- “Punishing the unvaccinated would be both immoral and unjustified” – There is no reason for the U.K. to go down Europe’s path of compulsory jabs and vaccine passports, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “No 10 put all their eggs in vaccine basket in effort to save Christmas” – Changes to cabinet and public mood from last year make further restrictions less likely, says Jessica Elgot in the Guardian.
- “Private hospitals are offered billions to deal with Covid backlog” – “The NHS is seeking to sign new contracts with private hospitals to carry out scans and treatment including cancer care as part of plans to tackle the 5.8 million-strong waiting list,” reports the Times.
- “Theresa May slams Government’s handling of Omicron” – Theresa May said Omicron appeared to lead to less serious illness than other variants and that the U.K. Government should be “learning to live with Covid,” reports MailOnline.
- “Austria throws out its constitution over Covid” – Using the monopolistic power of the state to turn a section of any society into second-class citizens should be roundly rejected, writes Alex Story in the National Review.
- “Don’t leave home if you have the sniffles – it could be Covid, warns expert” – Leading scientist says that “a whole range of symptoms” should be enough to warrant taking a Covid test and being extra careful, reports the Telegraph.
- “U.K. condemned for Covid ‘travel apartheid’” – “Britain’s Covid restrictions, imposed to combat the spread of the Omicron variant, have been condemned as a ‘travel apartheid’ by Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the U.K.,” reports RT.
- “The Tories are a menace to liberty” – Lockdown may be over, but the Government is just as authoritarian as ever, writes Paddy Hannam in Spiked.
- “Covid vaccines work against Omicron variant, says scientist” – “The Omicron variant spreads faster and can re-infect people who have previously had the virus but vaccines appear to protect against it, South African scientists said yesterday,” reports the Times.
- “At least 46 ‘VIP lane’ PPE deals awarded before formal due diligence in place” – Two-thirds of contracts awarded before ‘eight-stage process’ was put in place were given out after referrals from ‘VIP Lane,’ reports the Guardian.
- “Downing Street ‘intends’ to hold Christmas party, despite hangover from last year” – Ministers appear to contradict one another over lockdown breach investigations as Downing Street declines to comment on internal review, reports the Telegraph.
- “Italian anti-vaxxer dentist who used a fake arm to get his jab and avoid restrictions is suspended” – “An Italian anti-vaxxer who tried to dodge getting the Covid vaccine by wearing a fake arm has been revealed to be a 57 year-old dentist who has reportedly been suspended from his job,” reports MailOnline.
- “The death of Europe” – Mandatory vaccination spells the violent end of European liberalism, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Review of A Plague Upon Our House by Scott Atlas” – A new book reveals how the troika of Fauci, Birx, and Redfield hijacked America’s pandemic response, writes John Tierney in City Journal.
- “Greece to fine elderly €100 for every month they remain unvaccinated” – “Greece has announced the first vaccine mandate targeting the elderly portion of the population,” reports GreatGameIndia.
- “Next virus may be more lethal, Covid vaccine inventor Sarah Gilbert warns” – “Another pandemic could prove to be both more contagious and more lethal, one of the inventors of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine warned yesterday,” reports the Times.
- “The new epoch” – “COP26 marked the definitive transition from a national and democratic order to a global and technocratic one,” writes John Mortimer in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “Britain’s hubristic green commissars can’t see the wood for the trees” – Storm Arwen showed the value of gas stoves and diesel, and the folly of our national forestry policy, argues Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
- “School to change name after founder’s statue dumped in harbour during BLM protests” – “Just over a year after the statue of its founder was toppled amid Black Lives Matter protests, Colston’s School in Bristol has announced it will change its name, despite the public supporting its retention,” reports RT.
- “Durham college head apologises for calling students ‘pathetic’ for staging walkout over Rod Liddle speech” – Professor Tim Luckhurst says he was wrong to criticise the students, reports the Telegraph.
- “Follow the science” – Former Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe speaks to TalkRadio about the need for a “serious debate about the efficacy of masks”.
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Presumably, she now thinks we’re ‘strong and stable’ enough to cope?
Sturgeon: “Take a Covid test before you go to the shops”
What next?
Take a test before you go to the bog?
Amongst many others, words fail me!!!
Unfortunately, plenty of people will.
Yes, no shortage of idiots.
No doubt, many other sceptics have noticed how, as things get worse each day,how the Bozzer employs his time honoured tactic of appearing even more shambolic and stupid looking as each day passes.
We’ve got news for you,Bozo, it doesn’t work anymore even for the Bozzer fan club.
Hitchens just posted this pair of images.
How it started:
How it’s going:
About the most ridiculous thing I ever saw (apart from that elbow bump nonsense).
I am a natural being, endowed with God-given rights and freedom – from conception. And it is going to stay that way.
