- “The cancer backlog scandal is so much worse than you think” – At the start of the pandemic I said that lockdown could end up killing more people than Covid – I wish I had been wrong, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “More than 100,000 pupils off school in England last week amid Covid surge” – The number of pupils with confirmed or suspected ‘cases’ on September 16th was the highest since start of pandemic.
- “Headteachers receiving death threats over Covid vaccines roll-out in schools” – The Vaccines Minister condemns the “intimidation” of staff by ‘anti-vaxxers’ since 12 to 15 year-olds began receiving jabs, reports the Telegraph.
- “Millions could work from home forever under new flexible working laws” – Working from home could become the norm for millions of Brits after the pandemic, with new rules set to give employees the right to request home working from their first day in the job, reports the Sun.
- “Doctors suffering ‘wave of abuse’ over lack of face-to-face appointments” – The Head of the Royal College of GPs says the current situation – with just over half of appointments taking place in person – is “about right”.
- “Biological and molecular evidence why children are effectively Covid immune and can be considered already vaccinated” – “Covid vaccines offer children no opportunity for benefit and only potential opportunities for harms,” writes Paul Alexander in TrialSite.
- “Students craving mask mandates are typical of the new breed of safety obsessives created by lockdown” – The enduring legacy of the pandemic may well be the growth of a section of society whose desire to be insulated from all risk is best illustrated by their performative mask-wearing – and this spells danger for everyone’s freedoms, writes Frank Furedi in Russia Today.
- “Vaccine Mandates: Who Will Comply, and Why?” – The presumption of venality, as it is inscribed in new measures against the pandemic, is extremely interesting, at least from an anthropological point of view, writes Jovana Diković in Mises Institute.
- “Emergency Powers and the Rule of Law” – “On the pretence of fighting a virus, draconian measures have been adopted that profoundly violate the Australian Constitution and the inalienable rights of the individual,” writes Augusto Zimmermann in Quadrant.
- “Bari Weiss: there are signs of sanity returning” – “At some point down the line, I feel like we’ve lost sight of the science here, and it’s become a lot more about signalling what political tribe you’re a part of,” says Bari Weiss in an interview on Covid restrictions and more in UnHerd.
- “Coming soon: Devi Sridhar’s spring best-seller” – “Her book promises to ‘challenge, outrage and inspire’ – rather like Sridhar’s own tweeted musings on the efficacy of the AstraZeneca jab in March which saw her being accused of disinformation, a charge which led her to block the critics,” writes ‘Steerpike’ in the Spectator.
- “Whose Britishness?” – “On education, drugs, immigration, environmental alarmism, transgender issues, foreign aid, personal rights, privacy, free speech and – most of all – British culture, the Conservative Party has been firmly unconservative,” writes Alexander Adams in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “Power mad: This devastating audit lays bare the costly errors ” – Matt Ridley writes in the Mail that the root of our energy crisis is the Governments’ pursuit of decarbonisation.
- “About fracking time! The Government must revisit its shale moratorium” – “It’s clear that lifting the ban on shale energy here would not cause any plausible risk of earthquake deaths – but it would certainly prevent deaths from hypothermia,” writes Harry Phibbs in CapX.
- “Police’s appeasement of M25 mob is an embarrassment” – Whatever your opinion on the Insulate Britain protesters, their reckless methods of running headfirst into motorway traffic are irrefutably both illegal and irresponsible, writes ex-Met superintendent Philip Flower in the Mail.
- “Germany Wants To Force Gab To Censor, It’s Not Happening” – Because of Gab’s unwillingness to participate in state-mandated censorship of free speech, the German Government is now going after it with heavy fines and other legal action.
- “Violinist Nigel Kennedy cancels concert after Classic FM stops Hendrix tribute” – The performer has pulled his Royal Albert Hall gig over a decision he compared to musical segregation.
- “Oxford college run by former equalities head apologises for hosting Christian conference” – Here’s yet another case of cancel culture as Worcester College acknowledges the “distress” caused to students by a Christian conference.
