- “Lockdown fallout pushes U.K. economy into ‘perma-stagnation’ as thousands give up jobs or retire after pandemic, with Bank of England warning Britain is facing highest tax burden in 70 years’” – Britain’s workforce will struggle to recover from older workers and early retirees giving up their roles during the pandemic, the Bank of England has warned, in the Mail.
- “Covid cases plunge to four-month low but Kraken and Orthrus may rise ” – Office for National Statistics analysts estimate that under 950,000 Brits were carrying the virus on any given day in the week to January 24th, down 15% from the week before, the Mail reports.
- “Students go to court for refunds on lockdown degrees” – Almost 80,000 students are taking legal action over costly courses disrupted by Covid, where tuition was a far cry from what was advertised, the Times reports.
- “‘I hope we don’t find out this mRNA lingers in the body,’ says Pfizer doctor” – Bret Swanson in Brownstone on the latest Project Veritas video of a Pfizer exec spilling the beans to an undercover camera.
- “Do mask mandates work?” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson write in the Spectator about the updated Cochrane review of mask studies led by Tom that found no clear reduction in infections.
- “How to create the illusion your vaccine is 90% effective” – Norman Fenton and Martin Neil explain the standard biases in vaccine studies that inflate efficacy estimates.
- “Is the U.K. Health Security Agency Careless, Trolling or Knows Something We Don’t?” – The Naked Emperor wonders why the UKHSA is advertising a post in anticipation of “what is expected to be the U.K.’s largest vaccination programme which will be delivered at pace and will be a key ministerial priority”. Is it a mistake or do they know something we don’t?
- “A worldwide call for data transparency: Show us the data!” – Steve Kirsch says that to end the debate on Covid vaccine safety we need the deaths and vaccination record data, yet those data are being concealed by health authorities in every jurisdiction – though one state has now promised to provide them.
- “The New Pause lengthens again: 101 months and counting” – Christopher Monckton in WUWT with his monthly update as global temperatures once again fail to rise.
- “The climate scaremongers: Drive to EVs is killing the British car industry” – With the collapse of Britishvolt, the wheels are well and truly coming off the Government’s campaign to make us all buy electric cars, writes Paul Homewood in TCW.
- “Friday Funny: Jane Fonda: ‘There’d be no climate crisis if it wasn’t for racism’” – Hard to top this one, in WUWT.
- “Deconstructing decolonisation” – Professor Nigel Biggar in the Critic delivers a masterclass in countering woke nonsense with calm facts.
- “‘Truth’ is not subjective” – Rod Liddle in the Spectator wants some objectivity to return to public discussion around sex and gender.
- “The ‘Re-education’ of Jordan Peterson” – Dr. Peterson’s characteristically robust response to the Ontario College of Psychologists’ demands is that he will not attend any ‘re-education’, and that he would like to make all communication 100% public – so far so good, says Frank Haviland in the European Conservative.
- “Google, defender of the BLM narrative” – Laurie Wastell on the sinister content warning Google has slapped on searches for ‘Tom Slater Tyre Nichols’ but not on any similar searches that stick to the woke line.
- “Row as woke firm won’t print ‘adult human females’ stickers” – A printing firm is in a women’s rights row after declaring it would no longer make stickers defining women as ‘Adult human females’ for a prominent campaigner, the Mail reports.
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Gottle o’ gear, gottle o’ gear. Let’s have one for the road.
“Top shelf? Proper nippy sweety?
Don’t mind if I do.
“Whisky?”
Oh, most certainly.
“Malt or blend?”
Malt if you don’t mind.
Dalwhinnie?
Lurvley.
Morning all. I might be late responding to this as I’ve just got in from a gallon and the Dalwhinnie should tuck me up nice and tidy.
As long as you don’t wake up and wonder who carpeted the ceiling HP.
Nah, never do Trev.
