- “Nicola Sturgeon is losing her grip as half-baked vaccine passport scheme unravels” – Once so sure-footed on Covid, the Scottish First Minister is increasingly muddled, writes Alan Cochrane in the Telegraph.
- “Just half of children in England want a Covid vaccine” – Researchers surveyed more than 27,000 nine to 18 year-olds across the country earlier this year ahead of the controversial plans to jab healthy secondary school pupils and found exactly 50% wanted the vaccine, with the youngest and poorest the least likely to accept a jab.
- “Covid has made us a nation of hysterics. It’s time to get a grip” – There is no shortage of fuel, just an excess of moronic behaviour, writes Robert Taylor in the Telegraph. He asks: “How on earth would we respond to a real crisis?”
- “Another lockdown would hurt the NHS” – The NHS is once again in trouble, writes Amy Jones in UnHerd. A mix of “bed blocking”, staff shortages and increased presentations to A&E have all conspired against it and we may be looking at a “firebreak” lockdown to “save” it once again.
- “Got long Covid symptoms? Well, they might be something else” – Nearly a million people across the U.K. have long Covid-type symptoms, according to the latest survey by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), but this is based on self-reporting rather than confirmatory tests, according to the Times.
- “Lockdowns may have caused us to think less about others and the future” – Covid lockdowns may have made Britons more selfish, a team of researchers from the University of York have found.
- “Petrol crisis will cause spike in Covid cases, experts warn” – Professor Paul Hunter has said cases will inevitably rise if people go back to using buses and trains, but he added this would not trigger a “major surge”, thanks to the U.K. vaccine rollout.
- “Defying Delta: Back to school goes better than feared” – School for children in many nations has been underway for more than a month and fears the Delta coronavirus variant would derail in-person learning have largely proven unfounded, Reuters reports.
- “Reclaim’s Laurence Fox: I will fight this to the death” – Kathy Gyngell interviews Lawrence Fox in the Conservative Woman a year after founding political party, Reclaim.
- “Boris Johnson needs to get a grip” – Unless our Prime Minister gets a grip soon Britain is going to decide that – just like Labour in the 1970s – Boris isn’t working, writes Dan Wootton in MailOnline.
- “Pfizer submits data to FDA on Covid vaccine in children aged five to 11” – Pfizer and BioNTech have submitted initial trial data for their COVID-19 vaccine in kids aged five to 11 to the Food and Drug Administration for review, but approval may not come for many weeks.
- “New York state vaccine mandate for medical workers goes into effect” – New York state’s vaccine mandate for all medical workers is now in effect, potentially putting 83,000 workers at risk of termination. Hospitals across the state say they support the mandate, but some are confronting staffing shortages as a result, Errol Barnett reports on CBS News.
- “Ivermectin ban sparks row between medical professionals in Australia” – Conflict has arisen between Australian citizens, health staff and professors after a recent decision to ban health practitioners from prescribing Ivermectin to COVID-19 patients, TrialSiteNews reports.
- “Greta Thunberg mocks world leaders as she addresses climate summit” – Greta Thunberg mocked world leaders, including Boris Johnson, accusing them of making “empty promises” on climate change as she opened a youth summit in Milan today. Change the record, sweetheart.
- “The New Yorker asks, should the climate movement embrace sabotage?” – In this guest essay on Watts Up With That, Eric Worrall explores accusations that the New Yorker is promoting ecoterrorism by publishing the book How to Blow Up a Pipeline and a podcast on “Should the climate movement embrace sabotage?”
- “Climate policy meets cold reality in Europe” – The rush to renewables causes severe energy price spikes and shortages; Biden’s policies would do the same in the U.S., writes Allysia Finley in the Wall Street Journal.
- “Trans ideology has taken over on the Tories’ watch” – Sajid Javid says trans dogma is “unscientific”. So why is he letting it overrun the NHS, asks Caroline Ffiske in Spiked.
