- “Civil servants set their own rules as Downing Street refuses to order them back to office” – ‘Specific targets’ for staff to return will not be imposed, with departments to decide on any quotas for ‘in-person’ working, reports the Telegraph.
- “Demand for travel to Mexico and Thailand soars amid ‘Red List’ changes” – After the update last Thursday, flight booking website Skyscanner said its traffic that evening was up 60% in the following three hours, compared to the same time the previous week.
- “WHO backs third dose for people who had Chinese-made coronavirus jabs” – The organisation still does not support broader ‘booster’ campaigns for the other coronavirus vaccines, reports the Telegraph.
- “How Ivermectin became a Target for the ‘Fraud Detectives’” – “Ivermectin rapidly became public enemy #1 for the fact-checkers when the drug was repurposed as an early treatment and prophylaxis (preventative) for Covid,” writes Sonia Elijah in TrialSite.
- “Security Theatre and Covering One’s Buttocks” – “People still believe the erroneous and absurdly exaggerated fears that our political and journalistic merchants of fear released a year-and-a-half ago. How long we’ll carry the mistakes of Covid is anybody’s guess, but we’ll play a lot of security theatre until then,” writes Joakim Book in AIER.
- “SouthWest Airlines cancels over 1,800 flights in two days amid rumors of employee ‘sickout’ due to Covid vaccine mandate” – Thousands of passengers who booked Southwest Airlines flights for weekend travel have been left stranded in U.S. airports after the airline canceled flights amid reports of a protest against the vaccine mandate.
- “Inside Melbourne’s eternal lockdown” – Will the city ever recover from its pursuit of ‘Zero Covid’, asks Tom Chodor in UnHerd.
- “Despite Heavy Vaccination Delta Variant Covid Infections and Deaths Surges in Singapore” – Mass Covid vaccination has essentially failed in Singapore, writes TrialSite.
- “The divided, distracted and deluded West is allowing China to take over” – Europe and the U.S. prefer to luxuriate in self-inflicted chaos than come up with a strategy to beat Beijing, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “We must stop being slaves to the algorithm” – “Social media has damaged democracy, exacerbated division and harmed children – it’s time for much tougher regulation,” writes William Hague in the Times.
- “Dial 888 for the surveillance state – The Conservative Woman” – “The recent reaction to the potentially preventable murder of Sarah Everard has opened yet more doors to state surveillance,” writes Alexander Adams in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Our energy policy is a lose-lose, exporting carbon emissions to China at the expense of British industry” – In a rush to prove itself greener than thou, the Government has shot itself in the foot, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Road to hell is paved with good intentions” – As the years have passed, Prince Charles has become increasingly alarmed by climate change, sometimes to the point of being apocalyptic, writes Stephen Glover in the Mail.
- “Why liberals must stand with Kathleen Stock” – “Now is the time to stand up and be counted, or else be remembered as cowardly capitulators,” writes Julie Bindel in the Spectator.
- “David Haig: ‘If you want to express a view these days, you have to be with a safe group of friends’” – The Four Weddings and a Funeral actor talks to the Telegraph about Kipling, cancel culture and getting expelled from Rugby.
- “The Singular God of The Woke” – “If there are historical parallels that can accurately be drawn, I think The Woke are in a development stage close to the early Christians, just around the time of the Arian heresy,” writes Rhyd Wildermuth in his latest Substack update.
- “Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it’s a bisexual superhero in new Superman series” – As Superboy assumes his father’s powers, DC comics gives the man of steel a makeover with a romantic male love interest, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ditch ‘ladies and gentlemen’ and you lose values” – B.A.’s change of policy in on-board announcements sacrifices dignity for the sake of woke lip service, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Disaster Down Under” – In the latest Downfall spoof, ‘Hitler’ rages about ludicrous ‘anti-Covid’ measures employed by Australia being “the laughing stock of the free world”.
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Perhaps if Kneeler Starmer can be deposed we might eventually have a populist Opposition in Parliament not one led by a Trilateral Commission Globalist Elitist ? Anything would be better under the present circumstances.
