- “Met Police were wary of a high-stakes pursuit of the PM … but then the evidence became impossible to ignore” – Officers decided they had no choice to act after being handed Sue Gray’s initial findings into alleged lockdown-busting parties at No 10, the Telegraph reports.
- “Covid rules broken in ‘most homes’, claims MP defending Boris Johnson” – Conservatives rally round the Prime Minister, making the unlikely-to-fly argument that those who make the rules shouldn’t have to keep them because nobody else does, according to the Telegraph.
- “UK’s Covid cases and deaths remain flat but admissions plunge again” – Another 94,326 positive tests were recorded across the U.K. in the past 24 hours, according to Government dashboard data, which was virtually unchanged from the figure last Tuesday, reports the Mail.
- “Is this why some people get sicker than others with COVID-19?” – Why are some people affected more severely by infections, including Covid? It’s a question that’s perplexed scientists but now they think they know part of the answer at least: autoantibodies, according to the Mail.
- “Jacinda Ardern to make rapid antigen tests free, tightens NZ’s mask rules ” – Jacinda Ardern has banned a slack New Zealand habit of wearing a t-shirt pulled up over the nose, or a bandana or scarf as a face mask as it prepares for an expected surge of Omicron cases, reports the Mail.
- “Beware the Covid turncoats crawling out of the woodwork” – James Delingpole in TCW Defending Freedom looks at the recent shift in narrative and the unlikely suspects suddenly having a change of heart over the wisdom of lockdown restrictions.
- “France’s Vindictive Covid Strategy: Make Life Miserable for the Unvaccinated” – In his targeting of the unvaccinated population, President Macron has taken France down the road of Austria, Germany, and Italy, writes Alex Story in National Review.
- “Will the UK be the first Covid domino to fall?” – There are signs England could be the first domino in what might be a long line leading to the liberation of Europe from Covid tyranny, with Ireland the second, writes Roger Watson in Politicalite.
- “The real reason Australia kicked out Djokovic” – Laura Perrins in TCW reviews the scandal of the politically-motivated banishment.
- “Unjabbed nurse: I’m sad and angry that I may lose the job love” – Mark Sharman in TCW Defending Freedom on the vaccine mandate protests this week and the stories of those whose careers are on the line.
- “Portrait of a Pandemic: Panel Lambasts U.S. Failures of Covid Care” – Mary Beth Pfeiffer in TrialSite News reports on Senator Ron Johnson’s alternative Covid panel.
- “Dr. Aaron Kheriarty explains why doctors are extremely hesitant to write medical V exemptions.” – Watch the medic explain the threats they have received from the authorities over issuing exemptions for Covid vaccines, masks and other pandemic impositions.
- “Damned lies and statistics: China records four Covid deaths in two years” – Luke Perry in Bournbrook on China’s implausible Covid figures.
- “FDA Limits Use of Certain Monoclonal Antibodies to Treat COVID-19 Due to the Omicron Variant” – The FDA has revised the authorisations for two monoclonal antibody treatments to limit their use due to the Omicron variant.
- “Health Ministry experts back fourth Covid vaccine dose for over-18s” – Advisory panel recommends second booster when five months have passed since third shot or recovery, reports the Times of Israel, despite the recent Government study finding no benefit.
- “State judge overturns NY mask mandate” – A New York judge ruled Monday that the state’s mask mandate can’t be enforced, after it was reinstituted by Gov. Kathy Hochul over concerns about a winter surge of coronavirus cases, reports AP News.
- “Forcing vaccinations on NHS staff leaves the health service at the mercy of future variants” – There is no logic mandating a policy that will lead to the loss of tens of thousands of healthcare professionals when what is needed it to build up capacity for future emergencies, writes Katie Musgrave in the Telegraph.
- “Jacinda Ardern is martyring herself and her country – and all for a failed Covid strategy” – Despite a high vaccination rate and a milder strain of Covid, New Zealand continues to delay the inevitable – with terrible consequences, writes Matthew Lesh in the Telegraph.
- “Care homes chose ‘safety’ over compassion and it’s nothing short of barbaric” – “I cannot recognise the nation where such a scandal is taking place,” writes Allison Perason in the Telegraph. “Yet I know that heartless place is our country.”
- “‘It’s time to get tough on anti-vaxxers and make them social pariahs’” – “Enough is enough,” writes the delightful Polly Hudson in the Mirror. “As Boris Johnson scraps restrictions to save his own skin, we need to convince everyone to get a Covid jab. And that means hitting them where it hurts.”
- “EV Recharge Hell for Climate Activist Heidi Harmon” – Share the pain of a deep green activist politician who desperately wants to attend a climate change rally, but misses out because of her useless electric vehicle, writes Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?
- “Jamie Oliver’s ‘offence adviser’ leaves a bad taste in my mouth” – Even one of the nation’s most successful TV chefs doesn’t feel safe in the woke minefield we’re now forced to navigate every day, writes Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “Quebec has announced that unvaccinated citizens are not allowed inside of large stores unless accompanied by a Health Warden who will monitor them to ensure that they do not purchase anything except for food and medicine” – I wonder if those who make these rules ever pause for a moment of self-reflection.