- “Jordan Peterson’s return to Cambridge is a critical test of our commitment to free speech” – That he has been re-invited goes some way to removing the stain on our institution, writes Dr. Arif Ahmed in the Telegraph.
- “The scapegoating of Peter Thiel” – Being thoughtful is dangerous in a society where everyone copies each other, writes Luke Burgis in UnHerd.
- “Weird binary: Not hypocrisy, compliance signalling” – When it comes to the persecution of conservatives (especially white conservatives) and demographic shift, progressives put out peculiarly alternating messages: “It’s great – it isn’t happening – it’s great – it isn’t happening – it’s great.” Alexander Adams explores this “weird binary” in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has misled Parliament over the cost of Net Zero” – In this Twitter thread, the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s Harry Wilkinson examines why we desperately need a proper assessment of the full costs of Net Zero.
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has misled Parliament over the cost of Net Zero.
— Harry Wilkinson (@HarryWilkinsonn) September 28, 2021
Why we desperately need a proper assessment of the FULL costs of Net Zerohttps://t.co/q3zbljDCKy
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Bob Moran has found himself the target of a cancel culture pile-on on Twitter.
Following a hostile exchange with a sainted NHS doctor, she complained to the Telegraph to try to get him punished for offending her and a whole bunch of political and personal enemies piled on to pontificate about how outraged they supposedly were by what he wrote.
Thread currently still up, although the first post by Bob seems to be censored, here:
https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1442757113093234688
Seems to have started with an exchange about her having been abused on public transport for wearing a mask, and her then virtue signalling about how she supposedly does that to protect people and reassure them, in reply to which Bob wrote:
“She deserves to be verbally abused in public for the rest of her worthless existence. They all do.”
Which was harsh, but arguably fair in the opinion of a sceptic. Instead of just exercising the maturity and thick skin that should be required of anyone posting in a public discussion forum, she of course messaged Bob’s employers, the Telegraph, asking them:
“Why do you employ a man who openly abuses NHS staff, @telegraph? This is targeted harassment & you appear to condone it”
[Of course it wasn’t “targeted harassment”, it was a hostile response in a public forum to a comment made in that forum.]
Bob then doubled down with a response in kind:
“Why do you employ a woman who promotes disgusting ideologies, without moral or scientific justification, which lead to the deaths of children,
@NHSEngland
? This is pure, unspeakable evil and you appear to condone it.”
And of course the jackals closed in from every side.
Now in a fair and free world, imo it would be a condition of participating in a public discussion forum that you waive any right to claim outraged offence at any response you get, and seeking punishment of any fellow participant for their words in that forum should be a punishable offence in itself (short, perhaps of comments that genuinely amounted to direct, real harm – breaches of anonymity, real threats, real incitement etc – but these should be interpreted very tightly). Sticks and stones, should be the guiding principle
But that’s not the world we live in.
Likewise, in a decent society an employer would shrug off any such attempts by a person with an ideological or political disagreement with him to get an employee of theirs disciplined for comments outside work.
But again, that is not the society we live in, and the almost invariable response from an employer in the Telegraph’s situation here, in our society, is craven submission to the bullies.
We shall see.
“Targeted harassment”? I take it she will be making a stand against vaccine apartheid then?
Of course in the real world, you can get punished for a comment on an online forum made many years ago.
