- “More than a third of U.K. music industry workers lost jobs in 2020” – U.K. Music’s annual report says 69,000 people lost work as the pandemic wiped billions off the value of the sector, reports the Guardian.
- “How Britain’s vaccine programme went from world-beater to laggard in less than a year” – From peak of 600,000 shots a day to about 200,000 recently, wheels have fallen off the vaccination juggernaut – and the blame game has begun.
- “Scottish teenagers may have to wear face masks in class until next year” – Guidelines forcing secondary school pupils to wear coverings will remain in force indefinitely after a Government U-turn, reports the Telegraph.
- “SNP’s vaccine passport scheme in chaos as it can be ‘outfoxed by a screenshot’” – A key security feature trumpeted by under-fire SNP Health Secretary in a radio interview does not exist, in further blow to scheme, reports the Telegraph.
- “Scottish Vaccine Passports and The Swedish Way” – As Scotland imposes vaccine passports, CAN Films look at the collateral damage of their Covid approach, while comparing it with Sweden’s.
- “Travel testing to stay until new year, says Grant Shapps” – Testing for fully-jabbed travellers will remain in place until at least the new year, the Government has said.
- “U.K.’s daily Covid deaths hit seven-month high of 223” – Department of Health bosses posted 223 fatalities today, up 23.2% on last Tuesday’s figure of 181.
- “Boris Johnson Predicts Difficult Winter as Covid Deaths Rise” – “We’re starting to see indications that hospitalisations and death rates are increasing,” says Johnson’s official spokesman. “Clearly we are keeping a very close eye on rising case rates.”
- “NPHET doesn’t rule out the requirement to reintroduce Covid restrictions in the future” – A return to more restrictive public health measures such as lockdowns has not been ruled out in the Republic of Ireland.
- “Mother, may I? Americans have lost their spines if they need Fauci’s blessing to gather for the holidays” – U.S. Chief Medical Adviser Anthony Fauci has declared American families may spend the holidays together – as long as they’re vaccinated. But who gave him the authority to decide, and why are people still listening to him anyway, asks Helen Buyniski in RT.
- “The Covid testimony of Dr Peter McCullough – Part Two: The vaccines are killing people” – Dr Peter McCullough says there is no system to protect the American people from vaccine damage in a lecture transcribed in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Nebraska AG Says Doctors Can Legally Prescribe Ivermectin, HCQ for Covid” – At the request of the Nebraska Department of Health, Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson issued a legal opinion that Nebraska healthcare providers can legally prescribe ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of Covid, so long as they obtain informed consent from the patient.
- “France launches ‘anti-woke’ think tank to ‘protect French values’” – Cancel culture is becoming a hot button issue ahead of French presidential elections, reports the Telegraph.
- “Thailand inmates are taking green chiretta to fight mild Covid – here’s what we know about this herbal drug” – The Thai Government claims success at treating mild Covid in its prison population.
- “Latvia orders lockdown as PM decries low Covid vaccine uptake and far-right MP blames Russian ‘colonists’ reluctant to get jab” – Latvia has ordered its citizens to stay at home, and shuttered shops and businesses in the hope of slowing a spike in deaths, after warnings that the healthcare system is struggling to cope with the increase in coronavirus ‘cases’, reports RT.
- “Make your home greener to get a mortgage” – Home buyers face having to improve the energy efficiency of their new properties under the terms of their mortgage as part of Government plans to decarbonise Britain’s housing stock, reports the Times.
- “Getting to net zero will come at a price – no matter what Boris or Biden say” – Claims the transition to a carbon-neutral society is cost-free are demonstrably untrue, and unfair on a public already feeling the strain, writes Kate Andrews in the Telegraph.
- “This heat pump scheme is a bung to the rich” – “Green incentives have long been a racket, a machine designed to transfer wealth from the poor to the rich,” writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Boris is courting political disaster by trying to guilt us into going green” – We were the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, and now the Government wants us to pay the price, writes Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
- “The alarming human rights ruling on freedom of speech” – “The ethical case for regulating what can be said about the dead is highly dodgy,” writes Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “We need to talk about the killing of David Amess” – “To avoid the hard conversations about radical Islamism entirely is to abandon a community when it needs our help most,” writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Spectator.
- “Wokeness is giving cover to bullies” – Children are using social justice rhetoric to pick on others, writes Katherine Dee in UnHerd.
- “Trans activists cannot hide their misogyny” – When did it become progressive to tell women to “suck my d***”, asks Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “The deranged campaign against Kathleen Stock” – “To Sussex University’s credit, they’ve so far stood by their woman, rather than throwing her under the bus to placate the black hoody-wearing mob,” writes Noah Carl in his latest Substack update.
