- “It is right to resist the call for restrictions” – Boris Johnson deserves credit for his readiness to withstand the bombardment from scientists and opposition politicians for more draconian restrictions, argues Telegraph View.
- “Just one-fifth of new Covid hospital patients are true cases” – Treat data with caution, say experts, as situation in hospitals during Omicron wave is different to ‘horrific scenes’ of a year ago, reports the Telegraph.
- “Fear of Covid ‘not a protected belief’ that lets staff refuse to go into the office” – “An employment law judge has ruled that health and safety concerns do not qualify under equality legislation as a ‘belief’ and therefore workers can be docked pay if they disobey orders to return to workplaces once the latest Government guidance is lifted,” reports the Times.
- “Welsh pubs and bars hit ‘far worse’ than in England” – Pubs and bars fear tougher Covid rules in Wales will see New Year’s Eve custom cross the border, reports BBC News.
- “Inside Deloitte’s role in the U.K.’s ‘eye-wateringly’ expensive test and trace disaster” – The Big Four accounting and consulting group has been awarded Covid-related public sector contracts worth more than £280 million, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Dutch cull: now Michael van Gerwen is forced to quit over positive test” – “The sporting world has to endure a relentless and omnipresent testing regime which continues to generate a self-fulfilling prophecy: if you go looking for cases, you’re going to find them,” writes Luke Perry, who criticises the removal of two ‘Covid-positive’ players from the World Darts Championship in Bullseyes and Booze.
- “Pro-lockdown experts criticised for trying to rebrand Covid restrictions as ‘protections’” – Social media users called the move to soften the language around tougher measures by scientists and medics ‘dishonest’, reports the Telegraph.
- “The young deserve money for their Covid sacrifice” – It may sound mad but a financial thank-you would repay our debt to a vigilant generation who have lost their best years, writes Alice Thomson in the Times.
- “Travel industry wants Covid tests end because ‘Omicron already here’” – “Travel and tourism experts today called for the Government to remove prohibitive tests to enter the U.K., branding them ‘rapidly out of date’ and with ‘no justification’,” reports MailOnline.
- “U.K. air travel sees huge slump in 2021” – International flights to and from the U.K. fell to just 400,000 this year, says analytics firm Cirium, reports BBC News.
- “Return to ‘rule of six’ for England among options being considered by Government for January” – Government officials are weighing possible measures, which have not yet been presented to ministers and may not be adopted as policy, reports the Telegraph.
- “South Australia brings back tough new Covid restrictions just days before New Year ” – “South Australia has recorded another spike in Covid cases as the state introduces a raft of new restrictions to combat the latest outbreak,” reports the Mail.
- “Will Trump’s pro-vaccine stance prove his undoing?” – “We are now in the winter of 2021, however, and the 45th president may at last have stumbled across a way to alienate his fan base – by endorsing vaccines,” writes Freddy Gray in the Spectator.
- “New Zealand Government approves euthanasia for Covid patients” – “The Government in New Zealand has approved euthanasia for Covid patients if doctors decide that they are unlikely to survive,” reports the Gateway Pundit.
- “France make Covid jab mandatory for sports stars” – “France president Emmanuel Macron announced that full, double-vaccinations will be mandatory for professional sports people in the country from January 15th under new Covid rules,” reports MailOnline.
- “The revolt against modernity” – In 2021, the regressive misanthropy of green politics became crystal clear, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “How ‘defund the police’ backfired” – After a spike in crime, progressive cities are reversing cuts, writes Michael Shellenberger in UnHerd.
- “The year Stonewall lost its halo” – This once-mighty gay-rights charity has sacrificed its reputation on the altar of trans, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “That travel ban for Brits sure worked well” – You’ve heard of Plague Island, but have you heard of the Contaminated Continent?
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Entirely foreseeable and now they’re looking very stupid with a load of egg on their faces. As per the article about the BBC yesterday, my comments still stand and are applicable here. We have yet another example of white men discriminating against white men. Fact. You don’t want to accept reality? It still remains a fact, regardless. But don’t shoot the messenger, take a look at the ”top brass” to which the article refers;
https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/senior-commanders/
The woke mind-virus infects regardless of sex. What’s your point?
Presumably you missed my posts on the BBC article yesterday, where I made precisely that point. The same point that I’ve been banging on and on about on multiple occasions now, which you presumably also missed…
Never in the field of aerial conflict have so few heroic aces been recruited by so many Air Chief Marshals, Sirs and Total Numpties.
Never mind the skies above Ukraine, what about the skies above Kent, Essex and the Thames Estuary where the Few once upon a time repelled the Luftwaffe?
I suppose we are just lucky that they have not yet developed people carrying drones that can drop illegal immigrant scum from the skies all over the South East.
Hello mate, there’s your vape refill, Special Brew six-pack and a free copy of The Sun. Have you thought of becoming a fighter pilot?
And are the catastrophic imbeciles who run our military and made these decisions still in their positions? Of course they are.
Of course. We underlings need some braid to dazzle us and to look up to.
Quick thinking from Lizzie could have saved her from refusing an order. Instruct 40% of current staff to identify as a woman, and 20% as an ethnic minority…voila!
To describe the intended future changes to defence spending as “ramp up” is surely misrepresentation. Most of the increase is accounted for by redefining budgets and all the increase will go on past commitments, including Ukraine and Chagos.
I really don’t care whether the pilot protecting me and my nation is black, white, male, female, gay or straight. I simply want them to have the UK’s best interests at heart and be good at their job. I’m clearly far too old-fashioned in my views.
Strikes me as very counterproductive given that whites tend to excel in spatial awareness. East Asians are pretty good too. Just look at any high speed engine driven sport.
One sure way to reduce it to zero is to put them in the skies against Russia, who have amassed 3 years of front-line combat experience.
The RAF has launched a desperate search for pilots after a secret and unlawful bid to discriminate against white men backfired
Morons. I would say that it serves them right, but of course, I don’t want our armed services to be under staffed, or staffed by second raters.
Who’d join up today knowing that morally bankrupt top brass will be sending you to do the dirty work of political halfwits hoping that the right coloured people get shot and die so their DEI stats improve?
But that’s true in so many circumstances.
And it isn’t just that it happens, from time to time. It’s that, while looking for new employment, or joining an organisation, there’s always the possibility of it happening, so I’ll put up with where I am.
I seem to recall that when Trump remarked on diversity hiring in the US Air Force he was almost run out of town.
Can’t stop laughing and it’s entirely appropriate that woke Charlie’s prefix is at the front.
RAF recruitment officers meet them on the beach at Dover
What a surprise (not).
The equivalent of “Go Woke, Go Broke.”
They still haven’t learned though. Every recruitment advert you see for the Royal Air Force features a woman not a man. I don’t have a problem with trying to recruit women, but they might have more success if they also aimed their recruitment at young men.
Until everyone responsible suffers serious consequences, nothing changes. Everyone who made this happen, starting at the top, should lose their jobs.
Who gave the order to the Personnel Group Captain?
Name names.