- “Calls for contact tracing system to be wound up” – The Scottish Conservatives want Test and Protect replaced with a cheaper and more targeted system, reports BBC News.
- “Malaysia COVID-19 panel recommends full border reopening in March” – Malaysia’s coronavirus recovery council on Tuesday said it has recommended a full reopening of borders as early as March 1st without mandatory quarantine for travellers, as part of plans to accelerate economic recovery, reports Reuters.
- “Hong Kong goes into near total lockdown under Zero Covid strategy” – Hair salons and places of worship have today been added to a long list of businesses closed to Hong Kongers as it tries to stamp out a wave of cases under its Zero-Covid strategy, reports the Mail. Oh dear.
- “Australia’s Covid hospital admissions fall after Omicron peaks” – Australia’s COVID-19 hospital cases and people admitted to intensive care continued to trend lower on Tuesday, reports Reuters.
- “How the Left betrayed the Truckers” – The convoy is despised by those who should support it, writes Malcom Kyeyune in UnHerd.
- “The Canadians on the Bridge” – If we are willing to let the fat and happy among us call for the seizure of protest funds, and for violent military intervention against truckers and supporters, only because we find some of those participating to be particularly ‘deplorable’, we are no longer the progressive Canadians we claim to be, writes Alexander Brown on the Brownstone Institute.
- “New Zealand protesters block streets outside parliament” – Hundreds of people protesting vaccine mandates and pandemic restrictions blocked streets outside New Zealand’s parliament on Tuesday with trucks and campervans, inspired by similar demonstrations in Canada, Reuters reports.
- “A look at the face mask literature” – Hector Drummond’s thorough review of the scientific literature does not come out well for mask fans.
- “California’s indoor mask mandate will end next week for vaccinated individuals, Gov. Newsom says” – Vaccinated Californians will no longer have to wear masks in most indoor settings next week as the Omicron surge recedes, but students and staff at K-12 schools will still be required to mask up, health officials announced, according to Fox News.
- “Mask studies reach a new scientific low point” – MMWR, the CDC’s “pet journal”, appears to no longer be in the science business, writes Dr. Vinay Prasad.
- “That Study of Face Masks Does Not Show What the CDC Claims” – The agency further undermines its credibility by desperately trying to back up conclusions it has already reached, writes Jacob Sullum in Reason.
- “Sir Captain Tom Moore charity pays out £162,000 in management costs” – The Captain Tom Foundation, set up by the family of the war veteran in the wake of his incredible fundraising efforts, paid out more than £162,000 in management costs in its first year, but gave just £160,000 in charitable grants, reports the Mail.
- “Unvaccinated mum ‘stopped from seeing son in intensive care’” – Her video has touched thousands of hearts – but the hospital says its needs to “consider the risk to other patients”, reports the Leicester Mercury.
- “Over half the deaths seen by this funeral director were likely caused by the Covid vaccines” – Steve Kirsch on the disturbing testimonies of embalmers who report strange “white fibrous clots” in over half of the bodies of the vaccinated they encounter.
- “The fatalistic Tory Party is sowing the seeds of its own destruction” – Boris Johnson’s slide into Covid and Green big-state managerialism has only served to create more Labour voters, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Don’t get sick: NHS backlog projected to last until 2024” – While millions stood on their doorsteps every Thursday evening to cheer on the NHS through this moment of turmoil, the real crisis was being sown, writes Luke Perry in Bournbrook.
- “Why they hate Joe Rogan” – The elites are terrified that someone, somewhere, may be thinking for themselves, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Don’t use black Americans to cancel Joe Rogan” – When ‘misinformation’ didn’t work, media elites pivoted to racism, writes Adam Coleman in UnHerd.
- “‘We’re more divided than ever’: Liberal MP breaks ranks and criticises public health policies” – Quebec MP Joël Lightbound said, “I am hopeful as well that there is room in the Liberal Party for dissent”, reports the National Post. Brave man – Trudeau has shown no sign of tolerance.
- “Britain needs a new dash for gas to save us from the lunacy of Net Zero” – Boris will be to blame if energy policy continues down the route of surging prices and rationing, writes Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
- “Ofcom chief calls to regulate Netflix over Jimmy Carr Gypsy joke” – Dame Melanie Dawes said she “would welcome any chance to work on that” after the comedian was slammed for a Holocaust joke, reports the Mail.
- “Why comedians stopped being funny” – It’s safer to become a podcaster than tell a good joke, writes Dorian Lynskey in UnHerd.
- “The Starmer mob moral panic” – Angry protests have always been a part of British politics, writes Freddy Gray in the Spectator.
- “The cost of online safety” – When it comes to the Online Safety Bill, the only way to ensure the internet is entirely ‘safe’ would be for the Internet to be abolished, writes Annabel Denham in the Spectator.
- “Unilever must axe Ben & Jerry’s before the brand becomes a poison pill” – Ice cream brand’s woke social activism risks unravelling any future deals, writes Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
- “The Murky Finances of Black Lives Matter” – A lack of transparency in donations has led to friction and mistrust among activists, reports New York Magazine.
- “F1 to end knee-taking ceremony before races” – There will no longer be a pre-race ceremony to take the knee and drivers – including Lewis Hamilton – are not objecting to the move, reports the Telegraph.
- “Justin Welby suggests Cambridge college should remove slavery-linked donor plaque” – The Archbishop of Woke says church needs more diversity after speech by Lord Boateng, head of the Racial Justice Commission, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why I quit teacher training” – Emily Schroeder in the Critic says perhaps her interview ought to have prepared her: “This is a safe space.”
- “FSU General Secretary Toby Young explains why it’s short-sighted of woke activists to campaign for tougher censorship laws” – It’s naïve to think they’ll only be used to censor political opponents.
