- “Why Britain should follow Denmark’s lead and declassify Covid” – We have learnt that at this stage of the pandemic there are costs to being over-cautious, writes Scientific Advisor to the Danish Government Professor Michael Bang Petersen in the Telegraph.
- “There’s no alternative to post-pandemic pain” – We cannot expect easy answers to the worst cost-of-living squeeze since the Napoleonic wars, writes Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “Israeli study offers strongest proof yet of vitamin D’s power to fight Covid” – Bolstering previous research, scientists publish ‘remarkable’ data showing strong link between vitamin deficiency, prevalent in Israel, and death or serious illness among patients, reports the Times of Israel.
- “The troubling normalisation of mask wearing” – One dimensional journalism, lost scientific debate and severely unappreciated costs to our long term health and psychology are among the problems discussed by Achilles Heel.
- “Covid officially over in Sweden!” – With the Swedish Government ending all restrictions and calling off the pandemic, Dr. Sebastian Rushworth, who is based in Sweden, discusses what we can learn from the statistics after two years.
- “France relaxes testing requirements for fully vaccinated British travellers” – Vaccinated travellers can now take a PCR or antigen test up to 48 hours before departure, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘We were forced to quarantine in our freezing motorhome at the mercy of French police’” – A British family fell foul of the French rules when they relied on a NHS certificate of recovery for their son, which was not recognised, reports the Telegraph.
- “I congratulated the BBC for inviting the unvaccinated to Question Time. That might make you cringe, but I meant it” – The Telegraph‘s Tim Stanley was on the panel and he found the free exchanges between doctors and audience members refreshing.
- “UK is ‘set to bin 3.5million Pfizer vaccine doses’” – Tens of millions of jabs were sent out at Christmas after Boris Johnson turbo-charged the booster drive to ‘one million doses a day’. But NHS sources say many are still sitting in fridges owing to low take-up since Christmas, reports the Mail.
- “The indomitable popularity of Joe Rogan” – The trouble with Joe Rogan – as far as the establishment media is concerned – is he’s more popular than they are because he’s doing a better job: he asks questions, listens to the answers and never tries to score points by prefacing a gross misinterpretation of what he’s just been told with a ‘so what you’re saying is…’ or editing the results afterwards, writes Emily Hill in the Spectator.
- “Ep 38. The Blonde Blob – The Real Normal” – Listen to the latest podcast episode, where the guys talk Sue Gray’s report on ‘Partygate’, a Government U-turn on mandatory vaccination for NHS workers, and Holocaust Memorial Day, among other topics.
- “Spain to drop masks outdoors as Omicron surge decelerates” – Spain will end a mandate to wear masks outdoors (yes, really) next week, in its version of lifting restrictions, reports AP News.
- “Spain’s First Study on Omicron Finds Vaccinated People Spread Covid at Same Rate as Unvaccinated” – Public health officials in Catalonia announced they were scrapping Covid passports in light of this new evidence, as did several other Governments in Spain, writes Jon Miltimore at the Foundation for Economic Education.
- “Joe Biden is the most dangerously radical President in U.S. history” – Whether it’s Biden’s push for vaccine mandates or his massive spending programmes, Biden is proving more divisive than perhaps any President in history, say Steven Edginton and historian Victor Davis Hanson as they discuss his impact in the latest Off Script podcast.
- “Long Funeral Homes, Short Life Insurers? Ex-Blackrock Fund Manager Discovers Disturbing Trends In Mortality” – Tyler Durden on ZeroHedge looks at disturbing trends in non-Covid excess deaths in America and elsewhere.
- “‘The case for masks became hugely stronger’: scientists admit their Covid mistakes” – Mixed article in the Guardian where a group of Covid ‘experts’ including Neil Ferguson and Devi Sridhar say what they got wrong. Comrade Susan Michie saying she regrets not being more of a mask fanatic from the off is a low point.
