- “Basket-case Britain is the definitive proof lockdown was an epic mistake” – The strikes, inflation, decay and incompetence: all are direct costs of the decision to shut down society, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “General strike looms as postal workers set to join rail unions in walking off the job” – More than 115,000 Royal Mail staff are expected to take industrial action as Britain’s railways again grind to halt in August, the Telegraph reports.
- “Super gonorrhoea warning: Austrian man catches drug-resistant strain of STI from Cambodian prostitute as experts claim virus poses ‘major global threat’” – Really? In the Mail.
- “What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis?” – Western experts are blinded by vested interests, writes Matt Ridley and Alina Chan in UnHerd.
- “Despite the private doubts no one in Holyrood’s debating chamber wanted to listen” – Former MSP Michelle Ballantyne writes for Time for Recovery that she was in a parliament with no opposition to the biggest assault on people’s freedoms and free speech. “It was group think of the worst kind with far reaching consequences.”
- “The NHS is wasting your money – again” – The Messenger Review paints a very different picture to the one I’ve had described to me by disillusioned staff, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Petition for Prime Minister to bring back free Covid tests” – The Leicester Mercury reports that NHS campaigners have handed a petition to Downing Street, alongside some MPs, asking for the return of the free lateral flow tests.
- “Young people dying in their sleep is now happening on a regular basis” – Steve Kirsch looks at the evidence that the sudden death of young people has increased significantly following the rollout of Covid vaccines.
- “Pioneering vaccine maker Moderna to open first factory in Britain” – The new site would allow a rapid response to future pandemics with its mRNA vaccine technology, reports the Telegraph.
- “Lies, Propaganda and the Truth” – Eugyppius responds to Michael Senger’s response to his review of Senger’s book Snake Oil, setting out why he doesn’t buy the idea that the pandemic was a creation of Chinese propaganda.
- “Secondary school bans pupils from hugging, high-fiving or shaking hands with each other with strict no contact rule” – Pupils at Mossley Hollins High School in Greater Manchester were also barred from sitting on overcrowded benches, with one pupil slamming the rules after she asked permission for a friend to hug her, reports the Mail.
- “One-Third of German Healthcare Workers Vaccinated Take Sick Days” – TrialSite News reports on a German study which found that out of 1,797 participants, 588 healthcare workers representing 32.72% or nearly a third of the study population took sick leave following Covid vaccination, leading to 1,777 sick days.
- “The Rich World’s Climate Hypocrisy” – Rich countries beg for more oil and coal for themselves while telling developing lands to rely on solar and wind, writes Bjorn Lomborg in the Wall Street Journal.
- “Top ESG Fund Manager Trounces Peers by Hoarding ‘Unloved’ Assets” – One of this year’s top-performing managers of so-called sustainable funds has relied on assets that aren’t normally associated with environmental, social and governance investing, in a strategy that’s ended up trouncing his peers, writes Natasha White in Bloomberg.
- “How DeSantis toppled Mickey Mouse” – Not so magical anymore, Florida is now the most politicised place on earth, says Alex Perez in UnHerd, as Disney succumbs to the activism of its woke employees.
- “Zelensky’s homophobia row reveals a divided Ukraine” – Like much of Eastern Europe, the country is hesitant on ideas Western European governments hold dear, writes Svitlana Morenets in the Spectator.
- “The U.K. now faces a new human rights trap” – The Bill of Rights contains some sensible changes, but there is a risk that it unduly empowers British judges, writes Richard Ekins in the Telegraph.
- “Unilever has caved to the campaign to eliminate Israel” – The Israel licensee for Unilever’s woke company Ben & Jerry’s, who employs Arabs, Jews and refugees, will be laid off because of the boycott, as Unilever’s stocks dive, the Telegraph reports.
- “Unilever secretly fought ban on plastic sachets it branded ‘evil’” – The Telegraph reports that the company privately lobbied against countries’ efforts to get rid of soap packaging, despite its pollution pledge and having branded them evil.
- “They’re coming for behaviour genetics” – Noah Carl writes on his Substack page that the inevitable is happening and the accusations of racism levelled at the scientific study of genetic group differences are now being directed at the study of individual differences as well.
- “Pride rainbow gets ‘inclusive’ makeover – but still not everyone is happy” – The Telegraph reports that the latest flag has incorporated a purple circle on a yellow backdrop to represent the intersex community, but many have pointed out it’s hideous.
- “Biden’s cowardly war on conversion therapy” – It’s not the job of a doctor to affirm your identity, writes Kat Rosenfield in UnHerd.
- “Students want more restrictions on free speech” – The Times reports on a depressing if predictable survey which found students want more restrictions on free speech and safe spaces on campus compared with six years ago.
- “Hi elonmusk. Twitter has labelled a well-researched, evidence-based piece by Dr. Will Jones on LD_Sceptics about a new paper on ivermectin ‘misleading’ and made it impossible to share. Twitter should not be censoring content like this, particularly with no right of appeal” – Toby flags Twitter’s strict censorship of all discussion of ivermectin to the platform’s new boss.
