- “The return of Covid is nothing to fear” – The worst thing we could do right now is impose new restrictions, writes Professor David Livermore in Spiked.
- “China’s Draconian Lockdown Policies: Major Consequences to Follow” – Mihai Macovei writes for the Mises Institute that China’s callous and inefficient Zero-Covid strategy is just the latest example of how policies that prioritise top-down political interventions over market solutions that respect individual freedom fail.
- “Children Are Being Bred into Obedient Drones” – Karen Harradine and Niall McCrae write for Country Squire that Covid cultism and its ugly twin sister, climate change extremism, have led humanity into unthinking regression and medievalist dogma.
- “We must throw off the shackles of fear for the sake of our children” – UsForThem’s Molly Kingsley and Liz Cole write that this week a parent has contacted them telling them about a school reintroducing restrictions – masks, bubbles, maybe even remote learning.
- “I know what you did last summer (and fall)” – Alex Berenson is in no mood to forgive and forget, reminding lawmakers and campaigners that last year they tried to take away his rights and segregate him, and “no, you don’t get to pretend you didn’t”.
- “Covid Vaccines Increase Menstrual Irregularities Thousandfold, Fetal Abnormalities Hundredfold: Doctors’ VAERS Analysis” – The Epoch Times reports on analysis of U.S. Covid vaccine adverse events reports by maternal-foetal medicine expert Dr. James Thorp indicating alarmingly high rates of harm.
- “After month-long Covid bout, Fauci claims quad vaxxed status prevented ‘severe’ disease” – Jordan Schachtel writes that Anthony Fauci credited being quadruple-vaccinated with keeping him from having a “much more serious” bout of COVID-19 and made no mention of his double course of Paxlovid.
- “Study: Boosted People Slowest to Clear COVID-19” – Igor Chudov suggests that this is why Pfizer’s Covid treatment Paxlovid does not work for them.
- “New York Times: ‘The U.S. May Be Losing the Fight Against Monkeypox’” – Eugyppius wonders why no ‘lockdowns’ on gay sex have been proposed to crush the curve given 99% of confirmed cases are in gay men.
- “Health chiefs damned by their own fiddled figures” – Guy Hatchard writes in TCW Defending Freedom that the New Zealand Government has suddenly decided to radically alter its Covid figures, making them more flattering to the vaccines, and is not being transparent about how it is doing that.
- “N’Golo Kante and Ruben Loftus-Cheek will miss Chelsea’s pre-season tour of the United States because of their Covid vaccination status in blow to Thomas Tuchel’s preparations for the new campaign” – A Mail report which reminds us of the continued presence of the U.S.’s pointless, costly and discriminatory vaccine passport entry policy.
- “Charities ‘using Covid as excuse to bombard people with emails’” – The Telegraph reports that the regulator has accused charities of contacting people even after they have been asked to stop, using Covid as an excuse for doing so.
- “Qatar Reintroduces Mask Mandate Indoors” – TrialSite News reports that Qatar has reissued its mask mandate for all persons indoors in public places.
- “As Putin shuts off the gas taps for repairs, Europe fears he may not turn them on again” – When Russia shuts down a vital pipeline carrying gas to the Continent today for 10 days of routine maintenance, Peter Conradi in the Times wonders if Putin will turn the taps back on again.
- “Kemi Badenoch: ‘Arbitrary’ Net Zero target was a mistake” – The anti-woke Tory leadership candidate comes out against Net Zero as well as slamming the Online Safety Bill as legislating for “hurt feelings” in an interview with the Telegraph.
- “Since 2000 The Arctic’s Hudson Bay Has Cooled -0.35°C With 10 Of 15 Sites Gaining Sea Ice” – Kenneth Richard on Watts Up With That? writes that a new study indicates that from 2000 to 2019, 73% of the 15 sites considered have been cooling and 67% have experienced a lengthening of sea ice duration.
- “LinkedIn Bans Scientist for Presenting Inconvenient Truths About CO2” – WUWT reports that the CO2 Coalition’s Executive Director Gregory Wrightstone was banned for posting charts from peer-reviewed research.
- “The 11 things the new Tory leader must do to win the next election” – Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph says the next Prime Minister must be “sensible about Net Zero” and stop vainly chasing the votes of the woke.
