- “Scottish prisons abandon Nicola Sturgeon’s trans self-ID policy” – Scotland’s prison service has abandoned Nicola Sturgeon’s self-identification policy for new prisoners, announcing that it will base decisions on where to send them entirely on their biological sex, reports the Telegraph.
- “Planet Normal: ‘People should be made aware of link between Covid jab and heart problems’” – Telegraph Science Editor Sarah Knapton tells Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan that people should be given all more information about the link between the mRNA vaccines and heart problems so they can make fully informed decisions about whether to get jabbed.
- “Political correctness is a gift for terrorists” – Allison Pearson praises Sir William Shawcross in the Telegraph for exposing the shortcomings of Prevent.
- “Opinion | We Still Don’t Know the Truth About Covid” – Congress should establish a bipartisan national commission of inquiry into the pandemic’s origins, argue Jamie Metzl and Matt Pottinger in the Wall St Journal.
- “Teenager machineguns family home near Stockholm as gun crime spirals” – A teenager in a suburb of Stockholm has machinegunned the home of a family with an assault rifle as armed violence among criminal drug gangs in Sweden continues to rise, reports the Mail.
- “Mother taken to court after failing to pay fine for rule-busting party” – Charlotte Evans, 20, was ordered to pay £2,021 for hosting a raucous house party during lockdown, says MailOnline.
- “Woke-ism Is Winding Down” – Musa al-Gharbi argues Woke-ism has peaked in Compact Magazine.
- “Remember when the Biden administration said I was a ‘terrorist threat’? True story.” – One year ago, the White House assault on free speech reached new heights, argues Alex Berenson. The White House designated him a ‘terrorist threat’.
- “Church of England Synod votes to offer blessings to gay couples” – Congregants wept and hugged each other as the Church of England voted in favour of a motion to offer blessings to same-sex couples in civil partnerships and marriages today, reports MailOnline.
- “Jeremy Clarkson’s column on Meghan investigated by Ipso” – Ipso has announced it is opening an investigation into Jeremy Clarkson’s Sun column on the Duchess of Sussex after it received 25,100 complaints, says the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk poised to reclaim title of world’s richest person” – Tesla billionaire is within touching distance of LVMH’s Bernauld Arnault thanks to a recovery in Tesla’s share price.
- “World Health Organisation says ‘we must prepare’ for next pandemic and is already preparing new vaccine” – The WHO says we may soon have to start wearing face masks to prevent us catching [checks notes] bird flu. GB News has more.
- “Covid booster? No thanks! Staggering 96% of NHS appointments for mRNA top-up jab still available with just days of latest vaccination campaign to go” – The public have rejected calls for them to have mRNA boosters, according to GB News.
- “I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle” – The Free Press has an exclusive interview with a whistleblower at a paediatric gender clinic.
- “Etiquette has taken a turn for the woke” – New rules of polite behaviour involve ostentatious displays of deference to the underprivileged, says James Marriott in his Times column.
- “Free speech: we should try it again” – Lincoln Allison in the Critic laments the decline of Britain’s universities into prissy, unfree, uptight institutions.
- “Low Life and High Style” – Terrific profile of Jeffrey Bernard, the Spectator’s Low Life columnist, by Robin Ashendon in Quillette.
- “What you all were doing is highly illegal, and I want you to know that you’ll be held accountable” – Anna Paulina Luna, a firebrand Congresswoman from Florida, skewers federal government employees and a former Twitter executives for breaching the First Amendment.
This is joint action between the federal government and a private company to censor Americans and violate the First Amendment.
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) February 8, 2023
What you all were doing is highly illegal, and I want you to know that you’ll be held accountable.pic.twitter.com/PCBXhniJCA
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Quick early mention, the west lancs by-election was held by Labour!
The real state of modern politics, nearly 70% didn’t bother to vote! How can any of these idiots in power claim to be winning?
If the turnout was only about 30%, it’s similar to most local Council elections. Perhaps there was not much coverage by the usual media? Of course, the avoidance of campaign coverage is part of the tactic used by some.
30% of the electorate voting in a local election is the norm, sad to say
Best comment on:
“What you all were doing is highly illegal, and I want you to know that you’ll be held accountable”
‘It’s not:
Democrat vs. Republican
It’s:
Uni-Party vs. America’
Just like its not conservative v labour over here, its peabrainwallyoneparty v Magna Carta:
‘No freeman is to be taken or imprisoned or disseized of his free tenement or of his liberties or free customs, or outlawed or exiled or in any way ruined, nor will we go against such a man or send against him save by lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land. To no-one will we sell or deny of delay right or justice.’
Oh, and by the way:
‘All fish weirs on the Thames and the Medway and throughout England are to be entirely dismantled……’
Fish weirs dismantled why ??
Thanks for the details
I was worried it might have been way sist or similar 
“Woke-ism Is Winding Down”
An interesting piece, but I think it is more that woke is beginning to lose its forward momentum as the contradictions hit reality.. There are far too many people who believe this nonsense wholeheartedly to say that it is winding down….
