- “Barclays to hunt down the £1bn Covid crooks: Bank to send in a crack team of fraudbusters to claw back loans – as taxpayers face huge losses” – It is estimated that bogus borrowers may have got their hands on up to about £5 billion of the total of £47 billion issued by all of the banks, according to a report in This is Money.
- “Nearly 1M patients speak to pharmacists as surgery wait lists hit 4.3M” – The Mail reports that pharmacists saw a rise of 44% more patients turning to them for advice after failing to get a GP appointment, as another study reveals 4.3 million people are currently awaiting invasive surgery.
- “Covid and Neurodegenerative Disorders – A Non-story” – Thorsteinn Siglaugsson on a misleading tweet about a misleading story in Medical Xpress that gives the false impression that a study showed Covid was worse than similar viruses for triggering neurodegenerative disorders.
- “Covid Update – Myocarditis, Birth Rates, Fertility, BA.5 and more” – An informative vaccine-related update from the Naked Emperor.
- “Thanks Pfizer!” – Alex Berenson tells the story of his mum, who suffered atrial fibrillation following each of her Covid boosters.
- “Towards a General Theory of Corona and Why No Interventions Ever Seem to Work As Intended” – Eugyppius suggests that Robert Edgar Hope-Simpson’s theories of influenza may offer insight into COVID-19. Worth keeping in mind that Hope-Simpson’s ideas of latency of the influenza virus and waves of asymptomatic transmission have not so far been backed up by direct empirical evidence.
- “The socialist case against the strikes” – The unions themselves must bear some responsibility for the situation we are in, given that some of their members were among those clamouring for coronavirus restrictions, even months after the advent of the vaccines, writes Sarah Linney in the Spectator.
- “Dutch join Germany, Austria, in reverting to coal” – The Dutch joined Germany and Austria in reverting to coal power on Monday following an energy crisis provoked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to a report from France24.
- “Coal Burning Germany: Pay Poor Countries to Switch to Renewables” – Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That? says it’s difficult to cajole developing countries to abandon coal while reopening your own coal-fired power plants.
- “Germany Green Energy Crisis: Warning of “Lehman Like” Contagion” – Eric Worrall also reports in Watts Up With That? that Germany’s renewable policy-inspired energy insecurity has reached crisis levels, with the country’s Vice Chancellor warning of “Lehman like” economic contagion if energy prices rise any further.
- “Joe Biden to block Boris Johnson’s answer to global food crisis” – The U.S. President opposes the Prime Minister’s plan to ease the cost of living by curbing green fuels, the Telegraph reports.
- “Shame on publishers for snubbing J.K. Rowling” – Harry Potter saved their industry – 25 years later, they’re pretending she doesn’t exist; it’s pure hypocrisy, says Jake Kerridge in the Telegraph.
- “‘Shambolic’ slavery report sparks fury from Cambridge dons” – A Cambridge University college hires a researcher to investigate legacies of slavery, prompting a backlash from senior historians, reports the Telegraph.
- “Prince Charles wants ‘slave trade to be taught alongside Holocaust’” – Prince Charles wants Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade to be taught to the nation in the same way that schoolchildren learn about the Holocaust, reports the Express.
- “Parents’ battle to see ‘secret’ lessons on white privilege” – The parents of a teenager who is quitting a school that teaches topics such as white privilege and being gender queer are seeking the right to see “secret” lessons, the Times reports. The story is also in the Mail.
- “Council axes talk by feminist writer because of her views on trans rights” – Nottingham City Council says allowing Julie Bindel to speak at a library would violate its commitment to being an “inclusive city”, reports the Telegraph. Ah yes, that kind of inclusive.
- “Nottingham City Council listens to activists, not women” – Julie Bindel writes in UnHerd that they banned her from speaking at a public venue over her gender critical views.
- “Clarence Thomas and the racism of the woke elites” – Brendan O’Neill in Spiked says the U.S. Supreme Court’s only black justice has been subjected to so much hatred because to woke ‘liberals’ he is the wrong kind of black.
If you have any tips for inclusion in the round-up, email us here.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
The bottom line is we are all going to get poorer in the coming months, and largely because of the effects of the lockdowns on the economy. If some are cushioned from the effects, others will inevitably suffer even more, including the porest.
I have asked before, where the unions – including the likes of Mick Lynch(mob) -were at the anti-lockdown protests? Which branches of his union, or any other union supported them? I saw a few Socialist Workers at a protest but don’t remember any unions. Were there unions at any of them? Did anyone see union representation there? On the contrary, some unions called for more restrictions, and now have no moral right to complain about the damage that the restrictions they supported have done to the economy and their (and all our) wages.
