- “Did Eat Out to Help Out rekindle Covid? A look at the data” – The Spectator’s Fraser Nelson responds to the claim made in the Observer that the Eat Out to Help scheme drove up Covid infections by between 8% and 17%.
- “The Blitz regalvanised Britain’s will. The lockdowns just infantilised us” – “The measures taken during the pandemic were much more psychologically damaging and intrusive than the wartime restrictions,” says Janet Daley in the Sunday Telegraph.
- “The war on disinformation is really a war on dissent” – “The British state’s monitoring of lockdown sceptics is a democratic outrage,” writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Boris Johnson may lose legal funding if he ‘undermines’ Government’s Covid position” – The Cabinet Office says former PM will lose legal aid if he “knowingly frustrates” No 10’s position on “the inquiry”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Trump the Covid Cuomosexual” – The New York Post takes Donald Trump to task over his praise for Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the Covid crisis.
- “Face masks to return at Tour de France to limit COVID-19 cases in the peloton” – According to Cycling News, new COVID-19 protocol requires riders, team staff and officials taking part in the Tour de France to wear face masks at sign-on and in the team paddock. Riders will also be banned from signing autographs.
- “Vaccinated veterans more likely to die from Covid, VA study proves” – Igor Chudov highlights an “unexpected finding” in study that was recently published by the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
- “Judge in Missouri v Biden ain’t buying what the Government’s shovelling” – Hot Air’s Beege Welborn with the latest on the Missouri vs Biden case, the lawsuit which sprang from “the underhanded censorship dealings the Biden administration began with the social media companies”.
- “Six ancient zombie viruses unleashed on the world from climate change” – The Mail reports that an international team of researchers has warned that the risk of ancient viral particles remaining infectious has been underestimated, and is “bound to increase” due to global warming.
- “Time’s up for Drax’s tree-burning racket” – “Net-zero is falling foul of EU voters,” writes Dominic Lawson in the Sunday Times. “But still this crazy scheme continues.”
- “Solar panels – an eco-disaster waiting to happen?” – Solar panels only have a lifespan of up to 25 years, and according to the BBC, there are millions of them in the U.K. But the country is lacking the infrastructure to scrap and recycle them.
- “Irish farmers revolt over plan for cattle cull to meet green target” – The Telegraph reports that farmers in Ireland are mounting a rebellion against Government plans to cull 65,000 cows a year for three years to help the country meet its climate change targets.
- “Police crackdown stops climate protesters in their tracks” – Climate activists from the Last Generation group had been blocking the streets of Berlin on a regular basis, the Telegraph reports, until a series of police raids stopped them in their tracks.
- “Starmer urged not to U-turn on new North Sea oil and gas ban” – Environmental groups, trade unions, the Women’s Institute and numerous other organisations have written a joint letter in support of Kier Starmer’s pledge to block new North Sea oil and gas exploration, urging him not to do a U-turn.
- “Petition the King to keep our national powers” – In TCW Defending Freedom, Graham Wood calls on readers to petition the King to stop U.K. powers being handed to international agencies without a referendum.
- “Why Africa is turning its back on the eco-obsessed West” – “The developing world needs rapid growth, not lectures on sustainability,” write Joel Kotkin and Bheki Mahlobo in Spiked
- “BBC criticised over non-binary Casualty character discussing top surgery” – The Telegraph reports that the BBC has come in for some criticism from the Safe Schools Alliance after a recent episode of Casualty showed a non-binary character talking enthusiastically about their forthcoming top surgery – a double mastectomy – and was broadcast before the watershed.
- “U.S. state bans Bible in primary schools over ‘vulgarity and violence’” – Primary schools in Utah have been forced to ban the Bible after its “vulgarity and violence” was deemed to fall foul of censorship laws, according to the Telegraph.
- “Political and cultural corruption have wrecked New Zealand” – Writing for Spectator Australia, Amy Brooke takes aim at the recent pay-out of $NZ835 million to part-Maori individuals.
- “Blaming victims for failures of government” – “Democracy is being let down by our elected officials,” says Ramesh Thakur in Spectator Australia.
- “Elon Musk’s brain implant company is approved for human testing. How alarmed should we be?” – The Guardian wonders if Elon Musk’s brain-implant company – Neuralink – can be trusted to oversee the development of an invasive medical device that is capable of reading brain signals.
- “Hannah Gadsby’s art exhibition is roasted by art critics” – Aussie comedian Hannah Gadsby has attempted to create a feminist takedown of Picasso with her exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, Daily Mail Australia reports, but art critics say “don’t go”.
