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by Ian Macleod
13 May 2023 1:20 AM

  • “Lockdown sparked surge in unruly pupils falsely accusing teachers” – Teaching unions warn of trend whereby children who have been disciplined submit complaints about staff in revenge, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Anthony Fauci sabotaged school reopening in 2020 – let’s read his own words” – Dr. Vinay Prasad goes to the internet archives to rebut Fauci’s recent claims.
  • “Why elite libertarians failed so miserably on Covid” – In the Epoch Times, Jeffrey A. Tucker delves into the reasons his “own tribe: the libertarians” failed to put up a better fight against the illiberal global Covid response.
  • “Covid: the destruction of medical ethics and trust in the medical profession” – In TCW, Dr. Ahmad K. Malik, a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, presents the first part of his discussion of the damage done by the Government’s irrational Covid policies.
  • “Andrew Bridgen MP has incurred the wrath of the establishment by refusing to bow to the ‘vaccine saviour’ narrative” – Members of HART side with Andrew Bridgen in his scrap over Covid vaccines with Deputy Editor of Spiked Fraser Myers.
  • “Net Zero costs unmanageable for most homeowners, Citizens Advice warns” – The charity has estimated that the average cost of measures such as loft insulation and heat pumps will be just under £15,000 per household, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Labour MP calls for 10mph speed limit” – Rachael Maskell’s suggestion for residential areas dismissed by Conservatives as “bonkers”, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Macron urges pause in EU environment regulations in push to ‘reindustrialise’ France” – French President Emmanuel Macron urged the EU to pause imposing environmental regulations, saying Europe had already done far more than other industrial powers, according to France 24.
  • “China’s carbon emissions soar as Biden unveils crackdown on American power plants” – China witnessed a 4% increase in carbon dioxide emissions in the first three months of 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, reports the Daily Wire.
  • “Madam, get off the road – you’re going to get knocked down!” – Angry Met police officers force Just Stop Oil protesters onto the pavement as they stop eco group’s latest London ‘slow march’, reports MailOnline.
  • “SNP MP Joanna Cherry wins ‘unreserved’ apology from comedy club over cancelled show” – The Stand venue in Edinburgh will host the MP’s Fringe show as originally planned after it U-turned on its decision to cancel, reports the Daily Record.
  • “Could Kathleen Stock bring down the Oxford Union?” – Intolerant students are willing to destroy a 200 year-old debating society, just to stop her from speaking, says Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
  • “Toeing the party line – MPs’ answers to the ten big questions” – In TCW, Niall McCrae presents the responses from MPs – including Rishi Sunak – to questions he posed on ten major topics including Covid, climate change and transgenderism.
  • “So what if the royals are ‘terribly white’?” – Adjoa Andoh’s Coronation comments revealed the ugliness of racial thinking, says Patrick West in Spiked.
  • “Alan Sugar: Antisemitism hurts. But it’s ignorance, really” – As a Jew, although not a religious one, Lord Sugar was unimpressed by the MP Diane Abbott’s recent letter to the Observer that ranked antisemitism among the lesser racisms, writes Andrew Billen in the Times.
  • “Fat people will be protected from discrimination under law passed in New York” – Critics warn the move opens door to “sue anyone and everything”, reports MailOnline.
  • “‘Scouse and gay’ pub quiz master loses discrimination claim” – A pub worker claimed that he was the victim of discrimination after being forced to refer to himself as “Scouse and gay” while presenting a weekly quiz, according to the Times.
  • “The other Bud Light boycott” – The Dylan Mulvaney debacle shows why you should never try to appease the trans lobby, says Gareth Roberts in Spiked.
  • “Transgender rower in Cambridge University squad at Boat Race” – Sarah Gibson was “accepted at face value” and rowed for the Cambridge women’s reserve crew in the 2015 race hailed as victory for equality, reports the Telegraph.
  • “I was shamed for speaking out about trans – this is why people stay silent” – Professional cycling team Cynisca parted ways with Inga Thompson after she called for riders to protest at trans women competing in elite female events, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Popular clothing brand CEO expresses support for expanding ‘gender-neutral line’” – Levi Strauss CEO Chip Bergh doubled down on the clothing company’s efforts to slowly expand a gender-neutral collection when pressed about controversy recently garnered by Bud Light, reports the Daily Wire.
  • “Sparks fly as Alastair Campbell and Alex Phillips clash on the future of Brexit” – Campbell later apologised to host Victoria Derbyshire for his behaviour during Newsnight.

