- “Long Covid not to blame for the ‘great resignation’” – The ‘great resignation’ of 50-69 year-olds is affected more by NHS waiting lists than Long Covid than first thought, the Telegraph reports.
- “China urges ‘patience’ as Covid cases rebound ahead of key congress” – China called for “patience” with its tough Covid policies and warned against any “war-weariness” as local reported infections soared to their highest since August, days ahead of a pivotal Communist Party congress, reports Reuters.
- “The People’s Republic of China Has Become A Zero-Covid Hell” – With no vaccines to save them and very little exposure to Omicron, the Chinese have embarked upon an indefinite dystopia of masking, testing, mass surveillance and periodic lockdowns – all for nothing, writes Eugyppius.
- “The last of the Covidians” – David Marcus in Spectator World asks how we should treat those who refuse to acknowledge the pandemic is over.
- “Worrying news on Swedish birth rates” – It’s starting to look like more than a baby boom and bust, says El Gato Malo.
- “Peer review: the seal of quality?” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson write that peer review is touted as the mark of scientific scrutiny, but evidence of its effects is lacking and its “use as an insurance policy by editors has allowed poor science and censorship to proliferate”.
- “The Calm Covid Truth of Dr. Joe Ladapo” – Dr. Robert Malone praises the Florida Surgeon General and takes a closer look at the study his new vaccine recommendation is based on.
- “Florida doctor says men aged 18-39 should not get a Covid vaccine” – Read the Mail‘s report on the development.
- “Julian Assange has Covid: Next few days will be ‘crucial’ for WikiLeaks founder’s health as he is ‘locked in his cell 24 hours a day’ amid extradition battle, concerned wife Stella reveals” – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has tested positive for Covid and faces days of isolation in his prison cell, his wife has revealed, the Mail reports.
- “Just Stop Oil protesters block The Mall – and police say: ‘Let me know if I can I do anything for you’” – Protesters from Scotland say they would “walk 500 miles” to “just stop oil”, as police reportedly offered assistance to demonstrators, according to the Telegraph.
- “Biden Is Failing The World” – The world desperately needs energy and yet President Joe Biden is preventing sufficient quantities of oil and gas from being produced, says Michael Shellenberger.
- “Russia realists are the new lockdown sceptics” – Moral absolutism plagues our response to Ukraine, argues James Billot in UnHerd.
- “Ministers hope to ban solar projects from most English farms” – The Environment Minister seeks to expand the definition of prime farmland in a drive for productivity, reports the Guardian.
- “John Cleese says he would refuse a BBC comeback because he’d be ‘cancelled or censored in five minutes’ as he promotes new GB News show” – Monty Python legend John Cleese has told the BBC he would never work for them again – because the broadcaster would cancel him in five minutes, the Mail reports.
- “Oxbridge colleges ramp up ‘unconscious bias’ and ‘race workshops’ for freshers – despite calls for them to be scrapped” – Freshers at Keble College had to undertake hours of indoctrination on consent, race, LGBTQ+ and disability, the Mail reports.
- “Fearful academics cancelling themselves to avoid backlash from woke mob” – Professor Arif Ahmed writes in the Mail that the incentive to self-censorship constitutes the greatest danger of risk-averse speaker regulations and is a form of tyranny.
- “‘Universities are turning debating chambers into echo chambers’: Institutions adopt stricter vetting rules for guest speakers and suggest trigger warnings and safe spaces for ‘controversial’ speakers who might ’cause upset’” – A record 200 requests for events and speakers were rejected by universities and colleges in 2020-21, more than double the previous year, reports the Mail.
- “Universities ‘decolonising’ courses to mollify activists” – A Mail investigation uncovers how “fat cat” university bosses are pandering to extremists, according to John Hayes, Chairman of the Common Sense Group of Tory MPs.
- “Say no to U.S. race politics” – Rakib Ehsan writes in the Critic that we must oppose the new segregationists.
- “Freedom of the Press” – Watch Toby talk to Mark Oppenheimer on Brain in a Vat about what freedom of the press means and why it is essential.
- “TfL lists the words staff shouldn’t use in new ‘woke’ language guide” – Critics tell the transport body to “focus on providing the best network it can” as it produces “ridiculous” set of PC rules, the Telegraph reports.
- “Trans ideology has spread far beyond Mermaids” – Mad ideas about gender identity are now entrenched across our public institutions, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “Harry Potter star Tom Felton praises ‘lovely’ J.K. Rowling for ‘bringing generations together’… as he refuses to join co-stars condemning author amid ‘transphobia’ row” – The actor, 35, has swum against the ugly tide by expressing nothing but warm words for the author.
- “Midwifery students to be told how to look after ‘pregnant people’ and ‘birthing parents’ rather than ‘women’ as degree courses adopt more ‘inclusive’ language” – At the University of Bradford, an internal document detailing the course specifications for the 2022-23 year refers to “childbearing people” four times and “birthing people” eight times, the Mail reports.
- “Nicola Sturgeon and the politics of hatred” – Fraser Nelson in the Spectator says the ugly side of SNP nationalism keeps exposing itself.
