- “SAGE models need a reality check” – Rather than the advisory group SAGE listening, debating and adjusting its hypotheses, dissenting voices have been quashed, writes Clare Craig in Reaction.
- “Failure to share Covid vaccines equally is ‘immoral and stupid’, says U.N. chief” – The WHO global vaccination plan calls for $8 billion to ensure 40% of the world’s population is covered by the end of the year, reports the Telegraph.
- “Humanity will win the war on Covid” – “Whatever medical interventions we deploy against Covid, it is vital that they are subjected to proper trials and scrutiny,” writes Rob Lyons in Spiked.
- “Wales draws up emergency Covid plan to stop NHS being overwhelmed” – The “Urgent” plan could mean restrictions – but the Government says the most likely scenario is that the country will remain at ‘Alert Level Zero’.
- “Northern Ireland axes social distancing in bars and restaurants and allows nightclubs to reopen” – The one-metre rule will be removed for the hospitality sector from October 31st – the same day nightclubs will be allowed to reopen – with dancing finally allowed again, reports Sky News.
- “Ivermectin: How false science created a Covid ‘miracle’ drug” – Thousands worldwide have taken ivermectin to fight Covid. But what’s the evidence? Here’s the BBC’s take.
- “The dangers of the Nobel Prize” – Why was the inventor of lobotomies given science’s highest honour, asks Stuart Ritchie in UnHerd.
- “Fauci Careful with His Words Yet Still Misrepresents That Vaccinated Don’t Spread the Virus” – “Dr. Anthony Fauci should know better than to declare with so much data now available on waning vaccine effectiveness that the main reason to get the vaccine is to not transmit the disease to others,” writes TrialSite.
- “Republican senator booed by own crowd after suggesting they ‘ought to think about’ getting Covid vaccine” – Senator Lindsey Graham was met with boos at a conservative event after he tried to promote Covid vaccination to the crowd, reports Russia Today.
- “IBM latest company to tell U.S. employees to get vaccinated” – The tech company, which employs more than 100,000 people in the U.S. told American workers that it must comply with President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors, reports MailOnline.
- “Trudeau mandates Covid jabs for all travelers, federal workers” – Trudeau says only a “limited” number of medical exemptions will be made for those who are un-jabbed and want to travel or work in the public service.
- “Government’s switch to greener fuel was ‘major factor’ behind petrol crisis” – Petrol retailers were “emptying their tanks” for the switchover to E10 fuel when garages were swiftly drained by panic buying, reports the Telegraph.
- “It’s no wonder young people have ‘eco-anxiety’” – “If children are suffering from ‘eco-anxiety’, there ought to be a pretty easy cure – namely for government, media, schools and everyone else to dial down the scaremongering and offer more reasoned coverage,” writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “The Facebook whistle-blower is just another enemy of free speech” – “By positioning herself as a Silicon Valley renegade, Haugen gives those in Washington the perfect stick with which to beat the last bits of freedom of speech which exist on major online platforms,” writes Frederick Edward in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “A tone deafness epidemic is sweeping the nation – and the Tories are at the heart of it” – For all the Prime Minister’s talk of levelling up and building back better, they’re so out of touch with the electorate it shames us all, writes Judith Woods in the Telegraph.
- “Justin Trudeau uses latest sexual identities acronym 2SLGBTQQIA+” – Justin Trudeau has been mocked online for using the latest sexual identities acronym, 2SLGBTQQIA+, in a tweet – which includes the number and letter “2S” which stands for “Two-spirit”, reports MailOnline.
- “Badges of obedience” – Behind the NHS Rainbow is compulsory training and enforced ideology, writes Caroline Ffiske in the Critic.
- “Critical Race Theory’s new disguise” – A rebranded campaign for ‘equity’ is just as divisive, writes Ayaan Hirsi Ali in UnHerd.
- “‘Suddenly, we’ve gone into violent reverse-gear’” – David Starkey tells talkRADIO: “We do need to sound the alarm. There’s a risk that we’ve got a Chinese virus, and we’ll finish up with a Chinese society.”
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“SAGE quashed dissenting voices”.
Is there actually anything scientific about this politicised bunch of debate stiflers who include computer modelers with a dreadful track record (and ignore things such as orthomolecular medicine whilst refusing to run genuine vitamin D trials in conjunction with nutritional experts and people without conflicts of interest with the pharmaceutical industry)?
Listen to this Australian MP trying to speak of the missed opportunities with Ivermectin. Hurry because no doubt Yootoob will have it away….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgCABsRgaH8
“Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) was met with boos at a conservative event after he tried to promote Covid-19 vaccination to the crowd.”
Lindsey Graham is about as conservative as the average “Conservative” Party government minister.
He’s been actively betraying his voters by collaborating with the Biden regime to approve judges who will push the Democrats’ leftist woke agenda via judicial activism for years to come.
Tucker Carlson: Lindsey Graham has helped Biden reshape the federal judiciary
Republicans (i.e. anti-monarchists) are conservative?!
