- “BT demands staff return to the office” – BT is demanding staff return to the office three days a week as it is “fundamental to the success of the business”, in the latest sign of a boardroom backlash against working from home, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bosses think workers do less from home, says Microsoft” – While 87% of workers felt they worked as, or more, efficiently from home, 80% of managers disagreed, reports BBC News.
- “Covid: Hong Kong to end controversial hotel quarantine policy” – Hong Kong’s Government says that from Monday people arriving in Hong Kong will no longer have to go into mandatory hotel quarantine, BBC News reports.
- “How the Federal Reserve Bought Support for Lockdowns” – Michael Senger asks if the Federal Reserve was under an unspoken mandate to keep the easy money going during Covid that overrode its mandate to keep inflation under control.
- “Jacinda and Justin finally relent – will Joe follow suit?” – The Health Advisory and Recovery Team (HART) notes that Canada and New Zealand have announced the end of restrictions on unvaccinated travellers, leaving the U.S. increasingly an outlier even among Covid extremists.
- “A (Possibly Unpopular) Null Hypothesis” – HART argues that SARS-CoV-2 was “nasty, but not unusually so, and certainly not particularly novel. The cure was worse than the disease”.
- “‘Eureka Day’ gives anti-vaxxers a voice” – Elizabeth Oldfield in UnHerd reviews Eureka Day, a play written by Jonathan Spector prior to Covid which handles anti-vaccine sentiment and vaccine injury with surprising sensitivity and fairness.
- “FDA to Vax Injured: We Got Nothin’” – Mary Beth Pfeiffer on TrialSite News says 20 people harmed by COVID-19 vaccines went to Washington D.C. this week seeking help from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and what they got was one hour with the top vaccine official in the United States in a Zoom call to their hotel conference room.
- “Covid vaccines for healthy 5-11-year-olds – a ‘one-off offer’” – HART with a round-up of evidence in connection with vaccinating children.
- “No Positive Trends In Extreme Weather Found” – The evidence isn’t there, says Paul Homewood.
- “50 Reasons to Re-Think Climate Policy” – Barry Brill in WUWT says climate policy is in crisis and lists 50 reasons why.
- “Onshore wind planning restrictions set for axe to ‘unlock its potential’” – The Tories ease rules preventing the blighting of the U.K. countryside with giant grey windmills, the Telegraph reports.
- “A Critical Assessment of Extreme Events Trends in Times of Global Warming” – WUWT with a new peer-reviewed study in the European Physical Journal Plus which finds that no indicators “show a clear positive trend of extreme events” and thus “on the basis of observational data, the climate crisis that according to many sources we are experiencing today, is not evident yet”.
- “As Putin escalates the war, can we afford to keep paying billions to arm Ukraine?” – Donald Forbes in TCW Defending Freedom with a balanced assessment of the current state of the war.
- “Church replaces Edward Colston stained glass window… with Jesus in a migrant boat” – The Telegraph reports on the replacement of a historic church window dedicated to slave trader Edward Colston with one that depicts Jesus, among other things, apparently making use of the services of people smugglers to join in the criminal exercise of gaining illegal entry to the country.
- “PayPal shuts accounts of more lockdown sceptics” – The Times reports that PayPal has been accused of “blatant” political discrimination after the accounts of two more Covid lockdown sceptics were closed.
- “PayPal is trying to silence us” – Molly Kinglsey from UsforThem speaks out against Big Tech censorship in Spiked.
- “PayPal’s war on dissent” – The Spiked team discusses the tyranny of Big Tech in its weekly podcast.
- “The Weaponisation of Money: We Are Fast Approaching The Camp” – A government that forces a payment service to close the accounts of legal charities has betrayed the foundations on which our society is based and has thus lost its legitimacy, writes Thorsteinn Siglaugsson.
- “Free Speech Union Vows to Change Law After PayPal Deplatforming” – Breitbart reports on PayPal’s purge of the dissenters.
- “What the PayPal saga tells us about free speech” – Patrick West in the Spectator says we live in a culture of fear and self-imposed silence where almost the only people who dare speak out on the forbidden subjects are journalists and celebrities too old and rich to care about the risks of cancellation.
- “Fact that the Health Minister thinks it’s ok for him to extend abnormal draconian emergency powers that allows him to then wish up legislation in the morning and enact in the afternoon, legislation that will have a massive impact on our lives without an assembly is mind boggling!” – Paul Frew tweets about the extension of the Coronavirus Act 2020 Order for Northern Ireland for a further six months.
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Labour on 23%? After what they have done?
Who are these people?
I must live in a bubble but I don’t know anybody who considers them anything else than a bunch of incompetent ideologues.
Speaking of which, here’s Angela Rayner, tying herself in knots again. Sounds to me like you don’t have a ‘housing crisis’, you have an ‘immigration crisis’;
”Housing Minister, Angela Rayner in another car crash i/v with @TrevorPTweets
. Apparently 5 out of 7 new homes will go to migrants.
She says there is plenty of housing but needs to build 2.5 million more.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1865724329570312283
Top comment. Yep, sounds like yet another bad case of ‘chronic oral flatulence’ to me. It’s going around something rotten in the Labour party…
”As an engineer who has a background in all kinds of construction including development of land to construct residential & commercial properties I can 100% state she has no idea what she is talking about.