I think this is wishful thinking. We will never be allowed a populist party in Parliament, let alone a true blue party. The UK has become a socialist entity run by foreign money and foreign interests. The indigenous people are mindfully lazy, beaten down and drug riddled. They had the chance to vote UKIP on a number of occasions but preferred to believe the propaganda and smears. Farage knew the depth of corruption in our Civil Service and knew that whilst we were part of a corrupt political project nothing would change. He was then bought off too.
Yes, he stood down his candidates to give Johnson a clean sweep – never forget!
The whole of the Political/ Media Class knew what Johnson was really like – see Max Hastings, in the Mail, warning article, Summer 2016.
Bunkum. The UK was more socialist during the period of the ‘post-war consensus’, 1945-79. It worked rather well compared to before or since.
A populist opposition would be asking why ‘austerity’ since 2010 has aimed at pensioners, those on benefits and the lowest third in general. Marginal tax rates on the top 1% or 10% – the rentier class – have not risen.
I gather that if you live on unearned dividend income your tax rate is 32%.
If you’re an ex-student with loan repayments, income tax and NI, your marginal rate is about 60%.
Yea, right. Nationalised industries dragging the country into penury. 80%+ tax rate and the consequent brain drain.
Raging unemployment and a technological backwater e.g. the Post Office had developed digital phone services long before any other country, but the Unions wouldn’t allow them to be rolled out.
Remember ‘Closed Shops’? Forced to join a Union to have a job whether you wanted to or not. Forced to strike whether you wanted to or not.
Business patrolled by Union officials who contributed nothing, just complain to management to justify their own existence and call meetings that disrupted production.
The Heath government brought to it’s knees by striking coal miners who relished cutting peoples electricity off.
Taxing billionaires would bring in far less money to the country than the business they build with low Tax rates. It’s not like they squirrel their money away in vaults, they are billionaires on paper, their money invested in businesses that employ people. Over tax them and they just leave the country.
Austerity measures cleared out much of the dead wood in local authorities. Sadly the same didn’t happen with the sainted civil service.
So how are we to pay off the debt contributed to with £450Bn wasted on a seasonal flu? The middle class are already shouldering the burden of 50% taxes.
The ONLY way of doing it is to scrap the insane NetZero policies, eliminate all taxes and subsidies associated with it, and get the country back to work.
Ideally, offer a lower tax economy for the wealthy so they are attracted here to set up businesses and generate employment.
I was thinking a very similar thought earlier on today prob about the time you wrote this post.
I was mulling over the 400 billion spent over 2 years, in what at times felt like a spending frenzy, on the “pandemic” (?).
What was the point of the austerity measures the Tory party, aided by the LibDems, presided over under Cameron and Osborne which lasted a long time if the intention was to “spaff” 400 billion up the wall on things like track and trace and face masks and PCR testing which most likely should never have been deployed?
What exactly is Starmer supposed to resign from?
The issue with Boris is that he’s Prime Minister and this was his own law.
“What exactly is Starmer supposed to resign from?”
The Labour leadership. The Privy Council. The House of Commons. His tiddlywinks club. Anything and everything.
But why?
Boris is only being asked to resign from the PM role, not as an MP or anything else.
And the key offence is not law breaking, but lying to the House.
The self -isolate for the rest of his life ( for our protection)!
Fingal, smoking the waccy baccy again.
He’s employed as leader of the opposition. Or hadn’t you noticed. He called for Boris’ resignation over partygate and now that beergate is exposed I’m afraid he must resign, by his own standards.
He resigns from his job dimbo!
Nicola Sturgeon hasn’t resigned, and she has been caught not wearing a face mask at least twice.
They have all failed to keep to rules that they imposed on us. They imposed and/or supported intolerable restrictions on us and also gave the police powers that they should not have. It is wholly appropriate that they should be brought down by their “brave” police applying those powers.
It is notable, however, that the Scottish police, amalgamated into a single gendarmerie, is giving Sturgeon a free ride.
The Scottish Nazis don’t have to resign, because they don’t pretend to be a democracy working for us.
Perhaps Putin will set his sights on Scotland next if its full o’ Nazis?
Looking at the photo, she should be forced to wear a mask 24/7
Are you expecting me to defend her or something? What could possibly motivate me to do that?
Or perhaps you’re jumping to conclusions?
He’s employed as an MP as well. But no one’s suggesting either he or Boris should resign from that. This only matters because he’s PM.
