- “Why on earth did we give up our freedom without an argument?” – Janet Daley in the Telegraph warns that “we cannot afford to ignore the collective nervous breakdown which triggered the West’s lurch into lockdown”.
- “Moderna sues BioNTech/Pfizer?” – Dr. Robert Malone, one of the original inventors of mRNA vaccine technology, gives his take on the pharma showdown over who got there first.
- “Moderna and Pfizer: Cat Fight!” – Jeffrey Tucker at the Brownstone Institute writes that “there is absolutely no theory of political economy in existence that could possibly justify this combination of 1) private company with vast tax funding, 2) government-enforced monopoly claims of ownership, 3) indemnification against damage claims, 4) publicly-traded stocks, plus 5) a forced customer base. And to top it all off, it’s not even clear that the product worked; it certainly did not live up to the wild claims from top government officials.”
- “Whistleblower Disputes Data Glitch Explanation Behind Drastic Increase in Non-Infectious Diseases in Military” – A medical Army officer who discovered a sudden increase in disease coinciding with reports of side effects alongside COVID-19 vaccines – which the Army has dismissed as a data glitch – said he faces involuntary separation after being convicted but not punished for disobeying COVID-19 protocol, according to the Epoch Times.
- “Booster jabs for all is waste of taxpayer cash, says AstraZeneca boss” – The Chief Executive of AstraZeneca, Pascal Soriot, tells the Telegraph that widespread annual COVID -19 booster jabs are “not a good use” of taxpayer cash, since, according to him, research shows that the vaccine gives protection against severe disease for a long time.
- “Exhaustive study of German mortality data finds excess deaths tightly correlated with mass vaccination” – Eugyppius discusses a new study by Christof Kuhbandner and Matthias Reitzner that applies actuarial analysis to the all-cause mortality data provided by the German Government and finds some surprising results.
- “We really are back to the Seventies – even the Tories accept the high-spending consensus” – Daniel Hannan complains in the Telegraph that it used to be possible for politicians to argue for a smaller state and win elections, but lockdown has changed everything.
- “Inspirational Message To The Unvaccinated” – Dr. Pierre Kory shares a message he received from a member of his term that he found extremely powerful.
- “Friday Funny – There is No Climate Emergency” – Unless you are on the doom news payroll, says Josh, with a new cartoon on WUWT.
- “Electric cars will be more expensive to run than petrol” – The Telegraph reports that the cost of travelling long distances will be much higher under the new price cap.
- “Did the RAF break the law in its pursuit of diversity?” – Guy Adams in the Mail is pretty sure he knows what the answer is.
- “Drew Barrymore is accused of being racist for video of her frolicking” – Drew Barrymore was branded racist over a video of herself enjoying a rainstorm – after woke killjoys claimed she’d copied a trend dubbed ‘black men frolicking’, according to the Mail. Focus on the important things, guys.
- “The New York Times is eating itself” – Jenny Holland in Spiked wonders why the world’s most ‘liberal’ newsroom is being accused of racism (Spoiler: it’s because ‘POC’ employees aren’t being rated as highly, which obviously can only be due to discrimination).
- “The woke mob’s maddest idea yet: fighting sexism… by going topless” – Campaigners really do seem to believe that they can end the ‘sexualisation’ of women by getting their kit off in public, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph – but he’s not convinced they’ve thought it through.
- “The case of the Benin bronzes, or how the woke monster is eating itself” – Juliet Samuel in the Telegraph thinks the case is complex, but one thing we should be clear about: We should reject any claim that revives, for political purposes, the use of bloodlines as a legal instrument.
- “Universities drop Chaucer and Shakespeare as ‘decolonisation’ takes root” – An increasing number of U.K. universities have sought to ‘liberate’ their courses from ‘white, Western and Eurocentric’ knowledge, according to the Telegraph – entirely failing to understand their role in sustaining British and European culture.
- “The police removing lesbians from a pride parade. The pride movement no longer supports gay people” – Tweet from Andrew Doyle on the trans takeover of Pride.
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We make our own so Tesco can jog on
Thanks for the suggestion – will try it.
Mrs ToF does one with beetroot too
Tahini also goes well on toast
Kudos. Nothing beats homemade hummus, taramasalata and salsa dips, stored in re-usable pots, preferably glass!
Please share your recipe, our efforts have always been subpar.
Yeo Valley, whose Yoghurt I eat a lot of, did away with their lids a year or so ago. I saved a few before the axe fell, I’m now down to the last one. Sad days.