WATCH: Sparks fly as Alastair Campbell and Alex Phillips clash on the future of Brexit#Newsnight | https://t.co/P0zxS1DNGF pic.twitter.com/jD76cVIGco

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) May 11, 2023

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
  • “Andrew Bridgen MP has incurred the wrath of the establishment by refusing to bow to the ‘vaccine saviour’ narrative” – Members of HART side with Andrew Bridgen in his scrap over Covid vaccines with Deputy Editor of Spiked Fraser Myers.

“If Andrew Bridgen was my MP he would be guaranteed my vote. He would also be guaranteed some financial assistance, free labour as needed and a knocker of doors. No question I would stand with this man.”

I have just learnt that Andrew Bridgen has joined Reclaim. As I have said previously, those who still believe in democracy would be well advised to support the decent new parties (Heritage, Reclaim etc. ) or a decent independent candidate, in whatever way seems best to them. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that any attempt by Mr. Bridgen to win an election as a Reclaim party member is likely to end up like South Thannet on steroids (a reference to the Conservative pary breaking the rules to stop Sir Nigel Farage getting elected in 2015. If in fact credible evidence turns up after the next election that the old corrupt parties and their collaborators have done a job on him, to me at least that would further discredit them. Still, he is obviously well worth supporting as a matter of principle.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Better than reform, there’s something about Tice that worries me, not sure what it is, he just doesn’t gell!

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
  • “Anthony Fauci sabotaged school reopening in 2020 – let’s read his own words” – Dr. Vinay Prasad goes to the internet archives to rebut Fauci’s recent claims.

The crook Fauci.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

That crooked killer Fauci

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago

Myers’ article [attacking Andrew Bridgen] is rife with misrepresentations and errors of fact, as demonstrated by its ruthless deconstruction by Will Jones in the Daily Sceptic. We would go further, and say Myers’ piece is a shoddy piece of work that is light on detail and heavy on innuendo, uses ill-defined terms and generalisations, gets various facts out of kilter and eschews making any meaningfully accurate criticisms.

It was certainly very odd to see the likes of Baroness Fox and Frank Furedi (both long-time associates of Spiked) attempt to rally round Myers: the former by framing the matter as a free speech issue, the latter – in a case of doublethink that boggles the mind – claiming that Myers “writes a lot of sense”. 
(HART)

If these “covid ‘vaccines’ ” are really being used to reduce fertility, then it is certainly no surprise if Frank Furedi, husband of the dreadful Ann Furedi who apparently supports “post birth abortion” (infanticide), is supporting Myers after his attack on Andrew Bridgen. Whilst of course husbands don’t always share the views of their wives, given the murky links between abortion, eugenics and population control it would seem that Frank at least agrees with Ann on this matter (and similar to Bill Gates’ parents by the way). And perhaps not that surprising if former communist Baroness Fox supports Myers’ attack too.

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Monro
Monro
2 years ago

I certainly agree with Mr Campbell’s sentiments regarding the BBC and so many of its presenters, particularly Newsnight, and most particularly regarding their preference for interviewing (and representing) people whose views are very similar to his own.

But maybe he should take a little peek in the mirror once in a while?

Who knows, perhaps he did, so well done anyway for the apology.

Intemperate language invariably indicates the wrong end of the argument.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

A good article about wokeness, featuring the recent Starbucks incident with a trans person kicking off in the UK as an example, and the rot that’s set in amongst our societies. How will this craziness end, if it ever does?

”In conversation with Josh Guetzkow, Danny and others in my local research group, Josh proposed the following rules as defining the attitudes of acolytes of the culture of entitlement created by wokeness:

  1. You must be careful what you say around me so you don’t offend me;
  2. You have to give me a trigger warning in case something you are about to say might cause me stress;
  3. You must provide me with a safe space to be with other people who are like me;
  4. You have to ask me what my pronouns are and use those pronouns when referring to me in conversation, even with other people;
  5. You have to tell me what your pronouns are so you create an inclusive environment (which feeds back all the way back to rule 1);

… and just generally be adherent to most of the things that have contributed to the snowflake generation.

