- “The Covid doomsters are coming out for Easter” – The NHS Confederation is calling for the return of compulsory mask-wearing and new restrictions on mixing indoors. “Roll up, roll up, my friends, for the pandemic that never ends,” writes Richard Littlejohn in the Mail.
- “Philadelphia moves towards a perma-Covid regime” – This week, Philadelphia announced it would be reinstating its indoor mask mandate amid a moderate rise in coronavirus cases, making it the first American city to do so in response to the spread of the Omicron subvariant BA.2. In making this decision, Philadelphia went beyond the recommendations of the CDC, writes Park MacDougald on UnHerd.
- “A Warning From Shanghai” – A new California bill threatens to strip doctors of their medical licences for saying things the state doesn’t like. We don’t have to imagine what that would look like, writes Professor Jay Bhattacharya on Common Sense.
- “U.K. watered down requirements for overseas nurses in ‘supercharged’ recruitment drive” – The pandemic exposed the gaps in the U.K.’s health workforce, leading the NHS to water down entry requirements for overseas nurses, lowering language and ‘critical thinking’ exams as well as the amount of experience needed to work in Britain’s health service, the Telegraph reports. What could go wrong?
- “China is cracking under the weight of Zero Covid ” – If Xi’s rivals sense they could use public dissent to undermine his grip on power, the ingredients for a crisis would fall into place, says Mark Almond in the Telegraph.
- “Yet Another Paper Fails to Find that Masks Do Anything” – A natural experiment in Catalonia is the latest piece of evidence that masking is a worthless intervention, says Eugyppius.
- “Study shows inhalation of microplastics found in masks getting into lung tissue for the first time” – The health implications of tiny plastic fragments invading lungs are unknown, but it’s a growing health concern, especially for children, reports LifeSite News.
- “Observations of the Most Recent ‘Defeat the Mandate’ Protest in Los Angeles” – Thousands of people showed up at an event dedicated to stopping vaccine mandates across the United States, reports TrialSite News.
- “Britain is now reaping the rewards of Freedom Day” – Economic data show we are learning to live successfully with the virus, says Julian Jessop in the Telegraph.
- “Scientists develop ‘decoy cells’ to trick COVID-19 away from healthy ones” – The idea was developed to tackle coronavirus but the treatment, which has shown promise in initial laboratory tests, could be repurposed for any cell-invading disease and rolled out during another pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
- “Urgent! Comment on the WHO treaty now” – Comments on the potentially calamitous proposal for a WHO pandemic treaty close later today. It will only take two minutes to do, says Steve Kirsch, as he provides tips on what to write.
- “Cock-up or Conspiracy? Understanding COVID-19 as a ‘Structural Deep Event’” – As debate over ‘The Science’ has increased, people are questioning whether there was more to COVID-19 in terms of underlying agendas. Was it incompetence or coordination, asks Dr. Piers Robinson for PANDA.
- “Third death considered linked to COVID-19 vaccine” – New Zealand Ministry of Health report that the COVID-19 Vaccine Independent Safety Monitoring Board has notified it of a third (child) death in New Zealand considered to be linked to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
- “Wind turbines ‘taking deadly toll on migrating birds’” – Researchers from the University of East Anglia looked at GPS data from 65 bird tracking studies to work out where they fly at “danger height”, said to be 15 to 135 metres above wind turbines, the Mail reports.
- “Ban export of UK’s rubbish overseas, says Environment Agency chief” – Around 60% of British waste is sent abroad, where much of it has been found illegally dumped or burned, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bristol uni students barricade door to ‘cancel’ speaker Yaron Brook” – The 60-year-old Ayn Rand Institute Chairman was invited to the university by the Liberty Society to talk about the causes of war in relation to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, reports the Mail.
- “NEU model barmy: the teaching union’s affiliation to Stop the War is a disgrace” – Every Easter thousands of sane, moderate teachers (who still make up the majority of the profession) metaphorically close their eyes and hope that the extremists who gather at the union conferences do not embarrass them any more than they have done in previous years, writes Dr. David James in CapX.
- “The BBC must end its addiction to divisive racial politics” – If the corporation wants to survive, it should at least try to understand the country it supposedly represents, writes Calvin Robinson in the Telegraph.
- “That’s a reason for keeping him in office… the drumbeat for another lockdown is becoming quite deafening” – Watch Toby discuss the future of Boris Johnson with Mark Steyn on GB News.
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The last time I was “asked” to leave a venue occurred last Sunday when I was waiting in front of a door to a performance room for a concert to start to be allowed to enter. It materialized itself in form of two guys suddenly approaching me and trying to throw me down a steep stairwell of seven or eight meters length. I have no idea why they did this because they didn’t bother telling me and only started yelling that I must absolutely leave now (still without telling me why) when I frustrated their attempts by holding fast to a door frame.
Such is everyday life for people who are guilty of the two social crimes of being both male and alone.
I didn’t hold amplified speeches about topics guaranteed to infuriate certain other paying customers.
So, you were trying to steal their doorframe! No wonder.
Just counterbalancing two guys who were both taller and significantly heavier than me who were trying to use their combined weight to push me over the edge of the staircase. Objectively, they were a bunch of pretty harmless attackers, but not for want of good intentions.
So not only do we have a man who evidently has a problem with free speech but also is supportive of kids being indoctrinated into the toxic trans ideology cult at school. Evidently this is a clear-cut example of the ”feminisation of society” being to blame for the downfall of civilization once again. Well what else could it be?
Meanwhile, you absolutely do need an ugly lump of concrete called ‘art’ that nobody is even going to look at in London. And what is ”transmisogyny” or ”transfemicide” when it’s at home?
