- “Matt Hancock told lawyers he should be immune from court action over Covid” – He said he should not be the target of judicial reviews over his department’s failure to safeguard care home residents simply because he was Secretary of State – and that it should be the whole Government instead, reports the Mirror.
- “Jacob Rees-Mogg: We were denied evidence we needed to make anti-lockdown case” – Ministers were not told of evidence from Chris Whitty that it would be safe to reduce quarantine period, the former Commons leader has said, according to the Telegraph.
- “Matt Hancock’s plan to block funding for disabled children if MP opposed lockdown” – Matt Hancock discussed a plan to block funding for a new centre for disabled children and adults as a way of pressuring a rebel Tory MP to back new lockdown restrictions, reports the Telegraph.
- “The secret spreadsheet that targeted MPs critical of lockdown” – With backbench Tories speaking out about harm caused by Covid measures, the Health Secretary and his team set out on a strongarm operation, reports the Telegraph.
- “The inconvenient questions the Covid inquiry must answer” – Baroness Hallett needs to go beyond the direct costs of the disease and quantify the unintended damage that Covid policy inflicted, writes Esther McVey in the Telegraph.
- “WHO Urges Countries to Reveal Intelligence on COVID-19 Origins After FBI Director’s Statements” – The World Health Organisation has asked governments with intelligence on the virus to come forward, after a growing number of U.S. officials signalled that it may have resulted from a Chinese lab leak, the Epoch Times reports.
- “The Lockdown Files’ message is clear: we must never again suppress democracy by giving power to power-hungry people.” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson with the original text of their Express article.
- “I protested masks at local school board” – It wasn’t exactly a Churchillian moment, says Bill Rice, Jr..
- “Matt Hancock cancelled after indiscreet WhatsApps ‘upset’ travel industry” – The Institute of Travel and Tourism has axed the former Health Secretary from speaking at its annual conference in Qatar as messages reveal he was highly critical of the sector, according to the Telegraph. Now obviously we’re against cancel culture. But it is Matt Hancock.
- “How the WHO was captured” – Private capital wields far too much influence, says Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
- “Critical Thinking is Our Only Weapon Against the Doomsayers” – We must train ourselves in scrutinising texts, seek out true information and apply rigorous reasoning, says Thorsteinn Siglaugsson.
- “The politics of fear is the enemy of democracy” – The elite’s doom-mongering over Covid was an insult to our intelligence and our rights, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Chris Whitty ‘warned ministers against enforcing hated sex ban during Covid pandemic’ because ‘people aren’t likely to listen’, Matt Hancock’s leaked WhatsApps reveal” – Under the original Covid lockdown imposed in the U.K. on March 23rd 2020, Boris Johnson told Brits to stay at home and avoid contact with people living in other households, but there was private disagreement about what this should mean for couples, reports the Mail.
- “The Real Threat of 15-Minute Cities” – These ultra-modern, tech-saturated monstrosities use hundreds of thousands of sensors to vacuum up copious amounts of personal data, writes John Mac Ghlionn for the Brownstone Institute.
- “The green elites really do want climate rationing” – A new paper has exposed the miserable reality of Net Zero, says Laurie Wastell in Spiked.
- “With the ‘expert’ Covid view blown up, green terror must be next” – In an uncompromising leading article the New York Post argues that “green fanatics” are just as much in the dark about the climate situation as Anthony Fauci et al. were about Covid, and “it’s time we stopped listening to them, for good”.
- “A Minnesota court can’t overturn science – but it can destroy women’s sport” – It’s not a ‘gender based assumption’ to say males are generally stronger than females – it’s fact, writes Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
- “Great Britain has no place for blasphemy laws” – Religious tolerance should be promoted in multi-faith Britain, not theocratic intimidation, says Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
- “NHS must reinstate ‘woman’ in cancer and pregnancy webpages, staff demand” – Health workers write to NHS bosses condemning the “discriminatory” move of shifting to gender-neutral language, saying it “insults women”, the Telegraph reports.
