- “Covid origins debate intensifies as China releases new Wuhan market analysis” – In a preprint published on Wednesday, researchers from the Chinese CDC said there was “convincing evidence” that SARS-CoV-2 was spreading widely at Wuhan’s Huanan seafood market in January 2020, but it’s not clear how it got there as no virus was found in the 457 animal swabs taken from 18 species, the Telegraph reports.
- “WHO updates COVID-19 vaccination guidance” – The WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation (SAGE – not to be confused with the U.K. advisory committee) has “revised the roadmap for prioritising the use of COVID-19 vaccines”. Now, low-risk over-18s are recommended to need just three doses…
- “The Irony of Twitter” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson note the irony that Oxford’s Bodleian Library has now archived Carl’s Twitter output because of its “lasting research value”.
- “DNA contamination in eight vials of Pfizer monovalent mRNA vaccines” – The latest findings in the vaccine DNA contamination scandal from Dr. Kevin McKernan.
- “‘Woke’ barristers could be struck off after saying they will not prosecute ‘peaceful’ climate change protesters” – A group of barristers could face disciplinary proceedings – including being struck off – after declaring that they will not prosecute “peaceful” climate protesters, the Mail reports.
- “The EU’s Net Zero plan is in tatters – and not a moment too soon” – The bloc is backtracking on its plan to ban combustion engines and Britain should follow suit, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Net Zero is a Trojan horse for the total destruction of Western society” – Prepare for a people’s revolution against policies that will abolish choice and impoverish millions, declares Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “‘Out of control’ AI is a threat to civilisation, warns Elon Musk” – The Tesla chief and thousands of other academics and tech industry figures have signed an open letter warning that “out of control” development of artificial intelligence could “pose profound risks to society and humanity”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Elon Musk is right to take on the blue-tick elites” – Twitter’s old verification system favoured elite consensus opinion over free expression, argues Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Guy Pearce posts extraordinary letter apologising for his now-deleted tweet about transgender roles – as hundreds of his fans insist the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert star shouldn’t say sorry” – Australian actor Guy Pearce has issued a lengthy apology after sparking a social media firestorm with a now-deleted tweet about transgender acting roles, reports the Mail.
- “Controversial group behind ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ raised money for firearms training – as other trans protestors pose with guns ahead of march in DC on Saturday” – Despite three nine-year-olds being gunned down by a transgender shooter at a private Christian school in Nashville, activists are still rallying the troops to protest for a ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’, months after raising money for firearms training, the Mail reports.
- “Is the cult of victimhood turning violent?” – The more we incite people to view themselves as victims, and to view others as their tyrannical erasers, the more we will foster division, intolerance, instability and possibly worse, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Hate crime experts to rule whether English countryside harbours ‘rural racism’” – The English countryside will be studied by hate crime experts to establish whether it harbours “rural racism”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Twitter ‘hate speech’ has not increased under Musk” – Contrary to media reports, the evidence isn’t there, says Noah Carl in UnHerd.
- “The violent rhetoric of trans activists has to stop” – The shooting in Nashville is a wake up call, writes Eliza Mondegreen in UnHerd.
- “Humza Yousaf’s identitarian privilege” – Would Kate Forbes have been celebrated for praying in Bute House, asks Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
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“Hate crime experts to rule whether English countryside harbours ‘rural racism’”
What the F is a Hate-Crime Expert? A bit like a disinformation expert?
Exactly what do they have expertise in?
Let’s just call them “Witch-Finder General” instead and cut the BS.
These people should have their degrees cancelled.
If indeed they have degrees. I think it’s an exercise designed to test the ‘temperature’ and see what the reaction would be among the rural population in terms of having migrants foisted upon them because this migration thing is clearly not going to stop and they’ve got to put them somewhere. I can see how these civil servants think. However, the very idea that these hate crime bozos can ‘rule’ as if it’s a judgement is ridiculous. How are they arriving at their conclusions? Did they sit around in pubs, go to Church fêtes or lounge about at village cricket matches? Whatever they are, these conclusions are going to be BS. They will then announce that the rural population is predominantly racist and in their sly ways attempt to nudge us (make us feel guilty etc) into greater acceptance of migrants among us thereby diluting the rural population and un so doing destroying our country. That might sound a bit ‘out there’ but I can see them doing it. All councils now have behavioural units or they’re developing them, did you know that? I wonder why?
“diluting the rural population and in so doing destroying our country.”
Aethelred, I have been making this point for months although it is not just the rural population.
I know but it’s the rural areas that they have got their sights fixed on next as most urban areas have more of a mixed population. The rural population is mostly white Anglo-Saxon.
Ok. Fair point.
Spot on!
(“Hate crime experts to rule whether English countryside harbours ‘rural racism’”)
Racism, its in the trees and the bushes!
For fs sake it gets dafter!
On a par with those scientist who throw toast in the air to see if it lands butter side up..or down….!?
