ever since.
In my view, very few (experienced, high quality) genuinely conservative journalists and columnists remain working for the paper – many forced out/sidelined and replaced with either naive, woke, leftist and/or compliant younger or activist ‘journalists’, many of whom (and their editors) have very thin skins who don’t like reader criticism, nor do they like any commentary on certain ‘hot button’ issues that ‘offend’ their agendas.
The blatant censorship and even (IMHO) seemingly employing (remember Kate Day?) trolls of their own or letting some vile ones (including what was likely ‘foreign agents’) to keep posting whilst deleting perfectly decent/reasonable commentary (including on-topic) from genuine readers.
Their pandemic coverage has been woeful and once I found out that their ‘Global Health Security’ section (aka the COVID propaganda dept, IMHO) was ‘funded’ from 2017 by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the tune of $3.2M, I was DONE.
I’m just glad that sentiment in the BTL comments areas (that still exist) has SIGNIFICANTLY turned against both the MSM, DT, mainstream political parties, big corporates and woke activists, etc, and in a BIG way.
Some of the more spineless DT ‘journalists’ have tried to change their tune because the now see which way the wind is starting to blow, but most haven’t.
The US desk is, in my view, the arm of the US Democrats, with Ben Riley-Smith playing a big part (now back as Political Editor I think) in the anti-Trump, pro Dem/Biden machine. What the paper/US desk did and continues to do on US politics reporting (especially the 2020 election etc) was an utter disgrace, barely any different in my opinion to that of 1930s/40s Germany.
I’ll push it again, as the best analysis of the decline of journalism in recent history. Really worth reading for a wider perspective :
Flat Earth News by Nick Davies
Blimey, is AmF still posting vile comments? I wonder which DT journalist he/she is?!
I gave up on the DT about 3 years ago – and wrote a similar email to the Editor. I don’t even look at it free online, as I don’t want my clicks (meagre as they are) to contribute towards its stats (which might encourage more sponsorship deals).
When I left last year, I politely but firmly gave my two proverbial barrels worth when given the opportunity to say why I was unsubbing, not that those in charge were likely to heed anything I wrote.
I still view some articles (some are still ok), but I now source most of my news from a wide variety of truly independent outlets – it can be quite tiring looking around to find – because most are small-scale and don’t have the size/reach to report on the full range of issues.
I’m more often likely to read reader comments (especially those laying into articles, their author and the DT) than the articles/columns themselves. The likes of AmF & Co being allowed to hand around and troll (in contravention to their own policies) just brings down the tone further.
I think many long term readers have stuck with the DT because they value the ‘all-in-one’ service that costs a LOT less than the Times (which in my view is no better anyway). The Mail can sometimes get good ‘scoops’, but its generally too trashy/low brow for me (online version in particular) – no real discussion or debate in the BTL comments areas – those that are still allowed…
The pandemic restrictions and economic woes (as a result of the former) have only made things worse.
I was sad to give it up, but much sadder to see its slow-motion self-destruction, as it became the Guardian-lite. I miss the BTL commentators the most, but the trolls made reading the comments an increasingly tiresome experience.
Completely agree.
I just found a very good article in The Critic from 10th Sept on the ‘Green Energy Scam’ of supposedly heavily reducing installation and running costs of that tech touted by industry sales people, govt officials and naive/corrupt ministers vs the reality of the situation (its nigh on the opposite):
https://thecritic.co.uk/did-the-pm-tell-the-truth-about-net-zero/
That Boris (likely at the behest of his ‘wife’) is trumpeting this now, of all times when we can least afford this and have better things to be concerned about is bad enough; that precious little MPs and most MSM journos understand, care or are actively involved in perpetuating the lies (for money, short term popularity/woke points or power/influence) about the issues involved rather sums up society today.
BTW – kudos to Edwin Pugh from todays’ DT Letters Page BTL comments area who’s post put me on to that article.
“So number 10 was trying the vaccine passport system at the gate when they had a reception for Tory MPs where you had to show your QR codes. But the Tory MPs stood there and said well we’re not coming then and Number 10 folded.”
https://twitter.com/SikhForTruth/status/1437879532539858944
Mass non-compliance was the only way out from the beginning, with masks and lockdowns, and it’s certainly the only way out of “vaccine” apartheid.
