- “Tory fury at ‘outrageous’ £2.2m bonuses for DVLA staff” – The Mail reports that figures slipped out by the Department for Transport this week reveal that staff were handed nearly £2.2million in “performance payments” for the last financial year.
- “Health chiefs declare two new ‘variants of concern’” – Only a small number of cases of Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 have been identified so far, but analysis of the available data suggests they are likely to have a “growth advantage” over BA.2, the Mail reports. Erm, the BA.2 wave is over, so of course a new variant would have a ‘growth advantage’ over it. When do you think the scientists will work out that Covid comes in waves?
- “England’s Covid outbreak shrinks to its lowest size since mid-December” – Covid cases have continued to collapse with the outbreak now reaching its lowest level since mid-December last year, with just a million people infected in England last week, the latest ONS data show, reports the Mail.
- “Spain will allow unvaccinated Brit holidaymakers to enter ‘within days’ – but they still have to have a negative Covid test” – Spain’s tourism minister this week made the unexpected announcement of an imminent change to the current rules for all holidaymakers from outside the EU, reports the Mail.
- “First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tests positive for COVID-19” – Ms. Sturgeon will work from home over the next few days and told followers she would “hopefully” be back out and about later next week, the Mail reports.
- “Thousands wait months for powers of attorney to care for loved ones as civil servants work from home” – A huge backlog of a third of a million applications are still pending as staff at the Government agency stay away from the office, reports the Telegraph.
- “U.K. CV Family A Letter to my MP” – Watch the stories of members of U.K. CV Family, a support group for vaccine injured people who did what they were told was the right thing to do. They were injured as a result and now they are being ignored.
- “Conference of Conscience – Australian Doctors Finally Speak Out!” – Watch Australian doctors speak about their pandemic experience and how they have been threatened with suspension or deregistration if they dare voice their genuine concerns as physicians.
- “Don’t let the Government scapegoat others over impending food shortages” – It’s all well and good blaming Putin for impending food shortages, but the idiocy of our own politicians should not be overlooked, says Frederick Edward in Bournbrook.
- “A Primer on the WHO, the Treaty, and its Plans for Pandemic Preparedness” – These proposed rules and structures, if adopted, would fundamentally change international public health, moving the center of gravity from common endemic diseases to relatively rare outbreaks of new pathogens, and building an industry around it that will potentially be self-perpetuating, writes ex-WHO malaria chief Dr. David Bell at the Brownstone Institute.
- “Politicians should not manage drug and vaccine regulation” – Their horizon is too short; they will screw it up, says Dr. Vinay Prasad.
- “Covid Vaccine Blood Clot Issue ‘May Be in the Hundreds,’ but ‘Heart Issue Is in the Thousands’: Cardiologist” – Dr. Sanjay Verma, an adult cardiologist practising in Coachella Valley, California, has seen many more cases of heart inflammation since the Covid vaccine rollout, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Monkeypox: The Next Big Scare” – Health authorities in the two continents have thus far identified only a few dozen cases, and while there’s no reason for concern at the moment, here’s what Jordan Schachtel at the Brownstone Institute says convinced him to put this on the radar: the U.S. Government decided to order millions of doses of monkeypox vaccine.
- “Why won’t you ‘do whatever it takes’ now, Mr Johnson?” – Johnson can hardly expect the public to understand that there are limits to Government power when for the last two years his Government has wielded unprecedented draconian powers on our liberties never before used in peacetime, writes Laura Perrin in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “A call for an independent inquiry into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus” – Even without China’s cooperation there is much important information that can be gleaned from U.S.-based research institutions, information not yet made available for independent, transparent, and scientific scrutiny, argue Neil Harrison and Jeffrey Sachs in PNAS.
- “Finland Loses Main Gas Supply After Refusing Payment in Rubles” – Russia is cutting Finland off from its natural gas supplies as relations between the two neighbours sour over the Nordic nation’s decision to join defense alliance NATO, reports Bloomberg.
- “Wimbledon stripped of ranking points over Russian player ban” – The decision effectively reduces Wimbledon to an exhibition tournament, the Telegraph reports – but with the Government backing the tournament organisers, the stand-off over penalising tennis players for their country of origin is set to continue.
