- “England’s cancer backlog ‘could take more than five years to clear’” – MacMillan estimates 32,000 fewer patients than expected have started their first treatment since the start of the pandemic in England, the Mail reports.
- “Going to school ‘non-negotiable’, warns Nadhim Zahawi in crackdown on truants” – Teachers will be ordered to produce plans for tackling absenteeism now classes are operating normally after lockdowns, the Telegraph reports.
- “‘Work is no longer a place’: Civil servants revolt against back-to-office directive” – Hundreds of senior and middle-ranking mandarins across Government departments back motions to continue flexible working, according to the Telegraph.
- “The hidden dissent inside Zero Covid China” – Shanghai has mounted an unlikely resistance to Beijing’s diktats, says Leng Ping in UnHerd.
- “Britain is stuck in a priggish world of Covid Puritanism” – Starmer had a chance to reflect on the lunacy of the lockdown rules; instead he continued to moralise, writes Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “Lockdown backlog has left thousands of children without dental care” – At every step of the lockdown journey, the nation’s children have seen their lives stagnate, their futures decimated and their health both physically and mentally plummet, writes Luke Perry in Bournbrook.
- “NHS Covid test scam costing victims thousands of pounds” – One couple lost £20,000 when a fraudster phished details from a fake website, the Telegraph reports.
- “Covid ‘not more likely to cause depression than other infections’” – Oxford University researchers found the risks between developing psychiatric disorders in the long-term were ‘similar’ between people with Covid and other severe acute respiratory illnesses, the Mail reports.
- “Broadway star Patti LuPone lays into crowd member for not wearing mask” – The two-time Tony award winner berated the individual in the audience who supposedly did not have her mask pulled all the way over her nose during an after show talkback, the Mail reports – in the latest evidence that Covid rules are a petty bully’s delight.
- “Democrats Silent as Republicans Rip Into Secret Royalty Checks to Fauci, Hundreds of NIH Scientists” – A non-profit Government watchdog has estimated that Anthony Fauci, former NIH director Francis Collins and hundreds of NIH scientists got as much as $350 million in undisclosed royalty payments from pharmaceutical and other private firms between 2010 and 2020, according to the Epoch Times.
- “The Lockdown Sceptics at the WHO” – Does Sweden have the lowest excess mortality in Europe? Does Germany have a higher excess mortality than Britain? Not really, but apparently even the WHO seems to think so, says the Swiss Doctor.
- “Hypervaccinating gigamasker Bill Gates tests positive for SARS-2” – Strange how this keeps happening, says Eugyppius.
- “Shift in COVID-19 Vaccine Market from Volume to Targeted Boosts” – With a confluence of forces, from COVID-19 vaccine gluts to increasing numbers of producers and leeriness of waning effectiveness, the market drivers, heavily driven by government, give way to an unfolding new reality, says TrialSite News.
- “Scientists question the point of swabs up everyone’s nose: ‘We might have overdone it” – The claim was that mass testing would stop the pandemic in its tracks, and it hasn’t, write Nikolaj Skydsgaard and Jennifer Rigby in the National Post.
- “Students deserve a full, normal uni experience, with pre-Covid levels of face-to-face teaching” – Read the report from UsforThem on the lamentable normalisation of online lectures.
- “BlackRock is right to abandon eco-activism” – Profit, not posturing, is what matters to investors, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Rafael Nadal says it is his ‘job’ to defend Russians banned from Wimbledon” – Rafael Nadal proclaimed it was his “job” to defend banned Russian and Belarusian players after the ATP Player Council called for Wimbledon to be stripped of ranking points, the Telegraph reports.
- “Fears for historic street names as communities can vote to change them” – The Mail reports that the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, which was in the Queen’s Speech, will enshrine a name change vote in law – but will local activists scrape together enough support to change them anyway?
- “This new bill is a golden invitation to activists who want to censor content online” – Watch Toby on Triggernometry on the legion problems with the Online Safety Bill.
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Good morning fellow Sceptics.
Is this still allowed?
That lazy bastard downticker appears to have furked off. Hopefully the wages will have been adjusted accordingly.
Chuffed to bits that I am creating a small upset. Now I wonder who it could be?
