- “The Covid inquiry should focus on the dire consequences of lockdown” – It is essential to uncover why a meaningful cost-benefit analysis of the policy was not carried out, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Chinese metropolis of Chengdu locks down 21 million residents” – CNN reports that the Chinese metropolis of Chengdu imposed a sweeping city-wide lockdown on Thursday evening, confining 21 million residents to their homes as the country doubles down on its Zero Covid policy ahead of a key Communist Party meeting.
- “Mask Up, Berkeley Students” – Dr. Robert Malone writes for Brownstone that it appears UC Berkeley is “living in some authoritarian reality, where it is acceptable to dictate medical procedures”.
- “Bristol Zoo closes its doors after 186 years because of Covid” – Bristol Zoo Gardens has shut down its main centre due to the impact of the pandemic and lockdowns, the Mail reports.
- “Three dead, six ill with mystery pneumonia ‘very similar to Covid’ in Argentina” – Six people are infected and unwell, local health officials say, as Covid, flu and Hantavirus have been ruled out as the cause, reports Yahoo! News – though there’s no sign yet of spread.
- “Exit Fauci. Exit Whitty?” – The Covid Physician writes that the Covid policies of Drs. Fauci and Whitty have “arguably contributed to the greatest consequential harm to world health and mortality in history. The full sequelae have yet to be realised and are ongoing. Their policy conduct during Covid was so reckless and grossly negligent it may be criminal, in my opinion. Whitty was knighted in 2022 for his services to public health.”
- “Some of the rats are staying on the ship” – Dr. Roger Watson writes for Unity News Network that with some senior Tories now trying to distance themselves from the disaster that was lockdown, it appears that “some of the rats have not received the memo and are content to go down with the ship”.
- “Joe Biden rewrites history on Covid, law and order” – Park MacDougald in UnHerd says that within the space of a few hours on Thursday, the White House pulled off two of the more cynical rhetorical moves of the current administration.
- “These global tyrants want to make slaves of us all” – Dr. Mike Yeadon with a warning in TCW Defending Freedom that we may not like what those driving global events have in store for us.
- “The Democrats’ green agenda is hurting Californians” – Joel Kotkin writes for UnHerd that the once-great state of California is now in a dire condition: “With a heatwave now in full force, Governor Gavin Newsom is preparing to cut energy use, which may result in blackouts, brownouts and water rationing.”
- “California Urges Residents Not to Charge EVs after 4pm” – Eric Worrall in WUWT writes that as California’s global warming-ready energy grid of the future buckles under a heatwave, residents have been urged not to charge electric vehicles between 4-9pm.
- “Greenhouse Efficiency” – Willis Eschenbach in WUWT offers an ingenious proof of how we can know the recent temperature rise is driven by an increase in solar radiation rather than an increase in the greenhouse effect.
- “The Pandemic Did This? New York Times Fails Fact Check” – Debbie Lerman at Brownstone argues that “a pandemic cannot impose mandates or lockdowns. A pandemic cannot block borders or force people to stop travelling. A pandemic cannot shutter schools – overnight or otherwise.” Michael Simmons at the Spectator has a write-up of the new U.S. education data here.
- “Next U.K. Rebellion” – Extinction Rebellion announces its next set of disruptions on September 10-13th in London, ahead of a tour – you have been warned.
- “The truth about Extinction Rebellion” – As XR activists stage a protest in the House of Commons, Tom Slater in the Spectator asks if they really want to “let the people decide”?
- “Families could be asked to ration energy use when wind doesn’t blow” – Kathryn Porter, from consultancy Watt-Logic, said it was possible households could be asked not to use energy guzzling appliances at peak hours or eat their dinner at a different time, according to the Mail.
- “Stop blaming climate change for Pakistan’s floods” – Poverty and underdevelopment are the real causes of this devastation, says James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
- “We are all living in Greta’s world now” – This winter’s energy crisis will give us a foretaste of what a world without cheap energy looks like, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Tom Kerridge says energy bill at his pub will soar from £60k to £420k” – Celebrity chef Tom Kerridge, who owns three pubs based in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, has been quoted a rise from £5,000 to £30,000 a month for electricity at one of his businesses, reports the Mail.
- “Know why your fuel bills are soaring?” – John Constable writes in the Express that the U.K.’s energy crisis has been in the making for more than 20 years and “is the result of the incompetent policies of Mr Blair, Mr Brown, Mr Cameron, Mrs May, and Mr Johnson, and all their hapless energy minsters and advisors too numerous to name”.
- “Power Company Seizes Control of Thermostats in Colorado During Heatwave” – Summit News reports that households were locked out under ‘energy emergency’ provisions.
- “The Brendan O’Neill Show” – Andrew Doyle – author of The New Puritans – joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss how the elites succumbed to woke hysteria.
- “I fear many universities today are just one giant scam on the young: Soaring fees, suffocating wokeness, and little advantage for graduates in the jobs market” – Former lecturer Dominic Sandbrook gives his verdict on higher education in the Mail.