Cheers 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🥃
“Malt if you don’t mind”
Mines a westerner from Islay ‘Laphroaig’ oooh you peaty scoundrel! Warming on the stove, cockels and everything warmed!
Bless you!
If you like Laphroaig, you’ll definitely enjoy Lagavulin. A bit more money, but worth every penny.
Love all the Islay’s, had to try them all when I visited, well, it would’ve been rude not to!
I seem to remember stumbling onto a big boat to get home 🥳🤢
You know that little flyer you get inside the tube explaining that you could own a square foot of Islay? Well, I must be the laird by now!
My absolute favourite (just about affordable for a birthday) – https://www.masterofmalt.com/whiskies/caol-ila-18-year-old-whisky/
😀 😀
Ardbeg is rather lovely too.
Especially their Corryvreckan – quite possible the finest whisky known to man
Not come across that one…
Me neither.
Amazing whirlpool too!
My old man, long gone bless him. introduced me to Laphroaig at the age of 14. I loved it, partly because it smelt the same as TCP. Lagavulin lovely as well. Ardbeg the other of three distilleries close by each other (Laphroiag and Lagavulin being the other two).
Love Talisker as well, distilled elsewhere but lovely and smoky like the Islay malts.
I am not a fan of Laphroaig. Bought a bottle once – yuk. It’s like TCP.
Dalwhinnie…. Mmmmm…. Heather honey smooth – delicious dram. Dalwhinnie Winter’s Gold is equally delicious.
Actually BB it was Winter’s Gold and it is indeed “delicious.”
Give over all of you, I’m tempted to pour one and its only half 12! Mmmmmm
Dad’s 60th birthday present was a bottle of Dalwhinnie & a crystal glass from the distillery. He appreciated it, then complained that he had been ruined & Glenfiddich tasted naff but was all he could afford!!
Another single malt story: Dr John Sentamu visited my parents a few years ago as a family friend worked for him. Mum says that the sight of two backsides in the air with heads in the whisky cupboard whilst major decisions re after dinner single malt choice were made still makes her giggle.
A lovely story. 👍
Look at this lying scummy psychopath Hotez. You can tell he was Fauci’s apprentice. ( 2min video )
https://odysee.com/@IvorCummins:f/witness-one-of-the-most-evil-mrna-liars:0
Is he real? Has someone got their hand up his back? does his batteries need changing?
I had an action man that was more human than him!
He’s just like a caricature and stereotypical weirdo. The ever-present bow ties add to the overall anorak image.
..I feel a tiny bit guilty about this, because I know it’s a little unfair, but would YOU trust this man? He looks like every creepy, sexually frustrated dweeb that’s ever tried to chat me up!! Just looking at him gives me the shudders!! LOL!
🤣🤓 Yes he is Mr Mono-expression/tone isn’t he? Very strange man for sure. Not unfair at all. If he wasn’t a scientist he’d definitely be trying to impress you with his knowledge of trains..🙈
https://naturalnews.com/2022-10-24-schools-dutch-province-serve-insects-to-students.html
Yeah I saw a video recently. Fortunately not our province. Yet. 🙁
What a lump of shyte. Horrible.
Yep. Pure indoctrination. Normalizing the eating of foods that animals would eat. The only time I should be seeing mealworms in a supermarket is in the bird food section during winter time. I’ve never hung a fat ball up for the spuggies in the garden and been tempted to take a bite.
“Lockdown fallout pushes U.K. economy into ‘perma-stagnation’ as thousands give up jobs or retire after pandemic, with Bank of England warning Britain is facing highest tax burden in 70 years’”
It reminds me of the vaccine issue where the experts are casting about looking for answers to why people are dying in large numbers. Why oh why is the UK economy in the toilet? Must be people retiring or playing golf. It couldn’t possibly be because we just spent half a trillion quid on counterproductive Covid countermeasures and implemented policies that closed thousands of businesses could it?
The bust is yet to come! Britain is a woke lost cause!
