- “‘Twindemic’ and Strep A crises may have peaked: ‘Flu-nami’ admissions fall for first time this winter, scarlet fever cases plunge five-fold and Covid numbers drop 40% post-Xmas – amid warnings ‘Kraken’ will trigger fresh virus surge” – NHS data show the number of patients in England hospitalised with flu and Covid spiked around the turn of the year and have been trending downwards since, the Mail reports.
- “White House extends COVID-19 public health emergency once again” – The Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday officially renewed the ongoing public health emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic amid concerns over a more transmissible viral mutation and broad pandemic fatigue, reports the Hill.
- “Moderna begins trialling mRNA shot that is injected directly into the heart to treat heart attack patients” – What could go wrong? Report in the Mail.
- “Anti-vaxxer MP Andrew Bridgen vows to continue asking ‘reasonable questions’ about Covid jabs despite being kicked out by the disgusted Tories for comparing the lifesaving roll-out to the Holocaust” – Disgraceful smear piece in the Mail by David Wilcock.
- “Is this the true, devastating cost of lockdown?” – Up to 100 times more may have been spent on preventing each Covid death than on preventing each non-Covid death, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “In Defence of Jay Bhattacharya” – Professor Donald Boudreaux comes to the defence of the sceptical Stanford professor in Brownstone.
- “Outspoken Ontario Physician Against Covid Vaccination Has Licence Suspended” – A physician who has taken a publicly critical stance to pandemic measures such as COVID-19 vaccination was suspended by his college on January 5th, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Our Only Option Is the Narrow Road” – “We must all join forces in the fight for the right to express ourselves, to think, to doubt, to come together in the public square to discuss, reason and shape society,” writes Thorsteinn Siglaugsson.
- “Rare Earths, Electrification Mandates and Energy Security” – Rare earth minerals, on which the forced transition to ‘clean energy’ depends, are critically constrained by many of the same factors as fossil fuels, says Mark Krebs in WUWT.
- “The German Greens are playing into Russia’s hands” – The push for clean energy may, perversely, lead to more demand for Russian gas, says Ralph Schoellhammer in UnHerd.
- “New gas boilers could be banned within a decade” – The Net Zero review by MP Chris Skidmore has predictably called for even more radical changes, including a ban on new gas boilers within a decade, an “onshore wind revolution” and a five-fold increase in solar panels – but admits household costs will rise by up to £6,000, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s electric car dream is all but over” – Britishvolt’s chances of success are fanciful despite expectations of a last-ditch bailout, says the Telegraph‘s Ben Marlow, in the latest sign the green economy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
- “University of Southern California department removes the word ‘field’ because it is ‘racist’” – The word ‘field’ has been declared to have racist connotations and will no longer be used in a department at a leading American university, according to the Telegraph.
- “NHS trans plans will make maternity care ‘the next Tavistock’, midwives warn” – NHS England wants to hold ‘gender inclusive training’ classes but midwives said the scheme could have “real implications” for mothers, reports the Telegraph .
- “Critical Race Theory has captured the Church of England” – Robert Tombs writes in the Telegraph that the Commissioners’ research surprised him by showing the very limited degree of the Church’s involvement in slave trading.
- “Sturgeon’s gender bill poses a problem for the Tories” – Stephen Daisley in the Spectator on a new paper from Policy Exchange by Glasgow University law lecturer Michael Foran, which explains that “those possessing Scottish gender recognition certificates who travel to England, Wales or Northern Ireland will have to be legally recognised in their acquired sex”.
- “Gender neutral Brit Awards sees only men nominated in top category” – The artist of the year nominees for the 2023 Brit Awards are all male, after organisers opted to make the category gender-neutral, the Telegraph reports.
- “Coleman Hughes: asking ‘where are you from?’ isn’t racist” – The writer responds to Prince Harry and Ngozi Fulani in UnHerd.
- “Andrew Tate and the hysteria of modern feminism” – No, the misogynist influencer is not producing a generation of rapists, writes Ella Whelan in Spiked.
- “The Parthenon is special, but not unique” – If we must return the Elgin marbles, why not any other artefact, asks Mario Trabucco della Torretta in the Critic.
- “Chippendales star Kumail Nanjiani says Hollywood is now scared of casting non-white guys as baddies – industry’s effort to be more woke is limiting interesting roles for non-white actors: ‘I want to play more bad guys’” – Kumail Nanjiani doesn’t believe he would have got his role as Chippendale villain if it wasn’t based on a true story as he said Hollywood is scared to cast non-white actors as bad guys, according to the Mail, as wokery backfires once again.
