- “Daily U.K. Covid admissions drop 18% in a week and deaths fall 6%” – Latest Government dashboard data show there were 16,579 new positive tests reported on Tuesday, the Mail reports.
- “Man, 26, died of rare blood clot after having Astra-Zeneca vaccine” – Oli Akram Hoque of Ilford received a dose of the Astra Zeneca vaccine on March 19th last year before suffering “excruciating” headaches, East London Coroners’ Court heard today, according to the Mail.
- “GPs to vote on shortening their working day by two and a half hours” – The changes would mean routine hours of 9am to 5pm, with GPs paid extra rates for working outside such times, according to the Telegraph.
- “Beijing orders mass testing for 20m residents in race to contain Covid” – Beijing has begun mass coronavirus testing and ordered its nearly 22 million residents to remain in the city, prompting panic buying and fears of a lockdown as strict as the one in Shanghai, the Times reports.
- “‘I’m competing with millions of people for food’: What life’s really like in locked-down Shanghai” – China’s strict Zero Covid policy means many of the city’s residents are trapped at home and left fearing infection, detainment or famine, reports the Telegraph.
- “Fury as Cambridgeshire County Council’s new £18m HQ lies empty with staff still not back at their desks due to ‘Covid rules’ – as civil servants defy Rees-Mogg’s efforts to end WFH with some Government departments less than half full” – Cambridgeshire County Council’s new headquarters opened last summer at a cost of £18million to taxpayers but its own Covid rules mean many staff members are still working from home, the Mail reports.
- “The odds of catching COVID-19 on an aeroplane are slimmer than you think, scientists say” – According to a new study, the risk of contracting the virus on a full flight is just one in 4,300, reports CNN.
- “Who Is Risa Hoshino?” – Dr. Hoshino’s exaggerations and claims to authority are emblematic of the epistemic trespass that has dominated the past two years of Covid discourse and policymaking, writes Sarah Beth Burwick on How the Left is Losing Me.
- “Vaccine mandates hit Macron… in the Caribbean” – Anger at last year’s Covid restrictions boosted support for Marine Le Pen, writes John Lichfield in UnHerd.
- “Covid vaccine victim? Meet Dr. Avindra Nath of the NIH” – Because of Dr. Nath’s utter failure to find a link between the Covid vaccines and vaccine injuries, the injured have been thrown under the bus, says Steve Kirsch, who gives his verdict on whether he is inept or corrupt.
- “From ice age to global warming – the climate doom-mongers’ swift about-turn” – Go back half a century and the climatologists, the newspapers and magazines and anyone who could get on radio and TV were all warning us about a different climate crisis: an imminent ice age, writes Ivor Williams in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Study quantifies metal supplies needed to reach EU’s climate neutrality goal” – Meeting the European Union’s Green Deal goal of climate neutrality by 2050 will require 35 times more lithium and seven to 26 times the amount of increasingly scarce rare earth metals compared to Europe’s limited use today, according to a study from Belgian university KU Leuven reported in Watts Up With That?
- “Elon Musk slams Twitter’s top lawyer who sobbed after he bought social media network and blasts her for ‘incredibly inappropriate’ censorship of Hunter Biden laptop story” – Mail report that Vijaya Gadde broke down in tears on Monday as she briefed her team via videolink on the future of the company under Musk.
- “Twitter has become a liberal authoritarian bullying cesspit where debate goes to die. Elon Musk is the final hope to rescue free speech before the woke mind virus takes over big tech once and for all” – In the tyrannical world of the woke Left, where cancel culture runs rampant, the go-to solution to any perceived threat is to silence the opposition, says Dan Wootton in the Mail.
- “The great Musk meltdown” – Nothing terrifies the woke set more than free speech, writes Andrew Doyle in Spiked.
- “No, the liberals will not leave Twitter” – The hyper-partisans of the cultural hegemony won’t leave Twitter – they need to access its casual users for their strategy to be successful, argues Eric Joachim Siva-Jothy in Bournbrook.
