- “Virtual GP appointments are a form of ‘digital exclusion’, NHS chiefs admit” – Health bosses warn the NHS has not yet found the “right balance” between online and in-person care after the pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
- “Some primary school pupils unable to say their names, teachers report” – Children are arriving at school unable to say their own names or drink from cups, the Times Education Commission’s final report will reveal this week.
- “Beijing launches massive new coronavirus crackdown” – The outbreak of nearly 200 cases linked to Beijing’s Heaven Supermarket Bar, which reopened last week, shows the challenge facing China to maintain its ‘Zero-Covid’ policy, reports the Mail.
- “Yet more ‘vaccine success’” – If this is vaccine success, what would vaccine failure look like, asks Ramesh Thakur in Spectator Australia.
- “COVID-19 and the Will to Power” – At every turn, the story of the world’s response to Covid is the story of power, says Michael Senger on his Substack page – the perception of it, the exercise of it, the fear of it, the abuse of it, and the pathological lengths to which some will go to obtain it.
- “Don’t be complacent, another Covid wave is coming. Here’s how we can manage it” – Professor Devi Sridhar writing in the Guardian has come a long way from her Zero Covid fanaticism and is now positioning herself as a champion of ‘living with Covid’, even rejecting the use of face masks.
- “The Economic Meltdown Has Roots in Lockdown” – It was not the poor, the working classes, or the person on the street who did this. These policies were not an act of nature. They were imposed by men and women with unchecked administrative power under the mistaken belief that they had it all under control, writes Jeffrey Tucker at Brownstone.
- “The Nine Great Covid Mysteries” – The latest insights from the Swiss Doctor, including on virus origins and the Nordic paradox.
- “Vox: Stop telling kids that climate change will destroy their world” – Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That? on Vox contributor Kelsey Piper describing her realisation that climate anxiety is a far worse threat to the welfare of kids than climate change.
- “When the Islamists came for Cineworld” – Luke Perry in Bournbrook writes that we are a nation that has already cut itself into tiny little pieces and a common culture and ideal is nowhere to be found.
- “The Rwanda policy: who runs this country?” – Brendan O’Neill writes for Spiked that the revolt against the Government’s immigration policy (which he personally thinks is misguided) is alarmingly anti-democratic.
- “Church of England’s senior leaders slam Home Office’s Rwanda plan” – The Mail reports that the increasingly outspoken church leaders, including Archbishop Justin Welby, slammed the Home Office’s Rwanda proposals despite judges ruling the first flights to Kigali can go ahead.
- “The Good White Man Roster” – Freddie deBoer with a database of “progressive white men who are thirsty for credit”.
- “Film bans are less about offence, more ‘community leaders’ showing who’s boss” – Pulling The Lady of Heaven from cinemas is a win for self-appointed gatekeepers of Islam, writes Kenan Malik in the Guardian.
- “James Patterson says alleged job struggles for white men is ‘another form of racism’” – The Independent reports that the author has drawn criticism from the woke crowd for saying it’s racist that it is harder for white men like him to get “writing gigs”.
- “The kids aren’t alright” – Adults shouldn’t be misled by ‘child-led’ fads to capitulate to teen ideology, writes Hadley Freeman in UnHerd.
- “We need to stop importing America’s racial mania” – There is nothing just or sane about ‘reckoning’ with historical ills we had nothing to do with, argues Simon Evans in Spiked.
- “Buried in the Online Safety Bill is a new offence. If you say something intended to cause someone ‘extreme psychological distress’ and you don’t have a reason for doing so, you can be jailed for two years” – Watch Toby in conversation with Free Speech Nation host Andrew Doyle.
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Good morning to everyone wherever you are.
Morning Judy, another fine day here in sunny Yorkshire..it’s about four sunny days on the trot…I suppose we will have to call it summer…LOL!
Nah, four days of sunshine in Yorkshire, it’s global warming. Come on ebygum – get with the programme
….yes, I’m in the garden now planting Cactus!! Hahaha…..
