- “Covid infection rates in England plunge by another fifth” – Office for National Statistics figures show 2.1 million were getting infected on any given day in the week up to July 26th in England, down 20% on the 2.6 million the week before, as yet another Covid wave fizzles out without any Government intervention, reports the Mail.
- “LGBT groups demand more action on monkeypox” – BBC News reports that sexual health charities have called on the Government to take firmer action to control the outbreak.
- “New study: Monkeypox may be an STD” – Finn McRedmond writes for UnHerd that a new Lancet study suggests that monkeypox could be a sexually transmitted disease, after finding that semen collected from a patient in “acute phase of infection” might contain a virus that could replicate. This view is currently considered misinformation by many media outlets.
- “Growth in NHS recruits from abroad prompts concern about over-reliance” – BBC research shows one-in-three new doctors in England last year came from outside the U.K. and EU.
- “Covid face masks ‘devastating’ bird populations all over the world” – Researchers say that human debris impacting avian wildlife is a “global issue”, the Telegraph reports.
- “The Tyranny of Coronaphobia” – Ramesh Thakur writes for Brownstone that restrictions on everyday life have been far more draconian than anything previously done, even during World War II or the great 1918-19 flu.
- “Amnesty attacked for critical report on Ukraine” – James Billot in UnHerd says that Amnesty International has been roundly condemned by pro-Ukraine voices for a new report criticising Ukraine, which warns that Ukrainian forces were jeopardising the safety of civilians by establishing bases in populated residential areas, including schools and hospitals.
- “Britain is running out of water and power and it’s a national scandal” – Ben Marlow in the Telegraph says the public should not be expected to keep paying for the repeated failures of an entire industry.
- “Britain will pay a heavy price for falling into a Net Zero trance” – We all face an apocalyptic financial disaster paying for the Government’s green pursuit, according to Ben Wilkinson in the Telegraph.
- “Europe has lost the energy war” – The livelihoods of millions have already been sacrificed, argues Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
- “No to neighbourhood ‘nudging’ – energy leaderboards are no solution to sky-high bills” – Laura Dodsworth in CapX says that energy leaderboards are pointless, distasteful and creepily authoritarian and that reducing energy is not like food waste but an immiserating race to the bottom.
- “Scotland has ‘whitewashed’ its slave trade role out of history exams to ‘vilify’ the English” – A leading historian said he asked the SNP to include Glasgow in a list of British ports “associated with slavery gains” but it refused, according to the Telegraph.
- “HMRC Spending Over £1 Million a Year on 16 Diversity & Inclusion Officers” – Guido exposes the huge waste of taxpayer funds splurged on woke non-jobs at the U.K. tax authority.
- “No, children aren’t being ‘ensnared’ by the far-Right” – Naama Kates in UnHerd says the Guardian keeps exaggerating the threat of online extremism.
- “What’s happening to blue-collar boys?” – Matt Goodwin writes that for the first time in British history, a lower proportion of white pupils are going to the most highly selective universities than any other ethnic group in the country, confounding fashionable narratives of systemic racism.
- “Unlike the Left, the Right Still Believes in Debate” – The conservative reaction to George Soros’s recent Wall Street Journal op-ed defending his support for the BLM narrative exemplifies free-speech principles – in contrast with the behaviour of Left-wing papers like the New York Times, argues Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “Pearson Textbooks Ditch Instruction for Propaganda” – Garion Frankel in Chalkboard Review writes that Pearson, one of America’s leading publishers of textbooks, assessments, and other instructional materials, has “refocused its curriculum development away from academic learning practices in pursuit of political narratives, gender theory, anti-racism, and progressive activism”.
- “Exposed: The charity you’ve never heard of turning U.K. universities woke” – A new video for the Telegraph from Cambridge’s Professor James Orr argues the solution to racial inequality will not be found by decolonising courses and suppressing freedom of speech.
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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.