- “‘Boozy’ Downing Street party was Covid-safe, insists Boris Johnson” – “Boris Johnson has denied breaking lockdown rules amid claims of a ‘boozy’ Christmas party being held in Downing Street last year,” reports the Times.
- “‘Biggest cancer catastrophe ever’ to hit NHS as up to 740,000 potential cases missed” – Devastating situation for patients, as waiting lists set to rise further and medics fear that more people will die unnecessarily, reports the Telegraph.
- “What happened to ‘follow the science’ on Covid?” – “It did not take long for the Omicron hysteria, for that is what I believe it is, to reverberate through the hospitality sector,” writes Patrick Dardis, who describes how the panic has wounded the hospitality industry in the Mail.
- “Omicron may require ‘very stringent response’, say SAGE scientists” – Officials should prepare for a “potentially significant” wave of cases, Government scientific advisers say, reports BBC News.
- “With each new set of restrictions, Britain moves further away from its traditions of liberty” – These impositions don’t just reduce our personal freedoms, they also take away our responsibilities towards other people, writes Graham Brady in the Telegraph.
- “Mass vaccination fails to halt Covid transmission rates” – “Successful vaccine rollouts have failed to stop Covid transmission, with new data showing the prevalence of the virus increasing in fully jabbed individuals, according to a medical study,” reports RT.
- “Three Covid vaccine doses ‘enough to protect against Omicron variant’, early research suggests” – Israel’s Health Minister says “there is no need for panic”, adding those people given valid vaccinations are almost certainly protected, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘A lot more’ will be known about Omicron variant in two weeks, says Sajid Javid” – Changes to Covid rules are due to be reviewed in three weeks time, as more is learned about the Omicron variant, and the Health Secretary suggests that this review could happen earlier, reports Sky News.
- “Ditch the muzzle!” – “Face nappy. Muzzle. Mask. Whatever you choose to call them, face coverings are a sign of compliance, allowing governments to gauge levels of public obedience to increasingly ridiculous Covid rules,” writes Mary McGreechin in TCW.
- “The mask slips” – Mask obsessives just want to signal their superiority over the selfish, germ-spreading others, writes Tim Black in Spiked.
- “Masks aren’t a minor inconvenience. They’re dehumanising and controlling” – Consent will evaporate if such measures continue to be introduced by diktat, argues Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
- “Austria plans enormous fines, incarceration for vaccine refusers” – “Early rumours, that unvaccinated Austrians would face substantial fines or incarceration, have been confirmed by draft legislation leaked to the Austrian press,” writes Eugyppius in his latest Substack update.
- “Returning U.S. travellers may have to quarantine due to Omicron variant” – “The Biden administration is considering whether to force all travellers returning to the U.S. to quarantine for seven days to curb the spread of the potentially dangerous Omicron variant,” reports the Mail.
- “Will New Zealand ever escape zero Covid?” – “New Zealand might end up with the worst of both worlds: facing the same problems as everyone else, but persisting with an unsustainable zero Covid approach to them,” writes Tom Chodor in UnHerd.
- “Coroner investigating whether Dunedin man’s death connected to vaccine days earlier” – “The death of a Dunedin man is being investigated by health officials and the coroner to ascertain whether it could be connected to the Covid vaccine he received 12 days earlier,” reports the New Zealand Herald.
- “Police recruits are quitting within weeks because they can’t cope with job, warns chief constable” – Young officers lack the life experience and hardiness to handle the violence and pressures of working on the front line, says force leader, reports the Telegraph.
- “New Zealand city becomes one of first in world to introduce a ‘climate tax’” – “One of New Zealand’s largest cities, Auckland, has proposed a climate tax for its residents in what is likely the world’s first such tariff,” reports the Independent.
- “What is happening to my profession?” – “The implementation of the social justice agenda has constrained collegial discourse, challenged the maintenance of standards, and suppressed honest analysis of certain problems,” says Sally Satel, who examines the recent ideological takeover of the American health industry in Quillette.