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Lisa Marie has died after a cardiac arrest , sad news ,added to her 28 year old sons ( Elvia,s grandson ) suicide in 2920 .
“Rock and Roll is full of short stories” – Ian Dury…
I read last night she’d been revived so this is really tragic to hear.
Three smear pieces in the Mail this morning, great grandparents were cousins; Lisa Marie was a drug addict; Lisa Marie was slurring her words on Tuesday. Distasteful to say the least but another high profile cardiac arrest in what, two weeks, must be deflected.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/2023/01/12/new-gas-boilers-could-banned-within-decade/
One of the recommendations in this report is to ban the sale of houses with an energy rating of below C. It seems symptomatic of the authoritarian and dictatorial approach to all this that a ban is imposed when an empathetic and understanding government would be offering help, assistance and guidance in up-grading the energy performance of your house.
As it is, has there been any realistic technical assessment as to what it would take to up-grade all D & E graded houses to a C rating? Can this actually be achieved? Many older people will be living in houses rated D or E, what will happen to these houses when the owners die and the houses need to be sold?
The houses will automatically pass to the local authority/government and be sold to developers known to the local authority/government at knock-down (literally) prices. The developers will build ‘approved’ housing totally out of character with the surrounding houses. The new houses will either be sold or rented out for ridiculous sums of money. The relatives of the deceased owner may get a nominal sum of money – if they are lucky.
“The houses will automatically pass to the local authority.”
Agree.
The intention between now and 2030 is to steal citizens properties. In order to achieve this property values need to collapse so higher interest rates are on the way. Negative equity and wage stagnation or deflation will render people homeless. The unfortunates will be offered hutches in the “smart cities” currently being developed across the country. Cue 15 minute cities.
Obviously a city hutch may well depend on total subservience to the dictates of whichever puppets have been placed in charge. It has all been planned for.
After 40 years in the building trade I can categorically say energy ratings and Ber ratings are cobblers!
I’ve seen two apts in the same building one above the other, both center floors with no roof or ground above or below, with no refurb or upgrading, given C for one and an E for the other! Same block same walls same age same poor insulation, different surveyor!
most housing stock in the UK is old, built before the understanding of most of today’s surveyors. You cannot look at the inside and outside of a wall and know how it’s constructed, you would have to knock a hole in it to find out for definite! same goes for floors, foundations and rooves! It’s just a gov con to make us pay more, and certainly no basis for expensive national housing stock upgrading. A person with credentials comes round with a box ticking check sheet and ticks the ones they think apply, thanks bye,…your house now needs £10000 more refurb than the same house next door!
as I said ,
Cobblers!
A very thought provoking article on the permitted reveal of harms from the bioweapon injections & the role of the actors within this.
https://miriaf.co.uk/heroes-holocausts-and-hijabs/
Thanks for the link BB. Miri writes very well and in an extremely approachable manner. I must say the way she (?) draws together the strands of our current predicament is very persuasive. What really persuades me is the ‘Andrew’ connection. Andrew = Brave.
If there is one beacon that always shines through the machinations of the Davos Deviants (DD) it is their insistence on broadcasting what they are about. Obviously their little joke but for those who see it a real signifier of intent.
The Muslim angle is very convincing. I do not believe the DD’s are Muslim or religious except in a satanic manner but the ultra orthodox Muslim type society they seek to foist upon the world would no doubt suit their new world order to a tee dependent as it is on a ‘high class ruling elite’ served by a miserable, impoverished slave class.
At the start of this shit show three years ago I warned there would be blood on the streets, sadly at some point I believe this is inevitable.
Excellent writing and ‘worth reading in full’ as we say round these parts.
It behoves us here to resist peacefully as violence is what the DD’s have planned for, expect & want.
BB, I am not at this point advocating violence I am just posting how I believe matters will turn.
I know. Just reiterating the importance of peaceful civil disobedience. Don’t give them an excuse to be even more tyrannical than they already are.
Bob Moran’s latest.
Aseem Malhotra gets a brief opportunity to get in a statement that the mRNA vaccines should be withdrawn on the BBC
https://twitter.com/DrAseemMalhotra/status/1613837487796850688?cxt=HHwWgMC4laGpwOUsAAAA
I am amazed that the Beeb Bod did not close him down when he called for suspension of the so-called “vaccines.”
I have booked my ticket for the FSU Manchester Regional Speakeasy on 25th January. If anyone else is going and fancies a chat please let me know – here or DS, PM.