- “Calling women ‘birds’ is ‘plainly sexist’, judge rules” – The ruling comes in the case of a Barclays investment banker who won a sex discrimination claim after her boss repeatedly called women “birds”, reports MailOnline.
- “‘It’s impossible to justify vaccination against Covid on the grounds of risk – especially for children’” – Former NHS consultant Dr. John Lee says on talkRADIO that children should not be jabbed: “The risk for Covid has been overstated for everyone.”
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“Cancer backlog scandal so much worse than you think”.
How many tens of thousands have died in Britain alone from lockdowns and related measures? How many more will die long term even if they stop all the restrictions?
And is there anywhere in the world that suggests it could have been worth it? Not South Dakota or Belarus anyway. Even SAGE said last July that 75,000 will die because of lockdowns, but they carried on with it anyway because they claimed 400,000 could die without lockdowns. Nowhere has this been remotely true (except in Peru, which locked down hard and also recently changed the way they measure “Covid” deaths). The 400,000 deaths claim was well wide of the mark, and was always going to be. They need to be held to account.
Politicians have really proved they hate people
Biological and molecular evidence why children are effectively COVID immune and can be considered already vaccinated
https://trialsitenews.com/covid-injections-offer-children-no-opportunity-for-the-benefit-and-only-potential/
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Friend of mine is now seriously ill with cancer. It started last year, but she had so many delays in getting a diagnosis that no treatment started until early this year. Last year, she had to bectested and then quarantine herself for 2 weeks before every appointment, just for exploratory examinations, so the whole process was dragged out.
Now the cancer has spread to other places in her body. There is treatment available, but it hasn’t started yet, and it’s doubtful how much good it will do anyway.
Had she been seen and treated promptly, the situation may have been very different.
Thank you, NHS.
I don’t want to give false hope, but this treatment is still offered elsewhere:
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/gcmaf-and-persecution-david-noakes-lyn-thyer-immuno-biotech
“They need to be held to account”
And therein lies the problem.
Those idiot politicians, led by the tousle-haired shagwit, will NEVER be held to account for the deaths, illness, waste of OUR money and near destruction of the economy. At best, they will lose their seats and segue neatly from the Westminster gravy train to a different gravy train of a few well-paid directorship. They face no real consequences for their actions and care even less.
As if this wasn’t bad enough how many more cancers will be caused by the “vaccines”?
Excellent statement from Torba:
“The German government isn’t concerned about any actual criminal activity, they are concerned with Thought Criminals who dare to dissent against their globalist regime.
According to our legal team, who has been working with us on this issue for several months, we have three choices.
1) Obey German censorship laws and start censoring content that the German Government doesn’t like (this is not going to happen)
2) Disobey German censorship laws and pick a fight with the nation state of Germany (I likely wouldn’t ever be able to leave the US again, they would come at us from every possible angle through state-sponsored deplatforming, heavy fines, they would possibly leverage contacts in the Biden Admin to come after Gab in other ways, and Lord knows what else.)
3) Temporarily stop providing this service in Germany by blocking German IPs.
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Why should we block an entire country from accessing Gab because their government is sending us fines we won’t pay and veiled legal threats that mean nothing to Gab as a US corporation? I won’t be able to travel to Europe anyway because I’m not getting injected with an experimental substance. ”
Absolute top stuff.
The only reason I haven’t set up a Gab account is that it’s tricky to pay them from outside the US because the leftist banking organisations that help to enforce the globalist anti-conservative speech controls are refusing to allow them basic banking services – a taste of what is to come for all dissidents from the Blairite leftist elite consensus, once fully centrally controlled e-currencies are in place and are the only form of payments allowed.
“In America you play by our rules, we don’t play by yours.”
If only my own country’s government took that attitude towards foreigners trying to enforce their laws on British citizens. But that would mean actually fulfilling its most basic responsibilities as a government towards its own people, rather than poncing around engaging in virtue signalling nonsense to kowtow to leftist dogmas.
Since Gab’s servers are in the USA, that is the same as Germans going to the USA to freely shoot guns.
