- “NHS struggles as sickness takes out 1 in 10 staff” – More than 110,000 NHS staff – nearly one in 10 – were absent on New Year’s Eve, according to figures showing that Covid is hitting healthcare far harder than previously thought, reports the Times.
- “Covid reaches the Antarctic: polar researchers report outbreak at remote station” – Omicron triumphs despite Belgian researchers taking precautions and being miles from anywhere, reports the Telegraph. The Express also has the story.
- “Damehood for head of chaos-hit Covid testing system in New Year Honours list” – Dr. Jenny Harries, chief executive of the U.K. Health Security Agency, is honoured as coronavirus test supply issues cause staff shortages, the Telegraph reports.
- “Covid advisers should not have been given honours until after inquiry, says ex-ONS official” – Jamie Jenkins, a former head of health analysis at the ONS, suggests the decision was “premature” because we are “still in a pandemic”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Operations face axe if Covid hospital admissions surge” – Telegraph report on a policy that will do nothing to address the record NHS waiting list.
- “Ignore the hysteria: 2022 will be the year we get back to normal” – There will be no more lockdowns, Boris will keep his job, and the health service will stagger on, predicts Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “Netherlands Planning on Giving Residents Up to Six Booster Shots in 2022 and 2023” – Hugo de Jonge, health minister of the Netherlands, has indicated the country could be preparing another three coronavirus booster vaccines, according to TrialSite News.
- “Joe Rogan And Dr. Robert Malone” – The podcaster speaks to the inventor of the nine original mRNA vaccine patents.
- “Covid Vaccines: A Reality Check” – A comprehensive update from the ‘Swiss Doctor’ on Covid vaccine safety and effectiveness.
- “The top post of 2021: Why have we doctors been silent?” – Brave doctor Lucie Wilk speaks out in TCW’s most-read post of 2021.
- “The Covid Insanity Has to End” – Trying to strong-arm reluctant people into compliance with increasingly irrational protocols is not working, writes Andrew C. McCarthy in the National Review.
- “Like in 1914 or 1939, we may be sleepwalking towards a global war that nothing can stop” – There are lessons from previous conflicts that could prevent another from starting, but they are not all reassuring ones, writes historian Professor Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “Climate lockdown: Paper published in prestigious journal laments ‘democracy’ and calls for ‘authoritarian environmentalism’ modelled after Covid lockdowns to fight climate ’emergency’” – A new article published online by Cambridge University Press in the prestigious American Political Science Review gives an indication of where the new authoritarianism could go next.
- “Myopic politicians are wilfully blind to the truth about green energy” – How bizarre that politicians will lecture us on poverty, and will then propose to drive up household bills to reach carbon reduction targets, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Boris faces the same fate as John Major if he persists with the elite dogma of Net Zero” – “When we crashed out the ERM, it demolished the orthodoxy of the time. Johnson’s climate agenda has to reckon with reality sooner or later,” writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Group of girls’ schools says they will not accept transgender pupils and ‘jeopardise’ their status as single-sex institutions” – However, pupils who begin to transition while already at school will be supported to remain at the school for as long as they wish to do so, reports the Telegraph.
- “Trans prisoners ‘switch gender again’ once freed from women’s units” – Female prisoners in Scottish jails have told how transgender inmates serving sentences alongside them switched back to their male birth gender after being released, reports the Times.
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“Downing Street […] scrambles to get it signed before Donald Trump takes office”.
Yes, that’s going to go down well with the new US President. /sarc
That goes beyond incompetence – it is literally mind boggling.
Freedom, EVs and the future;
This is a good practical summary of the situation with regard to Electric Cars (EVs) and our future;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9HfuM-sYxQ
The final conclusion is pertinent to the politics and the scam of EVs, the end aim is not for us all to switch from petrol/diesel (ICE) cars to EVs but to switch most of us to having no car at all.The effect on life in the UK will be huge, the loss of travel freedom, the restrictions on our lives and activities will be profound. Maybe this idea;
“It’s time to become the 51st state of the U.S.”
Is worth some consideration?
Yes, the intention is to remove all private transport except for the elites.
Once the majority of the population have their personal transport taken from them society will grind to a halt, in effect all but collapse because the few millions still employed in the private sector will be unable to get to work. The public sector will simply mess about at home.
Chinese stealth jet is ‘super weapon’ that could control the skies
‘According to Justin Bronk, Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), while the aircraft’s design is “fascinating,” it is likely part of China’s ongoing regional bomber/strike fighter development, rather than their sixth-generation fighter programme.’
Britain first flew a flying wing prototype in 1949
The Chinese are no doubt keen to encourage the U.S. and so European countries to spend more on defence in order to achieve conventional deterrence and peace once more in Europe, making the world a safer place.
China has a long border with Russia…and Russia still occupies large territories that were part of historical China.
As I was reading about the ‘Stealth Super-plane’, I did wonder how it managed to get itself ‘spotted in the skies’. If you can see it by looking upwards, it doesn’t sound too stealthy to me.
You do realise that lack of a tail is not what makes it stealthy.And Britain flew its first successful tailless aircraft in 1910 with the Dunne D5.
“Hospital wards ‘full to bursting’, leading doctor warns”
A sharp increase in winter illnesses..? What shockingly rotten bad luck. I thought after having a sharp rise in winter illnesses for every one of the last 70 years, we might just escape it this time.
I did notice flu stayed conveniently out of the way to make room for covid! That was puzzling, or maybe it was just counted as covid instead? Kept the scary covid numbers up
Surely we could have expected some relief from the “sharp increase in Winter illnesses” after the jabathon of the last three years. Are we to conclude that les jabs have not worked?
I’m having trouble logging in using Firefox. The problem seemed to start yesterday – it keeps telling me I have entered the wrong password. Chromium is working so it’s not my password that’s wrong.
I’m checking to see if FF updated itself again.
I was logged out three times yesterday.
Try Brave, great browser.
I use Firefox; this is the current version. Just occasionally, this site doesn’t remember my login details – not every day.
I very much doubt Russia sends its shadow fleet to circumnavigate the world. I think they’re trying to circumvent sanctions instead.
English as she is spoke.