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“Pride rainbow gets ‘inclusive’ makeover – but still not everyone is happy” –
Does anyone know which colour they’ve used for Heterosexual? Hard to claim ‘inclusivity’ when 90% of the population aren’t represented, isnt it..?
Ahhh, I’m just joking. Once you get beyond LGB, the activity represented should be a source of shame, not pride.
In conversation now I always respond to someone mentioning Trans-women as “Oh you mean a man pretending to be a woman”.
People don’t like it but WTF; let’s call a spade a spade.
Absolutely correct, and worth repeating that there is no right not to be offended.
“…the concept of [Gay] ‘Pride’ as something to be celebrated [is] rather odd. I wasn’t, and am still not, remotely proud, or indeed ashamed, of my sexual orientation. I consider it utterly unremarkable, and ideally, I’d like everybody else to feel that way too….”
Pride has become pompous, grotesque and intolerant.
GARETH ROBERTS8th June 2022
To hell with Pride Month – spiked (spiked-online.com)
The Israelites at least made a golden calf as object of worship which marks them as people with a very human inclination for culture and art. The rainbow crowd believes their entirely irrelevant selves are a worthy substitute for both and consequently, prefers to dance around themselves. I don’t want to be represented in this carnival of the airheads.
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“What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis?” Of all the mind boggling things that have happened in the last two years, this is perhaps the boggliest. Whether, like most of the people on this site, you think that the response to the pandemic caused more harm than good, or you think that it was a deadly virus that merited the extraordinary measures applied, you should at the very least be curious about the origins and downright furious if it turns out to be man-made. But there is nothing in the media, just crickets. When you think of some of the media frenzies in the past over events that pale into significance compared to Covid, it really is very curious.
Does the Mail think that gonorrhoea is a viral disease? Unbelievable!
Pandemic Logic
Economic woes in the UK aren’t due to lockdowns because the whole world is experiencing similar woes.
That’s because countries all over the world locking down over the last 2 years had no effect on the rest of the world.
The fact that people seem to think that you can print as much money as you want with no consequence is a pretty sad commentary on the intelligence of the British public.
And the bleeding politicians.
I’m not an economist but I can understand that if you print money, inflation follows closely behind.
May RPI: 11.7%, up from 11.1% in April.
May annual rate 11.7%, compared with 11.1% annual rate in April
https://nyheder-tv2-dk.translate.goog/samfund/2022-06-22-set-i-bakspejlet-fik-vi-ikke-meget-ud-af-at-vaccinere-boernene-erkender-brostroem?_x_tr_sl=da&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
hope the link works, had to do it through Google translate!
Denmark….We have become wiser, and we would not do the same today, says Søren Brostrøm. Director General of the Danish Health Authority.
With the knowledge we have today, we did not get much out of having children vaccinated against coronavirus last year.
The director of the National Board of Health, Søren Brostrøm, acknowledged this on Wednesday, when the future Corona strategy has been presented.
Where we are……you couldn’t make it up!!?
https://nypost.com/2022/06/21/transgender-ex-neo-nazi-robber-donna-langan-to-receive-fast-tracked-gender-confirmation-surgeries/
Transgender ex-neo-Nazi robber to receive fast-tracked ‘gender confirmation surgeries’
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is hastening a transgender ex-neo-Nazi bank robber’s “gender confirmation surgeries” after the inmate filed a lawsuit against the federal agency claiming it denied previous requests for the surgery.In 1997, Donna Langan, born Peter Kevin Langan, was convicted to life in prison plus 35 years in two separate trials for robbing two banks using firearms and “a destructive device,” assaulting federal officers and further firearms charges, according to Ohio federal court documents.
Langan, 63, was part of a small, neo-Nazi group called the “Aryan Republican Army” (ARA) at the time of his crimes with the goal of funneling money from the banks he robbed to the ARA, according to court documents.
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry!!
“Why is anybody surprised? You can’t lock down an economy and a society, pay millions of people to do nothing, spend and borrow and print tens of billions of pounds, and expect there to be no consequences, no day of reckoning, no bill to pay.”
Excuse me where was this **** when the lockdowns were happening? Taking money from Bill Gates and going along with the narrative -that’s where.
The hypocrisy and cowardice of the Telegraph and it’s staff know no bounds.
Will, ONS data on death by vaccination status. You may want to have a shufty at it & at the graph. Very sad & incredibly depressing that the NHS & officialdom is still peddling this snake oil injection.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathsbyvaccinationstatusengland
Please just stop!! It’s bad enough instilling so much fear that people still test. Friends 60th weekend – everyone has to show proof of LFT. Well least I get my weekend back.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/21/wrist-worn-trackers-can-detect-covid-before-symptoms-study-finds