- “Is this Adidas’s ‘Bud Light moment’? Row over ‘man modelling a woman’s swimsuit’ continues as fans vow to ‘boycott woke companies out of existence’ amid calls to burn Gazelles in protest” – The sportswear brand has provoked fury for its ‘mockery’ of women over an advert in which a transwoman models a women’s swimsuit as part of its campaign to “uphold inclusive values”, reports MailOnline.
- “Migration nation: Brexit has meant more immigration than ever” – Mass immigration is back on a scale that would have been unimaginable not so long ago. And rather than treating it as a problem, Sunak’s Government seems to regard it as a solution to Britain’s missing workers. Fraser Nelson has the full story in the Spectator.
- “Childline website ‘hijacked by trans lobby’ over advice to teenagers” – Charity’s online chatroom includes references to controversial treatments such as hormone blockers and breast binding, reports the Telegraph.
- “The ESG trap” – Environmental, social and governance investment strategies often amount to little more than ‘greenwashing’, writes Sinclair Davidson in Spectator Australia, and some big funds are being found out.
- “The weaponisation of antisemitism against conservatives” – A conference organised by a Jewish intellectual on how to revive the conservative movement has been smeared been smeared by hysterical Left-wing journalists as ‘antisemitic’. Melanie Phillips, writing in the Jewish News Syndicate, is unimpressed.
- “The trans butcher and the disaster of the SNP’s self-ID” – It looks like a textbook case of what Nicola Sturgeon insisted would never happen, writes Iain Macwhirter for the Spectator. A transgender butcher kidnapped a primary school-age girl and sexually assaulted her.
- “Rishi Sunak’s Confucius Institute muddle” – Rishi Sunak’s promise to close down the Confucius Institutes in U.K. universities when he pitched for the Tory leadership made him sound like a no-nonsense China hawk and played well in the Tory heartlands. Sadly, it was also ill thought out, says Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “Non-Binary Former Biden Admin Official Arrested as ‘Fugitive from Justice’” – Samuel Brinton, a former Biden official who identifies as ‘non-binary’, was charged last year with stealing a woman’s luggage from Harry Reid International Airport and then became a fugitive from justice. The National Review has the story.
- “Social-Justice Couples Therapy” – Ron DeSantis, Elon Musk, and others have used the term ‘woke mind virus’ to cast radical Left ideology as a communicable brain-eating malady. Commentary’s Abe Greenwald used to think this was hyperbole, but now he’s not so sure.
- “We’ve reached peak woke. Its virtue-signalling champions are being humiliated” – The excesses of radical students, ‘victim’ celebrities, and Left-wing companies have become laughable, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “‘I’ve left cycling – losing to a trans rider hurts on a million different levels’” – Despite giving up the sport she loves, cyclist Hannah Arensman refuses to be cowed by the abuse women face for speaking out about the unfairness of having to compete against biological males, writes Oliver Brown in the Telegraph.
- “John Cleese urged to scrap Life of Brian joke about man having a baby” – The Monty Python star was warned by actors during a read through of his forthcoming stage adaptation of the Life of Brian that the Loretta skit will offend today’s audiences, reports Craig Simpson in the Telegraph.
- “Ross Clark joins Mark Dolan to discuss whether the case for Net Zero in Britain is crumbling” – Ross Clark, the author of this piece in the Spectator, talks to GB News’s Mark Dolan about France’s disillusionment with the Net Zero policy. Will Britain follow suit?
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Good morning Britain!
I’ll just say:
Can I say HELLO! I’m in the library…
(Apologies to Trigger Happy TV trigger happy tv i’m in the library at DuckDuckGo )
Don’t you all usually do this good morning routine in Todays Update comments, rather than here in News Roundup?
The Update is strangely quiet.
I’ll be Anne Diamond, you can be Mike Morris.
Never heard of them. I like Neil Diamond though.
Ah, this is like the old days…
Anne Diamond in 1987.
Ezra Levant
@ezralevant
At the request of Trudeau, @GoFundMe
has just stolen $9,000,000 from the truckers. Rather than automatically refunding it to the donors, they say they’re going to give it to groups of their own choosing. What a windfall for Black Lives Matter, Greenpeace and Planned Parenthood!