Hiding no10 behind a corporate control intermediary (QR surveillance state) is deeply disturbing all of itself.
Businesses warn… I walked through Covent Garden yesterday, sad to see the emptiness and closed businesses. The coffee shop was nearly empty, and staff said they were very worried by the news of coming lockdowns, For What Else Is WFH. I am hearing more reports of law firms being quiet (few mergers and takeovers), of architects struggling (hotel and airline work has ended) and all these have effects on other jobs. Boris’ and Gove’s main aim is to crash the economy completely, and they are doing very well at it.
You have to destroy people’s livelihoods if you want to make them dependents.
“Forcing my prick inside you might harm you, but I’m doing it out of love, and I think you’re old enough to consent to it.”
Branch Covidian, or paedophile?
What’s the different?
Jab kids eh?
Don’t they know that more physically kids committed suicide 2020-21 then died because of C-19.
The Australian spiral gathers pace. I expect ‘Plan B’ will involve things of a similar ilk.
https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1438061773819715587?s=20
I would like to ask people in this group to participate in a small ad hoc survey.
A) In the period from 1st September 2019 to 31st January 2020 did you experience a persistent cough lasting for 7 days or more? If so how long did it last?
B) in the period from 1st September 2019 to 31st January 2020 did you experience any change in your sense of taste or your sense of smell? If so how long did it last?
C) Did you see a GP or attend a walk in centre?
D) which part of the country are you (South East, South West, East Anglia, Midlands, North West, North East, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland)?
Very happy to. For my other half and me we can answer as follows:-
(A) Yes. For him it was early December 2019. Lasted about 2 weeks. For me it was early January 2020. Lasted a week. For both it was a cough of a sort we had never had before, as it was quite severe and nothing calmed it down. It took your breath away. His resurfaced briefly in mid January but was minor…a few days only.
(B) Yes for me, not sure about him. Loss of taste that lasted about 3 days. Came after my worst night of coughing.
(C) No. We both thought it was “something going round”. You don’t go to the doctor for just a cough and a bit of a cold-type thing, do you?
(D) South West. A lot of people had something like this. A colleague ended up in hospital in late 2019 with suspected pleurisy, but it proved not to be that….although they couldn’t say what it was. Another friend had a cough that went of for a month. But then others got nothing at all.
A) Yes, a cough with a tickly/raw throat unlike any infection I’d had before. Several people I know had it around November 2019 and acquainances a family member knew who attended dancing events remarked that it was moving through those circles. One person was hospitalised with pneumonia. All very odd given that covid was not yet an official thing.
B) I don’t honestly recall now. Possibly.
C) No.
D) Midlands
A) Yes – for 6 weeks, late October, early November 2019
B) No.
C0 No
D) Wales / North West border
A). Not quite 7 days – more like 4. Sore throat, high temp, especially overnight, between Dec 27 – 30 2019. Felt a lot better by 1st January, though.
B). Yes, on account of whatever it was.
C) No. It was never normal to report anything like that.
D) South West.
Whatever it was, I most likely acquired it during one or two Christmas do’s at busy premises, probably having been in one of my favourite pubs for a while. Not good ventilation on cold nights etc. A reasonable guess, given my lifestyle these days. It was well before the panic broke out, but no-one really knows what was around in detail.
A Yes, around Christmas 2019 and commented on by my sister-in-law. Lasted six weeks or so
B No
C Not specifically about the cough but yes for a skin rash/nettle rash that appeared soon after. GP simply wasn’t interested (and that, Feb 2020, was the last time I saw my GP)
D South East
The Atlantic article is incredibly naive in making this statement :
“From the start, COVID hospitalizations have served as a vital metric for tracking the risks posed by the disease”
It is hard to conceive of how far behind the curve of reality is this sort of journalism.
https://doconomy.com/
Carbon credit card. Will limit purchases after a personal allowance is reached.
Ready to be integrated into the new “vaccine passport” social credit carbon allowance system.