- “How working from home put the brakes on Britain” – The Great Return to Work after the pandemic is yet to happen – and it might never as staff hide behind the HR handbook, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “University fat cats have abandoned students” – Shocking research suggests the majority of colleges are continuing with virtual lectures despite the retreat of Covid, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Self-inflicted misery of our energy insanity ” – Successive Governments ignored warnings about the insanity of having no long-term strategy to safeguard energy security; now the chickens have come home to roost, says the Daily Mail in a leader article.
- “Britain’s energy crisis is self-inflicted” – It has been a 30-year shambles, with successive Governments failing to exploit shale gas and nuclear energy, says the Telegraph in its leader article.
- “The Zac Pack: the well-connected group quietly shaping Tory policy” – Zac Goldsmith is the original vote-blue, go-green Tory and there is something of a ‘Zac Pack’ at the heart of Government, and it includes Carrie Johnson, writes James Heale in the Spectator.
- “Ministers tell Boris to cut green plans to help cost of living crisis” – The Prime Minister is facing pushback from senior politicians over his plans to make the U.K. Net Zero in carbon emissions by 2050, reports the Mail.
- “Ross Clark analyses the state of Britain’s energy reserves” – If Ofgem’s decision to hike domestic energy bills from April by almost £700 confirmed one thing for us, it should be that now, more than ever, we must rapidly work towards energy security, writes Ross in the Mail.
- “Now Parliament comes for the woke National Trust” – Conservative MP Andrew Murrison is launching a new All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the National Trust next week in light of “the intense interest its recent activities have provoked throughout the country”, reports Christopher Hope in the Telegraph.
- “The student forced out after standing up for women” – Raquel Rosario Sanchez is taking the University of Bristol to court for allegedly failing to protect her from trans activists, the Telegraph reports.
- “The Guardians in Retreat” – Redefining its purpose as antiracism, the Art Institute of Chicago abandons its core mission of preserving history’s treasures and instructing future generations, writes Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “This is the Canada I know and love!” – Watch the video from ChickenGate on Twitter showing what the Freedom Convoy protests in Canada are actually like.
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Good morning Britain!
I’ll just say:
Can I say HELLO! I’m in the library…
(Apologies to Trigger Happy TV trigger happy tv i’m in the library at DuckDuckGo )
Don’t you all usually do this good morning routine in Todays Update comments, rather than here in News Roundup?
The Update is strangely quiet.
I’ll be Anne Diamond, you can be Mike Morris.
Never heard of them. I like Neil Diamond though.
Ah, this is like the old days…
Anne Diamond in 1987.
Ezra Levant
@ezralevant
At the request of Trudeau, @GoFundMe
has just stolen $9,000,000 from the truckers. Rather than automatically refunding it to the donors, they say they’re going to give it to groups of their own choosing. What a windfall for Black Lives Matter, Greenpeace and Planned Parenthood!
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1489744172202569731
Not sure he’s necessarily correct about the recipients – the release he attaches from GoFundMe says: “we will work with organisers to send all remaining funds to credible and established charities verified by GoFundMe“, which might mean approved recipients amongst the protesters, and refunds are available.
Nevertheless this is a gross betrayal of the donors and caving in to the regime’s lies about the protesters.
Find alternatives to GoFundMe.
It’s alright, nine million dollars stolen is a statistic as well…
They’ve moved to Give Send Go which is a Christian fundraising site that doesn’t pull those kinds of shenanigans:
https://www.givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022
Apparently so many people are trying to donate they’re crashing the servers, so be patient.
There’s also this campaign which has less attention but is legit:
https://givesendgo.com/Warroomcanadanet
If you’re in Canada you can send an e-transfer directly to tbofconvoy2022@protonmail.com.
I realise with so many crazy faciomarxist stories from around the world to cover, our editors have to pick and choose.
In my opinion, the disruption of mass in Australia by the stasi, and the truckers protests in Ottawa and the developing one in America, deserve headlines in our Daily Sceptic.
