- “Covid lockdown bombshell: Devastating cost of U.K. shutdown laid bare – new report” – Lucy Johnston of the Sunday Express delves into a new report published by the Department of Health and Social Care and the Office of National Statistics setting out the cost of lockdowns
- “‘Covid is over’ idea may threaten booster uptake in England, scientists warn” – The booster campaign is due to start on September 5th but, the Guardian reports, scientists are concerned that many of those who are eligible might not come forward
- “Taking a puff on a new inhaler could stop you getting Covid” – The Telegraph heralds the arrival of a new inhaler that alters genetic data in the lungs to stop coronavirus taking hold
- “Jill Biden ending isolation after negative Covid tests” – The first lady is out of self-isolation after two negative Covid tests, according to NBC
- “Hong Kong Reports Most Daily Covid Cases in Over Four Months” – Bloomberg reports that Hong Kong has registered 6,513 new Covid cases, the highest number since March. There were three virus-related deaths and eight new coronavirus patients are in critical condition
- “How We Lost Agency and Acquiesced to Power” – “Keeping the peace at all costs has become a sacred and unquestionable goal among large parts of our society,” writes Thomas Harrington at the Brownstone Institute
- “Pentagon Mandates Monkeypox Vaccine, But Only For Navy” – The Babylon Bee reports on the Pentagon’s latest vaccine mandate for U.S. armed forces
- “Gates Foundation Grants Support Faculty-Led Initiative to Encourage Masking and COVID-19 Vaccines in the Developing World” – The Yale School of Management celebrates the support it received last year from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for projects promoting mask wearing and vaccine delivery in Asia and Latin America
- “Ex-NHS chief resorted to paying for his own cancer care in lockdown” – Rob McMahon, a former CEO of Leicester City West Primary Care Trust who spent thousands on private cancer treatment, says he has lost faith in Britain’s healthcare system, the Telegraph reports
- “GPs could prescribe money off energy bills under Treasury plan” – According to the Guardian, the Treasury has drawn up proposals which would see people consult their GP for an assessment on whether they are struggling enough to require help with their energy bills
- “Boris Johnson secretly approves funding for £30 billion nuclear power station” – Boris Johnson and Nadhim Zahawi have given the go ahead for financing the construction of the £30 billion Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk, reports MailOnline
- “Debunked: Europe’s claimed ‘worst drought in 500 years’” – Peer-reviewed studies, data and the IPCC reveal that “drought has not increased” and “cannot be attributed to human-caused climate change”, according to Watts Up With That
- “Prince William charity uses bank that is one of world’s biggest fossil fuel backers” – The Royal Foundation kept more than £1.1 million with J.P. Morgan Chase, the Guardian says, and it has investments in a trust that owns shares in firms that buy palm oil
- “Parents launch legal fight over gender classes for three year-olds” – A group of parents has launched legal action against compulsory ‘sexuality and gender’ classes for children as young as three, the Daily Mail reports. Ministers in the Labour-run Cardiff Government insist the new curriculum will embed sex and gender themes into day-to-day teaching
- “Female RAF recruitment chief quit over diversity targets” – A leaked email shows the female RAF chief telling her boss that allocating slots on a training course based only on gender or ethnicity was ‘unlawful’, according to the Daily Mail. She resigned the same day
- “Electoral watchdog slammed as No.10 call out ‘wokeness’ in voter fraud” – The Government has highlighted concerns that the Electoral Commission has “turned a blind eye” to “difficult” types of electoral fraud due to “woke” and politically correct sensitivities, the Daily Mail reports
- “Ineptitude and institutional wokery is the tragic legacy of Tory rule” – “The first task for the new PM must be to answer why – after 12 years in office – a left-wing agenda continues unabated,” says Douglas Murray in the Telegraph
- “The fatwa and the birth of Muslim identity politics” – “The Rushdie affair transformed Islam from a private religion into a global, politicised identity,” writes Tim Black in Spiked
- “Digital ID in Canada. Is the U.S. Next?” – Should Americans be concerned that Canada is preparing to roll out digital IDs? Writing for the Brownstone Institute, John Mac Ghlionn says the “answer is yes”
- “Facebook bans New Zealand anti-vaccine mandate campaigner Chantelle Baker” – Baker, one of New Zealand’s most vocal anti-vaccine mandate commentators, has had her page permanently banned on Facebook, according to Reclaim the Net
- “This evil ‘queering’ of St Joan” – Over in the Conservative Woman, Simon Caldwell weighs in on the Globe’s portrayal of Joan of Arc as non-binary
- “Lecturer ‘sacked for suggesting drag acts are a gross caricature’” – Cathy Boardman, a former lecturer in cultural studies at a Brighton music college, claims she has been forced out of her job after she suggested that drag acts could be viewed as sexist, the Mail On Sunday reports
