- “The Tories are in danger of learning the wrong lessons from Boris’s fall” – Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph says that still too few Tory MPs realise why lockdowns were such a bad idea and the party finally needs to start talking plainly about Britain’s problems.
- “Even the peer-reviewed academic science that everyone is supposed to follow provides clear evidence that vaccinating young people is dangerous and stupid” – Eugyppius summarises a Substack post by Rav Arora, a journalist who used to write for the New York Post before his vaccine reporting got him blackballed, which assembles the major studies on myocarditis risk that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines pose for young people.
- “CDC consultation on extending the vaccine pass for international visitors” – The CDC is proposing to extend the ban on unvaccinated visitors entering the U.S. and is consulting until September 6th.
- “Germany refuses to ‘plunder its own military’ for the sake of Ukraine” – Germany has said it doesn’t want to “plunder its own military” as it refuses to send armoured vehicles to Ukraine, the Telegraph reports.
- “Next Tory leader will find it impossible to cut taxes, watchdog warns” – The Office for Budget Responsibility warns the Government that the Net Zero crusade will crush Britain under a record mountain of debt, writes Tom Rees in the Telegraph.
- “Dutch Police Shoot Live Ammo At Anti-Climate Rule Protestors” – Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That? writes that while there were no injuries reported, Dutch authorities seem determined to meet their climate targets, even if this means crippling their farming sector, or shooting someone protesting their ruinous agricultural climate rules.
- “Hot Sand” – Willis Eschenbach in Watts Up With That? says that the idea of hot sand power storage is an eco idea that might actually work, for a change.
- “HSBC banker quits and declares ‘cancel culture destroys wealth and progress’” – Stuart Kirk, who was suspended in May after attacking climate change “nut jobs”, said he will “continue to prod with a sharp stick the nonsense, hypocrisy, sloppy logic and group-think inside the mainstream bubble of sustainable finance”, adding that “most of what’s out there is bonkers”.
- “All New Vehicles In EU Now Have Mandated Black Boxes Installed” – Paul Joseph Watson at Summit News reports that as of this week all new vehicles sold in the EU now have mandatory black boxes fitted that record technical data and will be accessible by authorities, greasing the skids for surveillance-powered speed limiting technology.
- “Elon Musk ‘trolls’ Bill Gates over ‘green hydrogen’ claims” – Elon Musk seemed to troll Bill Gates early Thursday morning over the concept of green hydrogen with a laughing emoji on Twitter, the Mail reports.
- “The age of the anti-natalists” – Lionel Shriver in the Spectator traces the links between climate and rainbow wokery and the fertility and demographic crisis.
- “Stephen Fry: ‘Batter? Men’s Ashes? It’s not wokery – it’s politeness. Tell your readers that’” – MCC’s next president tells the Telegraph that he feels a profound affinity with cricket’s most cherished customs but is determined to embrace change.
- “With the utmost respect, Stephen Fry, you are helping turn cricket into a totalitarian state” – Simon Heffer in the Telegraph responds to Fry, saying there’s nothing rude about sticking with the traditions and terminology that have been used for centuries that no one could reasonably object to.
- “The pernicious creep of the 20mph zone” – Ysenda Maxtone Graham in the Spectator says the arrival of crawl zones in U.K. cities including London is yet another depressing victory for the nannying safetyists and is bad for business as it makes delivery journeys considerably longer.
- “Elon Musk says Twitter ‘going way too far’ after tweet about Elliot Page removed” – Musk wrote that the social media site had overreacted by “squashing dissenting opinions” when it suspended Jordan Peterson’s account for writing factual statements about what the actress had done to her body.
- “There can be no return to Cameron-Osborne-Cleggism” – Lord Frost in the Telegraph says that he wants to see a Tory leader who is pro-free speech, anti-woke and fully committed to conservatism and selling its merits to the public.
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Chris Boardman wtf ! Two F- – – ing Billion pounds !!… To do what ? That’s enough money for him to go to every car owner & confiscate their car keys ! Must be another loan off uncle Klaus !!
I mentioned yesterday that it was a shame that following the introduction of “pay to comment” here we had lost some of our most prolific and valuable commenters.
While £5 is a very low barrier to commenting, especially given the huge value this website brings, and I don’t blame the DS for introducing a charge – the authors atl have to make a living and hosting websites professionally costs money – I also don’t blame those whose comments might make them “a bloody menace” in the eyes of the authorities and have therefore chosen not to pay up.
Requiring payment removes anonymity – we need to provide real life banking details which allow someone to be traced fairly easily if the authorites are determined enough.
People might call me a conspiracy theorist to think that – but if so, just look at what has happened to the level of authoritarianism in this country over the last two years, and look at the trend towards removing anonymity more widely on the internet, and the desire the authorities have to label pretty much anything said on the internet which upsets someone to become a criminal offence.
