- “Time for the lockdown nostalgics to confront the true horror of what Britain lived through” – There can be no hiding anymore from the decisions that were made – and their terrible impact on millions of people, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Scale of pandemic hit to U.K. workforce laid bare: Inactivity has risen nearly twice as fast as expected since 2019 with mental health issues, ‘long Covid’ and back problems blamed – amid warnings another 317,000 people will be out of action by 2026” – Just 59% of the half-a-million strong increase in those classed as economically inactive can be explained by demographic changes, reports the Mail.
- “The madness of the lockdown trials” – As Matt Hancock’s Lockdown Files gain public attention, there are still plenty of Covid trials before the courts, writes Gus Carter in the Spectator.
- “As police pursued my father during Covid lockdown, my lonely mother endured care home prison” – Rachel Johnson, Boris Johnson’s sister, writes in the Telegraph that, “From the moment the first ‘stay home’ order was issued, I had profound misgivings about lockdown – everything about it.”
- “Fresh texts reveal Matt Hancock discussed how Covid could ‘propel’ his career days before virus hit U.K. and boasted of looking ‘great’ in pictures – as ex-Health Secretary breaks cover for first time since bombshell WhatsApp leak” – The latest messages show Mr. Hancock was considering how the pandemic could help his career as early as January 2020, the Mail reports.
- “The sinister cruelty of lockdown has been laid bare” – We now know just how drunk on tyranny the political class was during the pandemic, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “The truth behind China’s zero-Covid exit: President Xi’s No.2 ignored his call to keep lockdowns because officials were terrified by unprecedented protests and health chiefs lied about resulting spike in cases amid chaos behind the scenes” – Li Qiang, the man recently elevated to No.2 on China’s ruling Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee, abruptly drove a decision to activate the reopening plans sooner than intended, according to the Mail.
- “The ‘fact checkers’ can’t find the target never mind hit it” – Norman Fenton is not impressed with the latest effort to ‘fact-check’ his work.
- “State Power & Covid Crimes” – Jeremy Prest on Return to Reason welcomes Ramesh Thakur to discuss his five-part paper entitled ‘State Power & Covid Crimes’.
- “Persecution by FAQ” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson recall Neil O’Brien MPs malicious Government-backed attack on them during the pandemic.
- “Italy closes investigation alleging Covid lockdown failures” – Italian prosecutors have closed a COVID-19 investigation that accuses officials, including a former premier and a regional governor, of wrongdoing for failing to extend a lockdown zone in the early days of the pandemic to the northern city of Bergamo and adjacent industrial valleys, reports AP News.
- “Germany and Italy block Brussels from banning petrol and diesel cars” – Telegraph report that Germany and Italy have thrown a planned European Union ban on new petrol and diesel cars into disarray as they seek exemptions to protect their powerful car industries.
- “‘So your working-class builder who’s worried about spending £60-a-week on ULEZ is now an extremist?’: Fury as ‘disgraceful’ Sadiq Khan is slammed for ‘smearing’ critics of his war on London’s motorists as ‘far Right’ and ‘Covid deniers’” – Tensions have long been running high over the expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone – where £12.50 is charged for driving polluting vehicles – due to cover all London boroughs from August, reports the Mail.
- “Gas Power Is Cheaper Than Wind, Despite Carbon Brief’s Claims” – If we had more gas-fired power and less wind power, our energy bills would be lower, not higher, writes Paul Homewood in WUWT.
- “The green movement faces a painful confrontation with reality” – The realisation is now dawning that, like everything else, renewables need cheap fossil fuels, says Rupert Darwall in the Spectator.
- “Teenage climate activist ‘unfairly ridiculed’ by radio interviewer” – A broadcaster is reprimanded by a watchdog for questioning the travel methods of Izzy Cook, New Zealand’s answer to Greta Thunberg, the Telegraph reports.
- “Backdoor Sharia Law” – We no longer have blasphemy laws in the U.K., but you wouldn’t know it where Islam is concerned, writes Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
- “We must stand up for the Wakefield Quran scuffers like our lives depend on it – because they do” – The unfortunate schoolboys are the latest victims of a particularly judgmental and unforgiving strand of honour-based Islam that’s already wiped out much of what was left of pluralism in its home of Pakistan, writes Phil Craig in CapX.