- “The Blue Peterisation of Politics” – Snazzy videos lacking substance are endemic in modern politics, writes Laura Dodsworth on her Substack page.
- “Sex work is rewarding, pupils told by education providers” – The Times reports that providers of sex education in schools are teaching that prostitution is a “rewarding job”, promoting “kinks” such as being locked in a cage, flogged, caned, beaten and slapped in the face, and encouraging pupils to demonstrate in class where they like to touch themselves sexually.
- “Have We Reached Peak Woke?” – The ultra-progressive mindset maintains its grip on institutional power, but in terms of what people actually believe, it’s on the downswing, argues Oliver Traldi in City Journal.
- “Ex-Stonewall chief aims to rewrite Oxford University free speech rules” – The Telegraph reports that the “Oxford Free Speech Forum”, led by ex-Stonewall chief David Isaac who claimed not to “recognise” the description of “Left-leaning” universities as places where people are no-platformed and difficult discussions avoided, convenes just as the Government prepares to pass legislation to stamp out censorship on campuses.
- “UCL accused of ‘witch-hunt’ after staff censured over ‘bullying’ report” – The Telegraph reports on a strongly-worded open letter from 24 academics saying that UCL has launched a “Kafkaesque” investigation in which “those accused don’t know what they are accused of or who has made the accusations”. Read analysis from the Daily Sceptic here.
- “Musk Declines to Save Twitter from Itself” – Jeffrey Tucker on Brownstone says Elon Musk looked closely at Twitter and found vast puffery, low profitability and wildly inflated numbers.
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Good morning. It’s me again.
“A new day will dawn and lead us to…”
Feel free to fill in the blanks.
The downtickers won’t have a clue.
Morning HP! Another day, another holler…
Oh I see you’ve got 5 DTs already and you posted 5 hrs ago…so…doing the maths…one an hour, a sort of trickle of DTs…maybe the hosepipe ban affects them..
As for your ‘blank’, may I suggest ‘a great awakening’, it’s either that or ‘the Fox and Hounds’…although a bit early for the pub…
Cheers Aethelred
“coffee and scrambled eggs”. Morning back.
Thanks Mogs.
Bit delayed but MORNING!
I downticked as a sort of protest within a protest
Well you’ve confused me with that one.
I never had you down as a Downticker Joe. Ah well, live and learn.
I think this is one of the deepest downticky threads ever.
Morning HP.
A new day will dawn and lead us to … Same shit different day
“another dusk” would be my suggestion.
NB: Relative to my working hours, it’s 5am now.
JP Reacts to Klaus Schwab’s Plan to Block the Sun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP8B4M0EYAc&list=WL&index=59
JP Reacts
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Lunacy of an order of magnitude so vast it can almost not even be imagined.
“Corporate insolvencies jump in England and Wales after withdrawal of Covid support”
For my little business, it was the pointless scare about Omicron that very nearly did for us. I dread the words ‘work from home’ dripping casually from an officials mouth, as that will be the end of us.
Absolutely. We must not forget that although there was not a lockdown over Omicron (which Sunak claims he personally prevented – I’m not believing that yet), there was certainly a massive campaign of fear, which frightened people away from pubs. “The new variant is spreading fast”, Saint Boris said. Every time I have written to my MP, I have said that their lockdowns have actively deterred people from setting up business, because we never know when the government might snatch it all away on a panicked whim, with no Parliamentary scrutiny, and no exit plan, now that the precedent has been set.
And yes, it’s despicable the way politicians are so CASUAL with words that have massive implications for people less rich and famous than they are. “I’m sorry I destroyed your business; but can we pleeeeeease move on from Barnard Castle?” “We need to squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze the brakes on reopening.” “Can we please move on from Partygate?” Yeah, let’s just move on from the massive hypocrisies. So casually uttered.
If you’re on Telegram I strongly advise you to join Anna de Buisseret’s channel. She’s a UK lawyer specialising in employment law, former Army Officer & is all over the lawfulness of the government diktats. Some very useful stuff on there. Plus if you needed to engage an employment lawyer & you’re in London, she’s your woman. The other option you have for information is PJ Hyland (solicitor for Dr Sam White) as he too specialises in employment law.
Both of these are Truth Warriors & have been standing up & speaking out from the start.