Especially as the lying media censor them.
“They’ve moved to Give Send Go which is a Christian fundraising site that doesn’t pull those kinds of shenanigans:“
When you understand just how corrupt the leftist elites in government and in big business are, and how duped the masses are by their bs, the only solution is to look for principled groups outside the leftist consensus. The only ones you can trust to at least try to resist the dictats of power.
And I’m not even a Christian.
EL omits to mention that GFM’s press statement offers a link to a refund form. Refund requests have to be submitted within the next two weeks. No reason to hesitate, is there!
Grim.
Reminds me how the major bank cards and PayPal blocked funds raised for Assange and Wikileaks in 2010, throttling that campaign, which had shown signs of gaining significant traction.
And how the same forces ganged up to try to throttle Parler because it was committed to protecting freedom of speech for conservatives.
The donors should get every penny refunded if gofundme refuses to pay the donations to the intended recipients, including any admin fees they may have charged. Damn cheek!
Edit: it should be an automatic refund, not ‘on request’.
Mixed article in the Guardian where a group of Covid ‘experts’ including Neil Ferguson and Devi Sridhar say what they got wrong. Comrade Susan Michie saying she regrets not being more of a mask fanatic from the off
Peak Plandemic
Who can describe the most peak plandemic scenario? Here’s mine:
It’s a four way video call between Captain Tom from his garden, Kate Garraway’s husband Derek Draper, Joe Wicks and Elton John. And they’re discussing global citizenship and plant based meat in a video sponsored by Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Neil Ferguson and Devi Sridhar are “covid” experts? Only in the Guardian (I hope)!
What’s the McDonald’s plant thing like then? Any better than their other rubbish?
(Full disclosure – I sometimes buy from them!).
I nearly had McDonald’s sponsoring that video call, you read my mind! Haven’t tried their plant based simulated meatburger yet. And that’s as a life long vegetarian who also goes to the dark side on occasion.
I used to be, and still maintain that many people eat rather more meat and dairy than is good for them. One of my major points has been that if excesses of consumption relating to meat, dairy, clothes, and now such things as bio-fuel were reduced, and if we had good government (rather than the nonsense of the last two years), there would be no food shortages any time soon. Instead of which millions (and maybe hundreds of millions) of extra people go hungry in the “developing world” because a bug is going round. A bug that is nothing like the black death, or even the “Spanish” ‘flu.
It’s a revolting piece of pseudo mea culpas. They leaven their righteous correctness by simperingly admitting to being a teensy-weensy bit wrong on some minor points. It’s an unedifying stew of arrogance, ignorance and impenitence.
It’s exactly what you’d expect.
I also feel sorry that these poor little lambs were also misunderstood by the festering, doltish masses.
I don’t know how many people on here remember Q magazine used to have a ‘Who The Hell…?’ article every month where a celebrity was invited for interview and the article was opposite of what they thought and was actually used to humiliate them. If you were doing similar for Covid those three would be near the top of my list for interview.
“Jews are ‘white’ “???
Not in Zimbabwe they’re not. Honestly, there’s some right ignorant idiots out there.
Some of us remember the Falashas. Ethiopian Jews, black as your hat but as Jewish in religion as anyone could wish. They were welcomed to Israel when they fled persecution from people in their own country, who were also as black as your bat.
I watched a film about that. Something to do with a fake diving resort. Reasonably entertaining.
There are tiny enclaves of Jews in several places around the world, especially India and Africa.
Sammy Davis Jr. was Jewish by conversion.
“There’s no alternative to post-‘pandemic’ pain”.
If only the BBC had been saying that 24/7 from March 2020…
They weren’t, and Fishi Rishi wasn’t, but I was.
What a pity I wasn’t Chancellor at the time. Or anybody else with a couple of functioning neurons in their brain.
