- “Covid has not gone away, but we can now protect ourselves through science not restrictions – so get your booster” – Read Health Secretary Steve Barclay’s take on the pandemic in the Mail.
- “How ‘living with Covid’ is helping keep England’s infections stubbornly high” – Alarmist Guardian report that, a year on from ‘Freedom Day’, Government messaging promoting a sense of the pandemic being over is having the opposite effect, according to selected experts.
- “The NHS is not working” – The National Health Service continues to disintegrate into chaos and, in some places, paralysis, writes Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Short-term Fatality Rate in Israel of a Third Dose” – Professor Eyal Shahar writes for Brownstone that a “vaccine with a fatality rate on such a scale is not ‘safe – at least according to public health standards”.
- “The 1968-69 ‘Hong Kong Flu’ Pandemic Revisited” – Jeffrey Tucker on Brownstone asks why our public health responses have become so extreme.
- “Owen Jones, Peter Hitchens, and the Argument From Authority” – William Poulos takes a careful look at how people argue and when it’s logically sound to appeal to authority, with particular attention to the pandemic.
- “New Zealand falls out of love with Jacinda Ardern” – The once popular Kiwi leader is crashing in the polls, says Tom Chodor in UnHerd. The abject failure of her costly Covid strategy can’t be helping matters.
- “Unresolved Government disputes with Covid PPE suppliers may cost taxpayer £2.7bn, MPs warn as they claim scandal ‘beggars belief’” – The Mail reports that, according to a damming report, British taxpayers could have to pay a £2.7 billion bill due to Government failures in checking substandard PPE suppliers during the pandemic.
- “Bacterial and fungal isolation from face masks under the COVID-19 pandemic” – A study in Nature which cultured bacteria and fungi from 109 people’s face masks found several pathogenic microbes.
- “Germany is at Russia’s mercy” – It’s difficult to think of a way Germany could have made itself more dependent on Russian goodwill if it had tried, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Spectator.
- “Extinction Rebellion smash windows at Rupert Murdoch’s offices in protest over Sun and Times’ climate coverage” –
CampaignersVandals claim the newspapers failed to highlight the “terrifying dangers” of the heatwave, the Telegraph reports. - “The Democrats’ green war on the working class” – Batya Ungar-Sargon writes in Spiked that the obsession with climate change is hammering the poor and driving voters to the right.
- “Climate Monitoring Since The Little Ice Age” – Paul Homewood says that the jokers at the Met Office don’t seem to have realised that their temperature records begin at the depth of the Little Ice Age, or appear to have heard about Urban Heat Islands.
- “Weather ‘too hot’ for solar panels” – Power output during the heatwave dropped below levels typically reached in spring, the Telegraph reports.
- “Kylie Jenner branded ‘climate criminal’ after her private plane makes 17-minute flight” – The make-up mogul’s jet travelled 40 miles, the equivalent of a hop from Gatwick to Heathrow, generating huge amounts of pollution, reports the Telegraph.
- “Report: Joe Biden May Call for a ‘Climate Emergency’ This Week” – President Joe Biden may call for a national climate emergency this week in the wake of his Build Back Better plan imploding, invoking powers usually reserved for natural disasters or terrorist attacks, reports Breitbart News.
- “The Tories will regret rejecting Kemi Badenoch” – Madeline Grant writes in the Telegraph that Kemi’s insurgent campaign offered glimpses of a new brand of unapologetic and forthright conservatism.
- “Twitter granted fast-track trial in bid to force Elon Musk to complete $44bn takeover” – The company’s lawyers argue the Tesla billionaire is harming the social network “every hour of every day”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Going ‘gender neutral’ is not inclusive” – Maya Forstater in UnHerd says a bombshell report lays out why single-sex services matter.
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“Grant Shapps faces Tory mutiny over hydrogen levy plans”
Not put off by the billions wasted on badly thought out plans to counter the thing that isn’t happening, we’re going to double down, again..?
“Insolent, unproductive and dominated by HR, the Civil Service thinks it rules Britain”
‘Release them back to the private sector’.? They wouldn’t last a morning in the private sector.
“They wouldn’t last a morning in the private sector.”
Absolutely correct. The senior civil servants I came across when I worked amongst them were thick, arrogant beyond belief, clueless job-wise and masters at ducking and diving. Of the scores I cam across only two would have stood a chance working in the private sector.
