- “How two conflicting Covid stories shattered society” – Two very different stories around Covid unfolded in tandem, the gulf between them widening with each passing month, writes Gabrielle Bauer in Brownstone.
- “Only a third get Covid booster in Ireland” – The Irish Health Service Executive has spent €1.7 million advertising winter vaccinations since October, yet just 31% of the eligible population have had a second Covid booster, according to the Times.
- “Britain’s rush to embrace electric cars risks empowering China” – A monopoly of rare earth minerals leaves China poised to dominate the electric car market, writes Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
- “Cate Blanchett’s plans to install solar panels at mansion scuppered” – Cate Blanchett’s plans to install vast numbers of solar panels at her eco-crib may be scuppered by the great crested newt, according to the Mail.
- “Covent Garden: stick to the opera and ballet and leave the preaching to Extinction Rebellion” – Arts organisations should not let themselves be bullied into rejecting sponsorship from BP or other fossil fuel companies, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “World Athletics’ trans policy isn’t scientific” – By basing its policy on two factors (legal sex and serum testosterone) rather than one (actual sex) World Athletics is ignoring Occam’s Razor, writes John Armstrong in the Spectator.
- “The trans war on the family” – Gender ideologues are driving a wedge between parents and their children, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “Trans double rapist demanded £5k from BT after ‘dead name’ letters” – Trans double rapist Adam Graham AKA Isla Bryson demanded a £5,000 payout from BT after the company called the sex offender a man, the Mail reports.
- “Warning: sharing a Spiked article could get you in trouble with the government” – The Ministry of Defence’s spying on lockdown sceptics went as far as monitoring people’s responses to Spiked articles, writes Fraser Myers.
- “U.S. general warns British Army ‘is no longer regarded’ as a top-level fighting force” – An American general has said Britain is no longer able to defend itself, so depleted are its armed forces, reports the Mail.
- “Row erupts after ban on white critics reviewing hit play” – The Australian producers of Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner demanded that all reviewers be “people of colour”, according to Daily Mail Australia.
- “Theatres spark outrage with black-only audience policy” – Two Canadian theatres have announced they’ll be staging performances for an “all black-identifying audience”, reports the Telegraph.
- “How I watched the halo slipping from Jacinda Ardern” – Kiwi journalist Michelle Duff publishes an extract from her forthcoming biography of Jacinda Ardern in the Sunday Times.
- “Why I sacked Nadhim Zahawi” – Prime Minister Rishi Sunak writes to Nadhim Zahawi to explain why he is giving him the boot, in the Spectator.
- “Watch Novak Djokovic’s wild celebration at the Australian Open” – Having been deported from Australia when it became a penal colony during the Covid hysteria, a defiantly unvaccinated Novak Djokovic returns to win the Australian Open, and thus complete his hero’s journey.
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“Now it’s more like 80 to 90 per cent arrive in a pushchair, dummy in mouth and wearing nappies, unable to take off their coat or eat with a spoon,” Sorry, but although lockdowns were evil, these particular problems will have little, if anything, to do with lockdowns. Even the pushchair…we’ve had a long period now in which children have been able to walk outside with their parents quite freely. These problems are due to deficiencies in parenting and in fact had been observed before lockdown as well. The only thing that can be levelled at lockdown is that some parents will use anything as an excuse.
Was there ever a time when parents couldn’t walk outside with their children as much as they wanted to?
Not any time that I can remember. At least not in this universe.
I don’t know. I remember a tale of a woman on the Southbank out with her toddler being approached by the police and frantically doing star jumps to claim she was exercising (lockdown #1). It may have been utter bull, but others on reading this may think “I’m not chancing it”
Also, these things were never banned but people thought they were, which was enough to stop them. And some police thought they had the right to accost people too, which is shocking & outrageous & they should be fired immediately for horrendous overreach. Nazi scumbags like that are not fit for positions of responsibility of any kind.