1…many small/medium businesses closed permanently, during the scam…
https://hostingdata.co.uk/covid19-small-business-impact-uk/
This is an interesting, and depressing read….
2…Small business insurance experts at Towergate Insurance surveyed 750 small business owners from across the UK to explore the threats they are facing in the wake of the cost of living crisis and the impact these are having on their businesses.
The survey shows that 57% of small business owners feel their business is at risk of closure in the coming year as a result of current economic instability – but where are small businesses most at risk?
https://www.businessleader.co.uk/57-of-uks-small-businesses-at-risk-of-closure-in-2023/
Add to that the latest report from the IMF showing the UK at the bottom of the chart for economic growth…we’re even behind ‘war torn’ Russia…you know, that place we are crippling with sanctions..!!??
https://www.icaew.com/insights/viewpoints-on-the-news/2023/feb-2023/chart-of-the-week-imf-economic-projections
It all makes for grim reading….
It is grim, especially as economic growth comes from SMEs, not large businesses.
Sasha Latypove seems to express the situation very well in one of her recent Stacks.
Independent business owners had to be broken as they’re not reliant on the state. Can’t have independence & self sufficiency now can we??
Good grief, this is effing tradgedy, and all avoidable if the so called government would grow a pair!
All totally predictable. We told them so.
Britain has become fat, lazy and bloated! Its the National equivalent of gout! It’s losts it’s impetuous, lost its way, lost its identity, lost all recognition of what it stood for and used to be, its been and being watered down!, a shadow of its former self, thined out, spoilt.
“The world owes me a livin”, has succeeded “I owe the world a livin”
That’s why I left!
What is the point of expensive economists and bankers who wait until three years after the damaging policies were adopted to tell us of the consequences of lockdowns. Many of us discussed this on the web ariound that time and in pubs and with friends up and down the country. People who have never been paid the sort of money those BoE people get.
They are trying to build a narrative in the hope we will not remember they failed to warn at the right time. Just as they forgot what would happen to inflation if huge amounts of cash were poured into the economy.
This is behind a paywall..but the headline says it all…LOL!
Big Tech Layoffs Are Hitting Diversity and Inclusion Jobs HardCompanies that made promises to hire more underrepresented groups are gutting departments meant to achieve those goals.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/tech-layoffs-are-hitting-diversity-and-inclusion-jobs-hard?leadSource=uverify%20wall
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ireland-sees-42-more-deaths-in-past-two-months-compared-to-pre-covid-levels/?utm_source=daily-canada-2023-02-03&utm_medium=email
Ireland sees 42% more deaths in past two months compared to pre-COVID levelsThe number of deaths occurring in Ireland is now significantly higher than the number the country experienced both before and during the spread of COVID-19, prompting opposition politicians to call for a full investigation into the cause.
Figures obtained on RIP.ie and analyzed by the mainstream Irish Examiner show deaths were 42% higher from 1 December 2022 to 25 January 2023 (9,718 deaths) compared to the 8 weeks to 25 January 2019 (6,802 deaths).
The leader of opposition party Aontú told Newstalk Breakfast the figures indicate “something very, very serious that is happening”.
“The key point is this – and this is really, really important – the Government needs to investigate this very, very clearly, in a scientific fashion,” Deputy Peadar Tóibín said. “We need to get rid of the word ‘maybe’. When we see death rates 3,000 higher in a small six-week period than they were in a six-week period pre-COVID, we can’t have the Government standing idly by.”
