- “China Covid lockdowns leave residents short of food and essential items” – People are appealing for help on social media as food and medicine supplies dwindle, according to BBC News.
- “Xinjiang lockdown: Chinese censors drown out posts about food and medicine shortages” – ‘Internet commentary personnel’ have been told to deluge social media with thoughts on anything from cooking to their personal mood, according to the Guardian.
- “Japan plans to reopen to independent travelers in major shift, report says” – Tourists, who will need to have been vaccinated three times or submit a negative test result under the new policy, may be able to enter without a visa, reports the Japan Times.
- “Rail industry insiders have explained why Royal Train will not be used to transport Queen – and when plan changed” – As far as planning for the immediate aftermath of the Queen’s death goes, there may be one decision that is always tinged with regret about what could have been, according to the Yorkshire Post – that a hangover from Covid restrictions meant the Royal Train was not used.
- “Novak Djokovic may get special waiver to appear at Australian Open” – The Telegraph reports that the Australian Government has indicated it may see some kind of sense next year (though a waiver suggests its discriminatory policy will continue).
- “Booster Nations” – Dr. Robert Malone on the never-ending onslaught of Covid booster shots.
- “Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy” – President Biden issues an order on all things bio.
- “Bring back parliament and stop cancelling everything” – Public life cannot be put on hold, especially in a time of crisis, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Stop Vaccinating Children for Covid: It’s Neither Medically Justified Nor Ethical” – Ramesh Thakur writes for Brownstone that the persistence of the drive to vaccinate children is puzzling because the lockdown and vaccine narratives are falling apart.
- “Exposed: The ‘97% of scientists agree with manmade global warming’ lie” – David Craig in TCW Defending Freedom blows this particular canard out the water.
- “The great Net Zero lie” – Our leaders just want to take control, says Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
- “We’re going to have to ration our energy consumption this winter” – Liam Halligan in the Telegraph argues that Government measures won’t save us from eye-watering bills and serious cutbacks.
- “Drivers warned EV charging will be 98% more difficult in 2031 than it is today” – Paul Homewood reports that experts believe the number of electric cars will almost double in the near future, but the charging network will not be able to follow suit.
- “Would Putin take an ‘off ramp’ out of Ukraine?” – James Forsyth in the Spectator says the concern is how Vladimir Putin might escalate things, with the upset evident among hawks in Russia a reminder of the dangers for the regime in losing face in Ukraine.
- “If Florida can ban ‘ethical’ investing, then Britain should do the same” – Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph says that the fund industry has been hijacked by woke activists who are prioritising social activism over providing secure retirements. I’m sure the anti-woke Tories are about to do this any day now…
- “Carnegie Mellon professor says Queen responsible for genocide” – The Mail reports that a Carnegie Mellon professor who wished the Queen an “excruciatingly painful” death is continuing to lash out while calling the dead monarch a “representative of the cult of white womanhood” – which apparently doesn’t get you cancelled.
- “Police should leave anti-monarchist protesters alone” – Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator defends the right to protest.
- “Who’s afraid of firing Trevor Sinclair?” – Kelvin MacKenzie in the Spectator says it’s all about fear of the woke backlash from advertisers: “The Sun runs a mile from stories about the politics of race because they prefer full-page ads from Unilever.”
- “How Jordan Peterson became a punchbag of Hollywood know-nothings” – Olivia Wilde is completely ignorant about Peterson’s views, but she apparently loathes him anyway, writes Ian O’Doherty in Spiked.
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Highways Act 1980:
137 Penalty for wilful obstruction
(1)If a person, without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway he is guilty of an offence and liable to [F1imprisonment for a term not exceeding 51 weeks or] a fine [F2or both].”
I’m not a lawyer, so am I missing something here?
I have also wondered why Joe Public can’t just make citizen arrests? It seems that you can only use those powers for an indictable offence and unforunately, it appears that blocking the highway is a summary offence.
This article explains: https://www.westminstersecurity.co.uk/news/citizens-arrest-uk-law/
The state blob – at its core – agrees with what these JSO morons are saying, even if they don’t agree with the methods. Unless the state stands up and says that oil is good, that we need it and it’s morally wrong to deprive our population of fuel and thus warmth, power and freedom of movement, these evil psychopaths have free reign.
What should happen is that the whole lot of them are tear gassed and dragged off to jail. The police were happy enough to kick the crap out of anti-lockdown protestors with a legitimate issue, but not these human garbage climate religion cultists.
Admirable restraint there Dom which I fully endorse.
Spot on. The state groupthink is one of support for these morons.
I remember 2 or 3 years ago that there was a climate protest in Cardiff and I caught a report on the radio news. They interviewed the Chief Constable – and he said something along the lines of “Whilst many of us will agree with what the protesters are saying…..”
I regret not going online after getting home (at the time) and recording his words for my files – as I found his words really shocking.
I was trying to find confirmation of the above – but failed. However, I did find this comment to an article in Wales Online from 2021 – which I found amusing:
“It is a pity the experts haven’t publicly acknowledged the amount of CO2 and other more serious toxic gases that have been pumped into the atmosphere by the volcano on the Island of La Palma for the last 6 weeks. A natural process that has, around the world, been going on since the formation of Earth.