- “Knowing your singular ‘theys’” – A primer on progressive pronoun usage, courtesy of Andy Lambeth
- “It wasn’t Brexit or capitalism that got us into this mess – but try telling that to the new Puritans” – “It’s clear that Britain is hitting the skids,” writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph. “What is needed are solutions, not the further embrace of punitive finger-wagging”
- “A new immigration surge for social care is a Brexit betrayal” – Writing for the Telegraph, David Goodhart takes issue with the Government‘s plan for an ‘overseas hiring spree’ for social care
- “The Frank Report XXXII” – Frank Haviland offers another healthy injection of scepticism in the New Conservative. “This week’s theme appears to be ‘Mastermind’, as the powers that be amaze us with their insight into the bleeding obvious”
- “I don’t suppose the Chinese and Russian airforces are thinking about diversity?” – Diversity, equity and inclusion “has replaced the public service ethic”, says Toby as he reacts to the resignation of the RAF recruitment chief on GB News
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On top of the scandalous waste of test & trace, uncontested contracts, loan fraud etc… all at a time when the same promoters warned an unfunded £2 billion top rate tax cut would of crippled the entire country’s future
A billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money…
…there genuinely can’t be any ‘real’ money left can there?…
The amounts they talk about cannot really exist..it’s crazy talk, that’s why they can keep talking like idiots….we all know it’s got to come to a sticky end…don’t we?
Yes..the main word being ANOTHER ….whatever millions/billions/squillions…!!A few of the headlines reminding us what the ‘another’ amounts looked like……and they awarded over 8.000 PPE contracts!! I’d say the £6 billion is peanuts in the reality of the whole farce….
Boris Johnson REFUSES to apologise for £18billion ‘cash for cronies’ scandal and says No10 moved ‘heaven and earth’ to snap up PPE – as fury mounts over government’s ‘jobs for pals’ National Audit Office said officials signed contracts for thousands of facemasks that were actually useless Daily Mail ..Jan 2020
PPE worth £600,000 destroyed during pandemic over quality concerns.. 2021.
Nov 2022 ….The company awarded large government personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts after an introduction by the Conservative peer Michelle Mone has declined to say how it would repay millions of pounds of public money for unused equipment if ordered to do so following a dispute with the government…
Tory donor’s firm behind PPE delivery now to be paid millions to burn it. 2023..
…..?
Us idiots are too stupid to understand that £15B wasted on PPE etc. is an ‘investment’ whereas giving us idiots £2B back of our own money is just so damaging. Who are the idiots now?
As does just the Pfizer product. The speed of science is truly a wonder to behold.
I suspect others haven’t been taking their medicines, because you taking your meds protects me and me taking my meds protects you, remember. Or, if we fast forward this idea to its logical conclusion, if you (or any mammals) didn’t exist, or at least didn’t occupy any space near me, then I wouldn’t get ill.
Like Net Zero grifters and cultists much of the Covidian-industrial-complex’s illogical NPI regime stems from literally the same MO as the cartoon super villain Thanos from the Marvel Avengers:
“Thanos was a genocidal warlord from Titan, whose objective was to bring stability to the universe by wiping out half of all life at every level, as he believed its massive population would inevitably use up the universe’s entire supply of resources and perish.”
The Avengers may of appealed to more adults if its cast of super villains were Al Gore, John Brennan, Jeremy Farrar, Chris Whitty, Anthony Fauci, António Guterres, Ursula von der Leyen etc, with a long origins story of Rhodes, Miller, Dulles, Bush etc.
…what CAN the NHS deal with is really the question? Next headline, “NHS collapses after mounting Athlete’s foot and Veruca outbreak!!?
I’m curious how norovirus – with a faecal/oral route of transmission – is getting past all those antiseptic handwash dispensers everywhere, multi-surface wipes and super-efficient (sic) face masking: are people back to licking food packaging or something? Or doesn’t all that stuff work then?
These have never been 100% effective in a hospital environment. Face masks have never been part of the infection control arsenal for norovirus in all the 30+ years I worked in the NHS. Gloves & plastic aprons yes, soap & hot water yes, masks – never.
Oh, I know, it was entirely sarcasm, like the rest of my comment. Spent 30+ years in health care myself being told that paper masks only lasted 20 mins tops and only for particulates (ie spit). Gloves & aprons only if changed between patients/procedures, not worn for a whole shift, etc. Came as quite a surprise when everything suddenly developed antiviral super-powers back in 2020.