- “U.K. Demands Elon Musk Keeps Twitter ‘Responsible’ by Censoring Content” – A spokesman for U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has demanded that Elon Musk keeps Twitter “responsible” through content censorship, reports Breitbart News.
- “Elon Musk vows to defend ‘will of the people’ after EU threatens to ban Twitter” – The billionaire mocks the “extreme reaction from those who fear free speech” following a backlash over his $44bn deal, adding that free speech for him is always within the law, according to the Telegraph.
- “Biff, Chip and Kipper book pulped by Oxford publishers in racism row” – Following complaints of Islamophobic content, the children’s book that has been used in primary schools for 30 years has been withdrawn, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bristol school founded by Edward Colston to be renamed despite 81% voting against any change” – The unpopular change, which was announced on Tuesday, will be officially made in September, reports GB News.
- “Ipswich Museum advertises for curator to ‘decolonise’ collections” – Ipswich Museum bosses are seeking a “social justice champion” who will be paid £35,000 to help “decolonise” its collections and address ‘legacies of imperialism’, reports the Mail.
- “Vice-chancellors told to promote free speech or ‘be on the wrong side of history’” – Michelle Donelan, the Universities Minister, says institutions can no longer “shy away” from “the intolerant mob” who are stopping debate, the Telegraph reports.
- “Don’t blame Britain” – Obsessing over the sins of empire only serves to hide the flaws of dysfunctional modern states, writes Rakib Ehsan in the Critic.
- “The parental revolt against woke indoctrination” – Mums and dads are rising up against the politicisation of education, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “How the Ukraine war must end” – Putin will never accept defeat, says Professor Edward Luttwak in UnHerd, as he proposes a potentially mutually acceptable compromise based on plebiscites as were used at the end of the Great War.
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“Bill Gates says ChatGPT-like AI is ‘as revolutionary as mobile phones and the internet’ – and says it could speed up creation of new vaccines”
He’s obsessed. Can’t we just lock him in a room with some Lego.?
Brilliant !!! Made me howl !
I suppose testing “vaccines” on talking mannequins is one up on not testing at all.
I love lego always have, but I want to play with him!
Don’t Don’t!! Want to play with him!
Too late, its on the internet now…
You could build a fairly good prison out of lego if you had enough blocks. You could convince him to be on the inside…”you do the furniture Bill, I’ll just build this (unopenable) door….”
“Wolf-whistling to be made illegal – and claiming it’s a joke won’t be any excuse”
From personal experience the best way for men to stop wolf whistling is for a pretty girl to tell them to ‘fuck off’. Why do we need laws, more laws, for minor human interactions.
The gov will be making laws about farting and breathing next!
I was trying to recall the last time I heard a ‘wolfwhistle’. 1980’s..maybe..? Perhaps its got something to do with the insistence of women in recent times to add 30-40lbs to their backsides, and wander around in make-up that makes them look like a cheap marrionette. I’m going to suggest that it doesn’t need to be make illegal, as it will become an act that no-one will want to perform for Weeble-esqe, clown painted women anyway.
They did already for breathing.
Remember those masks?
“Fury at woke barristers refusing to prosecute eco warriors: 120 top legal professionals to sign ‘Declaration of Conscience’ to try and keep climate activists out of the courts”
Do I detect the smell of Soros’s wallet..?
Aye. Are there going to be future splinter groups of lawyers who no longer wish to represent rapists, pedophiles, murderers, GBHers and others on the grounds of conscience too? If not, why not?
“Fury at woke barristers refusing to prosecute eco warriors: 120 top legal professionals to sign ‘Declaration of Conscience’ to try and keep climate activists out of the courts”
What they will actually be signing is a ‘Declaration of Incompetence’ which makes these people unfit to practice.
There is only one remedy, they must be struck off.
I think you’re right, HP. Strike them off!
“Why doesn’t Britain regret lockdown?”