From Naomi Wolf and the team at the Daily Clout…and not behind a pay wall…
https://dailyclout.io/pfertility-megathread-study-funded-by-the-nih-finds-that-40-2-of-vaccinated-women-experienced-menstrual-changes/
Pfertility Megathread: Study Funded By The NIH Finds That 40.2% Of Vaccinated Women Experienced Menstrual Changes
I quite enjoyed this short video..Kevin seems to be a more cheery US version of Dr Campbell as far as I can see…good overview of the crappy bi-valent boosters…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZN1w9FtIs4
This is very good news…especially coming from total Covidian nut-job, Gavin Newsome’s California…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Children in California won’t have to get the coronavirus vaccine to attend schools, state public health officials confirmed Friday, ending one of the last major restrictions of the pandemic in the nation’s most populous state…
“CDPH is not currently exploring emergency rulemaking to add COVID-19 to the list of required school vaccinations, but we continue to strongly recommend COVID-19 immunization for students and staff to keep everyone safer in the classroom”….
BBC has an article “last call for vaccines for under 50s”. Why “last call”? Is there a shortage? Or is the day of reckoning for vaccines near?
It’s a sort of last round up for the stupid.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/merck-covid-pill-virus-mutations/
Merck’s oral antiviral pill for COVID-19, molnupiravir — marketed under the name Lagevrio may be fueling the development of new and potentially deadly variants of Covid-19 according to the authors of a new preprint study.
The study, released Jan. 27 by a team of U.S. and U.K researchers, found, “It is possible that some patients treated with molnupiravir might not fully clear SARS-CoV-2 infections, with the potential for onward transmission of molnupiravir-mutated viruses.”
(By the way until I read it in the round-up I didn’t know the ‘new’ strain was called Orthrus!! who the heck comes up with these names…and what did the Greeks ever do to deserve having their myths appropriated and used for this nonsense?…They should sue……!!)
All this and a wondering balloon 🎈 you couldn’t make it up!
“‘I hope we don’t find out this mRNA lingers in the body,’ says Pfizer doctor”
Not only has the horse bolted, its caught two trains, took a flight and got on a rocket to another planet before Pfizer decided to lock the stable door!
“Recently, European “renewable energy” manufacturers such as solar panel makers Rystad Energy have been forced to shut down operation due to the rising cost of energy production. That is to say, they can’t even meaningfully subsidise their energy costs using the solar panels they themselves make.”
You gotta laugh 😃
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/sustainable-renewable-energy-neither-sustainable-nor-renewable
Apparently, Europe is now producing 22% of its energy by wind and solar which is more than gas 20% for the first time! Wow, that will equate to at least a 20% cut in our energy bills then?, being as its so clean green and cheap to produce! Before we know it, it will be free energy for all!
The article by Iain Davis that I have linked to will explain all. According to Iain we produce only 3% of our energy from renewables that aren’t renewable.
I agree, whenever they come up with stories about how much incredible green energy we’re producing I always tend to get a whiff of bs in the air!
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/sustainable-renewable-energy-neither-sustainable-nor-renewable
“The whole notion of renewable energy, as it is presented to us, is essentially a ruse. It is designed to train us to accept ever more restrictions imposed upon our lives.
Carbon trading, carbon offsetting, carbon markets, carbon bonds, carbon capture and a whole range of equally ludicrous carbon dioxide-related mechanisms have been created to maintain the social, political and economic and financial power of those who are promoting sustainable development. The idea is to maintain the illusion just long enough to complete the transformation to a new global economic model.”
From the excellent Iain Davis at UK Column News.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/boycott-the-multinationals-the-revolution-starts-here/
Well worth five minutes.
Jane Fonda: “There’d be no climate crisis if it wasn’t for racism”. I guess if someone has spent their career just uttering scripts without any regard for the intellectual vacuousness of what they are saying, then it becomes easier to regurgitate the meaningless verbage of the woke. Either she believes this stuff or she’s gone full Joe Biden and has zero self-awareness of how daft she sounds. Either way, the next time I watch “The China Syndrome” my enjoyment will be ruined by associating her with this particular episode of verbal diarrhoea.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/04/unconditional-surrender/
A powerful piece from Todd Hayen at Off -G.
He’s right, we don’t ‘amnesty’ we want retribution.
https://youtu.be/BC7gFc0eVX8
Midazolam gets SKEWERED. Very funny.