FSU General Secretary Toby Young explains why it’s short-sighted of woke activists to campaign for tougher censorship laws. It’s naive to think they’ll only be used to censor their political opponents.
— The Free Speech Union (@SpeechUnion) February 8, 2022@GBNEWS | @Nigel_Farage pic.twitter.com/hh5JglrwXS
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it seems just lately politicians are losing their minds, the state wishing to ban any comedy it does not like for example, yes Jimmy carrs joke was crass, but, the reaction has been nothing short of preposterous. along with the disastrous online harms bill which gets bigger everyday and looks to be a threat to privacy, speech and civil liberties, the intent to revise the human rights act, wanting to restrict protests among many things, its like, what’s in the water? Politicians have normally swung towards censorship but the last yr or two they lost their minds. Its like joe rogan in the US, again completely ridiculous reaction going into parody.
and then there are reports of Scotland wanting to cut 6 inches of school doors????
It’s not just lately. There’s been a long drift/march to where we are now. Covid has accelerated it and been enabled by it. It’s a symptom, not a cause.
Jocks are shorter than the UK average, to be fair. Full-size doors are a waste of wood up there.
Finally, the truth is coming out!
Masky Mark McClown: I will be an eternal god!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkSPlmaSC1A
New Zealand Covid protest convoy jams streets near parliament | AFP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YAn8DM9838
A convoy of trucks and campervans blocked streets near New Zealand’s parliament in Wellington Tuesday to protest against Covid restrictions and vaccinations, inspired by a similar demonstration in Canada. AFP News Agency
Let’s keep getting the message out
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Silent lighted walk behind one simple sign
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meet outside Town Hall, between Rose Inn & Costa
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Stand in the Park Sundays 10am make friends, ignore the madness & keep sane
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Henley Mills Meadows (at the bandstand) Henley-on-Thames RG9 1DS
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The comments in that Leicester mercury article are encouraging. Seems the balance in her favour.
At first I smelt a rat and thought it must be to do with her refusal to test as opposed to vax status. I was wrong. Seems it was more about having to self isolate because unvaxxed.
Long past time all these covid laws were abolished.
Hey critically ill child is in hospital, catches covid because of course and so they ban the mum because she has come into contact with said son. How can an unvaccinated person go to a hospital without coming into contact with an infected ffs?!
Aside from that is it actually law to wear masks in hospitals, even when exempt?
I was harassed by a nurse in a local hospital last year for not wearing a face nappy, despite being exempt. I filed an official complaint with the NHS, which was fobbed off. They kindly reassured me that my future NHS treatment would not be affected by my complaint (not sinister whatsoever). I replied to their email by sending a picture of the Pig Dictator not wearing a mask at Hexham Hospital.
There may have been a requirement then, I expect the “law” is different now?
Telling someone you can visit your covid positive infant in the ICU but that will render you a ‘contact of someone with covid’ and as such you will then have to stay in your home for whatever days is evil in the extreme.
Hopefully…
Soon it will be like the end of Lord of the Rings: when Our Heroes come back to the Shire and find Lobelia in prison as an unlikely hero for liberty. They raise the Shire, the hobbits have a mini-revolution, rescue Lobelia, and get Saruman out, and then sink back into their old normal, with very little notion that anything happened in the wider world that was bigger than they were.
They put CO2 monitors into the small studio rooms at school a couple of weeks ago. I asked why, and was told it was so we knew when to ‘waft the doors’ around to let some air in because ‘the plague is still around’. When I asked what number was safe, I was told they didn’t know, but the little machines would beep if it was a problem.
I put my CO2 monitor in the corner out of the way. By the end of the day it registered 3600 PPM. And I STILL don’t know (or especially care) if that was bad. The odd thing really was how no one seemed to feel it was important to know WHAT THE ACTUAL F it was for.
I live in hope that one day, when its all over, I will be like Frodo, sitting quietly with a drink and some food and no longer needing to let this stuff get to me. Where’s Lobelia Sackville-Baggins when you need her?
It’s fearless hobbits with bright swords that you need. With a very few exceptions, the hobbits caved in to tyranny exactly as the Brits have done, with enough willing and active collaborators to keep Saruman’s ball rolling. But once resolute action was taken, the people rose and the tyrants were pushed over with comparatively little trouble. Their power was entirely based on bullying and intimidation. When their bluff was called, that was the end of them.
Britain needs a thorough scouring, but where our bright swords are coming from is not yet clear.
Right Annie. My world is almost entirely peopled by silly little hobbitses. And one or two worm tongues.
At least you’re not troubled with Tightass Groan, which Peaked some time ago.
Annie! Do you think this might be ‘bright swords’? https://policeonguard.ca/news-release-urgent-message-to-canadians/
How does that work? Starmer called for harder, faster, lockdowns, and is more green globalist net zero fanboi than the greenest Tory.
Just like every high profile “charity” then, it’s usually jobs for the boys/wives of the establishment connected parasite class
Obviously STAGED.
Because it’s not about online safety, it’s about CONTROL
came here to say the same. Voting for either party is just going to give you different flavours of the same s***
Yes all horses come from the same stable and the same owners always win the races. The public has to come to terms with the fact that they repeatedly vote for genuine evil, then buck that trend. Serial Traitor Dominic Raab hawking this latest Human Rights Act abomination for example. People like him need to be flushed down the toilet where they belong. Folk always pick the lowlife parasite class with no morals. We need to start really analysing the character of those running for office. Anyone from a corporate background should be placed in negative points, as corporate culture and entities are by default evil and have an enormously negative effect on our world. Corporate is the filthy seed of evil and deceit
UK “reforming” human rights law…compulsory vaccines on the horizon?
https://off-guardian.org/2022/02/08/uk-reforming-human-rights-law-compulsory-vaccines-on-the-horizon/