I just watched the famous ‘Question Time’ on BBC. It’s remarkable that Fiona Bruce, with all the resources of the BBC at her disposal, and with a world leading immunologist sitting there who either supported her or at the very least did not correct her (embarrassingly for Imperial College yet again) trots out the same blatantly incorrect figures that 90% of the people in Intensive Care with COVID are unvaccinated.
Could these experts and media people please just read the readily available public information such as the UKHSA vaccine report, and see that there were 4,807 unvaccinated people in emergency care and 10,448 double or triple vaccinated in the 4 weeks to Jan 23rd – around 32% not 90%.
With experts and media people like that no wonder the world has disappeared down a rabbit hole over the last couple of years.
And by the way excellent performance by the former philosophy student who managed so well to stand his own against some of the nonsense spouted by the panel !
Lies,damm lies, you know the rest!!
Robert Malone is sufficiently fed up to be in the mood to sue all the idiots who question his credentials, so people would be wise to be careful.
I think it would be fantastic if he did sue them all as at the moment you have sneering hordes who think they can say whatever nonsense suits their preconceived dimwit narrative, and then patronise anyone who tries to set the record straight, and as for the Twitter zombie crowd…Lord preserve us!
Interested to see the Vitamin D research. This benefit of Vitamin D has been known from the beginning of the epidemic, of course. And yet the government did not think to issue free pills – or even advice to take them.
This seems very similar to their Invermectin strategy, where they keep doing studies showing the benefit but never get around to recommending the medicine.
It is quite obvious that a decision was made early on that vaccines were to be the thing that saved us, and all other treatments were to be suppressed to give vaccines the best chance of appearing to be a ‘wonder drug’. People were killed in order to defend the political decision to spend a fortune on a novel untested technology that ended by not working.
I do wish the Sceptic would think about the ‘standing up for women’ strand in the updates. It was Feminism which pursued the ‘gender is a social construct’ narrative for years. I don’t agree with the trans changing rooms agenda – be they male or female – but the chivalrous approach of the Sceptic, women as brainless non-innovators, with nasty men foisting horrid things on them, is not the true story. You may enjoy the Karen Straughan videos – ‘Dismantling Feminism’ on YouTube. Question everything? Well, you seem very mainstream and reactionary on this topic.
WE’VE GOT OURSELVES SOME CONVOYS!!!
An auspicious day for freedom fighters all over the country
That reads; get the vax and still obey the rules designed for the unvaxxed.
The Daily Mail leading article on energy that is included in the roundup also includes a paragraph on prescription drug addiction as a result of lockdown. The last sentence is an excellent example of the ‘reverse ferreting’ currently in play. It reads ‘This silent epidemic of health misery is another stark illustration of the devastating collateral damage of lockdown’.
Quite a change!
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/shambolic-covid-pcr-testing-rules-153206332.html
Just seen this. It talks about the widespread variations in PCR thresholds across the country. It’s an Oxford University study. They’re a bit slow on the uptake though-we’ve been saying this here almost from the beginning of mass testing.
Latest on the fun and games here in The Western Lands.
Lockdownunder Update: There’s A Whole Lotta Goin’ Goin’ On.
Read this and weep
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/leicester-mum-stopped-seeing-son-6605605
Fortunately it is now resolved but only after solicitors became involved.
Boycott Go Fund me. Truckers money being held back and may be diverted to other causes.
Why not go and pay them a visit?
https://corporateofficeheadquarters.org/gofundme/
You are becoming an embarrassment locked away in your Finnish bolthole.
All mouth and no trousers.
On the Left’s love of censorship.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/brandon-smith-leftists-use-mass-censorship-because-they-dont-have-guts-engage-fair-debate
Nice takedown of the stupid presentation that enlightened/misled Boris on climate change.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/boriss-climate-briefing-information-editing-or-wholly-misleading/
First signs of major trouble in ESGland and wokeland as Blackrock departs and gets headwinds.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/02/04/woke-capital-wont-save-the-planet-but-it-will-crash-the-economy/
“France relaxes requirements for travellers from UK”…what absolute sphericals; just check out the numbers on Worldmeters.com – for many days now, despite the French Consulate trying to suggest that the UK, by the governments own words quoted back at us originally, is facing a tidal wave of cases, the truth has been the exact opposite; “case” numbers are 2x/3x higher within France /Germany but still these corrupt EU members are using travel restrictions as a stick because of Brexit. If their logic was “true” they would be shutting their borders to all EU countries currently designated as “green” ( UK = amber, from a “special case” designation removed recently).
