- “Boris Johnson facing second ‘partygate’ fine over aide’s leaving event” – The Prime Minister faces a second fine for a gathering for outgoing Director of Communications Lee Cain, where he made a speech and is understood to have remained for some time, according to the Telegraph.
- “Boris’s real failure wasn’t breaking lockdown” – It was creating the rules in the first place, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “There is a certain poetic justice to the Partygate fines” – Partygate has united two groups previously at loggerheads in a common chorus of disgust, says Lord Sumption in the Telegraph.
- “Daily Covid cases plunge 30% in a week and hospital admissions come down by 8% but deaths more than double due to data backlog issue” – The Mail reports on the continued decline in reported infections but also an unexpected spike in deaths, caused by a backlog.
- “‘Substantial’ fall in GP hours with half now only working ‘three days a week’” – A study, commissioned by the Department of Health, shows 58.4% of family doctors were working six half-day sessions or less, the Telegraph reports.
- “WHO’s INB First Meeting and Session” – The Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB), a newly constituted subdivision of the World Health Assembly (WHA), is on a mission to draft and negotiate an international instrument for pandemic mitigation, readiness, and response, reports TrialSite News.
- “My video call with the WHO this morning” – Dr. Tess Lawrie reports on the sham of a “public participation process” organised by the WHO this week and expresses concern that “the WHO now intends to take full control over every member nation via this pandemic treaty”.
- “Greece to scrap mask rules and Covid passports in time for summer holidays” – Greek authorities have confirmed that domestic Covid passports will be scrapped and mask rules relaxed in time for the peak summer holiday season, reports the Telegraph, as the Science helpfully shifts to rescue the economy.
- “The battle for Zero-Covid is being fought in Shanghai” – Complete ‘victory’ over the virus has become a key part of the cult of Xi, says Ian Williams in the Spectator.
- “Hospitals, not GPs, are at the heart of NHS failure” – GP services are in fact delivering more appointments than prior to the pandemic, but the same cannot be said for hospital occupancy, says Katie Musgrave in the Telegraph.
- “Vaccines’ effects on the heart” – With the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines being delivered to growing numbers of young people, researchers are looking again at the rare risk of myocarditis, writes Clare Wilson in the New Scientist.
- “Don’t ditch that face mask. Mandate for planes extended through May 3rd” – The U.S. federal transportation mask mandate, due to expire April 18th, will be extended through May 3rd, reports USA Today.
- “Cutting off Russian gas to cost Germany €220bn and trigger European recession” – Europe’s biggest economy would suffer a 6.5% contraction if Russian energy is suspended, experts warn, according to the Telegraph.
- “Judge praises ‘inspiring’ Insulate Britain mob who delayed ambulance” – Mail report that Judge Stephen Leake fined a group of M25 activists but said he was “inspired” by them and that their “voices are certainly heard”, raising questions of impartiality.
- “Ex-Brexit minister Lord Frost warns U.K. could end up rationing energy” – Lord Frost tore into the Prime Minister’s energy security strategy, published last week, which put offshore wind and nuclear power at the centre of U.K. energy policy, the Mail reports.
- “Disruptive eco-protesters harm their cause” – Militants who block roads and glue themselves to buildings will only harden voters’ hearts, like the unions did in the 1970s, writes Libby Purves in the Times.
- “‘Colston Four’ statue-toppling case to be reviewed by Court of Appeal” – Writing for the Telegraph, the Attorney General says the right to protest should not be a licence to commit criminal damage.
- “Nottingham university’s shameful treatment of Tony Sewell” – An accomplished black Brit is lambasted for having an opinion, and the high-status move is to side with his critics – this is modern racial politics summed up, writes Tom Slater in the Spectator.
- “Why My NYT Article Inspired So Much Fury” – We have lost a cultural appreciation for free speech and free expression, says Emma Camp in Persuasion.
- “Monsoon’s female changing rooms are ‘open to both sexes’” – Mail report that Monsoon apologised to 18 year-old Charlie Moore following an incident at its Grand Central, Birmingham, store and said its changing rooms are “open and available to all customers” – which probably reassured Charlie, but many women less so.
- “The shameful silence surrounding David Amess’s murder” – MPs, tasked with responding to this outrage, decided it was time to regulate the “corrosive space” of social media to make sure people in public life “can no longer be vilified”. What exactly does that have to do with this MP’s brutal murder at the hands of an Islamist, asks Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Spectator.
- “We need to give him our support at this critical time, difficult though it is. Better the devil we know” – Watch Toby tell Dan Wootton on GB News that the public should not oust Boris Johnson after he was given a fixed penalty notice by the police.
'We need to give him our support at this critical time, difficult though it is. Better the devil we know.'
— GB News (@GBNEWS) April 13, 2022
Toby Young says the public should not oust Boris Johnson after he was given a fixed penalty notice by the police.GB News on YouTube https://t.co/Wa58gYGZwF pic.twitter.com/xqEFVeIY42
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So as the dominos continue to slowly fall and vaccine compensation and ongoing treatment bills rise who’s going to be the first to revoke the indemnity given to these companies?
Starmer has an open goal as he could say that he was only supportive based on the (limited) information the Tories were passing on.
Also if depopulation is the long term agenda what better way of achieving it than bankrupting major drug producers by passing on these bills
There appears to be a red arrow troll on this site.
