- “The time has come to declare an official end to the Covid crisis” – The lack of an official moment-of-ending has had a consequence: the Government has never told us that the time of sacrifice is over, writes Andrew Lilico in the Sunday Telegraph.
- “Jurgen Klopp says refusing vaccine is like drink-driving as it endangers others” – Vaccinations among footballers has become a more pressing issue after reports that only seven of the 20 Premier League clubs have fully vaccinated more than 50% of their players, reports Sky News.
- “Covid cases fall by 6% in a week to 30,439 with 43 new deaths recorded” – Department of Health figures show that 43 deaths from coronavirus (that is, 28 days after a positive Covid test) were recorded in the last 24 hours, down 15 from the week before.
- “Man arrested after police alerted to fake vaccine passports being sold for £750” – Hampshire Constabulary were alerted to counterfeits being produced in the Basingstoke area, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pandexit, please: The need for a Covid end date – Issue XXIII” – “The rolling Covid mandates and restrictions sidestep the most important question: what is the end-game,” writes award winning health journalist Gabrielle Bauer in the latest print issue of Bournbrook Magazine.
- “It Was Always a Con: The Covid Debacle” – “We are precariously on the crossroads between recurring paralysis and breaking free of the tripe we’ve been fed,” writes Omar Khan in Uncommon Wisdom.
- “The Postpandemic World Is One of Widespread Dependence on Government” – The state is making people dependent on it, both as means for control and as an outcome of many policies intended to provide relief, writes Per Bylund in Mises Wire.
- “Are Covid Vaccines Adversely Impacting Women’s Menstrual Cycles?” – A new Israeli study seeks to answer this question as mounting real-world data points to a phenomenon observed in women worldwide after receiving the second vaccine dose, reports Trial Site.
- “After sharing his opinions on pandemic rules, a university professor worries for his safety” – Professor Jay Bhattacharya says he feels terrified to stroll freely on university grounds for the first time in 35 years of studying and teaching at Stanford.
- “Fauci: ‘Too Soon to Tell’ If Americans Can Get Together for Christmas” – It’s not clear if Americans should have Christmas gatherings, says Anthony Fauci.
- “Booster jab every 6 months? 1.5 million double-dosed and recovered Israelis lose Green Pass privileges as stricter Covid rules kick in” – Israel has revoked all Green Passes issued to date, with the new guidelines limiting Covid immunity status only to those who naturally recovered or received their latest vaccine shot within the past six months, reports Russia Today.
- “Secret offshore wealth of world leaders revealed in huge data leak” – Dubbed the Pandora Papers, the documents show how 35 current and former world leaders used accounts in tax havens to accrue huge amounts of wealth and carry out transactions.
- “No, Zac Goldsmith, Teslas are not the solution to the fuel crisis” – “No, the petrol crisis is not a lesson in the delights of electric cars,” writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Homes may have gas cut off if they refuse to take part in hydrogen trial” – Powers to enter people’s homes and switch off their gas will only be used as a “last resort”, say ministers.
- “It’s Greta Thunberg who seems to be at the helm in Germany. But that just signifies utopian promises, not real green progress” – German politics, in its entirety, appears to be a kind of frontispiece. A strange and largely nonsensical virtue signal that goes beyond even the normal politicking of other nations, writes Brendan Heard in Russia Today.
- “Why woke is a spin-off from Christianity – minus the mercy and hope” – Woke has a Calvinist pessimism about our Total Depravity. You cannot escape your Original Sin, the best you can do is confess it, writes Tim Stanley in the Sunday Telegraph.
- “‘You think of universities as somewhere you’re going to learn how to think, but here… people are told what to think’” – Fraser Myers from Spiked talks to Andrew Doyle on GB News after it emerged that St Andrews University are making their students take diversity courses in order to study.
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Chris Boardman wtf ! Two F- – – ing Billion pounds !!… To do what ? That’s enough money for him to go to every car owner & confiscate their car keys ! Must be another loan off uncle Klaus !!
I mentioned yesterday that it was a shame that following the introduction of “pay to comment” here we had lost some of our most prolific and valuable commenters.
While £5 is a very low barrier to commenting, especially given the huge value this website brings, and I don’t blame the DS for introducing a charge – the authors atl have to make a living and hosting websites professionally costs money – I also don’t blame those whose comments might make them “a bloody menace” in the eyes of the authorities and have therefore chosen not to pay up.
Requiring payment removes anonymity – we need to provide real life banking details which allow someone to be traced fairly easily if the authorites are determined enough.
People might call me a conspiracy theorist to think that – but if so, just look at what has happened to the level of authoritarianism in this country over the last two years, and look at the trend towards removing anonymity more widely on the internet, and the desire the authorities have to label pretty much anything said on the internet which upsets someone to become a criminal offence.