But there’s no doubt in the minds of the great and the good that this can be easily be offset by me changing out my boiler.”
I think that’s the point of the slow march. If they don’t actually stop they’re not obstructing ‘the free passage along the highway’.
I also am not a lawyer.
It’s a great example of the letter rather than the spirit of the law.
However, by their actions the human garbage are restricting the rights of citizens to go about their lawful business.
Nor am I a lawyer, but surely their activities have the effect that they force the traffic to stop? That’s whole point of their action. The fact that the individual protesters keep moving is irrelevant.
It’s a fine point, and one which would need probably need a lawyer to clarify. My own take on it is that they are obstructing free passage along the highway.
The OED definition of “obstruct” includes: “…prevent or retard progress of” (my emphasis), and they are certainly retarding the progress of the traffic behind them.
Helpful.
They certainly fit my definition of retards.
Out of interest, supposing a group of us joined in amongst them but then unfurled a COVID or vaccine sceptic banner? What a dilemma the police would have then!
I like the idea – but it would be even more fun to raise banners pointing out how crap the idea of net-zero is and backing energy and economic security through fossil fuel investment. Probably have to have lots of cameras about to work out who throws the first punch though.
On further thought the police would probably not arrest a JSO prat for assault/ABH/GBH but arrest me for behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace.
I thought JSO activists were non-violent extremists?
Sure.
Just the same as Antifa.
Never, EVER, act like fascists.
Oh!
Wait….
Now we’re talking.
I like your thinking .. I’m currently reading a book written by a psychoanalyst (Phil Mollon) called ‘Pathologies of the Self: Narcissism and Borderline states of mind”. In it he outlines social and political narcissism (and I’m thinking Just Stop Oil/XR). “An idea, a cause, a slogan, or motif is selected as the basis for identification and idealisation”. The group is then idealised – perhaps for its moral superiority. The “idea” is seen as the solution, perhaps an urgent necessary solution, to complex societal problems. Reality and logic are systematically distorted to fit this delusional simplication of complex issues.” It goes on …. “Once the narcissistic movement has coalesced around its overvalued idea, the group and its members no longer care about the reality of their impact on others – since reality itself has been partly discarded. Members of such a group may not appear delusional because their distorted perceptions and compromised cognition are shared by others. It is the group as a whole that is delusional.”
I could go on but you get the gist of this.
Sounds like a plan
Holding a protest on the Coronation would give their cause greater visibility. Aside from the event itself and all the branded plastic waste it has already generated, there will by an RAF flypast pointlessly burning jet fuel they can highlight as a polluting waste of resources. I look forward to their plucky exploits next weekend where they genuinely take on The Establishment rather than inconvenience those who cannot afford to be on the receiving end of their faux campaign.
Oh, I say. This sort of interruption might even be worth switching the telly box on for. On second thoughts – nah, the trusted news initiative would not allow any broadcasting of interruptions of Chuckles’ ‘do.’
Jet fuel?
Surely the RAF will use the whey from His Majesty’s cheese production?
Just like he uses in his Aston Martin?
Allegedly.
The banners they are holding are made from plastic – which is made from? Plus, going slowly makes cars use more fuel, which they will get from a petrol station. Brainless idiots.
If every driver in the hold up just kept their horns blaring it might drown out both the chants and the BBC’s fawning coverage.
Just Stop Oil…
Their orange banners on which they carry their slogans are plastic…made from oil.
Their fluorescent high viz jackets…made from oil.
Their safety hats are plastic…made from oil.
Their safety glasses are plastic…made from oil.
The glue they use to glue themselves to the road surface…comes from petrochemicals which comes from oil.
The road surfaces they glue themselves to, are made from asphalt…which comes from oil.
The mobile phones and laptops they use to run their social media campaigns, are full of plastic components…which come from oil.
Right now, a world without plastic and oil would be unthinkable. It would push billions of people into abject poverty and starvation. They are so moronically ignorant about the role of oil in the world’s economy and society, to the point where stopping it would mean our entire civilisation would collapse without it. I cannot stand these misinformed idiots. How about we just stop Just Stop Oil?!
“would mean our entire civilisation would collapse…”
Bingo.
That’s the plan.
You will note they don’t try this shit in China, Russia, Iran, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Indonesia, Venezuala etc etc.
And if they did, their fuzz and courts might be just a smidgeon less “understanding”.
And that would be a good thing.
The right to ‘protest’? Absolutely. But how about when the ‘protesters’ are directly supporting the policies of the Uniparty, directly against the citizens?
Bang on.
Hear, hear.
Protesting against lockdowns etc, we did just the same as these JSO protesters (ie march around central London), but the bus/cab/ordinary drivers were extraordinarily patient with, indeed often extremely supportive of, us. And our protests were never reported on by the MSM. (BTW, I am no young rebellious type. I often say that, as an until then law-abiding citizen, I resented being forced to become a rebel in my 70s!)
How bizarre that people don’t just clamour for their own impoverishment. They actually DEMAND IT.
Indeed.