- “Boris Johnson told: You’re safe from Partygate … but expect more rebellions” – The Prime Minister could instead face challenges on the cost of living crisis and other issues, say ringleaders of previous plot to oust him, as Partygate threat recedes, the Telegraph reports.
- “Police officers investigating murders and rapes from home” – Hybrid working policies are being used in forces across the country, including in areas with some of the worst crime rates, reports the Telegraph.
- “Autumn Covid booster vaccines should be given to all over-65s” – Health chiefs called for around 25 million care home residents and staff, frontline NHS workers and younger vulnerable adults to also be offered top-ups, the Mail reports.
- “Doctors want to work from home diagnosing patients by ‘computer on wheels’” – Doctors’ union the British Medical Association has urged ministers to “seriously” consider the benefits of a hybrid-working model, the Mail reports.
- “Affront to our liberties must never happen again” – If there is one lesson we must learn from this pitiful farrago, it is that such a sweeping affront to freedom can never be allowed to happen again, says the Mail in a leading article.
- “COVID-19: don’t be fooled, the kids are not okay” – Deliberate self-harm admissions to intensive care units increased during COVID-19 lockdowns according to new research, Cate Swannell reports in InSight.
- “Don’t worry too much about pandemic, leading health official tells Hongkongers” – In stark contrast to the hysteria on the mainland, Dr. Edwin Tsui, Centre for Health Protection’s controller, plays down the Covid threat and notes admissions to hospital have fallen and the number of the most worrying cases is also down, according to the South China Morning Post.
- “One in five worked with Covid symptoms” – Around 20% of Australians admit they risked working while having COVID-19 symptoms in order to make ends meet, reports Northern Beaches Review.
- “Why the world should be very concerned about New Zealand under the Jacinda government” – Guy Hatchard writes for Waikanae Watch that a New Zealand Government agency has designated those opposed to the Government’s pandemic policies as violent right wing insurrectionists planning the weaponised storming of parliament and the execution of public servants, academics, journalists, politicians and healthcare workers.
- “New $75k fines and jail time for Aussies who breach Covid rules” – Anyone found breaching Covid rules in South Australia could be punished with two years jail as harsh new laws are set to sail through state parliament this week, reports the Mail.
- “Obese people will soon outnumber the ‘healthy’ in Britain” – Startling statistics come as the Government delays ban on buy-one-get-one-free deals and junk food ads for children, the Telegraph reports.
- “SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein is a toxin” – ‘Fact checkers’ were wrong and people continue to suffer the consequences, says Dr. Robert Malone.
- “German Supreme Court rules mandatory vaccination is constitutionally justified” – The Naked Emperor reports that the high court ruled that a healthcare sector vaccine mandate is justifiable despite interfering with a worker’s “fundamental rights” in order to protect the vulnerable.
- “My speech at the CDC meeting today” – Steve Kirsch was selected to give a three-minute comment at the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee and this is what he said.
- “Children’s hepatitis cases ‘have peaked’ as doctors study genetic link to disease” – Experts believe mystery outbreak is now on a downward trend as DNA of affected patients to be sequenced, the Telegraph reports.
- “Over-resourced: The Government department stuffed with 700 HR jobs” – The Cabinet Office wants to shrink the Civil Service but faces questions over whether unnecessary duplication in work is going on under its own nose as it’s revealed it has 700 people working in HR, the Telegraph reports.
- “The Bonnie and Clyde of bioethics” – Christine Grady and her husband Tony Fauci are quite the pair, says El Gato Malo.
- “Mike Yeadon has been proved right – we have been lied to” – Kathy Gyngell in TCW Defending Freedom with the first part of an interview with the ex-Pfizer chief scientist.
- “Great Reset: EU ‘Needs’ Lockdown Restrictions to Curb Russian Oil Use” – Measures akin to a Covid lockdown are needed in order to curb the EU’s reliance on Russian oil, one member state has said, reports Breitbart News.
- “FDA Rejects Fluvoxamine but Do they Hold this Drug to a Higher Standard than Industry?” – While the FDA has authorised EUAs for remdesivir, molnupiravir and Paxlovid, it rejected the evidence submitted on behalf of fluvoxamine as not comprehensive enough to justify use. But is it being consistent in its criteria, asks TrialSite News.
- “Covid Update: What is the truth?” – Russell L. Blaylock in the medical journal Surgical Neurology International launches a blistering attack on those who have spun the Covid narrative for their own ends: “The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history, characterised by official lies in an unending stream lead by government bureaucracies, medical associations, medical boards, the media and international agencies.”
- “Bush gaffe rings true, but are our politicians listening?” – During a speech in Dallas, the former President outdid himself, uttering a sentence that not only engendered the usual mirth, but contained great truth, says Bournbrook in a leading article.
- “Don’t electronically tag innocent people for attending protests” – The Government’s new Public Order Bill would allow police to put innocent people on electronic ankle tags and ban them from attending marches and demonstrations, says Big Brother Watch.
- “Officers should use discretion over stealing to eat, says police watchdog” – The new Chief Inspector of Constabulary says crimes of poverty should be “dealt with in the best way possible”, the Guardian reports.
