- “End These Travel Restrictions Now” – “For almost three years now, many wonderful artists, intellectuals, students, business professionals, and musicians have been locked out of U.S. borders, even just to tour around and see this great land and meet up with friends,” writes Jeffrey Tucker for Brownstone. And the Government has just extended the ban on unvaccinated visitors entering the country again.
- “Cancer vaccine to use same mRNA technology as Covid vaccine in U.K. trials” – mRNA cancer vaccine trials will start in the U.K. this year after the Government signed a deal with BioNTech – though an expert tell the Telegraph that the treatment may not be powerful enough to eliminate whole tumours, the Telegraph reports.
- “Flu admissions worst for a decade, new data reveals” – Britain is in the grip of the worst flu season since 2017-18, reports the Telegraph.
- “Patients waiting more than 1,000 days for routine surgery” – NHS figures show people have been on waiting lists for almost four years at some of the worst affected hospital trusts, the Telegraph reports.
- “ICAN Obtains Disturbing Information About AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine from the UK Equivalent of the FDA” – The Informed Consent Action Network reports on a newly released AstraZeneca study which finds vector DNA in the sciatic nerve, bone marrow, liver, lungs and spleen of vaccinated mice.
- “Inhospitable hotels: Japan’s continuing mask mania” – Guy Gin writes on the case of lawyer Yasunori Sakurai, who is suing the 5-star Westin Hotel Tokyo for refusing him accommodation because he was unmasked.
- “These Doctors Pushed Masking, Covid Lockdowns on Twitter. Turns Out, They Don’t Exist” – The San Francisco Standard exposes fake pro-lockdown doctor Twitter accounts.
- “State Power and Covid Crimes: Part 5” – Ramesh Thakur in Brownstone suggests that this year we will learn if Covid illiberalism will be rolled back or has become a permanent feature of the political landscape in the West.
- “German court rules local ban on public worship due to Covid ‘illegal’” – Churches in the German city of Lage were unlawfully forced to close during the coronavirus pandemic, a court has ruled, according to the Christian Institute.
- “Review of studies on vaccine-induced myocarditis finds that the Science we’re meant to be following pervasively obfuscates the risk of the mRNA jabs for young men” – Of the few studies that even attempt to assess the population-wide risk of myocarditis following vaccination, nearly three-fourths neglect to include the proper stratifiers, writes Eugyppius.
- “Excess Deaths in the U.K. continue to soar” – The Naked Emperor suspects he knows what is behind it.
- “Salute these brave doctors telling the truth about vaccines” – Kathy Gyngell in TCW praises Dr. Ros Jones and the latest initiative she is involved with, Doctors for Patients U.K.
- “One in 20 people were infected with Covid at Christmas, data shows” – Analysts at the Office for National Statistics say almost 3 million people had the virus in the festive week in a big jump from the week before.
- “Electric vehicle drivers hit with surge pricing at thousands of roadside charging points” – Providers increase costs during peak times on a quarter of the public network, according to the Telegraph.
- “Green extremists are reinventing feudalism by banning travel” – Reducing speed limits and imposing excessive Ulez charges makes life more awkward and expensive for scant benefit, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Facebook accused of blocking advert satirising Joe Biden in a free speech row” – The social media giant told bosses at the Spectator magazine that an image of the U.S. President from this week’s edition was banned, the Sun reports.
- “Why did Facebook reject the Spectator’s Joe Biden cover?” – Spectator Editor Fraser Nelson with the inside track on the latest Big Tech free speech scandal.
- “Germany’s digital minister meets with Elon Musk, says Musk ‘agreed’ to EU’s censorship laws” – The agreement is reported in Reclaim the Net – but I suspect what Musk means by it may be different from what the censorious politicians mean.
- “WhatsApp Is Fighting Censorship With a Proxy Workaround” – WhatsApp has created a proxy server to allow users in countries with strict censorship or internet blocks to access the app, Gizmodo reports.
