- “Fury at video that lays bare huge A&E waits ‘being fueled by GPs’: Campaigners say desperate patients are turning to overwhelmed casualty units because they can’t get face-to-face appointments – as video shows nurse announcing 13-hour wait” – Watch in the Mail the moment patients in a crowded A&E in Harlow, Essex, were told they could be waiting 13 hours to be seen, in a video which epitomises the crisis within the NHS.
- “French President Macron: ‘Vaccinate Everything That Can Be Vaccinated’” – Jeffrey Tucker at the Brownstone Institute reports that Macron has said, “Vaccinate everything that can be vaccinated, because we avoid the virus. That’s the best response for unburdening the healthcare system and having a healthy population. So, we’re going to continue to work on this aspect.” It’ll work this time…
- “Return of ‘work from home’ plan to save fuel in event of crisis caused by Ukraine war” – People in Ireland will be ordered to work from home in the event of a major fuel crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine, under secret Government emergency plans, reports Independent.ie.
- “New vaccine could cure cancer – thanks to team behind Covid jab” – The scientists behind the Pfizer vaccine are collaborating on an individualised pancreatic cancer treatment that early trial results suggest can boost the long-term immune response to prevent recurrence, the Telegraph reports. (Also in the Mail without paywall.)
- “Covid: The death toll of panic” – Eyal Shahar, Professor Emeritus of Public Health at the University of Arizona, writes on Medium that the data show that panic-based policy was a major cause of death during the pandemic.
- “Should the Government Compensate the Vaccine Injured?” – Rusere Shoniwa on Left Lockdown Sceptics sets out a case for why the Government shouldn’t pay compensation to the vaccine injured or their families (it’s because someone else should).
- “A picture tells a thousand words: or does it?” – HART criticises “more data lies to prop up a crumbling data narrative”.
- “Moderna’s new Covid vaccine is five times better than the original” – Clinical trials have raised hopes that the next-generation jab will be needed just once a year, reports the Telegraph. Erm, didn’t the original trials promise 95% efficacy?
- “Welcome to the age of post-Covid nihilism” – From mass shootings to summer riots, we’re seeing what happens after you shut societies down, says Matt Purple in the Spectator.
- “Non-Covid Excess Deaths, 2020-21: Collateral Damage of Policy Choices?” – In the latest NBER working paper, Casey B. Mulligan and Robert D. Arnott examine the causes behind the disturbing rise in U.S. non-Covid mortality.
- “India is Buying Up Cheap Sanctioned Russian Oil and Selling it to the U.S. and E.U. at Huge Profits” – India is buying up cheap sanctioned Russian oil, refining it, then selling it to the U.S. and EU for huge profits, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal summarised by Paul Homewood.
- “Vegan TV advert that featured fish gasping for air and crying cows is banned for being too graphic – while separate ad for Tesco plant burger made ‘misleading’ claims about its ‘positive impact on planet’” – The ad for Tesco’s Plant Chef burgers has been banned over “misleading” claims that the products could make a positive difference to the environment compared with meat equivalents, reports the Mail.
- “India Reopens 100 Coal Mines” – In a bold and rebellious move, India has ordered reopening more than 100 dormant coal mines to meet skyrocketing domestic power demand, reports Paul Homewood on Watts Up With That?
- “Ketchup At Risk, Squeaks Telegraph!” – Paul Homewood’s fact check of the climate ketchup scare story.
- “Cow and sheep burps to be taxed by New Zealand in world first” – The draft climate-saving plan is likely to result in higher meat prices, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Channel Migrant crisis is an invasion, says William Clouston” – Luke Perry in Bournbrook on the SDP leader’s remarks that it’s not “intemperate” to say, “If you have 30,000 people just rocking up on the south coast this year, most people would just say ‘that’s pretty much an invasion’.”
- “‘I’d be banned from swimming if I had as much testosterone as Emily Bridges’: Olympian Sharron Davies slams trans cyclist as ‘not female’ in furious response to ‘her’ laughing at claims ‘she’ has a ‘competitive advantage’” – British Olympic legend Sharron Davies claimed that she would be banned from competing in international swimming if she had “as much testosterone in my system as Emily Bridges”, the Mail reports.
- “Why we need a Bad Law Project” – There are signs that the legal system is slowly succumbing to the coercive culture of compelled speech, writes Laurence Fox in the Law Gazette.
- “What is a woman?” – Laura Dodsworth in the Critic interviews Matt Walsh, the man behind the controversial new film on gender.
- “There’s nothing bold or brave about raising the smoking age to 21” – A puritanical minority are going after a poor and marginalised minority, argues Christopher Snowdon in the New Statesman.
- “The trouble with Thomas Piketty” – Jay Elwes writes in the Spectator that the central arguments of the economist’s new book are not intended to convince the undecided, but are a restatement of a set of familiar hard-left ideas, almost all of which are impossible to implement.