- “72% of Top U.S. Medical Schools Using Identity, Racial Politics in Admissions Process: Report” – The majority of America’s top-ranked medical schools are injecting racial politics into the admissions process, according to a review conducted by the medical advocacy group Do No Harm, the Epoch Times reports.
- “Now Jacob Rees-Mogg scraps ‘woke’ Civil Service training courses” – Mr Rees-Mogg has been clear that that wokery in the Civil Service is wasting employees’ time, and has now scrapped 265 of the more than 400 “wellness, inclusion and diversity” courses, the Mail reports.
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Ofcom should be abolished. The state should not regulate media content. We’re all adults or in the care of adults, and we know where the “off” button is.
It may be of interest that Mrs.Justice Farbey who ruled in favour of Ofcom against Mark Steyn also refused a JR application contesting the Health Officers allowing the jabbing of children overruling the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Vaccination against this
You can’t be seriously insinuating that one of HM’s Judges may be captured or even maybe a little bit biased?
Maybe, if she has kids, they’ve been jabbed.
For more on this see Dr. Peter Hotez.
Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
Farbey is clearly a bent one.
British justice eh? She must be terribly proud of herself.
“is neither their role to endorse Government policy nor to prevent criticism of it”
Not in today’s Britain it isn’t.
In today’s Britain it is all out war (fortunately nor at present too violent), between the state as typified by the useless next Tuesdays at ofcom, and their true paymasters, the tax payer. It is absolutely ofom’s official role to push the parasite class line.
This horrendous situation is worsening rapidly under 2tk, so hopefully some energetic pushback will commence interfrastically.
Whatever the initial intent of OFCOM, its role now is to endorse government policy and prevent criticism of it.
It has way too much power, does not serve the public (BBC get passes on everything) and should be abolished.
The judge that found against Mark Steyn is not fit to preside and should be removed from the bench.
Ofcom should be abolished of course, and the beeb should be broken up and sold off to the highest bidder.
Ofcom sorry, f@cking spellchecker.
Only huge numbers of people refusing to pay the propaganda tax (as I do) can bring the BBC to its knees. No establishment government will dismantle the BBC. The Tories may talk about BBC bias and defunding when seeking the vote of their credulous supporters but have absolutely no intention of doing so.
They also get funding form elsewhere though, like Gates etc
In return they crawl up his arse whenever he makes public appearances instead of being critical of him which they should be.
Gates seems to have stopped making PAs probably because his PR people told him he was damaging his own image just by being himself.
The licence fee enables the BBC to run a huge number of radio and TV channels far in excess of what any single TV channel can achieve.
It has a monopoly over its funding and wastes vast amounts of the licence fee levy by doing too much broadcasting.
And then you have to factor in iPlayer and the huge burgeoning BBC worldwide websites.
It has more channels than any licence fee payer can ever listen to watch or read in a lifetime.
It needs to be reined in.
Worse still lots of people have to pay the licence fee who never watch or listen to the BBC or use its website.
It is a total waste of money.
It should have one radio channel and two TV channels and leave it to the commercial sector to fill in the blanks.
The BBC disgusts me.
I remember years ago during Director General John Birt’s pogroms of staff one of the commercial stations was advertising vacancies and included “ex BBC need not apply’.
Hilarious. That is what stations which have to make a profit thought of the BBC and its staff then.
Vote for Reform.
“The judge that found against Mark Steyn is not fit to preside and should be removed from the bench.”
Absolutely.
Which is also what I concluded re the Appeal Court ‘judges’ in the Lucy Letby case. Far too many of the judges in the British courts are corrupted.
Hux, you overlook the elephant in the room. Don’t concentrate on Lucy’s case alone.
Lucy’s case has not yet been declared a miscarriage of justice but I am sure hers will be – it stank from the outset.
The Post Office scandal is acknowledged to be a massive series of miscarriages of justice.
But no one is pointing the finger at the English Bar and Judiciary.
With hundreds of cases IMHO there is a snowball’s chance in hell the solicitors, barristers and judges involved did not know there was a problem.
Like much else in this country we have a corrupt third world banana republic judicial system fed by an English bar tainted by one too many bent barristers who go on to become judges.
Don’t ask how I know. And by ‘bent’ I include those “only a little bit dishonest” as one might “only be a little bit pregnant”.
But what I do suggest you check is what mechanisms exist to investigate and remove bent judges.
There are none.
The Office for Judicial Complaints only deals with judges’ behaviours outside court. What they do in court is untouchable. So if you are a victim of a bent judge and cannot afford to appeal you are screwed.
How many bent judges are there? Do an FOI request on statistics and you won’t get any. Officially they are all as pure as driven snow.
How many bent judges bend the rules just for fun and how many do it for favours I cannot say.
What I can say for sure is one too many a judge is as bent as a nine pound note. It might only be the one but I have come across more than just the one.
Of course like anything else I am sure there are a great many judges and barristers who try to do their job to the best of their ability even if their ability in some cases is not too good.
Mark Steyn is brilliant: our times’ H.L. Mencken.