The key issue that requires Boris’s resignation is not the law breaking but his lying to Parliament.
Starmer isn’t PM, or hadn’t you noticed.
Starmer’s position as an MP is a democratic matter between his constituents. He’s perfectly at liberty to resign as their representative though.
And Starmer hasn’t lied?
It’s necessary to explain everything to you multiple times over.
Lying to Parliament is a technical offence that supposed to lead to resignation. Lying anywhere else is a matter for voters.
I didn’t suggest otherwise, Dingle.
Try reading what I posted.
Politicians lie to Parliament every single day. Grow up.
The Leader of the Opposition is the Alternative Prime Minister.
And he agreed with the rules and voted them through. If he’d actually opposed them, things would be different.
Boris is obliged to resign as Prime Minister, not as party leader. That’s a matter for the Conservative party. The leader and the PM don’t have to be the same person (although they usually are).
Nobody’s suggesting Boris needs to resign as an MP over this.
Although the phrase ‘Alternative Prime Minister’ has been used, Shadow PM is the better term. If Boris resigns, the Tories will have an internal election and I suspect that Starmer won’t be on the list…
The government is responsible for the laws it passes, not the Opposition. It would be truly bizarre if Starmer resigned for breaking a rule once, while Boris stays in place having broken it half a dozen times.
The key issue that requires Boris’s resignation is not the law breaking but his lying to Parliament.
I believe that the official title is Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition which gives the position constitutional significance.
And I quote from an earlier post of yours “The key issue that requires Boris’s resignation is not the law breaking but his lying to Parliament.”
Repeated in this post. ^
Starmer demanded Boris’ resignation over the police prosecution. By his own standards then, if he’s also found to have broken lockdown rules by the police, he has no alternative but to resign.
It might even force Boris’ hand.
Sigh. Starmer demanding Boris’s regulation is not lying to Parliament.
But it would be hypocrisy (if he’s found guilty).
The pressure on Starmer is not legal, but political.
This does expose the problem created by Boris’s repeated rule breaking. It’s absurd that everyone else has to operate at a higher standard than Boris.
Boris is creating new, lower, standards of Parliamentary behaviour.
The pressure on Starmer is precisely that of Boris.
Both broke lockdown rules, Starmer is a lawyer, he knew precisely what he was doing.
Both then lied about breaking lockdown rules.
The political pressure is in addition to their crimes. That comes with the territory.
“Sigh” off cretin. You’re a Starmer apologist.
Starmer agreed with every “law” … it was as much his as Johnson’s
The technical reason Boris has to resign is because he lied to Parliament,
It would be insane if Starmer had to resign for breaking Boris’s law once, while Boris himself stays in position having broken it many, many times.
Having said that, if found guilty, the political damage to Starmer is immense and could bring him down anyway.
Starmer demanded Boris resign. Breaking lockdown rules once is no less a crime than breaking them five times.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
And yes, as far as I’m concerned, Boris and anyone else involved in partygate or beergate should resign, including Raynor.
Betraying the public is the crime, lying simply compounds it.
In a criminal court those convicted of a crime are expected to lie to avoid prosecution. Personally I would have them convicted of perjury and/or perverting the course of justice on top of their original crime.
As far as I’m concerned, Boris, Starmer and the rest of the party/beer/gate traitors should all suffer the same fate.
That’s not true, either in law or public opinion.
It’s important to remember that Starmer’s alleged offence has already been investigated and dismissed by Durham police once. We await sight of the new evidence.
One of the flaws of the legislation was that it led to too many grey areas.
Fingal is, as usual a know nothing blowhard.
I have reported thousands of people over the years and almost that precise phrase has been recited by innumerable judges.
We do indeed, presumably because people like Raynor were found to be lying and Durham police considered it appropriate to re-investigate.
Try as I might, I cannot see what in your post is so objectionable that fifteen people have thumbed it down. I’ve thumbed it up by the way.
Dear God, don’t force Starmer to resign. As unlikely as the prospect is, labour might actually find a competent leader.
Boris is bad but socialism is worse.
Amongst the current parliamentary labour party?
You jest surely.
Remote, admittedly, but still a possibility.