- “How many people are actually trans?” – Debbie Hayton in UnHerd thinks it’s more complicated than it looks.
- “And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how it is done” – Laurence Fox tweets Pierre Poilievre’s video criticising the re-education of Jordan Peterson.
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“Civil servant given warning after ‘inappropriately’ saying there are two sides to the trans debate”
Since Alison Bailey and Maya Firestarter won their cases, there’s legal precedent now. Over to you Toby?
Ahem: Forestater.
Thanks autocorrect.
Firestarter is better!
Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12933335/Britain-grants-asylum-greater-percentage-migrants-European-countries-double-rate-France-Sweden.html
“The migration observatory at Oxford University has put the decline in asylum refusals down to the fact many had travelled through safe countries before arriving in the UK.”
Ok, it’s early hours and I’ve had a bad night but surely there should be an increase in asylum refusals if people purposely travel through ‘safe countries’ (and choose not to stay) in order to get to the UK?
How can we claim asylum from the numpties in government?
Exactly, ellie. Our governments hate us. Too many examples and an ever-growing mountain of evidence ( across various contexts ) continue to prove this. But as far as the migration issue goes, they’ll never ever be able to do anything meaningful to change the situation now. Not that they’re even trying, in truth. That ship has well and truly sailed long ago. It’s now up to the citizens and I’ve seen lots of heartening examples of people in various communities standing up, taking to the streets and protesting ( peacefully ) but also blockading roads whenever they get even a whiff of a rumour that ‘asylum seekers’ are being dumped on their communities.
There’s a holiday park somewhere in England that’s closed and rumoured to be targeted for a migrant dump, but I don’t know many deets as yet.
Just horrific, and only one example of countless others. People can’t even go jogging in the middle of the day now without being at risk. But Captain Obvious needs to ask; why the fluff was he STILL in the country with five deportation orders??!
”A young female jogger was violently attacked as she ran through a park in the French city of Toulouse on Tuesday by a Nigerian illegal immigrant who reportedly claimed to have wanted to kill her and was already the subject of five deportation orders.
The incident occurred shortly before 2 p.m. in a small park to the west of the city when 27-year-old Lola was accosted by the suspect who attempted to rape her at knifepoint.
French newspaper Le Parisien reported how the man pulled down her leggings and ordered her to “let it happen” but Lola resisted and cried out for help, prompting the suspect to punch her several times in the face and attempt to strangle her.
Lola’s fate may have been sealed had it not been for a 58-year-old homeless man who heard her plea for help and intervened, causing the suspect to flee.
Emergency responders tended to the victim at the scene and treated her for a swollen face. She was also in shock.
Authorities found a knife, trainers, and a cap at the scene belonging to the suspect, and the eyewitness had managed to take a photograph of the suspect.
The following day, the 32-year-old Nigerian national surrendered himself to a police station in Marseille where he was arrested and held in custody.”
https://rmx.news/migration/french-woman-saved-from-rape-at-knifepoint-by-homeless-man-nigerian-illegal-immigrant-with-multiple-existing-deportation-orders-arrested/
Judging by this new report we can see exactly how incidents like the above are allowed to happen due to the inept French government’s policies. They’re a disaster and now the French citizens are at high risk as a result. It’s always the way though. Lip service only;
”The president of France’s supreme audit institution admits to deliberately delaying the release of a report on illegal immigration costs until after the parliamentary debate—and vote—on immigration law. The report, just released by the Cour des Comptes, shows the exorbitant sum of €1.8 billion charged to illegal immigration in 2023.
Published on Thursday, January 4th, the report is a harsh indictment of government policy, in particular the actions of Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who boasts of having taken a tough stance on managing illegal immigrants.
Border management is judged to be catastrophic, with identity checks virtually never carried out, and no information being seriously collected.
