- “Day and Night Nurse and Covonia cold and flu remedies are being withdrawn from U.K. market over health fears” – The remedies have been withdrawn by the MHRA following a review that found a “very rare” risk of anaphylaxis, according to the Mail. So why have the Covid vaccines not been similarly withdrawn?
- “FDA authorises Pfizer’s Covid Omicron booster as fourth shot for kids under five” – The FDA authorised Pfizer’s omicron booster shot for kids younger than five who were previously vaccinated with three doses of the company’s original shot, reports CNBC.
- “No lab had virus close enough to Covid to spark pandemic, claims zoologist funding Wuhan research” – No lab in the world held a virus close enough to COVID-19 that it could be manipulated to create the pandemic strain, the British zoologist whose company funded Wuhan researchers, Peter Daszak, has said.
- “‘This censorship has damaged the reputation of science’” – Spiked catches up with Matt Ridley on the suppression of the Covid lab leak theory.
- “Was Trump Tricked Into Lockdowns or Not?” – Jeffrey A. Tucker writes for Brownstone that there’s no sign Trump was less than enthusiastic for the original lockdowns.
- “Normal People Say ‘No Mask’” – We fought for three years, and the Covid fear-mongers lost, says Gabrielle Bauer in the Wall Street Journal.
- “West Australian government finally releases 2021 vaccine safety data: vaccines have been pulled from the market for far less than this” – The ‘hermit state’ had almost no Covid in 2021 due to its extreme zero-Covid policies, so WA vaccine safety data provide unique insight into vaccine effects absent the confounder of Covid infection, writes Rebekah Barnett.
- “What Really Happened Inside the COVID-19 Vaccine Trials?” – The Mid-Western Doctor takes a close look at the shocking evidence.
- “Downfall of the California Maskies” – Masking fatigue might have set in but the resulting neuroses are still with us, says Gilbert T. Sewall in Spectator World.
- “The Lancet heavily redacts its response to our subject access request for internal correspondence relating to rejection of our letter about Pfizer study” – What have they got to hide, asks Norman Fenton.
- “Checking back on U.S. cardiac deaths” – They’re still elevated, says Brian Mowrey, as he blames an interaction between the vaccine and virus, probably involving tolerance of the spike protein.
- “Startling Evidence Suggests BioNTech/Pfizer Falsified Key Data & Further Scandals” – Sonia Elijah in Trial Site News with a new report on concerning irregularities in the Pfizer safety data.
- “Why the Dutch farmers’ revolt matters” – They are fighting back against the green elite’s campaign of immiseration, says John Lee Shaw in Spiked.
- “Heat pumps won’t work in old homes, warns Bosch” – Much of Britain’s Victorian housing stock is unsuitable for installing them, says Bosch, according to the Telegraph.
- “Willow Project: U.S. Government approves Alaska oil and gas development” – President Biden approves an $8bn oil drilling project, in a move that has angered climate activists, the BBC reports.
- “Isabel Vaughan-Spruce: the ‘crime’ of silent prayer ” – Jack Watson in the New Conservative says it is frightening to think that we can be accused, essentially, of thinking.
- “JK Rowling: A ton of Harry Potter fans are grateful for my transgender stand” – The author said a lot of readers had stuck by her despite her receiving a barrage of online abuse for stating biological sex is real, the Telegraph reports.
- “Donald Trump looks set to shock the world again” – The DeSantis takeover just hasn’t materialised, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph – Trump still leads, and he’s got a “powerful message for discontented Americans”.
- “Jacob Mchangama on Free Speech” – Ideas Beyond Borders interviews the lawyer turned intellectual on the triumphs and troubles of free speech in the Middle East.
- “BBC Sport staff hit out at ‘multi-millionaire presenters drawing picket lines’” – A lot of anger has been directed at Gary Lineker from within the corporation, sources tell the Telegraph.
- “US should stay out of Ukraine’s ‘territorial dispute’ with Russia, says Ron DeSantis” – The Republican politician echoes Trump in claiming it is not in Washington’s “vital interest” to focus on conflict and they should worry about China instead, the Telegraph reports.
- “Republicans blame Silicon Valley Bank collapse on its ‘woke’ agenda” – Leaders including Ron DeSantis claimed the bank became distracted by diversity and inclusion issues at the expense of sound financial management, the Telegraph reports.
- “Joe Biden’s racial totalitarianism” – Last month, the President quietly announced a new presidential executive order which aims to overhaul the U.S. Government so that all policies and practices align with the woke principles of ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’, writes Sean Collins in Spiked.
- “This was a woke putsch against the BBC” – The Lineker rebellion was an elite power-grab, not a fight for free speech, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Fiona Bruce: monstered for being impartial” – The presenter has been forced to step down from a charity role because she dared to uphold BBC standards, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “They’ve been coddled, they’ve been poorly parented, they haven’t been taught how to deal with resilience” – Watch Toby on GB News react to a U.S. study which found a link between Left-wing values and heightened anxiety.
