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by Toby Young
28 January 2023 12:25 AM

  • “Libertarians for the Covid State” – Why did some libertarians enthusiastically endorse the lockdown, mandatory masking and the vaccine mandates? Paul Collits investigates.
  • “Howard Brown – What Happened?” – The nation’s favourite bank clerk, Howard Brown of Halifax ad fame, sings a protest song written and composed by Dominic Frisby. Really rather good.
  • “About the study claiming covid leads to three per cent increase in early onset dementia” – Norman Fenton and Martin Neil forensically take apart the peer-reviewed studies purporting to show that Covid increases your risk of dementia in their Trust the Numbers Substack newsletter.
  • “Pfizer pleased to announce their new vaccine 90% effective against new virus they created” – The Babylon Bee has fun with the recent Project Veritas video in which a Pfizer executive claimed the company is planning to create new Covid variants in the lab so it can develop vaccines to them.
  • “A big New Zealand study reveals high rates of kidney injury after the Pfizer jab” – A new study out of New Zealand finds a link between the Pfizer Covid vaccine and kidney injury.
  • “Petition: Investigate U.K. excess deaths not related to Covid.” – On the week ending October 28th the ONS reported excess deaths were 12.5% above the five-year average, with only 717 deaths out of the 12,861 deaths involving Covid. Sign this petition if you think this alarming finding needs investigating by the Government.
  • “Nicola Sturgeon: Gender law opponents use women’s rights as ‘cloak’ to be transphobic” – Scotland’s First Minister has been accused of being “utterly shameful” as she described opponents of gender self-ID as “misogynist, homophobic, possibly racist”, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Alan Cumming returns OBE over ‘toxicity’ of British Empire” – Scottish actor returns the OBE he accepted in 2009, claiming the British Empire has become too toxic for him to hold on to it any longer. One wonders which particular country Britain colonised in the past 14 years that tipped him over the edge.
  • “The public sector must ban working from home – or face collapse” – The Telegraph’s Matthew Lynn says economic growth will only come if we can persuade public sector employees to return to the office.
  • “Matt Hancock gave three per cent of I’m a Celebrity fee to charity” – Matt Hancock said his main motivation for going into the jungle was to raise money for a dyslexia charity. Turns out, he only gave three percent of his £320,000 fee to charity. Shock!
  • “WHO advises governments to stockpile medicines for nuclear war” – The World Health Organisation has issued ‘expert’ guidance on how to survive a nuclear catastrophe, reports MailOnline. Will it involve wearing masks?
  • “The other Black Lives That Matter” – Andrew Sullivan in the Weekly Dish asks progressive, defund-the-police activists to spare a thought for the massive spike in black homicides in the past two years. Black neighbourhoods in American cities need more police officers on patrol, not less.
  • “Former spokeswoman for Extinction Rebellion turns on group: ‘Climate activism has a cult problem… I used to be one of them’ – ‘I watched people brainwashed’” – Zion Lights, a former XR activist, describes the madness inside the doomsday cult.
  • “Abolish the disinformation reporter” – Fred Skulthorp in the Critic doesn’t think the BBC should be employing a ‘disinformation’ reporter.
  • “British police are failing because they have forgotten why they exist” – The rising tide of woke ‘staff networks’ in the Met is emblematic of the problem, pitting identitarian politics against general interest, argues Charles Moore in his Telegraph column.
  • “Guardian journalists apologise to former colleague who complained of racial abuse” – Journalists at the Guardian have apologised to an Asian colleague who was ostracised by staff after complaining about racial abuse at the Guardian pub.
  • “No evidence of a climate crisis” – Good short video explaining why climate change is real, but the climate crisis isn’t.

Our new film: Why there is no 'climate crisis', is out now: https://t.co/hZIrFFTUat pic.twitter.com/5jxjS2mPKC

— Climate Debate UK (@ClimateDebateUK) January 27, 2023

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago

Can anyone confirm, is Mark Steyn returning to GB News when he has recovered from his medical crisis? That was my impression. A sad loss if not. Jabba jabba jabba jabba…

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Asked the same question a day or so ago. No one seems to know. It would be a huge loss since Farage and Fox are just not the same. Thank god they still have Neil Oliver though.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

Agree Aethelred. Neil Oliver is a much needed man in these dark times. Genuinely a man worthy of great respect.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
  • “Nicola Sturgeon: Gender law opponents use women’s rights as ‘cloak’ to be transphobic” – Scotland’s First Minister has been accused of being “utterly shameful” as she described opponents of gender self-ID as “misogynist, homophobic, possibly racist”, reports the Telegraph.

As I’ve posted elsewhere, stuff your Freudian newspeak.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

At least she managed to get in the holy trinity of woke. Three words so overused and corrupted that now mean almost nothing.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Much like “Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE)”. The most heavily abused words in the entire Newspeak language!

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago

“Alan Cumming returns OBE over ‘toxicity’ of British Empire”

Shame, I quite like Alan as an actor. He can do what his conscience tells him, but its a bit misguided, imo.

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James Richardson
James Richardson
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

I feel the same. I particularly remember him for the short-lived but brilliant TV airline comedy ‘The High Life’ which he co-wrote back in 1994, appearing as Sebastian Flight alongside the indomitable Shona (Siobhan Redmond). Some classic lines live on:-

Shona: Can I be blunt?
Sebastian: If I can be Philby…

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  James Richardson

I loved it as well…..I agree Shona Spurtle was a fantastic character….and who can forget the bosses daughter…Aurora Borealis?..
…and their Eurovision song entry……Piff Paff Poff? LOL!