- “Why should Idrissa Gueye have to wear a rainbow shirt?” – Tom Goodenough in the Spectator says that footballers shouldn’t have to show allegiance to political causes they don’t agree with.
- “The dishonesty of how we respond to tragedies” – It isn’t hard to notice that some crimes are more important than others, or at least more politically advantageous, writes Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “What is Black Lives Matter?” – Is it a slogan, a movement or a scam, asks Freddy Gray in the Spectator.
- “Scottish pupils could be told to wear gender-neutral school uniforms” – The SNP and Greens reveal plans for a national uniform policy to cut costs for parents and promote equality in classrooms, the Telegraph reports. I somehow don’t expect it will be skirts for all, so the girls lose out again.
- “Why black British lives don’t matter” – The narcissism of American race politics flooded the world, writes Tomiwa Owolade in UnHerd.
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So far I like the cut of Milei’s jib. A breath of fresh air and common sense.
Billing the head of JSO would certainly be appreciated. A pay up or porridge deal should do the trick.
I strongly disagree.
“Security” is an imposition by the state. Its the state that wants to deploy police officers to provide “security” so it should foot the bill itself.
Although, of course, the state has no income. It’s income cones from shaking down the public.
It didn’t take Milei long to act like a hypocrite.
You are total granite Stewart always totally consistent.
JSO can protest and I would not charge them for security, but I would certainly charge them or jail them for damaging art works, buildings etc.—- Damaging things is not legitimate protest. ———I would expect no leniency if I had a JUST START OIL T short on and threw paint at my bank window, and I don’t think I would get any.
Its that thing that the left don’t do terribly well. Consequences for their actions…
I strongly disagree.
“Security” is an imposition by the state. Its the state that wants to deploy police officers to provide “security” so it should foot the bill itself.
That’s not really true. In 2017, there was a G20 meeting in Hamburg. These are traditionally also gathering points of the (so-called) anticapitalist/ anarchist hard left who’ll stage ‘protests’ against them. The city was essentially stripped of police in order to ensure the safety of all the meeting politicians. Because of this, the protestors went rioting in several city districts, smashing up and looting shops, torching cars etc.
Milei’s argument still doesn’t hold water, though: The largest parts of these costs will have been paying all the security-related government employees who would have needed to be paid come rain or shine, ie, regardless of the demonstration. And the actual numbers deployed were chosen by the government for some reason only known to it. People have freedom of assembly, however, should they actually assemble, fines in the order of thenthousands of dollars will be issued to people not guilty of any criminal conduct effectively means There’s no freedom of assembly.
I tend to agree
My starting point would be that the right to peaceful public mass protest is sacrosanct and charging people for it isn’t appropriate. If people are engaging in deliberate obstruction then they should be moved on or arrested. The greyer area is when the obstruction is a natural result of a lot of people being in the same place at the same time. I think it’s reasonable to encourage protestors to choose where they go in order to minimise inconvenience to others without losing the impact of the protest but I don’t feel that coercion is warranted
I like the idea of charging JSO for any damage done, then passing that on to donors. Never happen though
What a Christmas gift, that headline really did make me laugh out loud
Good for Milei, if I’m not mistaken a similar principle applies to football matches and pop concerts, so why not.
If you truly believe in what you’re protesting, you’ll be happy to foot the bill, in the knowledge that you will be safe while protesting and as a taxpayer you will not get further burdened.
Merry Christmas everyone, have a good one.
Yep, we are on the same page Jane.
Have a lovely Christmas
There’s a very real danger that this could end up being the thin end of the wedge. Once a government charges protesters blocking roads during a protest it’s a very small step to charging other protests for the policing costs involved and before we know it protest is the preserve of the well off.
The best solution would be to massively increase the fines given to people who have been found guilty of breaking the law during a protest to help cover the cost of dealing with their law breaking rather than simply charging groups who organise a protest.
“massively increase the fines given to people who have been found guilty of breaking the law”
I largely agree with your comments but the problem is that the legal system is now largely corrupted. JSO routinely break the law with their pathetic vandalism and deliberate road closures. Bill the tw#t funding this crap and things might change. If he doesn’t pay send him down.
Looking forward to the day when Extinction Rebellion are charged for the disruptions they cause. 10,000 motorists on the M25 x £10.42 an hour…. A few days of that will soon drain ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶ the George Soros funded twats of funds.
Damn right.
“a heavy deployment of police, paramilitary officers and anti-riot forces, cost 60 million pesos, or about £57,500, at the official exchange rate.”
We should employ Argentinian police. At those prices we could fly them over here to deal with protests and riots and fly them back and it’d still cost less than using ours.
Yes that’s 1,043 pesos to the pound if my calculator is correct.
They will also strip protestors of Welfare. That’s going to hurt.
No. Just those protesters who block streets – if I understood that correctly.
Mind you that also means they expect to be able to identify these people.
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Have a peaceful Christmas everyone.
In order to do this they must be closely surveilling the event and have the technology to trace the protesters they have identified. Its easy to applaud the concept of charging the protesters but the mechanics involved in that process are part of the apparatus of the surveillance state which, I think, most here would be against.
Correct. Trudeau tried it against the Canadian trucker protest during Covid. Not just cutting off welfare payments but freezing their bank accounts. I don’t think many on here would have supported that action.