- “The tech tyrants are out of control” – PayPal’s fantasy about fining speechcriminals is a terrifying sign of the times, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “#deletePaypal – Perhaps the Most Important Action in Defense of Free Speech Right Now” – Thorsteinn Siglaugsson warns that “no more is this just a question of silencing people on social media platforms; they are trying to take away people’s livelihoods now”.
- “Dear Elon Musk, can you buy Paypal too?” – Oliver Bateman in UnHerd suggests the free speech absolutist can save this company as well.
- “God knows what’s really going on. It’s embarrassing!” – Watch Toby join Mark Steyn on GB News to discuss PayPal’s policy change U-turn.
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Quickie update from Joel Smalley on excess deaths in Sweden. Yep, totally vindicated. And interesting comments below, including from our Elizabeth Hart, asking the same as me; why on earth did the Swedish government then urge/coerce its citizens to get a jab they demonstrably didn’t need? If they didn’t lockdown, mask up or close schools then they can’t say it was the restrictions which saved them from certain death, but get vaxxed anyway…? Makes zero sense.
https://metatron.substack.com/p/sweden-cant-explain-away-the-fact
Simple.. because it was all about getting that jab of toxins (nanotechnology) into peoples arms..
Hydrogel Interfaces for Merging Humans and Machines – MIT Research Review
I can’t answer your question…but people didn’t always act as we would hope or think…..and that what we see as totally illogical, might not have seemed so to them….??
It’s very difficult to answer…was it money?..a genuine belief they would work?….
Panic? Stupidity? Evil? Collective Insanity? An overriding sense of being seen to do something..even if it was the wrong something? Shame?
Who knows?
This is a good substack from Thorsteinn Siglaugsson….(try saying that fast ten times!! LOL!)
“The Cheerleader Who Demanded Lifelong Quarantine for the Unvaccinated Now Admits Nobody Under 50 Should Have Been VaccinatedWhat is it that prompts Dr. Stefánsson to come forward now, years after it became abundantly clear how useless the vaccines were and how dangerous to the young and healthy?”
…and again, it’s as if they know they were wrong, but just can’t get to actually admitting it wholeheartedly….
https://thorsteinn.substack.com/p/the-cheerleader-who-demanded-lifelong?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
All you need to know about Sweden in two handy graphs…
Why was Hancock not hauled over the coals at the inquiry when he proudly announced if it happened again, he’d lockdown even harder.
In essence, he stated publicly “I am a Sociopath”
I am slightly mystified by Sweden. Yes, they didn’t lockdown, but they did have huge “care home issues” in the early days (which caused them to look bad compared with other Scandinavian countries), and they did roll out the vaccines quite aggressively (with mandates, I think). Their excess death performance would have been much more understandable (to me, at least) if they had also rejected the vaccines, but they didn’t.
Any thoughts?
Hard to know for sure. There has been at least one study, covered here I think, which analysed adverse “vaccine” events by batch and found huge variations, leading the authors to think that a lot of the batches were close to a placebo. Maybe Sweden got mostly placebo batches, or maybe the vaxx is less harmful to people who had covid before they were “vaccinated”.
One thing is for sure – there won’t be any state connected body doing serious studies into all of this.
“Why was Hancock not hauled over the coals at the inquiry when he proudly announced if it happened again, he’d lockdown even harder.”
This was Handicock announcing to the Davos Deviants:
‘Gissus a job!’
Getting himself in position for the next one.
OFF TOPIC!
any chance of a private members forum for all of us at this amazing place? So we can meet chat, and become friends (or enemies)
should we wish? Toby?
Dinger, if you go to the Forums at the top of the page you’re able to private message people from there. I don’t know how a group one would be set up though.
Oh right, sorry, not up on all this stuff!
thanks mogs
I’ll give it a look
I’ve always enjoyed David Bell’s articles and I’ve always agreed with him. This is a notable exception, as he writes about how the toxic gene therapies should not be removed from the market and people should have the choice to get jabbed or not. I think they should be ditched, but it is rather a moot point anyway given that they’re not going anywhere anyway. Too many vested interests in this lucrative but proven dangerous mRNA tech for them to ever be investigated let alone ditched. Plus, if they were ever removed from the market how will the globalist psychos ever be able to say ”No jab no travel” and all the rest of the restrictions on daily life they have planned for us with the vax pass? These shots are necessary for their agenda to progress.
”Mass vaccination in this context is obviously a flawed policy. Mandating a non-transmission blocking vaccine for immune people at minimal intrinsic risk could only be driven by gross ignorance or corporate profit. The use of behavioral psychology to instill fear and the use of coercion are clearly unethical by any modern ethical standard. The many people who have lost their jobs and homes, and were publicly vilified for standing on principle and refusing to submit to such practice, have a clear right to redress. Those who committed fraud should have to answer for it. Those who abandoned the precautionary principle and informed consent should be required to justify their actions and their right to continue to practice.