I seem to remember Donald Trump was also booed when he promoted “vaccines”.
I reckon the important political divide these days is between those who collaborate in the corruption of democratic politics by global big businesses such as pharmaceutical countries for their own interest whilst damaging many others, and those who want to reign it in
“Republicans (i.e. anti-monarchists) are conservative?!”
More than “Conservatives” here are conservative.
“I seem to remember Donald Trump was also booed when he promoted “vaccines”.
I reckon the important political divide these days is between those who collaborate in the corruption of democratic politics by global big businesses such as pharmaceutical countries for their own interest whilst damaging many others, and those who want to reign it in”
There’s a reason Republican leaders are booed by their supporters if they advocate the “vaccines” but Democrats never are.
Aren’t the “Democrats” (who allegedly stole the presidential election) even more left wing? I still fail to see why the “left”, as I understand them, should wish to collaborate with corrupt, anti-democratic (and apparently sanguinary) multi-nationals, let alone “Greens”, who I would expect to be suspicious of the “Frankenstein” science emanating from pharmaceutical companies. Or am I missing something?
“Aren’t the “Democrats” (who allegedly stole the presidential election) even more left wing?”
Even more left wing than whom?
“I still fail to see why the “left”, as I understand them, should wish to collaborate with corrupt, anti-democratic (and apparently sanguinary) multi-nationals, let alone “Greens”, who I would expect to be suspicious of the “Frankenstein” science emanating from pharmaceutical companies. Or am I missing something?”
Well, you’d probably have to ask them, motivations are fundamentally a matter of speculation. But as a matter of observable, objective fact, in the US and elsewhere parties of the left (including Greens) have almost all been enthusiastically collaborating with the covid panic policies that benefit big pharma. Because this has in most places been a general societal panic, so too have parties of the right, to some degree and where you can actually find any that are in power these days, but in the US it is the conservative wing of the Republican Party that is most keen on resisting. Hence the booing phenomenon under discussion here.
One can speculate about a convergence of interest in centralised big government, top down control of society that allows the easier imposition of radical changes, or note that the people who are actively suppressing dissent on the covid panic (big tech and corporate elites) are the same people who are actively strangling conservative speech platforms (Gab, Parler) for wider political reasons, suggesting a political activist motivation there as well.
Even more left-wing than the Republicans!
Left and right wing are completely meaningless terms now. There are authoritarians and libertarians. The authoritarians currently being the more extremist of the two. They cross over party lines to the point of parties being almost meaningless and party-based politics no longer an appropriate form for democracy.
Why are left and right “meaningless terms”? Since, in various of its aspects, left/right has been a feature of western politics for at least a couple of hundred years, it seems unlikely to have suddenly disappeared.
Though any meaningful discussion would probably benefit from first defining how you are using the term. Here are four connotations of left/right suggested by former US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Which is your preferred one? (I tend to use something along the lines of his third connotation, if I remember his description correctly: the left are the radicals trying to rebuild humanity and society in pursuance of their theoretical goals, the right are those resisting them.)
“Is Capitalism or Socialism More Conducive to Christian Virtue?”
Authoritarian/libertarian has always been another fundamental range in human political attitudes, generally recognised as not congruent with left/right, in fact often viewed as orthogonal to it. It has always been vital, and remains so today, alongside left/right.
I think you are confused here by the fact that our main parties no longer fit into the easy left/right alternatives model of the C19th/C20th. But that doesn’t mean “left/right are no longer relevant”. They are as relevant as they always have been and probably always will be. It’s the Labour/”Conservative” divide that is decreasingly relevant.
There is a sense in which left/right is more complex than it has been in the past, which is that after the long triumph of the left through the C20th , what is there left of our society to conserve? How can conservatives respond in a society that is already transformed (and not necessarily for the better, by any means)? But more complex does not mean irrelevant.
Left and right have lost all meaning because society is fundamentally different to how it has been in the last hundred plus years where the terms were relevant. Scalia’s definitions are a word game designed to keep the terms alive in the 21st Century by means of semantics. It ignores the reality of what is actually happening to shoehorn in wafer thin differences between otherwise identical ideologies of any movement with a significant political base.
In many ways we are moving closer to a sort of techno-feudal system of governance rather than anything remotely similar to what has existed for the last 150 years. I can see it’s comforting for people Scalia’s age to want to keep defining things in a way they feel familiar with and using terms they understand but that doesn’t make him any less wrong.
“Left and right have lost all meaning because society is fundamentally different to how it has been in the last hundred plus years where the terms were relevant.“
Left and right long predate their particular C20th manifestations you refer to (presumably basically the kind of socialist/capitalist stuff that Scalia referenced back in 2013). Your perspective is too narrow.
The modern attempts to transform humanity and society are no longer particularly focussed on those old divisions, yes, but the basic drive remains (and probably always will). The main focus of the left is now on the political correctness (now termed woke) issues and globalism/antinationalism, both aimed at breaking down resistance to radicalism.