If the Germans want to lock up their own citizens for doing that they are welcome to do so. Otherwise it has just as much effect as “The US president will attend the Chancellory on Tuesday’s for tea, or else”.
Surely it should be the german state job censor traffic from GABs double unplus servers if it needs to digitally burn books in real time?
Nice that people are starting to notice.
As with so many things, Christopher Booker was there first, dubbing them the “Not The Conservative Party” some years ago. They are even less the Conservative party now of course…
Among other commentators and journalists to have noticed the Emperor’s nudity, Peter Hitchens has been on the “Conservative” Party case for more than a decade now.
Carrieservative…
The whims of Boris’s current pincushion (mainly to get other people to pay for her) made law.
Masking up.
I have watched Dominic Chinea on YouTube where he attends the National TV awards.
It was shocking to see that all of those that were working there waters, technical crew etc were wearing masks. Yet those where were there to be patted on the back for their work were not masked up. The celebrities were not. They also broke all the rules we minions have been told to obey.
This is intolerable.
Celebs don’t look pretty when they wear their knickers over their faces. Even a celeb mudt realise this. They’ve always known that knickers off is the way to success.
No it’s the new feudal symbol of serfdom.
I prefer some bare-faced cheek myself! Face commando?
If that doesn’t epitomise the outright hyposcrisy, discrimination and uselessness of the performance of mask-wearing I don’t know what does. What a bloody charade!
Children or their Guardians should request the FULL MEDICAL HISTORY of those jabbers plus the head-teacher who allowed them to use premises they control.
Has the head completed a full risk assessment?
A child should be able to answer the following question before being jabbed.
What are the differences between viral vector, genetic, inactivated and attenuated vaccines?
if they don’t know, they are not informed, are they?
I got an email about a petition “Outlaw discrimination against those who do not get a Covid-19 vaccination”. Transcript is here: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-09-20/debates/A52729B6-FB5D-498F-86E4-569024C22623/Covid-19Vaccinations
Ironically most of the discussion was discriminating against people with concerns about vaccinations by labeling them “anti-vaxxers” and making out they are mad. It looks like they are going to push the vaccine passport / id system no matter what whether you have been jabbed or not:
“On vaccine passports, in relation to the petitions before us, we understand why the public might be confused or anxious about perceived discrimination against those that are not vaccinated. I have to say that the Government’s approach to covid passports has been chaotic at times. There has not been consistent clarity from Ministers about what vaccine passports are supposed to achieve, how they would work and what would be expected from the public, businesses and workers, and that meant we had a degree of chaos over the summer and no real preparation before the winter. Two weeks ago, the then vaccines Minister, the right hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Nadhim Zahawi), stood before Parliament to confirm the introduction of covid passports and stress their importance; days later, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care said that they had been scrapped. No matter the measures being introduced, businesses, workers and consumers need clarity from the Government, not conflicting messages and rapid U-turns. We have therefore repeated many times that we would not accept any certification or passport scheme that was vaccine-only.”
I watched the farce on Monday of House of Commons hearing Petition “to outlaw discrimination against those not getting covid 19 vaccinations” together with other on mandating vaccines for care home and medical staff. Apart from chairwoman only 4 MPs there, one introducing, SNP spokesperson, labour spokesman and Minister. All strongly supported vaccination saying it was “safe and effective”, and even complaining about misinformation quoting BBC’s Marianna Spring saying how she had been threatened !
I wonder where were were all the so called libertarian MPs, ie all those memebers of CRG who recently signed Big Brother Watch Pledge; on the basis of which I had tried unsuccessfully to get my own MP to sign the pledge and go to this debate. Not surprising she was not there if nobody else turns up
Also I would have expected William Wragge, chairman of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee to have turned up in view of his committee’s strong and scathing condemnation of the Govt :-
“With recent analysis suggesting that vaccinated people carry as much of the virus as the unvaccinated into any setting, the disappointing lack of any scientific basis for the Government’s decision to go ahead could reasonably lead people to conclude that there is in fact no such basis. If the real goal is to drive vaccine uptake, then it is a deeply cynical approach that will be counterproductive.”
