If, like me, you’ve found this year’s New Year Honours list depressing reading, cheer yourself up by looking at our readers’ alternative suggestions.
We had some excellent one-off nominations, such as this one for Peter Hitchens:
I’m nominating Peter Hitchens for services to journalism. For the last 50 years he has had buckets of slime poured over him for questioning the prevailing orthodoxies and group think of the establishment on issues of war, freedom, liberty, the rule of law and the response to COVID-19 to name but a few. I think it would be a fitting tribute for Toby Young to touch Peter gently on each shoulder with his knighting sword live on YouTube.
And this one:
I would like to nominate all the good men and women who work at Exxon Mobil’s Fawley oil refinery near my home.
Fawley represents 20% of the UK’s refining capacity and supplies much of the diesel, petrol and aviation fuel used in the southeast.
Remember folks, 85% of UK energy use is not in the form of electricity but heavy distillates of crude oil (mostly diesel).
These heroic people literally keep the economy moving.
And this one:
To the wonderful lady who maintains our park, has done for many years. It’s in Littleborough, Lancashire and her ministrations result in so much joy for so many local people. Cath she’s called. On OBE at least I feel.
Plenty for Substack newsletters and blogs, such as this one for El Gato Malo:
- One of the first commentators to recognise the insidious evil of lockdowns and the blatant lies and government propaganda disastrously used to enforce them on people.
- Truly being probably one of the first people in the world to recognise the horror of what was coming down the line with the disastrous oncoming train wreck of the covid vaccines.
- Critically – carrying out incredibly complex data analysis documenting the unfolding disaster.
- One of the first to recognise and provide critical analysis to support the terrible (and to be expected) harms of original antigenic sin, antigenic imprinting etc.
- Continuing this important role today, and covering other essential topics with the same cracking humour and grace that makes me and many others look forward to his wonderful long format reads.
- Kicked off twitter for nearly 3 years (finally restored on Christmas Day), but still managed to build a large and supportive community of people on substack.
- Simply, alongside the Daily Sceptic, the wonderful El Gato Malo provides hope (backed up with critical and very detailed analysis) to us in these terrible dark times.
- You can find his Substack newsletter here and his twitter account here.
Other journalists and bloggers also got one-off nominations:
I would like to nominate Gary Sidley founder of Smile Free, Lionel Shriver and Charles Eisenstein, especially for his book The Coronation and all his Covid writings.
Also, Beverley Turner:
Please give a Damehood to Beverley Turner – she was one of the first ‘celebrity journalists’ to speak out publicly against vaccine passports and especially campaigning for young people and against the bribes our Government tried to use to pressure them into having the Covid shots. She was vilified on TV by the likes of Jeremy Vine…
And Nick Dixon, host of the Weekly Sceptic:
Best podcast of the year.
GB News got a nomination for being funny (which Nick Dixon also deserves some credit for):
I would also like to nominate GB News for a comedy award. This could be misinterpreted! I don’t mean GB News is a joke! I mean GB News is consistently full of good humour which makes me laugh more than any current comedy programmes anywhere on BBC television.
These three got a nomination for going the extra mile to make people aware of ‘Focused Protection’ as an alternative to lockdown:
Simon Platt, Andrew Watt and Mark Kingsley – all brave souls who raised money to buy some leaflets about the Great Barrington Declaration for delivery in Preston. They were afraid of being physically attacked while delivering the leaflets… but pressed on regardless.
Several people nominated those who’ve been harmed by the mRNA vaccines:
I nominate all who were killed by the mRNA vaccine to be awarded the posthumous title ‘Hero of Soviet Britain’ and their relatives (maximum of two) to receive a small pasteboard medal which enables them to move to the front of any food or energy queue.
We also got some negative nominations, such as this one for King Charles:
For his appalling treatment of Lady Hussey, who I think should sell her story to Netflix for at least $10 million and blow the gaff on the entire artifice and on all the inter-palace rivalries.
As well as these four (the last is particularly good):
Meghan Markle for services to altruism.
Ngozi Fulani – Stealth Recording.
The geezer who dresses as a woman and nicks people’s luggage.
Fred West, a posthumous Baronetcy for not killing as many people as those awarded covid knighthoods.
And on to the most popular nominees…
These are all people who received more than one nomination. Where appropriate, I’ve included a comment from one of the people who nominated them:
Ian Rons x 2
IT nerd of the year.
Bob Moran x 2
Lord Sumption x 2
Make him Head of the Supreme Court.
Prof. Martin Kulldorff x 2
Dr. Noah Carl x 2
Kept the wheel of intelligent and essential debate persistently turning.
Dan Wootton x 2
Julia Hartley-Brewer x 2
Anders Tegnell x 2
Maybe not the most original nomination, but I’m writing this from Sweden as I sit in my in-laws kitchen drinking tea and feeling just how different Sweden is to Britain when it comes to the pandemic.