- “The eco mob are determined to extinguish Christmas itself” – These miserable warriors can’t help but cast aspersions on those who wish to brighten our bleak midwinter, writes Judith Woods in the Telegraph.
- “Lockdown kills” – Broadcaster Tonia Buxton speaks to talkRadio about the disastrous impact lockdown has inflicted on her family: “My mother-in-law died because of lockdown. She died because her doctor couldn’t be bothered to see her. We are killing people because of lockdown.”
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Imagine calling a multibillionaire “courageous”. Get some sense. Musk is a shyster, and so is Marc Benioff, his fellow billionaire who owns Time.
Courageous downvoters – here’s an explainer for you about the world of the Daily Mail, including Mail Plus etc.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
You know what they say, if you’re getting flak, you’re over the target. Musk is a grifter, clearly some people want to emulate the twat, drooling over his money.
A grifter? You mean like so many politicians who earn their money with backhanders all day long? I think Mr.Musk is a tad brighter and grifter is not a word I would use to describe him.
Billionaire. Bad ? There are bad one’s of course. There’s some bad people in my local estate so I hear.
Sorry I gave up all msm for Lent
I would highly recommend everyone do the same. Msm serves no purpose.
I gave up TV completely as well in May 2021 ……and cancelled my TV licence. Uplifting!
I don’t have a problem with Musk’s selection; I just have to wonder why billionaires all have such weird hair.
Maybe there’s something of the Peaky Blinders about them.
He certainly comes across as a somewhat eccentric person.
There it is again. So people who have been baying for pay back for the last two years now get a global billionaire on the books so to speak and do I hear a round of applause ? No we get “he’s eccentric”. Face palm.
Looks like good old Ellen has been throwing his money at troll service. Personally, I just think he’s a dickhead, nothing to do with his money.
Musk says he will allow his son to choose his own gender.
Where are social services when we need them? They should make his son a ward of court, foster him, and require Musk to take re-education classes if he wishes to apply to get him back.
Musk is a bit of a touchstone. Some people realise what’s happening when a drug-addled billionaire talks up garbage such as self-driving cars, is allowed by the real rulers (who aren’t in the limelight) to become what in most people’s terms is extremely rich, pulls a few cryptocurrency scams because he’s bought a section of the “cool youth” market, and ostentiously masturbates with large vehicles into space. Others fall for him because they’re too stupid to realise any of the above for what it is, even when it’s right in front of their faces. Seriously your life has to be very sad if you think it’s exciting to watch a billionaire disgrace himself and have a J Arthur.
“talks up garbage such as self-driving cars”
You know those already exist? Bloody handy too when you need to take a slurp of coffee on the motorway….I know it’s against the grain on here but I love my Tesla.
As for Musk, he’s the least offensive of the elite i can think of, but i’m no fan of any of them.
It is hard to find role models these days, Boris, Biden, Fauci, whitty, Gove, Hancock,harris. So many to choose from. You know what I mean.
I am a big fan of Mr Musk and very grateful for his presence.
Yes you are right. I would rather sit and watch the current UK and USA gov’ts make fools of themselves. Mr. musk just gets on with his ideas and work. He fights for his and his employees rights. Don’t you just hate when people do that.
Déjà vu.
Personally, I can’t get sycophantic over a billionaire. There should be no billionaires, it gives them to much power & privilege, ironically whether musk is a lockdown sceptic or not, he clearly has no influence on this matter, so I can’t see we’ve suffered 2 articles about him.
Because he gave Toby a tiny scrap of fleeting attention, is why. There’s no other reason needed.
So he must just be a “victim” just baying for attention ? Derogatory to say the least.
But this has been the issue all along. An “elite” of billionaires, medical experts and pharma bods clearly gained too much power and influence. That does not translate to “everything bad”. I do not live in the Manichean world that seems to exist exclusively in the comment sections of this site but almost never in the actual articles.
The introductory paragraph to this article is cringemakingly embarrassing.
The title is too.
