- “Rishi Sunak plans to ban ambulance strikes as army top brass say it’s unfair soldiers will have to miss Christmas to fill in for NHS staff who earn more than them: PM is preparing tough laws that will ‘protect lives and livelihoods’” – Army bosses have reportedly told ministers it is ‘not right’ for soldiers, who are banned from striking, to fill in for roles over the festive period, as the PM mulls laws to ban paramedics striking, the Mail reports.
- “Covid: Why were the Government’s Covid contracts challenged?” – BBC News with a handy overview of concerns about waste and corruption in the Covid contracts.
- “Fifteen children have died from Strep A in Britain this winter” – The tragic tally of children dying due to lockdown immunity debt continues to grow, the Mail reports.
- “Record number of Brits died of alcohol-specific causes last year” – The Mail reports that there were 9,641 deaths as a direct result of alcohol abuse in the U.K. in 2021, which is up 7.4% in a year and up by more than a quarter (27.4%) since 2019, the last pre-Covid year.
- “How to end the permanent pandemic” – Reject the nonsense behind policies and rules long proven to have been of little to no use in practice, says Ben Domenech in Spectator World.
- “Chinese anti-lockdown protestors: heroes, not loons” – The establishment media is adopting a very different tone for the latest protests, says Panda La Terriere in UnHerd.
- “Despatches from the Phoney Covid Trenches” – The Covid Physician posts his Christmas message.
- “Victories against ESG Starting to Accelerate” – Using our cash to fund BlackRock’s social-engineering project isn’t something Florida ever signed up for, says Charles Rotter in WUWT. Jo Nova also reports that Vanguard has abandoned the “UN led Net-Zero Climate Finance monster group”.
- “Britain should embrace new coal mining” – Ross Clark in the Spectator says that those who claim steel-making no longer needs coal don’t understand it.
- “Climate activists ‘waging war on the mind’” – Author Stephen McMurray from Net Zero Watch warns that professional psychologists are using fear as a weapon to manipulate public behaviour.
- “The march of the local council dictators” – Rod Liddle in the Spectator on the growing tide of municipal green totalitarianism.
- “Kyiv winter ‘apocalypse’ possible, says Mayor Klitschko” – Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of the Ukrainian capital, said more than 3 million people may be forced to flee the city if Russia succeeds in destroying the power and heating network as winter bites, according to the Mail.
- “Lady Hussey and the truth we dare not speak” – “People’s origins are so important,” says Matthew Parris in the Spectator. “Yet we seem to be cutting ourselves off from fascinating conversations about when and why a person or their ancestors came to Britain – and all because of our silly and unacknowledged preoccupation with pigmentation.”
- “The good and the bad of Elon Musk’s first 40 days owning Twitter” – Alex Berenson gives the Dark Lord his report card.
- “America’s race-obsessed elites are waging war on British institutions” – Douglas Murray writes in the Telegraph that “our universal tolerance and respect for duty are anathema to those who benefit from racial divisions”.
- “Why the British Empire has surfaced in Prince Harry and Meghan’s ‘narcissistic whinge’” – The British Empire – once considered boring or comical – is now being used to fuel the resentments and divisions of identity politics, says Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “The greatest threat to free speech is the EU” – Unlike in the U.S., compulsory ‘moderation’ of social media is already written in EU law, says Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
- “Is Ngozi Fulani a cultural appropriator?” – The charity boss’s adopted African name has confused many British Africans, says Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
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Tess Lawrie’s statement about the situation in NZ regarding baby Will;
“Update (8 Dec 9 pm UTC): The family reports that just before midnight local time Thursday night, Will was removed from their hospital room by five uniformed police officers. He is currently in the PICU awaiting the operation that was scheduled for 8 am local time (7 pm UTC).
Despite available donors, supportive doctors within New Zealand, and warnings of cardiac issues after mRNA injection from Medsafe’s website, the organization tasked with ensuring that medicines in New Zealand are safe, the judge has trampled the rights and wishes of baby Will’s mother and father and devastated their loving family.
All people have the right to choose non-mRNA vaccinated blood, not least for their children. The decision to remove Will from his parents’ care is unconscionable and sends a chilling message to all New Zealanders about the State’s overreach and blatant disregard for the rights of parents to make their own informed decisions about their children’s health and well-being.”
He should have had his operation by now so I wish him a speedy recovery and that he can be back in the full-time care of his parents where he rightfully should always have been. It’s obvious why the judge made this decision though. It would open the floodgates of people demanding non-vaxxed blood and initiate people asking questions and raising justifiable concerns over blood and organ donations. Can’t have anything giving rise to public concern and unrest about the impact of mRNA floating around in donated blood can they? I hope this case has made some people stop and think though.
https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/news/statements/baby-will-new-zealand/
So this isn’t totally disturbing!