At least Tuesday morning debate on children’s vaccination was a bit better attended, though still not many, with most have strong reservations
Doctors suffering a wave of abuse over lack of face to face appointments, eh?
Yesterday, I finally phoned my GP’s surgery to try to get an appointment for my annual medicine review. The last time I had done this was 12 months ago. I’ve not seen or spoken with a GP since.
First, I was subjected to a recorded message from a GP informing me that “we will not tolerate abuse of our staff….team working exceptionally hard to serve our patients” etc. Then the options of press 1 for this, press 2 for that. Eventually, I got through to a receptionist so I could book an appointment.
I explained that it really had to be a face to face one, as I had to have my blood pressure taken, and this cannot be done over the phone. Absolutely not! What an idea! I can have a phone call from the GP in 3 weeks time, and she will decide if I need a face to face appointment, not me!
So in 3 weeks, the GP will phone me, and then say yes, I need to come in, and probably another 3 weeks after that, I will finally see her. Exactly the same as last year. Nothing has changed in over 12 months. They are still imposing the same ridiculous rules. I’ve been past the surgery, empty waiting room, no chairs for anyone to sit on, barriers to stop you going too close to the reception desk, instruction that you won’t be admitted without a face covering “even if double jabbed” ( that makes me laugh, so they don’t trust the jabs then,) and GPs you have to wait 3 weeks plus in order to see them, if they let you that is.
And then they wonder why people get abusive!
It isn’t always like that. My mother, aged 100, cut her leg on Monday. The girl who helps look after her dressed it very well but, given her age, my sister rang the local GP practice who made an appointment to look at her “just in case” today at 3:00. Yesterday morning the cut looked very good so she cancelled the appointment. By early afternoon it started bleeding so I rang to see if we could get an appointment after all. No problem – 4:15 today.
Just wanted to redress the balance a bit
Will your 100 year old mother be expected to wear a rag on her face while getting her leg checked over? If so, I don’t regard that as balance.
I doubt it – but if she is asked to wear a mask in a medical context I am sure it will be a surgical mask provided by the surgery. Do you honestly think that wearing a mask for 15 minutes is too high a price to pay for getting quick medical treatment?
Holding people’s healthcare to ransom for a badge of political compliance and tool for fearmongering is morally wrong, and should be opposed by any right-thinking person.
Don’t like it? Blame the people who reversed their position in summer 2020 to pretend that mask-wearing does after all make a significant difference and was suddenly so dramatically important that it had to be required by law, in order to convince people there was something around to be frightened of in the face of the hugely inconvenient disappearance of covid last summer, and who then devoted huge efforts to propagandising people into seeing them as a signifier of basic decency as well as compliance.
Those are the real scumbags in this. Your kind are just the gullible, cowardly collaborators, as I’ve pointed out previously.
It is quite hard to accuse my mother of being a gullible, cowardly collaborator. Shall I pass your thoughts on the subject on to her? I imagine she will be amused having lived through a war where cowardice and collaboration had rather more significance.
Or do you think we should refuse to let her be treated if the surgery asks her to wear a mask?
“It is quite hard to accuse my mother of being a gullible, cowardly collaborator.”
I didn’t, I accused you of it. Unlike you, I haven’t engaged your mother in any discussions on the topic.
So what do you think I should do? Refuse to let my mother be treated if she has to wear a mask?
Actually it is too late of course, my sister took her to the appointment which is at 4:15 – cowardly collaborator that she is.
Absolutely. Besides arguments about freedom: them making your mother wear a mask should be deeply insulting to you. Do you have any comprehension of the principles of family honour? Dignity? Do you care that her breathing was restricted for those 15 minutes – constantly breathing her own recycled breath?
I agree with Mark’s response word for word, but I am also going to press on how ridiculous this rule is.
Consider that we’re expected to wear the dribble-rags to ‘protect’ others. What your doctor is actually saying, is that your frail 100 yr old mother is somehow strong enough to potentially carry a devastatingly dangerous virus and she therefore poses a risk to him/her unless she covers her face.