If I ever write anything so bad, please can everyone (especially friends) line up and shout “Stop embarrassing yourself, you fucking wally!” at me. Thanks!
Maybe not so anti-socialist after all then
I don’t understand your logic?
It’s not the wealth I object to, it’s the power over fawning idiots like you that directly affects my freedom that I object to.
Perhaps you have ambitions? Mine is to be free, not rule others.
Why is he “eccentric” ? That used to describe moth eaten millionaires in old stately homes who go around wearing deer antlers on the head all day, lol.
Well, when someone points out that he can’t use your mini submarine to rescue some cavers who’ve been trapped underground by water and your response is to call that person a ‘paedo’, that qualifies as a bit eccentric, surely?
Where did he say this ?
https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musk-apologises-for-calling-british-cave-diver-a-paedo-11440370
The facts weren’t disputed in court. Musk claimed in court that it had been a “JDart”, where an intended jokey tweet had been misinterpreted by the recipient, and he had immediately deleted it. The US jury took the view that that Musk’s Tweet had been a spontaneous response to the previous Twitter exchanges, and that its immediate deletion had limited the reputational damage that it had done.
Oh he qualifies alright. As a Tesla owner I’ve followed his Twitter feed for a while and he’s a proper nut job.
Yeah – fuck that shit.
https://elonmuskneuralink.com/the-neuralink-brain-chip-elon-musk-neuralink/
So this automatically makes Elon “bad” ? In fact is this tech inherently bad ? Like any tech it depends on whose using it. I’ve seen all the Technocracy and “reset” conspiracy theories. They do a good job in their own way but they are so inherently DARK. Sometimes I wonder if they’re Luddites. They never posit a world where this tech is in the hands of the good guys.
Why are you exerting so much energy defending him?
Elon is unstable. Much like Oswald Mosley. He could flip in any direction and any time. As such he is a potentially dangerous buffoon.
“rare”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10321397/Christian-Eriksens-Inter-Milan-contract-terminated-mutual-consent.html
I might be more inclined to agree if his opposition to lockdowns had actually had some sort of noticeable effect in changing policy.
As it stands, unless I’m missing something, he has accomplished nothing of substance and so I’m not quite sure whether his “courage” is any greater, any more consequential or any more inspiring to others than the courage of, say, the lady who was convicted this week for protesting in London.
I think going against the law/rules in your country as a business is a little brave. He took a risk that his business would suffer through his personal exploits. He kept his staff in work whilst others risked closing their businesses not knowing if there would be a business to come back to. Don’t get me wrong I’m not a big fan or anything, but anyone with his worldwide image making a stand is better than no one doing it, regardless as to his reasons.
He accomplished nothing. He did nothing significant to protest or lobby the state of California, where he was based, against lockdowns and mandates. Instead he packed up his company and buggered off to Texas, purely out of his business’ interest and bottom line. He’s not wrong to want to do so, but don’t sugar coat it as “standing up to tyranny” like another previous article did.
Isn’t this one of those WGAS articles?
Too many people think these characters and these magazines are important. They’re not outside the Bubble.
Over on YouTube, Thunderf00t (with 1M Subscribers) has utterly debunked Musk’s crazy projects – https://www.youtube.com/c/Thunderf00t/search?query=musk
While he might have been against lockdowns, I feel he is still a potentially dangerous buffoon, who would make men into robots.
The same Musk who pushes Universal Basic Income?
The same Musk who wants to send millions of satellites into space for the global surveillance grid? (In co operation with Bill Gates)
The same Musk who is developing brain implants to connect people’s physical bodies (and minds?) to IoT?
The same Musk whose cars and tunnel boring company is building the “smart cities”?
His lockdown skepticism is just theatre. At his core he is one of the oligarchs building the totalitarian hell in this world.
We desperately needed Mr Musk’s support. He recently was interviewed by a WSJ jounalist and his responses to her questions were a breath of fresh air. Musk is highly intelligent, but wisely knows his limits and admits that.
A Musk/DeSantis ticket in 2024 would be amazing. We can hope.