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Good article, although I still think the author finds it hard to cut himself loose from the past. The fact he always felt good to be part of the ‘centre left’ is also strange. What good has any left wing Government done anywhere?
Glad he made it to Texas and found sanity. Hopefully he will never vote Dumb again.
Finally did the author mix up log and splinter in 3rd para?
It is a start. You (we) can’t expect everything in one step. Nobody can cast off long-held views overnight.
Peter Hitchens would agree!
Come on you smug Rightists.. Whilst it is true that relatively less on the Right have fallen for the Virtuous Covid Hoax than the naive Leftists, that still doesn’t include most of the Conservative Party!
This is far more than shallow point scoring between Left and Right, this is about seeing through a scam/hoax, as promoted by the Establishment. Some of us can see it, but sadly most not.
Like the author, I would have regarded myself as Centrist or possibly slightly Leftist in terms of economy, but we can likewise see horse faeces for what it is!
Orwell observed that the real divide is not between Left and Right, but between authoritarians and libertarians.
Yes but most of today’s conservative party are not right of centre. It was Tories that gave us Net Zero after all in 2019. It is Tories who speak of things like “Social Justice”. It is Tories that have allowed people to roam about with knives and gangs of people with rucksacks to walk into stores and fill up. It is Tories who have allowed 750,000 people to enter the country with 100,000 of them just arriving uninvited. All these people will have to live somewhere and presumably that will be in a house, but where are all these houses? So no we don’t have a conservative party now, we have Labour and we have Labour Lite.
Which just shows the absurdity of the whole left-right paradigm when not discussing France circa 1790.
The laughably misnamed ‘Conservative’ Party is dominated by Blue Blairites (if you don;t believe me, look at the tax rates & observe what happened to Truss when she dared suggest a meaningful change of approach). People will be shocked when the soon-to-be-in-power Red Blairites just dial all the idiocy of the last 14 years up to 11, resulting in more of the same but faster.
I found solace with Left Lockdown Sceptics that now call themselves Real Left.
https://real-left.com/
Off topic but the DS boffins have fixed notifications
I’ve encouraged them to give those features a plug as I feel they enhance the experience, but if they don’t I’ll post about it tomorrow
Good article by Dr Bell. I hadn’t been a “lefty” since my youth but I realised my London “liberal” tribe abandoned me over Trump and Brexit so by the time “Covid” came I was not surprised.
Both David & Bell arose from The America™ and their total cluelessness of European history of the first half of the 20th century is only shadowed by their apparently indomitable desire to keep making stupid remarks about it both David & Bell from The America™ certainly believe to be profound.
As I’m not in the mute of trying to explain this history to boneheads again, what about a question instead: Is the reason that you always write fascism when you mean totalitarianism that the idea that Stalin really wasn’t a nice guy offends your communist sympathies?
David, you should ask these “superior” specimens whether they believe that epidemics grow exponentially. If they say yes you can tell them that are bad at both “Math” and basic literature reviews.
It certainly has been very interesting – if not very pleasant – seeing ill-liberalism take centre stage in the attitudes of quite intelligent friends and acquaintances. It suddenly became a real clear dividing line, though no doubt it was always there under the surface, in less ‘clarifying’ times.
Excellent article.
Comparing far-left and far-right (the actual far-right, not someone who thinks Bearded Bill perhaps shouldn’t be donning a frock, slapping on the makeup, and reading stories to schoolchildren) is like comparing a red apple to a green apple – peel away the skin and what you’ll find beneath is always an apple. Communism is bold, brash totalitarianism, fascism is quiet, shy totalitarianism. The green and red skins of your totalitarian apple. The reason why so many more on the left succumbed is, quite simply, because so many more on the left – particularly the modern left, which is now the party of the middle-class ‘educated’ – consider themselves superior. And if you ‘know’ you’re superior then you have a duty to control the inferior – for their own good of course. Superior opinion isn’t opinion, it’s fact. Fact, because all superior people hold the same opinion, and all superior people can’t be wrong. And, because it’s fact, any inferior people holding a contradictory opinion must be forced in line. Because, fact.
The last few years has laid bare how many people enjoy the idea of total authority; either enforcing it or being subjected to it. The biggest social experiment in history and the results are not only bloody depressing, but a clear window into what comes next. We, on this site, are in a minority. Buckle down the hatches.
Thank you for this article.
Overnight, the British Establishment turned into Tyrants and the vast majority of the population demonstrated that they are gullible idiots who have no common-sense, ability or willingness to think or take responsibility for themselves.
It was the most depressing revelation of my life.
Yes, but I believe even Texas is covering the place in thousands of turbines. I suppose no one is perfect.