- “Covid hospitalisations have now peaked in every region” – NHS England data show daily admissions are trending downwards across the country and have fallen by nearly a fifth since the peak in some areas, the Mail reports.
- “Children up to four years old were just as likely to die from the flu or a stroke as Covid at the height of the Omicron wave, data shows – and those aged 5 to 14 were four times more likely to die from cancer” – Breaking the figures down by age group showed that among children aged one to four years cancer was the leading cause of death followed by heart disease, while Covid was in third place with the flu and a stroke, reports the Mail.
- “Europe must act now or risk tougher Covid measures later” – European nations must accelerate vaccine uptake and bring back mask wearing to tackle a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by an Omicron offshoot and avoid stricter measures later in the year, a senior World Health Organisation official said on Tuesday, according to the Cyprus Mail.
- “Covid inquiry sidelining children, MPs and campaigners fear” – The first three modules of inquiry were announced on Thursday, but none explicitly mentions effects of crisis on youngsters, reports the Telegraph.
- “Support for vax passes, mask mandates waning” – George J. Dance says that Canadians’ tolerance of Covid vaccine passports and mask mandates has waned, according to a national polling firm.
- “‘Manipulated’ Alzheimer’s data may have misled research for 16 years” – The Telegraph reports on a scandal that surrounds a 2006 article, a keystone of recent dementia work, that critics say is based on “shockingly blatant” evidence tampering.
- “Patronising, selective, abusive – the vaccine propaganda machine at its worst” – Laura Perrins in TCW Defending Freedom was not impressed with the BBC’s Unvaccinated.
- “More Injections, More Infections?” – The Swiss Doctor asks if Covid vaccinations drive Covid infections.
- “Why I’m glad the Libs lost” – Liberal they ain’t, says James Allen in Spectator Australia.
- “Why I won’t have a Covid booster” – Lionel Shriver in the Spectator says three is quite enough risk to bear.
- “Green energy shift gives China ‘leverage’ over Britain, Lords warn” – Overreliance on Beijing’s critical minerals market is a “national security concern”, the Telegraph reports.
- “CNN director on the pivot to climate activism” – El Gato Malo with the video of a CNN director saying they are pivoting from Covid alarmism to climate alarmism.
- “Climate Alarmists Respond to the Global Warming Pause” – Eric Worrall in WUWT doesn’t find the rebuttal persuasive: “The oceans swallowed my global warming? Desperate butt covering from alarmists who are facing increasingly embarrassing questions about the failure of the world to end.”
- “Stagflation and Net Zero” – The U.K. Government is not honestly communicating the economic cost of moving to Net-Zero by 2050 and meeting the planned carbon reductions by 2030, write Professor Brian Sturgess, Chris Hill and Oliver Ontiveros in EnviroTech.
- “Dave Chappelle’s latest cancellation should trouble us all” – Comedian Dave Chappelle was due to perform a sell-out stand-up show last night, but just hours before he took to the stage the show was called off, and it’s not hard to guess why, says Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “Woke activism has no place in the classroom” – Too many schools are teaching children divisive ideas about race, against the wishes of parents, says Alka Sehgal Cuthbert in Spiked.
- “‘Cancel culture’ backfires as donors pull cash from Edinburgh University” – A tower named after philosopher David Hume was rechristened in 2020 after students condemned comments he made relating to race, but the decision has cost the university dear, reports the Telegraph.
- “Making social class a ‘protected characteristic’ is patronising nonsense” – It’s a nebulous concept so highly subjective, it’s almost impossible to define – so of course it’s squaring up to be the new flashpoint, says Judith Woods in the Telegraph.
- “Police told to focus on catching criminals, not ‘Twitter debates’” – The Telegraph reports that new guidance warns officers not to intervene in “trivial or irrational” online incidents simply because someone is offended.
- “Free Speech Union writes to Lancaster council leader over Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown show cancellation” – The Free Speech Union has written to Lancaster City Council leader Caroline Jackson over the council’s decision to cancel the Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown show in Morecambe next month, the Lancaster Guardian reports.
- “Disney rebrands ‘Fairy Godmother’ roles to make them gender neutral” – The move reflects the woke company’s desire to prioritise “inclusion” and operate with “greater flexibility with respect to forms of personal expression”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk is right about ESG” – The label has become indistinguishable from a scam, says Greg Barker in UnHerd.
- “Against Tory tinkering” – Bin the Online Safety Bill, says Charlie Peters in the Critic.
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“Downing Street […] scrambles to get it signed before Donald Trump takes office”.
Yes, that’s going to go down well with the new US President. /sarc
That goes beyond incompetence – it is literally mind boggling.
Freedom, EVs and the future;
This is a good practical summary of the situation with regard to Electric Cars (EVs) and our future;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9HfuM-sYxQ
The final conclusion is pertinent to the politics and the scam of EVs, the end aim is not for us all to switch from petrol/diesel (ICE) cars to EVs but to switch most of us to having no car at all.The effect on life in the UK will be huge, the loss of travel freedom, the restrictions on our lives and activities will be profound. Maybe this idea;
“It’s time to become the 51st state of the U.S.”
Is worth some consideration?
Yes, the intention is to remove all private transport except for the elites.
Once the majority of the population have their personal transport taken from them society will grind to a halt, in effect all but collapse because the few millions still employed in the private sector will be unable to get to work. The public sector will simply mess about at home.
Chinese stealth jet is ‘super weapon’ that could control the skies
‘According to Justin Bronk, Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), while the aircraft’s design is “fascinating,” it is likely part of China’s ongoing regional bomber/strike fighter development, rather than their sixth-generation fighter programme.’
Britain first flew a flying wing prototype in 1949
The Chinese are no doubt keen to encourage the U.S. and so European countries to spend more on defence in order to achieve conventional deterrence and peace once more in Europe, making the world a safer place.
China has a long border with Russia…and Russia still occupies large territories that were part of historical China.
As I was reading about the ‘Stealth Super-plane’, I did wonder how it managed to get itself ‘spotted in the skies’. If you can see it by looking upwards, it doesn’t sound too stealthy to me.
You do realise that lack of a tail is not what makes it stealthy.And Britain flew its first successful tailless aircraft in 1910 with the Dunne D5.
“Hospital wards ‘full to bursting’, leading doctor warns”
A sharp increase in winter illnesses..? What shockingly rotten bad luck. I thought after having a sharp rise in winter illnesses for every one of the last 70 years, we might just escape it this time.
I did notice flu stayed conveniently out of the way to make room for covid! That was puzzling, or maybe it was just counted as covid instead? Kept the scary covid numbers up
Surely we could have expected some relief from the “sharp increase in Winter illnesses” after the jabathon of the last three years. Are we to conclude that les jabs have not worked?
I’m having trouble logging in using Firefox. The problem seemed to start yesterday – it keeps telling me I have entered the wrong password. Chromium is working so it’s not my password that’s wrong.
I’m checking to see if FF updated itself again.
I was logged out three times yesterday.
Try Brave, great browser.
I use Firefox; this is the current version. Just occasionally, this site doesn’t remember my login details – not every day.
I very much doubt Russia sends its shadow fleet to circumnavigate the world. I think they’re trying to circumvent sanctions instead.
English as she is spoke.