The package I just received was made entirely of recycled plastic and paper, oh and printed “100% with soy ink” whatever that is, I always assumed they milked squid.
I agree….I think though that often ‘woke’ is now so widely used we are forgetting how reality is being abused….and how serious it is…
Would we consider the changing of the definition of a woman to be woke..it’s more serious than that isn’t it? What do we call it? How do we fight it?
It’s a steady erasing of reality as we know it…I don’t know who said it, but we are being trained ‘how’ to think as well as what to think….
We all saw the changing of the definition vaccine and herd immunity, just to suit an agenda….and we are supposed to accept the most ludicrous things as a given….
I just refuse to join in as much as possible….but we are in a crap state…
“World Health Organisation says ‘we must prepare’ for next pandemic and is already preparing new vaccine”
I’m guessing they have Bird Flu Plus (v.2.0) in the lab already. Well, they can shove their masks up where the sun wont shine. Fool me once shame on you.
Jab factories being built , HMG job adverts to deliver Jabs at pace , Tedros creaming his pants at prospect of his new global powers to be granted in May , Birdlab Flu on standby !! What’s not to like !!…
How does mask wearing for prevention square with that Cochrane Review….???
The WHO is just another shady, criminal corporation funded by private individuals for their own personal gain.
A very interesting and encouraging article/interview with a retired Swiss banker who has filed criminal charges against the Swiss President, Alain Berset;
”To everyone’s surprise, the Attorney General of Switzerland has decided to launch an investigation into the President – the first, of a sitting head of state – over their “vaccine” policies.
Pascal joins Todd Callender and Sean on the SGT Report, to describe the simple inconsistencies in the official narrative that he noted, that proved to him that the whole COVID/Vaxx campaign was a fraud – such as that time that Pfizer’s President of International Markets, Janine Small admitted before an EU special COVID-19 committee hearing that the jab was not tested during clinical trials for its ability to prevent transmission before it entered the international market – leading Croatian MEP, Mislav Kolakusic to declare that the European Union’s purchase of 4.5 billion doses of the experimental COVID-19 vaccines amounted to the “biggest corruption scandal in the history of mankind.”
Then, Pascal describes the simple steps he took – which any citizen can do – to hold the genocidal criminals accountable. And the first step was just walking into the police station to lodge his complaint. For all of us, the revelation is that we can do the same.
Todd thanks Pascal for being “An example to all” and he says that we need a million people all over the world doing this, because it is a global genocide.”
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/02/no_author/bombshell-holding-them-to-account-for-crimes-against-humanity-pascal-najadi-todd-callender/
Pascal spoke to MD4CE a few weeks ago – he’s a good man & angry.
At the same meeting Mark Sexton reported that an edict has come down from TPTB that any reports relating to covid bioweapon injections are to be filed in the dustbin The police are captured. There are a few dissenting voices communicating privately with Mark but none speaking publicly, until the numbers tip the balance this route is not open to us.
Whilst I agree, who is getting jabbed now!!??!?
Surely this has all been memory holed now, the media, scientists and government and all quite happy with the slow carpet sweep in progress.
She and her paper have been one of the biggest gene therapy pushers of them all. Not a single critical thought for 3 years, and even providing a platform for the zealous discriminators like Anne McEvoy, Morgan, Blair&co.
Pathetic.
Sarah Knapton – better late than never I suppose.
https://www.gbnews.uk/health/world-health-organization-says-we-must-prepare-for-next-pandemic-and-is-already-preparing-new-vaccine/439645
So Billy has given the heads up and presumably his new “vaccine” recipe.
Masks as well apparently. I suggest the WHO investigates some sex and travel.
A brilliant evening yesterday at the TCW event in London.
Maybe the DS can and should do something similar at some point?!
Here is my brief write-up about it:
A heads up to all others who attended and a huge round of applause to Kathy, TCW and all the fantastic panelists.
What a splendid event and huge success!
I am sure everyone attending got a huge oxycotine and dopamine boost sufficient for at least 3 months- we sure did and that was probably our and everyone else’s main takeaway and gratitude.
So rare and good to be part of a large (2k?), in person group of fellow sane, critical and utterly normal seeming people: not a single scruffy person in sight, plenty of suits and tweed jackets instead.
The main anecdotes and messages for us were:
– please stop blaming the vaccine injured for taking the jab in the first place
– Blair, Gates, Hancock seem the most contempted people by our group, in that order…
– the journalists in the MSM are sometimes more critical than what they write, but most have adopted self censorship to survive
– the Church was the institution that failed the biggest and most inexcusable
– Sir Christopher Chope was the only MP who never wore a mask
– Andrew Bridgen is shunned by other MPs but is being approached, thanked and congratulated by all the staff in the House now
– the music business is infantile, the greedy are in control of the needy, musicians do what their agents/labels tell them to do, RSF is disinvited from events due to pressure by other bands, at such events there is no faith or empathy in the crowds, in contrast to where they do play.