“Durham college head apologises for calling students ‘pathetic’ for walking out over Rod Liddle speech. Professor Tim Luckhurst says he was ‘wrong’ to criticise the students and that they had ‘exercised their right to leave'”
No, he was exactly right. If students are not ‘man’ enough to listen and debate uncomfortable views, then let them go home and give their places to those who are.
When something is built on lies.. only further lies can maintain its existence..
For your disbelieving friends, show them this chart from the BMJ.. it say’s it all..
There never was a pandemic.. EVER!!!!
Have read the comments left before the DT closed the comment down I think poor little Timmy may have been hoping well done Tim good idea what he got was a universal bog off with some of the more toothsome comments get hundreds of likes so the DT has shut it down to save Timmy from getting upset
He’s almost a textbook example of how government and industry ‘buy’ a scientist. He slowly moves from using the scientific method to saying what pleases the Ministry of Truth.
If we didn’t have a censored society, it could be used as a real example in a university course on a subject like ‘history of science’.
The UK ended academic tenure in 1988. US academics still mostly have it; well, after about age 30-40. Prof. John Ioannidis at Stanford can say what he thinks … and does, with no outside funding.
The Daily telegraph have closed the comment section to the Tim Spector don’t leave home if you sneeze piece!!
Jacinda Ardern confirms… no end to the vaxxing.
https://twitter.com/noreward_norisk/status/1467989075714007051
scroll down that twitter feed until you get to the pic of the girl wearing the T shirt which says
“the final variant is communism”
I did not see that. Thanks for the tip.
“Next virus may be more lethal, Covid vaccine inventor Sarah Gilbert warns” – “Another pandemic could prove to be both more contagious and more lethal, one of the inventors of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine warned yesterday,” reports the Times
What a stupid, pointless, vacuous thing to say! Of course something with a 98% fatality rate could come along, something we don’t even notice might come along.
just stop the ignorant scare tactics, you just look foolish.
there I was thinking Sherelle Jacobs was one of the sensible ones. Has she drunk the kool-aid or did they get to her too?
She doesn’t realise.
The clot shot makes you risk the clot shot and the COVID cold.
Yes, i was very disappointed in the article. It’s fine to put forward an ethical position on compulsion but her thinly veiled antipathy towards the unvaccinated does not tally with the stats as far as i know.
Someone might be able to send her the facts:
https://off-guardian.org/2021/12/06/coronavirus-fact-check-13-icus-are-filled-with-the-unvaccinated/
And that’s before the unvaccinated NOT blocking the NHS with vaccine side effects like heart attacks etc. in the vaxxed, now deliberately mislabeled as PPSD.
PPSD.
FFS.
Sad thing is a LOT of people will swallow that newly invented illness when their loved ones succumb to some kind of cardiac event and are told that they have PPSD.
Yep – very sad to see how completely she has lost the plot. I wonder if she now has a brand-new top-of-the-range Merc in her garage!?
I did History at school, and then it included the Black Death, Great Plague etc and English the Plague Year Journal. My grandparents lived through the Spanish Flu as adults, and my father as an infant.
I think I’m qualified to say that there will likely be more serious pandemics. Unfortunately I don’t think I am paid as much as S. Gilbert to forecast this.
My mum got some nasty flu in the 1957 edition and was quite ill. Got better and no flu or even a cold ever since.
Saving Christmas….
Could Christmas be cancelled….
The mindset that Christmas being in doubt because of covid is some kind of legitimate question has now become endemic, even among a lot of sceptics. Useful for politicians and the media – gives them something to talk shit about, sell clicks, manipulate people. We’ve been semi-open since July and nothing catastrophic has happened (well, not from covid anyway) so if someone expresses concern about Christmas the right reaction is to question their sanity.
“ Lockdown may be over, but the Government is just as authoritarian as ever, writes Paddy Hannam in Spiked.”
Lockdown never ended, and probably will never end in my lifetime. It just morphed. Mass testing, mass vaxxing, vaxx passes in some parts of UK, masks, mandatory vaxx in certain jobs, many restrictions in private and public sectors around testing, masks and vaxx status, huge travel restrictions for all, especially the unvaxxed, the Big Lie still very much alive. That’s lockdown.
Yesterday Raab described the Pig Dictators lockdown as child abuse
The response today from a ‘whistleblower’ was that Raab fucked up the Afghan thing
Tis the season to be jolly
On a lighter note Tiny Tim did die. It was from extremely rare case of myocarditis but then he did have a bundle of co morbidities
God bless us everyone (except the covidian cunts)
And most likely a vitamin D deficiency.
Surprise surprise, the aptly named ‘Moronic’ variant evades natural immunity but the “vaccine”, which is still the same one developed against the Wuhan original, and that Delta has done a grand job of evading, protects against it. Two words; “cock” and “bull”! They really do think we’re all thick as shit don’t they?!