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Yep – what he said!
Good old soap and hot water hand washing is best to protect from norovirus, not alcohol based products. I think there’s a danger now that some people think a quick squirt of antiseptic gel replaces traditional hand washing / hygiene methods.
Absolutely – I vaguely recall a study done back a couple of decades ago where soap/water & a decent hand washing technique was shown to be far more effective than various gunks.
The gunk was for use as last resort in the community setting where hand washing facilities in the patient’s home was less than salubrious….
If you’ve worked in the domiciliary setting, you’ll know!
It’s always been soap for me..besides the fact that coronaviruses are almost impossible to pick up from a surface anyway…what the hell is in the ingredients list of ‘hand sanitiser’…?
Whenever they tried to make me use it I said, sorry, can’t I have dermatitis! LOL….
At one of our locals..which we fell out with because they became Covid zealots way beyond the norm….they were spraying tables and such none stop…Mr Gum picked up the bottle and saw…’not to be used near pets and fish’…!! …well what does it do to a human then??
… in the New Statesman. (Statesperson, surely?)
If I remember correctly, getting prissy about e.g. Chairman, Chairwoman, Chairperson, Chair is how all this bullshit started.
It is and some of the earlier changes, such as modifying ‘Chairman’ to ‘Chair’ it seemed to me then, and now, as reasonable. But it was definitely the thin end of the wedge.
…I’ve always been mortally offended and have to find a safe space in which to recover when I see a man-hole cover!! ……LOL….!!
Codpiece?
Our eldest grandson at nursery this week and it’s drawing time.
Staff member to our little one:
“What’s your drawing about H?”
I’m drawing ‘happy’ because I’m always happy.
The wisdom of children. He’s three and a half. And, he is always happy.
It brought a tear to my eye. It still does.
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing, HP, puts a spring in my step today.
Thanks Aethelred.
Aww! You big softie…..I hope he stays that way..I was always the kid with the ‘sunshine personality’ and am still like that ….. so it is possible!!
Yes, I am a softie ebg. That’s probably why I am here.
Thank you.
Fantastic! But sadly, children traumatised by lockdowns and related measures, and those traumatised by the death of a child in their family (including abortions) are not always happy.
Rees-Mogg has no credibility. He was absent on the job during covid.
Agree tof. I don’t know what he is up to but he is definitely not an ally. His behaviour these last three years has been cowardly and shameful.
He has been a huge disappointment. I thought he had promise. It is the nature of politicians to disappoint, it seems.
“down the drain”
The money didn’t go there: it went into bank accounts.
Absolutely. Mediaspeak language attempts to downplay the heinous act of actually transferring our tax money into the bank accounts of various individuals. I would want to know everything about these contracts involving the tendering process, the contract award process, the individuals in the government signing this off and what they based their decisions on.
…read my previous comment above…they awarded over 8.000 ‘PPE and associated’ contracts….yep, plenty of pockets were filled….and no, we will never know….
I’ve said this millions of times, but it’s true…we are in a war with our own Government…..they just go from one immoral fraud to the next…and they don’t even try to hide it…
We have now moved on to the Ukraine money making part of the scheme, headed by Boris….I posted this when it came out a couple of weeks ago…
the largest donation to a single MP..£1 million pounds!…..Just a week between one and the other!!
“Defence firm part-owned by Johnson’s £1m donor wins £80m MoD contractChristopher Harborne is the largest single shareholder in QinetiQ, which announced a lucrative government deal this week”
“QinetiQ”
Was not QinetiQ itself a derivative of a previous government organisation that Bliar ‘privatised’ and then sold off for knock down money or am I confused?
I don’t know..but I wouldn’t be surprised….! I’m not sure why we are all putting up with it…when will the dam break?
https://www.qinetiq.com/en/our-company/our-history
It was a government department. Bliar sold it to Carlyle Group (USA). The lead civil servants of QinetiQ were made directors and when the sale went through they were multi miionaires.
Obviously there is no suggestion that T. Bliar received any ‘thank you dividends’ as a result of this largesse which deprived British taxpayers of millions but given his history of theft it would be reasonable to assume he took delivery of a large brown suitcase.
Qinitiq:
“Headquartered in Farnborough, QinetiQ is a military tech firm, and part of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, which was part of the UK government until it was sold off in the early 2000s. Think of it as if James Bond’s Q was privatised.
Among its major sales to government were more than 2,000 Talon robots made by subsidiary company Foster-Miller, which were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan to defuse roadside bombs. They also develop and sell drone aircraft.