This is left/right today.
In a sense you are right when you say “… at least a couple of hundred years” but factually it is incorrect since Right Wing was invented by British Socialists in the 1930’s as a means of distancing themselves from their brethren in Germany led by Hitler. Hence why it is a complete nonsense that the Tories got lumped in with Hitlers National Socialist Party. The clue is, after all, in the name.
The National Socialist Party, if not identified as simply Left therefore must be Extreme Left if the Right Wing is the opposite of the Left wing.
“Largest and highest quality Ivermectin study found no benefit”. (BBC – and no mention of Uttar Pradesh in the article).
What are the BBC up to now then? And where were they on those rigged vitamin D trials which bore no resemblance to the recommendations of the OMNS? ( orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n04.shtml )
In April last year, the Daily Mail described vitamin D as “a bright new hope to fight the crisis”. They seem to have gone a bit quiet on it lately. Has someone been influencing them? And how much did they pay the press?
Typical BBC drivel – I used to write this shit for them myself; although it wasn’t quite as bad then I could see where it was going.
They drop in the the line of vaccine safety by dismissing concerns as “a common misreading of safety data.” Indeed, some of the more extreme predictions around vaccine deaths are based on a misreading – but without any misreading at all, and using the criteria for measuring harm from vaccines that are used for any medical intervention, it is crystal clear that the vaccines are at best of limited benefit while coming with low but still significant risk of harm and unknown long term effects.
The story offers no explanations of what these common misreadings are. Shit journalism – unfortunately from what I know of the journalists I worked with it’s not because of any directive on high (although no doubt there is one, but most hacks there don’t know that) it’s just that they aren’t very good at their job and they are afraid to ask questions.
Speaking of Uttar Pradesh, listen to Craig Kelly trying to explain how Ivermectin has helped them (from two minutes in he is fighting for the freedom to speak about it). They don’t want to hear about how opportunities are being missed – I wonder why?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgCABsRgaH8
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“Humanity will win the war on Covid”
Oh for goodness’ sake, when will we stop being so arrogant and deluded? I mean in the abstract it’s fine to be positive about the chances of future progress in eliminating suffering, but when it becomes an overwhelming obsession that leads us into futile and damaging actions, it needs to be reined in.
Excellent comment by David Starkey.
Always common sense from him.
I didn’t used to like him. But as with so many people, I now find what he is saying is spot on.
Because he remains free to speak his mind, even if we don’t hear from him so often
unfortunately he has only been recently rehabilitated because he has the most extreme views in favour of the jabs, as extreme as Piers Morgan, on LBC said they were proved scientifically without questionning all the evidence of their risks.so while I used to like him before now I have to regard him and a lot of others as completely damaged goods.
“All Progress is made by heretics. It’s by people who don’t accept what they’re told.” David Starkey.
then he should listen to ll those who oppose the jabs, and not blindly accept them as he has done
I worked, as a nurse, alongside homosexuals and heterosexuals, I didn’t give a monkey’s about their sexuality, it didn’t have any affect on the role. Likewise with the patients, they are people not a sexuality. The only time that I was adversely affected when a young man came into A&E having harmed himself, after talking to him it came out that he had been raped, this was the first and fortunately only time that I encountered a rape victim of either sex.
I am too old to go clubbing.
https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/police-want-windsor-nightclub-close-21788982
I did not realise that digital IDs were a thing. There was I worried about the privacy of health passports to enter these venues.
Reminds me of Bob Newhart and the infinite number of monkeys ‘To be or not to be – that is the gggzornonplatt.
“Glenn Greenwald’s take on this is right. What Haugen accuses Facebook of is nothing other than the failure to fully stamp-out unorthodox thought which fails to abide by the liberal shibboleths of the modern woke left.
By positioning herself as a Silicon Valley renegade, Haugen gives those in Washington the perfect stick with which to beat the last bits of freedom of speech which exist on major online platforms. Any speech which fails to fall into their narrow world-view is verboten.
As Greenwald rightly points out, those who rail against the likes of Facebook never complain about it’s accumulation of power- they never want to do a ‘Standard Oil’ to it- but instead merely contest the nature of the use of its accumulated power.”
Greenwald is indeed correct, as is Frederick Edward, but it is better that big tech’s active leftist bias is increasingly out in the open, following its very obvious and public manipulation of the US election to elect the unelectable (by honest means) Biden/Harris team.
That bias was there previously, but it was deniable by those whose purposes were served by pretending it was not. That denial obviously continues, but it is no longer credible for those genuine conservatives who have seen the results so starkly displayed.
Now at least the sides and the issues are clear, and we either succeed in breaking the manipulative shackles of elite leftism peacefully, or we fail, and our societies go down to darkness and the civil war that is inevitable when one side denies peaceful avenues of dissent to the other.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-armed-french-police-board-25166881 French police arresting man for wearing the wrong type of mask!