- “‘Lethal risk’ warning as nurse shortages mean only a quarter of shifts properly staffed” – Staffing gaps have risen by almost 50% in five years, with the loss of 25,000 workers last year alone, the Telegraph reports.
- “Beware the dangers of a cashless society” – Sacrificing notes and coinage in the name of expediency will trigger terrible unforeseen consequences of total financial surveillance, warns Silkie Carlo in the Telegraph.
- “Private cancer clinic goes into liquidation after NHS bosses refused not-for-profit contract to help tackle post-Covid backlog” – A private cancer clinic group with treatment centres in South Wales, Northumberland, Liverpool and Thames Valley and Somerset has gone into liquidation, despite the massive post-lockdown backlog in cancer treatment, the Mail reports.
- “Game Over. We Won” – Steve Kirsch reports the results of a survey he commissioned that found 1.7 times more people reported the Covid vaccines had killed more people they personally knew than all previous vaccines over the last three decades. Strikingly, 45% reported that vaccines (Covid or otherwise) had killed someone they personally knew.
- “NHS reveals in FOI that Ambulance Call-Outs for Heart Illness have Doubled since COVID-19 Vaccination began among all age-groups” – The NHS has confirmed in response to a freedom of information request that heart-related ambulance call-outs nearly doubled in 2021 and are rising further in 2022, reports the Exposé.
- “Bret Weinstein: I will be vindicated over Covid” – Freddie Sayers in UnHerd interviews the evolutionary biologist and former Evergreen professor about his pandemic views, which saw him cast out of polite society.
- “Goalposts on Wheels?” – Why, asks Thorsteinn Siglaugsson on his Substack page, has the public unquestioningly accepted every new goal, every justification, and been so ready to forget today what they were convinced of yesterday?
- “The Ideology of the NHS” – The NHS bureaucrats need to take a step back and stop trying to circumnavigate parental consent, says the Naked Emperor.
- “CDC Wants Its Covid Regime Made Permanent” – What the CDC pushed on the country, even the world, was without precedent. The resulting disasters are everywhere present. At minimum we should expect the CDC to cease and desist, and certainly not entrench and codify. That the latter is taking place reveals what a long struggle lies ahead, says Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone.
- “South Africa: Warmism Creates Blackouts” – State energy provider Eskom’s promise to reduce coal-fired generation over the next 30 years threatens to drive South Africa’s 62 million people further into an abyss of rolling blackouts and attendant economic damage, writes Vijay Jayaraj on Watts Up With That?
- “Ketchup at risk from climate change” – As global warming threatens the production of processing tomatoes, the popular sauce could no longer be a staple condiment, reports the Telegraph.
- “Princeton’s warning to its campus community: Speak at your own risk” – If Princeton Classics professor Joshua Katz had kept his mouth shut in 2020, would he still have a job, asks Megan McArdle in the Washington Post.
- “Is the West End going broke because it’s gone all woke? A Prince Charming who spurns Cinders for the Duke. A Jane Austen play that flaunts the F-word. No wonder theatres are struggling to fill their seats” – Theatres across London are in desperate straits; many are half-empty night after night, and some aren’t even bothering to open the upper circles as so few tickets are selling. Is it because they’ve gone woke, asks Christopher Hart in the Mail.
- “Will nurses lead the charge against transgender activism?” – Nurses and the nursing profession largely caved in disgracefully over COVID-19, but some nurses do seem to be taking a stand on the issue of transgender activism, writes Roger Watson in Unity News Network.
- “Why I Quit Georgetown” – Ilya Shapiro writes in the Wall Street Journal that the university didn’t fire him, but it abandoned free speech and created a hostile environment.
- “Why do people overestimate the size of minority groups?” – Human psychology means in situations of uncertainty, we systematically overestimate small values and systematically underestimate large values, writes Noah Carl on his Substack page.
- “Elon Musk Says Twitter Is ‘Resisting’ Terms of Deal, Threatens Termination” – Elon Musk is accusing Twitter of “resisting and thwarting” his ability to obtain information about bot accounts on the social media website, saying that it’s a “breach” of the terms of their April deal, reports the Epoch Times. Is he trying to wriggle out or get a better deal?
- “Lambeth says: Save Our Statues!” – A first analysis of the public consultation shows overwhelming support for the status quo, says Save Our Statues.
- “Speech-Related Offences Should be Excluded from the Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty” – Across the world, governments routinely abuse cybercrime laws to crack down on human rights by criminalising speech, write Meri Baghdasaryan and colleagues at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- “Banning Hate Speech Won’t End Extremist Violence” – It would likely make the problem worse, argues Jacob Mchangama on Persuasion.
- “Football Fans: The vanguard of the resistance against ‘The Great Reset’?” – Their game may be targeted by the Great Reset, which would complete the transformation of football from an expression of local identity to a lucrative global theatre, but the powers-that-be fail to understand the spiritual energy of true supporters, writes Niall McCrae in Unity News Network.
- “I was hounded out of school for ‘transphobia’” – There is no forgiveness for those who question dogma, says Julie Bindel in UnHerd.
- “The cultural imperialism of taking the knee” – Those Hungarian schoolkids were right to boo this paternalistic Western gesture, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Free speech makes free people” – FIRE is expanding its free speech mission beyond college campuses to protect free speech for all Americans.
