- “Pupils ‘vilified’ if they don’t take Covid tests or wear masks in class” – The Telegraph reports on a call for a crackdown on schools that threaten to banish children to back of the class or deny them lessons if they don’t follow the rules.
- “London’s Covid cases and admissions peak without overwhelming NHS, figures suggest” – Boris Johnson may have been right to avoid further curbs, as seven-day case rates have been falling in the capital since December 26th, reports the Telegraph.
- “Plan B is working in England, insists minister” – “I don’t see any reason why we need to change”, says vaccines minister ahead of cabinet meeting, the Independent reports. But the Royal College of Nursing and other unions have other ideas.
- “Covid: More hospital trusts declare ‘critical incident’ over staff shortages” – At least eight trusts have taken steps to protect services in the past week, amid staff shortages, reports the BBC.
- “Heads warn of weeks of Omicron disruption in English schools” – Staff absences mean some pupils face return to remote learning, amid doubts over advice to combine classes, reports the Telegraph.
- “Chinese-style mass testing must end if we’re ever to learn to live with Covid” – “The mass testing of perfectly healthy people would have been considered insane just a few years ago, yet is now a national orthodoxy. Lining up children before they go to school to have a swab stuck up their noses to check for a disease that they probably have not got – and which will affect them very mildly if they do have it – is not only bonkers, it is inhuman, as is requiring they wear masks in the classroom.” Philip Johnston back on strong sceptical form in the Telegraph.
- “Modellers are heading for a showdown” – To make Covid models actually useful for guiding policy their authors urgently need to include economists or other experts in behaviour, writes Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
- “The problem with ‘vaccine equity’” – Having the jabs is just one part of the equation, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Is this the most bizarre anti-vaccine conspiracy theory yet?” – The Telegraph‘s Michael Deacon on the tiny flaw in the supposed plan to massacre the vaccinated but leave the rebellious unvaccinated alive.
- “Dr. McCullough: Outpatient Treatments for COVID-19 Have Been Suppressed” – Peter McCullough tells the Epoch Times that the public should question why governments and public health officials around the world have put little to no emphasis on outpatient treatments in their effort to fight the COVID-19 virus.
- “They Said They Would Slow the Spread” – Jeffrey A. Tucker at the Brownstone Institute sees the current surges across America as marking both the end of the pandemic and the spectacular failure of the coercive state public health policies designed to prevent them.
- “Covid and mass formation psychosis” – Alexander Adams in Bournbrook Magazine on the origin of the concept and how it is playing out in the pandemic.
- “Whitty and Van-Tam, knighted for defending the indefensible” – The Government medics have had “the unenviable task of defending the indefensible as front men for a Government in the grip of a massively powerful wave of global hysteria”, writes Neville Hodgkinson in TCW.
- “Why masks could be on planes forever” – Just like the 100ml liquids rule and other security rituals, the mask directive feels more like theatre than a proven safety measure, writes Oliver Smith in a depressing piece for the Telegraph.
- “Pandemic is stunting babies’ development due to stress on mothers” – A U.S. study finds that infants born during the crisis scored lower on motor and social skills than pre-Covid children, the Telegraph reports.
- “Yuzhou in Central China announces lockdown after recording three asymptomatic cases in two days” – Almost unbelievably extreme response from the authorities, reported in the Global Times, so it must be true.
- “Open Letter to Members of the House of Lords re Vaccine Mandates for NHS and CQC-regulated Healthcare Workers” – The latest open letter from the UKMFA, fully referenced and judiciously worded as usual.
- “Heat Pumps v Hydrogen: (Scalded Or Burned!!)” – According to a new study from the European Consumer Organisation, the cost of hydrogen from electrolysis is more than four times the cost of natural gas, meaning average annual bills would rise from £375 to £1,830, writes Paul Homewood.
- “New Study: Pacific And Indian Ocean Sea Levels Rising ‘Much Slower Than Climate Model Predictions’” – Over 700 low-lying islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans have coasts that have been stable to expanding in size since the 1980s, writes Kenneth Richard in NoTricksZone.
- “Is this the end of progressive America?” – Multiple fronts of resistance are taking shape, writes Joel Kotkin in UnHerd.
- “The Eternal Away Game” – Watch Bournbrook‘s S.D. Wickett on the challenges of being outnumbered and what Twitter’s new regime means for online dissent from progressive orthodoxy.
- “‘White Coats for Black Lives’ and the Transformation of Medical Schools” – A national organisation of medical students has successfully pressured their schools to embrace radical identity politics, reports City Journal.
- “AOC and the self-absorbed left” – Feminism has taught too many women that narcissism is desirable, argues Amber Athey in the Spectator.
- “Plight of the white male student” – “He knew before he called that I would sympathise, but talking was still risky. If our conversation got out we both could be targeted by the fabricated allegations of bigotry and extremism that await those who dissent. Other students, unsurprisingly, are reluctant to complain, however discreetly.” Mark Campion on the risks of dissent in TCW.
- “Ex-ITV boss attacks the craven MSM” – Watch former head of ITV News Mark Sharman in an interview with ex-BBC journalist Anna Brees ask “when did it become the [Government-appointed] regulator’s job to determine debate on Government policy” or discourage investigation of alternative views?