Unfortunately, many have demonstrated that they are.
Many people are – there they are, all queuing outside the jabbing centres, and spraying the shopping handles of their supermarket trolleys.
And shopping in Lidl and Aldi, and buying Audis, Mercedes and BMWs to support Germany’s Fourth Reich, and buying Christmas lights Made in China to give that lot some more money.
“There’s plenty of scientific opinion that says masking is stupid” (Widdecombe).
Like I say, a filthy habit. I saw some littering places today.
Adult and some coerced children’s version of a dummy (pacifier)
And nappy!
YES!
“Colston school to change its name”.
Yes, I remember the ISIS school, named after the Thames, di the same.
What do these people exxpect to achieve by white-washing history anyway? (Or are you not allowed to say “white-washing” any more as its negative connotations may be offensive to white people?).
One can insult white people all one likes…. Especially if they’re poor, under performing white boys. Check out their white privilege…
Confused folk tend to get things wrong, sometimes with drastic results. I can understand the ‘Isis’ thing, when you recall reading about mobs lynching paediatricians.
“UK condemned foe ‘covid’ apartheid”.
At last someone’s told them. Nigeria too – I wonder if BLM will protest this apartheid?
“A whole range of symptoms warrant ‘covid’ test”.
Wasn’t actual bedwetting reportedly a “covid” symptom?
“Austria throws out its constitution over ‘covid’ “.
One wonders what point there is in having a constitution if this criminal regime is going to do that. Does anyone actually have any rights?
Written constitutions aren’t worth the paper they are written on. All the EU countries have written constitutions guaranteeing democratic government and individual liberty. France more or less copied the American Declaration of the Rights of Man into the revolutionary constitution on which its current one is based. In face, the possession of such a constitution is a necessary criterion for joining the EU.
And now look at them.
If the population is disarmed then they’re slaves to a bureaucracy that hasn’t disarmed itself.
Can we have Mark Steyn for PM?
https://tcp.art.blog/2021/07/06/covid-vax-kids-consent-a-redline-to-the-rubicon/
At the very least all hospital and community doctors should have been warned by the CMOs to consider running baseline investigations such as full blood counts, cardiac enzymes, and clotting screens with D-dimers on anyone appreciably unwell post-vaccine. Instead, there is a growing official wall of studied silence. Our patients and their doctors have been abandoned to chance. This is at the very least criminally-negligent of those responsible.
Some of these severe complications were predicted in early March 2020 by Doctors for Covid Ethics but its prescient warnings were dismissed by the European Medicines Agency.
Punishing the unvaccinated would be both immoral and unjustified – well, of course. That’s what makes it so appealing to a certain type of mind.
Together with causing the deaths of an appreciable portion of the vaccinated. The Grateful Dead.
I’ve just watched the Hayley Hodgson video. Absolutely horrific, like a horror movie, and imprisoned without due process. The prison camps in The Great Escape were probably more humane than these internment camps in some ways. Why isn’t our government condemning this? Or are they evil too?
New post from Robert Malone.
Not in the News: COVID Epidemiology
It is negligent to ignore the vaccinated as a source of transmission when deciding about public health control measures.
The data above should make decision makers question their assumptions that the vaccinated can be excluded as a source of transmission.
“It appears to be grossly negligent to ignore the vaccinated population as a possible and relevant source of transmission when deciding about public health control measures
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/not-in-the-news-covid-epidemiology?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2MTczMDg3NiwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDUwODk4MzcsIl8iOiIrL1hzNCIsImlhdCI6MTYzODg0NDAwOCwiZXhwIjoxNjM4ODQ3NjA4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNTgzMjAwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.Ip6SIOoKlAYlk4HzlXhONfhpUwKe3ZDLYVbQoQERUoE
drives total coach and horses through vaccine passports as any kind of a “health pass”
Province allows grocers to ban unvaccinated food shoppers
Looks like we may have to eat acorns…
(Should we all buy “Food For Free”?).
Borrow Piglet’s recipe book.
Maybe Eeyore’s optimism at the going rate. Hold onto your hats…
Can they ban those who risked the clot-shots?
Why would we expect any different from people who don’t understand apostrophes?
Poor Widdecombe apparently fails to understand what the masking BS is all about.
Dr Shillary lying his pathetic little arse off again.
Hmm. Another lying fucker.
“First do no harm.”
I am unfortunately edging to the point where asking to see a GP – wouldn’t we be so lucky – is close to putting oneself at risk of harm or even death.
Choose carefully.
I saw him referred to as ‘Dr Hitlary’. Stuck with me.
I put in a complaint about him spreading false information to ofcom, backed up with week 48 data.