- “‘That Was a Lie!’: There Was Never a Scientific Consensus On Lockdowns, Masks, or the Vaccine” – Watch Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya say that “a cartel almost, of very powerful scientific bureaucrats took over the whole apparatus of science”.
'That Was a Lie!': There Was Never a Scientific Consensus On Lockdowns, Masks, or the Vaccine
— The Vigilant Fox
Dr. @DrJBhattacharya: "What happened was a relatively small group, a cartel almost, of very powerful scientific bureaucrats took over the whole apparatus of science — at least as far as… pic.twitter.com/UwRwg6P8Ej(@VigilantFox) March 5, 2023
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Interesting data from a German insurance company;
”Amid all the data points that ominously reflect a rash of sudden illness and death, German insurance company Barmer recorded a 76% increase in medical-related absences among its employees in 2022 over 2021, according to German newspaper Die Welt. 2021 was the deadliest year of the pandemic with the Delta variant, yet somehow the company’s sick leave nearly doubled the following year?! What gives? It turns out that both COVID-related sickness and other sickness were responsible for the increase.
But what’s worse than getting sick is dropping dead suddenly. This data is quite intriguing, as well as horrifying, in that Germany is reporting the highest excess death rates in the EU. One week in December 2022, Germany racked up a 47% excess death rate over the four-year average, perfectly coinciding with the Barmer corporate data showing that to be the worst month of sick leave.
Again, how is Germany experiencing the worst excess death spikes – blowing out the most acute levels of the pandemic months of the 2020-2021 winter – after the pandemic is over?”
https://www.conservativereview.com/horowitz-german-health-insurance-company-experiences-76-increase-in-employee-sick-days-as-excess-deaths-skyrocket-2659512575.html
“German insurance company Barmer recorded a 76% increase in medical-related absences among its employees in 2022 over 2021″
This should read “among insured employees of its corporate clients”.
Excellent piece calling out the two-faced, back-stabbing, self-serving hypocrites that laughably call themselves ”journalists”. We see you all for what you are and your tactics are crystal clear.
”IF you thought the horror of your mainstream media (MSM) had already been laid bare then you were wrong.
In light of The Telegraph’s WhatsApp messages story, there are now MSM journalists trying to claim credit where none is due.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it really is all about them.
They fought for the Great British public throughout, remember? Surely you cannot forget all those screaming front-page headlines and TV news bulletins holding the Government to account?
Many did absolutely nothing. Some, simply did not do enough to call themselves journalists. Questioning lockdown is simply not enough to qualify. These same people saying ‘we see you’ failed to see the thousands marching in protest of mandatory Covid jabs and, later, the thousands injured and killed by those jabs.
Yes, we see you, all right.”
https://uncut.substack.com/p/msm-i-said-this-i-said-that-i-was
Thanks, Mogs. A good, well written article. Trouble is most people will read this and believe it while you and I and our compadres quietly seethe. How I wish we could get at these self-serving shysters and publicly shame them somehow but since they pretty much dominate the narrative, we are left watching from the sidelines.
By the way, my name ‘AethelredTheReadier’ was my take on an old Saxon King – Aethelred The Unready and I am just more ready or ‘readier’ – probably bad English – but I’m stuck with it now!
Your pen name is a wonderful salute to British history Aethelred
Thanks, HP! It was a spur of the moment thing when I joined then resistance on here!
It depends on how you look at it. I’m not sure why Allison Pearson and Julia Hartley-Brewer are being singled out for accusation.
Allison Pearson is a columnist and feature writer, not in charge of Telegraph editorial policy. After the first three weeks, she was extremely vocal about the lockdowns in all her columns, even making calls on people’s behalf, trying to help out readers with problems. She was never going to have the power to change the front page, but she did speak out in her columns and run Planet Normal, which invited on many of the abused scientists such as Sunetra Gupta. So, like many, she did what she could: she’s a writer and she wrote. Some of the stories she told were horrifying and would leave me shaking with rage. She has earned the right to say ‘I told you so!’