- “World has just ten weeks’ worth of wheat left after Ukraine war” – Food supplies are being rocked by Russia’s invasion of the ‘breadbasket of Europe’, reports the Telegraph.
- “Dr. Pavel Podvig: How likely is a nuclear war?” – With Finland and Sweden seeking to join NATO, is nuclear war more likely now that it was three months ago? By trying to push Vladimir Putin to the brink, is the West actually increasing the chance of a nuclear incident? What actually is the sequence of events that would lead to nuclear conflict? UnHerd‘s Freddie Sayers speaks to Dr. Podvig, who runs a website dedicated to analysing Putin’s nuclear capability.
- “Germany prepares for gas rationing as Schröder quits Rosneft” – German regulators are drawing up plans to ration gas to the country’s businesses in the event of Russia cutting off supplies, the Telegraph reports.
- “France’s big bet on hydrogen is doomed to fail” – Emmanuel Macron’s ambitions to make the country a leader in green hydrogen technology have likely put Renault on the wrong track, argues Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “If food prices are on the rise, why ‘lose’ 1,000,000 livestock?” – Ciarán McCollum on Scaled also isn’t sure how you go about ‘losing’ farm animals.
- “HSBC faces calls to sack financier over anti-climate change tirade” – The Mail reports that Stuart Kirk, the Global Head of Responsible Investing at HSBC Asset Management, made an anti-climate change speech at a conference this week. Courageous.
- “Idrissa Gueye and the problem with Pride” – Pride is no longer about celebrating gay freedom but rather has become a globalised orgy of virtue-signalling, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Michaela’s unspeakable truths ” – ‘Progressive’ teaching methods ruin lives to make middle class people feel good about themselves, says Marie K. Daouda in the Critic.
- “Biden’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ in disarray as chief quits after death threats” – President Biden’s plans for a Disinformation Governance Board have been put on ice after its head resigned amid an outcry that it was a ‘Ministry of Truth’ designed to fight information his administration did not like, the Times reports.
- “Twitter To Hide Tweets Share False Information Crisis” – Potentially risking Elon’s wrath over free speech, Twitter says it will hide tweets spreading misinformation during a crisis, reports Silicon U.K. Tech News. And of course, there is always a crisis.
- “Netflix axes woke Antiracist Baby show aimed at preschoolers before it airs as it slashes projects and fires 2% of staff after 200,000 subscribers fled” – The struggling streaming service is pulling the plug on the show based on the work of Critical Race Theory scholar Ibram X. Kendi, as well as several other shows, reports the Mail.
- “Reclaim Party Livestream on the Online Safety Bill” – Watch Toby discuss the proposed legislation with Laurence Fox, Dominique Samuels and others.
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“Bill Gates says ChatGPT-like AI is ‘as revolutionary as mobile phones and the internet’ – and says it could speed up creation of new vaccines”
He’s obsessed. Can’t we just lock him in a room with some Lego.?
Brilliant !!! Made me howl !
I suppose testing “vaccines” on talking mannequins is one up on not testing at all.
I love lego always have, but I want to play with him!
Don’t Don’t!! Want to play with him!
Too late, its on the internet now…
You could build a fairly good prison out of lego if you had enough blocks. You could convince him to be on the inside…”you do the furniture Bill, I’ll just build this (unopenable) door….”
“Wolf-whistling to be made illegal – and claiming it’s a joke won’t be any excuse”
From personal experience the best way for men to stop wolf whistling is for a pretty girl to tell them to ‘fuck off’. Why do we need laws, more laws, for minor human interactions.
The gov will be making laws about farting and breathing next!
I was trying to recall the last time I heard a ‘wolfwhistle’. 1980’s..maybe..? Perhaps its got something to do with the insistence of women in recent times to add 30-40lbs to their backsides, and wander around in make-up that makes them look like a cheap marrionette. I’m going to suggest that it doesn’t need to be make illegal, as it will become an act that no-one will want to perform for Weeble-esqe, clown painted women anyway.
They did already for breathing.
Remember those masks?
“Fury at woke barristers refusing to prosecute eco warriors: 120 top legal professionals to sign ‘Declaration of Conscience’ to try and keep climate activists out of the courts”
Do I detect the smell of Soros’s wallet..?