The government sell-off of the firm caused quite a stir. In 2003, private equity giant Carlisle paid £42 million for a third of the company. Three years later, they sold it for £347 million, ensuring a bumper pay day for senior executives.”
Kerching?
Money laundering from the taxpayer to the already too wealthy in plain sight.
Fat chance.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/25/ltns-cover-three-quarters-boroughs-roads-despite-resident-backlash/
These deliberate attempts to imprison people are clearly being directed by our WEF middle managers in Downing St. The LTN’s will be rolled out across the country over this year unless we stop them.
The most realistic solution is for massive Borough wide uprisings and we the people will have to take over the Town Halls and throw out the crummy mafia charlatans currently in occupation. It would be no more illegal than what Town Councils are attempting. It is not as if ANY local politicians were elected with mandates for these fascistic measures.
Let’s be blunt – the gloves are off.
Fabulous, stirring post, HP! To the barricades!
Thanks Aethelred.
There is a protest in Oxford against 15 minute cities on 18 February organised by Together. We have to fight as these plans are contained in UN Agenda 2030 which is already written into our legislation e.g. the Town and Country Planning Act and on which there is no democratic mandate. Problem is most people think the UN is ok, whereas it is just another arm of the campaign to impoverish developed economies.
Plus – after the successful leafleting of Oxford, Not Our Future are planning leafleting events in 4 more towns: Bath, Bristol, Canterbury & Edinburgh.
https://notourfuture.org/four-more-cities-targeted/
Bally Bristol!
yes but what is an ltn?
Apologies Hugh. I normally explain acronyms in the post but I assumed, wrongly, that people would know what I meant in this instance.
LTN – Low Traffic Neighbourhood
ULEZ – Ultra Low Emission Zone
“Footage shows Pfizer Director Physically Assault James O’Keefe and Veritas Staff”
Well, this was entertaining. Quite a lot of theatrics but I’d say they well and truly skewered this Pfizer director hence his hysterical outburst. He said that he had been lying to impress his date and that he lied about mutating the virus to make it more virulent and so Pfizer could sell more – cough – ‘vaccines’. Eh? The ‘date’ seemed so unlike any date I’ve been on but maybe I’m old school. That apart, if we are to believe this, which seems credible, the admission just neatly segues into the wholesale corruption happening at high levels within Big Pharma. These companies have literally hit the motherlode in the past three years and have made billions in profits from something that is still experimental and dangerous but that is or has been mandated by governments, hospitals, businesses etc so guaranteed sales. We are getting near to the truth and their whole narrative is falling apart quickly. At some point, the dam will burst.
“Jacob Rees-Mogg joins GB News as he hails ‘bastion of free speech’”
I’m slowly going off GB News I’m sorry to say. Since Mark Steyn’s departure it hasn’t been the same. Now we get the likes of Farage and Fox, who although they can be OK now and then, are definitely not Steyn. Both men are politicians or at least want to be and they have agendas. Steyn had no political ambitions that I know of, he was just interested in getting to the truth often in a humorous and swashbuckling sort of way. Thank god Neil Oliver is still there. I didn’t know this but he is hated by Scottish Nationalists. I posted one of his monologues on my Fb page and I had this irate scot called Dog comment in a not very nice way. I knew Dog in Portugal when I lived there. He seemed OK although of that hard-headed piratical persuasion that doesn’t listen to anyone else. Anyway, Neil Oliver is gold dust in my view. What is JRM going to bring to the table? More of his superciliousness and arrogance perhaps? Bring back Steyn!
With you entirely Aethelred.
I saw a clip of Fox interviewing Kelvin Mackenzie last night. Fox is unable to disassociate himself from his acting past and frankly it was embarrassing to watch.
Farage is now, I believe simply playing a role too.
And as posted previously JRM has effectively been AWOL these last three years. I no longer have any trust in him.
Isn’t he coming back when he’s recovered?
Moving short film of the ‘Truth be Told’ event for the vaccine injured and bereaved held in London last Saturday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exUwYR3rV_I
Another indication of serious harm through the gene therapies. Deribed from analysing official population-wide data in NZ.
Good for urologists though. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-a-big-new-zealand-study-reveals?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Interesting tweet from Ethical Sceptic (USA)…someone who does a lot of ‘stats’ in relation to Covid, and who I have always found, as far as I am able, to do trustworthy analysis…the vax solution will outweigh covid deaths by July!! Eek!
@EthicalSkeptic
This acceleration of Profile II Mortality has closed the date upon which our ‘Solution’ deaths will surpass all Covid deaths, to 24 Jul 2023.
Currently ‘Solution’ death rate is 76% higher than the avg Pandemic Covid weekly death rate.