I confronted someone on Twitter yesterday, who was still taking the line that if we’d locked down three days earlier it would have saved 100,000 lives. Shame there isn’t a vaccine that would open their eyes, and kickstart their brains. I’d jab people myself, for free….
Three days earlier would have saved 100,000 lives?! Where do they get this nonsense? Oh yes, it’s everywhere…
““Why doesn’t Britain regret lockdown?” – Freddie Sayers writes that three years on, voters remain in favour, according to polling for UnHerd.”
Isn’t it principally because no-one likes to have been taken for a sucker?
Sayers goes on to say “My view on these results is quite simple: in order to justify a policy as monumental as shutting down all of society for the first time in history, the de minimis outcome must be a certainty that fewer people died because of it.” I suppose it depends on what he means by “fewer” and how long this “shutdown” lasts. Would I support a one-day lockdown if it saved millions of QALYS? Maybe. But with regard to a low-consequence mild-for-most virus of the type we’ve coexisted with for millions of years, no I don’t want to restrict my life in any way even if it might change the date of death for a small number of people by a few months.
https://www.gbnews.com/opinion/we-must-continue-to-fight-against-the-official-lockdown-narrative-here-on-gb-news-says-dan-wootton Dan Wooton’s opinion. Worth noting that GBN is relatively new, and manages to sell adverts despite telling the truth!
Within limits set by OFCOM. See Mark Steyn.
“Why doesn’t Britain regret lockdown?”
Soft, convenient, never known any hardship so this made me feel like I was part of something, don’t rock the boat, please make decisions for me, I’ve had the vaccine so I must agree with lockdowns, I believed implicitly and now feel ashamed, to trusting, can’t think for myself, please move on I don’t want to talk about being made a fool of! Hands over my ears, close eyes, hum loudly! I’m a sheeple, Barrrrr
That about answers the question!
Oh, and months of paid holidays!
“The EU’s censorship regime is about to go global”
Reading this article is truly alarming and I’m wondering how this will affect sites such as the DS and all the other places I go to and things I read and watch that are about alternative information, pushing back the dominant narratives. With this, people will only get the squeaky clean, pine tree fresh, antibacterial version of events where everything is fine in the digital prison. Seems there has been little or no push back. They clearly don’t like us talking about the lies we’ve been fed about Ukraine, climate change, Covid, 5G etc. and that we should just accept that.
Well, William Caxton set up his printing press in London around about 1475. It meant that books could be printed for the first time and in the late 1500s, translated bibles were printed so that finally people who could read, could read what the bible actually said. Although from our viewpoint 500 years later, this seems a small and insignificant thing, it was in actual fact a huge thing. It took power away from the clerics and those who could read Latin and gave it to the people. They could read the words of the bible and make up their own minds.
My point is that although the ramifications of this DSA (Digital Services Act) are awful, truth will always find a way because you can feel it in your heart. It resonates in a different way to lies. Look at Johnson desperately piling lie on lie and tell me he is coming from a place of truth. Look at Blinken in the Senate Covid Committee squirming away with his obfuscations and lies while Rand Paul slowly grills him.
A recent exchange with my local MP shows how his words fall flat when he talks about depleted uranium as being able to pierce armour plated vehicles but with absolutely zero mention of the toxic residue left on the land. And this man actually went to Iraq!
Our local town council meeting on Tuesday night when a councillor justified climate change by saying “you only have to look outside” as if a bit of bad weather allows them to implement plans that will severely restrict freedoms. One of our group wittily remarked ‘Well it’s dark!” – after all, it was 8pm.
I don’t fear this bunch of a..holes trying to imprison us in the digital prison and shut us up. If anything, it makes me even more determined to have my say and to confront all these liars and tyrants with the truth. So although they pass their laws and play their games, the truth will always rise to the surface like cream. Like I always say, you can’t stop an unstoppable force or an idea whose time has come. People want change and change is coming but nothing like Obama’s lying version. Real change where we all get a say about our futures and where we get rid of the tyrants and would-be tyrants and all the bullshit
I like your sentiment that ‘truth will always find a way’. I do wonder if it gets so bad whether the blockchain would be a place to set up something like this. I really don’t know enough about it all but read that the bitcoin blockchain can’t be destroyed by governments. At least not at the moment and I hope never although they are doing their best.