- “Shadowy ‘Disinformation’ Censorship Group Paid Public College For Online Blacklist Report” – The Global Disinformation Index (part-funded by the Foreign Office) gave $90,810 to the Global Disinformation Lab at the University of Texas-Austin to conduct research and develop a contentious report on conservative media outlets, Reclaim the Net reports.
- “Texas bans gender-affirming care for minors after governor signs bill” – Texas has become the most populous state so far to ban gender-affirming care for minors, CTV News reports, after Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation on Friday.
- “‘Truth’ is being weaponised in our sinister new age of disinformation” – “The only way to defend truth in an open society is open challenge, freedom of inquiry, freedom of speech and the promotion of genuine pluralism,” says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “The Government’s secret units set up to monitor critics of the lockdown” – Watch Andrew Doyle and Michael Shellenberger discuss the “very heavy-handed pressure by Governments on social media companies to censor… disfavoured views”. Part 2 is available here.
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Petition the king?
What are we, back in the 16th century?
Thats the general idea, yes…
Well, that’s where they plan to take us. Those who survive the cull that is.
I found it really funny watching the Giro a few weeks ago. After Joao Almeida won stage 16, he was wearing his mask backstage while waiting to come out for the presentation. Much to his annoyance, someone from the crew told him to take the mask off before he went onstage. It is strange though, with almost 20% of the field abandoning due to covid or other related illnesses one might come to the conclusion that all of the UCI’s “biosecurity” measures have not provided any benefit whatsoever.
I’m not sure about this. It sounds like a good idea that would benefit the population but because it’s Gates-funded I’m wondering what the catch is. See this 2min video about what they’re doing with mosquitos in Columbia;
https://twitter.com/bambkb/status/1665453474522230785
I generally think that tinkering with nature ends up with unforeseen problems.
Ecosystems are finely balanced.
Humans playing God is not a good idea.
Rabbits and cane toads in Australia spring to mind.
Anything that Gates is involved with is going to be dodgy and more than likely not good for human beings. I wonder if anyone has actually done a comprehensive study to look at the lifecycle of the mosquito and how it fits into ecosystems. I mean nothing on this planet is there for no reason and, as Myra says below, these ecosystems are finely balanced. Eradicate or alter the mosquito and some other poor creature is going to be affected. Gates is out of control.
Spot on Aethelred. Gates is out of control.
He is an egomaniac with a God complex.
The catch is that at some point of Billy’s choosing these mosquitoes will be infected with a dangerous virus – ‘accidentally’ you understand, a bit of a mix-up, rogue operator and all that and
boom a new ‘Pandemic’ that only Billy can save us from.
I wouldn’t trust Lord Bill of the Gates of Hell if he was six feet under.
Well that’s precisely what I was getting at; ”It *sounds like* a good idea..”, i.e they are spinning it to appeal to the majority, much like these brain implants that are advertised as being life-changing to those with neurological disorders and paralysis but how long before that tech is hijacked to be used for nefarious means? Certainly when it comes to new technologies, particularly anything remotely bordering on transhumanism, the blurb is always something pitched as ”progressive” and billed as some technological advancement which will benefit all of humanity, but we critical thinkers can tell a mile off that there’s some underlying agenda and ulterior motive.
I’m not at all onboard with engineered mozzies flying about interfering with the ecosystem and the above story certainly does not pass the sniff test as far as I’m concerned. I can just see how naive folk will be taken in by this cover story, never thinking for a second of how easily this could be turned against us in future. And as far as I’m concerned, anything whatsoever to do with Gatesy, it’s a case of ”once bitten twice shy”.
Terrific Mogs. Entirely in agreement.
An interesting 3min clip of Dr Malone describing the scientific evidence demonstrating. and real world effects we see around us, of VAIDS. Basically the more you get jabbed the more likely you are to acquire autoimmune-deficiency due to T cell dysfunction.
https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1664415161992478721
This could be me reading too much into something, because people were terminally ill and suffering well before the jabs rolled out or even before Covid and the lockdowns came along. But after reading a particularly tragic post on Twitter from somebody who decided to end their life in Switzerland because of all the health complaints she’d suffered and how her quality of life was hugely impacted post-jab it made me remember recent news from here in the Netherlands of how demand for euthanasia has been rising. Assisted suicide is also legal over here, so I think this is a topic to keep an eye on and I wonder if demand is rising in other countries where it is legal. Knowing what we now know about the increases in cancers and all the other ways the jabs can adversely affect health which would result in prolonged suffering, I think it’s reasonable to expect this to feed into the numbers and boost them somewhat.