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“Bread and circuses”. Worked in Roman times. Still worth trying today.
Let them eat Cake!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbq3kc29Tmg
Cake is a ‘made-up’ drug.
From the glorious days when the BBC countenanced such as Chris Morris being on air. His shows were side-splitting…
I can’t see a solution to the problems they have in the US with regard to the large population descended from slaves. I don’t know if they could have taken different steps and got a positive outcome, but I think it’s too late now. The genie is out of the bottle, and trillions upon trillions will be further frittered away until there is nothing left and the country turns into a miserable shadow of its former self.
Welfare destroyed them. Thomas Sowell very good on this. And on everything, truth be known
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIwkZYdSelE
Sowell is a marvel
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thomas+sowell+black+welfare
Insulting to men, especialy black men.
No stereotyping there then!
I don’t think it’s sexism at all, they can just see the flaky, inept, vacuous, useless sock-puppet for what she is. I’ve seen loads of famous people endorsing her, male and female, including Jon Bon Jovi, Stevie Wonder and some guy from Breaking Bad. The current and previous political adverts are cringey as hell, and who can forget the ‘White Dudes For Harris’ group and this seriously bizarre Demtard anti-Trump effort;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O14Z9f07iU
You can find the link to the current lametastic ad in the below article. It smacks of desperation and looks fake AF, see what you think;
”Democrats are rightfully panicked that even with the millions of illegals they are registering to vote, they won’t be able to cheat their way to victory in November. Most concerning of all to them is (Vice?) President Kamala Harris’ inability to draw male voters, so her campaign has desperately begun trying to win over a voting bloc the Left neither respects nor understands. This has resulted in cringe-inducing levels of pandering, including a new pro-Kamala political ad targeting men that is being widely acknowledged as “the cringiest political ad ever.”
Democrats adamantly insist that men are reluctant to vote for Kamala because they are locked into a longstanding, patriarchal, sexist mindset. This is the same excuse Hillary Clinton fell back on in her 2016 loss to Trump. “Yes, I do think [misogyny] played a role,” she told reporters after the election, adding that it is “very much a part of the landscape politically, socially and economically.”
[Fact check: false. Misogyny is not “very much a part of the landscape politically, socially and economically.” Hillary couldn’t become President not because she’s a woman but because she’s an unlikeable, power-mad radical and kleptocrat who reeks of contempt for America and its citizens.]
Sexism is not the reason Kamala can’t attract male voters. Even Republican men, whom the Left sneer at as misogynist troglodytes, would have no problem voting for the right woman for POTUS, but men won’t vote for Kamala quite simply because she is epically incompetent and unpresidential, among other weaknesses. Politics aside, she is just not a leader.
The Left has spent half a century or more emasculating Western civilization because traditional masculinity is the first and last line of defense against a totalitarian state. They have demonized manhood as “toxic” and raged that we are to blame for a “rape culture.” They have actively infiltrated and dismantled boys’ and men’s organizations like the Boys Scouts of America in order to eradicate male spaces. And now they unilaterally declare they have invented a new, more progressive masculinity as embodied by beta males like Emhoff and Walz and Tailgate Guy, and they expect us to vote them into permanent, one-party power with the lightweight diversity hire Kamala Harris at the helm.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-party-that-hates-men-begs-men-to-vote-for-it/
Mogwai, thanks for those links, I’ve been laughing for about 5 minutes straight at that cringiest ad ever and the replies on X. It’s beyond satire.
We have strenuous campaigns and legislation against smoking, we have puritanical mutterings about alcohol and yet TPTB seem to be falling over themselves to legalise marijuana. Can anyone explain why this is? Tobacco, Nicotine and alcohol are the appalling, dismal work of the devil and yet the candidate for the ”leader of the free world” is campaigning with the plan that a “national cannabis industry takes shape”. Can anyone explain what is going on?
Is it just that Kamala Harris sees herself as the opium of the people?
This is exceedingly simple. It’s all a matter of “what we want to consume” vs “what other people [we don’t particularly like] want to consume”. Eg, in my opinion, it’s a safe bet that a lot of the more absurd wokery, especially the obsession over use of language, comes mostly if not completely from people who are rarely, if ever, not stoned.
Weed is already decriminalised in many states, although still against federal law, an odd situation. We already know how this turns out: every public space in my city reeks of reefer all the time. Simultaneously, everyone’s been convinced that a 1 to 10 billion concentration of cigarette smoke in the air will kill you instantly. People are gullible and stupid.
People regularly stoned on cannabis become very lethargic and therefore easy to control.
Paraphrase of something I just read in a book written by someone with an Indian sounding name:
We were all convinced that alcohol was the white man’s secret weapon. Once the English start smoking Ganja like we do, their empire will be done for.
And just HOW is liyin Kamala going to get that past Congress?
Explains a lot about her presentation skills
She seems to have the opinion that black men just want to get stoned and their vote can be bought by the offer of ganja.
Tiny bit waycist …..
State financed drug dealing? Sounds like the perfect solution to the problems faced by the US and the wider world – but only if you have no functioning cerebral neurons! Step forward Kamala!
Now we know why she can’t speak in intelligent and coherent sentences and masks her ignorance with inane laughter!