I was reading on Telegram that Will’s mother is allowed to be in a room with Will but she has police chaperoning her round the clock and even when she goes to the toilet. Madness.
https://rumble.com/v1znqv6-baby-w-our-baby-has-just-been-medically-kidnapped.html
However, on a more positive note, just saw a vid of the parents speaking outside the hospital and Will is out of surgery and doing well.
Can you imagine if anything bad happens with this baby’s health now though? 
The world is watching.
Truly this story makes me want to cry.
Here is the brilliant Kit Knightly over at Off-G giving some wider aspects of this case an airing.
A short but well ‘worth reading in full’ article.
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/08/dangerous-precedent-nz-court-orders-baby-removed-from-anti-vax-parents/
And about bloody time hux you plonker.
Apologies everybody.
An interesting new substack from Igor looking at how the WEF wants our homes to be worthless due to a change in regulations;
“If the WEF gets its way, your building could become a “stranded asset” — that is, abandoned due to changes in regulations — unless you perform an expensive and often impossible retrofit — at your expense, of course!
Installing corn-based carpets and repainting the inside with soy-based paint is the easy part. Some ideas are crazy, like watering your garden with water coming out of showers and washing machines. Switching to heat pumps and geothermal heating or cladding your home with custom panels for greater insulation will likely cost more than the value of your house — necessitating a demolition or abandonment of your home.”
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/the-wef-wants-your-house-to-be-worth
And the to a high degree privately-owned and property obsessed UK actually seems to be the pilot country, as it is the only one which has already put the initial steps and demands into law. Pure expropriation already passed, and everyone just puts the kettle on.
“initial steps and demands into law.”
What are the initial steps to which you refer?
Indeed. I was under the impression it was Cameron who eased up on building regs some years back (‘bonfire of the building regs’ 2014) which is why so many new builds are really badly constructed and poorly insulated. The green build mob were really p*ssed.
https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/archive/cameron-claims-victory-in-bonfire-of-the-building-regulations
Interesting post, thanks for flagging. As well as being yet another pointless Net-Zero wet dream, its further evidence of the eradication of history and the vernacular landscape, who we are as distinct cultural and geographical peoples across the globe – real diversity, not this deliberately divisive stuff currently being pedalled – and running alongside all that ‘decolonisation’ of academic history cr*p. And I assume corn carpets (wot, no wool??) and soy paint will need to be organic and GMO free: where are they going to grow it all to meet demand if all the agri land has been rewilded? Insanity.
Wonder what Historic England are going to say about it given all the present restrictions on listed and conservation area buildings. Will be fun to see how they try and justify it.
The WEF won’t get their way.
I have very little doubt that there will be an immunity deficit in both children and adults thanks to lockdowns. I suspect, however, that is not the cause of the strep A deaths.
The severity of the effects that this bacterium causes have varied greatly over the years. It used to cause great outbreaks of scarlet fever, and late sequelae of rheumatic heart disease and gomerulonephrits. All I ever saw it doing in 40 years of medical practice was cause what we called scarletina, a very mild form of scarlet fever, and sore throats/tonsillitis.
I suspect this problem is more down to changes in the organism rather than children.
I would be interested to hear the views of others on this issue.
The Twitter Files Part 2 – not a long thread, worth reading in full. I don’t have a Twitter account, just read in it a web browser, select “sign up” when prompted then press the X to close that window.
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601023504916172800
3. Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya
) who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/is-german-crackdown-on-far-right-plotters-a-blueprint-for-tyranny-everywhere/
One of our stalwarts alerted us to the news of mass arrests in Germany. My first thought was ‘false flag.’
I wonder who will be the fall guy(s) in the UK?
Coming soon to a BBC / SKY channel near you.
https://azgeopolitics.com/?p=3239
Thanks ebygum.
..thanks Hux, I did wonder at the time if they really were ‘far-right’…?
the article says what a lot of us think…how do we warn people against the next spurious crisis….and how do we fight against something that no one is giving us a vote or say over?
Like this, from the Netherlands, tweeted from Eva Vlaardingerbroek, who often appears on GB News…
“The majority of the Dutch Parliament ordered the government by means of a motion to NOT support the European Digital Identity Project.
What did our Secretary of Digitalisation do? She went to Brussels and voted in favour of a European #Digital ID anyway. “
The democratic contract between Government and the people seems entirely broken to me…
Without doubt the first part of our war us with our own governments.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/conspiracy-theorists-todays-new-mainstream-in-the-covid-state/
And it is excellent articles such as this by Paul Collits at TCW which destroys Isobell Oakshott’s “no malign intent” in the Spectator article featured yesterday and which rightly got a good drubbing from many of us on here.