Good morning Judy.
Thank you but I see the downtickers are still here.
The Delingpod: A James Delingpole Podcast
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Naomi Wolf
Stand for freedom & make friends with our Yellow Boards By The Road
Tuesday 14th June 2022 11am to 12pm
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Another typo LS:
A330 Cocks Lane, B3022 Bracknell Road, Warfield.
A nightmare of a crossroads junction with limited visibility, not sure the wisest place to do these kinds of protests especially with all the Ascot traffic this week
I’m not saying this is anything but in light of stories we’ve read recently about pilots and heart problems it’s interesting..they don’t give any reasons for the ‘recent crashes’…..??
Navy aviation units hold safety pauseBy Commander, Naval Air Forces Public Affairs11 June 2022
SAN DIEGO — As a result of recent crashes involving U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft, Commander, Naval Air Forces has directed all non-deployed Navy aviation units to conduct a safety pause on June 13 in order to review risk-management practices and conduct training on threat and error-management processes.
ATL story about inflation rates soaring……more self-inflicted misery, it will get here shortly, no doubt….
https://powerthefuture.com/two-thirds-of-the-country-face-the-prospect-of-blackouts-this-summer/
The tough news keeps coming for Americans struggling with high energy prices. Not only have gas prices broken records for the past several weeks, now a good portion of the country is being told they should expect rolling blackouts, as we enter the hot summer months. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) officially released its summer report last week and almost two-thirds of the country should prepare for a possible blackout.
The report from NERC includes a harrowing map that shows most of the nation should stand ready for possible blackouts this summer.
The reason for these coming blackouts is clear: a mandated transition to clean energy. The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes:
And re the other hemisphere, the beeb world service broadcast a similar item about Australia this winter (i.e. now). Apparently, a fair bit of electricity is generated by coal and gas down under. Not clear if it’s a shortage of coal, or just out of date and poorly maintained systems.
Good morning all from sunny Northamptonshire!
Nowt to do with ATL but important none the less.
The brilliant Anna de Buisseret shared this link to n international group of Truth Warriors I’m privileged to belong to, of John O’Looney speaking in Leicester.
https://www.facebook.com/100078231423435/posts/pfbid0c6Js7Qk3EWwA14eyHKencbSVzXGPAJFcjPT4vkFzp4t93N79D2xf62mrG1crcJgYl/?d=n
Stunning response from John o. Looney. So very true.
I hope he continues with speaking out.
He is doing. He has integrity & his moral compass is true.
He’s bloody brave. They tried to kill him when he was hospitalised.
I know. He spoke to our group about two weeks after Dr Peter Chan rescued him from hospital. What he didn’t say in the video was that there were 3 other men admitted who were put onto the protocol of remdesivir. He didn’t sleep that night as he was terrified that they would inject him against his will with the drugs & listened to them desperately struggling for breath. One was wheeled off when the porters came in the morning, curtains closed so that nobody saw & the other two just disappeared.
It is beyond belief. I have huge respect for him.
God evening BB.
Latest ONS weekly death publication just out
Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: week ending 3 June 2022
However it’s affected by the bank holidays on 2nd and 3rd June so no real insights from registration date death data
The weekly deaths by occurrence date shouldn’t have been massively affected, however ONS seem to have made an error in their estimates (see attached chart where you can see the completely implausible drop in the last week) so we will have to wait at least a week to see if all cause deaths are now falling below normal levels after the elevated period of all cause mortality coinciding with the Spring boosters.
We’ll see in the next week or two. It could be that many certificates have been ‘carried forward’ due to the short working week, which could result in a spike later on.
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And Pfizer enters the running for best made up last minute document for VRBPAC race!
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/and-fizer-enters-the-running-for?s=r
Guess who’s talking:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/guess-whos-talking/
The further erosion of sovereignty in the EU
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220603IPR32122/parliament-activates-process-to-change-eu-treaties