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by Will Jones
11 May 2022 1:03 AM

  • “20,000 children with rotten teeth missed out on treatment during Covid” – Official figures show just 14,645 under-19s in England had teeth removed in the first year of the pandemic, 20,000 (58.4%) fewer than one year earlier, the Mail reports.
  • “‘It’s time everyone got off their backsides and back to the office!’” – It’s naïve to expect that everyone works as hard when no one is looking, yet WFH is becoming the norm, particularly in the public sector, says Lord Sugar in the Mail.
  • “It would be absurd for Starmer to resign over a curry” – No one was harmed in the eating of Sir Keir’s curry; it simply doesn’t matter enough to force him out of office, argues Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
  • “Death-by-Expert – a Cross-country Study” – D.V. Williamson take a fresh look at the data on Covid interventions and vaccines and concludes they may have made things worse.
  • “Woman dragged from her home in China as virus restrictions tighten” – Shanghai, which is just emerging from a month of strict lockdown, has announced another round of mass testing and new rules despite infections falling as frustration grows with the Zero-Covid policy, the Mail reports.
  • “The Public Health Prophet We Did Not Heed” – Aaron Kheriaty writes for the Brownstone Institute of the prescient wisdom of epidemiologist Dr. Donald Henderson, who in 2006 warned against using precisely the draconian public measures imposed in 2020.
  • “Puck Covid” – The Covid narrative was an unwelcome reminder of corrupt Pharma, medicine and science, and is the zenith of a recurring crime against humanity, writes the Covid Physician.
  • “Australia’s Record COVID-19 Death Count Mounts Yet Politicians Act Like Everything Normal” – The press in Australia is now acknowledging the growing breakthrough COVID-19 hospitalisations and death toll yet doesn’t raise any critical questions, says TrialSite News.
  • “White House Predicts 100 Million COVID-19 Cases In Fall And Winter Unless The Feds Get Billions In Funding” – Tim Meads writes in the Daily Wire that the White House is currently predicting that 100 million cases of COVID-19 will hit America in the autumn and winter unless the Federal Government receives billions in taxpayer funding to combat the virus.
  • “Extreme Weather During the Maunder Minimum” – Paul Homewood on Watts Up With That? says that if the BBC thinks global warming has made the weather more extreme, perhaps it would like to go back to the frosty weather of the Maunder Minimum.
  • “Johnson’s grand nuclear plans already lie in tatters” – Ties with China risk scuppering existing proposals for plants, let alone future ones, writes Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
  • “Scotland’s largest wind farm ‘using Net-Zero loophole to exploit cost of living crisis’” – Kwasi Kwarteng is set to take action amidst concerns that owners of Moray East are cashing in rather than paying back to taxpayers, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Electric cars ‘risk wave of catastrophic fires on cargo ships’” – Thousands of vehicles, including Bentleys and Porsches, sank in the Atlantic in March when a cargo ship caught fire after the battery in one electric car on board burst into flames – and insurers now are sounding a warning, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Vladimir Putin ‘gearing up for a prolonged war and will not stop at Donbas’” – The Russian leader’s retreat from Kyiv was “temporary shift” and he is likely counting on Western resolve weakening, a U.S. intelligence chief has warned, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Ukraine should negotiate with Putin to protect German economy, VW boss says” – The Telegraph reports that Herbert Diess has sparked outrage with a call for negotiations to protect Europe’s economy.
  • “Why the new Anglo-Swedish pact matters” – Britain is bringing Scandinavia under its nuclear umbrella, says Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
  • “Censored speech” – The Queen’s speech revealed a Government failing to protect free expression, says Lois McLatchie in the Critic.
  • “As censoring of TCW worsens, who is trying to gag us?” – TCW Defending Freedom is fighting the BBFC’s decision to classify it as an adult website, leading three ISPs to block it for their users.
  • “We risk creating an Orwellian thought police” – Melanie Phillips writes for the Times that Britain and the U.S. are forgetting that censorship is never the right answer to disinformation.
  • “Why progressives can’t tolerate Christians” – For progressives, democracies should move away from tolerance if it means that religious people can have power – but that’s not liberalism, it’s revolutionary secularism, and it’s frightening, says Freddy Gray in the Spectator.
  • “Elon Musk Pledges to Reverse Trump Ban After Twitter Takeover” – Elon Musk has said he will reverse Twitter’s permanent ban of former president Donald Trump once he takes over the platform, adding that he wants the punishment of permanent suspensions to be reserved strictly for “spam” and “scam” accounts, reports Breitbart News.
  • “Conversion therapy ban row as No.10 says it can continue if consensual” – No.10 has confirmed the proposed ban will not prohibit adult consensual activity or cover transgenderism, the Mail reports.
  • “‘Anti-woke’ investment fund will shun companies making political statements” – “Woke Inc” author Vivek Ramaswamy is taking on the “ideological cartel” of Blackrock and Vanguard, the Telegraph reports.

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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago

A shrunken workforce is the cause of inflation. No mention of the money that suddenly appeared for furlough.

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Steve-Devon
Steve-Devon
1 year ago

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/28/net-zero-is-slowly-strangling-britain/

Although it is useful to see any sort of challenge to the zealous religious fervour of net-zero, this article spoils it by ending with an agreement that net-zero is a laudable aim. Come on journalists; time to challenge this basic assumption but maybe that would be a step too far when most of the establishment along with their power and vested interests are so far down the net-zero rabbit hole.

