- “Britain’s Covid experts ‘abandoned their objectivity and misled with alarming models’” – A Government adviser delivers a damning verdict on the scientists’ pandemic response, adding they “weren’t looking at the bigger picture”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Gavin Williamson’s knighthood hard to justify, Downing Street admits” – Although Downing Street has told ministers to defend Gavin Williamson’s honour publicly, some No 10 officials are understood to have said it is difficult to justify the decision, the Mail reports.
- “What IS going on with the Met’s farcical Partygate probe?” – It is now more than three weeks since Boris Johnson received a questionnaire from the Metropolitan Police about his attendance at some of the events, the Mail reports.
- “Hong Kong bet on Zero-Covid. Now it’s facing a ‘preventable disaster’” – Morgues are nearly at capacity, hospitals overwhelmed and, as fears grow of a citywide lockdown, panicked shoppers have stripped supermarket shelves bare, reports CNN.
- “The Nudge: Ethically Dubious and Ineffective” – Dr. Gary Sidley at the Brownstone Institute writes that the ubiquitous deployment of psychological strategies – which rely on inflating emotional distress to change behaviour – raises profound ethical questions.
- “Episode 12: Interview with Dr. Gary Sidley” – Dr. Sidley talks to Ian Miller on the Unmasked podcast about what happened with Covid policy, why, and where do we go from here?
- “Doctors’ Sanctioned for Speaking Out Against Official Covid Policies” – Six U.S. doctors have had their licences suspended and 18 more threatened as they are accused of spreading misinformation about COVID-19, according to TrialSite News.
- “SAGE admits its models were ‘at variance to reality’. But why?” – In a democracy, we need a way of scrutinising models: to be crystal clear about the assumptions used, and how using different assumptions would change the picture, says Michael Simmons in the Spectator.
- “A Letter to Andrew Hill” – Watch Dr. Tess Lawrie’s address to Dr. Andrew Hill on Oracle Films.
- “How the FDA Botched the Vaccine Rollout for Young Kids” – The agency had to put out a fire that it created, writes Dr. Vinay Prasad in City Journal.
- “Lord Frost joins 29 Tory MPs in demanding PM ends ban on fracking” – As many as 30 Tory MPs and peers have signed a letter to the Prime Minister urging him to lift the fracking ban, introduced in 2019, as they say it could prevent a future energy crisis, reports the Mail.
- “While Rome burns, the Bank of England fiddles with an ‘inclusive’ rebrand” – Threadneedle Street has lost the plot with its decision to ditch St George’s Cross, writes Ben Marlow at the Telegraph.
- “The week that fashion cancelled women” – Misogyny is becoming so entrenched in the industry that women are at risk of being erased, explains Lisa Armstrong in the Telegraph.
- “NHS child gender clinic forced into U-turn over ‘bombardment of wokery’” – Black Lives Matter’s ‘rainbow fist’ logos added to employees’ email signatures have been removed after a backlash from staff, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Tories are still empowering tech firms to repress our free speech” – Once created in law, this new category of “harmful” content will become a legal grey zone where censorship is implicitly encouraged, writes Juliet Samuel in the Telegraph.
- “How Western elites exploit Ukraine” – The Ukraine crisis is undoubtedly a tragedy, but it is merely the latest in a series of geopolitical events stretching back at least 20 years in which the media coverage has been biased, one-sided, and ideological, writes Arta Moeini in UnHerd.
- “Scotland’s shame” – Stonewall’s grip on the Scottish Government is now complete after the announcement of the Gender Recognition Act reform bill in Scotland yesterday, says Stephanie Davies-Arai in the Critic.
- “The SNP’s Gender Recognition Bill is a threat to women” – The Scottish government wants to make it easier to change gender – regardless of the consequences, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “To Protest Russia, Ivan Drago Blurred Out Of Rocky IV” – The latest from the Babylon Bee.