To achieve what she says by 2030 means building over 1400 houses per day
Which is the best part of 10000 a week.
Absolute nonsense.
I’m guessing Abbott’s in charge of the abacus.”
Bless them. These people genuinely do want to go back to their country, it would seem. I hope the Labour Party aren’t going to do a ‘Hotel California’ and stop them from leaving. And to be fair, anyone who’s supportive of jihadists who go around beheading people are probably not the sort you want nabbing social housing in your community, really;
”Syrian refugees in Manchester say they ‘can’t wait to get flights back home’
Hundreds of people have gathered together in the city centre to celebrate the end of the regime – one that many fled in fear for their lives.”
https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1865805219973464261
I have a good friend who owns a construction company and he tells me that 1.5 million homes in five years is an impossibility and for one simple reason – there simply aren’t the trades people starting with brickies who can now command a grand a week for their services. And that is just one of many skilled trades. Furthermore, everybody involved in the construction industry knows this.
Totally agree (having recently been involved with a house build). Joiners, brickies, plasterers, plumbers, heating engineers – just not available especially in the numbers they need.
I heard an interviewer over the weekend making the point that no-one can expect 1.5 million homes to be built – so why make the ridiculous pledge – and the answer was – oh well, we might get 95% built and then be able to say ‘stay with us and we will build the rest’.
There is NO logic behind this. This is total madness.
There is no logic behind their other major policy pledge [net zero] but they plough on at ruinous cost
Militwat failed from Day One as all the subsea cable laying ships are booked up until into 2030. So even if there are anymore offshore windmills built they can’t be connected up. In addition his ignorant plans include Carbon Capture & Storage which does not exist on grid scale anywhere in the world and is yet to be shown to be economic. There are also floating windmills which again are not in operation and are even more expensive than normal windmills. And there are storage batteries that are hugely expensive and of little use as they store very little energy as well as hydrogen which is also too expensive.
Talking of Ranting – the 2 homes tax dodging electoral fraudster – have you seen the youtube video of her interview where she is repeatedly asked to name a single company of the ones she claims to have consulted with and who like her forthcoming labour regulations. Every time she fails to name even one. The only big name on letter that supported Rachel from Accounts was the Iceland boss who has now gone very quiet given the increase in his running costs.
Rona tards.
Climate tards.
Open borders.
Queer, trans fascism.
Socialism.
Kamalalalalarama supporters.
EU 4th Reich lovers.
There are a lot more than 23%. More like 60%.
Better late than never. And a ‘two-fingered salute’ to the dreadful Uniparty too;
”I have left the Conservative Party because it has become a shadow of what it once stood for.
Its incompetence and failure to deliver have betrayed the trust of the British people.
I deeply regret that it has come to this, as there are still a handful of decent MPs trying to do the right thing.
I believe in politics driven by conviction and a genuine commitment to serving our nation, not by empty promises and mismanagement.”
https://x.com/raelbrav/status/1865681391167373697
Interesting that within months of a landslide Labour victory, [albeit a minority of voters], the polls put the two right wing partes added together MILES ahead of Labour. Personally, I am disappointed that people still support the Conservatives, given how badly they let us down, but once the balance of power between Reform and CUP tips towards Reform, hopefully the CUP will melt away…
Anyone who voted Tory at the last election is either not “right wing” or is utterly deluded. I hope they change their minds but I doubt it.
The Tory party are now just a footnote in our history although the way things are going we will shortly not even have any history left.
Or voting tactically. Reform has the effect of splitting the “right wing” vote letting Labour in. If polls show that many intend to vote Tory, joining these voters is more likely to keep Labour out than an empty gesture.
The Tories wasted 14 years in power – committed to net zero, failed to peel back the rise of woke, eroded freedom of speech, raised taxes and to cap it all off, “covid”. They do not deserve anyone’s vote.
The Tories brought in legally binding targets on net zero, then funded the NGOs that sue the government for not doing enough to meet those targets. For so many reasons I will never vote for them again.
Me neither. Badenoch represents an improvement over Sunak but let’s not forget she was a covidian. I think the only way I would consider it would be if the entire leadership and most of the MPs were swept away – something I was hoping would happen in July.
Not that boring old trope again
Reform is in danger of becoming just a rebranding of the failed Con servatives.
Yes, there are signs that Reform are drifting towards becoming centrist under their useless leader Farage and I fear that unless Reform becomes a proper party and not the preening Farage’s plaything we are going to miss the opportunity in 2029 to get a conservative government.
Farage is the most influential politician de nos jours. I think he knows when to hold em and when to fold em. Reform is now attracting disillusioned Labour voters – and God knows, there are plenty of them – so I’d trust Nigel’s strategic plans a lot more than your sneering comments
Reform needs to do better than provide a new home for unsuccessful old party hacks
We aren’t just letting anyone in you know
The Conservative Party is finished. It will never recover. There are no signs or leadership that indicates it can provide any leadership that is needed. They are still completely lost. This is probably a good thing.