”The number of people dying in the Netherland with the help of euthanasia rose nearly 14% last year to 8,720, according to new figures from the regional monitoring committees, or RTE.
The percentage is higher than in recent years and took the proportion of euthanasia deaths up from 4.5% to 5.1% of all deaths last year. The number of deaths by euthanasia had been increasing by around 10% a year.
No scientific research has been carried out to establish a reason for the increase, the RTE said.
Most euthanasia requests are carried out on people who have cancer, but last year 288 dementia sufferers were helped to die, a rise of 34% on 2021.”
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/04/more-euthanasia-cases-in-2022-29-couples-helped-to-die/
Good post, Mogwai – thanks. My instinct is that there is a logical connection to damaged health following the jabs, since assessment of one’s quality of life is for many the key factor in considering assisted suicide. But there must also be a natural growth trend as AS becomes more culturally and socially acceptable over time as more and more people choose that option.
Yes it definitely needs further investigation. Maybe there was an existing upward trend anyway in years prior to 2020. A good old graph to give the visual on this would be handy. Also, I don’t even know if any increase in euthanasia deaths are included in the government figures for excess mortality in countries such as NL and Switzerland, or if they’re kept out of the stats.
SWITZERLAND”Exit Deutsche Schweiz is an assisted suicide society which recently issued a press release boasting about an increase in the number of people who have died in the last year. “In 2022, 1125 members decided to die self-determined and accompanied by EXIT Deutsche Schweiz,” the press release said. “This means that 15 percent more members used the support of a suicide companion than in 2021 (973) and 23 percent more than in 2020 (913).”
Additionally, there was an increase in the number of consultations for assisted suicide than in years past, as well as an increase in the number of members.”
Includes info on Columbia. Coincidence, or due to more relaxed criteria? I think more research as to *who* and *why* is necessary.
https://www.liveaction.org/news/euthanasia-assisted-suicide-increasing-switzerland-colombia/
“Hannah Gadsby’s art exhibition is roasted by art critics”
Yet another piece of misandry and cultural/historical destruction, sigh. I’m not a fan of Picasso but it seems to me that all these biassed, one-sided and perverse critiques we are being bombarded with miss the point entirely – that despite their personal flaws, questionable actions and habits (and indeed, perhaps sometimes because of them), some people simply were and are astonishingly inventive and creative, able to transcend the grosser aspects of humanity to another level, which in the end helps to elevate us all. But other than negative criticism, we’re never offered an alternative. What a small, sad, limited view of humanity these critics have.
Exactly. I see lesser people trying to pull down icons of the past whose influence and creativity, despite their human flaws, was simply enormous. It is a cheap way of getting attention to ride on the coat tails of genii while stabbing them in the back at the same time!
I wouldn’t otherwise be interested enough to go to this exhibition but if I was in New York and read this:
“Adlai Jackson’s review for Hell Gate was bluntly headlined: ‘Don’t Go to It’s Pablo-matic.'”
I would actually go!
Interesting Part 2 presentation by Mark Steele to MD4CE group yesterday evening. He is seeing an increase in excess deaths in areas where 5G was switched on in 2019, so won’t show up in the national figures but is localised.
He also discussed a way to use the agenda of the town hall to reduce the heating in cities by challenging them with the evidence that 5G increases temperature in the urban landscape & asking why they’re so busy installing equipment which will do exactly what they say they’re taking action to mitigate against.
His opinion is that the covid scam was/is a cover for the 5G deaths & illness & to force the injection onto a frightened populace, along with the PCR tests, to get some nanomaterial into it to enable it to have the desired kill effect without setting fire to the national grid, as happened in South Korea when they first switched on their 5G infrastructure. Fires which were reported as forest fires caused by climate change….
Not yet released but worth a watch of part 1prior to watching part 2 if you’ve not done so already: https://rumble.com/user/cbkovess
Thanks BB.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/hold-the-front-page-telegraph-discovers-government-curbed-covid-dissent/
This is superb. John Ellwood at TCW absolutely ripping the Torygraph to bits re the “pandemic.” It will put a smile on your face.