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
1 year ago

“Covid to blame for inflation – not Brexit, says Andrew Bailey” – anyone with two functioning brain cells will know that inflation is caused by banks, more specifically the central banks. Inflation is an upwards movement of wealth. Bankers, as always, hide behind false accusations, always pointing towards big events and not their own nefarious activities in stripping the wealth away from ordinary people. People are left not knowing who to blame in this instance because saying it is ‘Covid’ or ‘Brexit’ is to cloud the issue in political blaming and point towards the governing party at the time, namely the Tories, who have no ability to make financial decisions without the say so of their banking overlords. Inflation, just like the banking crises of 2008 and 1929, was caused by central banks, the only winners in this game.

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Will L
Will L
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

Well said ATR.. see my post on the scam..

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DomH75
DomH75
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

Agreed. Ron Paul wrote the book ‘End the Fed’ years ago, pointing out the disastrous consequences of central banks.

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richardw53
richardw53
1 year ago

As far as I can see, the inflation we are experiencing originated with manufactured supply chain shortages – starting with the gas and oil price in the Autumn before the start of the Ukraine war. I believe these shortages are being caused by a combination of government policy globally (in response to UN Agenda 2030) and a change in the strategic orientation of large corporations to an ESG agenda – otherwise known as stakeholder capitalism. The banks also have a role in setting high interest rates but these are mainly an attempt to fix the broken debt markets. Difficult to prove I know.

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Will L
Will L
1 year ago
Reply to  richardw53

Undoubtedly shortages cause prices to rise Richard, and indeed those price rises were deliberate, but those price rises need to be paid for and that’s done by printing money out of thin air. Its the banksters money printing that causes inflation.

If there was no money how could prices rise? Just like the overblown housing market. Values only rocket when there’s money available for mortgages.. the more money available the more they rise..

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richardw53
richardw53
1 year ago
Reply to  Will L

Yes – it’s very much chicken and egg. My main point was that the price rises did not originate from an increase in demand, but a decrease in supply. The money printing undoubtedly allowed these increases to be sustained.

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Will L
Will L
1 year ago
Reply to  richardw53

We see eye to eye obviously.. 🙂

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago

Something that isn’t in the list is the financial difficulties at Thames Water. Lot’s of stories in the ‘papers’, such as https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/28/who-owns-thames-water-and-what-could-a-collapse-mean-for-you-19031635/ It even came up on the Rees-Mogg programme on GBN yesterday. We’ll see what happens next, but it could end up being a semi-nationalised organisation along the pattern of Train Operating Companies that have become operators of last resort, in effect owned by the Treasury.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
1 year ago
Reply to  JohnK

The problems at Thames Water are obviously nothing to do with employing a relatively young, hardly qualified CEO because they ticked the diversity box??

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

testing….why can’t I post on here?? 😮

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Really weird. Just spent ages doing a long post, it won’t post on the page. Cropped it in case it was too long, used only 1 reference, still nothing. But small posts seem ok? odd… 🙁

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Will L
Will L
1 year ago

Money printing out of thin air as if there was no tomorrow is the reason for inflation. It destroys value, therefore more of it is needed.

Of course.. as an aside.. politicians love money printing out of thin air, so that they can spend it as if there was no tomorrow.

The banksters have been using the same scam (fractional reserve) since 1913 when they hoisted the Federal Reserve Bank on the world. Which incidently paid for WW1.. coincidence or not ????

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
1 year ago
Reply to  Will L

Well said, Will.

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DomH75
DomH75
1 year ago
Reply to  Will L

Yes, there needs to be serious control of the supply of money.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  Will L

Yet another thing that was predicted by those opposing lockdowns

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Will L
Will L
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

It certainly was TOF..

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

In case you haven’t already caught it, here’s Denis Rancourt’s essay demonstrating, amongst other things, that there was no pandemic. I would very much like this to be presented at the Covid Inquiry and see what the criminals have to say for themselves because they would not be able to refute it;

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

https://denisrancourt.ca/entries.php?id=130&name=2023_06_22_there_was_no_pandemic_essay

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

For some reason, which hasn’t happened before, it wasn’t allowing me to post anything I cut and pasted from the article. I can only manage to share the above. Oh well. Mystery. I’ll experiment with something else later……I’m lost without my cut and paste powers! 😮

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MichaelM
MichaelM
1 year ago
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Your cut and paste powers are well used and much appreciated…

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago

“Care homes were paid extra to accept Covid patients” – Five sites in Birmingham were given a £1,000 one-off payment per patient to take hospital discharges, including those with the virus, reports the Telegraph.

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On the March 17 2020, at the start of the pandemic, NHS England issued a letter to every NHS trust in the country ordering the rapid discharge of patients from hospital to clear thousands of beds to ensure the health service was not overwhelmed.

There was initially no national requirement to test patients leaving hospital or entering care homes for Covid.

It was only on April 15 2020, well over a month after the virus had hit UK shores, that the Government changed course and told care homes to test all residents arriving from hospital. They also recommended all residents arriving in care homes be isolated, even those who had a negative test result.

The Telegraph has given a very weak analysis.

By April 15 2020 the daily death toll from Covid (mentioned on the death certificate) was declining from the peak reached on 8 April. At around this time, for those who died there was an average lead time of about 27 days between exposure to the bug and death.

Although describing it as ‘well over a month after the virus had hit UK shores‘ is strictly true, it is misleading. The first day with multiple deaths was 5 March 2020. This means the bug was spreading between people in the UK by 7 February. Well over a month? Yes. Actually well over 2 months. Since it hit UK shores? No. It was spreading in the UK by then.

At worst the instruction on 17 March to clear the hospital beds and discharge patients to care homes only hastened the inevitable. The bug was going to get into the care homes regardless. There’s a slight increase in the death rate (Covid mentioned) compared with a natural epidemic curve at around 31 March (only 14 days later) which I think may be due to the changes to death registration rules introduced by the Coronavirus Act 2000. It’s too soon to be caused by the NHS bed clearing instruction.

I understand that the NHS management were panicking but the action was immoral – and futile.

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