The administrations and courts responsible for deportations are totally saturated, as the number of orders to leave France (Obligation de Quitter le Territoire Français, or OQTF) issued has actually risen by 60% over the last five years, while the number of staff responsible for dealing with them has only increased by 9%.
Another major shortcoming is that deportation orders are issued but not enforced. The debates of the last few months have widely circulated the critical figure of only 10% enforcement of the famous OQTFs, which is now well known to the French public. The report draws the following conclusion:
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/french-report-illegal-immigration-costs-e1-8-billion-annually/
And I thought Nigeria was considered a friendly country.
‘The DEI agenda lends itself to corruption, argues Ayaan Hirsi Ali in UnHerd.’
The DEI agenda is socialist fascism, plain and simple.
For most economists, equity relates to how fairly income and opportunity are distributed between different groups in society: socialism.
“Diversity” initiatives are rooted in the goal of installing ideologically consistent political officers within organizations to effect and enforce policies directed toward achieving equity. These political officers, often called “Diversity Officers,” are in fact a rebranding of the older concept of commissars, who enforced socialism in the same way’: totalitarianism.
Inclusion, and its extension in “Belonging,” are a manipulative strategy akin to Mao Zedong’s “unity, criticism, unity” formula for taking over not just institutions but the value structure of populations and bending them toward socialism (or, in this case, equity)’: totalitarian socialism or socialist fascism
https://newdiscourses.com/
The U.S.A., Britain and most developed countries, exemplified by 2020 lockdowns, have been converted to a form of neo-nihilism.
‘…..the Russian nihilists of the 1860s were very different. They were fervent believers in science, who wanted to destroy the religious and moral traditions that had guided humankind in the past in order that a new and better world could come into being. There are plenty of people who believe something similar today.’
‘The plot is a version of actual events that unfolded as Dostoyevsky was writing the book. A former teacher of divinity turned terrorist, Sergei Nechaev, was arrested and convicted of complicity in the killing of a student. Nechaev had authored a pamphlet, The Catechism of a Revolutionary, which argued that any means (including blackmail and murder) could be used to advance the cause of revolution. The student had questioned Nechaev’s policies, and so had to be eliminated.’
A Point of View: The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state, John Gray 23 Nov 2014
‘It is thus seen that, according to the teaching of historical materialism, the state is destined, when it becomes the state of the working-class, to remove its own foundation — economic inequality — and thus, to commit suicide. Many of those, who have witnessed with mingled consternation and amusement the strenuous efforts of Roosevelt and the frantic zeal of Hearst to enlarge the scope of governmental action to cover every conceivable field of human activity from spelling to beef-canning, will hail with delight Engels’ tidings that the state is to “die out.” The thesis, that the realization of the socialist ideal involves the atrophy of religion, the metamorphosis of the family, and the suicide of the state, would now appear to be sufficiently demonstrated.’
The nihilism of socialism, Robert Rives La Monte 1908
‘Dostoyevsky suggests that the result of abandoning morality for the sake of an idea of freedom will be a type of tyranny more extreme than any in the past. As one of the characters in Demons confesses: “I got entangled in my own data, and my conclusion directly contradicts the original idea from which I start. From unlimited freedom, I conclude with unlimited despotism.”
A Point of View: The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state. John Gray 2014
New Year New Age Of Prohibition
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
“Private buyers slam the brakes on electric cars as sales slump”
As the article points out the Governments Zero Emissions Mandate (ZEM) starts this year. It seems to me that this ZEM is a ban by another name and could also see a major decline in the legacy motor industry that is an important part of western economies.
The comments on the article show that people are not slow in picking up on what the move to EVs will mean for them;
”People know they are not a good deal unless you only toodle around town & never drive any distance. Stupid trying to force buyers to accept the things.”
If you are not driving a Corporate leased EV and do not have a company EV charging account and a company credit card then you will be disinclined to bundle your family into an EV and head off into the wild blue yonder for your summer holidays. For ordinary mid and low income private users EVs will at best represent local utilitarian transport, they are not going to financially cripple themselves for a vehicle just to drive to work, do the shopping and visit the park.
