- “It will take more than the retreat of Covid to cure our society’s lockdown obsession” – “The virus itself is on its way to becoming just another bug, one of the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. But the scar tissue where our civil liberties used to be may never fully heal,” writes Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “It’s getting bad again” – S.D. Wickett, Michael Curzon and Luke Perry discuss the enforcement of mandatory vaccination measures in both the U.K. and mainland Europe in Bournbrook Magazine’s regular podcast.
- “Tesco’s Christmas advert features double-vaccinated Santa” – “At one point, the music stops for a breaking news announcement that Father Christmas could have to quarantine after travelling. Thankfully, Santa arrives at the airport with his Covid vaccination pass and all is well,” reports the Independent.
- “Nearly 40% of people had depression during the pandemic” – Researchers from Intermountain Healthcare System found that 40% of people reported that they were feeling some symptoms of depression during the pandemic, reports the Mail.
- “Young people paid too high a price for lockdown” – The manner in which the young were disregarded was all the more extraordinary given that the virus itself posed little risk to their health, writes Telegraph View.
- “AstraZeneca could go from hero to villain” – “AstraZeneca’s decision to start building in a profit margin on future sales of its world-saving Covid vaccine is understandable, but will inevitably bring criticism,” writes Patrick Hosking in the Times.
- “I don’t care what time of day my staff work, says IBM boss Arvind Krishna” – “Many months of working predominantly from home under Covid restrictions have prompted office-based employers to reconsider the future of their operations,” reports the Times.
- “How third vaccine jabs are boosting the chances of a restriction-free Christmas” – Covid-related hospitalisations among the most vulnerable age group are now in a sustained decline, writes Ben Butcher and Joe Pinkstone in the Telegraph.
- “What it means to experience ‘social death’” – Government is inflicting social death on any who continue to believe their bodies and lives belong to themselves and not the Government, argues Thomas Harrington for the Brownstone Institute.
- “There’s no hiding from lockdown damage now” – A raft of dire new data suggesting the cure was worse than the disease is a looming political problem for the Prime Minister, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “YouTube suspends senator over Covid vaccine video” – “Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson was temporarily suspended from YouTube for allegedly spreading ‘harmful misinformation’ after he published a video discussing injuries related to Covid vaccination,” reports RT.
- “Designated Criminal” – Reason has been superseded by the need to obey, argues David Mamet in UnHerd.
- “WHO director shies away from pushing passports for shots that do ‘not prevent Covid’” – Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro questioned the WHO’s Director General Tedros Adhanom on the effectiveness of vaccines and immunity at the G20 summit in Rome, reports Lifesite.
- “Joshua Kimmich ‘set to miss out on $440,000’ amid strict German rules for unvaccinated workers forced to quarantine” – “Reports from Germany suggest that Bayern Munich’s unvaccinated star Joshua Kimmich could be forced to forgo around €384,000 after being forced into quarantine after he was a close contact of a teammate who contracted Covid,” reports RT.
- “Matt Hancock book deal will see him tell of heroic role in pandemic” – “The former Health Secretary is in talks with HarperCollins over a blow-by-blow account of ‘heated’ lockdown rows with ministers, aides, scientists and medics,” writers Simon Walters in the Mail.
- “Missouri Governor considering unemployment for people fired for refusing Covid Vaccines” – “Missouri Governor Mike Parson said his administration is considering providing unemployment benefits for individuals who are fired over federal Covid vaccine mandates,” reports the Epoch Times.
- “Conservative judges block Biden’s vaccine requirement for businesses” – Panel of judges rules stay of requirement for businesses with 100 or more workers is in the public interest, reports the Guardian.
- “Letter to British Society of Immunology” – PANDA requested that the British Society of Immunology amend public messaging as it grossly misrepresents the data available on Covid and immunology in general, writes PANDA in a letter to the British Society of Immunology.
- “COP26: climate activists reported to police after deflating tyres of 4x4s in Glasgow as summit takes place” – The group ‘Tyred of SUVs’ also posted ‘climate violation’ flyers on the windscreens of the vehicles, reports Sky News.
- “Scottish Government puts tampons in men’s toilets” – “Period products are now being supplied to men’s restrooms visited by Scotland’s transgender civil servants, British media has revealed. The move has apparently been introduced by the cabinet to top up its equality index,” reports RT.
- “Lockdowns don’t work” – Toby speaks to Talkradio about the ineffectiveness of lockdowns and why another one should not be imposed on England.