Aye. Are there going to be future splinter groups of lawyers who no longer wish to represent rapists, pedophiles, murderers, GBHers and others on the grounds of conscience too? If not, why not?
“Fury at woke barristers refusing to prosecute eco warriors: 120 top legal professionals to sign ‘Declaration of Conscience’ to try and keep climate activists out of the courts”
What they will actually be signing is a ‘Declaration of Incompetence’ which makes these people unfit to practice.
There is only one remedy, they must be struck off.
I think you’re right, HP. Strike them off!
“Why doesn’t Britain regret lockdown?”
I confronted someone on Twitter yesterday, who was still taking the line that if we’d locked down three days earlier it would have saved 100,000 lives. Shame there isn’t a vaccine that would open their eyes, and kickstart their brains. I’d jab people myself, for free….
Three days earlier would have saved 100,000 lives?! Where do they get this nonsense? Oh yes, it’s everywhere…
““Why doesn’t Britain regret lockdown?” – Freddie Sayers writes that three years on, voters remain in favour, according to polling for UnHerd.”
Isn’t it principally because no-one likes to have been taken for a sucker?
Sayers goes on to say “My view on these results is quite simple: in order to justify a policy as monumental as shutting down all of society for the first time in history, the de minimis outcome must be a certainty that fewer people died because of it.” I suppose it depends on what he means by “fewer” and how long this “shutdown” lasts. Would I support a one-day lockdown if it saved millions of QALYS? Maybe. But with regard to a low-consequence mild-for-most virus of the type we’ve coexisted with for millions of years, no I don’t want to restrict my life in any way even if it might change the date of death for a small number of people by a few months.
https://www.gbnews.com/opinion/we-must-continue-to-fight-against-the-official-lockdown-narrative-here-on-gb-news-says-dan-wootton Dan Wooton’s opinion. Worth noting that GBN is relatively new, and manages to sell adverts despite telling the truth!
Within limits set by OFCOM. See Mark Steyn.
“Why doesn’t Britain regret lockdown?”
Soft, convenient, never known any hardship so this made me feel like I was part of something, don’t rock the boat, please make decisions for me, I’ve had the vaccine so I must agree with lockdowns, I believed implicitly and now feel ashamed, to trusting, can’t think for myself, please move on I don’t want to talk about being made a fool of! Hands over my ears, close eyes, hum loudly! I’m a sheeple, Barrrrr
That about answers the question!
Oh, and months of paid holidays!
“The EU’s censorship regime is about to go global”
Reading this article is truly alarming and I’m wondering how this will affect sites such as the DS and all the other places I go to and things I read and watch that are about alternative information, pushing back the dominant narratives. With this, people will only get the squeaky clean, pine tree fresh, antibacterial version of events where everything is fine in the digital prison. Seems there has been little or no push back. They clearly don’t like us talking about the lies we’ve been fed about Ukraine, climate change, Covid, 5G etc. and that we should just accept that.
Well, William Caxton set up his printing press in London around about 1475. It meant that books could be printed for the first time and in the late 1500s, translated bibles were printed so that finally people who could read, could read what the bible actually said. Although from our viewpoint 500 years later, this seems a small and insignificant thing, it was in actual fact a huge thing. It took power away from the clerics and those who could read Latin and gave it to the people. They could read the words of the bible and make up their own minds.
My point is that although the ramifications of this DSA (Digital Services Act) are awful, truth will always find a way because you can feel it in your heart. It resonates in a different way to lies. Look at Johnson desperately piling lie on lie and tell me he is coming from a place of truth. Look at Blinken in the Senate Covid Committee squirming away with his obfuscations and lies while Rand Paul slowly grills him.
A recent exchange with my local MP shows how his words fall flat when he talks about depleted uranium as being able to pierce armour plated vehicles but with absolutely zero mention of the toxic residue left on the land. And this man actually went to Iraq!
Our local town council meeting on Tuesday night when a councillor justified climate change by saying “you only have to look outside” as if a bit of bad weather allows them to implement plans that will severely restrict freedoms. One of our group wittily remarked ‘Well it’s dark!” – after all, it was 8pm.
