- “Us For Them’s urgent call to action on Covid jabs for children” – The campaign group says people should email their MPs ahead of Tuesday’s Parliamentary debate on childhood vaccinations in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “GPs who won’t see patients are hurting the NHS” – “I used to love the NHS but, increasingly, I feel my relationship with it is on the rocks,” writes Dr. Max Pemberton in the Mail.
- “Top scientists say they won’t take third jab until poorer countries have vaccines” – Many researchers, doctors and nurses say they are uncomfortable having a further jab, when others around the world need it more, reports the Telegraph.
- “Innova’s iniquity, Part 2: Protected by the U.K. regulator” – “The Government and its agencies have failed to be transparent by not providing the data/evidence to support the argument for the exorbitant cost of the DHSC/NHS Test and Trace scheme,” writes Sonia Elijah in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Is this still about the virus – was it ever? The Week in Review” – Michael Curzon and S.D. Wickett discuss the winter lockdown plan, child vaccination and vaccine passports at home and abroad in the latest Bournbrook Magazine podcast.
- “Just how accurate is the John Snow memo?” – Dr. Scott McLachlan writes that “there’s a group of people, many of whom are severely underqualified to be making these pronouncements, who have been pushing the lockdown, long Covid and vax narrative with fearmongering in the mainstream media”.
- “Covid Early Treatment” – Based on promising peer-reviewed pre-clinical and early clinical results, Swiss Policy Research has added artemisia annua and arginine to its Covid early treatment protocol.
- “Scottish Covid vaccine trialists ‘treated like second-class citizens’” – Novavax volunteers fear that the start of vaccine passports next month could put them at a further disadvantage, reports the Guardian.
- “The Dutch Ditch Social Distancing” – Protestors mocked social-distancing rules in the Netherlands this weekend by dancing and partying like free people.
- “The Police Association ditches presumption of innocence. Allegedly…” – Does the Victorian Police Association no longer believe in the presumption of innocence? It certainly doesn’t look like it does.
- “How the U.S. vaccination drive came to rely on an army of consultants” – Private contractors cost taxpayers millions while demonstrating few clear results and papering over weaknesses in the country’s public health system, reports the Washington Post.
- “Mounting fears of a 1970s-style three-day week as Britain’s energy crunch deepens” – Rocketing power prices and a gas storage crisis threaten the recovery and leave the U.K. at the mercy of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, reports the Sunday Telegraph.
- “Environmental hubris has left Britain vulnerable to Putin’s gas blackmail” – Of course Russia will take advantage of Britain’s shocking failure to safeguard its energy security, writes Simon Heffer in the Sunday Telegraph.
- “Our eco-obsessed Government is sleepwalking into an energy crisis” – We could be facing a hard winter of higher energy bills and even blackouts, writes Rob Lyons in Spiked.
- “Kwarteng to hold emergency meeting with gas chiefs over price crisis” – The Business Secretary says he will let small suppliers go bust to protect consumers from higher prices, reports the Guardian.
- “Is this the end of white America?” – The far-Right is obsessed with the Great Replacement, writes Eric Kaufmann in UnHerd.
- “Lib Dem Ed Davey defends party’s trans rights stance amid activist row” – Ed Davey insists the Liberal Democrats believe in free speech, despite the party’s decision to bar a member from running for Parliament over her views on transgender women.
- “Black Lives Matter training among new diversity courses offered to NHS staff” – The courses cover white privilege, unconscious bias, authentic allyship and the intersectionality between race and gender, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘The costs, in retrospect, seem far greater than any benefit’” – Toby talks to Mark Dolan on GB News about why he became a lockdown sceptic early on in the pandemic.
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Drakeford exemplifies today’s Britain, a socialist fascist state run by self licking lollipop functionaries.
Mark my words Labour will still win in Wales, its purely tribal devoid of logic, they would vote for a cabbage if it was the Labour candidate.
Someone I know who is highly educated and intelligent in most ways once said of himself “I’m Welsh Labour” and another time “I’m an Irish Catholic”. He was indeed Welsh, or Irish origin and a Catholic upbringing, but he seemed to think those things defined him for evermore. I suppose they did. I’m aware that “Irish Catholic” could have a strong influence and perhaps “Welsh Labour” is a similar quasi-religious formation.
I live in Wales – and you’re 100% correct.
I agree, Where I live in North Wales it’s a Plaid Cymru stronghold, but for many Labour is a generational thing and the only Party to vote for.
Another Rona fascist Nazi leader. As the article suggests Drakeford wants the UK abolished. A petty fuehrer, a not-so-bright dictator, with a criminal family. He would love to see England replaced by Muslim Africa and Offa’s dyke rebuilt from the Welsh side. Much easier to rule as a modern tyrant and proclaim yourself Pericles the democrat as you abolish parliament (pharmament) and declare lock downs over a flying virus or Co2.
‘—-he is Carolean Britain’s modal statesman.’ Even googling the terms Carolean and modal doesn’t much help to convey your meaning. Very clever I’m sure, but I’d wager, incomprehensible to over half of LS’s reasonably astute readership.
Perhaps he meant model – in which case someone should have removed the batteries.
He meant ‘model’ (it will have been a typo). Surely it’s perfectly clear what he means: the perfect model of a statesman in the reign of Charles (in this case, the third).
Lockdown fanatics come in all shapes and sizes.
I suppose not many people go into politics with the intention of leaving people alone to get on with their lives as far as possible, but these days that’s how I categorize them. Any politician who is keen on poking their nose into things that are none of their damn business goes into the “my enemy” bucket and the rest go into the “lesser evil” bucket. The latter bucket is rather empty.
“Can you remember anything that Mark Drakeford has actually said?” Who?
Who?
Can I remember anything Drakeford said? “Supermarkets and shops will be prohibited from selling non-essentials like clothes, including children’s and babies’ clothes ” – stated during the plandemic in the middle of Winter.
Closing the “non-essential” aisles was statesmanship?
Hermit King?
Hermit Führer!
“This was especially true during the Coronavirus lockdown. Drakeford’s basement announcements could be taken for conscientious and unshowy statesmanship. He quickly won a reputation as a sole voice of reason in Pandemic Britain…”
Are there two Mark Drakefords?
He definitely looks like something out of ‘Deutschland 83′
“Welsh drivers must now observe a speed limit of 20 miles per hour” – it depends where you are. On my travels the other day I came across several weird locations where such limits have been introduced, and others where they are not. Seems to vary between the Counties. Apart from the well publicised 20 mph values, the Welsh equivalent of Highways England has long stretches of M roads with 50 limits, and uses a lot of average speed measurement. They have even introduced it on the Black Mountain, on the A4069. Allegedly that was done to combat certain motorbike racers on that road, though. To exceed an average of 40 on that section, you need a top end bike, or a racing car, if you look it up on a map.
The Welsh Government are happy to accept money from Westminster. They realise they cannot survive without English money, but always bite the hand that feeds them.
The Welsh Assembly have no interest in making the lives of the people it serves better. Since devolution the people of Wales are not happier, healthier, wealthier or better educated. The Welsh NHS has worse outcomes than in England, and it’s the same story in education.
The forced teaching in Welsh in schools in some areas does nothing to help kids attain better results.
I voted against devolution, and it’s proving to be a disaster. Things were bad under comrade Drakeford, I don’t see it getting better whoever takes over from him.
I unfortunately live in Drakeford’s Wales and ruled by Cardiff.
He sucks the oxygen out of the room. His most used phrase during Lockdowns was “we must be cautious” at a time when we need “spirit, energy and razzmatazz” …and a little common sense and bravery.