- “Japan may rethink reporting of Covid cases as subvariant hits hard” – The Japanese Government is considering changing the protocol for reporting new cases, the Guardian says, in order to relieve pressure on hospitals
- “True reason for border chaos with France Exposed – and Covid not Brexit plays a key role” – According to the Express, French border officials were carrying out Covid checks during the massive backlogs over the past fortnight.
- “Corporate insolvencies jump in England and Wales after withdrawal of Covid support” – Corporate insolvencies rose sharply in England and Wales in the second quarter, the Financial Times reports, due in part to the withdrawal of the the Government’s Covid support programmes
- “The murky road to lockdown – Part One: Dr Richard Hatchett” – TCW Defending Freedom publishes the first of two articles by Paula Jardine investigating the background to the imposition of lockdown
- “Court Documents Reveal Canada’s Travel Ban Had No Scientific Basis” – Officials were frantically looking for a rationale for the vaccine mandate on public transport and “they came up short” writes Rupa Subramanya on Common Sense
- “The end of medicine?” – “Freedom of speech for the medical profession is under threat in Australia,” says the newly formed Australian Medical Professionals Society in Spectator Australia
- “‘One would not want to tarnish another journal’: Why a republished COVID-19 masks study doesn’t say it was retracted” – Retraction Watch tells of how a paper on the effect of increased carbon dioxide in children wearing masks which was retracted last year has come to be republished
- “California, Illinois Join New York to Declare Monkeypox States of Emergency” – The governors of California, Illinois and New York have issued proclamations declaring a state of emergency over Monkeypox, the Epoch Times reports
- “Countries disagree over severity of monkeypox” – Reactions to Monkeypox have “varied widely across the world”, observes Finn McRedmond in UnHerd
- “Onshore wind turbines could be 60ft taller to avoid planning rules” – Octopus Energy plans to make its turbines 25% taller and install bigger blades, according to MailOnline, so they can avoid planning restrictions
- “No change in weather extremes, just a moving of the goalposts” – Paul Homewood looks at a new Global Warming Policy Foundation paper for TCW Defending Freedom. It says that a shift in the IPCC’s methodology “has led to misleading claims about increases in weather extremes”
- “We must all wear hairshirts now to save Germany, and ourselves” – The Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard calls for Britain to help Germany and central Europe avert an energy disaster this winter as a matter of economic and strategic self-defence
- “‘Madrid will not switch off’ vows mayor amid EU’s gas crisis” – Madrid’s regional leader Isabel Diaz Ayuso, who refused to implement Covid restrictions, has squared up to the Spanish Government over its energy-saving measures, MailOnline reports
- “Welsh council scraps 20mph speed limit after community backlash” – The Telegraph reports that Monmouthshire Council has ditched a blanket 20mph speed limit after it slowed down traffic and caused more carbon emissions
- “Sadiq Khan is backing obesity claims based on shameless junk science” – Writing for CapX, Christopher Snowdon scrutinises a study claiming that TFL’s ban on junk food advertisements resulted in 94,867 fewer individuals with obesity. It’s a “classic case of garbage in, garbage out”, he says
- “Nick Cohen Observer column on hold pending investigation by publisher” – Nick Cohen’s column in the Observer has been paused, Press Gazette reports, pending an investigation into ‘Me Too’ complaints about his conduct
- “The woke cult can’t see that religion should be triggering” – “Blood, guts and miracles are as much a part of Christianity as loving your neighbour,” says Catherine Pepinster in the Telegraph, after Manchester Metropolitan University issued trigger warnings on descriptions of divine healings
- “Don’t let them spoil the Lionesses’ victory” – “Our woke elites cannot help but turn this brilliant moment into a pompous lecture,” says Fraser Myers in Spiked
- “Gary Lineker: I will not be bullied into self-censorship after ‘ludicrous’ furore over Chloe Kelly tweet” – The Match of the Day presenter has vowed to continue posting “funny” comments on Twitter, the Telegraph says, following the backlash over his pun about Chloe Kelly’s celebration of her winning goal
- “Does Stonewall have no shame?” – Writing for the Spectator, Gareth Roberts admires the audacity of Stonewall’s response to Allison Bailey’s successful Employment Tribunal case against Garden Court Chambers after it became a member of Stonewall’s Diversity Champions scheme
- “Liberalism is in Liz Truss’s blood” – It’s unusual, writes Ed West, for Left-wing families like the one Liz Truss grew up in to produce Tory children
- “My three biggest issues are net zero, lockdowns and woke gobbledegook of all kinds” – Toby appears on GB News to tell Mark Steyn why he’ll be voting for Liz Truss in the forthcoming Conservative leadership election
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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?