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1489744172202569731
Not sure he’s necessarily correct about the recipients – the release he attaches from GoFundMe says: “we will work with organisers to send all remaining funds to credible and established charities verified by GoFundMe“, which might mean approved recipients amongst the protesters, and refunds are available.
Nevertheless this is a gross betrayal of the donors and caving in to the regime’s lies about the protesters.
Find alternatives to GoFundMe.
It’s alright, nine million dollars stolen is a statistic as well…
They’ve moved to Give Send Go which is a Christian fundraising site that doesn’t pull those kinds of shenanigans:
https://www.givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022
Apparently so many people are trying to donate they’re crashing the servers, so be patient.
There’s also this campaign which has less attention but is legit:
https://givesendgo.com/Warroomcanadanet
If you’re in Canada you can send an e-transfer directly to tbofconvoy2022@protonmail.com.
I realise with so many crazy faciomarxist stories from around the world to cover, our editors have to pick and choose.
In my opinion, the disruption of mass in Australia by the stasi, and the truckers protests in Ottawa and the developing one in America, deserve headlines in our Daily Sceptic.
Especially as the lying media censor them.
“They’ve moved to Give Send Go which is a Christian fundraising site that doesn’t pull those kinds of shenanigans:“
When you understand just how corrupt the leftist elites in government and in big business are, and how duped the masses are by their bs, the only solution is to look for principled groups outside the leftist consensus. The only ones you can trust to at least try to resist the dictats of power.
And I’m not even a Christian.
EL omits to mention that GFM’s press statement offers a link to a refund form. Refund requests have to be submitted within the next two weeks. No reason to hesitate, is there!
Grim.
Reminds me how the major bank cards and PayPal blocked funds raised for Assange and Wikileaks in 2010, throttling that campaign, which had shown signs of gaining significant traction.
And how the same forces ganged up to try to throttle Parler because it was committed to protecting freedom of speech for conservatives.
The donors should get every penny refunded if gofundme refuses to pay the donations to the intended recipients, including any admin fees they may have charged. Damn cheek!
Edit: it should be an automatic refund, not ‘on request’.
Mixed article in the Guardian where a group of Covid ‘experts’ including Neil Ferguson and Devi Sridhar say what they got wrong. Comrade Susan Michie saying she regrets not being more of a mask fanatic from the off
Peak Plandemic
Who can describe the most peak plandemic scenario? Here’s mine:
It’s a four way video call between Captain Tom from his garden, Kate Garraway’s husband Derek Draper, Joe Wicks and Elton John. And they’re discussing global citizenship and plant based meat in a video sponsored by Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Neil Ferguson and Devi Sridhar are “covid” experts? Only in the Guardian (I hope)!
What’s the McDonald’s plant thing like then? Any better than their other rubbish?
(Full disclosure – I sometimes buy from them!).
I nearly had McDonald’s sponsoring that video call, you read my mind! Haven’t tried their plant based simulated meatburger yet. And that’s as a life long vegetarian who also goes to the dark side on occasion.
I used to be, and still maintain that many people eat rather more meat and dairy than is good for them. One of my major points has been that if excesses of consumption relating to meat, dairy, clothes, and now such things as bio-fuel were reduced, and if we had good government (rather than the nonsense of the last two years), there would be no food shortages any time soon. Instead of which millions (and maybe hundreds of millions) of extra people go hungry in the “developing world” because a bug is going round. A bug that is nothing like the black death, or even the “Spanish” ‘flu.
It’s a revolting piece of pseudo mea culpas. They leaven their righteous correctness by simperingly admitting to being a teensy-weensy bit wrong on some minor points. It’s an unedifying stew of arrogance, ignorance and impenitence.
It’s exactly what you’d expect.
I also feel sorry that these poor little lambs were also misunderstood by the festering, doltish masses.
I don’t know how many people on here remember Q magazine used to have a ‘Who The Hell…?’ article every month where a celebrity was invited for interview and the article was opposite of what they thought and was actually used to humiliate them. If you were doing similar for Covid those three would be near the top of my list for interview.
“Jews are ‘white’ “???
Not in Zimbabwe they’re not. Honestly, there’s some right ignorant idiots out there.
Some of us remember the Falashas. Ethiopian Jews, black as your hat but as Jewish in religion as anyone could wish. They were welcomed to Israel when they fled persecution from people in their own country, who were also as black as your bat.
