- “England’s wave continues to collapse despite having no restrictions” – Office for National Statistics data suggest 2.4 million people in England were infected with Covid last week – down by a quarter in just seven days, the Mail reports.
- “One in 20 eligible children have Covid jabs amid lacklustre take-up” – Just 262,000 children have received their vaccinations as centres use therapy dogs and games to make the experience more ‘child-friendly’, the Telegraph reports.
- “Continued care home measures are cruel” – There has been a consistent failure by the authorities since Covid first emerged to acknowledge the costs of their measures, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “UKMFA Open Letter to NHS Trust CEOs re Unethical and Restrictive Hospital Visitor Policies” – Read the open letter from the U.K. Medical Freedom Alliance to NHS Hospital Trust CEOs demanding the immediate implementation of recently published NHS guidance stating that “No patient should have to attend a hospital appointment alone”.
- “Covid ‘wonder pills’ going to waste, with just 0.6% of stock used” – Analysis suggests the U.K. has spent £2.2 billion procuring the drugs yet demand is not there, the Telegraph reports.
- “Evidence Based Medicine – it was a good idea… until it died” – What we currently have is a crisis in evidence-based medicine, says Dr. Malcolm Kendrick. “The evidence that we use is at best flawed and incomplete. At worst, just plain wrong. Yet, this is this evidence used to create the NICE guidelines and drive the targets.”
- “Airbnb to let staff work from home indefinitely” – The accommodation platform also pledges not to cut staff pay if they choose home-working, reports BBC News.
- “Gary Sidley on Psyops” – Listen to the sceptical psychologist tell Jeffrey Peel on the New Era that fear and isolation were the main tools used to coerce the population.
- “Another 34 hepatitis cases are confirmed in the U.K.” – Health bosses confirmed nearly three dozen cases of liver inflammation have been detected in those aged 10 and under since Monday, bringing the total U.K.-wide total to 145, the Mail reports.
- “None of the nine young children in Alabama who had hepatitis had Covid” – All of the nine children that were diagnosed with ‘Mysterious Hepatitis’ in Alabama in October and November 2021 tested positive for the adenovirus, and none had COVID-19, a new report from the CDC reveals, according to the Mail.
- “Police told to investigate Labour’s lies: After Mail exposes cover-up over ‘Beergate’ party, Cabinet ministers join calls for new probe into scandal engulfing Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner” – Cabinet ministers have joined calls for a new probe into the ‘Beergate’ scandal engulfing Labour leader Keir Starmer and deputy leader Angela Rayner, according to the Mail.
- “NIH-Funded Study Reveals Suicides Among Young People Rising During Pandemic” – The National Institutes of Health recently reported study results revealing that stresses associated with the pandemic may have contributed to more adolescent suicides, reports TrialSite News.
- “Climate Colonialists Disrupt African Pipeline, Perpetuate Poverty” – Climate activists’ ill-founded opposition to fossil fuels threatens to stop a major pipeline project in East Africa and stymie economic growth in Uganda and Tanzania, writes Vijay Jayaraj in Watts Up With That?
- “Russian gas flows to Europe through key pipelines steady” –Russia stopped gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria this week for their refusal to pay in roubles, though Poland is still getting Russian gas via reverse flows from Germany along the Yamal-Europe pipeline, Reuters reports.
- “Amazon Targets Conservative Children’s Book About Gender Identity” – In targeting “Johnny the Walrus” by Matt Walsh, Amazon shows it’s on the side of Leftist activists, not free speech, writes Katrina Trinko in the Daily Signal.
- “We don’t need to be protected from Netflix” – Nadine Dorries’ plans to regulate streaming services are alarming, says Matthew Lesh in Spiked.
- “Joe Biden’s ‘Disinformation Board’ is just another censorship tool” – Now the state will have an even tighter grip on our online lives, writes Katherine Dee in UnHerd.
- “Biden’s Disinformation Chief Nina Jankowicz: Online Mockery of Kamala Harris a Threat to Democracy and National Security” – Joe Biden’s new disinformation chief Nina Jankowicz argued online mockery of Vice-President Kamala Harris was a threat to national security, reports Breitbart News.
- “Biff, Chip and Kipper illustrator ‘profoundly upset’ to be cancelled in Islamophobia row” – The Telegraph reports that Alex Brychta, who is married to a Muslim and regularly visits the Middle East and gives readings of his books to children there, is left feeling hurt after the publisher pulped the book over “incredibly silly” racism accusations (the ‘unfriendly’ town at the centre of the row was not the only depiction of a Middle Eastern town in the book and was just part of the plot).
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Somewhat tangential to this article, but it strikes me that in the US there are some right of centre media outlets and personalities with big followings. I just don’t see the same in the UK. Perhaps I just don’t know enough about the UK media but where is the UK’s Daily Wire, or Joe Rogan, or Jordan Peterson, or Fox News, or Tucker Carlson, or Ben Shapiro – I don’t mean just entities with similar opinions but similar budgets and followings.
GB News is pretty good. Mark Steyn has a regular spot, and he freely takes aim at the kill shots -er- Covid Vaccines in his wonderful satirical way. Neil Oliver is also an excellent contributor.
I’ve seen Oliver and yes he’s tremendous and I’m sure Steyn is too, but ask the man in the street who they are and most won’t have a clue. Ask the same question in the US and most will know who Tucker Carlson is. That’s the difference.
Neil Oliver is a household name.
I strongly doubt that but I will ask everyone I know whether they have heard of him.
My wife hasn’t heard of him and she has even watched at least one video clip of him.
Tucker Carlson has twenty times the following on Twitter compared to Oliver, and the US population is not 20x the UK
Fox News is mainstream, GB News is far from that.
Known for various BBC shows like this:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1842562/
I had only heard of him because of his anti lockdown stance
Where are the British equivalents of Jordan Peterson or Joe Rogan? I mean in terms of their following. The political right in the U.K. is more or less dead because it’s ostensibly represented by a political party whose leaders despise their base and are largely globalist socialists.
In the UK the BBC is a dominant broadcaster. Newspapers are controlled by owners and editors who are fully paid up to the political class so don’t expect any push-back from them.
Indeed
The BBC is a hugely bad influence
GB News is a start, hope it galvanises something
That’s what Naomi Wolf was saying recently about the UK, which she worries about more than the US for that exact reason. We have such a homogenised media; GB News goes some way to addressing this but if you ask me, nowhere near far enough.
Could try Alex Belfield.org.
Yes it’s pay per month or you can watch a censored freebie on youtube.
You don’t have to guess about DW’s neutral stance if you have seen “Run, Hide, Fight” and/or “Shut In”. As an indication, those two, along with “Terror on the Prairie” have strong female leads. The earlier film “Arroyo” is politically neutral. The common thread is that none try to shoehorn reality into a political message.
The DW audience is not huge, but it is very active, conservative and family-oriented. I’m guessing there would be a large percentage of Disney subscribers amongst them who are about to jump ship, and bring a lot of their friends and extended family with them.
The other smart thing DW has done is to refuse to take investors’ money. They live by subscription only so that they can control their content.
Steve Mcqeen where art thou
Where art “U” seeing as I missed it from McQueen , it is early though
The first paragraph is exactly what I think about Convid. There’s the actual evidence….then there’s the ‘safe and effective, everyone get a booster’…based more on wishful thinking than anything else. Two entirely different ‘worlds’….
I saw a Tweet from JK Rowling yesterday…someone has tweeted her picture, with her address on, then overlaid it with a ‘how to’ bomb making manual, and a picture of a pipe bomb…..and guess what? As she pointed out, the account is still active and this isn’t considered enough to get you taken off Twitter?!