We’re lucky really that many of the Telegraph and Mail columnists were allowed to speak out as much as they were, especially as the Telegraph compromised itself by taking a grant from the Gates Foundation, meaning a Gates stooge team was pumping out propaganda daily.
Julia Hartley-Brewer also kept on plugging away; after all, she’s the interviewer who showed up in a web/radio interview with Matt Hancock that he didn’t understand his own figures. That was important.
Not everything can be grand gestures. Sometimes we can only do what we can. There was a group of columnists who kept plugging away, writing about the ills and wrongs that were going on in spite of their papers doing what the state told them, selling out their readership. The newspapers could play it both ways: they toed the Government line on the news pages and let the columnists speak out, knowing the columnists (and cartoonists) could be taken down if the Powers That Be ordered it.
So the newspapers themselves can be taken to task for letting us all down. My guess is that so many advertisers were closed up that they were left dependent on Government money. They should have called for the Government’s arrest when he announced the lockdown. They certainly should have been calling for mass disobedience by the summer.
But there were columnists who did fight, who interacted with readers in the comments sections, in spite of the flood of abuse by 77th Brigade and others. When the MSM failed us, they stayed in there trying to speak up for the ordinary readers. So some gratitude is needed as well as anger.
Oh give it a rest. We all had the evidence we needed at the start. Anyway, why couldn’t he bloody well ASK? Cat got his tongue?
Brilliant comment.
Yes – the government was suspended and twiddling its thumbs, apart from the ruling cabal of the inner cabinet. Plenty of time to do some independent research on behalf of voters, given the many complaints being made about biased official information.
Every MP has access to their own researchers. It’s how Andrew Bridgen gets more information on matters & MP office staff were working still….
Agreed. It’s called doing your homework for those of a certain age and given the breadth of knowledge on here it is clear that DS subscribers did their’s by the shed load.
Would that MP’s could actually make a start on their homework. Mind you I suppose it would be beyond optimistic to expect that slumbering, lazy cohort to do any real work.
I seem to remember Truss trying to convince us she was a lockdown sceptic but that she and others in the Cabinet were not given the chance to speak – so someone who made it to the office of PM was too shy to just say her piece without being given permission. So much for leadership (though she was preferable to Sunak and removed by coup).
Florence Pugh’s father vows to fight LTN ‘bullies’ after council threatens £2,500 fine
Oxford restaurateur says ‘31 years of hard work’ are at stake after being told to remove sign reading: ‘So much for democracy!’ and ‘1984?’
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Seems we’re going to have to fight for the world we want to keep because these people in power have an agenda and are dead set on destroying it. We must vote them out, we must protest and make their lives difficult and get this awful, suffocating nonsense of Net Zero reversed and thrown out.
Florence Pugh’s father needs the FSU.
Warmest on record?, yes, in Bizarro World. Snow lay on the ground for many weeks in December and the only soundbite I would believe is Bozo’s dream of the UK being the ” Saudi Arabia of wind” which was, judging by the calm airflow, truly risible
https://nypost.com/2023/03/04/with-the-expert-covid-view-blown-up-green-terror-must-be-next/
This is precisely the approach to adopt with regard to the Net Zero bollox. The net zero nonsense has to be shown to have direct parallels with the C1984 scam: crappy modelling, crystal ball forecasting, scaremongering, humanity sapping restraints on freedom and so on. As the dozy population starts to wake up to the horrific effects and legacies of the covid years they just might put two and two together and realise that they are being had over once again.
Bang on, HP! Good words. Let’s hope they get their addition right this time!
Thanks Aethelred
Another of the Hancock ‘Whatsapps’ stories has made it onto the BBC website: –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64870505
Staggering on the Telegraph website how many BTL commenters are saying oh I’m bored of this now, is there nothing else to write about.
Even when faced with something so inherently wicked they seem to think it was just acceptable collateral damage.
Strange behaviour isn’t it? Reading an article and then going to the trouble of writing a comment that they wished the Telegraph had published something else in its place. Why didn’t they just ignore it?
Perhaps it has reached the time when the Telegraph publish revelations about the injections? Unless this series was always intended to be a ‘limited hangout’.