I watched a film about that. Something to do with a fake diving resort. Reasonably entertaining.
There are tiny enclaves of Jews in several places around the world, especially India and Africa.
Sammy Davis Jr. was Jewish by conversion.
“There’s no alternative to post-‘pandemic’ pain”.
If only the BBC had been saying that 24/7 from March 2020…
They weren’t, and Fishi Rishi wasn’t, but I was.
What a pity I wasn’t Chancellor at the time. Or anybody else with a couple of functioning neurons in their brain.
I just watched the famous ‘Question Time’ on BBC. It’s remarkable that Fiona Bruce, with all the resources of the BBC at her disposal, and with a world leading immunologist sitting there who either supported her or at the very least did not correct her (embarrassingly for Imperial College yet again) trots out the same blatantly incorrect figures that 90% of the people in Intensive Care with COVID are unvaccinated.
Could these experts and media people please just read the readily available public information such as the UKHSA vaccine report, and see that there were 4,807 unvaccinated people in emergency care and 10,448 double or triple vaccinated in the 4 weeks to Jan 23rd – around 32% not 90%.
With experts and media people like that no wonder the world has disappeared down a rabbit hole over the last couple of years.
And by the way excellent performance by the former philosophy student who managed so well to stand his own against some of the nonsense spouted by the panel !
Lies,damm lies, you know the rest!!
Robert Malone is sufficiently fed up to be in the mood to sue all the idiots who question his credentials, so people would be wise to be careful.
I think it would be fantastic if he did sue them all as at the moment you have sneering hordes who think they can say whatever nonsense suits their preconceived dimwit narrative, and then patronise anyone who tries to set the record straight, and as for the Twitter zombie crowd…Lord preserve us!
Interested to see the Vitamin D research. This benefit of Vitamin D has been known from the beginning of the epidemic, of course. And yet the government did not think to issue free pills – or even advice to take them.
This seems very similar to their Invermectin strategy, where they keep doing studies showing the benefit but never get around to recommending the medicine.
It is quite obvious that a decision was made early on that vaccines were to be the thing that saved us, and all other treatments were to be suppressed to give vaccines the best chance of appearing to be a ‘wonder drug’. People were killed in order to defend the political decision to spend a fortune on a novel untested technology that ended by not working.
I do wish the Sceptic would think about the ‘standing up for women’ strand in the updates. It was Feminism which pursued the ‘gender is a social construct’ narrative for years. I don’t agree with the trans changing rooms agenda – be they male or female – but the chivalrous approach of the Sceptic, women as brainless non-innovators, with nasty men foisting horrid things on them, is not the true story. You may enjoy the Karen Straughan videos – ‘Dismantling Feminism’ on YouTube. Question everything? Well, you seem very mainstream and reactionary on this topic.
WE’VE GOT OURSELVES SOME CONVOYS!!!
An auspicious day for freedom fighters all over the country
That reads; get the vax and still obey the rules designed for the unvaxxed.
The Daily Mail leading article on energy that is included in the roundup also includes a paragraph on prescription drug addiction as a result of lockdown. The last sentence is an excellent example of the ‘reverse ferreting’ currently in play. It reads ‘This silent epidemic of health misery is another stark illustration of the devastating collateral damage of lockdown’.
Quite a change!
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/shambolic-covid-pcr-testing-rules-153206332.html
Just seen this. It talks about the widespread variations in PCR thresholds across the country. It’s an Oxford University study. They’re a bit slow on the uptake though-we’ve been saying this here almost from the beginning of mass testing.
Latest on the fun and games here in The Western Lands.
Lockdownunder Update: There’s A Whole Lotta Goin’ Goin’ On.
Read this and weep
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/leicester-mum-stopped-seeing-son-6605605
Fortunately it is now resolved but only after solicitors became involved.
Boycott Go Fund me. Truckers money being held back and may be diverted to other causes.
Why not go and pay them a visit?
https://corporateofficeheadquarters.org/gofundme/
You are becoming an embarrassment locked away in your Finnish bolthole.
All mouth and no trousers.
