- “Alize Cornet claims players hid their Covid symptoms at French Open” – After a number of top players were forced to withdraw from Wimbledon after receiving positive tests, the 32-year-old said at the French Open they all just kept quiet, reports the Mail.
- “Girl, 14, killed herself after being ‘denied face-to-face appointments’ during lockdown” – A senior coroner has warned “we are failing young people” and ruled the NHS is guilty of neglect following the teenager’s suicide, reports the Telegraph.
- “Striking GPs need a reality check” – General practice is broken – why didn’t delegates at the BMA’s Annual Representative meeting discuss methods for its resuscitation rather than details of their new contract, asks J. Meirion Thomas in the Spectator.
- “Sajid Javid’s digital NHS revolution could make it harder ‘for millions’ to see a doctor in person, critics warn amid plan to do video consults from mobile app” – The Health Secretary revealed the current NHS App will be upgraded to allow video consultations with GPs and other medics in England by March 2024, reports the Mail.
- “How lockdown failed the young” – Watch Liz Cole and Molly Kingsley from UsForThem talk to Spiked‘s Brendan O’Neill about how society abandoned children during the pandemic.
- “If the NHS wasn’t so busy pushing boosters, children might get the jabs they actually need” – Wasting time and money convincing young people to have a vaccine cannot possibly be justified when they’re blessed with an immune system, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Sesame Street character Elmo is given COVID-19 vaccine shot in PSA urging parents to have children vaccinated” – The Mail reports that in the public service announcement, Elmo was seen speaking with his father Louie about receiving the shot, saying, “Yeah, there was a little pinch. But it was OK!”
- “‘Pandemic babies’ with no immunity are ending up in intensive care across Australia with respiratory illnesses” – Doctors have revealed babies born during the COVID-19 pandemic are becoming seriously ill after contracting viruses they haven’t encountered before, reports the Mail.
- “Majority of COVID-19 Deaths Among Australia NSW Residents Triple & Quadruple Vaxxed” – Data for the week ending June 18th show that 95% of New South Wales residents who died with COVID-19 were vaccinated, set against 95% of the adult population who are vaccinated. Even taking into account the age difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated groups, that hardly bespeaks high vaccine efficacy, says TrialSite News.
- “SARS-2 Didn’t Care About DDR Borders Until the Vaccines” – Eugyppius writes that since the vaccine rollout, and only since then, infection rates in East and West Germany have diverged, which he attributes to the lower vaccine take-up in the former German Democratic Republic.
- “Data suppression and adulteration or just simple incompetence?” – El Gato Malo is scathing about a “data series of unfortunate events”.
- “First reported case of a person getting Covid from a cat” – Report in Nature that scientists in Thailand have established that a tabby passed SARS-CoV-2 to a veterinary surgeon, though such cases of cat-to-human transmission are “probably rare”.
- “Life through the lens of the vaccine-injured” – Caroline Pover in TCW Defending Freedom says the lack of compassion she has seen during the past fourteen months, as she looks at the world through the lens of a vaccine-injured person, has greatly disturbed her.
- “Europe’s new Iron Curtain: The defences designed to keep Putin out as Biden announces a new permanent base in Poland – while Sweden and Finland are formally invited into alliance and Russia blasts ‘destabilising’ move” – The U.S. will build its first permanent military base in Poland while deploying thousands more troops to Romania and the Baltics, while NATO is also boosting troop numbers on its eastern flank, the Mail reports.
- “Electricity Rationing: The Shameful Hallmark of Britain’s Green Energy Failure” – Energy rationing would not have happened if Britain maintained coal capacity, developed shale gas reserves and focused on nuclear power, says Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?
- “Facebook ‘Supreme Court’ Hit With More Than 1 Million Censorship Appeals” – The Facebook Oversight Board, colloquially known as the ‘Facebook Supreme Court’, received more than a million appeals from Facebook and Instagram users hoping to overturn censorship by the company, according to the Board’s first annual report, reports Breitbart News.
- “LGBTQIA+ – this gay man didn’t order this bowl of alphabet soup” – Gay men should feel free to depart this giant, unrecognisable, collective-identity vehicle, says Deroy Murdock in the New York Post.
- “Ben & Jerry’s forced to end Israel boycott” – The Telegraph reports that the company’s parent company Unilever says “antisemitism has no place in society”. About time.
- “Watchdog goes woke: Government committee uses the term ‘OmbudsPERSON’” – It is thought to be the first time the woke substitute for the word ‘ombudsman’ has been used for official parliamentary business, reports the Mail.
- “Now midwives are told sex is ‘assigned’ at birth” – Report in the Mail that midwives have hit back at a statement on “inclusivity” by their royal college that referenced sex being “assigned” to babies at birth, with some midwives saying the idea of assigning sex is “nonsense”.
- “Cornell library removes Gettysburg Address, Lincoln bust” – Someone complained, and it was gone, reports the College Fix.
- “‘Decolonisation’ is now a dangerous farce” – Cambridge is making itself an object of ridicule for taking this disturbing trend to new extremes, writes Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “Ukraine war is not an example of ‘toxic masculinity’” – History suggests that female rulers are far more likely to start wars than their male counterparts, writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Critic.
- “Boris needs to man up” – Frank Furedi in Spiked says toxic masculinity is an insidious, politically motivated term that delegitimises male identity by associating manliness with destructive characteristics such as racism, homophobia, hatred of women and violent aggression.