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So far I like the cut of Milei’s jib. A breath of fresh air and common sense.
Billing the head of JSO would certainly be appreciated. A pay up or porridge deal should do the trick.
I strongly disagree.
“Security” is an imposition by the state. Its the state that wants to deploy police officers to provide “security” so it should foot the bill itself.
Although, of course, the state has no income. It’s income cones from shaking down the public.
It didn’t take Milei long to act like a hypocrite.
You are total granite Stewart always totally consistent.
JSO can protest and I would not charge them for security, but I would certainly charge them or jail them for damaging art works, buildings etc.—- Damaging things is not legitimate protest. ———I would expect no leniency if I had a JUST START OIL T short on and threw paint at my bank window, and I don’t think I would get any.
Its that thing that the left don’t do terribly well. Consequences for their actions…
I strongly disagree.
“Security” is an imposition by the state. Its the state that wants to deploy police officers to provide “security” so it should foot the bill itself.
That’s not really true. In 2017, there was a G20 meeting in Hamburg. These are traditionally also gathering points of the (so-called) anticapitalist/ anarchist hard left who’ll stage ‘protests’ against them. The city was essentially stripped of police in order to ensure the safety of all the meeting politicians. Because of this, the protestors went rioting in several city districts, smashing up and looting shops, torching cars etc.
Milei’s argument still doesn’t hold water, though: The largest parts of these costs will have been paying all the security-related government employees who would have needed to be paid come rain or shine, ie, regardless of the demonstration. And the actual numbers deployed were chosen by the government for some reason only known to it. People have freedom of assembly, however, should they actually assemble, fines in the order of thenthousands of dollars will be issued to people not guilty of any criminal conduct effectively means There’s no freedom of assembly.
I tend to agree
My starting point would be that the right to peaceful public mass protest is sacrosanct and charging people for it isn’t appropriate. If people are engaging in deliberate obstruction then they should be moved on or arrested. The greyer area is when the obstruction is a natural result of a lot of people being in the same place at the same time. I think it’s reasonable to encourage protestors to choose where they go in order to minimise inconvenience to others without losing the impact of the protest but I don’t feel that coercion is warranted
I like the idea of charging JSO for any damage done, then passing that on to donors. Never happen though
What a Christmas gift, that headline really did make me laugh out loud
Good for Milei, if I’m not mistaken a similar principle applies to football matches and pop concerts, so why not.
If you truly believe in what you’re protesting, you’ll be happy to foot the bill, in the knowledge that you will be safe while protesting and as a taxpayer you will not get further burdened.
Merry Christmas everyone, have a good one.
Yep, we are on the same page Jane.
Have a lovely Christmas
There’s a very real danger that this could end up being the thin end of the wedge. Once a government charges protesters blocking roads during a protest it’s a very small step to charging other protests for the policing costs involved and before we know it protest is the preserve of the well off.
The best solution would be to massively increase the fines given to people who have been found guilty of breaking the law during a protest to help cover the cost of dealing with their law breaking rather than simply charging groups who organise a protest.
“massively increase the fines given to people who have been found guilty of breaking the law”
I largely agree with your comments but the problem is that the legal system is now largely corrupted. JSO routinely break the law with their pathetic vandalism and deliberate road closures. Bill the tw#t funding this crap and things might change. If he doesn’t pay send him down.
Looking forward to the day when Extinction Rebellion are charged for the disruptions they cause. 10,000 motorists on the M25 x £10.42 an hour…. A few days of that will soon drain ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶ the George Soros funded twats of funds.
Damn right.
“a heavy deployment of police, paramilitary officers and anti-riot forces, cost 60 million pesos, or about £57,500, at the official exchange rate.”
We should employ Argentinian police. At those prices we could fly them over here to deal with protests and riots and fly them back and it’d still cost less than using ours.
Yes that’s 1,043 pesos to the pound if my calculator is correct.
They will also strip protestors of Welfare. That’s going to hurt.
No. Just those protesters who block streets – if I understood that correctly.
Mind you that also means they expect to be able to identify these people.
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Have a peaceful Christmas everyone.
In order to do this they must be closely surveilling the event and have the technology to trace the protesters they have identified. Its easy to applaud the concept of charging the protesters but the mechanics involved in that process are part of the apparatus of the surveillance state which, I think, most here would be against.
Correct. Trudeau tried it against the Canadian trucker protest during Covid. Not just cutting off welfare payments but freezing their bank accounts. I don’t think many on here would have supported that action.