..you could be right, but I’m sticking with Edward Dowd…’either we win or it’s the Gulag’…..I’m not trying to sound glib, but I think I decided a while ago that I’d stick my colours to the mast and be damned!
Even Mr Gum, the ‘quiet half’ told a neighbour who was complaining about catching Convid…again, that she could expect to catch it a lot more if she carried on getting stabbed!!
We are ‘out’ and I don’t think we have any intention of going back ‘in’….
Yes I feel the same way now and am now posting under my own name on Twitter. It’s time to put heads above parapets!
Yes…I don’t start anything, but for months now I’ve been making comments if people start with the Covibollocks…masks, lockdown, jabs etc..and thanks to Sceptics both ABL and BTL, I’m pretty full of knowledgable stuff!……and I don’t give a stuff if they think I’m nuts.
funnily enough most of them are coming around to the fact that they’ve been conned…well plenty I know are…
It is not the amount of money, I have donated and presumably have done so enough to still be allowed to comment. It is somehow the concept of pay to comment and the fact that I generally avoid all regular subscription payments unless I cannot avoid them. I will probably donate again at some stage but will not sign up to a monthly account and so on the basis that I might be struck off at any moment I tend to do more of my discussions on the Reddit site.
More dramatic birthrate declines, this time Sweden.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/swedens-birth-rate-dropping-precipitiously
The cat already had a closer look at it. No Bueno. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/swedish-birth-rate-data-what-does
Thanks. The fact that it is consistent with data from several other countries points to it being genuinely worrisome.
Fish with growths and lesions. And how do they know it’s not caused by pollution?
Chris Boardman and 2 billion quid! Is that a misprint? It’s all very well encouraging motorists out of their cars, but if I want to do my weekly shop I have no choice but to drive. It’s a 20 mile round trip to the nearest big supermarket and, in common with large swathes of this country, there is NO public transport at all. Some villages that did have a decent service have found them cut massively (mostly by Stagecoach, it has to be said) or amalgamated routes so they have become useless and time consuming.
The government would do better giving the money to certain supermarkets so they can reinstate their shoppers buses. These were very popular and many people in this village were distraught when Tesco withdrew theirs.
…yes, so much is London centric….they forget what it’s like for the rest of us. I live only three miles from the nearest ‘busy’ town, I can’t get a bus after 5 p.m !!
And I’m surrounded by freaking giant hills….
2 very good reads:
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/coronamania-and-liking-america-less
https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/pandemania-part-1?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
‘We have to drive a lot less’, says Chris Boardman, the PM’s new travel tsar”
Why?
“We” usually actually means “You” in these situations.
On yer bike Boardman.
…exactly! Because if you don’t you’re selfish..you’re killing Polar Bears…you’re selfish if you don’t wear a mask, get jabbed, you’re selfish if you don’t stop eating meat…same if you forget my pronoun, blah! Fu****g blah!
I am sick to the teeth of being battered with this crap, and I suspect the majority feel the same…..they won’t be happy until we live in caves grubbing for worms….
Thank God for the occasional rebels….they give us all hope….
https://petersweden.substack.com/p/farmer-protest
VIDEO: Dutch farmers spray manure on town hall in protest of climate plans
Cheers e by.
https://brownstone.org/articles/are-the-covid-mrna-vaccines-safe/
Kulldorff on the Fraiman study.
For most, the risk/benefit ratio of them is negative.
Pandemic logic
Covid is a multi system disease affecting your heart, lungs, brain and all major organs.
That’s why most people who get an infection show little to no signs of such damage.
A deep dive into the history of the organisation orchestrating the lies, manipulation & cull.
Challenges everything one has been taught & values one has held.
https://crazzfiles.com/the-khazarian-mafia/
Heavy stuff ! It’s dated two years ago so will anything change , will Snowden’s info come out
The Government appear to have released some early papers from SPI-M-O
this one from 3/2/2020….
“This is SPI-M-O’s statement on the possible impact that potential interventions could have in delaying the spread of a UK epidemic of 2019-nCoV, were there to be widespread outbreaks in other countries. SPI-M-O were asked to consider whether any combination of these interventions would be expected to delay the start of a UK pandemic (or its peak) by a month.
SPI-M-O’s view was the impact of any intervention would be highly dependent on the patterns of transmissibility.”
interesting to note a couple of things….
on school closures they conclude…
…. mass school closures could increase the overall attack rate if done at the wrong time.
Mass school closures have a large cost in terms of parental absenteeism as well as foregone education.
and on masks….
The wearing of facemasks by the general population is unlikely to meaningfully reduce transmission.
hmm….