The obstinate refusal of any union leaders to raise their voices in protest at the useless C1984 restrictions has effectively invalidated the union movement.
I am convinced that union leaders have been bought off and firmly believe that their current faux hysteria is part of the deal.
Hello there , it’s hard to keep up with the opposite side of humanity who are trying to destroy all the good bits of life that have been created over the last few hundred years ! Divide & conquer taken to new levels ! Too absurd to be true ! Except it is !
There are 8 (eight) different parking restrictions outside our house (it’s a terraced house), and three more for the next three houses. I tell people that if it was in one of those old French absurdist films, it would be dismissed as too implausible. Unfortunately absurdist films, along with Orwell, appear to be taken as manuals of government these days…
I was always pontificating that we were heading for a world where every day life was policed like on a modern construction site where you step through the turnstile & you are owned by HSE, the sense of freedom on release after a days graft has gone now as the same people in HMG have done UNI courses in Health & Safety & want to micro manage us !…
I have related previously a story about desperate people in war-torn areas of the Ukraine (before the 2022 escalation, the Donbass conflict virtually ignored for years by the msm) who scratched coal from illegal opencast mines to try and stay warm through the Winter. I suggested that when things got tough in other European countries, people wouldn’t worry too much about carbon emissions. Well that didn’t take long did it?!
“I once met an old English political advisor, who explained to me that European climate action is a plot to freeze the current world order, to sabotage the economic development of poor countries. The plan was to divert poor countries into a green energy economic dead end, to prevent them from rising to challenge Europe’s global influence. European powers wanted to continue to call the shots, to continue to enjoy a shadow of their once total control over their former colonies, and they didn’t care what dirty tricks they had to pull to maintain the status quo.”
Yes. If “Europe” and their “American” collaborators starve enough people in African countries; if they get enough Africans to kill their children (see here:
USAID Lies, Funnels Money to Ethiopia for Abortions, Not COVID-19 Relief – YouTube );
if they steel Africa’s fish (Somalia), and keep African countries dependent on aid so that they can never truly develop their economies, then maybe they won’t need to worry too much about African countries gaining political and financial influence at the expense of a wealthy elite, and maybe Western countries can go on living in their fantasy world of woke decadence. Maybe. But some of us our watching, some of us are waiting for the day when they will pay for their crimes against humanity. Germany committed the 20th century’s first genocide in Namibia. The German government are now participating in new crimes against humanity. Well they’d better not be too sure they’ll get away with it.
“millions of people are on the brink of famine”
Says Boris, in a promising stand against green nonsense at the G7. I have to mention that if you look around you on the streets, shops and offices, you will struggle to find anyone who looks like they need a good meal. Especially true of the children…
“Prince Charles wants ‘slave trade to be taught alongside Holocaust’”
No problem with that, so long as they teach how we brought the transatlantic trade to a halt. History is messy and bloody and a mess. It is vital to understand how we lifted ourselves up, rather than castigating ourselves for being there in the first place.
I wonder if they’ll teach how the Abolition of Slavery was passed in 1833, but it was 1933 before there was legislation to stop British children under 14 from working in mines and mills.?
The most common lesson people want you to learn about the holocaust is that “you can’t compare” it to anything other than itself.
So if asked what is the lesson of the holocaust the only answer the children Charles wants taught could give is that a lot of people died and we shouldn’t let lots of people die again by stopping anyone called Hitler from standing in elections.
If we were allowed to compare it should be pretty clear over the last 2 years that extremist views from the left are just as dangerous as those from the right.
Which slave trade? Egyptian, Greek, Roman, modern? What about the young children in the DRC digging out the ore to go into the batteries of electric vehicles? What about the workers making masks and other PPE in China? There’s slavery and there’s slavery.
The European Convention on Human Rights was conceived as a direct result of the Holocaust and other atrocities committed by Nazi Germany and Japan in the second world war, and is enshrined in the human rights act. The irony is that the government want to abolish the HRA, which is applied by U.K. courts with the right to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, and replace it with a British bill of rights divorced from the European court. Given the current prime minister’s propensity to bulldoze his way over existing legislation without parliamentary oversight, this could be a dangerous move, especially if they decided to withdraw from the International Court in The Hague.
And teach that slavery (Black on Black) was rife in Africa both prior to and after Europeans set foot there… and child slavery today is common.
And that in America free Blacks owned Black and White slaves – actually indentured servitude although the difference with chattel slavery was marginal.
Pandemic logic
Masks work. It just doesn’t look like it due to confounders, i.e. things that stop them from working.