- “Stop trying to indoctrinate kids” – Axe-grinding political obsessives could kill off reading, says Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
- “Ukraine’s brain drain is 17 times worse than Russia’s” – The country’s high-skilled workers are leaving en masse, says Noah Carl in UnHerd.
- “The martyring of Scott Adams” – Cancelling the cartoonist hasn’t helped race relations, writes Kat Rosenfeld in UnHerd.
- “The parents who fear their 11-year-olds will be scarred for life by the graphic sex education lessons that no one warned them about… and the drag queen who told pupils there are 73 genders wasn’t the worst of it” – Relationship and Sex Education lessons at the Queen Elizabeth II school have been put on hold while there is an inquiry into “graphic and indecent” classes unsuitable for young children, reports the Mail.
- “Complete rubbish, spoken with complete certainty. Keir Starmer criticising so-called ‘Freedom Day’ summer ‘21. There was never any ‘surge’. Government’s lockdowns and lies were appalling” – But the ‘Opposition’ did no opposing at all except wanting more, tweets the Together Declaration.
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The article makes a fundamental error in the first paragraph. It is increased prosperity and inventiveness which have improved the lot of the bulk of the people. This has been done by individuals alone and in voluntary association doing what Adamn Smith said they would do.
Capitalism, free enterprise or entrepreneurship (call it what you like) has produced a huge increase in peosperity and along the way many useful new products and methods have been developed. I struggle to think of a single one which has come about due to state run institutions.
For a useful account of how health has improved as income has improved this site provides a great deal of information in an accessible form:
Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries Of Official Statistics
“In addition to the extensive static graphs below, the following superb BBC FOUR broadcast by Professor Hans Rosling shows how health improved in step with wealth over the last 200 years “200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes“
The article assumes some very egregious and religious gospels which are false:
-viruses (flying) exist – they don’t
-DNA/RNA can survive outside a host – they can’t
-viruses cause measles et al – they don’t
-quackcines reduced death from diseaese – they didn’t
Too much disinformation which negates the obvious reality that your health, diet, your lack of imbibing toxins, your mental state, is your wealth.
Ferdlll, I am in general agreement with many of your posts but I am a bit thrown by your opinion on flying viruses. Are you saying that airborne viruses are not a thing, and illnesses cannot get passed on through the air?
I read a paper showing that the Spanish Flu, which did go around the world, beat any of the transport ships at the time. The Flu appeared to follow the natural climate circulation. It seemed a convincing argument. I also noted that Covid got into some Antarctic research bases despite stringent checks on staff health. Again an airborne spread seems feasible.
I suspect what got in to Antarctic research bases was a shed load of PCR tests and nothing more.
Please forgive me, but if a virus does not cause measles, what does?
Yes, a virus.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-measles-guidelines/measles-factsheet
” A reduction in inequality and evidence-based health policies have been central to this success”
Well there certainly has been a reduction of ‘evidence based medicine’. Probably to do with the power of Big Pharma and vested interests!
“most deaths during the Spanish Flu, before modern antibiotics were invented, were likely due to secondary bacterial infections.”
Some say most of the deaths were associated with the mass vaccine program at Fort Detrick. And the malnutrition from WW1.
Some say that masks made the situation worse, by providing a breeding ground for the secondary bacterial infections, which allegedly can be more problematic for the human body than the primary virus. Perhaps we should consider that respiratory viruses are pretty delicate little rubber dinghies with SAS operatives on a mission: they need exactly the right cells to invade and subvert into making more viruses; bacteria are more like aircraft-carriers that carry an entire food manufacturing machinery and weapon repair stations. The whole idea of humans being constantly at war with respiratory viruses rather in symbiosis with them might be a notion put about by BigPharma to boost sales.
Good point.
Yes. I believe that around 3 million Us soldiers were “vaccinated” against smallpox, ostensibly because the military were worried the Germans would use smallpox as a bioweapon (same as the military allegedly used it against the native Indian).