I suspect there will be a huge ‘drive’ amongst the ordinary private motorists to hang on to Petrol/diesel (ICE) cars as long as possible, will TPTB allow that to happen? or will we see a range of measures introduced to force ICE cars off the road? As they push us towards an EV future I fear it will be the end of private motoring for many of us hoi-polloi, this will have a significant impact on the economy, not just the motor industry but many leisure activities will be knocked back if many people no longer have a car. Who would attempt to tow a caravan and take their family on holiday to Scotland in a secondhand EV with a dodgy battery?
Well said. There was a reason that the only EVs in practical usage used to be ‘Milk floats’
And golf carts!
People always know best how to spend their own money. Or so we thought. The problem these days is that they are bombarded with misinformation and propaganda on climate to such an extent that they actually believe there is a climate crisis and that the future involves going Green to save the planet. This makes them possibly think that they should be getting a smart meter, a heat pump, an electric car and accept wind and sun instead of energy that actually works.
“Petition to strip Post Office ex-chief exec of her CBE passes 730,000”
Link to petition here:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/strip-paula-vennells-of-her-cbe?share=caeb6bad-ef07-4af8-8589-f50496daabb7
Signed.
Now over 1.1 million.
Please name the Ministers and civil servants who recommended her and the PM who endorsed the honour. The scandal has been around a long time but to read the MSM and MPs you would have thought they knew nothing of it until last week.
My idea:
Start a party called ‘None of the above-party’.
Once in power, this party would reform the electoral system as follows:
We would still have constituencies, possibly slightly larger.
Each constituency would provide a number of MPs, based on the PR vote within that constituency.
You are only allowed to stand as a MP is you have a track record of 10 years of working.
Being a MP would be a full-time job, remunerated well, no side-jobs allowed.
The reason for continuing with constituencies is that the rural voice remains strong. If we go for straight PR the urban vote gets too powerful.
Good idea?
Any amendments needed?
Or would that new party just become Tory or Labour Lite, and be charmed by the WEF and UN just the same as all the other parasites. Once you are in government you suddenly become the establishment.
“Individuals bought 71,984 of the vehicles last year – 23% of the total of 314,687.”
And out of that 23% how many actually ‘own’ their evs? None I’ll guess, all ‘bought’ on a 3 year lease agreement no doubt! I own my diesel truckasaurus and proud of it!
Through a couple of casual conversations, I have discovered that local authority employees, in relatively lowly positions, are able use some sort of employee deal / salary sacrifice scheme to lease an EV. £80000 worth of EV. The sort of price range for a car that would be unattainable for most of us. Go figure the “incentives”, what bribery, corruption and fleecing of the tax payer mechanisms support that “employee benefit”??
No wonder the blasted council tax is so high, council leaders on megasalaries and the clerks driving leased £80k cars.
Sir David Attenborough
“Has he forgotten the previous script? Or has he no principles?”
Dementia?
Perhaps Gay and Ali are post turtles. Ultimately these days much of current political, academic and public life is based on post-turtle politics and science. This parallels post-normal science, in which a top hypothesis emerges that has no logical reason to he there, and could only have got there by invisible support from another post-normal hypothesis. Climate and :Lockdown are two obvious examples. “It’s turtles all the way down, young man.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/06/good-riddance-to-chris-skidmore-chinas-useful-idiot/
I don’t see the point of articles such as this. Ross Clark clearly believes that Nut Zero is worthwhile and achievable when the reality is that it is simply the vector to introduce one world government, depopulation and control.
I don’t subscribe to the Telegraph. Are you saying Ross Clark is fully onboard with Net Zero, or is he just saying that it is a goal that could be achieved but maybe in a more practical way and over a longer period? ——-Cheers
Ross Clark certainly believes in nut zero.