- “NHS creates £1.3bn pot for Covid compensation claims” – The Telegraph reports that the Government has settled on blaming lack of access to healthcare for the excess deaths and has set aside over a billion pounds for expected compensation.
- “In defence of evidence-based policy making” – Dr. Clare Craig’s BMJ ‘rapid response’ on behalf of HART to the journal’s vicious smear piece against dissenting doctors.
- “How Xi’s Zero-Covid mismanagement left China’s economy on the brink” – Unrest in Shanghai has rapidly grown into the worst protests against Beijing in decades, says Szu Ping Chan in the Telegraph.
- “New York Times Decides Lockdowns are Actually Draconian and Economically Destructive when China Does Them” – Eugyppius remarks on a severe case of doublethink at the NYT.
- “Halt Vaccination of Young People Until Vaccine-Linked Myocarditis Is Studied: MIT Professor” – Retsef Levi argues that there are enough data on the Covid vaccine’s adverse heart effects to stop its use and run a thorough investigation into why many once-healthy young people suffer or die from heart inflammation after being vaccinated, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Cancer specialist says Covid boosters are harming his patients” – Kathy Gyngell in TCW looks at the significance of Professor Angus Dalgleish’s recent intervention calling for the safety of Covid vaccines to be urgently reviewed.
- “What is Causing the Blood Clots from ‘Died Suddenly?’” – The ‘Midwestern Doctor’ says the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is “remarkably effective at disrupting many critical physiologic processes both in the short term and in the long term”.
- “China’s Covid crisis demands terrible choices. The world will suffer if this goes wrong” – Devi Sridhar in the Guardian predicts disaster (again) if China abandons Zero Covid.
- “Britain isn’t ready for onshore wind” – Onshore wind is an odd focus for a rebellion, says Ross Clark in the Spectator: it was extremely unpopular last time around, and “promises to be even less popular this time, given that the size of wind turbines has increased massively since the moratorium was imposed seven years ago.
- “China claims BBC journalist beaten up and arrested ‘for his own good’” – Shocking video from the anti-Government protests in Shanghai show Edward Lawrence, a camera operator for the BBC’s China Bureau, being dragged away by Xi’s officers, reports the Mail.
- “Millions of rural households will be forced to spend £13k on heat pumps” – ‘Net zero’ rules will mean traditional oil heating systems will be banned from 2026, reports the Telegraph.
- “Netherlands to close up to 3,000 farms to comply with EU rules” – The Government tries to cut down on nitrogen pollution in a move set to reignite tensions with farmers who say the industry is unfairly targeted, the Telegraph reports.
- “National Grid will not activate its emergency winter plan for the first time tomorrow after warning households may be offered up to £20 to cut electricity at peak times because of energy supply fears” – The utility company had earlier indicate it might, according to the Mail.
- “Surrey crime tsar says trans cops shouldn’t strip search females” – Lisa Townsend, the Tory crime tsar for Surrey since 2021, blasted national policing guidelines for allowing transgender women within the force to “insist on strip-searching” a female suspect, the Mail reports.
- “‘Gender affirmation is demonstrably dangerous for young people’: Woman who has detransitioned calls for a ban on medical intervention for minors claiming doctors are treating teens too early and not dealing with root problems” – Cat Cattinson grew up as female but identified as male from the age of 13, according to a report in the Mail. She took testosterone, went by the name of Tony, and made plans for breast-removal surgery, but now has detransitioned and is speaking out about the dangers.
- “The Wellcome Collection’s war on itself” – Kit Wilson in the Spectator says the Wellcome Collection has become so woke it has decided that no amount of self-abasement can make up for the very existence of its Medicine Man exhibition, so it has closed it in a fit of ethical self-destruction.
- “Museums are vandalising themselves” – Joanna Williams notes in Spiked that the Wellcome Collection’s curators “are happy to take their founder’s money but contemptuous of his legacy; they are not preservers of the past, but cultural vandals intent on destroying humanity’s shared history”.
- “Where’s the moral outrage at England’s cricket tour of Pakistan?” – Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator wonders if the world has forgotten that Pakistan is scarcely less keen on all things LGBT than Qatar.
- “Musk threatens ‘war’ with Apple over claims it is censoring free speech” – The Twitter owner tweets: “Apple has threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why”, according to the Telegraph.