This trashed many immune systems leading to a prevalence of bacterial pneumonia.
Good old uncle sam again.
The real genius was getting it to be known as “Spanish Flu”. Fort Detrick Flu doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
” taxpayers in the U.K. and elsewhere have been working hard to fund the 100-day vaccine programme” – how to work hard without noticing it.
That picture: Where’s the meat and dairy? Not a balanced diet.
That’s the diet that health fascists will
force on us
Excellent article. It demonstrates well that our health is (largely) within our own hands. None of which is rocket science, good diet/exercise/sleep etc. However it does need repeating to push home the message that pharmacology shouldn’t be the first port of call.
An appalling article. The author misunderstands most things. Improved health followed improved prosperity which was caused by individuals being allowed the freedom to pursue their own interests rather than following the diktats of the local lord or bishop. ‘Public money’ does not exist; it is simply money extorted by the robber state. Different people value health differently and choose to make different trade-offs.
The author is a coercive collectivist out to impose his version of what is good on everybody else. ‘I’m from Public Health and I’m here to help’ are some of the scariest words in the English language.
I agree with some of your comments though I think it’s harsh to call it an appalling article. The analysis of the deeply corrupt “public health” industry is correct – it’s the remedy we disagree on.
You and I probably agree that we can do without a “public health” industry, the author thinks it could be replaced with something actually helpful. But I think we’d just end up with mandatory broccoli eating (I love broccoli with garlic, Mrs ToF does it very well).
I think this illustrates what we are up against- even people who saw the “Covid” scam for what it was think that everything can be made better if only more sensible and honest people were put in charge. Hardly anyone wants to just get rid of vast swaths of public bodies.
Amen!
Could not have put it better myself.
Also we should not forget the whole surveillance industry setup to monitor infectious diseases around the globe. A lot of people would be out of jobs, including a lot of people working for the WHO.
Vaccines are killing millions. Autism now one in thirty-six post kids immunisation. Ask any parent with an autistic child when it started. They can pinpoint the day! mRNA covid poisons are currently killing millions but first causing horrific adverse events. Please wake up.
Over 7% of UK school age boys are autistic. That is 1 in 14. That is based on official statistics in England and official statistics for Northern Ireland. The NI stats prove it is nothing to do with better diagnosis or greater awareness. They show that 60% of the boys are non-verbal which means they are impossible to miss.
How about just admitting that vaccines NEVER solved any problems and NEVER helped reduced illness? On the contrary, the first vaccines were totally poisonous (just read the history of how the first smallpox vaccines were created and distributed) and modern day vaccines have their famous adjuvants, which are often poisonous on their own.
The immune system is amazingly complex and we have a very, very long way to go before we (if ever) completely understand every implication of attempting to modify or “assist” a minute part of it.
In the meantime, we are surely all aware of the dangers of mRNA vaccines. I cannot believe the author wrote the following, so maybe I misunderstood something:
We don’t yet know the long term consequences of causing inflammation and cell death in the ovaries of young girls, or the results of stimulating inflammation and probable cell death in a foetus in a pregnant woman. However, having given these injections to a lot of children and pregnant women, we should understand this better in the future.
The too typical argument of the medical profession: vaccines are a modern marvel and you have to be really very unlucky to die or become permanently disabled from them. Smile.
In my simple mind, the body has two main defences against pathogens: the respiratory system and the digestive system. Also, if I should have an open wound, the body is quick to seal the wound and “disinfect” the area, thus also acting to prevent pathogens entering the body.
But a vaccine directly injects a pathogen of sorts into the bloodstream, thus bypassing all bodily defences. The idea is to provoke some sort of advance warning inside the body so that, when I eventually am exposed to a particular disease, my body will react immediately to conquer that disease. But what is the difference when I encounter a disease without prior vaccination? Will my body not also immediately respond against that disease?
I think the whole idea of vaccination is completely flawed and, with it, the whole idea of the human race being eradicated by some modern “Pandemic”.
I’d be more comfortable believing in flying viruses if someone could isolate the little devils.
Saying, “If viruses don’t cause disease, then what does?” is rather like saying, “Well, if she’s not a witch, then why did the crops fail.”