“Horror:
Surely this can’t be the Telegraph that in June 2020 printed a Mick Brown article, headed ‘Is there any truth behind the Covid-19 conspiracy theories?’ which said: ‘The coronavirus is a genetically engineered bioweapon made by the Chinese. Or possibly the Americans. It originated in a lab in Wuhan. Or possibly an American military lab . . . It is part of a scheme devised by Bill Gates to introduce mass global vaccination as a Trojan horse for totalitarian world government. Dr Anthony Fauci – the mild-mannered director of America’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and a prominent member of the White House’s coronavirus task force before being sidelined by Trump – is in on it. And so is the World Health Organization. Believe all that, and you’ll believe anything.’”
That is absolutely hilarious – Mick Brown needs to be confronted about this.
Thanjs Michael.
If one of us had written that the vax mobs would have been up in arms.
What an epitaph for Mick Brown.
“U.S. state bans Bible in primary schools over ‘vulgarity and violence’”
If insanity had a threshold before, this new insanity breaks that down and creates another one. I’m not an avid Bible reader by any stretch of the imagination but I respect this book as the Holy Book for all Christians. To actually ban the book because it has a few lines that in all honesty are not that obviously vulgar, not when compared to the type of trashy content rife on social media or in mainstream news, is completely over the top and feeds into the ‘demonic agenda’ narrative.
The “vulgarity and violence” excuse is a blatant means of removing The Bible from schools.
Heaven forbid that school children are ‘infected’ with something as dangerous as a Christian outlook on life. Just imagine how these little ‘uns might turn out as adults: kind, compassionate, considerate, virtuous, empathetic, respectful. Oh no that just won’t do. Good grief, what a future to face, a world full of decent people.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/from-cps-to-police-patrols-wokery-wokery-everywhere/
Dealing with the arrests of Christian preachers in this country by our fine, upstanding plod.
The eco nutters get cups of tea.
In fairness, I doubt many kids of that age have read the proper Bible much anyway. When I was at an RC school in the 1980s, there were probably Bibles around for the teachers and the school’s priests, but we mostly had children’s books about Bible stories, from the life of Jesus to all the cool stuff like Noah’s Ark, Joshua and the siege of Jericho and Moses parting the Red Sea.
I can actually say that I bought a reader’s Bible (single column, rather than the telephone book-style two columns we’re used to) and am working my way through it. Genesis and Exodus are an orgy of sex and violence! There’s sex, coitus interruptus (the actual Sin on Onan), polygamy, enslavement, torture, rape, incest, mass murder. I was actually quite shocked, as we Catholics tend to be more tradition-based and story-based, whereas Protestants go more for ‘sola scriptura.’ My historic knowledge of the Bible comes from carefully curated parts of the Bible in readings, retelling of stories from the Bible, the Catechism and rulings by various Church councils councils.
The Bible is actually a good read as an adult: Genesis has to be one of the most beautiful stories about mankind developing sentience I’ve ever read. Equally, the early books are very much transcripts of the oral tradition so have a tendency to be very repetitive, the same way the works of Homer are, in order to help the illiterate memorise the words.
While this ban is obviously at the behest of the usual ‘liberal’ groomer class, it doesn’t stop children’s Bibles and books of Bible stories, so it’s less of a big deal than it might first appear.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/04/universal-basic-income-of-1600-pounds-a-month-to-be-trialled-in-england
I posted this yesterday evening but it escaped today’s round-up so here it is again.
It’s the future!
I wonder if this is a net payment or do the recipients have to pay council tax, rent and utilities from this sum?
And as I replied:
This is our future: take the £1,600 a month Basic, live in a state-owned apartment in your 15-minute city and, when you die, the state takes all your money, all your possessions and reallocates the apartment to someone else. Those who seek to work and get past the various obstacles and show the right political views can live in more luxurious apartments and get to travel. Welcome to Soviet Britain where troublemakers are paid to stay out of the way.
It’s a financial prison: a jail cell with soft cushions. They’re banking on millions of people taking the basic and spending their lives drifting around, sitting in front of the TV and dying younger than they should. As a freelancer, I can see the temptation: one month I can earn far less than £1,600 and another I can earn far more. Someone who is single, in his 50s, with a bit of money saved could easily be bought off with the idea of living on Basic. Effectively retire early and drift. He’d probably die younger without the stimulation of work.
The lockdowns were a good testing ground for this…
Think of all the migrant workers they’d need to import in order to tax them to pay for people on Basic.
Why… we’d have to rethink the capitalist system, wouldn’t we? It would require a… a… Great Reset of some kind, wouldn’t it!!
And thanks for reposting Dom.