It and the people are not much different in the large corporation part of the private sector anymore.
Igor has made an interesting discovery using UK data regarding a significant increase in hospitalizations 6 months post Covid booster;
”The most important fact we see is that for people over 50, the most dangerous period after vaccination is between 6 and 9 months after their last dose. Their risk of hospitalization is several times higher than before six months or after nine months. The increase in risk far outweighs a small reduction in the first six months.
So, people who take a Covid booster first go through a somewhat reduced hospitalization risk for the first six months, then go through a dramatically heightened risk of hospitalization, then hospitalization rates “return to normal,” with the normal being very high. Does that look like the vaccine provides any benefit? Not to me!”
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/ukhsa-boosters-greatly-increase-covid
Neil Oliver
Well said, that man. Much sense spoken.
Just a thought on ULEZ:
Are these prisons being built in preparation for Billy’s next release?
“Catastrophic Contagion” is apparently going to be the big one. How much more effective and targeted would it be if people were closely confined in 15 minute cities?
Excellent point Hux, ref the LTNs especially, something I’ve been ruminating on too.
I also wondered about the power supply required by all that additional surveillance: the local town is just finishing off it’s 2nd ‘smart junction’ and about to start a 3rd, the multiple cameras of which are all cabled. As are the many additional street cameras installed during the lockdowns – all while we’re being told to freeze to death in the dark at home. How’s that supposed to meet Net Zero then?
“I also wondered about the power supply required by all that additional surveillance”
This is where the £37 billion on Track and Trace went, something I have mentioned numerous times – smart junctions, smart cameras. T and T was never just about a bloody app.
Hey don’t forget about ‘Outbreak 24’, the SARS-5 plandemic scheduled for next year.
They’re keeping us guessing obviously. Wow these pandemics really are like buses…
I’ve not heard of ‘Outbreak 24’ Mogs. Can you post a link?
https://rumble.com/v28nqro-outbreak-24-simulazione-della-pandemia-2024-dove-il-virus-sars-cov-5-creer-.html
This simulation was in Italy in 2021. There’s probably plenty more that we’re not even aware of. Obsessive b’stards!
Many thanks Mogs.
“Fake trans applicants ‘could trick universities’”
But but but aren’t straight A pupils – whatever their race, creed or colour – simply a result of white privilege? It’s only your pronouns that count these days…..
…and this just in from down under:
https://rumble.com/v297guk-february-11-2023.html
I was appalled to learn that the Guardian loons had accused Neil Oliver of antisemitism. To accuse someone of antisematism because they talk about global elites and their out in the open conspiracies is disgusting.
Made me feel quite sick
The Groan is a sickening travesty of a publication even by the sickening standards of the MSM.
Interesting take by Craig Murray on the Sy Hersh story. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/02/sy-hersh-and-the-way-we-live-now/
“… But what most worries me about the entire story is the unanimous complicity of the mainstream media in ignoring the completely obvious.
The media line, parroted here relentlessly by the BBC and corporate media, was that the Russians had probably themselves blown up the pipeline on which they had expended such great resources and three decades of intense diplomatic activity, and which was to be the key to Russia’s single most valuable source of income for the next 40 years.
This was always quite literally incredible. You would have to be deranged to believe it.
It actually taught me not just that we truly are in the realm of totalitarianism and the Big Lie, but I learnt something very important about how the Big Lie works.
The secret is not that people genuinely believe an outrageous claim. The secret is that people do genuinely believe that they are in a battle of good against evil, and it is necessary to accept the narrative being promoted, in the interests of fighting evil.
Don’t question, just follow. If you do question, you are promoting evil.
I am sure that is how it works.
State and corporate stenographer journalists are actually intelligent individuals. If they thought about it, they would realise that the narrative that Russia blew up its own pipeline is obvious nonsense.
But they are convinced it is morally wrong to think about it…. ”
There is also the not to be overlooked issue of the No2Nato event on 25.2.in London having to go underground.
That development aloneis actually a confirmation of Peter Hitchens fear already having become reality.
He suggests attending it even if you disagree but are pro free speech.
https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/edible-insects-european-union#:~:text=In%20May%202021%2C%20the%20European,the%20house%20cricket%20in%20March
A load of crap about…crap.