It says a lot that all these years later..and with only a few episodes I remember it with such fondness!

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

My view – so what?

And I’ve never heard of this Cumming chap.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago

“Matt Hancock gave three per cent of I’m a Celebrity fee to charity” 

Industrial level charity is first and foremost about preserving the organisation. I do sometime wonder as the lady with the sad voice is telling us about the world saying goodbye to elephants, or whatever, just how many £3 a month do they need for their expensively produced TV advertising and in the case of the World Wildlife Fund, the CEO’s $400k a year salary. Anyway, I hope Matt enjoys his fabulous holiday and driving his new Mercedes Benz, and hope that dyslexic people everywhere can share in that joy. As indeed can all the little old ladies who gave from their pensions in the mistaken belief they were doing some good for folks in need..

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

But at least we know he’s got the cash for his case with Brigden!

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

“Industrial level charity is first and foremost about preserving the organisation.”

Agree 100%.

Cancer Research UK – income £650 mill per annum and of that order for years and yet allegedly there is still no cure for cancer. Actually I believe cures have been found but Pharma won’t release them, bottom line and all that.

British Heart Foundation – income in the millions with the head wonk paid more than the ‘official’ salary of the PM, nudge, nudge, know what I mean? The BHF, which has been wholly complicit in supporting the Scamdemic story line, even to the point of telling people suffering from heart disease to wear masks.

BHF, still supporting statins.

BHF – Bloody Hopeless Frauds.

Supporting charities is a mugs game and is effectively a tax on the gullible.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago

“Former spokeswoman for Extinction Rebellion turns on group:

One at a time…

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Monro
Monro
2 years ago

These silly people have been doing this kind of stuff since the 1960s. Have we learnt nothing?

‘At my first XR media training, I was instructed to cry on television. “People need to see crying mothers,”

‘We had constant problems with people not cleaning up after themselves’

Roger (Hallam), 56, an organic-farmer-turned-radical, is XR’s most dominant leader……In 2018, Roger founded XR with several people, but his ego propelled him to the top. When I first saw Roger in the XR office in London, I didn’t see his appeal. His wiry gray hair was unkempt……I noticed he didn’t pay attention to people when they talked.

I’d often be asked by reporters if XR was a cult, and I’d say no. But it was.

It’s not just Roger Hallam who inspires terror and devotion among his climate-change flock. Those qualities typify the climate change movement.’

Climate depot 25 Jan 2023

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

So this is messing with my mind. I remember watching this on the telly. Apparently the 7 crew members of NASA’s Challenger didn’t die in the explosion and have been spotted alive today. Or their doppelgangers have…you decide. I stopped watching though when he went off on one about the occult and 666…

https://newspunch.com/nasa-challenger-disaster-crew-members-found-alive-in-2023/

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Old story, been knocking around for years. Nice review here, less sensationalist than newspunch:

https://rumble.com/v1vq57u-nasa-1986-shuttle-challenger-crew-theory.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=5

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  WyrdWoman

Ah right. It just popped up on a Telegram channel. I don’t usually follow stuff like this, but I did think a few of the people shown looked very similar to crew members 3 decades on.🤔

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
2 years ago

Why did some libertarians enthusiastically endorse the lockdown, mandatory masking and the vaccine mandates?

I call those people fair weather libertarians. Happy with the principle, until it affects them.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

Another chink in the dam? Not the strongest signal, but a bit of an admission?

@TheChiefNerd

JUST IN: As Today’s VRBPAC Meeting Ended, CDC Dep. Dir. Tom Shimabukuro Admits COVID Vaccines Are Causing “Debilitating Illnesses”

“We are aware of these reports of people experiencing long-lasting health problems following COVID vaccination”

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v07aW09549U

A California Judge has issued a preliminary injunction against a State Law that would empower the California State Medical Board to discipline Doctors who support opinions about Covid-19 which go against the ‘consensus’…..

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Blimey. A brave judge too, especially in California.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
2 years ago

“Petition: Investigate U.K. excess deaths not related to Covid.”. Petitions. Talking. Lots of talking. Standing at roundabouts. Walking around London with banners. Moaning in a multitude of ways, but always asking nicely. They didn’t ask; they took. They locked us all up and coerced people into taking an experimental product they didn’t need with the promise of freedom. Freedom from the prison they placed us in They turned friends and family against each other. They incited the worst kind of hate imaginable. They wanted/want us dead. Our response? Sign a petition. Vote for another party. Ask nicely within the system they have shepherded us into. What is it that people don’t understand? The system is f*cked, it’s evil, and there is only one way to correct it. Cromwell is a a divisive character, but he understood you cannot enact change by standing around in a park.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago

“Libertarians for the Covid State” – Why did some libertarians enthusiastically endorse the lockdown, mandatory masking and the vaccine mandates? Paul Collits investigates

I’m surprised he didn’t give a dishonorable mention to Christopher Snowdon, who supported the UK’s third lockdown even as he (somehwhat meekly) opposed the first two. And he also shilled a bit for the jabs as well.

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Ben Richards
Ben Richards
2 years ago

So Reading football team are wearing a kit which apparently shows how the earth is warming from 1850- in blue to red bands along their arms, designed by some climate ‘scientist’ from reading university. Naturally ( a bit like the BBC weather reports) they have dramatic pink/red colours close to their wrists. To some how cause the football audience to recoil in their seats and adopt some psuedo net zero nonsense stance. Lee Dixon even had the temerity to say ‘ it’s worrying that’. What the colour of their kits changing? Do one Lee and shame on you ITV for actually broadcasting this b&&locks. Show me the evidence for a climate crisis……

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