I’m not going to entertain the ‘asymptomatic’ nonsense.
My own mother has been made to self-isolate before an endoscopy tomorrow. They made her go into the hospital to get a test stick shoved up her nose/back of throat before letting her get the procedure.
Not only was I angry about the continuation of the inhumane self-isolation rule, but I was furious to find that she’d also had to be tested with the painful PCR test. She told me today that it made her unwell.
As my mother’s son, I am by nature furious that she has gone through this experience for a standard medical procedure. She will of course be expected to muzzle up as well. I am absolutely livid.
As your mother’s child, why are YOU not angry?
As your mother’s child, why are YOU not angry?
Because you are wrong – wearing a surgical mask for 15 minutes is mildly uncomfortable and does no harm. I have been in hospital a lot recently and had to wear surgical masks for much longer with no ill effects – some of the staff wear them most of the day. It is absolutely nothing to do with dignity – anyone who has a colonoscopy knows what medical indignity is really like – and most people happily accept it.
I’m not going to entertain the ‘asymptomatic’ nonsense.
That’s your choice. Some people prefer to examine the evidence before making a decision.
Really it is time some of you guys connected with the real world instead of investing a perfectly straightforward public health measure with some kind of symbolism of oppression. We can have a sensible discussion about how effective they are and whether they are a good idea – but hardly anyone out there, mask-wearers or not, thinks of it as a political statement.
Can’t help but wonder if you’re on the government payroll and if continued argument is a waste of my own time. I can not see any reason why someone who embraces this political crisis would spend so much time commenting on a site like this.
I can not see any reason why someone who embraces this political crisis would spend so much time commenting on a site like this.
It is interesting and informative.
Uh-huh. 77th or not, you’re a time waster/troll and not conducive to helping the push-back against the government.
You don’t have to respond to anything I write. But according to Toby the purpose of this site is to encourage debate not initiate a push-back against the government (see the about page)
Do you suppose Toby would waste his time arguing with someone who believes the Earth is flat? I doubt it. Comparatively, someone who will argue in favour of compulsory mask wearing of his own 100 yr old mother -for the safety of doctors- is equally wasteful of debate.
Then your mother is exceptionally lucky. My own parents, who live in another part of the country, also recieve prompt care. But it must be recognised that this is not the case for everyone. I hate the phrase “postcode lottery”, but that’s exactly what it is.
True. It can even vary in the same place. The “Health Centre” where I used to live was appalling, in fact so much so that a couple of ex-hospital doctors having seen all the misdiagnoses, missed diagnoses and late diagnoses, started an alternative GP practice.
It was like chalk and cheese. Probably never be permitted today with PCTs and CCGs etc.
In the last sixteen years here our surgery went from one extreme to the other, from being able to see a doctor or nurse in a few days to routine three weeks or more and cross-examination by the receptionist. “The receptionist not the patient decides if they can see a doctor or only a nurse” then you see the nurse and they say there is nothing they can do, you must make another appointment to see a doctor.
I don’t go any more.
And yet your experiences are not exclusive to your GP – this appears to be systematic across the UK. It’s exactly the same as my GP – long-winded recorded message, press this button for this, this button for that, etc. “Covid covid covid”.
What bothers me is that people who are supposed to be there to help us stay healthy are insisting on us wearing masks, which are detrimental to health both physically and mentally. The continuation of this rule in order to see your doctor is a major deterrent for many people from wanting to get a health check up.
Exactly so. My own GP’s practice makes the wearing of a face covering a condition of entry to the building, and treatment. This is the cases even if you’ve had both jabs.
I’m hoping to find a bee-keepers hat and veil, which I swear I will wear when I finally get into the surgery. No-one can deny that it covers your face, but at least you will be able to breathe!
Soon you won’t get seen unless you are double jabbed. Or by then triple jabbed.
I guess you have probably already seen this, but this clip from an official FDA hearing (Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee – 9/17/2021)is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFph7-6t34M&t=15684s
“EVEN if we say the V@x is 100% effective, it kills 2 people for every one it saves”.