– Mike Yeadon had a rockstar reception and his main suggestions are: asymptomatic spread was the big lie providing the foundation for the rest and what made him suspicious, resist with a smile, spread our gospel and don’t be afraid to do so or make mistakes by doing so, use cash for everything you can, in particular big ticket items, never give them your data, email etc.: buy anonymously
– doctors are taught to lose all critical reasoning capacity when the word vaccine is muttered, the false branding was and is as such essential and the key explanation for their unquestioned complicity
– childrens vaccination and pediatrics endorsement was and is incomprehensible
– Cancer cases have exploded since the third shot, Prof. Dalgleish’s anecdotal observations have been confirmed to him by many colleagues, but they are all gaggled and too afraid to speak up.
He explained the mechanism for that and his early concerns about using the spike protein as facilitator.
I am sure there will be official writeups and a link soon. Well worth reading and watching!
Many thanks. I am pleased to read such a positive report.
Thanks, a good summary. Prior to the meeting, while I was wandering around London, I noticed Mike Yeadon’s name written on a subway wall along with anti-WEF statements. The writers also used QR codes. It seems to me the ‘scruffy’ people are awake too. What did you make of Andrew Bridgen’s or Christopher Chope’s (I forget which) revelation that a senior Labour politician said they will not ‘take on’ Big Pharma? I think it is time for politicians in Westminster and local councils to remember who they work for.
Sounds brilliant…I can ‘feel’ the high you must have had being with like-minded sensible people…..and for once not having to bite your tongue for fear of offending some ignorant numpty!!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/02/09/scottish-prisons-abandon-nicola-sturgeons-trans-self-identification/
The Scottish Prison Service has grown a pair then?
Apologies, I couldn’t resist
Ross Clark in The Times today even suggesting a delay to Net Zero.
Energy security means postponing net zero
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/energy-security-means-postponing-net-zero-jpttjvxn2
I couldn’t comment on it at The Times – because they banned me for suggesting Net Zero was nuts.
“banned me for suggesting Net Zero was nuts.”
Banned for telling the truth then.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11731589/Mother-arrested-taken-court-failing-pay-2-000-fine-Covid-rule-busting-party.html
Ah, I see, but Bozo and Co get a slap on the wrist and a fifty pound fine.
I must be missing something but I’m blowed if I know what it is.
https://twitter.com/RepLuna/status/1623435982535290882?s=20&t=mgTgEHNRigRmg-5weI3eKQ
Well done young lady.
This is a good one as well….the whole thing, besides being an eye-opener, is fantastically entertaining…
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1623810229371645955
US – Twitter executives asked if they have legal counsel present because they have interfered with a U.S. Presidential election.
“This is the investigation part, later comes the arrest part” LOL!!
Oh that’s a cracker, ebg.
It may come to nothing, but the fact that the word peace is even being aired has got to be good……
FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is introducing a resolution in the House on Thursday that calls on the Biden administration to end U.S. military and financial aid to Ukraine — while also urging all involved to secure a peace agreement after nearly a year of war in the region.
The resolution the “Ukraine Fatigue Resolution” is being introduced by Gaetz and 10 co-sponsors and calls for the U.S. to “end its military and financial aid to Ukraine and urges all combatants to reach a peace agreement.”
We can only pray and hope…
From @Igor Chudov
Germany had its HIGHEST EVER excess mortality.
Over 40%!
It is definitely NOT THE VACCINES, says German health minister Karl Lauterbach and fact-checkers.
And it is not Covid either, if we are to believe official Covid death numbers.
Nobody cares!
From @BernieSpofforth
U.K.- Excess deaths now at 30,000 over the last 38 weeks.
Complete silence from Government, Ferguson, Whitty, SAGE etc.
The silence is deafening.
As Andrew Bridgen said yesterday at the TCW event, if it definitely wasn’t due to the vaccines or due to Covid, it’d be all over the news. That alone speaks for the goo being a main culprit.
Response from the Government to the petition asking them ‘To investigate UK excess deaths not related to COVID’
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/628188?reveal_response=yes
“A combination of factors has contributed to the number of excess deaths. The government is taking steps to address this and will announce further detail in the forthcoming Major Conditions Strategy.”
I think this summarises it – they know what the factors are, magically, without having looked into it, and they are going to sort it all out.
Signed.
I will never understand people who practice alternative medicine, eat organic etc. getting the gene therapies.
Regardless, the Mrs saw one of those (pretty competent in their area of expertise) healers recently, and he, a gene therapy zealot now, was talking about the hospital trust in the South where his wife works having 100 people currently on the Covid ward. Allegedly, 50 of them were Covid ‘vaxxed’ but very frail and old, and 50 were younger and/but ‘unvaxxed’.
The absurdity of this story never occurred to him.
If this was remotely true, it would be dragged out as front page news nationwide.
Instead, they have stopped publishing the contradictory UKHSA data.
Needless to say, the Mrs won’t go to see him again.
A nice find over on the TCW comments section regarding saving the planet:
The government has issued guidelines to dentist practices to make sure they are fully in line with this insanity:
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Again sex and travel springs to mind.