I’ve visited a few time since it all started and every time it has struck me how much more sane it is here. Last year I asked my father in law what it was like at work, he said “you don’t go to work if you are sick”. And that was that. He grumbled good naturedly that he only got vaccinated so he could visit us in England, and then laughed when he got covid anyway.
You don’t see masks here. The only time I saw a significant number was when visiting the test center to get our papers to fly back to England last summer.
Sweden has its own share of problems, but covid was never one of them. Throughout the madness I found it heartening to hear back from Swedes about how so many Germans were coming to Sweden to get a haircut or a manicure and being charged double.
Allison Pearson x 3
For services to journalism and to the community.
Dr. Tess Lawrie x 3
Russell Brand x 3
The Duck and Weave Award for having somehow outfoxed the algorithm and become a master of the soft power of information and persuasion.
Laura Dodsworth x 3
For highlighting the propaganda and lies.
Chris Morrison x 3
A Dukedom for services to the truth about the debacle of Net Zero.
Dr. Will Jones x 3
He has displayed sheer bravery, unflagging persistence and the ability to write much needed info, despite no doubt attacks from various quarters. I have not heard Will speak much so don’t know how good humoured he is, but do know he is a flipping good bloke.
James Delingpole x 4
Knight of the Realm (although I’d expect him to reject it for obvious reasons!)
Kathy Gyngel x 4
A Damehood for keeping the faith with her website and plea for children not to be vaccinated.
Prof. Norman Fenton x 5
Dr. Ros Jones x 5
For unstinting effort over the last 2/3 years to encourage an open debate about how best to respond to the Covid pandemic and particularly for her efforts to protect children against damage from COVID-19 vaccines.
Sir Christopher Chope x 5
For bravery and honesty and persistence.
Alan Miller x 5
Neil Oliver x 5
For speaking truth to power. His weekly monologues are inspirational and form an important reminder for everyone that there are a few journalists on the fringes of mainstream media who still possess a backbone and have moral integrity.
Dr. Clare Craig x 6
Jay Bhattacharya x 6
Dr Steve James x 7
For being one of the first NHS doctors to courageously speak out about the Covid vaccines when he confronted the Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, visiting a hospital about a year ago in front of TV cameras.
Prof Carl Heneghan x 7
For speaking reason, in measured tones, from the very beginning.
John Campbell x 8
Vlogging on You Tube, discussing facts, but always decorated with a You Tube “Covid misinformation” tag. Over the past two years his videos have documented how the scales fell from his eyes as he realised it wasn’t appropriate to take on trust communication from the government and national health bodies on SARS-CoV2.
Dr Aseem Malhotra x 8
For being big enough to say, “I know more now, so I’m changing my mind.”
Prof Sunetra Gupta x 9
For being one of the original signatories of the very reasonable Great Barrington Declaration and then taking the ensuing flack.
Andrew Bridgen x 10
For services to the cause of properly researched public health information.
Mike Yeadon x 12
A brave, honourable and determined soul who has had his good name and reputation deliberately trashed by the powers that be in what will in time be exposed as the biggest health and economic scandal to befall not only this country but worldwide.
The team at the Daily Sceptic x 20
For services to my mental health, for keeping me, and no doubt many others, sane during crazy times.
And the person who got the most nominations was…
Mark Steyn x 22
I nominate Mark Steyn to receive the Order of Merit, for his fearless contribution to public service broadcasting in furtherance of enlightening the public’s consciousness.
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Why oh why does this never get mentioned in any MSM news?
Because most have sold themselves to government and its advertising bribery, and are also terrifed of being “cancelled” if they don’t toe the line. A bunch of frit proprietors, editors, journalists and reporters.
The Trusted News Initiative.
Fact checked by the Ministry of Truth.
Because it doesn’t fit the narrative.
And as we all know, it’s very difficult to admit you’re wrong.
because OFGEM applied a D-Notice to them in early 2020
Because Belarus maybe?
They are all ‘on notice’ from OFCOM, restricted from printing anything negative about the ‘pandemic’. You have to hope that when the orders are lifted the floodgates will open, my guess is that the order will be lifted about a week after Doris has announced his exit from the stage.
Because the politicians and MSM believe themselves to be all-knowledgeable and infallible, but more importantly, having set themselves up on a pedestal, cannot be seen to be proven wrong. They are the very opposite of scientific.
Belarusian President Lukashenko: “It’s better to die standing than live on your knees”.
I think I can agree with him on that at any rate.
So do I. But it’s even better to live standing, which is what Belarusians are doing.
Funny, I seem to remember we once had politicians who said, and acted upon, that kind of thing. No longer.
