- “Small victories, but the fight against ‘pandemic restrictions’ is not over” – “Those who oppose lockdowns and their associated restrictions have won the argument for now,” says Brian Monteith, but Time for Recovery has still “a great deal to do”
- “Sturgeon ‘must resign’ over deadly errors that spread COVID-19 in care homes” – According to the Scottish Daily Express, Nicola Sturgeon and former Health Secretary Jeane Freeman were dubbed ‘the Shipman Sisters’ by nurses due to their blunders in care homes in the early stages of the pandemic
- “Scots professor criticises Scottish Enterprise’s £20 million grant to Valneva” – Professor Sir Hugh Pennington has branded a £20 million grant awarded to Valneva a “waste of public money” after the firm announced it was stopping production of its Covid vaccine due to lack of orders, the Scottish Daily Express reports
- “Bus services in England face cuts as end of Covid funding looms” – Bus services across England could be axed, the Guardian says, after Covid recovery grants run out
- “A Deeper Dive Into the CDC Reversal” – The Brownstone Institute’s Jeffery A. Tucker takes a close look at the CDC’s new Covid guidance.
- “I just now notified hundreds of people at the CDC why they aren’t able to find any vaccine-related deaths” – Read Steve Kirsch’s email to staff at the CDC explaining why they aren’t finding vaccine-related deaths. He has also written separately to Director Rochelle Walensky inviting her to debate him publicly
- “Why eco-alarmists are wrong about almost everything” – “The Great Barrier Reef is not dying,” writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked “and the world is not coming to an end”
- “Read all about it: Haywards Heath leads Europe on the climate emergency” – The Conservative Woman responds to the news that Haywards Heath Town Council has endorsed the Plant Based Treaty, an initiative to tackle emissions from animal farming
- “Are smart electricity meters really in consumers’ interests? Don’t be stupid” – Rod Liddle tears into the case for smart meters in the Sunday Times
- “Nicola Sturgeon mulls green crackdown for Scottish malt” – SNP and Green ministers are concerned that emissions released during the whisky maturation process could be having a detrimental impact on the environment and health, according to the Telegraph
- “The White House and Twitter Censorship” – The Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal responds to the release of evidence showing that Biden officials wanted Twitter to ban the journalist Alex Berenson
- “Thomas Hardy’s ‘cruel’ novel given a trigger warning” – The University of Warwick is warning students Far From the Madding Crowd depict the cruelty of nature and rural life, according to the Telegraph
- “University ‘forces out’ diversity adviser for supporting bullied professor Kathleen Stock” – ‘Far left’ bosses at the University of Sheffield stand accused of forcing out their own diversity advisor over his support for Kathleen Stock, reports the Sunday Telegraph
- “Free speech is under sustained attack” – “When fanatics attack free speech, we have to ask how far the West is truly willing to go to defend it,” says this leader in the Sunday Telegraph
- “Chinese institutes at U.K. universities ‘screening out undesirable staff’” – Research seen by the Telegraph has found that staff at Confucius Institutes are having their political views and ethnic backgrounds screened by Chinese officials
- “Texas PD angers woke mob with Kyle Rittenhouse selfie” – A police department in Texas has come under fire after an officer posted a photograph of himself posing with Kyle Rittenhouse, the Daily Mail reports, and it is refusing to back down
- “Why it’s hypocritical of the Fringe to cancel comedian Jerry Sadowitz” – Recently cancelled Jerry Sadowitz has always been offensive, the Telegraph’s Dominic Cavendish points out. “So why the faux shock?”
- “UN should rehire staffer sacked for tweet against ‘indiscriminate fire’” – The Israeli Ambassador to the UN has called for its official Sarah Muscroft to be reinstated after she was dismissed for tweeting dismay at “indiscriminate rocket fire” by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Jerusalem Post reports
- “Salman Rushdie left with ‘life-changing injuries’ from stab attack” – Sir Salman Rushdie’s son has said that his father remains in a critical condition, the Sunday Times reports
- “Salman Rushdie attack suspect ‘sympathetic to Shia extremism’” – Hadi Matar, 24, from Fairview, New Jersey, is alleged to be sympathetic to Shia extremism, according to the Telegraph
- “The attack on Salman Rushdie is an attack on us all” – “We must stop giving in to this evil,” writes Tom Slater in Spiked. “Time to fight for freedom of speech”
- “The ayatollahs have found their accomplices in western liberals” – “We blame the Rushdie attack on Muslim fanatics but we shouldn’t ignore our own complicity,” writes Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times
- “What is happening now is almost totally normal” – Physicist Brian Catt tells TalkTV’s Richard Tice that people “do not need to panic” over man made climate change
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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?