Protesters Against Vaccine Mandates in NYC: ‘This Is a Turning Point’
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/protest-against-vaccine-mandates-in-nyc-this-is-a-turning-point_4020562.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email2&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-09-28-3&mktids=5b23f3a9e1d8c4745b7c10c660c6739b&est=brb38SVfi74uJCMihuPPL4i3jzEVio0APNvtDnpvyjMR7Yi82%2BARS9KrPVK9nluayfWq
Upcoming peaceful Stands by the Road with yellow banners
plus other anti lockdown events
don’t expect someone else to do this on your behalf
Wednesday 29th September 5.30pm
A322 Downshire Way/Twin Bridges Roundabout
Bracknell RG12 7AA
Saturday 2nd October 2pm
GRAND STAND IN THE PARK BERKSHIRE
– with a couple of guest speakers and a stroll thought the town centre at the end
Reading River Promenade
Reading RG4 8BX
Saturday 16th October 1pm
MEGA Hold the Line Stand by the Road event –
Combined Berks/Bucks/Oxon/Surrey/Hants
Bring your Yellow Boards and other banners –
Stafferton Way
Maidenhead
SL6 1AY
Saturday 30th October 2pm
SPECIAL STAND IN THE PARK WINDSOR
Alexander Park (near Bandstand) Stand in the Park
Barry Rd/Goswell Rd
Windsor
Stand in the Park 2pm followed by stroll to
Stand in the Town Centre around 3pm
About 2 hours in total.
There is no Stand in the Park Windsor so this might get one started
Stand in the Park Make friends – keep sane – talk freedom and have a laugh
Bracknell South Hill Park Sundays 10am & Wednesdays 2pm
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Indeed. This is the “cancel culture” that the woke left uses ruthlessly and mostly effectively to enforce its dogmas, attack its enemies, and intimidate dissenters, even while shamelessly declaring that it “doesn’t exist”. (See comment below about pissing on our backs and telling us it’s raining).
Poor Bob, looks like Telegraph might have suspended him.
Bob is spot on and gets my full support! And his cartoons are ace.
He continued to produce politically meaningful cartoons when most of his industry turned into mere propagandists for the establishment terror.
Oh but we must never question NHS heros and angels!!! Some NHS employees seem to love their status working for the NHS gives them. I worked for the sainted NHS most of my working life and it is dangerous to elevate any workers to saint status. It makes challenging and changing the institution very difficult and their values are able to dominate society.
“It makes challenging and changing the institution very difficult and their values are able to dominate society.“
Yes, we have seen exactly that in our society over the past few decades, have we not?
And the likes of this Rachel Clarke feel entitled to shout their passive aggressive opinions around the public spaces of social media without any firm pushback being allowed. Because they are special.
Thank you for this comment and timeline. We of course do not know his terms of employment, but from my simple brain why should something he says as a private person on his private social media affect his employment?
He is a cartoonist, it is his job to poke fun, offend and be critical!
Biden 2015:
“An unrelenting stream of immigration. Nonstop. Nonstop. Folks like me, who are Caucasian of European descent, for the first time in 2017 will be in an absolute minority in the United States of America. Absolute minority. Fewer than 50% of the people in America, from then and on, will be white European stock. That’s not a bad thing. That’s the source of our strength.”
But of course anyone pointing out this openly held policy goal of the establishment left is demonised as a white supremacist “race replacement” conspiracy theorist. As indeed Tucker Carlson is being.
There’s a parallel with the denial response to the Blair regime’s opening the immigration floodgates after 1997 in order to “rub the right’s noses in diversity”.
There is an intentional and manipulative false conflation of opposition to mass immigration with racism, when the reality is that many of its advocates are actually motivated by anti-white racism.
The left has a habit of, as the Americans say, pissing on our backs and telling us it’s raining:
“That’ll never happen, and when it does you’ll have deserved it.“
Been great for “native Americans”, hasn’t it, becoming a minority in their own land. I wonder if Biden would still say that if all the non Europeans were against having his “vaccines”…
Bottom line is, immigration must not only be good but be seen to be good if it is to have public acceptance. Trouble stirring such as the “rubbing people’s noses in it” of the Blair lot, and doing things to a population without their broad consent, will, I suspect, be unhelpful for good community relations – as happened in some parts of Britain under Blair (I was shocked to see the vitriol directed at Polish people back in 2005 where none had existed before) and has apparently been the case in Democrat states in the so-called United States. In an ideal world, of course I would like people to be able to live where they want, but this has to be done with consent, and well managed.