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I never thought I would say this, but I wish we were a bit more like the French. Good luck to them.
Canadian Truckers.
French Farmers.
Dutch Farmers.
Polish Farmers.
Men and women who live in reality and know that the bullshit of Net Zero is based on anti-science, anti-human theologies.
I agree with the French. Starve the bastards. Then Guillotine them. All of them.
Don’t forget the Army of God headed to Texas
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/mess-west-army-god-convoy-heads-us-border-while-eu-farmers-block-cities
It’s time for good news.
Unfortunately that’s why “They” will take us to war again…
I don’t understand how the UK can be ahead of the curve in terms of rejecting unelected bureaucrats and the centralisation of power by voting for Brexit but way behind a lot of European countries in not having mass protests such as the farmer’s movements or a strong populist party such as AFD.
I wish I could be as heartened as you.
The farmers aren’t protesting for society or against the madness of clinate pokicy. They are protesting for themselves. For their own livelihoods and prosperity.
Net Zero comes with massive costs. Groups that manage to organise and lobby the government to be compensated will be.
The farmers are just presenting their bill and it will be settled with tax payer money, or debt really, as the state always spends more than it collects in taxes. Anything extra is just more debt at this point.
That’s how this will end. I hope I’m wrong though.
Yes but the enemy of my enemy is —–My friend
Should cannibalism result, I hope Macron be the first – but then again he’s a bit small.
In an effort to be compassionate I’d rather go for the fat bastards first.
Where I live, they blocked the only road for miles into/out of the mountains yesterday. Great atmosphere. Approx 8 mile long ‘street’ party along the dark “serpent” , mountains on all sides, red lights all the way down.
Calm solidarity on show everywhere, despite the inconvenience. I walked especially to shake all the farmers’ hands heartily on the way up in the morning.
More than happy to wait, in and out.
Roundabout where the road up starts was a raging inferno of hay bales and manure by the evening. Stank to high heaven!
Vive la France!
https://twitter.com/recusant_raja/status/1750092066288226707?s=48&t=z-QEFmo-T7EyF1VraAWbsg
A big thanks for that update Marcus and keep them coming.
All the best buddy.👍
I write them for you and folks like us. People who THINK FOR THEMSELVES.
Many thanks 👍👍👍
Music to my ears.
While I don’t want to put the dampers on this thread here is an update on the child grooming in Greater Manchester.
I have posted previously that Burnham is the man blocking all enquiries and here is some more supporting evidence. It ain’t pretty.
Burnham will be absolutely fizzing with this.
https://twitter.com/recusant_raja/status/1750092066288226707?s=48&t=z-QEFmo-T7EyF1VraAWbsg
Ah——Thanks for exposing this Islamophile
“France also said it would push its European Union peers to agree to ease regulations on fallow farmland. But farmers’ organisation said it was not enough.”
As soon as the farmers agree to any sort of compromise they are screwed.
“ils ne passeront pas”
Reiner Fuellmich’s trial is due to start Wednesday 31st January in Gottingen, Germany.
Best wishes Reiner.
The barbarian hordes of climate activists led by Greta on a Huge Black Stallion came over the horizon and swept to victory with their fossil fuel free propaganda. Poverty and hunger was widespread.——–But then an uprising as the moral resistance movement gathered momentum and pushed them to the Berlin Wall and beyond back to where they came from. The vanquished were sent packing back to the tyranny from where they emerged. Freedom in the western world was then restored, prosperity regained, and life spans extended by the restoration of cheap abundant energy and all was well and all freedom loving peoples lived happily ever after.
Amen
When Macron was asked to comment, he replied ” Let them eat cake”
These protests have been going on well over a month. Started in Germany, now spreading to different countries, including France and Belgium.
i heard yesterday that apparently Ukrainian food imports don’t have to comply with EU regulations?
I hope our farmers are watching and learning from the Dutch, German and French farmers.
And meanwhile in Britain… ?