One of the confounders being respiratory viruses spread via aerosols which masks cannot stop and which exhibit Brownian motion and are suspended in air for hours/days in enclosed spaces, not droplets which quickly fall to the ground.
“Prince Charles wants ‘slave trade to be taught alongside Holocaust’”
Why bother teaching kids about the holocaust when they are going to be living through one first hand?
At least this holocaust won’t discriminate against any particular race of people, we’re all game (except members of ‘the club’) – so it’s a much fairer one
Just tell the kids “sometimes, governments have to kill people in order to keep everyone safe” – obviously change the words a bit, for example “we’ve got to lock granny up in total isolation in order to keep her safe”, “we must destroy small businesses and force people into total poverty or else people might die”, “we’ve got to shut down the NHS to protect people’s health” – you know, things like that
Then add “Price Charlie’s ancestors made a killing out of the slave trade whilst oppressing your ancestors, but it’s your fault” for the slave trade bit.
Then add “Price Charlie’s ancestors made a killing out of the slave trade whilst oppressing your ancestors, but it’s your fault” for the slave trade bit.
They actually didn’t: By the time the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas rebranded as Windsor during world war one as this seemed politically convenient at that time came to inherit the British throne, slavery had long since been abolished.
Good morning!
A recurring theme for discussion BTL is how to counter the narrative. Facts & logic don’t work – we have the facts & logically presented them – a big fail so far.
Some presentations on how to reach those who are still under the thrall of the twisted lies of government messaging may help us BTL understand better how to change our interactions & the ATL guys to have a greater impact with their articles within the masses.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcvyfzZHwo9WjzZ80D32A5w
A couple of useful articles looking at the importance of language within the regulatory field of medicine & how by changing the language the whole of safety testing was avoided for the mRNA products.
https://veryslowthinking.substack.com/p/one-label-to-rule-them-all
https://veryslowthinking.substack.com/p/covid-one-label-still-persists
“Prince Charles wants ‘slave trade to be taught alongside Holocaust’”
I could post a rant about the British monarchy but I think the solution to this eco-nutter and his tribe is best summed up in three words which I tend to default to whenever this crummy, evil toe-rag pokes his head in the news –
The Ekaterinburg Solution.
“Barclays to hunt down the £1bn Covid crooks: Bank to send in a crack team of fraudbusters to claw back loans – as taxpayers face huge losses.”
You couldn’t make it up. Yet more money for the banks.
The issue of post covid injection health harm in pilots needs wider coverage. A pilot discussed this yesterday evening with us & Christine Anderson MEP yesterday as a narrow legal principle within an already tight regulatory system, both of whom are determined to raise awareness & prevent as much harm as possible.
The counter argument made by politicians & Joe Blogg’s is that as long as there is a co-pilot then nothing to worry about.
Pilot X told us that if one pilot becomes unwell during a flight it is a May Day incident. Australia is the first country for the legal challenge to be made. If this is successful, the implications are huge for aviation & also as a means of making the public aware that if a group of the healthiest members of the workforce can be harmed by the covid injections, then they may start to think about themselves & their families.
Pleased watch, read & share.
https://gaacoalition.substack.com/p/help-promote-global-aviation-fit
https://gaacoalition.substack.com/p/gaacs-open-letter-to-australias-civil?utm_source=email
Don’t know where else to comment on this but I’ve just switched on the TV and it comes on on the last channel from last night. There was “Loose Women” with the banner headline “Roe v Wade – USA bans abortion”. This is just not true. You can call it “fake news” or “disinformation” all you like but why not call it what is is – lying. The USA has not “banned” abortion; it has returned the decision to the elected representatives of individual states – some will allow it, some will minimise access to it, some may even ban it, but it most definitely not “banned” country-wide.
No it isn’t banned.
Most of the States already had legal, regulated abortions and the ‘Constitutional Right’ that the Supreme Court found was not in fact guaranteed in the Constitution, won’t affect these. In other States evidently there will be a political process to determine what happens.
There is no Right to an abortion in the UK, Hysterical Woman should note, so the USA is now no different – and until 2019 it was illegal in Republic of Ireland and N Ireland.
Good afternoon fellow sceptics….
https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/sudden-adult-death-syndrome-baffles-doctors/
A strange new medical anomaly has doctors baffled as it sweeps across the country. Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) is on the rise, and it’s tragically claiming the lives of healthy young adults, sometimes in their sleep.
Essentially, people are dying without displaying any prior sign of illness. They simply do not wake up after going to bed, or collapse during the day.
Actually a good article, where they sarcastically hint at what the problem is…
Some good comments underneath too.
So yesterday I pointed out that Austria was joining Germany in opening coal powered power stations….and wondered where they would get the coal.?