The sad thing is that while we are all busy either kowtowing to members of the culture of entitlement like our trans Starbucks employee, or generally being offended at each other and feeling ‘liberated’ while demanding restitution, no one thinks about much else. Woke culture, including the current trans thing being rammed down our throats with sexualized books and secret trans grooming in primary and high schools and disturbing perverts running drag queen story hours, operate to divide and conquer; keeping people unsettled and actively engaged in fighting each other. It also means that they always have a fresh and ready group of victims to blame…”

https://lawhealthandtech.substack.com/p/what-do-unconscious-bias-and-diversity

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

As I said in yesterday’s article, ”How can an 8yr old kid believe they’re in the wrong body?” This is where it starts;

https://twitter.com/DrLoupis/status/1657277412722331648

”Hollywood actress Charlize Theron has threatened to “f*ck up” conservatives who are opposed to drag queens performing in front of children.
She made the threat during a “Drag Isn’t Dangerous” telethon.
“We love you, queens,” Theron said.
“We’re in your corner, and we’ve got you, and I will f*ck anybody up who is, like, trying to f*ck with anything with you guys.
“In all seriousness, there are so many things that are hurting and really, killing our kids right, and we all know what I’m talking about right now.
“The danger to kids ain’t no drag queen, because if you’ve ever seen a drag queen lip sync for her live, it only makes you happier.
“It only makes you love more.
“It makes you a better person,” Theron claims.”
Can somebody report to child protection services please!! 😮

https://slaynews.com/news/hollywood-star-charlize-theron-threatens-to-fck-up-conservatives-over-drag-queens/

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago

Nice to see Alastair Campbell, he of the weapons of mass destruction documents, sharing his objectivity and rationality with us thickos.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

To me, he’s in the same camp as Richard tice, the “not quite right” camp!

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

Interesting article from Prof Fenton’s team on how they made the flu ‘disappear’, which it obviously did not.

”Prior to 2020 some patients would have been picked up by sentinel testing in outpatient settings or at GPs and would have been reported as a flu case if they tested positive simply because they would have been tested in time. But post spring 2020 until winter 2021 the chance of such a positive result from the medical system would have been vanishingly small even if testing was performed, which was extremely rare.
Also bear in mind the sheer hysteria around Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021 would have affected clinical decision making. Key variables would also have heavily influenced decision making, including unfounded assertions from governments and the mainstream media like:

  • Symptoms previously associated with the flu were now firmly associated with SARS-CoV-2.
  • Asymptomatic people were told to assume they had the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
  • SARS-CoV-2 was recognised as more infectious and deadlier than the flu.

In conclusion the delays built into the quarantine system may have created a substantially depressed likelihood of detecting and diagnosing flu, if someone was lucky enough to get a flu test. Similarly, there would have been a hugely increased chance of a positive being overridden by a covid false positive or being dismissed as a false positive anyway, given there an epidemic of SARS-CoV-2 had been declared and flu was said to have disappeared.”

https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/sensors-set-to-off

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Robert Liddell
Robert Liddell
2 years ago

Something no one is mentioning is that Bud Light is a p*ss poor beer.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 years ago
Reply to  Robert Liddell

Weak fizzy pissarro!

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Robert Liddell

I took that as a given. I have always assumed its sales were predominantly in the USA. Having said that I am a Camra member so shyte like Bud Light would hardly cross my radar.

Nobody on DS drinks it, do they?

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

No we dont! US beer is like the world series! Only Americans dig it

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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Same here. No-one mentions it – it’s a reasonable assumption that it’s not worth buying.

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
2 years ago
Reply to  Robert Liddell

Gnat’s piss as my old man would have said.

Mind, Bud is anyway

Budweiser Budwar on the other hand, a fine brew

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 years ago

“Macron urges pause in EU environment regulations in push to ‘reindustrialise’ France”

Way too late sunshine! We’ve seen what’s under your mask!

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/12/watch-a-better-way-solutionswatch/

The Corbett Report interviews Dr Tess Lawrie ahead of the upcoming Better Way conference coming shortly.

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Stuart
Stuart
2 years ago

Oxford Magazine in 1770 made fun of macaroni style: “There is indeed a kind of animal, neither male nor female, a thing of the neuter gender, lately started up among us. It is called a macaroni. It talks without meaning, it smiles without pleasantry, it eats without appetite, it rides without exercise, it wenches without passion.”

Plus ca change…

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 years ago

“Labour MP calls for 10mph speed limit”

Cuckoo ⏰️ !!!

Please 🙏 don’t vote! your vote is a vote for the uniparty!

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Chris P
Chris P
2 years ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Next they’ll be bringing back the man walking in front of cars carrying a red flag. ‘We’ll keep the red flag flying here’!

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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago

https://email.ietinfo.org/c/18J5VyR7tQFZd0xisT9Nr4mxxg3 The Liquified Natural Gas dilemma – fuelling global imbalance. Look at the graphs and see where it comes from.

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