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by Will Jones
29 November 2022 1:40 AM

  • “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.

'There should be a referendum on it because we can't express our views at the ballot box.'

Director of Free Speech Union Toby Young speaks in favour of a referendum on the Government's Net Zero policy. pic.twitter.com/YEMto3rk4s

— GB News (@GBNEWS) November 28, 2022

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AEC
AEC
2 years ago

Good for him. Reform’s problem is Tice. The electorate suspects he’s a globalist in sheep’s clothing, and that manifested in the local elections.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  AEC

Tice’s night time “olympian” partner Isabel Oakshott seriously dented any pretence of Reform’s anti-establishment stance when she wrote Handicock’s diaries.

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Smudger
Smudger
2 years ago
Reply to  AEC

Standing down 317 candidates in 2019 also added deeply to this suspicion.
Tice does indeed to pee or get off the pot.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  AEC

With respect that seems to me like wishful thinking.
People who are naturally on the political right keep voting Tory in huge numbers. They have to stop for another political force to emerge on the right. They have had many chances and if the penny hasn’t dropped by now, I can’t see it happening in my lifetime. We probably need a disastrous societal collapse for people to wake up.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

“We probably need a disastrous societal collapse for people to wake up.”

Oh, I think such a collapse is absolutely inevitable tof.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Looks that way

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

This has been going on for so long that there’s even a German word for it: Politikverdrossenheit (Fed-up-with-politics-ness). People are generally convinced that they keep getting shafted by corrupt/ otherwise non-desirable career politicians and have mentally disengaged themselves from political public life, yet, enough of them keep making the same crosses on the same boxes of ballot papers and then hope that this will somehow magically fix things (which it never does).

This is mirrored on the side of the actual political actors: By the time some group of people with a positive vision regarding what they want society to become and how to achieve that has percolated through the parliamentary system to positions of actual power, it’ll have turned into yet another group of short-termist establishment politicians playing to the tune of the machinery they believe to have conquered while it has really conquered them.

The system is f***ed and making more crosses on pieces of paper so that someone else will hopefully do something about it is not going to help.

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varmint
varmint
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

Yep the system is indeed f…ed. ————-But as Churchill said “Democracy is the worst form of government…apart from all the rest”. ———We have to somehow operate within that f…ked system or become anarchists instead.

Last edited 2 years ago by varmint
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Jane G
Jane G
2 years ago
Reply to  AEC

I’m not sure the electorate at large know what a globalist is.
Our area didn’t even have a candidate from Reform – I might have held my nose and voted for them, despite revising my opinion of them fundamentally.

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Dr G
Dr G
2 years ago

I was born in London.
At age 1 I moved to Australia with my parents as a “10 pound Pom”.
I had a holiday there when I was 8, and another when I was 52, 9 years ago.
How times change!
As with San Francisco, Melbourne, New York and Seattle, Lefties certainly know how to destroy a decent city.
The fact that Khan looks set for another term says it all.
No desire to live there again.

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Smudger
Smudger
2 years ago
Reply to  Dr G

if only those of the small government centre Right had one third of the commitment, energy and activism of those on the Left we may be in a better place.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  Smudger

We’re too busy working

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Smudger
Smudger
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I fully acknowledge that small c conservatives are busy but they are effective, practical hardworking people and that is why I considered that one third of the commitment, time and energy spent by the Left would be enough to turn the ship around.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  Smudger

Good point!

We also don’t like telling other people what to do or how to think.

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Smudger
Smudger
2 years ago

Well done Howard Cox!

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FerdIII
FerdIII
2 years ago
Reply to  Smudger

Just waiting for the Fake News to call him Hitler, anti-semitic, far right and an anti-vaxx science denier who wants to kill Gaia. They can dust off their 10 year old copies and regurgitate.

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varmint
varmint
2 years ago

Too many people, too many cars, too many trains, too many planes, too many beggars, too many criminals, too many drugs, too many knives, too many guns, too many of almost everything you can think of…………..How can a total clutter like that be sorted out? Especially when boat loads of more clutter arrive in their thousands each week.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
2 years ago

Time for a change. Sadiq has shown his incompetence and is destroying a once great city. Vote for the new guy or forever be ruled by the WEF.

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