The more who push back the better & if a retraction has to be made, hopefully it will hit the MSM…
Make a complaint – Ofcom
A fully-vaccinated person — completely and utterly immune, however they got that way — can still have live COVID viruses in the mucus of the upper respiratory tract. Normal breathing can exhale those virus cells, and others can then inhale them, regardless of masks or social distancing.
If one is terrified of the possibility of committing genocide upon those nearby, there is a solution.
An all-weather, exterior-grade of duct tape can be wrapped around one’s head. I don’t know the UK brands, but the Stateside Nashua all-weather, sunlight-resistant, waterproof grade is excellent.
If one can’t hold one’s breath for an extended time, or has problems working in the dark, I suggest recruiting a friend. If friends refuse, perhaps you can find a yob or a Council bureaucrat. (Problem then becomes, the bureaucrat would have to be taught that the sticky side always goes ‘down’.)
Once the taping is complete and airtight, one will never again breathe lethal substances upon one’s fellow persons.
The sense of peace will indeed “pass all understanding”.
In March 2020 I wrote a long post in the Off-G comments section, in it, I predicted SARS-CoV-2, would become more infectious & less virulent like a common cold! Just as most coronaviruses before it & within 18 months it would be over.
I also asserted this was about an economic reset (I hadn’t even heard of Klaus Schwab’s great rest) my theory then was the IMF, World Bank etc hadn’t fixed the colossal damage of the 2008 banking crisis (was it a cock-up or something more sinister?).
I never figured on the “vaccine” nonsense but in hindsight It was obvious how things were going to go, back in 2000 ish I frequented the Guardian comments’ section even then liberals were calling for mandatory vaccines, that’s when my eyes were opened to vaccine abuse, several things rang alarm bells. The overuse of boosters by vets. The way they discredited Wakefield, when he only asked for separate MMR vaccinations, but they attacked him personally quite ruthlessly. And the denial of adverse side effects by pharma backed government.
Just before Johnson was elected the DM ran a strange story on him calling flu anti-vaxxers nutjobs, I thought that was weird & suspicious,… Read more »
A brilliant piece.
Thank you.
“2008 banking crisis (was it a cock-up or something more sinister?)”
Have you ever heard of the US Congress’ “Community Reinvestment Act”, or ACORN, or “sub-prime mortgages”, or the Cloward/Piven Strategy, or Bill Ayers?
It was very deliberate.
I suggest using the Discover The Networks website. Plug the items above into the search engine, and take time to follow the linkages. Be warned, it will take time, and if you’re thorough, you’ll also learn that a fluffball named Obama is peripherally tied into it.
Cloward and Piven can be seen in the photo of Bill Clinton signing the “motor voter” legislation. They’re the older man and woman standing behind him, looking down over his shoulder.
(He was dead by then, but also research Saul Alinsky.)
2008 banking crisis was triggered by bad debt in the American housing market caused by a new law on buying houses mainly promoted by Obama when he was a senator, and a product of “American” racial politics. At least according to the late, great Christopher Booker. Of course, recovery has been exacerbated by longstanding debt and demographic problems – and extreme temporary measures becoming permanent. Sound familiar? We’re knackered, I reckon – hence, perhaps, the current shambles.
(P.S. nice if Schwab could have a “great rest”! 🙂 )
No that was enabled by a deliberate policy of lowering reserve requirements, this effectively increases the amount of debt in a system (which masks damage from income taxes), longstanding debt wouldn’t be a problem if invested, but it was spent unproductively inflating land title costs and the interest cost is dragging any recovery.
Obama was an extremely late-comer. See mine above re the history of the Community Reinvestment Act. It was largely run by a group based in Chicago and led by William “Bill” Ayers.
It wasn’t based on the present idea of racial politics. It was based on the Sixties Cloward-Piven Strategy.
See http://www.zombietime.com/
There’s all sorts of data about Obama and Ayers, et al, in there.
This Pivotal Moment ~ Episode 1 (bitchute.com)
This is worth twenty minutes of your time.
Nothing in this video that I didn’t already know.
Towards the end almost felt like it was blaming me somehow for fact that this is happening – I was literally shouting at it ”what are we supposed to do – HOW, precisely, are we supposed to stop this happening?”
Last sentence exhorts those who watch it to pass on to family and friends.
If I sent this to my family and friends I would A) be ostracised by them and B) run very real risk of a visit from men in white coats. Those of them who might watch it would just shrug shoulders and say ”so what it might never happen and even if it does it is just a X/Y/Z”.
Unless BBC or other MSM tells people that this is what they face happening to them they just won’t believe it
Been there, seen it, done it, bought the t shirt, trouble with it is it’s preaching to the converted I doubt those that live in apathy will be reached by this.