Interesting that Mrs. Justice Farbey is married to experienced civil servant and former UK government analyst Prabhat Vaze, founder and Director of the Belmana company, which advises the government on various policies, one of which is this:
Community Vaccine Champions Evaluation Report – Belmana | Analysis for Policy
When I typed in the company name on Google, it listed various tragic explosions at Indian Pharmaceuticals companies resulting in terrible injuries and loss of life. However, I could find no link to the Belmana company, so it is a bit of a mystery why Google suggested all those links.
Let’s face it. We just have a crooked biased judicial system and government agencies which props up a crooked health/medical system.
Modern pharmaceutical drugs are a leading cause of death in the western world.
Our prescription drugs kill us in large numbers
Richard Smith: Is the pharmaceutical industry like the mafia?
“Ofcom is supposed to be independent and dispassionate”. So are judges.
Ofcom just another arm of the thought police
When mainstream media endlessly use the term “climate crisis” based on NO EVIDENCE Ofcom have nothing to say. It is clearly a body designed to protect the establishment world view on everything
It’s pointless expecting any Government Agency/Quango like Ofcom to be independent, impartial and NOT to support the Establishment’s propaganda.
Ofcom supports Two-Tier broadcasting:
Anything the BBC says or broadcasts is acceptable no matter how biased, unscientific and inaccurate.
Any broadcaster, say GB News, which allows genuine debate around a subject which provides “unapproved” information …. ie the Covid Tyranny, the Net Zero lunacy and trans-issues to name just three, is unacceptable.
The problem is, GB News got rid of Steyn themselves and has not been the same since.
In the latest analysis of All-Cause Mortality (ACM) data, denisrancourt.ca and his colleagues analysed ACM data from 125 countries, leading to the following conclusions:
– The spatiotemporal variations in national excess all-cause mortality rates allow us to conclude that the Covid-period (2020-2023) excess all-cause mortality in the world is incompatible with a pandemic viral respiratory disease as a primary cause of death. In other words, there was no viral disease which we call COVID-19. This is clearly shown by the Near-synchronicity of onset, across several continents, of surges in excess mortality occurring immediately when a pandemic is declared by the WHO (11 March 2020), and never prior to pandemic announcement in any country.
– Medical interventions (other than COVID-19 vaccination, including denial of treatment) were a primary cause of death significantly contributing to the measured excess all-cause mortality.
– There is No evidence of the large vaccine rollouts ever being associated with reductions in excess all-cause mortality, in any country. On the contrary, the COVID-19 vaccine rollout campaigns are significantly associated with excess all-cause mortality.
The paper concludes that the three primary causes of death associated with the excess all-cause mortality during (and after) the Covid period are:
1) Biological (including psychological) stress from mandates such as lockdowns and associated socio-economic structural changes;
2) Non-COVID-19-vaccine medical interventions such as mechanical ventilators and drugs (including denial of treatment with antibiotics);
3) COVID-19 vaccine injection rollouts, including repeated rollouts on the same populations.
Furthermore, the authors use the ACM and (WHO-provided) vaccination data from the 125 countries to calculate corresponding global values as follows:
– Excess deaths over the 3-year period 2020-2022 from all causes of excess mortality were 30.9 ± 0.2 million,
– Of which 16.9 million were COVID-19-vaccine-associated deaths.
We probably shouldn’t be surprised. The judge was not able to break out of the groupthink that has paralysed all rational thinking in the blob. This despite Naomi Wolf being able to present thousands of pages of evidence about the American vaccines, to support the claims she made on GB News…in addition to Pro Norman Fenton’s analysis.
IMHO it can be put a little more directly than you are prepared to.
See prior comment.
A corrupt judicial system.
Very good work by Professor Norman Fenton. With the tenacious dedication and determination exhibited here, these foul and dangerous organisations like Ofcom will be brought to justice. They are the enemy of the truth and integrity and utterly fail in their responsibilities.
Sadly not so.
History does not favour that POV.
In my last year at Secondary School in the 70s, members of the sixth form had a debate on how to change and/or run a country using your ideas and your ideas alone.
I spoke and said in my opinion there are two ways.
1) Civil unrest and disorder culminating in a Civil War, and
2) A less violent option but equally or perhaps even better long term is to control Education, the Media and Advertising. I said I believed the left, i.e. socialist’s and communists would implement this in the coming years. Here we are 50 years later and they without doubt control all three. Their brainwashing in Education starts with the very young and just does not let up. Their control of the Media likewise is relentless and lies to and fools the majority in this country as does the one sided and incorrect portrayal of life in Advertising.
GB News started off as a breath of fresh air with the likes of Mark Steyn, Neil Oliver and Nana Akua and many others who told the truth and highlighted the BS in the three groups mentioned above. Certain elements that were being highlighted as the devious lieers they were got rid of Mark Steyn and Calvin Robinson and moved GB News further and further to the left. It is now riddled with leftwing, woke idiots. Apart from Neil and Nana it is switched off.
I wish Mark all the very best for the future and one day would like to meet him and the guests he had on his show.