”New statue unveiled in Londons Trafalgar Square to honor TRANS people.
The installment features the face of 726 trans activists from Mexico and the UK and is designed to ‘unite the trans community around the world.’”
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1836443411345248495
Transmisogyny — Claiming that men costumed as women are men because of hostility to women.
I’ll pass on transfemicide because femicide is already a nonsense propaganda term. The only thing that’s sort-of special about murders of women as opposed to murders in general is that they a lot rarer. But dividing murder victims posthumously into groups of different inherent value is IMHO something only a totally perverted mind could come up with. All violent crimes are equally despiccable and none of the victims should have had to suffer them.
I think femicide is focusing on the murder of women and girls because they are women/girls by men. I’ve never heard of women killing men because they are men?
Femicide is a term associated with the so-called war on women, ie, that there’s an organized global “culturally driven” effort of men to commit violent crimes against women because – as everyone knows – men just hate women because women are not men. That’s a term invented people having their own heads so much up their respective posteriors that their (theoretical) worldview is seriously at odds with the actual world.
As I already wrote: I refuse to concern myself with ideas of people who think that what they call femicide is qualitatively different from and much more serious than mere homicide as the overwhelming majority of homicides are just mascucides, to coin a term in the same lineage. IMO, people who believe something likes this urgently need a couple of loose screws in their heads tightened.
What did you expect? It’s Brighton. LGBTQXYZ and all that malarkey is practically a religion there.
I just watched a bit on GB news where Bev Turner was in fits of laughter at this nonsense of children identifying as wolves etc and them actually being indulged in their absurdity instead of what should happen is them told off and made to stop this utter garbage. Bev even managed to squeeze in a little joke that “what if there is a full moon”, which went totally un-noticed. Ofcourse we had the token Liberal on Jonathan somebody or other trying to defend this nonsense as Liberals tend to do, and even manged to link this crap to the Trans issue. Well done to GB News and Bev Turner for doing what other mainstream channels don’t do and laugh right in the face of this garbage.
What, you mean to say that Bev, a woman, is *against* this dangerous nonsense and Jonathan, a man, is defending it??
You’re telling me that Liberal woketards come in a male variety as well??
Well I’m flabbergasted at learning about this truism.
Seriously though, I’m just waiting to see how the resident misogynists are going to spin this article/general topic to be all the fault of women, because so far it’s Jiminy
Good at doing a ‘dump and run’ post, hurling accusations, leaving disparaging remarks and pointing fingers, not so keen on offering up any supporting evidence. It’s what happens when one has a pathological obsession and carries contempt around like an extra appendage though. You ignore all the facts which contradict your world view because to acknowledge reality means your protective bubble of delusion might just implode, and then where would you be?
Every human behaviour to the Liberal Progressive is now some kind of malady or other instead of what it really is —-which is a jumble of crap, stupidity or criminality. But along come the Liberal Progressives riding over the hill to cure us all of our absurd acquired malady’s at great taxpayer expense, and in the process creating whole armies of therapists, psychologists and ever more bureaucrats to administer all the clutter
I suspect he was a Lib Dem. He was certainly not Liberal or liberal.
I wouldn’t want to drink in a pub where the landlord was such a priggish woke twat.
Seconded.
Although I have the feeling he won’t lose much custom in a place like Brighton.
Oh no! David Lammy and the Labour government, which happens to have Keir Starmer at the helm. Utterly epic Woketards. And yet we’re being told this is a white, middle-class woman’s gig…tut tut, chaps;
”I tried to warn you that Labour are obsessed with this utter woke nonsense.. bisexual flags ffs.”
https://x.com/EssexPR/status/1836676368400007613
Some comments;
”This is a big part of what is wrong with Britain. The woke mind virus. Virtue signalling nonsense – not a serious government or country. What an utter embarrassment Lammy is.”
”Can Lammy please stop it !! He is making a mockery of this country wherever he goes around the world and everytime he opens his mouth. Personally, it makes me ashamed !”
”Absolute madness, I wonder how this is going to go down with Countries that do not approve of this nonsense? How can the Foreign Secretary promote this, he is an imbecile.”
My 18 year old son asked me the other week, “if I identify as a cat or dog, would I still have to pay tax, because cats and dogs don’t pay tax?” He has his feet firmly on the ground and is not going to ‘identify’ as anything, but it was and is a serious question. How serious are these people and the government about treating people as they ‘identify’? It would appear they are totally serious, therefore if identifying as another animal, i.e. not a human being, isn’t accepted as a reason not to pay tax, surely you could sue them for discrimination under The Equality Act 2010, and if not, why not?
As marriage is neither based on religion nor on permanence and freely entered-into unions can be ended on six months notice, without cause, by either party, why are marriages to animals or siblings not permitted.
This is NOT something I favour but I just wonder what is the logic and when will the animalists get around to making it lawful.
It seems like some of our vibrant diverse communities suffer from such insecurity that they cannot tolerate a small group of people having a different opinion.
Ironically when they say they don’t feel safe, I think actually they are telling the truth. They don’t feel safe because their world view is extremely fragile and in permanent danger of collapsing due to its inherent contractions.
At some point they might discover that the truth cannot be expelled even by the most skilled security guards.
I think all 50 people thrown out should claim compensation for the trauma of being evicted for holding a protected view under the Equality Act. Forcing the landlord to re-host the meeting would only give him extra sales. I would never wish to darken his woke doorstep again.
Brighton
All you need to know.
A grubby seedy and rather tatty town.
Who knew there were that many free-speechers in basket-case Brighton?
How can a belief be unlawful?