- “Joe Biden: the world’s most dangerous trans activist” – The U.S. president is using the full force of the state to promote divisive and damaging ideology, says Sean Collins in Spiked.
- “How Schools Sexualise Your Children” – Watch the new video from Reclaim The Media, in which Laurence Fox “exposes the worrying degree to which politicised, divisive ideologies – including gender theory, critical race theory, queer theory and ‘transgender toolkits’ – are being taught to children through Personal, Social, Health and Economic education (PSHE)”.
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Michael Gove – Mr Scotch Egg. Something of the night about that bloke.
I always think of something slightly green and yellow hacked up and spat out when I hear the name Gove….
Shortly before masks were made mandatory he said they wouldn’t be
And Zahawi said vaccine passports are….”not the British way”, before introducing them in Nightclubs. He also told a woman concerned about an adverse reaction she had to “get the booster”….He is an utter scumbag!
He is is good company.
It’s called The Spectator.
Add to the carbon tax which is applied to businesses and passed on to consumers.
These taxes are Pigou Taxes designed to change behaviour.
Use less of everything.
I tend to think that taxation should be limited to a series of mechanisms that enable the cost of providing non-excludable services that make sense for a state to provide – defending our borders for instance (lol). I don’t know when they started to be a social control mechanism. Sadly that now seems to be accepted as legitimate.
It won’t change until we have a government that forces people to take responsibility for their lives and not expect the government to mollycoddle them.
I hope things will swing back to that, just maybe not in our lifetimes.
I think life is ultimately better for people if they try to be as self sufficient as possible.
Whoever wrote the headline must be guessing. In the real world, it’s likely that the trade will change things to mitigate the extra costs in various ways, ranging from smaller containers (inflationary for the consumers), or at the other end of the scale, larger ones might be more efficient (higher off the shelf costs, but lower unit prices for the customer). If they’re clever they might take the opportunity to increase the profit margin at the same time across the store. After all, selling a kilo of carrots in a plastic bag for 10p at Morrisons the otter day wasn’t a charity donation!
However it’s handled it won’t be good for consumers or for the economy. If firms absorb the cost it will affect their profits which will hurt people who have shares in those firms, a lot of those shares will be owned by pension funds, or firms will employ fewer people or pay them less or cut corners in some other way. That’s socialism for you!
This tax is not intended to be good for consumers or the economy which is precisely why Kneel is introducing it. Furthermore, as this is being introduced at the start of the year I suspect it is in effect a marker outlaying what is to come through the rest of the year. Kneel and his bosses are not messing about, they fully intend to bankrupt the country in 2025. People need to wake up. This government is openly committing treason against the population and they will not give up until they are made to. Sadly, I do not believe peaceful discussion will suffice, we are long past that point. It is us or them.
But they want to get us to Stakeholder Capitalism by 2030, part (or most) of the Great Reset. When most people who think of the Reset (those that don’t think it’s all a conspiracy) they think Agenda 2030 on steroids. Green everything, but forget the Stakeholder aspect.
Vobes did a good interview in Stakeholder Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QspdOcEwa3s
Sadly most people have bought into these ideas. It’s quite common for people to think of “evil” and “capitalist” in the same sentence.
However it works out it is economically illiterate and morally reprehensible.
I used to get shopping bags for free, which would be used as rubbish bags. Then, when they introduced the bag tax, I happily paid because I found the bags useful, but they decided my bags were killing sea life (even though I live in the middle of the country), so they stopped selling them and now I have to pay for bin liners, so still throw away a plastic bag, only now the money goes to the supermarket rather than charity, as it did for the plastic bag charge. Now I will have to put my raw meat and unwrapped fruit and vegetables into the supermarket trolley, where, no doubt, some delightful child will have been stood with their grimy shoes prior to me using the trolley. The food will have a much shorter shelf life, creating more waste. Surely public health and waste reduction must take priority over this lunacy.
Public Health is not a consideration of Kneel and Co, well except in as much as it can be ruined – physical and mental.
The sooner a householder dies, the sooner another immigrant scumbag can be given a home.
Jim Dale on TV now sat under an air conditioning unit. Wanker
Oh and if that electrical item with an opening and closing flap underneath it that looks like every air conditioning unit in every office I have worked in, is not by some chance an air conditioning unit but is some clever heat exchanger and energy saver, I humbly apologise for maligning Mr Dale and reducing any high esteem that people may have held him in before my comment.
Glad I am watching the football and not that ignorant twat, Dim Dale.
And there was Rachel from Accounts bleating nonsense about her actions having pushed up inflation and along comes something else to keep it rising steadily. It may seem wrong but I am now hoping to see the UK in recession to cause the Student Union government to melt down.
These inflationary pressures don’t just force up prices but they lead to food being produced with cheaper and cheaper costs and this is more serious in some ways. For one thing it is hidden and it is also likely to lead to food becoming less healthy and nutritious. And the quality wasn’t too good to begin with. Maybe they won’t have four people fighting over a bag of flour. They will just adulterate and cheapen it to such an extent that all four plebs still feel satisfied even as their life essence is being drained away.
Old films will remind them how far their society has fallen, unless they ban them too.
The Uni-Party: deliberately making poor people even poorer ….. at the behest of, and to suit, the mega-wealthy.