I don’t fear this bunch of a..holes trying to imprison us in the digital prison and shut us up. If anything, it makes me even more determined to have my say and to confront all these liars and tyrants with the truth. So although they pass their laws and play their games, the truth will always rise to the surface like cream. Like I always say, you can’t stop an unstoppable force or an idea whose time has come. People want change and change is coming but nothing like Obama’s lying version. Real change where we all get a say about our futures and where we get rid of the tyrants and would-be tyrants and all the bullshit
I like your sentiment that ‘truth will always find a way’. I do wonder if it gets so bad whether the blockchain would be a place to set up something like this. I really don’t know enough about it all but read that the bitcoin blockchain can’t be destroyed by governments. At least not at the moment and I hope never although they are doing their best.
Or using new words like some are resorting to online in place of words not allowed on YouTube etc or short science fiction stories. I don’t know but I like you find the EU’s new censorship regime very scary
“Well, William Caxton set up his printing press in London around about 1475. It meant that books could be printed for the first time”
I wonder Aethelred if Caxton’s presses might need to be revived, albeit clandestinely?
We’re already on it, HP…posters, leaflets, information sheets, books, badges etc
I’ve seen QR codes stuck to subway walls.
Could you explain this please?
Great stuff.
“Claim: Insurers are Writing Off Electric Vehicles with Minor Damage”
Apparently the UK does not currently have any facilities for re-cycling EV batteries and scrapped and damaged EV batteries are being stored in special storage facilities, I understand there is one of these sites near Doncaster.
This is yet another confirmation that we are being ”gaslighted” over Electric Cars, they are never simply going to replace petrol/diesel (ICE) cars and allow us to carry on motoring as at present. In my estimation, given current technology and resources; the UK can only hope at best to replace 20% of ICE cars with EVs. At which point motoring will just be for the well paid elite, the 80% of the rest of us hoi-polloi will be reduced to public or community transport, cycling or walking.
But I guess that may well be the least of our worries as by the time that happens the UK finance system will have collapsed and most of us will be living on social credits and turnips
I happened to be in a taxi the other day, a Renault Zoe, which the driver said he’d had for three years. It is due a service, but the garage can only book him in in 7 weeks time, as they have ONE trained technician.
“Commercial development of gene-edited food legal in England”
Why is this not a headline on DS?
While we weren’t watching!
By having the jab on mass you have voted by proxy to allow genetically modified foods, and any thing else that it can be used for! And, no lengthy testing periods, and, no requirement for labelling !
God help us all!
Which is why it is so important for those who have space, time & inclination to grow some fruit & vegetables using open pollinated seed which can be saved to ensure that untainted food is still available.
It’s about preserving our heritage as well as spending one’s hard earned cash with the good guys.
I’m in the middle of old house renovation atm but as soon as I’ve got more time that’s exactly what I’m going to use my half an acre for
Brilliant! Learn how to save your seed, store your veg, preserve & can your surplus. If there are any folk nearby who are struggling, you’ll know the valid cases, a little bit of sharing your good fortune goes a long way.
I’ll be drowning in potatoes if my crop is good (ordered the bare minimum of seed potatoes for the varieties I wanted & got loads too many!) & will be sharing my bounty with those in need in the village.
Maybe take a bit of time out in the fresh air to sow a few potatoes, beans & the other sort of things which tend to look after themselves.
Good luck with your project!
Yes my dad did all the above and was very good at it, home grown all the way!
My wife is going to kick start the gardening this year and when I’ve popped a new roof on the house,dug a new well in the garden, and cut back 30 years of jungle! I’ll joint in!
By the way, do you live at number 30?
I don’t live at number 30. Haven’t a clue where in the country you are!
Eat organic, forage for wild food, grow your own, guerrilla gardening on vacant lots, barter, share etc. We can do without their crap food.
We’re going to demand the local council make more land available for allotments due to rise in food prices etc. We have to take this local and demand our rights and having access to healthy food and/or growing it is a right in my opinion under natural law.
Touché!
You have kept your second language a secret Dinger.
Dinger – ‘on mass.’
……..en masse. From les francais.
Always start any conversation with a pro-lockdown pro-vaxed by stating CoronaV was never deadlier than seasonal flu; it was never an existential threat, never.
And everyone knew this by February 2020, before lockdown began, courtesy of some easy Math based on the experience of the cruise ship the Diamond Princess.
This new world is too much! Too fast!
I prefer pre 2019!
You’re thoughts?