Subsidised immigration raises density and that’s great for boosting rents (terrible for the wider economy though), and boosting economic rent is the goal of most of the last 30 years of economic policy by governments.
I thought it was about raising property prices to give the home owning majority the illusion of greater prosperity. Or does that amount to the same thing?
“Been great for “native Americans”, hasn’t it, becoming a minority in their own land.”
When the real costs fall due, and the real misery of division and conflict and consequent suffering comes to full fruition, the perpetrators will be long gone.
But we may rest assured that their children’s children will bewail their deeds.
“as happened in some parts of Britain under Blair (I was shocked to see the vitriol directed at Polish people back in 2005 where none had existed before“
Yes, especially shocking for those of us with a general affection and respect for the Polish people. But the ones to blame are not the Poles for responding to understandable incentives to move, nor the indigenous population for understandably objecting to having their lives and society turned upside down by outsiders, but the corrupt businessmen and the corrupt or political fanatic politicians who manipulated the situation to make it happen, for their own ulterior motives.
Pastor Artur Pawlowski arrested again in Calgary
“Controversial pastor Artur Pawlowski was arrested on the tarmac at the Calgary International Airport on Monday afternoon.
Artur’s lawyer Sarah Miller confirmed her client was taken into custody and charged with contempt of court for an alleged offence on June 5. She said she did not have details about the alleged incident.
The Calgary Police Service’s duty inspector confirmed that Artur was arrested but did not know what he was arrested for.
Miller said Artur landed in Calgary after being in the U.S“.
This was the guy who so magnificently backed down the Canadian regime’s enforcers during lockdown.
But the intolerant and totalitarian regimes of the modern US sphere have long memories for dissenters who embarrass them publicly.
But to inflict even more of the catastrophic lockdown stupidity that largely caused the problem in the first place, we’d have to be run by a government of colossally corrupt, incompetent buffoons, have a monumentally stupid and psychotic political Opposition, and have totally dysfunctional media, medics, courts, unions and all the other institutions that should mitigate against the worst excesses of misrule…..
More lockdown it is, then.
Another lockdown, in any country, would be a public declaration that the “vaccines” have failed. Which government is going to risk that? In the UK, using the NHS ( who are in a permanent crisis according to MSM and government ) as justification is just a pitifully transparent excuse. They really would be treating the public as though they have shit for brains!
They can still blame a lockdown on something else…the unvaccinated, people who dont wear masks…at no point is there ever going to be the smallest admission that anything was wrong or counterproductive. The weird thing is, people will accept that. At least in the short term. Sceptics are going to be waiting a long time for their ideas to become mainstream.
Oh I’m sure they’ll attempt a lockdown for the bloody flu or even a climate lockdown or some such nonsense. That’s why what this guy has to say is sadly making more and more sense; https://odysee.com/@IvorCummins:f/Ernst-Wolff—Uncovering-the-Corona-Narrative—Aug-2021:8
Unfortunately, I have come to the conclusion that most of the public do have shit for brains, and I suspect that mask wearing and vaccines have contributed to people’s inability to think straight.
I’m with you. That’s why I’m going to another big protest here in the Netherlands ( Amsterdam ) this weekend, as it gives me that much needed morale boost and feeling of solidarity that is sorely lacking in daily life unfortunately. There’s nothing lifts the spirits and rekindles hope more than being around thousands of people who are on the same page. Certainly puts lead in my pencil!
Heavens, I hope there is intelligence out there in the Universe. There is clearly precious little here on Earth.
Everybody should please watch the short video in the link “New York state vaccine mandate for medical workers goes into effect”
After a few seconds we see Biden getting his booster shot, apparently. But if there is a needle it must be pretty thin. Or invisible. The same after about 1min we see a member of staff getting a “shot”. Please somebody agree with me that this is so obviously not what is happening!
