- “Boris Johnson calls for ‘national debate’ on mandatory vaccination to protect U.K. from Covid” – Prime Minister reluctant to consider compulsory jabs but wants talks on how to boost uptake, saying U.K. cannot keep introducing restrictions indefinitely, reports the Telegraph.
- “Most fans may still avoid Covid checks despite new restrictions” – “Clubs and sport events may be permitted to continue spot-checks rather than monitor every fan for proof of vaccination against Covid or a negative test result,” reports the Times.
- “The Government has broken its side of the bargain ” – There is no rationale for imposing these restrictions. The Government simply wants to be seen to be doing something, argues Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
- “Boris Johnson is a menace to liberty” – The Prime Minister is stuck in a cycle of Covid panic and authoritarianism, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Remember: life is finite and freedom is innate” – “Having grown weak on the numbing nectar of endless Government subvention, we have lost our thirst for liberty,” writes Frederick Edwards in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “Judge orders 11 year-old girl to be vaccinated despite father’s objections” – “A New York Judge has ruled that an 11 year-old girl may be vaccinated against Covid despite vocal protests from her dad, siding with the child’s mother amid a lengthy divorce case,” reports RT.
- “Fall on walk from bed to desk is workplace accident, German court rules” – Man who slipped and broke his back while working from home was commuting, it is decided, reports the Guardian.
- “It’s time to confront the immorality of lockdowns” – The failure of religious and spiritual leaders to address the societal costs of restrictions has been an utter travesty, writes Fergus Butler-Gallie in the Telegraph.
- “Why I prefer to rely on natural immunity” – “It’s not as cold and inhospitable in the land of conspiracy theories as it used to be,” argues Melissa Kite in the Spectator.
- “The PM’s restriction: ignoring the science” – “Besides Ferguson and the usual lockdown fanatics, most scientists have not called for urgent restrictions in response to the variant. Why? Because all early indicators are showing it is nothing to panic about,” writes William Parker in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “500 school staff fired for declining Covid jab” – “Nearly 500 public school employees in Los Angeles were fired after refusing to comply with a Covid vaccine mandate, with the city making terminations permanent after previously suspending a number of workers,” reports RT.
- “Conservative group Chairman resigns live on air” – Charlie Sansom, of South Basildon Conservatives, says he disagrees with tighter rules, reports BBC News.
- “End this dismal cycle of restrictions” – It is unsustainable and dangerous to have our lives brought to a standstill every time something emerges that might trouble the NHS, argues Telegraph View.
- “Courts backlog could take five years to be cleared up” – “The backlog in Scotland’s courts caused by the pandemic could take up to five years to be cleared after lockdown forced all but the most serious of cases to be postponed, it has emerged,” reports the Times.
- “Texas school board member resigns after releasing parents’ information” – Norma Garcia-Lopez resigned as co-chair of the Fort Worth Independent School District’s racial equity committee after she doxxed private information on families who opposed the School District’s mask mandate, reports the Mail.
- “It is stark-raving mad that red list travellers can’t self-isolate at home” – Both Delta and Omicron variants have laughed in the face of quarantine hotels – it is time to pull the plug on these useless prisons, argues Annabel Fenwick Elliott in the Telegraph.
- “Senate majority votes to repeal vaccine mandate” – “A majority in the U.S. Senate voted to repeal President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for businesses with more than a hundred employees, with two Democrats joining Republicans to oppose the policy,” reports RT.
- “Jussie Smollett and the coveting of victimhood” – Everyone wants to be oppressed these days, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “If students can’t handle Rod Liddle’s crude jokes, they aren’t ready for real life” – The young people at Durham are free to disagree with him, or even walk out, but I struggle to see why they found it all so traumatic, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “There’s been a big party in your house Boris Johnson” – Twitter user Pete Evans has captured the Prime Minister’s (likely) reaction to being called out for hosting a Christmas party during last year’s winter 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.