France has now jumped in with a new suggestion…
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/france-wants-iran-venezuela-return-112605127.html
SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany (Reuters) – France wants sanctions-hit Iran and Venezuela to return to the oil markets to alleviate a Russian squeeze of energy supplies that has spiked prices, a French presidency official said on Monday.
Venezuela had had US sanctions imposed on it for over fifteen years..and on oil sales for around three….Maduro is still in charge of the country….
Iran has been sanctioned for decades by the US, EU and UN, financially, economically and obviously in relation to oil and its nuclear programme….but is still surviving.
I’m curious to know how ‘the West’ thinks sanctions will work on Russia? And how long it will take for them to realise that they may have to do an ‘about turn’ in the same way? Or…..?
Well any bit of good news is to be welcomed….
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/publix-covid-vaccine-children-b2107273.html
Grocery chain Publix refuses to offer Covid-19 vaccines to children under fiveMajor pharmacy retailer will not administer vaccines ‘at this time’ to youngest children
Don’t you just love the virtue signalling?
Glastonbury….
Yesterday, June 24, Bristol Live heard reports that drivers of electric vehicles were being charged £80 per hour to charge their cars. To verify this, we went down to the AA compound in the Bronze car park of Glastonbury to ask whether this was the case.
According to an AA worker, the diesel generator which powers the electric charging points is present on the farm all year round, and is switched on as and when it is required. This system is thought to be better for the environment than installing a Tesla Supercharger, for instance.
So they use diesel generators to charge the electric cars…LOL!
…remember when we were thought of a conspiracy theory nutters? ….and someone pointed out that at some stage there would be advertisements along the lines of ‘were you miss-sold a pension’?
This will be the first I’ve seen, and one of many I hope….
https://www.hudgellsolicitors.co.uk/uk-covid-19-inquiry-form-illness-and-disabilities-after-vaccinations/#
UK COVID-19 INQUIRY FORM
Illness and disabilities after vaccinationsHudgell Solicitors has a dedicated team of lawyers fielding enquires related to possible representation at the Covid-19 public inquiry.
The team is led by experienced solicitor Terry Wilcox, who represented at his first public inquiry in 1998 and also in legal proceedings into the Hillsborough disaster.
We are assessing the possible health impact of the Covid-19 vaccine on many people and possible links to people going on to suffer a range of illnesses and disabilities after having Covid-19 vaccinations.
more power to their elbow I say….
Is comments broken?
‘… reverting to coal power on Monday following an energy crisis provoked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to a report from France24.’
No it wasn’t. It was provoked by the idiotic, self-harming policies of the USA & European Countries.
I agree…today we’ve got the headline in the Telegraph…
Humiliation for Putin as Russia defaults on foreign debts…whilst admitting in the article that “Sanctions stop Russia settling despite having the means and desire to do so”….
err?? This is why I put up the other article about Iran and Venezuela..both heavily sanctioned for a long time, and neither with the funds that Russia has…(an estimated $800 million a day, just from oil and gas….) or the political clout with other countries….
Dr Clare Craig (not one of her impersonators)
@ClareCraigPath
ONS claim that 59% of primary school parents said they’d be “likely” to vaccinate their children.
In reality, more than 90% have not.
Their sample selection is broken.
Thank God!!
A simple way to counter the narrative is to present our side of the narrative as being the norm or the majority so that ONS statement could be countered with the facts from their data of number of children jabbed with ‘90% of parents not likely to jab their children’.
Remember we are the sane & normal ones!
Mr gum might argue the sane and normal in relation to me…LOL! But…I have always tried to keep a bit of faith in people, and have long believed many million of us did not have the therapy…(according to the Expose, it was around 18 million) so I hoped they wouldn’t jab their kids….so I’m happy to think we can counter the propaganda…but it’s always nice to hear it from a professional with some clout that many people follow…..
Always!
David Charalambous is the bod who advises to present the narrative as above.
https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/multimedia/reaching-people/
If Mr gum uses that argument, then obviously the only reason you married him is because you weren’t sane or normal at the time & over the years of marriage your condition has deteriorated….
A couple of substacks from Igor Chudov re drop in birth rate in Q1 of 2022 in Germany & Taiwan. The drop in Germany’s birth rate was big, so big that it can not be down to chance but Taiwan’s is of a whole different magnitude that when converted to a sigma value, the birth of a new universe is more likely.
I do wonder what could be going on… Any suggestions? No elephants allowed
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/dramatic-decrease-in-births-in-germany?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/depopulation-of-taiwan?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
G7 freaks meet again ! + WEF & Bilderberg recently met ! Shysters one & all !