I remember last year he suggested saunas and vodka. A very high rate of sauna use is possibly the reason for the mildness of the COVID outbreak in Finland, see some of the Medcram videos on this subject for example this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFRwnhfWXxo Not sure about the vodka but it might have merit as a mouthwash if used regularly
The vodka is just to make the sauna more fun
Vodka makes everything more fun
Lukashenko refused a large WHO bribe last year to fall in line. He refused, hence the EU orchestrated ‘colour revolution’ and smears from the BBC etc.
Alexandr Lukashenko – a president with scruples – OffGuardian (off-guardian.org)
Brilliant! Thank you very much.
The six countries ‘deaths from all causes’ chart looks a bit like a part of one of those wavy lines charts where the median 0% turns out to be pretty much the average over, say, a five year period……..
An age adjusted version would be very interesting.
It’s good that there is some real evidence for some nations on at least two continents now which demonstrates what the real enemy is – not an inanimate object, namely a virus.
Also gives weight to the very simple precept that you can’t control a virus.
“…the epidemic is self-limiting…having infected a similar number of people.”
Talking of numbers, reminded me of this which I came across a couple of days ago and I checked again prior to posting, for updates:
The infamous 233 cases.
What do all these places throughout the world have in common?
Alberta; Oregon; Singapore; Mizoram,Ind; Charleston,W.Va; Latvia; San Diego County; Allen County, Indiana; Idaho Falls; Lithuania; NSW; Alberta; Croatia; Trinidad and Tobago; Winnebago County; Jackson,Miss; Hawaii; Frankfort, KY; Tajikistan; India etc etc
They have all reported as having ‘233’ new cases at some time or other since April 2020 – some as recent as a few hours ago!
Just google Covid 19 233 new cases and it brings up the many reported news items for the different areas.
I haven’t posted the link as it is one of those long, convoluted ones that spreads across the page but included a screen shot of some of the reports.
Interesting reading.
233 new cases…MSM at its finest…
Found this earlier:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IIUKRXWUCmIo/
Incredible, its as if they were made up! smirks.
Must be another one of those darned coincidences because they would never lie to us, would they? Wink wink, nod nod, cough cough.
that is totally weird, from the start and still doing it, they’ve stuck to 233
What’s 233 divided by 42?
Sorry, as much as I agree this is all dodgy, try the same for 234, 235, 236, etc. You find exactly the same. What I think this really shows is the absolute obsession with reporting mindlessly exact numbers, not trends and percentages.
Very much this, you can just put any number in and get something similar. All this shows is the media’s rampant obsession with covid, endlessly reporting the same nonsense day-in, day-out. The lazyest of journalism. Pathetic, how can anyone read this garbage?
Could the second peak be related to Sinopharm vaccine as well as winter?
Will HMG be taking legal action against Berooos?
“Will HMG be taking legal action against Beroos?”
For the benefit of those who may not have seen this….it’s priceless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KvgwKX-3Gs
Beroos. Lol. And she claimed it was racist to mock her. What an Idiot
All these free countries have effectively been ‘living with Covid’ – which is the policy that we are now starting to espouse.
‘Living with Covid’ essentially means accepting that the illness is around (just like flu) and treating it properly if you do happen to catch it. However, ALL treatment protocols have been effectively banned by our authorities, who have been blinded by the promise of a vaccine, and insist that 100% vaccination is the only answer.
We will not be able to ‘live with the disease’ until the medical industry is allowed to develop effective treatments, and we should be pushing for that to happen.
Those treatments and protocols exist already, and those who use them are threatened, criticised and persecuted.
You forgot banned & cancelled
Precisely. Proof that “saving lives” isn’t part of the plan.
‘Living with Cancer’, maybe for the same reasons? Just have to ‘live with it’
Yes indeed, except that I see little evidence we are “living with covid” in much of a rational manner. The Big Lie that it was/is exceptional is still unchallenged, billions are still being spent on political theatre connected to it, and lots of restrictions are either still in place, or threatened.
So Belarus is described as an “authoritarian country” but the UK and France are not? In the UK, opposition parties’ bank accounts are closed without warning (Reform), there is heavy censorship, freedom of movement has been limited, the main media are to a considerable extent funded by government, a well-known journalist has been held without trial with long periods in solitary confinement, and the right to protest is at the discretion of the government.
Fancy swapping?
Quite possibly, when my circumstances permit. Mexico and to some extent Russia also looking interesting.
The Allied countries in World War II were not paradises, nor were the neutral countries, but most of them would have been preferable to live in compared to the Axis countries. The attraction is relative.
Yes of course it is relative. Do you really think the constraints on our liberties are worse than in Belarus or Russia? I wonder how many people on this forum would agree.