None of this should remove the right of the public to make their own decisions on accessing these new genetic vaccines as a currently marketed commodity. Where expected harm clearly outweighs benefit, no medical practitioner should offer it, just as it would be inappropriate to offer Thalidomide to a pregnant woman with nausea. Where there are plausible grounds for overall benefit, if should be available as an option. These individuals can decide, based on the information available. While this group of potential beneficiaries appears diminishingly small, it remains conceivable that elderly obese diabetics with no prior Covid infection may benefit. Market forces can then decide whether the product is viable, rather than authoritarian dictates.”
https://brownstone.org/articles/theres-no-need-to-ban-these-vaccines/
I agree with you that they should be removed from the market – they are purportedly being used in animal “vaccines” and the traditional “vaccines” are being changed to mRNA technology. The stuff is everywhere.
“Why they hate cars”. I have long thought that the view of these smug idiots who tell us cars are not necessary generally live in the leafier parts of London, with everything on the doorstep, and have no concept at all about rural (or even semi-rural) living. We have one bus a week to a local town, that’s it. I would love it if there was an hourly bus to our nearest shopping centre ten miles away, but no bus company would run it because there’s no money in it. In fact, bus services in local areas are constantly being amalgamated and withdrawn due to lack of use.
I remember, with amusement, the person who got a lift into the village for some reason, but then wanted to get out. He approached me near the bus stop (no details of bus times are displayed!) and asked how he could get a taxi. It turns out that he thought he would simply phone for an Uber. He was even more dismayed when I told him that if you want a taxi you have to, generally book it a few weeks in advance. I suggested he stuck out his thumb.
I think they might alter their views if they lived here for a bit.
“Don’t say ‘black’ – say ‘financial’.”
I think I get it:
“This is the worst bank crisis since Financial Monday.”
“The Financial Death wiped out a third of Europe.”
“Justin Trudeau often appears in financial face.”
“Come and see my new financial labrador.”
That should stop the prejudice, eh?
What about the financial box in planes? Some people are great fans of Financial Sabbath Financial seems to be a very popular colour for doors and window frames at the moment. Financial ice is a problem in winter.
Etc. etc.
Makes sense doesn’t it?
Stop that immediately Gefion.. or you’ll end up with an ether delivered financial eye..
You have a down tick! As have I. I wonder what was going in the mind of the downticker. If there is a mind….
Actually, ‘financial’ does sound like a shade Farrow and Ball would come out with.
Wow it gone dark, it’s a financial out!
I’m blinded by the snow, its a white out!
Why one rule for one?
“Don’t say ‘black’ market, say ‘illegal’ instead, Finance U.K. says”
They’ll be coming after Brilliant White next.
Space, the final frontier, is a vast illegal place full of illegal holes and…. I can hear lawsuits being busily prepared on the Enterprise. May the daftness continue…
Not to mention ‘Old English White.’
Please don’t ever mention that again…
‘Whiter than white’
‘Black spot’
‘Black mark’
‘Lily white’
‘White noise’
The list is long!
How about an illegal cab? Might be a few of them on the road. None in Bristol, though; they have to be blue.
A whiter shade of pale?
“Pink noise” is probably “problematic.”
“Nigel Farage says NatWest in ‘panic mode’ after new data request delayed”
They must have run out of printer ink!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12362697/Greens-senator-Nick-McKim-melts-climate-sceptic-politician-Matt-Canavan-Mate-shut-mouth.html
This is very funny…the Green Party Senator Nick McKim absolutely loosing his marbles over global warming….
The article isn’t behind a paywall and has the video…LOL!
This is a good video, which someone has gone to a lot of trouble to cobble together…
Showing the Democrats doing exactly what they are prosecuting and accusing Trump of doing (election interference and questioning the result)!
Someone commented that the Democrats have clear double-standards..but those are the only standards they’ve got…LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX2Ejqjz6TA
12 Minutes of Democrats Denying Election Results.
That is very amusing. And all based on the Russian collusion argument that we now know to have been a complete hoax.
I attach a link to a clip on Twitter showing a GB News interview yesterday with a US journalist called Jan Halper-Hayes, where she argues that the latest Trump indictment is a big mistake by the Dems.
“2020 election is going to be RE-LITIGATED over this..they made a huge mistake… Biden is..president of what is now the bankrupt US Corporation..that was a treaty in 1871…Sept 12th 2018 Trump created an Executive Order..specifically for the 2020 election”
https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1687361516931092480?s=20
Why the outrage? What else would one expect from the BBC? Who on earth watches their output or pays heed to their pronunciations. Me? R5 & Extra for Sport, occasional R3 (now also hugely dumbed down). Otherwise they may as well not exist. In essence, they are talking to themselves.
We junked our TV nearly 20 years ago. Not missed it for one day.
Admission. I do occasionally switch on Today. Why? To remind me why I never listen to it.
Always works.
Oddly, I’ve never heard the term ‘whitewash’ and took offence based on skin colour. I see it as completely unrelated. Perhaps I have missed a trick here and should be demanding some form of reparations?
Why isn´t Stefánsson in prison or, at least, debarred from practising medicine?
OFF TOPIC!
any chance of a private members forum for all of us at this amazing place? So we can meet chat, and become friends (or enemies)
should we wish? Toby?