Or using new words like some are resorting to online in place of words not allowed on YouTube etc or short science fiction stories. I don’t know but I like you find the EU’s new censorship regime very scary
“Well, William Caxton set up his printing press in London around about 1475. It meant that books could be printed for the first time”
I wonder Aethelred if Caxton’s presses might need to be revived, albeit clandestinely?
We’re already on it, HP…posters, leaflets, information sheets, books, badges etc
I’ve seen QR codes stuck to subway walls.
Could you explain this please?
Great stuff.
“Claim: Insurers are Writing Off Electric Vehicles with Minor Damage”
Apparently the UK does not currently have any facilities for re-cycling EV batteries and scrapped and damaged EV batteries are being stored in special storage facilities, I understand there is one of these sites near Doncaster.
This is yet another confirmation that we are being ”gaslighted” over Electric Cars, they are never simply going to replace petrol/diesel (ICE) cars and allow us to carry on motoring as at present. In my estimation, given current technology and resources; the UK can only hope at best to replace 20% of ICE cars with EVs. At which point motoring will just be for the well paid elite, the 80% of the rest of us hoi-polloi will be reduced to public or community transport, cycling or walking.
But I guess that may well be the least of our worries as by the time that happens the UK finance system will have collapsed and most of us will be living on social credits and turnips
I happened to be in a taxi the other day, a Renault Zoe, which the driver said he’d had for three years. It is due a service, but the garage can only book him in in 7 weeks time, as they have ONE trained technician.
“Commercial development of gene-edited food legal in England”
Why is this not a headline on DS?
While we weren’t watching!
By having the jab on mass you have voted by proxy to allow genetically modified foods, and any thing else that it can be used for! And, no lengthy testing periods, and, no requirement for labelling !
God help us all!
Which is why it is so important for those who have space, time & inclination to grow some fruit & vegetables using open pollinated seed which can be saved to ensure that untainted food is still available.
It’s about preserving our heritage as well as spending one’s hard earned cash with the good guys.
I’m in the middle of old house renovation atm but as soon as I’ve got more time that’s exactly what I’m going to use my half an acre for
Brilliant! Learn how to save your seed, store your veg, preserve & can your surplus. If there are any folk nearby who are struggling, you’ll know the valid cases, a little bit of sharing your good fortune goes a long way.
I’ll be drowning in potatoes if my crop is good (ordered the bare minimum of seed potatoes for the varieties I wanted & got loads too many!) & will be sharing my bounty with those in need in the village.
Maybe take a bit of time out in the fresh air to sow a few potatoes, beans & the other sort of things which tend to look after themselves.
Good luck with your project!
Yes my dad did all the above and was very good at it, home grown all the way!
My wife is going to kick start the gardening this year and when I’ve popped a new roof on the house,dug a new well in the garden, and cut back 30 years of jungle! I’ll joint in!
By the way, do you live at number 30?
I don’t live at number 30. Haven’t a clue where in the country you are!
Eat organic, forage for wild food, grow your own, guerrilla gardening on vacant lots, barter, share etc. We can do without their crap food.
We’re going to demand the local council make more land available for allotments due to rise in food prices etc. We have to take this local and demand our rights and having access to healthy food and/or growing it is a right in my opinion under natural law.
Touché!
You have kept your second language a secret Dinger.
Dinger – ‘on mass.’
……..en masse. From les francais.
Always start any conversation with a pro-lockdown pro-vaxed by stating CoronaV was never deadlier than seasonal flu; it was never an existential threat, never.
And everyone knew this by February 2020, before lockdown began, courtesy of some easy Math based on the experience of the cruise ship the Diamond Princess.
This new world is too much! Too fast!
I prefer pre 2019!
You’re thoughts?