- “A third of Covid deaths now not actually due to the virus” – ONS data show that 34% of Covid deaths in England last month – all fatalities where Covid is written on the death certificate – were not primarily caused by the virus, reports the Mail.
- “Covid inquiry called out for ‘disgraceful’ omission of disabled people” – Labour MP Marsha De Cordova says she was assured the inquiry would look at the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on ill and disabled people, but the terms of reference include no mention of it, according to the Telegraph.
- “China may be facing its greatest Covid crisis yet” – The coronavirus is spreading through Hong Kong, Shenzhen and other cities in China like a bush fire; tens of millions of Chinese are locked down again, but it won’t work, says Matt Ridley in the Spectator.
- “Ep 43. Too stupid to browse the web? – The Real Normal Podcast” – The guys talk the Online Harms Bill, the end of SAGE and the lifting of restrictions, and the ‘EU aid’ for Ukraine. Also, an extra episode this week – a new interview with Tanya, Alex and Dimar to talk about life in the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, during the Russia Ukrainian war.
- “Lockdown was bad enough, but this one crazy rule could have made it even worse” – If you think Britain’s restrictions were claustrophobic and nonsensical, then spare a thought for those who spent the pandemic in Panama, where men and women were given different days they could leave the house, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “New COVID-19 Variant Surges in Israel” – TrialSite News reports that there’s been yet another surge in COVID-19 cases in highly vaccinated Israel, this time linked to the BA.2 Omicron variant – prompting talk by the Israeli Health Ministry of possibly reinstating the ‘Green Pass’ vaccine passport programme.
- “The Origins of COVID-19 – Free Speech Champions Online Drop-In” – Watch the Free Speech Champions‘ recent event with Matt Ridley on the Origins of COVID-19: Science, Scepticism, and Free Speech.
- “Airline CEOs Send King Biden a Letter Asking Him To Remove Useless Mask Mandates” – The CEOs of American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and other major carriers sent a letter to Joe Biden urging him to end federal mask mandates on aeroplanes as well as international pre-departure testing requirements, reports 100PerCentFedUp.
- “Why can’t some scientists just admit they were wrong about Covid?” – Dreadful article in the Guardian from constantly wrong anthropologist Devi Sridhar claiming epidemiologist John Ioannidis, who got it right, is stubbornly refusing to admit it he got it wrong. It’s like walking through the looking glass.
- “Pandemic Police State: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the U.K.” – Watch the documentary from Big Brother Watch, examining how the coronavirus pandemic led to the most draconian emergency powers in the U.K.’s history.
- “New York City Exempts Performers, Athletes From COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate” – Epoch Times reports that New York City has exempted all performers and athletes from its private business COVID-19 vaccine mandate, but has kept it in place for everyone else, in the latest nonsensical policy based on ‘The Science’.
- “Why Nicola Sturgeon’s approach to Covid may have done little but damage our economy” – It is something of a contradiction that as we finally lose the great majority of our Covid restrictions this week, our case rates are at record levels, writes MSP Murdo Fraser in the Scotsman.
- “Covid Heart, Covid Brain, Covid Diabetes?” – The latest on Covid disease, Long Covid, and Covid treatment from the Swiss Doctor.
- “Govt plans to increase North Sea oil production” – Chief Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke told BBC’s Newsnight that more oil and gas will form part of the Government’s strategic energy strategy which is due to be released next week, according to the Mail.
- “Britain could become a tidal energy superpower” – Our uniquely high tides provide a huge opportunity for inward investment, writes David Green in the Telegraph.
- “Nuclear power is the future – let’s seize it” – The UK’s plans for new nuclear plants need to be far more ambitious, argues Zion Lights in Spiked.
- “Debunked, the great renewables delusion” – Patrick Benham-Crosswell on the flaws in renewable energy in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Dishonesty, hypocrisy, and why the decision not to remove memorial to 17th century benefactor Tobias Rustat over slave trade links from my old Cambridge college must inspire an anti-woke revolution” – For Jesus College the case has been an embarrassment: the college’s leadership have wasted tens of thousands of pounds in a case they deserved to lose, writes Dominic Sandbrook in the Mail.
- “‘It’s a culture war that’s totally out of control’: Margaret Atwood calls book bans in school ‘woke snowflakery’ while Art Spiegelman brands society ‘Orwellian’ amid publishing’s sensitivity crisis” – American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who penned the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus about the Holocaust, said society has become “Orwellian” while Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood said: “They’re playing woke snowflakery back: [by saying] ‘This might upset people’”, reports the Mail.
- “Philip Pullman could be ‘cancelled’ over support for Kate Clanchy in ‘racist’ stereotyping row” – Telegraph report that Pullman could be sacked as President of the Society of Authors after defending Clanchy’s acclaimed memoir of life as a school teacher in the latest instance of the revolution eating its own children.
- “Are beauty brands too ‘woke’ for consumers?” – Research shows 68% of consumers are uneasy about health and beauty brands promoting social causes, reports Cosmetics Business.
- “Time to end the grievance-industrial complex” – The U.K. Government’s official response to last year’s Sewell report on race and ethnic disparities tells us one thing – Britain’s grievance industry is not going to have it all its way, writes Rakib Ehsan in the Critic.