Certainly the needles aren’t obvious. And the reporter with the lie: ‘6 billion vaccinations have been give worldwide’! The propaganda is relentless.
A restaurant in Utrecht, the Netherlands is refusing to use the passport to check it’s customers. The newly introduced law is explained here on Dailysceptic. https://dailysceptic.org/2021/09/25/dutch-protest-against-vaccine-passports/
Waku Waku (the restaurant ) is being supported by the public. Details in Dutch.https://www.rtvutrecht.nl/nieuws/3174635/demonstranten-waku-waku-willen-blijven-protesteren-tegen-coronapas-dit-zou-dagen-of-weken-kunnen-duren.html
Niet voor ongevaccineerden=not for unvaxxed.
Added to the movie poster for the life of Anne Frank!
Bloody disgusting! Do you think they’d get away with announcing “No blacks” or “No trans people”…? Of course not! But discrimination is being normalized when there’s a political agenda, it would seem. Perhaps next we’ll be seeing everywhere “No flu jab, no entry”. Filthy feckers!!
Ah yes, Greta goes “Blah Blah Blah”. Someone should ask her what She ‘thinks’ governments should do!
It’s easy to complain about current policies (especially from a position of total ignorance): surely it is time to tell everyone how Greta would save the world.
I watched part of her speech. That is one disturbed lass.
As an autistic adult with an autistic son a little older than Greta i feel very sad for her. She has been abused and manipulated by her cuckoo family. Her special interests have been directed by her father and their wealth and fame used to push her into the limelight. She’ll crack one day and see how she has been used and it won’t be pretty.
#DoestheTelegraphhaveanyballs?
Thinking about the Bob Moran pile-on, the norm for any mainstream organisation these days is to cave in to pressure from cancel culture bullies, but this is something that has at least started to become a little controversial recently, with a few high profile cases of active and occasionally even successful resistance. Could this be an occasion where the Telegraph could be shamed into standing on its hind legs instead of metaphorically taking the knee, and throwing Moran to the wolves to appease the mob? (I don’t think I can squeeze any more metaphors into the mix there easily).
On the negative side, the politics of Moran’s position here is anti-establishment, and the Telegraph is not clearly anti-establishment on this issue (though it is at least somewhat open to dissent, unlike most mainstream media bodies). The other party’s “special” characteristics are ones that resonate somewhat with the Telegraph’s self image – an employee of the holy NHS, a doctor, and a woman, and her cause is authoritarian, which unfortunately appeals to the Telegraph demographic and management.
On the other side, there is a growing realisation amongst the Telegraph’s demographic that cancel culture is a tool used to attack conservatives in particular.
Might there be scope for shaming the Telegraph’s owners and senior management into declaring that they should be making a stand for the principle that one should pay no attention to people bleating about being upset by responses to their own passive aggressive public comments, and “telling tales” in the hope of manipulating the employer into silencing someone saying things they want silenced?
Not sure, but those in the covid panic dissident community with the ear of the Telegraph management should be going in to bat for Moran, imo, even if it might be a lost cause,
How they TRIED AND FAILED to stop a freedom rally in Melbourne
RebelNews doing the job the msm fails at.
I’ve often wondered what these protests achieve, when the msm and establishment seem happy to just ignore them and carry on. If nothing else, though, they do signify refusal to consent.
But perhaps, as Avi implies, in Australia the mere fact of them continuing in the face of the state’s determination to shut them down, is enough?
Another RoundUp seriously deficient in meat.
Yes I’ve noticed half of it is now given over to climate or ‘woke’ bollocks, which I suspect is not what most of us are here for. Perhaps this is why they seem to have dropped the vaccine safety weekly update they used to do. I find the info and links shared in the comments section here gold and much more valuable than the few crumbs they offer in the RoundUp. Appreciation to the regular contributors down here who share their finds with others!
The flu is back. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/long-flu-symptoms-covid-oxford-b1929016.html