We are involved in events BB. On the day that the first lockdown was announced I had 73 booking cancellations in 8 hours as everyone cleared their diaries and went home. We did get a few bob from Rishi, and through sound management etc, we survived quite well. When Omicron came round there was no official lockdown, yet still 80% of the recovering order-book disappeared for five months, due to people reverting to Zoom and other ways of not meeting in large groups. What reserves we had were swallowed up, all except the coins in the ashtray of my car, with which we have eeked out a meagre living since.
Of course with nothing ‘official’ just the careless advice of people who ought to have known better to ‘work from home’, I don’t believe we have any recourse, even if we had the money to pursue it. As we are, we are hanging on, recovering slowly, paying off the Bounce Back loan (yes we are…), but one more careless statement will do us in. Its not good to have this hanging over us, and I’m certainly not investing further with that risk on our heads. I just wish some of the talking heads in the media would shut their cake holes, rather than hypothesizing and scaring people into more unnecessary safety-ism over a mild upper respiratory infection.
My business was down to its last £1,500 at one point and I was about to liquidate. I had been exempted from support, because I was a limited company director, which struck me as deliberate, given the plan to implement IR35 (got rid of that Liz!)
By pure chance, someone I had worked with in the past had her email hacked and I got a load of dross sent from her account. I sent her a message on her work email to warn her and ended up being offered some work that carried on in dribs and drabs for 18 months. I accepted being paid two thirds of my usual amount and was grateful to have anything at all. It saved my business. I will never forgive the Government for almost destroying my business and my livelihood.
Morning fellow travellers…some good stuff in the Conservative Woman..including this update about vaccine injuries..
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/as-vaccine-toll-rises-twitter-has-banned-me-but-the-fightback-is-under-way/
And it’s worth emphasising that Mark Steyn’s output on GBN that is mentioned via your link is on the ball at present. It’s amazing that GBN’s output on YouTube actually works, as well; perhaps the advertising revenue to YT is worthwhile?
Silly season news … Nick Cohen’s Observer column was suspended because he allegedly had a less-than-contructive professional conversation with a female colleague 17 years ago.
There’s really nothing more to that. IMHO, that would be a good reason to get rid of the lady. Still being vengeful 17 years after a non-event is a sign of someone being a really nasty piece of work. Her present colleagues would probably appreciate that. Even if they don’t dare to speak out.
…a brilliant Russel Brand…….talking about the CDC’s decision to give vax/boosters to children…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEqOUxiPJBc
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-murky-road-to-lockdown-part-two-the-deeply-sinister-way-ahead/
Part 2. Excellent piece from Paula Jardine at TCW.
The conclusion is frankly terrifying.
Last night’s Dan Wootton’s view on GBN: https://www.gbnews.uk/gb-views/locking-the-british-public-in-their-homes-by-law-should-not-be-viewed-as-a-solution-to-anything-says-dan-wootton/347462
Japan’s mask compliance is still at historic highs–and now its virus cases are at historic highs as well. If that’s “success”, I’d really hate to see what failure looks like.
I always thought that the “something must be done” bureaucrats copied the idea from Japan – it seems to be common practice on crush-loaded public transport over there, e.g. Whether it ever worked is a different issue, but it looked like a copycat job to me.
Michie said that she saw them there first and claimed to be very impressed with the social courtesy of the Japanese who’d protect others from their oral effluent as a matter of course.
This is truly scary what has been voted through in New Zealand regarding abortion.
We can never forget or forgive this level of depravity.
In a couple of states in the US there was legislation proposed to allow abortion after birth!
OMFG what is the source please? I cannot believe what I’m reading! Is this for real?? I’m pro-choice but with strict time limitations, and I do not support the current ones which state you can have an abortion up until 24 weeks, whereby the foetus is considered ‘viable’ after that. But are they really saying that now you can abort a fully-formed baby if you are 8 or 9 months pregnant?? Why isn’t this horror show all over the flipping press? Abortion based on the gender of the foetus?? I’m off to hurl, this is despicable.
I must confess my stomach churned as I read this.
Christ!
I don’t have the original source but this came from a trusted truth warrior.
I know of & treated individuals who were 23 weeks gestation at birth who lived to adulthood. Yes they had huge problems but there are limits to what is moral.
In my book, the post birth treatment of a live & viable new born is infanticide.
God Almighty!
The evil, firkin heathens. How low are we going to go?