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“Bill Gates says ChatGPT-like AI is ‘as revolutionary as mobile phones and the internet’ – and says it could speed up creation of new vaccines”
He’s obsessed. Can’t we just lock him in a room with some Lego.?
Brilliant !!! Made me howl !
I suppose testing “vaccines” on talking mannequins is one up on not testing at all.
I love lego always have, but I want to play with him!
Don’t Don’t!! Want to play with him!
Too late, its on the internet now…
You could build a fairly good prison out of lego if you had enough blocks. You could convince him to be on the inside…”you do the furniture Bill, I’ll just build this (unopenable) door….”
“Wolf-whistling to be made illegal – and claiming it’s a joke won’t be any excuse”
From personal experience the best way for men to stop wolf whistling is for a pretty girl to tell them to ‘fuck off’. Why do we need laws, more laws, for minor human interactions.
The gov will be making laws about farting and breathing next!
I was trying to recall the last time I heard a ‘wolfwhistle’. 1980’s..maybe..? Perhaps its got something to do with the insistence of women in recent times to add 30-40lbs to their backsides, and wander around in make-up that makes them look like a cheap marrionette. I’m going to suggest that it doesn’t need to be make illegal, as it will become an act that no-one will want to perform for Weeble-esqe, clown painted women anyway.
They did already for breathing.
Remember those masks?
“Fury at woke barristers refusing to prosecute eco warriors: 120 top legal professionals to sign ‘Declaration of Conscience’ to try and keep climate activists out of the courts”
Do I detect the smell of Soros’s wallet..?
Aye. Are there going to be future splinter groups of lawyers who no longer wish to represent rapists, pedophiles, murderers, GBHers and others on the grounds of conscience too? If not, why not?
“Fury at woke barristers refusing to prosecute eco warriors: 120 top legal professionals to sign ‘Declaration of Conscience’ to try and keep climate activists out of the courts”
What they will actually be signing is a ‘Declaration of Incompetence’ which makes these people unfit to practice.
There is only one remedy, they must be struck off.
I think you’re right, HP. Strike them off!
“Why doesn’t Britain regret lockdown?”
I confronted someone on Twitter yesterday, who was still taking the line that if we’d locked down three days earlier it would have saved 100,000 lives. Shame there isn’t a vaccine that would open their eyes, and kickstart their brains. I’d jab people myself, for free….
Three days earlier would have saved 100,000 lives?! Where do they get this nonsense? Oh yes, it’s everywhere…
““Why doesn’t Britain regret lockdown?” – Freddie Sayers writes that three years on, voters remain in favour, according to polling for UnHerd.”
Isn’t it principally because no-one likes to have been taken for a sucker?
Sayers goes on to say “My view on these results is quite simple: in order to justify a policy as monumental as shutting down all of society for the first time in history, the de minimis outcome must be a certainty that fewer people died because of it.” I suppose it depends on what he means by “fewer” and how long this “shutdown” lasts. Would I support a one-day lockdown if it saved millions of QALYS? Maybe. But with regard to a low-consequence mild-for-most virus of the type we’ve coexisted with for millions of years, no I don’t want to restrict my life in any way even if it might change the date of death for a small number of people by a few months.
https://www.gbnews.com/opinion/we-must-continue-to-fight-against-the-official-lockdown-narrative-here-on-gb-news-says-dan-wootton Dan Wooton’s opinion. Worth noting that GBN is relatively new, and manages to sell adverts despite telling the truth!
Within limits set by OFCOM. See Mark Steyn.
“Why doesn’t Britain regret lockdown?”
Soft, convenient, never known any hardship so this made me feel like I was part of something, don’t rock the boat, please make decisions for me, I’ve had the vaccine so I must agree with lockdowns, I believed implicitly and now feel ashamed, to trusting, can’t think for myself, please move on I don’t want to talk about being made a fool of! Hands over my ears, close eyes, hum loudly! I’m a sheeple, Barrrrr
That about answers the question!
Oh, and months of paid holidays!
“The EU’s censorship regime is about to go global”
Reading this article is truly alarming and I’m wondering how this will affect sites such as the DS and all the other places I go to and things I read and watch that are about alternative information, pushing back the dominant narratives. With this, people will only get the squeaky clean, pine tree fresh, antibacterial version of events where everything is fine in the digital prison. Seems there has been little or no push back. They clearly don’t like us talking about the lies we’ve been fed about Ukraine, climate change, Covid, 5G etc. and that we should just accept that.
Well, William Caxton set up his printing press in London around about 1475. It meant that books could be printed for the first time and in the late 1500s, translated bibles were printed so that finally people who could read, could read what the bible actually said. Although from our viewpoint 500 years later, this seems a small and insignificant thing, it was in actual fact a huge thing. It took power away from the clerics and those who could read Latin and gave it to the people. They could read the words of the bible and make up their own minds.