- “Government rejects making ‘robust’ and ‘rigorous’ gender change system easier” – The Women and Equalities Committee had recommended that the process of obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate should be simplified, but the Government has rejected this move, reports the Telegraph.
- “NHS trans guidelines are straight from 1984” – Why are once sedate, conservative organisations like Putney Lawn Tennis Club colluding with this modish erasure of women, asks Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Understanding India” – To the puzzlement and disappointment of many Westerners, India has abstained on several UN votes rather than join the vociferous chorus of condemnations of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, writes Ramesh Thakur in Spectator Australia.
- “Michael Grade, critic of the ‘woke brigade’, named Ofcom chairman” – Former ITV and Channel 4 chief has branded the £159 licence fee a “regressive tax”, reports the Telegraph.
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But infections peaked at 55,000 in July and have since fallen to around 35,000 per day.
That should be positive “cases” not infections. You need symptoms for an infection.
That should be claimed positive test results, not cases. You need tests that are better than a coin flip to be able to claim a case.
Sadly, too many ATL articles reinforce the propagandised vocabulary.
Exactly… tune up the PC cycles = next wave…
Tune them down… no COVID. Convenient eh? Lockdowns on demand
Was outsourced to India. According to a friend who got the virus despite being vaccinated she was having calls from people who could barely speak English and were quite obviously reading from a script. Turned the phone off so she wouldn’t be bothered.
That’s hardly conclusive, given how strengthened the UK has been by diversity.
They might have been Scottish…
Naughty….Lol!
They are still busy importing more of these “important” people, mainly via Dover, and ably assisted now by the RNLI it seems.
Were they ever “needed”?
This will be such a blow for the public, third and salaried sector slackers desperately clinging to their Spy-n-Snitch app and hoping for more 10-day “free” holidays. Those Netflix queues aren’t going to binge themselves.
They’ll rehire them all this autumn, if Israel is anything to by.
It’s one of those very rare occasions to celebrate people losing their jobs.
It’s just a bit that the bureaucrats with sinecures who authorise their pay are not also receiving their p45s.
Mind you, there are quite a few who would satisfy that in Westminster!
Perhaps those laid off can now do something useful e.g. work in a care home, drive delivery lorries and/or use the delivery lorries in any blockades
interesting story
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58336998
woman cons billions out of investors for a disease diagnosis technique that was utterly fake
funny none of them asked for an independent audit of the technique. only got themselves to blame
If she beats the rap, perhaps there’s a place for her at Pfizer.
she was a psychopathic con artist who went to huge lengths to perpetuate her fraud. The podcast The Dropout has a lot more info than the BBC article and is a good listen.
There’s a great book about this whole scandal
Bad Blood
Non-jobs in the first place! Now get on and do something useful in your life and leave people alone and stop bothering them.
A few more million pissed up the wall because of Ferguson’s predictions. I wonder if he has any liability insurance? On no sorry the man’s a Saint for saving so many lives.
“Wrong in the right way”. The man should be heading to prison.
My friend reckons he received fifteen phone calls, some lasting as long as forty five minutes from T&T because he was ‘honest’ about his movements (on holiday) in the days before feeling a ‘little groggy’ (his words, symptoms lasted for one day).
This is what complicity does. Trapped and harassed by your own stupidity – and I said that to him.
Surely people only make this mistake once before they block the number too?
You’d forgive a few people for doing this yeh. Hopefully once bitten and all that.
This is not “news” to most people. The fact that it is only now being reported by a newspaper is yet another shocking element of the collusion between the government and the media. One of my friends worked in the Test & Trace office in Exeter before he gave up after 3 months having been so bored by making about 5 calls per day. When the NHS came to “audit” the staffing and activity the staff were all told to attend the office and pretend to be making calls to “ill” people. I wonder how the annual accounts of companies such as Serco and Sitel will look at the end of the financial years covering 2020 and 2021?
DHSC (T&T) are spending millions on temporary recruitment. Some of it is going through Public Buying Organisations (PBO) solutions so not all of it is made public through contracts finder. Public sector is required to publish notices on any contract over £25k on contracts finder. A lot don’t realise that this also applies to contracts awarded under PBO solutions so it’s often not made public.
Slightly out-dated, but a lot of these PBOs still exist – https://bid-better.co.uk/2018/10/16/what-are-collaborative-procurement-organisations/
“Dear,dear,what a pity,what a shame, never mind”.
With apologies to the late lamented “It ain’t half hot,mom”.
Weird, as I didn’t receive a single call in my 10 day quarantine post holiday.
I did and it was on my Thai phone number.
gave her short shrift and removed the sim from my phone.
‘Vaccine’, ‘Vaccinated’, ‘Vaccination’ NO. NO. NO. – anyone who tries to jab me, my family and my loved ones with that *monkey gunk* will learn the ultimate lesson. This is the hill I die on: FIGHT. BACK. BETTER. – Updated information, resources and useful links: https://www.LCAHub.org/
And how much does this all cost us?
Excellent.
Good riddance.
You must have a very low IQ if you still have the trick and trap app on your phone. (I never had it and I blocked the phone numbers they used as a double insurance).