1 tin of chickpeas, drained. Pinch of salt. 2 tablespoons of tahini paste. Juice of 1 small lemon. 3 tablespoons of olive oil (add more later if comes out too thick). Put it all in a food processor and blend to a paste. Sprinkle paprika on top before serving. Beetroot version – same recipe but add a small cooked beetroot. Bon appetit!
Forgot to add two small cloves of garlic
We buy this sort of thing for picnics; there’s always some left to take home. Without something more robust to cover them the pots can’t be stacked in the fridge or in the cooler bag. We’d probably end up binning what’s not used.
As for ‘consume within 2 days of opening’… Well let’s put it this way: I ignore that and I’m not dead yet.
Horrible stuff.
More likely cost-cutting you will see cheaper packaging in all shops from now on. If you start being that tight-arsed you’re going to put people off shopping with you. And also people will rightly ask, if they are cutting costs to the bone like this then what else seen or uinseen are they doing. Of course it is happening with processed foods where the ingrdients were already dirt cheap and barely legal and have now degraded further. We shouldn’t have to do things like this in this country.
I know a Chinese Restaurant like that, getting the out of date stuff to cut costs.
No it’s not cost-cutting! It’s increasing cost: a hidden cost for consumers.
All the reduced plastic/plastic free nonsense incurs a cost for retooling machines, redesigning and restructuring the production line and how these items are handled, packaged and stored.
Replacing plastic packaging with other materials is a process of trial and error and stability and safety testing to guarantee shelf-life.
All this cost is passed on to consumers.
On another topic, I read two articles yesterday about the comments about Englishness made by Jenrick. One was a DS article, the other was by Mark Steyn. They both made the point that he couldn’t even define Englishness, and yet, that didn’t stop some rabid lefty towards the end of Patrick’s show on GB News from calling him a racist FFS.
Waitrose do the same with their taramasalata.
It just makes me finish it off the following day.
Problem solved.
Robust containers. Build quality. No diminution in the quality of ingredients. If you can’t vouchsafe those things then disappear into the sewer where you rightfully belong. This is your long drawn out retreat into the shadows. Don’t try and drag the rest of us with you. You will just meet your demise sooner than expected.
Don’t be naive around these people because they will continue to fleece you until you lose your naivete. I know it is difficult if you are a respectable decent person that just wants to behave appropriately but you have to be aware of the scam lest your ignorance makes it worse.
LIDL still do plastic pots with lids, on all flavours of houmous / hummus. Stir in a couple of tablespoonfuls of extra-virgin olive oil and it’s almost comparable with the Sabra brand.
On the fixed lids: Cut them off with scissors. Collect them. Take them to the supermarket and deposit them discreetly where the offending plastic bottles are.
No-one mentions a tiny glitch in this wizard eco-genius scheme.
Proper pots with proper lids with a proper seal are reasonably effective in protecting us against the homicidal blackmailing chaps.
There used to be news cases where thousands of stores withdrew (and mostly destroyed) millions of items because of ransom threats.
I guess the modern way is to just let the plebs die, happy that our Beloved Leaders don’t buy stuff from supermarkets, anyway.
You are quite correct. Clip-on lids are designed to be “tamper-evident”. With only a film cover, it is easy enough to use a hypodermic needle to introduce foreign material into a product which will not be evident.
Someone with a pin, or just breaking the seal between film and rim, can sabotage shelf stock which will quickly spoil when air and moulds get in.
I expect it won’t be long before this starts happening – plenty of loonies out there – and the mindless executives in supermarkets will learn an expensive lesson – or their shareholders will.
Several year ago I bought a bag of assorted washable food protectors, They are polythene discs of assorted sizes with elastic aruond the periphery, a bit like plastic hairnets. They are washable and reusable and have lasted well. Cling film is a thing ot the past for me.
Went into John Lewis yesterday with the CEO to buy some bed linen all of which were on display WITHOUT any protective coverings . Dread to think how long it will be before they start having to reduce their prices or jettison said products through soiling whilst on display. The stupidity knows no bounds.
The demonisation of plastic, another article of non-evidence based belief in the Church Environmentalism.
A number of products have lost their clip-on lids over the last year if so. Sainsbury no longer provides little plastic or even paper bags in their loose veg section.
Birds Eye have removed the grip-lock closure on their bags of frozen veg.
Who exactly is important, consumers or Ecofascists and fish in the sea?
Boycott.