Bloody hell!
https://www.edelman.com/sites/g/files/aatuss191/files/2023-01/2023%20Edelman%20Trust%20Barometer%20Global%20Report.pdf
Interesting survey…you can download the whole thing, but I thought this page was interesting….the graph (about 4 graphs down)…”economic optimism collapses”
The % who say “my family will be better off in five years…”
It’s quite telling that the West has substantially fallen..the only country with a +…China…..!
Investigate UK excess deaths not related to Covid. – Petitions (parliament.uk)
On the week ending the 28th of October the ONS reported excess deaths were 12.5% above the 5 year average. With only 717 deaths out of 12,861 involving Covid. This alarming excess death percentage, needs investigating by the Government and the root causes laid out in a public report.
Not a chance. When have politicians and bureaucrats ever admitted they were wrong? Don’t you know they’re our betters?
Why on earth didn’t that construction worker not claim racism as his defence. as five pigs surrounded him and ignored others not wearing masks?? And if he asked the prosecution to produce their empirical proof that masks were beneficial he might have saved himself £200.
I am curious about norovirus in hospitals – are people being admitted for treatment for it, or are they catching it once they’ve been admitted for something else? I suspect the latter…although it makes you feel like you are dying, it is easily treated at home. I would give anyone with norovirus a very wide berth indeed!
I have to say that some of the dirtiest and smelliest of lavatories I have ever come across have been in hospitals ; I know sick people can’t help it sometimes, but the cleaning is very poor and very tardy. Most people I know who have spent more than a few days in hospital seem to develop infections and/or catch viruses whilst in there.
I have a ‘thing’…I have always believed in the antiseptic power of vinegar….LOL!
I saw a programme years ago where a scientist said that when they tested different cleaners in a shower…vinegar killed more bugs than everything else, including bleach!! It’s properties have been known about for centuries….
It is a source of hilarity in my family, but they know that if I ever have to go into hospital I have told them I want a bottle of good cider vinegar for my insides, and an ordinary bottle to sluice down my outsides…!!
With things the way they are now I’m also adding some kind of self-defence item
in case there’s a giant strapping Steve-now-Sylvia in the next bed!! LOL!
https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/21/coronavirus-crackdown-beware-the-new-normal/
“the police state they want to birth is a disease with a much higher death-rate than 2%, and it won’t be cured with two-weeks bed-rest.”
From an article posted by the brilliant Kit Knightly at Off-G on 21/03/20.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-01-26-netherlands-shut-down-europes-largest-gas-field.html
WTF are they playing at?
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-01-26-data-shows-globalists-succeeding-with-depopulation-plan.html
As I have been posting on here for months. This is all about depopulation.
https://www.technocracy.news/lab-grown-meat-moves-closer-to-american-dinner-plates/
First the EU with Acheta (crickets) and now the USA. I wonder how soon before deaths occur?
Eww, sounds really unappealing. Not on your nelly.
https://www.technocracy.news/siemens-chairman-calls-for-billion-people-to-stop-eating-meat/
Oh look, more ‘rules for thee but not for me.’
Well this is just depressing. 10,000 ducks culled on a farm due to bird flu. The numbers just keep rising and rising. It all seems not just completely cruel and wasteful but also totally ineffective! Bird flu isn’t going anywhere and I really don’t know what the answer is, this not being my field of expertise, but it’s pretty bloody obvious by now that slaughtering these creatures in their millions is not a viable solution to the problem.
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/01/10000-ducks-culled-in-latest-bird-flu-outbreak-in-gelderland/
It’s my sincere hope that the insect farms will have to close down due to rising energy costs just like these vertical veggie farms. They’re currently building the biggest vertical farm in the world in France especially for their insect food fetish and I have no idea if the electricity requirements are greater for farming lettuce or bugs. It seems to me that it’s the wrong kind of farms getting closed down over here.
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/01/vertical-farm-pioneer-toppled-by-rising-energy-costs/
It is easy to feel contempt for thoe who swallowed the narrative and on closer examination these people are indeed weak but you have to have forbearance. They are perfectly kind people in many areas of their lives they are simply not strong enough to face a full dose of reality. T.S. Eiot said that; that mankind can’t face very much reality. That would never show up in an IQ test. They torture themselves most of all, the intelligent people who can’t overcome their cowardice so I thik they deserve compassion. We haven’t exactly engendered a culture of courage.
Eliot?
Didn’t you know, Christians are already criminalised – silent prayer is now a thought crime. Make no mistake, these people are bent on becoming a parody of their nickname of the “Not The Conservative Party”.
And by the way, what on Earth is ” ‘trans’ conversion therapy”? Stuff your newspeak.