- “Seven problematic films that are yet to be cancelled” – James Delingpole in the Spectator on the films the woke censors have missed (so far).
- “We Need To Talk About Trans Politics” – David Martin Jones and M.L.R. Smith write for CIEO about the new politics that transcends the old Left and Right.
- “This question had to be asked, but can Sajid Javid really justify a ‘permanent’ £70k a year position for something he says will most probably never return?” – Watch Sir Desmond Swayne MP grill the Health Secretary in the Commons on some of the suspicious activity in his department.
Well done @DesmondSwayne
— Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR
This question had to be asked, but can @sajidjavid really justify a ‘permanent’ £70k a year position for something he says will most probably never return?
What is clear,Vaccine passports will never be used in my businesses. Ever. pic.twitter.com/H392bembat(@EssexPR) June 8, 2022
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Yes. One assumes it will be rather more profitable than apricot kernels…
We have had these “cure for cancer” (which is simply a last ditch healing mechanism of the body got out of control through prolonged irritation) stories pushed by (largely) the pharmaceutical industry for years and yet there are still high numbers of people who get (and die from) this condition. Trouble is, cheap, effective cures (through lifestyle and nutrition) that have been known about for decades are so much less profitable.
Before the rigged vitamin D trials (over viruses), there was the big pharma campaign to discredit laetrile.
“Evidence of fraud in the clinical trials, if you can even call them that, is mounting as investigative reporters and scientists who care about real science pore over the releases of the Pfizer trial data. Surely what we need now is a serious legal project in the UK to prove contract fraud, thus paving the way for legal action which would in effect nullify the indemnities granted to Big Pharma companies like Pfizer.” (Left Lockdown Sceptics).
I wonder if the Times muppets will put Oliver Wright (who has previously written about big pharma corruption) on the case? Will they? Muppets!
“New vaccine could cure cancer – thanks to team behind Covid jab”
Crikey, another one to avoid.
Pharma cures? A bit like friggin buses.
“Summing our estimates across causes and age groups, we estimate 171,000 excess nonCovid deaths [in the ‘USA’] through the end of 2021 (NBER).
This is approximately equivalent to 34,000 in the UK. There was an estimate recently wasn’t there, that government measures in the UK may have reduced “covid” deaths by about 5,000. This implies that tens of thousands of people have died needlessly in the UK (so far) because of extraordinary government NPIs. If this is indeed the case, there really must be a reckoning and people held to account. “Ich bin nicht schuld” (I am not to blame), said the collaborators in Max Frisch’s play Andorra, which was an allegory of the Third Reich. People must not be allowed to get away with claiming this now. It has been obvious since at least Summer 2020 that locking down is a disaster.
No joke. A similar scam with Chinese coal mines, used to produce products sold to idiot regimes like ours who pretend that they are going to change the climate by closing down our own coal mining.
Have to hand it to India for keeping jobs & generating GDP.
Net zero idiots have a lot to answer for
Don’t worry, there’s a mask for that…
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Sorry I first read ‘draft’ as ‘daft’ which it is.
Hey Judy – great to see you posting again.
There are a couple of “leaders” who are seriously overdue an interview with their maker:
The New Zealand horse and the Canadian darky.
Sir Desmond Swayne says that Savage Jabbit has had the job ad pulled for deputy director, delivery lead, covid pass. Oh no he hasn’t, it’s still on the website. Jabbit telling porky pies again.
https://mobile.twitter.com/apeyjeepey/status/1533381110285189120/photo/1
https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jcode=1791653
“Job description
As Deputy Director, Delivery Lead you will use your exceptional stakeholder management to continue the work of Covid Pass in this inclusive, award-winning manner.
You will be a passionate advocate of future-proof technologies and will work with service management and policy colleagues to deliver the Covid Pass Programme, a key strategic priority for DHSC and Her Majesty’s Government (HMG). This is a high profile, complex programme which interacts with other departments, Devolved Administrations and public and private sector stakeholders.
You will have oversight for the further development, iteration and implementation of the programme delivery roadmap and for supporting teams to deliver successfully against agreed milestones on time and to quality standards.
You will have a flexible work ethic and professional resilience to change direction and re-prioritise at pace. You’ll provide leadership to a diverse and highly skilled team and network of colleagues, working well across government. You’ll lead your team to contribute to and deliver our strategy and vision.”
…and what is being introduced in April 2023 after the planned programme closure in Q4 22/23? The EU vax passes strengthened and adopted worldwide? **
note: the above link now defunct but I still have the original page open on my phone and not refreshed.
** I’m trying to add a screenshot but can’t see how to do it.
Copied / pasted-
“ResponsibilitiesAs Deputy Director, Delivery Lead you will provide excellent leadership, a confident approach and expert advice to enable the Delivery of this high profile programme. Key accountabilities in this varied role include;
• Leading a complex programme in an effective, positive and collaborative manner. Utilising skills gained whilst working delivering multi-agency programmes in a rapidly shifting environment and with significant scrutiny.