On the face of it, they are quite a lot worse yes. Are you thinking of anything specific or just the general rhetorical case made by the UK’s government-controlled media? The whole of the UK was put under damaging house arrest for months, on a medical pretext without evidence or cost-benefit analysis; that’s quite a constraint. Imagine the uproar if the things I listed above had happened in Belarus rather than the UK. Taxes are also much lower in Russia than in the UK.
The reality is this is just how it has always been. The UK is not some special country free of corruption. Belarus may have taken a different path when it comes to covid, but in many ways they are much worse off than the UK.
Oh no, the UK is a democratic country, just like the German Democratic Republic was…
Please keep in mind that it’s not just lockdown in a given country that causes disruption in basic functioning of society and excess deaths in that given country, but also lockdowns in other, neighboring countries and lockdowns around the world that cause disruption and excess deaths in that given country.
For example, it was already written how global lockdowns have disrupted global supply chains and this has caused many extra starvation deaths in 3rd world countries (more extra starvation will come in the next years and decades). So, it’s not just lockdowns in those 3rd world countries that caused excess deaths but lockdowns around the world.
Belarus and (south)eastern Europe are not 3rd world countries but are also not 1st world countries, they are somewhere in between. Lockdowns in whole of Europe and world would affect these countries (even if countries like Belarus didn’t impose lockdown).
A lot of people from eastern Europe work in western Europe and around the world (mainly US & Canada). Some of them have citizenships of those countries but many don’t and/or are just seasonal workers. When everywhere lockdowns were introduced these people lost their jobs, they didn’t get the furlough or any kind of welfare. They were also literally kicked out of these countries if they didn’t have residency.
In many of the (south)eastern Europe countries the money sent by diaspora to their families in a given year is close to the annual budgets of these countries. So if half of this money stops flowing it’s going to cause a mess.
An illustrative example. You have older and frail people living in Belarus. The pension is very small and public heath care very bad. They don’t have enough for basic medicine or ok heating in the winter (public heating is bad, private too expensive for them). So their children or grandchildren send them money which is just enough to go by. But if this money stops coming, some of these old and frail people will die, especially during cold winter.
Also the fear and panic is global, so even if Belarus or some other country didn’t lockdown many people would still be afraid. They wouldn’t go out of the house, would suffer physically and psephologically, or they wouldn’t go to the hospital in case of an emergency (even if there were empty places in public hospitals or they could afford private care).
These factors are most probably what caused those peaks of excess deaths in Belarus. I think the virus itself wouldn’t do anything in these countries. Unlike 1st world countries, people die more of more general conditions (due to lower quality of life) before they can get old and frail enough to be “finished of” by c19.
“[Uk lockdown contributed to] many extra starvation deaths in third world countries”.
And the Guardian is supporting these lockdowns? Utter sellouts!
Belarus has an unrepentant dictator crushing his political opponents by murdering them. Even Sturgeon hasn’t gone that far. Yet.
I think people look at Belarus and its lack of covid restrictions with envy, while completely forgetting everything else wrong with the country. The grass often looks greener on the other side of the fence.
The problem is expecting the same media that brought you wall-to-wall COVID propaganda to somehow be a beacon of truth when reporting on an “enemy” country. Mainstream media has been an unreliable source for foreign policy issues for many years, to some extent for ever.
How many people have our own unrepentant dictators’ so-called public health policies killed? Particularly the banning of safe and effective treatments? And the totalitarian states that these people are trying to bring in are not going to be safe places for political opponents.
Didn’t Belarus require masks?
Dunno, I was watching some Belarusian football, from last year and there seemed to be plenty of people without masks. I know Belarus has its problems, but strikes me it has some mighty powerful compensations too. August 2 last year, they had crowds watching football mask free. A few days before, our mad government pronounced restrictions on visiting people’s homes for millions of people in the North of England. The graphs above, and the effects on children reported elsewhere suggest it was pointless and harmful.
This is why Lukashenko was put on a fast track regime change op after he refused the IMF ‘loans’ to go along with the lockdown scam. He was marked for assassination as per usual with these things. Fortunately he had some assistance from Russian intelligence.
The ‘game plan’ so beloved of the CIA involved the equivalent of Venezuela’s Random Gaido Guy declared by the US to be the legitimate ruler of Venezuela. It looks like the UK government /courts are close to handing over ~£1.3 billion in gold held in London for ‘safety’ to this ‘official’ representative of the Venezuelan government. Now, that is how you rob a bank.
The Belarus equivalent is some non-entity called Tikhanovskaya who has gained a place at Stanford (unusually not Harvard) where whe will recevie full attention for her handlers.
It’s not ever going to change, sorry guys. Not until all the lockdowners grow grow a pair and stand up to the bullshit that’s being thrown at them.
When, not ever will that happen, it’s to late.