My point is that although the ramifications of this DSA (Digital Services Act) are awful, truth will always find a way because you can feel it in your heart. It resonates in a different way to lies. Look at Johnson desperately piling lie on lie and tell me he is coming from a place of truth. Look at Blinken in the Senate Covid Committee squirming away with his obfuscations and lies while Rand Paul slowly grills him.
A recent exchange with my local MP shows how his words fall flat when he talks about depleted uranium as being able to pierce armour plated vehicles but with absolutely zero mention of the toxic residue left on the land. And this man actually went to Iraq!
Our local town council meeting on Tuesday night when a councillor justified climate change by saying “you only have to look outside” as if a bit of bad weather allows them to implement plans that will severely restrict freedoms. One of our group wittily remarked ‘Well it’s dark!” – after all, it was 8pm.
I don’t fear this bunch of a..holes trying to imprison us in the digital prison and shut us up. If anything, it makes me even more determined to have my say and to confront all these liars and tyrants with the truth. So although they pass their laws and play their games, the truth will always rise to the surface like cream. Like I always say, you can’t stop an unstoppable force or an idea whose time has come. People want change and change is coming but nothing like Obama’s lying version. Real change where we all get a say about our futures and where we get rid of the tyrants and would-be tyrants and all the bullshit
I like your sentiment that ‘truth will always find a way’. I do wonder if it gets so bad whether the blockchain would be a place to set up something like this. I really don’t know enough about it all but read that the bitcoin blockchain can’t be destroyed by governments. At least not at the moment and I hope never although they are doing their best.
Or using new words like some are resorting to online in place of words not allowed on YouTube etc or short science fiction stories. I don’t know but I like you find the EU’s new censorship regime very scary
“Well, William Caxton set up his printing press in London around about 1475. It meant that books could be printed for the first time”
I wonder Aethelred if Caxton’s presses might need to be revived, albeit clandestinely?
We’re already on it, HP…posters, leaflets, information sheets, books, badges etc
I’ve seen QR codes stuck to subway walls.
Could you explain this please?
Great stuff.
“Claim: Insurers are Writing Off Electric Vehicles with Minor Damage”
Apparently the UK does not currently have any facilities for re-cycling EV batteries and scrapped and damaged EV batteries are being stored in special storage facilities, I understand there is one of these sites near Doncaster.
This is yet another confirmation that we are being ”gaslighted” over Electric Cars, they are never simply going to replace petrol/diesel (ICE) cars and allow us to carry on motoring as at present. In my estimation, given current technology and resources; the UK can only hope at best to replace 20% of ICE cars with EVs. At which point motoring will just be for the well paid elite, the 80% of the rest of us hoi-polloi will be reduced to public or community transport, cycling or walking.
But I guess that may well be the least of our worries as by the time that happens the UK finance system will have collapsed and most of us will be living on social credits and turnips
I happened to be in a taxi the other day, a Renault Zoe, which the driver said he’d had for three years. It is due a service, but the garage can only book him in in 7 weeks time, as they have ONE trained technician.
“Commercial development of gene-edited food legal in England”
Why is this not a headline on DS?
While we weren’t watching!
By having the jab on mass you have voted by proxy to allow genetically modified foods, and any thing else that it can be used for! And, no lengthy testing periods, and, no requirement for labelling !
God help us all!
Which is why it is so important for those who have space, time & inclination to grow some fruit & vegetables using open pollinated seed which can be saved to ensure that untainted food is still available.
It’s about preserving our heritage as well as spending one’s hard earned cash with the good guys.
I’m in the middle of old house renovation atm but as soon as I’ve got more time that’s exactly what I’m going to use my half an acre for
Brilliant! Learn how to save your seed, store your veg, preserve & can your surplus. If there are any folk nearby who are struggling, you’ll know the valid cases, a little bit of sharing your good fortune goes a long way.
I’ll be drowning in potatoes if my crop is good (ordered the bare minimum of seed potatoes for the varieties I wanted & got loads too many!) & will be sharing my bounty with those in need in the village.
Maybe take a bit of time out in the fresh air to sow a few potatoes, beans & the other sort of things which tend to look after themselves.
Good luck with your project!
Yes my dad did all the above and was very good at it, home grown all the way!
My wife is going to kick start the gardening this year and when I’ve popped a new roof on the house,dug a new well in the garden, and cut back 30 years of jungle! I’ll joint in!
By the way, do you live at number 30?
I don’t live at number 30. Haven’t a clue where in the country you are!
Eat organic, forage for wild food, grow your own, guerrilla gardening on vacant lots, barter, share etc. We can do without their crap food.
We’re going to demand the local council make more land available for allotments due to rise in food prices etc. We have to take this local and demand our rights and having access to healthy food and/or growing it is a right in my opinion under natural law.
Touché!
You have kept your second language a secret Dinger.
Dinger – ‘on mass.’
……..en masse. From les francais.
Always start any conversation with a pro-lockdown pro-vaxed by stating CoronaV was never deadlier than seasonal flu; it was never an existential threat, never.
And everyone knew this by February 2020, before lockdown began, courtesy of some easy Math based on the experience of the cruise ship the Diamond Princess.
This new world is too much! Too fast!
I prefer pre 2019!
You’re thoughts?