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Is there anybody there? Come on you cheapskates, sign up…
Good morning, Hugh!
Notable lack of comments now money has to change hands. Are those of us left the true sceptics?
On the plus side, I’ve got a possible personal best for downticks…
Yes. Hard to believe that the people who were forcing people out of nursing due to their refusal to take an experimental medication had our best interests at heart. Villains.
I’ll bet there’s people who believe this is due to “covid” though.
Covid jab injuries??
Post covid jab increase in patient referrals in stroke & coronary care departments making for an untenable work load with the service being radically scaled back to make the service delivered almost useless? Community Stroke Team I worked for has reduced the length of time that a patient is in the service from 12 months to 6 months to 3 months & is now just 8 weeks with the proposal to reduce it to 6 weeks. There is no longer term community service with the specialist skills for these patients, many of whom will end up with a high dependency due to no treatment at an appropriate time.
When the service was up to 12 months the positive difference which could be made was huge, less so for 6 months. 3 months was a joke & 8 weeks is just cruel. Some of these patients will be left with mobility, personal care, communication & swallowing difficulties rendering them & their family incredibly isolated.
It’s not what I trained for & I am incredibly angry about it. It’s all just meeting KPIs, nothing to do with patient care.
Sorry, you’re right – it should have been this one:
“The data” can’t get any more clear than shown in these statistics.
The CDC that is in bed with big pharma – who unfortunately have never been shy about killing people.
Jeffrey Tucker is always a must read.
Well blow me down with a feather duster! Don’t these people get that theatre is supposed to be about escapism, rather than recreating the nonsense we get from the msm? Give me the amateurs doing a faithful reproduction of the classics any day over these twerps.
One of my big bugbears about the production of the hobbit was having someone who still sounded like he was doing The Office…
“Aberdeen supporters chanted ‘you can stick your boosters up your arse’, and Carlisle United dropped their ground capacity to 9999 to avoid a vaccine passport requirement.” (Unity News Network).
Good for Aberdeen supporters! And well done to the people in that Aberdeen pub who supported a famous Scotland victory without too much social distancing.
Fair play to Carlisle too. That said, they were in all honesty never likely to get a crowd of over 10,000. However, there was at least one other football club who did actually lose out by restricting their capacity at this time so as not to put any more of a burden on their supporters who had stuck by them through this nonsense by requiring a vaxport, and credit to them too.
Incidentally, I note that Bristol Rovers, whose manager previously said that he would not think about “vaccine” status when signing players, won promotion on the last day of the season scoring seven goals – whilst Leeds United, who had been reported as being the most “vaccinated” team in the premier league, narrowly avoided relegation.
One should note that the Gas (as Rovers are known down our way) scored seven against a Scunthorpe side already relegated and giving debuts to a number of teenagers.
Were I Northampton, who Rovers pipped at the post with a better goal difference – one more than the Cobblers – I’d be a bit miffed.
Regardless, fair play the Gas!
We’ve all met or know people who have been injured by then Covid Jabs.
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Morning all! Morning Hugh…
..this is very disorienting, it would usually be morning Freddy, morning Judy, morning Londo and HP at this time of day….I really hope they will all return shortly.
meanwhile…the fight continues because the frickers will never give up….
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The CDC has just raised the Monkeypox alert level to Level 2.
They’re now also recommending the use of masks to slow the spread… yes, masks.
No, I am not kidding about the masks.
I’m here ebygum. Just a bit lost still.
Good morning BTW.
Good morning Hux
And good morning to you Trabant.
Sadly, getting a bit peed off with the new look DS. Hard work.
…Morning, keep the fires burning….
I would have thought the most popular types of mask in the cohort spreading Mon
keyPox would be:LOL!! ….and still only two women apparently!
Given that monkeypox is primarily spread among gay men indulging in gay sex, what role is a mask expected to play in prevention? Asking for a friend.
To mis-quote an old lady in a shop sketch in an episode of “Little Britain”
“Here’s a particularly informative article about rimming.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_rimmer
Barmaid Rimmer[edit]There are actual devices, such as The Barmaid Rimmer that can rim glasses. This device is something akin to a pepper mill, and fits on the edge of the glass and dispenses precisely the right amount of the substance by operating a button on top with one’s thumb as one rotates it or the glass. Its main advantage is that one can rim a glass after it is filled with liquid.
Sweepstake on the first country to have a monkeypox lockdown?
I remember someone suggested this for a round of Premier League football matches last year. In the event there were two that were delayed due to someone being taken ill…
To ebygum:
For some reason there are no symbols under your comment so I can’t reply, but Freddy and Judy have both posted comments in the Today’s Newsletter section, which has replaced Today’s Update.
Near, Today’s Newsletter section is simply a rolling list of yesterday’s articles.
I am beginning to fear this is an “update” similar to the Forum update. Put politely – not very good.
Why isn’t somebody keeping an eye on what’s happening here?
“CDC Wants Its Covid Regime Made Permanent.”
Erm, not exactly. I think we can correctly conclude that’s orders from Billy and Tony.
Is this section all there is for general comments?
Morning HP , I don’t know if there a general comment section , wheres Swedy I need info !!.. I’m going cold turkey
Does anyone else think the font is too small and too faint? The numbers of commenters has decreased dramatically.