- “The Labour Party and gender-critical women” – Kim Thomas in the Critic with a “modern history of mistreatment”.
- “The U.K. plots to ban private messaging” – Reclaim the Net on another major threat to civil liberties in the U.K.
- “There should be a referendum on it because we can’t express our views at the ballot box” – Toby tells GB News’s Michelle Dewberry he is in favour of a referendum on the Government’s Net Zero policy.
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Common Sense was looking out the window in March 2020 and seeing no pandemic.
What did the lovely Esther say then, I wonder?!
Don’t know be she gave the health fascist Hunt a second chance, so I don’t trust her judgement.
It’s all in the word ‘unless’.
Ms McVey might as well be a minister for gardening. She is pruning the woke undergrowth; raising the canopy of the woke forest; culling the surfeit of strange beasts that scurry in the woke wilderness. As long as whatever is woke ‘delivers’ ‘value’, floreat florebit.
As all gardeners will know, pruning makes a tree or shrub grow better; have a more attractive shape; produce more or fuller fruit.
When there has to be a minister for common sense it can be certain that all common sense has been lost. If you have freedom of speech, there’s no necessity for a minister of freedom of speech.
Has she got enough time to even start the job before Labour sweep back in a reinstate all the woke rubbish in spades.
This strikes me as more election window dressing.
The only way of cutting the state is with the blunt tool of spending cuts, e.g. 30% reduction in headcount. The minute you start trying to micromanage, the civil service starts running circles around you. Any serious conservative minister needs to view the civil service as the enemy and take actions to directly harm their interests.
I was hoping the headline read “‘Common Sense’ Minister to Scrap Civil Service”
30% reduction in headcount will mean the HR and EDI types will arrange for everyone doing anything actually productive to be fired to “cut costs”. McVey’s approach – to which degree it’ll work out remains to be seen – of identifying and than attacking actual problems is much more sensible.
won’t work. too slow
Mcvey, Mogg, Davis, Davies, Baker, Patel, Braverman, Davies, Badenoch, Jenrick, Redwood and others who position themselves on the Right of the a party have no influence whatsoever in the fake Tory party. But they have carved themselves a comfortable niche in the Party in playing to, and keeping onside the centre right vote. Hopefully this year the general public will see these actors for what they really are and they too are rejected in the GE.
The Conservative party has a serious credibility problem. Even if they go to the general election with a manifesto that takes an ultra hard line on immigration and wokery, they simply can’t be trusted.
They won’t even leave the ECHR – I mean, what is the benefit of being a member? The MPs just don’t want to upset their leftists friends. Leaving the ECHR should be the easiest decision in the world and they might even be able to get it without a vote.
At this stage, even Rishi personally machine gunning down the small boats won’t rescue the Tories.
As I watched the McVey Speech on GB news I switched over to SKY and BBC for a minute to see if they were showing it ——As I expected …No chance.
Lip service.
If they meant business they’d cut the funding for every DEI post in the public sector.
All they want is a few headlines.
Also what are they doing about Debanking, not a lot!
“Lip service”. Spot on!
Isn’t it amazing how the Fake Conservative Party is suddenly changing direction to please the voters before an election?
First we have Sunak the Smarmy raising the spectre of Nuclear War that he says only he is capable of preventing (???), so don’t vote for Kneeler.
Then we have Irish Maryolater McVey suddenly popping up to take action against the hated diversity, equality, inclusion rubbish in the civil service, after half a year in her post.
What next, I wonder? As Jon Mors said above, not even Sunak machine-gunning the dinghies will save the Tories now.
Another said,
“Representative democracy has failed in the UK.. Neither main party represent anything like the majority views in the UK.. Time for direct democracy through referendums held regularly on all matters.. Politicians should be just administrators of what the people decided. The most democratic country in the world has to be the Swiss and they have this as their system. Works very well and they never get involved in other countries wars.”
I think that is why Tommy Robinson is treated so harshly, because large swathes of British citizens agree with him.
I call it political poker ——-“I will go 50 million on stopping the boats” —–“I will see your 50 million and raise you another 40 million on tackling human traffickers”. ———“I will tackle the human traffickers and send the migrants back where they came from”——–“No you won’t because it is illegal”———“Well if it is illegal I will get rid of the court”——–and on and on and on