- “Lockdown will ruin Britain’s health for many years to come” – Its disastrous effect on care for a range of diseases was predictable and predicted, writes Jonathan Sumption in the Telegraph.
- “Pandemic blamed for surge in killing sprees by American teenagers” – The number of homicides committed by American teenagers has risen by a third since the start of the pandemic, official figures show, according to the Times.
- “Political will to tackle health security ‘melting away’, warns Tony Blair” – Despite the global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been no turning point in policy and preparedness, Tony Blair has said, according to the Telegraph. Good stuff.
- “Anti-lockdown Great Barrington Declaration vindicated, but much too late” – By spring 2021, every elderly person in the U.S. had been offered two doses of a vaccine, but the failed containment strategy continued, writes Dr. Jay Bhattacharya in the National Post.
- “Lab Leak Op Confirmed” – Brian Mowrey contemplates the origin of the virus and the possible role of the U.S.
- “Response to a critique of our statin analysis” – Maryanne Demasi, Paula Byrne, Mark Jones and Robert DuBroff defend their 2022 systematic review and meta-analysis on statin trials, which found the benefits of statins were minimal and most of the trial participants who took statins derived no clinical benefit.
- “Swedish birth rate data: November update” – El Gato Malo notes that rates remain severely depressed and “the associations on cause are provocative”.
- “The Covid truth from Japan” – As Japan faces its eighth Covid wave a return to normality might, paradoxically, be on the cards, write Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
- “New peer-reviewed study: over 217,000 Americans killed by the Covid vaccines in just the first year alone!” – Steve Kirsch reports on a new peer-reviewed study that includes a survey whose results closely match those of this own.
- “Timeline: The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” – Emily Kopp in Brownstone with a comprehensive timeline of the article that crushed the lab leak theory and succeeded in getting all suggestion that the virus was engineered suppressed as a ‘conspiracy theory’ for the rest of the year.
- “Was Covid caused by a lab leak after all? Bombshell Government report says NIH failed to keep tabs on Wuhan research site where U.S. taxpayer-funded grants were used for coronavirus experiments years before pandemic” – A report by the U.S. Office of Inspector General found the country’s medical research agency did not correctly review whether the tests in Wuhan involved pathogens with pandemic potential, reports the Mail.
- “Electric vehicle charge point target is ‘20 years behind schedule’” – Ministers are set to miss their target of installing 300,000 new electric car chargers by 2030 by 20 years, opposition leaders have claimed, according to the Times.
- “Extraordinary Resignation by a Geology Professor: ‘I feel the profession… is no longer worthy of my efforts’” – Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki, who has decided to leave the University of Alabama, citing personal reasons, as well as the clear rise of wokeness and protectionism over truth when it comes to climate science, tweets out his story, which is collated on WUWT.
- “Net Zero scheme critics are ‘conspiracy theorists’, says council chief” – Critics of a Oxford’s ‘climate lockdown’ Net Zero traffic scheme – under which car drivers in Oxford must apply for a permit to travel through the ‘traffic filters’ for a maximum of 100 days a year – have been branded “conspiracy theorists” in a council video, the Telegraph reports.
- “‘Heat pumps for all’ is a cult that the Government should abandon” – The devices cost £13,000 to install and leave customers £500 a year poorer, says Mike Foster in the Telegraph.
- “Students warned tragedy may be too ‘triggering’” – University of Derby staff tell students that the genre is “obsessed with violence and suffering, often of a sexual or graphic kind”, reports the Telegraph. Pass the smelling salts.
- “Kanye West could be denied Australia visa over anti-Semitic remarks, minister says” – Jason Clare, Australia’s Education Minister, says people who have made similar comments to West have been denied visas in the past, reports the Telegraph. Social credit, anyone?
- “Labour won’t speak up for MP Rosie Duffield silenced over gender reform” – “All credit to Rosie Duffield, the Labour MP for Canterbury, for standing up for her beliefs in the face of appalling bullying from party colleagues and a distinct lack of support from a spineless Labour leadership,” says Jawad Iqbal in the Times.
- “Major new global free expression index sees U.K. ranking stumble across academic, digital and media freedom ” – The Index on Censorship publishes its latest global ranking index, and the U.K. is not faring well.
- “If even the Tories are embracing this woke nonsense, there really is no hope for them” – It seems there is no party left to represent people who don’t wish to spend their every waking moment being scolded for wrongthink, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Notice how calm Bill Gates is as he just rattles off now that the MRNA vaccines are an abject failure” – They don’t block infection, they fail against new variants and they have very short duration, says the Microsoft billionaire in a new video clip. Does that make it official?
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Did Toby believe a single word he said about replacing Braverman or that Cameron had anything useful to offer? Really?!
If Cleverley is the best Toby can put forward for the next leader things must be worse than I tought. To follow his analogy, however, the destruction will surely be half way between Nagosaki and Hiroshima 1946. Southampton 1945 looked better than the Tories will the morning after the GE.
Haven’t listened to this yet, but if Toby says a word in defence of Sunak I’ll thcweam and thcweam and thcweam until I’m thick.
How is the return of Cameron “bizarre”? It’s entirely in keeping with the direction of travel in every possible way.
Agreed. They’re simply getting all their political ducks in a line. If we view the landscape that the elites are playing on as a battleground, which it is, then they are preparing for a huge offensive.
I have decoded the Cameron thing. Rishi will be gone soon and Cameron will be PM. Interesting idea eh? There is much more to all this, and only Nadine Dorres has written anything about it. “The Plot:” her new book, is brilliant.
Finally got round to listing to the whole podcast. Toby is still remaining adamant that anyone raising any kind of eyebrow about the ease at which Hamas found itself in Israel as “distasteful”. I’ll ask the question again: Toby, do you find questions around the complicity of the US in 9/11 “distasteful”? What about the possibility that Bush and Blair knew full well that there were no WMD in Iraq before invading? “Distasteful”? What about the possibility that the US deliberately provoked Russia into conflict? That must also be “distasteful”, right? Are you saying that anyone who questions a States complicity in an act that causes civilian deaths are “distasteful”? You must be. Or are you just cherry picking and arbitrarily choosing what people can ask questions about and what they can’t?
Please respond Toby, as my respect for you is waning by the week. I’m sure I’m not alone.
Oh, and you guys had better change the name of the podcast (and this website actually). Either that or Toby needs to reacquaint himself with the definition of ‘sceptic’.
Not too long ago Natanyahu turned all children in his nation into Pfizer guinea pigs and locked up everyone who refused. I think it’s save to say that he doesn’t care for human life. It’s why I wouldn’t dismiss the idea of him allowing the recent terror attack to happen. Yes, it’s outrageous, but so is Netanyahu’s track record.