Seriously some police should go to jail for this and other human rights abuses.
I do agree that it’s not at all uncommon for parents to seek to offload responsibility that should be within the remit of the parents to primary schools at every given opportunity. However, there is much more that can be levelled at lockdowns than this. It is empirically evident due to various assessments of mental and development health, and how it has deteriorated across the nation, that the intuition that locking children away in their homes, restricting access to their peers, etc, will harm their health in all sorts of ways, has been proven correct.
While these problems may have existed prior to lockdowns, on both sides of the proverbial pond I might add, alas they have clearly grown (what’s that word again? EXPONENTIALLY!) since then. Lockdowns were gasoline on the fire. The stricter and longer the lockdown, the worse it became. Truly stranger than fiction.
You may well be correct in your assertion but I don’t care. I am more than happy to add this child abuse to Bozo’s charge sheet. Any little scrap serves our cause.
I agree with perhaps 90 per cent of this article’s content, except for one glaring fallacy throughout. That is that the author tends to conflate the effects of lockdown with the effects of the pandemic, and refers to each as the causal agent of these harms interchangeably, thereby suggesting that “pandemic = lockdown”, i.e. there are no other alternatives.
It is suggested in several places, expressed in various ways, that the pandemic affected children’s education to the tune of putting them way behind academically and developmentally. The evidential truth, however, is that the pandemic, as in the impact of the virus, had negligible effect on children, but the lockdown, however, possibly affected children more so than any other demographic.
It is a very dangerous thing to suggest within wide-reaching media that it was the pandemic that had such a devastating effect on children, when in fact it was the lockdown and the restrictions on children’s education imposed by the government that was responsible for this: If the idea that an inevitable respiratory virus was the main causal agent for the suffering of children and their families is ingrained into the collective consciousness, it becomes a handy means for the state to dodge accountability for the mayhem they caused, when in fact any number of alternatives (eg. the strategies outlined in the Great Barrington Declaration) could have been proposed, other than the Xi Jinping model!
Indeed, that is true. And it doesn’t even require a full lockdown to do damage to children either. A combination of nonstop doom and panic mongering (which leads to some degree of “voluntary” lockdowns imposed by fearful parents) and/or prolonged school closures can be almost as bad as a full lockdown as well. Had they adopted the “flu strategy” from the get-go, and no panic mongering, that would have had the least-worst outcomes overall.
Yes, like the pre-pandemic preparedness documents that were honed to perfection over decades and then hastily thrown on the fire!
Exactly. Given how often this government has told us that they are following a new scientific method now understood to be ‘The Science’ you are not telling me that amongst the many doctors and professors enrolled in ‘The Science’ they do not have one or two who could have outlined the many dangers to our children of lockdowns?
Bu#lshyte!
The Mail should of course refer to the “shamdemic” and “government human rights abuse”. Being collaborators though (including printing that disgraceful Hancock piece) they will never do that.
If the coerced consensus was right, it would be naturally contagious (from Livestream #130)
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Lockdowns, the Trojan horse “gift” that keeps on giving, it seems. The ongoing long-term consequences, which were totally foreseeable by literally anyone with two brain cells to rub together, is truly a slow-moving tragedy in progress, and a travesty as well. Infancy and early childhood simply cannot be re-run, nor can any other stage of development for that matter, and the damage is done. While obviously we should all say “NEVER AGAIN!” and really mean it this time with regards to anything even remotely resembling lockdowns (and of course school closures too), to prevent further damage, I am sadly at a loss when trying to come up with solutions to repair the damage already done.
If you don’t feel absolutely outraged right now, check your pulse ’cause your might be dead! (Or brainwashed, which is basically the same thing for the soul.)
Don’t worry – I feel absolutely outraged.
Whilst I agree that the lockdowns were appalling for children, if your 4 yr old can’t speak properly; can’t walk anywhere and isn’t toilet trained, it’s YOUR fault.