I believe Starmer, with the WHO and Blair far up his b******* would instigate harsher lockdowns and “vaccine” mandates at the drop of a hat come the next “pandemic” of fear.
Bankrupting, although I prefer the word liquidating, all of bigpharma would imho, actually benefit the whole of mankind – especially the so called civilised west.
I believe that too. The whole system is broken and corrupted and the so called ‘regulators’ like MHSA need to be shut down and rebuilt from scratch.
How about shut down and not rebuilt?
100% of all government and its agencies are influenced and corrupted for the benefit of an interest group. Every single one Without exception.
The fewer of them we have the better.
I’m sure he would…
However the “political” decision here and now is to revoke it and blame it on the Tories…
Agreed, and so would the Raven Pub Landlord in Bath. Starmer showed unwilling to listen to his concerns despite just citing official CFRs.
I suspect Starmer and his hench women were as fully informed as Ministers.
I agree. Given that they all shit in the same pot it is unreasonable to believe otherwise.
Of course they were. The Leader of the Opposition is briefed on any significant risk.
“…if depopulation is the long term agenda what better way of achieving it than bankrupting major drug producers by passing on these bills.”
Which implies that drug producers provide major health benefits to society. As far as I am concerned we are now at the point where the jury is out on that point.
So all of us who were branded anti vaccers (i spell it that way) and conspiracy theorists were right all along. A common theme.
Covid 19 and the response to it is the most important event to happen in the world in the last decade,and politicians are almost entirely silent about it during a general election campaign.
Andrew Bridgen has been a lonely and brave voice in Parliament. His reward was expulsion from the Conservative Party. He deserves our support as an independent in North West Leicestershire.
It seems difficult but hopefully not impossible for independents like him to win seats, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
With reference to my reply to D J, if Bridgen can take his seat as an independent it will be a heartening sign that things are going to get better for us. And if he loses it to some Labour or Conservative cut out, then it’ll be a bad sign.
One to watch for sure.
If Andrew Bridgen loses his seat it will be confirmation of massive vote rigging. It does happen and only idiots believe otherwise.
Good two hour interview with AB. Resistance GB. Interesting when he talks about losing his properties to HS2 and the scam that is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pidSG5nMkW8
Thanks Ron. Yes a good interview, so good in fact that I watched it end to end in one sitting.
Confirmation if any were needed of the appalling level of corruption in which this country is mired.
Last decade?
Let’s see what the legacy of it is, but to me it’s looking like the most important event to happen in the world since WWII, whichever way things go.
It either marks the end of liberal democracy and the beginning of a global totalitarian era or it’s a moment of awakening that propels us to a more advanced state of freedom and self governance.
Impossible to see at this stage which way it’s going. But what you can be sure of is that things are not going to settle back into what they were before covid. That’s for sure.
Quite likely true, although it might depend on where one is – e.g. across the pond they would (perhaps) take into account Vietnam. That said, re Bridgen, the only other MP that achieved an independent in such circumstances was Martin Bell, in Knutsford, who won in 1997 – the rest of that year’s election is obviously well known.
Regulators aren’t there to protect the public. They are there to promote the interests of the industry they are regulating.
And you know what, I don’t want the government to protect me. Whenever it pretends to do so, it usually does the exact opposite.
Thanks but I can protect myself.
The free market generally does a perfectly good job of weeding out bullshit products and services and making the good ones thrive. And the beauty of a free market that is allowed to function normally is that it cannot be manipulated by a company.
We don’t need any regulators. We just need the free market to be left to function properly.
The sewage & water systems need regulation, or more competition. They are in a real state in some places and have seen sewage in fields myself.
For Pfizer any settlement will take years and will simply be accounted for as a cost of doing business. They made $100bn in a year from the clot shot so even a $1-2bn settlement (dragged out for a decade) probably won’t unduly worry them. Only serious jail time for senior execs will make them think twice next time
Absolutely true.
But a court decision against them would be very useful for arguing against the whole covd response and in general for the future.
Civil suits to follow against politicians and bureaucrats?
That won’t be allowed. The whole charade would collapse.
If we choose, and pay, there is no way to legally stop it. However “they” would find ways to make it impossibly expensive.
I would suggest there may be enough evidence for a criminal case against the Directors. After all they would have “signed off” the corporate stance on these issues knowing full well they were not being truthful.
“Regulators and public health bodies are no longer protectors; increasingly, they are the enemies of patient safety.”
Yes. And they seem to be proud of that fact. June Raine, head of the MHRA and supposed to protect the public from dangerous medical products, boasted that the so-called Regulator was now an ENABLER for Big Pharma.
“In Dr Raine’s words, this is how she deliberately set out to transform the MHRA’s role (my bold): ‘We tore up the rule book, and we allowed companies to immediately start juxtaposing not sequential phases of clinical trials, but overlapping, beginning the next one before the previous had been finished. And that large-scale manufacture being prepared, at risk. We did not know if any of these vaccines would be effective.
She should be charged with Malfeasance in Public Office.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-doctor-who-turned-her-health-watchdog-into-a-covid-vaccine-lapdog/
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-mhra-the-watchdog-covering-up-the-truth-about-vaccine-deaths-and-injuries/