I’m pretty sure that anyone can cast themselves as an expert…I remember years ago someone starting up as a ‘smoking cessation officer’ for the NHS..
her only expertise was that she was once a smoker…but she got in at the beginning, and hit the ground running, and eventually started ‘training’ other ‘experts’…..!!
Good news for a change: https://www.gbnews.com/health/covid-app-to-close-down-in-weeks-as-britons-ditch-track-and-trace-system Of course, some will have made a profit from that (I never used it – didn’t have a phone that could).
I don’t know why I’m commenting on this but it just got my goat (I’m running out of goats!) ….Yet another grovelling apology courtesy of the Twitter hate mob and all those misunderstood trans people whose only occupation it seems is to trawl the Twitter prairie looking for anything that could be construed as a slight or an offence. In this case, Guy Pearce raises his actorly head above the parapet and deigns to make an observation – oh how the Twitterrati are foist with their own petard! But it’s just an actorly comment. No biggie and actually it’s in their favour if they bothered to scrutinise it.
Mr Pearce – never apologise to this lot. Ever. Yes, you will never work in Hollywood ever again (a bonus) but come on, three mentions of apology in one letter? You’ve just lost your soul and a whole lotta respect. You’ve got to have some round things in that world (ps. I have to say ’round things’ because I was recently deleted for being more descriptive!).
Who is Guy Pearce?
An Australian actor I believe, HP.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/hunts-fantasy-energy-plan-paid-for-by-money-he-doesnt-have/
A proper fisking of Chunt and the traitorous tories and their push to send this country into the abyss.
http://chinaxiv.org/abs/202303.10351
I CGAF.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11916727/Woke-barristers-struck-saying-not-prosecute-climate-change-protesters.html
When this story first appeared days ago, I commented that those lawyers signing the declaration refusing to act against XR were in fact signing a Declaration of Incompetence and they were therfore no longer fit to practice and should be sacked.
I rest my case.
You’re a man ahead of his time, HP!
Thanks Aethelred.
“Net Zero is a Trojan horse for the total destruction of Western society” Well, yes, hello! At last a mainstream article that sees through the lies and spin right into the dark heart of the Net Zero agenda and its chilling reali…..er…except, actually no, it isn’t. Not one bit of it. It actually carries on with the insanity but a watered down insanity so it’s palatable to the odd lazy Telegraph reader. The writer – Allister Heath – says there are only two types of environmentalism. The first is a simplified version that includes EVs, cultured meat and bioengineering as reasonable things. WtF? I had to stop there because the title of his article leads you to believe that he is onside but he isn’t. Introducing those subjects without any real understanding of things we don’t want or need is just more of the same behavioural nudging. EV good, diesel bad. Cultured meat good, animal farming bad etc etc. To be honest, Allister Heath shows absolutely Net Zero understanding of Net Zero. He continues to trumpet about the move towards zero-emissions albeit in a softly-softly way because this is the eventual goal. Why is he so surprised at the pro-car movement? These are our vehicles, it’s how we get around. No wonder we’re upset about it. No, I find articles like this are just nudging us to accept certain things: that net zero will happen; that EV cars are the answer; that we have to reduce meat consumption (and I’m a veggie, not a vegan, a veggie and eat fish and eggs etc) and eat cultured meat (no way) and so on. A shame really but what can one expect from the msm.
At least Italy seem to be kicking the lab-grown meat into touch..let’s hope many more follow…?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65110744
Italy’s right-wing government has backed a bill that would ban laboratory-produced meat and other synthetic foods, highlighting Italian food heritage and health protection.
If the proposals go through, breaking the ban would attract fines of up to €60,000 (£53,000).
Francesco Lollobrigida, who runs the rebranded ministry for agriculture and food sovereignty, spoke of the importance of Italy’s food tradition.
The farmers’ lobby praised the move.
The proposed bill came hard on the heels of a series of government decrees banning the use of flour derived from insects such as crickets and locusts in pizza or pasta.
(Although being the BBC, they have to mention ‘right-wing’, suggesting somehow that this is a bad thing!!)
So you read the Telegraph piece – taking one for the team there Aethelred. Tip o’ the hat.
Yes, on a whim, HP, decided to actually read it and see what it said and was unpleasantly surprised!
Obviously TPTB really want to find the truth…. NOT!
https://dailyclout.io/italian-doctor-suspended-for-suggesting-autopsies-of-sudden-deaths/
What we need, to combat this clearly bigoted, racist countryside of ours, is a task force appointed by MI5 to round up and send to concentration camps all the incomprehensible, racist, inbred hunchbacks who prod ethnic minorities with pitchforks and tell them to clear off their land. While we’re at it, would we all be happier if we spray-painted the sheep black? And how about bulldozing the churches, or clear-felling any stand of trees that are native to white Western European nations?
Such a racist experience it is, going rambling!
https://www.technocracy.news/going-cashless-eu-is-pushing-to-criminalize-use-of-physical-cash/
The EU ramping up the attack on cash.