We can all see what the next election is really going to be about: Saville and Rochdale. Of course the Tories will pretend they have nothing to do with the “grubby campaign against the leader of the opposition” … but there will be a grubby campaign, which just happens to benefit the Tories.
Aren’t the Tories socialist too. They certainly are not Conservatives.
True dat.
Starmer ‘tells colleagues he will have to quit if he gets Covid fine’
The well known freedom fighter and bender of the knee, Kneel Starmer has confirmed that he is an utter shithouse, time wasting, oxygen thieving nobody and can I have my pensions please.
Newsflash:
Yet another millionaire resigns as leader of the labour party for masquerading as a socialist who believes in wealth distribution. Except his.
How do you know a socialist politician is lying?
Look at their bank balance, and ask why they have one.
Sorry but is this where DS has fallen?
I mean really does anyone awake really care about the obvious and trivial fact that ALL our politicians are fast asleep sock puppets venally sucking off the people they are supposed to represent?
I couldn’t be bothered to vote. And even if I did there are swathes of asleep media psyopsed hoi poloi willing to vote for team A or team B or Lib Dem/Green.
Network now with your awake neighbours in the UK and get prepared. Leave the country and go to Africa or Eastern Europe or some choice South or Central American countries. Try your luck in the red US states.
The West is FUBARed.
If Van Den Bosch is right, we are a few months from the next real killer variant. Gates seems to know it’s coming and jabbing non sterilising immunosuppressive junk into our populations could create the super bug.
That and the imminent collapse of our financial system…so who cares if Starmer drank beer ffs.
https://thehighwire.com/videos/the-vanden-bossche-warning/
I tend to agree but politics is important, even if the current crop are hopelessly compromised.
Whether or not Vanden Bosshe’s warnings come to pass – and he says a month or two- most people can’t emigrate to anywhere, and a killer variant will spread around the world.
The best that most people can do is turn to God for mercy (which most will not do) and brace themselves – which involves preparing.
And, of course, if the war escalates, the best you can say is that the southern hemisphere might be safer than the northern.
“Vanden Bosshe’s”
Almost!
“and a killer variant will spread around the world.”
Almost as if Geert is still working for Bill and Melinda, eh? Now there’s a Conspiracy Theory!
An alleged killer variant.
“Sorry but is this where DS has fallen?”
You want to get up earlier in the mornings and join Huxley’s, Freddy’s and Judy’s Breakfast Club!
(Vanden Bossche, by the way).
(And The Highwire is run by Del Bigtree who would appear to be yet another fraud cashing in by stringing ‘the anti-vaxxers’ along).
No-one will be moving to Africa or Central America for ‘a better life’ (ie. getting robbed, catching exotic diseases, and having their throats cut). It’s much nicer in the UK – even the illegals coming in every day on their dinghies think it’s better than France!
Like you’ve been further than benidorm…………
Furthest east for me has been Japan.
Furthest south South Africa.
Furthest west Vancouver Island/British Columbia.
Furthest north Nord Capp, Norway (unless you count flying along the northern coast of Siberia, and crossing Greenland in a plane).
As far as the UK compass points are concerned, been to Penzance, Lowestoft, St David’s, and Thurso/Durness.
Apparently you didn’t get robbed, catch exotic diseases, or have your throat cut.
Never mind, you could always spend some time on the streets of any major British city of an evening and any one of those things are likely.
Are you really sure you want to be using that sucking phrase – I don’t think it means what you intended.
Next political story – Angela Raynor decides to have her legs ampuated in a desperate bid to save Labour’s collapsing reputation.
She would have to stop taking the knee.
She could carry it around with her.
Unlike many other countries, the UK does not have a populist party. It doesn’t matter who we vote for the very same people run our country. Those same people choose for us those whom they wish to be the front men and women. When election time comes round they issue empty promises and the brainwashed choose which promises they prefer.
We have just had local elections and the Lib Dems have gained many seats. The LibDems for crying out loud. This country voted for Brexit and is still waiting to leave the EU. The Lib Dums will take us straight back with bells on. Why do the people of the UK always fall for the lies and deceitfulness of their faux governments.
A question I have often asked myself. Swift satirised the situation back in the 18th century with Lilliputians squabbling over which end of a boiled egg should be broken. It was ever thus!