Has anyone wondered, if the “official” response from these countries is to “vaccinate” their entire population, why they allow travellers to present a certificate of CV recovery as an acceptable means of demonstrating CV status (rather than a CV Pass), but then still go on to request a pre departure LFT test within 48 hours out from 24 hours pre departure?
Is it just me or is that “position” as bombproof as a paper air raid shelter ? The logical extension of accepting a CV Recovery cert is that “vaccines” are …..not needed?
New mutant strain of HIV detected in the Netherlands. Is this:
(a) The cover story for covid jabs destroying people’s immune systems.
(b) Proof that sars-cov-2 is in fact a pneumonia with HIV added via GoF research.
(c) To grow the ‘most vulnerable’ pool and justify further injections to ‘protect’ them.
(d) Just another hoax to keep the population afraid of something.
(e) Freddie Mercury’s revenge.
This is typical of the media and people’s inability to pay attention for longer than 3 seconds. The more infectious strain was active between 1990 and 2010. It is very treatable and no more deadly. This is mentioned in the last 3rd of the article I read.
You sound like a (d) man.
prob a combination of all of a-d above.
The continuation of online lectures will be good for University finances, and as usual bad for the low income worker.
No students using lecture rooms, toilets, etc, will mean less cleaning staff required. No electricity or heating costs. Less stuff gets broken.
But also vending machines are used less and other loss of income on campus based shops. I guess if Costa has a franchise there, they still have to pay their rent, so less minimum wage or student jobs.
Just like sandwich/coffee/all kind of service shops in central London who do not benefit from office workers anymore.
When Jaeger closed down, my friend was surprised that a chain like that did not survive, and I said, one does not need a Jaeger suit to work from home.
Regarding the entire shambolic and totally contrived narrative over “green” energy and the supposed need for “net zero”, the following highly informative information comes from the customer web site of a leading UK energy supplier – Scottish Power. This is their explanation of the reasons for the situation now facing UK households.
Given gas can be used to generate electricity, the wholesale cost of electricity has also increased significantly.
Although this rise in wholesale costs is not UK specific, this country is especially vulnerable because it’s one of the biggest users of natural gas in Europe. That’s because most homes here rely on gas central heating. The UK also has less storage capacity than some other European countries.
So to summarise, there are three key reasons for the impending massive increase in UK domestic energy prices:
1) We are experiencing colder temperatures – so much for “Global Warming”
2) So called “renewable” energy sources
areunreliable,don’t F***ing work!3) The largest CO2 producer in the word is burning even more fossil fuel there by cancelling out any “carbon reduction” made by the UK, thus rendering the entire “green agenda” total bollox, even if you believed in it (which I do not).
These underlying factors are made even worse but the UK’s total failure to provide proper energy storage and supply infrastructure. Perhaps some of the billions given away to fake lockdown loan applicants or squandered on pointless, useless, Chinese PPE might have been better spent on our energy infrastructure.
Mr and Mrs NutNut of No 10 are utter morons for continuing to push their totally pointless and highly destructive green agenda. Unless, of course, there is a different underlying objective – like further controlling people’s lives and livelihoods. Perish the thought!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10476167/UK-set-bin-3-5million-Pfizer-vaccine-doses-despite-shelf-life-extended.html
The bin is the best place for the rubbish.
Police Bodyguard Of Trudeau Resigns Due To Utter Tyranny
https://www.bitchute.com/video/VslCOTL8j39g/