Well I’ve downticked you as I hate this sort of stuff. I wish you’d just stick to commenting on the news items.
Come on. A bit of camaraderie amongst Sceptics, not something to moan about.
Anyway:
While models are often a useful tool to simulate scenarios that have not occurred, inaccurate assumptions about model parameters can easily lead to model misspecification, writes Dr. Spiro P. Pantazatos in Brownstone.
A very long-winded way of saying Rubbish In, Rubbish Out.
Shinzo Abe…. Very sad. A giant of a man.
One comment a week to have a go at me is hardly “joining the conversation”, or adding to the knowledge base.
Is it?
The fragrant Inaya Folarin Iman, GB News Lockdown Sceptic legend and all round good egg, writes good things about Suella Braverman who is supported by Lockdown Sceptic (and sartorial) Legend Sir Desmond Swayne.
That’s good enough for me
I’m not a Tory Party member so I can’t vote but anyone getting my vote would need to publicly recognise that the covid reaction was a huge mistake.
Unfortunately, having Sir Desmond Swayne as your first supporter is probably about as close as we will get to that kind of recognition simply because democracy is a system of getting people to vote for you and, I believe from personal soundings, that the numbers, incredibly, are still against us.
Democracy: the least worst system of government.
“the numbers, incredibly, are still against us.”
I expect that to be the case long after I have gone to meet my Maker.
Conservative Party leadership elections consist of two stages:
Can’t judge her, but Baker supporting her and organising her campaign is a positive and would do for me.
Also glad to see that untrustworthy vile snake Javid being smeared already by the DT, surely that is not happening by chance today…
‘Is Russia winning the war?’
War has no winners.
Besides the MIC.
I would recommend watching Dr Hongs Pharmacy classroom on YouTube, he has examined the paper showing that the vaccine RNA alters host DNA and discusses why the conclusions do not apply. He has discussed the effect of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine on sperm count. Vaccine induced hepatitis.
https://www.youtube.com/c/DrHongsPharmacyClassroom/videos
Wimbledon Final NOVAX Versus VAXED
Trial by Battle in the Court of Chivalry?
Mens Final Sunday: Novak Djokovic (NoVax his nickname after being deported from Australia) gets into the final against that obnoxious Australian player.
Heavily pro jab Australia versus No Jab
Promoters’ dream “NOVAX Versus VAX”.
https://off-guardian.org/2022/07/08/we-cant-trust-the-renewed-polio-vaccination-push-heres-why/
Cracking piece from Kit Knightly at Off-G pointing out that the push to get everybody injected with something can only have an ulterior motive.
Not a surprise to most on here I’m sure.
There have been polio vaccination campaigns for years in the two countries where it’s still endemic, namely Afghanistan and Pakistan. Other countries have vaccine driven outbreaks as a result of use of the oral vaccine, which can mutate. The injected vaccine is inactivated virus. Most children in the U.K. have polio as one of their childhood vaccinations and adults, potentially without realising it, may have a booster if they are given Revaxis as a prophylactic tetanus booster.
https://www.netdoctor.co.uk/medicines/infection/a8594/revaxis-diphtheria-polio-and-tetanus-vaccine/
Just watched UK column from yesterday ….anyone else aware of the NHS long term plan? Basically the NHS is done, and no one saw fit to mention it to us…..about 45mins in…..truly shocking.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-8th-july-2022
I need to catch up with UK Column, always informative and proper journalism.
Thanks eb.
Why should anyone be surprised that cardiac disease is the leading cause of excess deaths in 2022 compared with respiratory infection, whilst the opposite is true in spring 2020?
Heart disease has always been high, spring 2020 was when there were significant excess deaths recorded as being due to CoViD19.
I don’t think you understand how excess mortality works.
Actually I do understand, the number of deaths that are above or below the five year rolling average. Untreated ischaemic heart disease, e.g. brittle angina or myocardial infarction because people could not see either their GP or cardiologists. As IHD is one of the leading causes of death in normal circumstances then it is no surprise for it to be a leading cause of death in the excess.
‘“Come on, monkeypox, raise your game!” – Where are the piles of pox-ridden bodies on the streets, the undertakers’ carts piled high with corpses…’
Same place as all the CoVid cases, in the minds of the malicious, evil mob behind the whole scam.