• Leading and managing diverse delivery teams to meet evolving requirements.
• Leading delivery planning and reporting, mitigating risks and resolving issues as they occur.
• Delivering the preparation and leading the programme closure, anticipated to finalise in Q4 2022/23
• Applying expert contextual knowledge of Covid-19, health and social care, travel and infrastructure priorities to enable effective strategic provision for the service.
• Deputise for the Programme Director as required, ensuring confidence in the programme and assuring stakeholders.
• Applying collaborative leadership in a team of teams environment alongside other Deputy Directors. “
I am not finding this new site very easy. Although I’m happy to subscribe, there’s no point doing so unless regular posters come back and the conversation picks up.
Own goal from the DS team I think.
It’s surely worth throwing the site a few coins in the cap to help keep it going. It deserves immense credit for the last two years, and now surely deserves the chance to grow into something bigger. .
Yes, it would be good to get the more sensible posters back – the first step towards which would be agreeing where the daily discussions might take place – here being about the best option I would think.
The previous forum was becoming seriously tainted by pointless trolling though – I don’t mind people making contrarian points, but mere trolling is something different. Witless trolling is just extremely tedious.
To tell the truth, I’m not at all sure (I don’t know) that Toby has been that keen on the general BTL commentary, at least since the problems that led up to Swampgate.
Agree with you TJN. Let’s get this place back up and firing again.
Well I have just thrown a fiver in the pot, will see how it goes but at the rate of comments it may not even last a month.
Being a tecchy hopeless this is my understanding:
Any and all general comments belong here.
Article specific comments belong below the articles.
I don’t think there is any more to this site but if I am wrong I would appreciate being told.
Hello Sophie
, at least cement boy has gone awol 
Along with Finland’s greatest Next Tuesday Warrior. That’s a blessing Freddy.
Sir Desmond later tweeted that Javid had subsequently assured him that the advert had been pulled – which is not the case.
https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jcode=1791656
My impression is that government ministers will say anything to get people off their back. We recall Javid telling Steve Baker that the government would not support a WHO “instrument” which compromise British sovereignty and went straight ahead and did the following week.
A stake needs to put through the heart of global digi-passes.
Regarding Macron, some Brit friends of ours who live in France mentioned the close shave they had nearly ending with Le Pen as President – strong implication that she’s evil personified and of course the assumption that any right-thinking person would find her horrifying. Macron the vaxx fascist warmonger obviously fine though. Woolly liberals (of which I am sort of one, up to a point) have been so easily captured – just point to the other side as nasty and racist and they’ll vote for you even if you’re a useless warmongering totalitarian.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/08/covid-jab-team-creates-vaccine-could-stop-cancer-returning/
An interesting story about a cancer medicine – GcMAF – the persecution of David Noakes and colleagues and the MHRA role in ensuring that the ‘unlicensed medicine’ isn’t available for use.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/gcmaf-and-persecution-david-noakes-lyn-thyer-immuno-biotech
Yes. These crooks wanted apricot kernels to be classed as unlicenced medicine, didn’t they.
It was because of Phillip Day’s excellent work that I became aware of just how corrupt and unscrupulous the pharmaceutical industry is.
Morning all….
if it wasn’t being held in Qatar the World Cup would be starting now…! It’s a very Turvy-Topsy world when, as a woman, I find myself agreeing with a spokesman from a country I generally wouldn’t applaud…..
Abdullah Al Nasari, Head of Security at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar:
“If you want to express your views on the LGBT cause, do so in a society where it will be accepted. Do not come and insult an entire society. We will not change the religion for the 28 days.”
“If a fan raises a flag in a stadium and it is taken away, it will not be because we want to offend him, but to protect him. If we don’t, another spectator could attack him. If you buy a ticket, it is to attend a football match and not to demonstrate.”
Blimey, the least tolerant telling the allegedly most tolerant how it works.
What was the old saying?
When in Rome…
……..ah yes, that’s it.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/johnson-is-critically-endangered-but-the-b-team-is-probably-even-more-deluded/
Despite all the misgivings, despite all the evidence the author appears unable to put two and two together and is still under some crackpot illusion that Johnson and his bunch of traitorous mercenaries are running the country.
When is the penny going to drop with these people?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/drop-the-dead-monkeypox/
I have to say the author is bang on with this. The vast majority of my acquaintances are Covidiots and on the 1 -10 scale the best i.e. least supportive of the scam still come in at a 5, but on the moneypox the reaction is outright derision and laughter. I don’t know one person who considers this worthy of discussion. A typical dismissive response is “what a load of bollox.”
So I suspect a new version of the C1984 will have to be rolled out this winter.
Chimpitus is a non-srarter.
So this explains it all: Natural selection at work.
Friday’s news round-up story that “Neanderthal gene probably caused up to a million Covid deaths” – The LZTFL1 gene, found in one in six Britons, has been shown to double a person’s risk of severe disease and death, reports the Telegraph.