..you could be right, but I’m sticking with Edward Dowd…’either we win or it’s the Gulag’…..I’m not trying to sound glib, but I think I decided a while ago that I’d stick my colours to the mast and be damned!
Even Mr Gum, the ‘quiet half’ told a neighbour who was complaining about catching Convid…again, that she could expect to catch it a lot more if she carried on getting stabbed!!
We are ‘out’ and I don’t think we have any intention of going back ‘in’….
Yes I feel the same way now and am now posting under my own name on Twitter. It’s time to put heads above parapets!
Yes…I don’t start anything, but for months now I’ve been making comments if people start with the Covibollocks…masks, lockdown, jabs etc..and thanks to Sceptics both ABL and BTL, I’m pretty full of knowledgable stuff!……and I don’t give a stuff if they think I’m nuts.
funnily enough most of them are coming around to the fact that they’ve been conned…well plenty I know are…
It is not the amount of money, I have donated and presumably have done so enough to still be allowed to comment. It is somehow the concept of pay to comment and the fact that I generally avoid all regular subscription payments unless I cannot avoid them. I will probably donate again at some stage but will not sign up to a monthly account and so on the basis that I might be struck off at any moment I tend to do more of my discussions on the Reddit site.
More dramatic birthrate declines, this time Sweden.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/swedens-birth-rate-dropping-precipitiously
The cat already had a closer look at it. No Bueno. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/swedish-birth-rate-data-what-does
Thanks. The fact that it is consistent with data from several other countries points to it being genuinely worrisome.
Fish with growths and lesions. And how do they know it’s not caused by pollution?
Chris Boardman and 2 billion quid! Is that a misprint? It’s all very well encouraging motorists out of their cars, but if I want to do my weekly shop I have no choice but to drive. It’s a 20 mile round trip to the nearest big supermarket and, in common with large swathes of this country, there is NO public transport at all. Some villages that did have a decent service have found them cut massively (mostly by Stagecoach, it has to be said) or amalgamated routes so they have become useless and time consuming.
The government would do better giving the money to certain supermarkets so they can reinstate their shoppers buses. These were very popular and many people in this village were distraught when Tesco withdrew theirs.
…yes, so much is London centric….they forget what it’s like for the rest of us. I live only three miles from the nearest ‘busy’ town, I can’t get a bus after 5 p.m !!
And I’m surrounded by freaking giant hills….
2 very good reads:
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/coronamania-and-liking-america-less
https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/pandemania-part-1?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
‘We have to drive a lot less’, says Chris Boardman, the PM’s new travel tsar”
Why?
“We” usually actually means “You” in these situations.
On yer bike Boardman.
…exactly! Because if you don’t you’re selfish..you’re killing Polar Bears…you’re selfish if you don’t wear a mask, get jabbed, you’re selfish if you don’t stop eating meat…same if you forget my pronoun, blah! Fu****g blah!
I am sick to the teeth of being battered with this crap, and I suspect the majority feel the same…..they won’t be happy until we live in caves grubbing for worms….
Thank God for the occasional rebels….they give us all hope….
https://petersweden.substack.com/p/farmer-protest
VIDEO: Dutch farmers spray manure on town hall in protest of climate plans
Cheers e by.
https://brownstone.org/articles/are-the-covid-mrna-vaccines-safe/
Kulldorff on the Fraiman study.
For most, the risk/benefit ratio of them is negative.
Pandemic logic
Covid is a multi system disease affecting your heart, lungs, brain and all major organs.
That’s why most people who get an infection show little to no signs of such damage.
A deep dive into the history of the organisation orchestrating the lies, manipulation & cull.
Challenges everything one has been taught & values one has held.
https://crazzfiles.com/the-khazarian-mafia/
Heavy stuff ! It’s dated two years ago so will anything change , will Snowden’s info come out
The Government appear to have released some early papers from SPI-M-O
this one from 3/2/2020….
“This is SPI-M-O’s statement on the possible impact that potential interventions could have in delaying the spread of a UK epidemic of 2019-nCoV, were there to be widespread outbreaks in other countries. SPI-M-O were asked to consider whether any combination of these interventions would be expected to delay the start of a UK pandemic (or its peak) by a month.
SPI-M-O’s view was the impact of any intervention would be highly dependent on the patterns of transmissibility.”
interesting to note a couple of things….
on school closures they conclude…
…. mass school closures could increase the overall attack rate if done at the wrong time.
Mass school closures have a large cost in terms of parental absenteeism as well as foregone education.
and on masks….
The wearing of facemasks by the general population is unlikely to meaningfully reduce transmission.
hmm….