- “U.K. health agency to cut 800 jobs and halt routine Covid testing” – The public health body set up by Boris Johnson to combat the pandemic is in turmoil, with plans looming to cut jobs by up to 40% and suspend routine Covid testing in hospitals and care homes to save money, reports the Guardian.
- “Daily Covid admissions hit two-month low, deaths plunge 40% in a week and just 17,500 Brits test positive” – Latest Government dashboard data show there were 1,186 admissions for the virus across the U.K. on April 23rd, the Mail reports.
- “WHO chief warns that the world is ‘increasingly blind’ to Covid” – WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is warning that it is too early to pull back on some Covid testing and surveillance as it would leave the world blind, the Mail reports.
- “Bill Gates: how to prevent the next pandemic” – Writing in the Times with an excerpt from his new book, the billionaire proposes that next time we should do lockdowns “right away” and find treatments faster.
- “Lockdown drove 60,000 more secondary school children into clinical depression” – Symptoms such as low mood, loss of pleasure and poor concentration increased by 6% after Covid struck, a study finds, according to the Telegraph.
- “Passport Office boss ‘working from home’ as backlog of 700,000 threatens holiday chaos” – Abi Tierney is under pressure to return to the London base permanently as delayed applications could scupper Britons’ summer holidays, the Telegraph reports.
- “New Zealand’s hotel quarantine ‘lottery’ infringed on citizens’ right to return home, High Court rules” – Report from SBS News that Grounded Kiwis, a lobby group founded to protest New Zealand’s tough COVID-19 border restrictions, has won a court case against the Government.
- “The dark side of the ‘protect the NHS’ slogan” – The High Court’s ruling that the Government broke the law on the discharge of patients to care homes in the early days of the pandemic further undermines the claim by the then Health Secretary Matt Hancock that ministers had thrown a ‘protective ring’ around the sector, writes Isabel Hardman in the Spectator.
- “We must learn the lessons of Covid so we are equipped to cope with future pandemics” – Matt Hancock responds in the Telegraph to the High Court ruling that he acted unlawfully in approving the discharge of untested patients into care homes, arguing that the advice he received at the time was that asymptomatic transmission was not a risk.
- “Evidence from the CDC and IDSA that N95 masks work” – Many people think that N95 masks work; Steve Kirsch summarises for them the evidence that supports their position (spoiler: there isn’t any).
- “We’ve asked that the Bangladesh mask study either be corrected or withdrawn” – If there was any protection at all, it was too small to measure in the study that was done, writes Steve Kirsch. “The authors need to do the right thing and correct or retract the study ASAP.”
- “Coal power set for stay of execution as ministers scramble to keep lights on” – Drax is asked to extend its coal operations beyond September, the Telegraph reports.
- “Face masks for cows could help save the planet one burp at a time” – Methane-catching devices, an invention backed by the Prince of Wales, could be fitted to herds to reduce carbon hoofprint of British beef, reports the Telegraph.
- “A death sentence for freedom online” – The Online Safety Bill won’t make us the “safest country to be online” – just the most boring, says Andrew Tettenborn in the Critic.
- “Prisoners aren’t ‘residents’ in ‘rooms’, says Dominic Raab as he bars woke terms in jails” – The Justice Secretary urges governors not to use “wishy-washy” language for fear of undermining public confidence in the penal system, reports the Telegraph.
- “European gas prices surge 24% after Putin ‘blackmails’ Poland and Bulgaria by cutting off their supplies as Moscow says ‘unfriendly’ nations only have themselves to blame” – Poland and Bulgaria are the first countries to have their gas cut off by Europe’s main supplier since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, the Mail reports.
- “Gas embargoes will hurt Europe (much) more than Russia” – The suspension of gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria is a worrying sign, writes Philip Pilkington in UnHerd.
- “Four European Gas Buyers Made Rouble Payments to Russia” – Four European gas buyers have already paid for supplies in roubles as President Vladimir Putin demanded, according to a person close to Russian gas giant Gazprom PJSC, Bloomberg Quint reports.
- “Putin’s main assault is still to come” – Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley in TCW Defending Freedom on what Putin has in store next and his prospects of success.
- “‘Victory’ for Ukraine means denying Russia any territorial gains from war, says Western intelligence” – Officials say no changes to Ukrainian borders without Government agreement would equate to Vladimir Putin being “seen to fail”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Putin suggests he will use nukes against anyone who ‘interferes’ in Ukraine, saying: ‘We have tools no-one else can boast of. We don’t want to brag about them, we will use them’” – Vladimir Putin has vowed that Russia will not hesitate to use nuclear weapons against any country that tries to interfere in the war in Ukraine or threaten Russia itself, the Mail reports.