- “Towards a reactionary Eisteddfod” – “Now that state (and increasingly local) venues are programmed along quota lines, with demographic characteristics of creators prioritised over merit, ambitious and talented artists find themselves marginalised as never before,” writes Alexander Adams in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “‘I want to know exactly which MPs support this and which don’t’” – “What kind of democracy do we live in when a 6 month extension to emergency powers to control every aspect of our lives can just be nodded through without any vote,” asks Julia Hartley-Brewer.
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My default position nowadays for any political pronouncements is to assume “they’re lying.” I no longer believe a word any of them are saying. This article more than reinforces my opinion. Labour are lying as usual and seem to be working on the Goebbel’s maxim of telling a big lie, repeat it continuously and eventually the people will believe it.
This Nut Zero travesty will surely provide Labour with their best ever chance to finally succeed at that which they are best at – running the country in to the ground. Significantly this will be the last government they ever form.
Indeed
As I write this, 21.7% of our electricity needs are being supplied by other countries, half of that by France
When the sun goes down, the contribution from solar will obviously disappear. At this moment our capacity from wind is far from being 100% utilised – presumably because the wrong kind of wind is blowing or not enough of it. Installing more bird choppers does not help if the wind is not blowing.
They must know this so the whole plan is malevolent and not a cockup.
Yes, 100%. Anyone who doesn’t have trust issues with anybody in authority, not even just the perma-corrupt politicians, is gullible in the extreme, in my opinion. There’s always an agenda, there’s always an ulterior motive, there’s always something they’re withholding from us. Sounds like paranoia but there it is, it’s how I roll now.
A 4min montage demonstrating the failures of these hated, ugly, destructive wind turbines, including a brief glimpse of the tragic effects on the poor birds;
https://x.com/TheMilkBarTV/status/1795113082907226397
If a cat kills a sparrow then all cats should be destroyed, but if wind turbines virtually wipe out the Red Kite, like what has happened in Germany then we should build even more of them.
Thanks for the link Mogs
Putting Government in charge of energy is like having wolves tending sheep. But actually the most powerful force today regarding energy is not this government or the next one. It is the “Climate Change Commitee”. It is they who run the show. It is they who have decided what your standard of living is to be moving forward, and since energy is the most important commodity for our prosperity and well being and the CCC have decided our energy use is to be strictly rationed then there can only be one outcome. ——Lower Living Standard. The use of coal oil and gas is what has given us the standard of living we currently enjoy. It is the standard of living that the developing world hopes to have and is why China and India continue using coal to bring their populations out of abject misery and poverty. By removing fossil fuels we reverse our standard of living. The countries with the highest energy prices are the UK, Germany and Denmark. —Why? because they have the most wind turbines. Any government that wants to expand the use of wind will only cause prices to increase. The idea we will have cheaper energy bills by using more renewables comes from the mouths of LIARS.
The odious CCC was covered here:
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/disband-the-climate-change-committee
Thans for that. Read it and saved it.
Quite apart from Labours usual fantasy orgasm non-policies I read recently that the average number of days without sun and / or wind is 110. That is 3 months of the year in the UK where anything relying on wind or sun cannot function. To put it bluntly that is 3 months with no light and no heat. Even if you have a gas boiler, how do you light it and drive the pump without electricity?
I didn’t read beyond the second mention of 3023
Only 9 comments. ————I am very surprised. There is no more important issue than energy for prosperity, health, life span and everything else that relates to our well being.
You are right, but I already feel defeated. If those in power decide to shut off the gas mains and stop petrol & diesel reaching the pumps there is nothing I can do to get them back.
And that is exactly what they will do …. but over a period of time, so that they don’t completely crash the economy or cause riots. It’s the classic “boiling frog” process.
The best thing we can all do is slow down the process by refusing to co-operate. Don’t buy an EV; don’t get a heat pump. Resist having a Smart Meter as long as possible. If you can, get an alternative heat source to gas and electricity.
So you vote for those that will stop Net Zero and currently the only party saying they will do that is REFORM. —–Not so easy if they were government to say it though as the entire Liberal Progressive machine of the western world would be down on them like a ton of bricks. No make that 50 tons of bricks.
Socialist Labour modus operandi when it comes to State run disasters, is keep the end-user price low by taxing them to subsidise the lower price.
The people have been falling for that one since 1945. Don’t forget when you use the NHS it is free – you don’t pay anything. State education similarly is free.
In the days of State owned gas, electric, coal, rail none of these made a profit – or surplus if you prefer – out of revenues, but prices were kept down.
In the case of energy, after it was privatised in the 80’s prices were still low and competitive. It was only after the Climate Change Act in 2008 (Miliband) that prices started to rise because wind is an expensive way to produce electricity, and also because the turbines were being paid for out of our bills. It isn’t privatisation that has cause high prices, it is government interfering in the energy market with pretend to save the planet policies.