- “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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“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?