- “Are Brits already turning to masks? Pictures show commuters wearing coverings amid flu and Covid outbreak after SAGE expert’s plea to ‘protect the NHS’ – as poll reveals nearly 60% don’t want any return of one of the main pandemic-era curbs” – Some commuters were seen wearing face masks on the London Underground on Tuesday, as a Mail reader poll finds a clear majority opposed to the return of masks.
- “Forget masks… will hated pingdemic and £2bn a month testing also return? Labour MP calls for pandemic-era policies to save ‘broken’ NHS in new Covid wave amid pleas to reopen Nightingales and for ill Brits to WFH – but Tories slam plan as ‘madness’” – Rachel Maskell, who serves on the Health Select Committee, said ministers should consider bringing back the draconian measures because of the struggles faced by the NHS, according to the Mail.
- “London ambulances will only wait 45 minutes before leaving patients in corridors” – An email leaked to ITV News shows paramedics will only wait 45 minutes before leaving patients on trolleys in corridors to be looked after by hospital staff.
- “Eight in 10 Brits want Covid quarantine to return for infected travellers from China as new testing rules start on Thursday” – An alarming new YouGov poll shows 83% of Brits want people who travel to the U.K. from China and test positive for Covid to be made to self-isolate, the Mail reports. Though it is YouGov.
- “Zero Covid Ends but Zero Sense Continues” – Where are the fact checkers when such levels of misinformation and blatant fear-mongering about China’s Covid outbreak are published on the front page of the New York Times, asks Debbie Lerman at the Brownstone Institute.
- “Self-isolation not required for travellers from China who arrive in U.K. with Covid” – Mark Harper, the Transport Secretary, says the testing is being introduced for “collecting information” as Beijing refuses to share coronavirus data, the Telegraph reports.
- “Why is the West locking down China?” – New travel restrictions prove we’ve learnt nothing, writes Thomas Fazi and Toby Green in UnHerd.
- “‘We completely followed the wrong policies’ in dealing with Covid” – Watch Dr. Tina Peers tell Nigel Farage that “lots of what we did was totally illogical”.
- “Greek healthcare workers who refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 returned to work” – Greek healthcare workers who refused to be vaccinated against Covid returned to their posts on Monday after 16 months of suspension, an association of public hospital employees said, Insider Paper reports.
- “Cardiac Arrest in Athletes” – Dr. Robert Malone responds to the cardiac arrest on the field of American football player Damar Hamlin.
- “Under the spotlight: Excess deaths and the Covid vaccine” – Sally Beck in TCW on Edward Dowd’s new book examining the wave of sudden deaths in America.
- “Surprise! Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hit New Record In 2022” – The global figures show just how divorced from reality those pushing Net Zero agendas really are, says Paul Homewood in WUWT.
- “Black Lives Matter organiser denies fraud charges over Colston statue protest fundraiser” – Xahra Saleem is charged with two counts of fraud by abuse of position, the Telegraph reports.
- “A Senior U.K. Politician Responds to White British Minority: ‘So What?’” – “So what?” is not Sajid Javid’s usual refrain on the topic, particularly when he believes votes are up for grabs, writes Frank Haviland in the European Conservative.
- “Brazil’s woke President” – Reports of Lula’s inauguration show that wokery haunts every corner of the world, says Frederick Edward in Bournbrook.
- “Parliamentary staff ‘must not be taught the concept of white privilege’” – The ‘divisive’ phrase has been removed from diversity training material after internal documents revealed it should not be used, the Telegraph reports.
- “U.K. prisons spend £11m on diversity staff in two years” – Prisons have spent more than £11 million on staff whose roles involve promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in jails, reports the Times.
- “Why have so many liberals given up on free speech?” – Toby writes in Spiked on “the elites’ turn against our most precious liberty”.
- “Index on Censorship: freedom of expression under threat from police” – Freedom of expression is under threat in Scotland with police recording a growing number of ‘hate incidents’ where no crime has been committed, a censorship watchdog has warned, the Times reports.
- “The Ontario College of Psychologists has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes, retweeting Pierre Poilievre and criticising Justin Trudeau and his political allies” – Jordan Peterson tweets that he has been summoned for reprogramming under pain of loss of licence.
- “If we don’t reject masks now, they will be with us forever!” – Watch GB News‘s Mark Dolan warn of the threat of the permanent tyranny of the face nappy.
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As you say, liberalism has become illiberalism. Do as I say, not as I do.
Liberalism – just a queer brightly coloured clothing ensemble covering the gestapo uniform and jackboots underneath.
Liberalism is no more. Get real.
And read the late Kenneth Minogue’s obituary of Liberalism from 2010; were he still with us he would be horrified at how rapidly the West has collapsed in the face of Woke.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8527360-the-servile-mind
RIP Western Civilisation. I shudder at what will come in its wake.
Seconded
Definition is indeed the problem. Whereas it used to mean libertarian lite and free trade. Now it means left, socially libertarian but economically restrictive with price controls and a big state.
“socially libertarian” Sort of. Libertarian with regard to abortion, sexual behaviour but not with regard to freedom of speech.
Hey tof, where have you been?
Holiday from both work, the UK and from matters sceptical. Back now, feeling refreshed!
Thanks for noticing
“Will cited Covid vaccines – one of the most significant Government projects in Western history”
We can state with total conviction that the C1984 “vaccines” were and remain “one of the most significant Government projects in Western history”
I presume the significance referred to is all the excess deaths so far, those to come, the loss of the capacity to have children and the life-shortening impacts on those who fell for the injections. Significant indeed.
This George Will either neglected to research his subject before engaging vocal chords or he’s not particularly bright.
Also significant in terms of forcing people to have untested “medical treatments” at their own expense, and establishing a new protocol for “testing” and “authorising” “safe” and “effective” “medical treatments”. Also not sure why he refers to them as “vaccines” when they are clearly nothing of the sort.
Decades ago, liberalism had been referred to as a Trojan horse for communism. Why not use that as a definition? Given recent history, might as well apply the same definition to conservatism.
Insofar the so-called west is or was partially liberal, this was always a liberal-for-some-elite pseudoliberalism. In Germany, pensioners privately discussing politics may find themselves in the crosshairs of the inland secret service once their discussions stray to far from permitted topics and will ultimatively end up being arrested – to much international fanfare – as right-wing terrorists just for doing that — privately discussing politics. That’s a core feature of the political system western liberals have installed there.
Odd that this organisation should invite a loyal member of the Conservative Party to speak. This man is no classical liberal he went along with all the authoritarian Covid measures and mostly follows the fake Conservative Party line.