On the Left’s love of censorship.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/brandon-smith-leftists-use-mass-censorship-because-they-dont-have-guts-engage-fair-debate
Nice takedown of the stupid presentation that enlightened/misled Boris on climate change.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/boriss-climate-briefing-information-editing-or-wholly-misleading/
First signs of major trouble in ESGland and wokeland as Blackrock departs and gets headwinds.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/02/04/woke-capital-wont-save-the-planet-but-it-will-crash-the-economy/
“France relaxes requirements for travellers from UK”…what absolute sphericals; just check out the numbers on Worldmeters.com – for many days now, despite the French Consulate trying to suggest that the UK, by the governments own words quoted back at us originally, is facing a tidal wave of cases, the truth has been the exact opposite; “case” numbers are 2x/3x higher within France /Germany but still these corrupt EU members are using travel restrictions as a stick because of Brexit. If their logic was “true” they would be shutting their borders to all EU countries currently designated as “green” ( UK = amber, from a “special case” designation removed recently).
Has anyone wondered, if the “official” response from these countries is to “vaccinate” their entire population, why they allow travellers to present a certificate of CV recovery as an acceptable means of demonstrating CV status (rather than a CV Pass), but then still go on to request a pre departure LFT test within 48 hours out from 24 hours pre departure?
Is it just me or is that “position” as bombproof as a paper air raid shelter ? The logical extension of accepting a CV Recovery cert is that “vaccines” are …..not needed?
New mutant strain of HIV detected in the Netherlands. Is this:
(a) The cover story for covid jabs destroying people’s immune systems.
(b) Proof that sars-cov-2 is in fact a pneumonia with HIV added via GoF research.
(c) To grow the ‘most vulnerable’ pool and justify further injections to ‘protect’ them.
(d) Just another hoax to keep the population afraid of something.
(e) Freddie Mercury’s revenge.
This is typical of the media and people’s inability to pay attention for longer than 3 seconds. The more infectious strain was active between 1990 and 2010. It is very treatable and no more deadly. This is mentioned in the last 3rd of the article I read.
You sound like a (d) man.
prob a combination of all of a-d above.
The continuation of online lectures will be good for University finances, and as usual bad for the low income worker.
No students using lecture rooms, toilets, etc, will mean less cleaning staff required. No electricity or heating costs. Less stuff gets broken.
But also vending machines are used less and other loss of income on campus based shops. I guess if Costa has a franchise there, they still have to pay their rent, so less minimum wage or student jobs.
Just like sandwich/coffee/all kind of service shops in central London who do not benefit from office workers anymore.
When Jaeger closed down, my friend was surprised that a chain like that did not survive, and I said, one does not need a Jaeger suit to work from home.
Regarding the entire shambolic and totally contrived narrative over “green” energy and the supposed need for “net zero”, the following highly informative information comes from the customer web site of a leading UK energy supplier – Scottish Power. This is their explanation of the reasons for the situation now facing UK households.
Given gas can be used to generate electricity, the wholesale cost of electricity has also increased significantly.
Although this rise in wholesale costs is not UK specific, this country is especially vulnerable because it’s one of the biggest users of natural gas in Europe. That’s because most homes here rely on gas central heating. The UK also has less storage capacity than some other European countries.
So to summarise, there are three key reasons for the impending massive increase in UK domestic energy prices:
1) We are experiencing colder temperatures – so much for “Global Warming”
2) So called “renewable” energy sources
areunreliable,don’t F***ing work!3) The largest CO2 producer in the word is burning even more fossil fuel there by cancelling out any “carbon reduction” made by the UK, thus rendering the entire “green agenda” total bollox, even if you believed in it (which I do not).
These underlying factors are made even worse but the UK’s total failure to provide proper energy storage and supply infrastructure. Perhaps some of the billions given away to fake lockdown loan applicants or squandered on pointless, useless, Chinese PPE might have been better spent on our energy infrastructure.
Mr and Mrs NutNut of No 10 are utter morons for continuing to push their totally pointless and highly destructive green agenda. Unless, of course, there is a different underlying objective – like further controlling people’s lives and livelihoods. Perish the thought!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10476167/UK-set-bin-3-5million-Pfizer-vaccine-doses-despite-shelf-life-extended.html
The bin is the best place for the rubbish.
Police Bodyguard Of Trudeau Resigns Due To Utter Tyranny
https://www.bitchute.com/video/VslCOTL8j39g/