Out of interest, which current or recent populist leaders do you admire? Leading figures might include:
Putin
Bolsinaro
Trump
Erdogan
Increasingly Modi
Duterte
Let’s have you choice first! Could be more interesting and revealing.
As you might guess, I’m not impressed by populist leaders in general.
Of that lot, probably Modi. But it’s not a great line up.
Erdogan was positive for the first phase of his rule. Lately, he’s been obsessed with a bizarre take on economics. He thinks the best way to control inflation is to drop interest rates.
Turkish inflation is about to hit 70%.
Best you hope that Trump is successful in 2024 or things will get a lot worse.
Most peaceful POTUS in living memory. Not one theatre of war opened in his first four years, yet we were all assured he would take us into nuclear war.
Biden pitches up and guess what, we’re on the brink of nuclear war, and it only took him a year to get there.
Trump negotiated the Abrahams accord. Biden has essentially ignored it.
Economy booming under Trump. A recession looming 18 months after Biden gets installed.
Trump and his family investigated and hounded for the last six years. Comes out squeaky clean.
Biden’s financial dealings with his son in Ukraine never questioned.
So what was bad about Trump other than mean tweets?
Yours is the typical response of a rabid left winger. Trump Derangement Syndrome.
There will always be wars, even if you’re doing your best to avoid them. Trump was lucky in that no new wars started in his tenure.
He did however have a very good go at starting one all by himself with North Korea. In the end, Trump and Kim Jong-un contented each other with comparing dicks.
Trump also nearly started a war with Iran, but hit lucky because Iran accidentally shot down a civilian jet at the very point when things might have escalated.
Ironically, Biden’s biggest mistake (the rushed pull-out from Afghanistan) was a Trump policy which he foolishly carried out. Plenty of negative consequences from that – it might well have been the thing that tipped Putin into taking a risk on Ukraine.
But I know you’re a Trump fanboy so I’m sure you’ve got some hagiography to share.
I am STILL processing the words; ” when indoor socialising was illegal. “
The rules were illegal as they could never be justified as proportionate or necessary. So, I cannot criticise the Savile/Rochdale allowing leader of Labour from breaking the “rules” anymore than Johnson. However, they both lied to parliament, and so they both should resign.
I’m not sure Starmer did. Do you have a quote?
No, that’s the problem.
Labour politicians don’t lie. They tell ‘mistakes’…
….or..it (going into an illegal war, for instance) was done ” in good faith”. How many times did Blair rely on that throwaway justification…sounding so pious alongside his poison.
I think that more than lying to parliament, is there not a case to be made that they lied to the whole country in making laws telling the whole of the UK to cower indoors to ‘stay safe’ from a deadly disease, with a horrific transmissibility (all those cases trumpeted on every news bulletin and the nightly death stats) and high risks of severe illness and death, which their pre-planned ‘work’ parties amply demonstrate they knew there was very little indeed, if anything, to be afraid of?
Based on the Timing: after the local elections, and who would have had access to this memo, it is almost certainly a labour party insider who wants rid of Starmer. That could be because in Durham they recognise he and his Saville/Rochdale allowing behaviour is going to ruin their chances at the next election, or it might be a contender for the leadership.
What a repugnant man.
Is it just me or is Starmer increasingly resembling a woman…?
Anyway, whether he resigns or not is pretty irrelevant. If you asked a hundred random people to name one – just one – Starmer policy, I reckon 99 would be clueless. Actually, maybe all 100.
A complete waste of space and a farce to refer to him as “Leader of the Opposition”.
If he does resign, I reckon he’d make a splendid Widow Twankey you know. Minimal makeup required.
OK, a bit seasonal, but Starmer’s probably loaded anyway.
And a role much more suited to his abilities.
How can he resemble “a woman” when he doesn’t know what one is?
He would not know if he was one or not!
He knows he’s a big girl. If not, her blouse.
An operational note drawn up ahead of Sir Keir’s notorious visit to Durham, didn’t cummings go to durham as well? if so thats a bit of a coincidence two people breaking the rules in durham. Anyway, no surprise, if you or me had done it we would have been arrested but the people writing the rules do what they want even though it was such a deadly virus and we were supposed to all die etc.
A sad state of affairs for the world. So many horrible people in political positions destroying our world one bad decision at a time.