It’s likely 77th Brigade and other pro-lockdowners making the remarks. The BTL comments in the Telegraph became frustrating when I was on there, because so many leftists and pro-state operatives would post on there. If you hung out on there regularly, you’d get to know who people were. Some would use multiple identities. For all the ubiquitous ‘Adam Hills’ and ‘Yvonne Johnsons’ who simply posted there to be obnoxious and cause trouble, there were others under assumed names who would ‘cycle’ their identities and make several posts (the way Fabian Solutions and Feminism First was clearly the same individual – I think she turned out to be the girlfriend of one of the Telegraph’s writers!) So I doubt the complainers are anything other than Government stooges.
Daily Mirror headline today really sums up climate change the sky is falling desperation:
UK weather: Snow blast batters Brits as nation braces for four days of severe warnings
Four days of severe warnings, folks.
You ready? You prepped?
Is the narrative finally eating itself?
It started snowing here in Dorset a short while ago but…then it didn’t. It was wet snow and didn’t last. It’s all gone. And for this…FOR THIS…I am to be thrown out of my car, penalised, fined, restricted… It’s March ffs. It gets cold sometimes. Jeeze!
Guess what though – a £2 bus ticket will take you anywhere – although in Dorset probably only every 2nd Tuesday to Swanage.
Haha…I may have to get a pony and cart. We’ll be back to Poldark before we know it!
If the local council’s Year Zero Officer Polly Pot gets her way you’ll be scything through other the traffic (a u/s Tesla drawn by a water buffalo) in no time!
Wow, snowing on the cusp of winter to spring months. Whatever next? The net zerotards will be inconsolable if it snows at the end of April / beginning of May – as it has been known to happen.
Don’t think that Midazolam will be covered in the WhatsApps, do you?
While I think it’s a good thing that people who might not know anything are being enlightened…a lot of people are saying it’s a scam to turn eyes away from the worst of what happened…”look over here at bungling stupid Hancock” (avoid Midazolam and the jabbies?)
Certainly questions need to be asked…..
https://thedailybeagle.substack.com/p/midazolam-murder-mysteries-who-is
Q377 Dr Evans: A good death needs three things: equipment, medication and the staff to administer it. On equipment, do you have enough syringe drivers in the NHS to deliver medications to keep people comfortable
when they are passing away?
Matt Hancock: Yes, we have. A challenge was raised on that about eight days ago-it was not as big a challenge as was made public, and we have resolved it. Yes; right now we have enough.
We all should know now that the NHS, Health Secretary was not remotely interested in ‘keeping people comfortable when they were passing away.’ Nothing in their actions in 2020 on indicates this.
The NHS were only interested in circling the wagons to await the arrival of the mRNA poison. Seems most believed the pharma PR about it, because they are totally stupid, captured, bought. And now the disparate personnel of our bloated health industry stand about, a la Monty Python, chorusing ‘What do we do now? What do we now?’ The disastrously unfunny sketch has ended and this is the only punchline they have, except to say ‘Matt Hancock done it’ and ‘look, we’re flying a Ukrainian flag’.
I think ‘What do we do now? What do we do now?’ was Spike Milligan. The Monty Python link was ‘And now for something completely different’ (if only).
You’re not wrong, Chris P. More omega 3, methinks!
On that topic, rather funny that LBC Radio cancelled Maajid Nawaz whilst retaining the services of James O’Wanker – a bit like throwing away the baby but keeping the placenta.
There’s seemingly no shortage of “Useful Idiots” attaching themselves to the WEF (including Sunak and Starmer). The Hancock fiasco shows what happens when one of their number passes from “Useful” to “Complete”; nothing is spared in throwing under the [zero-emissions] bus.
Tyranny in the UK – Police continue arrests for silent prayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZOQ8j7KR5o
Police have again arrested Isabel Vaughan-Spruce for ‘thought crime’.
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A thought provoking article looking at the role of the UN & NATO in human rights & conflicts around the globe.
https://www.tortillaconsal.com/bitacora/node/1382