- “What makes Boris Johnson so sure Vladimir Putin is bluffing over his nuclear threats to U.K.? I fear they’re real” – If NATO insists on bringing about the defeat of Russia on the most humiliating terms, it risks making a second error that could be calamitous for the West – in threatening nuclear retaliation, Putin and Lavrov almost certainly mean what they say, writes Stephen Glover in the Mail.
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I wonder if it’s ‘no more than 55% of the energy savings are to be achieved in these buildings‘? Specifically to stop just taking the low-hanging fruit.
The numbers are oddly specific: 43% with the highest energy consumption? As measured how? By Wh/m3? Wh/occupant? Wh/civil servant?
It seems like it will encourage the least ‘efficient’ buildings to be demolished and replaced with something soulless – probably Europe’s most historic buildings are for the chop.
By removing these ideological bought-and-paid-for occupants from EU parliament buildings, as well as from all UN/WHO buildings, I predict the world will experience a huge increase in efficiency
Yet no talk about the scarcity of traditional building materials and the growth of glass & cement energy guzzling tower blocks popping up all over London and possibly other European Cities.
I do not wish for a long cold winter, but maybe we need weeks with no electricity or gas for the peeps to come out fighting.
The phrase “climate change” is obsolescent. The new term is “climatic legacy”. The usage is deliberate, in that it suggests that the “change” has already happened, and that we now have to deal with its “legacy”. This latter word has a particular connotation in academic circles: it specifically means “caused by humans”, as opposed, for example, to “natural” processes such as ice-ages and interglacial warming. This usage makes it tricky to write papers that do not support the hypothesis of anthropogenic global warming.
Two even more extreme terms are emerging: “climate protection” and even “climate restoration”, the former implying that without proactive steps the climate will change, and the latter implying that it has already changed and must be restored. Both terms are in reality synonymous with higher taxes and greater authoritarianism.
As we have said many times on here it is our responsibility to protect the language. We must not fall for these new but seriously warped terms.
The phrase “climate change” appears to be used deliberately on the assumption that the audience will assume that it’s nasty in some way, and probably caused by their activities. They are hoping that the audience is ignorant enough to believe what they are being told. It is often used as an excuse for inaction against investment in something or other as well. E.g. there have recently been problems with parts of the Somerset Levels being flooded, perhaps on account of the lack of improvement upstream and in the drainage process to cope with the weather variations.
Part of the Somerset problem was the European Wetlands Directive which created an incentive for governments to “restore” cultivated and habitable land to its previous swampy state.
Science used to be a genuine search for truth, but on politicised issues such as climate it has just become another Government Department.
A useful update on the WHO power grab via its laughable Pandemic Preparedness Treaty.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/dont-be-fooled-by-this-who-sleight-of-hand/
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-climate-scaremongers-storm-babet-was-no-more-than-bad-weather/
Paul Holmewood over at TCW with his excellent weekly Roundup of the climate nonsense. The most recent storm was surprise, surprise nothing unusual – all backed up with government statistics.
And a special treat – a marvellous fisking of the prick Attenborough’s Planet lll or something.
On reading that, I noticed that it referred to the 1976 September rainfall, with no mention of the 1976 heatwave and ensuing drought, along with the political panic that came with it. The author missed a trick there!
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-more-the-vaccine-fanatics-abuse-us-the-stronger-we-get/
Liz Hodgkinson again at TCW with a serious look at why we who refuse the medical interventions
won’t give in.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/therell-be-another-variant-along-in-a-minute/
And completing a cracking day for TCW here’s Roger Watson taking the P. out of all the next scariants following the lamentable failure of monkey bollox.
“The Federal Republic of Germany is an insane place and it is not enough merely to do the crazy things that everybody else is doing. We have to exceed them in our mania for self-punishment.”
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S’funny. I thought the f’wits in the British Establishment had cornered the market in that long ago.
Yes but the Germans led the way. They have around 40,000 wind turbines and the highest electricity prices in Europe (or maybe the UK has just overtaken them on that). So much for all the FREE WIND.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. (Lord Acton)—-You see the perfect example of this with the UN and their star pupil the EU. We used to laugh at their regulating of banana shape. But it was no laughing matter and we should have realised that if you have a burning desire to tell us what bananas must look like then it won’t be long before we will be told what all of society must look like as well.—- GREEN does exactly that. Since every human activity involves the release of some CO2 then controlling that CO2 enable bureaucrats to control all human activity, and that is really what climate change politics is all about. It has virtually nothing to do with the climate. CO2 is the Liberal Progressives dream gas. It gives them the chance to put policies in place they have long craved with this very plausible excuse of a climate crisis. But ofcourse on any closer scrutiny we see that their supposed crisis is really just a smidgeon of the truth elevated into a planetary emergency for which no empirical evidence actually exists. This fantasy land can will be kicked further and further down the road as economic reality bites the western world phony planet savers hard in their bums.
Are the globalist elites going to fly in a battery powered jet?…..can’t wait