- “The true cause of the public’s anger” – How much of the fury is occasioned by the fact that Boris went to a drinks party in his garden and how much is down to the retrospective suspicion that the public were taken for mugs in 2020 – and that we were mad to have gone along with it all, asks Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
- “Call to scrap daily Covid data updates amid fears they are increasingly unreliable” – Phase out statistics, say experts, after it emerged up to 70 per cent of virus patients in hospital primarily treated for other problems, reports the Telegraph.
- “Lead Stories: Facebook’s Censorial Partner” – TrialSite News digs into the people behind Lead Stories, a Facebook fact-check partner that censored an investigative report by the BMJ which revealed shoddy clinical trial practices for Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine.
- “High Covid death rates skewed by people who died from other causes, admits Sajid Javid” – Health Secretary reveals daily Government figures might be unreliable as ONS data show fewer deaths registered to Covid, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why it’s time to end Covid self-isolation” – By interfering with the maintenance of herd immunity, measures such as self-isolation actually increase the risk to the vulnerable, writes Professor Sunetra Gupta in the Telegraph.
- “Federal Court reveals why it upheld decision to send Novak Djokovic home” – The full reasons behind the Federal Court’s dismissal of Novak Djokovic’s legal challenge to the cancellation of his visa have been published, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Basically, the law gives the Minister wide discretion in cases where someone “may” be a threat to public health.
- “I’m a Public School Teacher. The Kids Aren’t Alright.” – My students were taught to think of themselves as vectors of disease. This has fundamentally altered their understanding of themselves, writes Stacey Lance in Common Sense.
- “Entire Medical Establishment Threatened By Comedian Who Gets High And Talks About MMA And Aliens” – The political and medical establishments throughout the world are sounding the alarm about the dangers of Joe Rogan, a comedian who gets high and talks about MMA and aliens, reports the Babylon Bee.
- “WA Premier Mark McGowan says reopening state’s border now would be ‘reckless and irresponsible’” – Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan has announced the plan to reopen WA’s border to quarantine-free travel on February 5th has been delayed to “prevent a flood” of Omicron cases across the state, ABC reports.
- “We’ve had our Peter Pandemic adventure. Now let’s grow up” – We sacrificed children’s education and wellbeing and now we complain that Boris had a party; we wanted to be children for a while and now we find out that our leaders are human after all, writes Gail MacDonald on TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Sadiq Khan’s mask mandate is stalling London’s recovery” – The capital has a magnetic pull, but to flourish it needs better leadership and less political posturing over Covid, writes Matthew Lesh in the Telegraph.
- “Post-Acute Covid and Long Covid” – The Swiss Doctor with an overview of the condition.
- “Why are pandemic babies developmentally stunted?” – The first major study of babies born during the COVID-19 pandemic has found that they are behind in their normal development, and it’s not Covid, writes Peter Andrews in RT.
- “Not just any illness” – Antonia Rolls describes her brush with the plague over New Year.
- “Now that science has defanged Covid, it’s time to get on with our lives” – Zero Covid fanatic Devi Sridhar in the Guardian transforms herself into a lockdown sceptic (of sorts), arguing that “as with any other ineradicable disease, prevention and treatment can be integrated into society”.
- “COVID-19 vaccines and treatments: we must have raw data, now” – Pharmaceutical companies are reaping vast profits without adequate independent scrutiny of their scientific claims, writes Peter Doshi in the BMJ.
- “The Truth About Vaccine-induced Myocarditis” – Rav Arora sets out the evidence in an Epoch Times essay that comes with the imprimatur of Stanford infectious disease expert Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
- “Problems with the ONS Denominator” – HART explains what’s wrong with the ONS population estimate, and why using it vastly overestimates vaccine effectiveness.
- “Omicron: Is racism why South African evidence of milder infection was ignored?” – South African scientists tell the BBC their research should have been taken more seriously.
- “Testimonial: A mother’s account” – Story from HART: “My last 12 months has been spent arguing with various doctors that my perfectly healthy 22 year old adult son Charlie, who does not have mental capacity, does not need a vaccination.”
- “Researcher Calls Out Censorship After Journal Pulls COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events Analysis” – Petr Svab in the Epoch Times on the dubious retraction of Jessica Rose’s analysis of Covid vaccine adverse events.
- “Unruly numbers” – Update from Thorsteinn Siglaugsson on Iceland, where the unfavourable Government vaccine figures have suddenly changed this week…
- “Unboostered Brits Infected and Dying at Higher Rates than Unvaccinated” – Eugyppius draws on the data from last week’s UKHSA vaccine report to estimate the missing data from this week’s report, and comes to a disturbing conclusion: that the two-dose-only group have much higher Covid death rates than the unvaccinated.
- “New data on vaccine efficacy from Scotland and more evidence on Bayesian datacrime” – El Gato Malo finds bad news in the Scottish figures for two-dose efficacy –they have a higher death rate than the unvaccinated.
- “What really happened to Politics For All” – Nick Moar in the Spectator on the brutal hand of Big Tech censorship – and was it at Downing Street’s behest?
- “Lords Standards Commissioner accused of ‘sinister’ attempt to silence peers who voiced trans prisoner concerns” – Akbar Khan is said to have “threatened parliamentary freedom of speech” after dismissing complaints on a “technicality”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Jordan Peterson: Why I am no longer a tenured professor at the University of Toronto” – The famed psychologist, who has left his university position over its capture by wokery, issues a stark warning to those who keep their heads down: “All of you going along with the [Diversity, Inclusion, Equity] activists, whatever your reasons: this is on you. Professors. Cowering cravenly in pretence and silence. Teaching your students to dissimulate and lie. To get along. As the walls crumble. For shame.”
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Well speaking of clones and doppelgangers, this is where our Nigel comes into his own. What a badass.
https://x.com/GaryBrumz/status/1808523412064649562
Terrific Mogs
Brill
I love how Johnson’s had a total transformation after losing 30kg and a trip to the barbers.
Is it just me or does Keir Starmer share the same furrowed brow of a monkey worriedly looking at a wiring diagram of a Ford Capri? His anxiety about possibly being caught saying something inappropriate is amplified by his nasal and pedestrian delivery – the man isn’t going to know his ass from a hole in the ground in a fortnight.
Correct so he will hand over to Khant at some point
That is the intention Freddy as I have posted more than once.
Fishy and Kneel sound the same because they are both little WEFfers.
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Miliband
Because they get their orders from Davos, it’s common knowledge.
To be fair, the Green Goblin does turn up well in a small pair of shorts.
“but all those… doubles… are there precisely because if Putin goes, Russia will once again be redefined [so his death would perhaps have to be covered up to prevent chaos]”
Surely that can be a double edged sword considering that if they chose a double, bumped off the real Putin, then put in their puppet until they have gained power.