- “Covid planners gave ‘potentially massive’ lockdown impact ‘very little thought’” – The Covid inquiry has heard that there was a failure to consider the “potentially massive impact” that restrictions on civil liberties would have, the Telegraph reports.
- “COVID-19 inquiry’s impartiality already in the spotlight” – The impartiality of the Covid Inquiry has been called into question, the Telegraph says, after its counsel Hugo Keith claimed that preparation for a “no-deal Brexit” got in the way of pandemic planning.
- “The Great Grift: How billions in COVID-19 relief aid was stolen or wasted” – An analysis by the Associated Press has found that fraudsters in the U.S. may have got their hands on more than $280 billion in COVID-19 relief funding, and that another $123 billion was wasted or misspent.
- “First people sickened by COVID-19 were Chinese scientists at Wuhan Institute of Virology, say U.S. Government sources” – According to Public, the first people infected by the virus included Ben Hu, a researcher who led the WIV’s gain-of-function research on SARS-like coronaviruses.
- “‘Upsetting’ Covid inquiry memorial tapestry given trigger warning” – The first four panels of the Covid Inquiry memorial tapestry have been unveiled at hearing centre in Dorland house, but, reports the Telegraph, viewers are warned that it contains “upsetting material”.
- “Quarter in U.K. believe Covid was a hoax, poll on conspiracy theories finds” – A Savanta Survey has found that almost a quarter of the population believe that COVID-19 is a hoax, the Guardian says. Treat with large dose of salt since the poll was commissioned by the BBC and Marianna Spring will no doubt cite it as a reason to suppress ‘mis-’ and ‘disinformation’.
- “Don’t blame scientists for what went wrong with Covid – ministers were the ones calling the shots” – Guardian columnist Professor Devi Shridhar, who was a member of the Scottish Government’s expert group on Covid, makes it clear that she is not at all to blame for what went wrong.
- “Government’s new Net Zero plan might be its most idiotic yet” – Ross Clark in theTelegraph pours scorn on the idea that solar-generated power beamed down from space is going to help the Government reach its Net Zero target.
- “SNP moves to ban gas boilers as Scotland rushes towards Net Zero” – According to the Telegraph, the Scottish Government is drawing up plans to ban gas boilers in new buildings from Spring 2024.
- “The summer doesn’t need a health warning” – “These new ‘heat-health alerts’ show that climate alarmism is out of control,” says Tim Black in Spiked.
- “Germany’s self-destructive Greens” – In a piece for UnHerd, Lily Lynch explains the decline and fall of the German Greens, who, she notes, are currently trailing the AfD in the polls.
- “The dangers of being a germophobe” – Jordan Peterson welcomes Dr. Steve Templeton to his podcast to discuss how germaphobia makes us less safe.
- “BOGOF deals face axe despite Government predicting minimal impact on calorie consumption” – The Government is ploughing ahead with its plan to ban ‘buy one, get one free’ offers in supermarkets, the Telegraph reports, despite its own analysis suggesting that it will only result in a reduction of four calories per person.
- “Jess Phillips calls for protection of single-sex spaces in apparent challenge to Keir Starmer” – Jess Phillips has called for single-sex spaces to be protected, but, the Telegraph reminds readers, Keir Starmer says he “supports the right to self-identification”.
- “That is a dangerous thing to say” – “What would the administration say to parents who are worried that their daughter may have to compete against a male and worried about their daughter’s safety?” a journalist asks at a White House press conference. “That is a dangerous thing to say,” replies White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre.
- “Women still have penis envy” – “More and more women are discovering the benefits of the dingle-dangle,” writes Frank Haviland, in his latest piece of satire for the New Conservative.
- “Andrew Lloyd Webber says he was told to play it ‘safe’ with musicals” – Andrew Lloyd Webber says he has been discouraged from setting musicals in other countries, the Mail reports, because it would be cultural appropriation.
- “Amazon shuts down customer’s smart home for a week over ‘racial slur’” – The Mail tells of how Brandon Jackson was locked out of his Amazon Echo after a delivery guy complained he had heard a racist remarks through his door bell.
- “Why do we never talk about Islamic slavery?” – “Perhaps it is because Muslims do not have a special class of academics, weaponising ‘intrinsic’ Muslim evil against Muslims themselves,” suggests Sean Thomas in the Spectator.
- “Believe in Believers” – “Those of us committed to fighting back against the ‘woke’ must come to terms with the fact that only Christianity is potent enough to defeat the cult of diversity, equity and inclusion,” writes Evan Riggs in an essay for the European Conservative.
- “This is your chance to intern at spiked” – An opportunity to kickstart a career in journalism at Spiked, with a six-month paid internship.
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“BOGOF deals face axe despite Government predicting minimal impact on calorie consumption”
Can I suggest that Home Economics classes resume for young people, so they can prepare a range of simple meals at home.
Also if they were serious about this, the thing they would ban is home delivery of hot foods. Come on..If you’re going to consume 2000 or 3000 calories of delicious indian or chinese foods, pizza or waffles with melted Ferrero Roche on them, at a single sitting, the least you might do is get of your arse and go and get it yourself.
They could even stop giving planning permission to fast food places to build on every street corner.
Three ideas. No charge…
I live in Scotland. 10 or 12 years ago in the remote areas there was no fast food and only hotels had restaurants. Up until then, most family meals were all cooked from scratch at home. Rural population looked like normal people did 50 years ago, ie slim. Noticeably so, compared to everywhere else.
Now there are more places to eat out, and cafes and takeaways have appeared. High calorie stodge like pizza, pasta and those highly processed unrecognisable crumbed things that people give to children now appear on the menu, as opposed to meat and veg farmer’s type food. Including in schools. Population is turning into a bunch of porky fatsos like the rest of the country. Children particularly, because they now spend most of their time lying or sitting whilst connected to the internet, so don’t move as much.
In less than a decade, addiction to stodge has produced the first generation that will not know how to cook like their grandparents, and that will not eat the same range of seasonal foods.
BOGOF deals are not the problem, it’s the highly processed food and reliance on fast food that causes the issues, as it’s of no nutritional value but full of calories.
The government’s record of intervention in the market place is always disastrous. There are far greater issues requiring government intervention at this time such as immigration, a corrupted C1984 so-called inquiry, Scotland, an illegal war in Ukraine and on and on and on.
“Don’t blame scientists for what went wrong with Covid – ministers were the ones calling the shots”
Hang on.! Wasn’t Professor Devi Shridhar one of the nutters that was trying to get us masked forever, and those who didn’t comply put on busses to the gulag.? She seemed to have plenty to flap her gums about at the time, all seemingly unprompted by ministers. Perhaps it was just her narcissistic streak of wanting to have power over others. Own it Devi. Own it.!
A good calling out of The Telegraph and their abject failure at doing proper journalism these last few years. All very deliberate of course.
”Former Minister David Davis had it right in The Telegraph when he said of the Counter Disinformation Unit “the most paranoid wing of Government is interfering with the democratic process”. He called for a Parliamentary inquiry with “the biggest combination of power, access and speed”.
The BBC denies that its coverage of Covid was subjective. It says it featured “a range of voices during the pandemic … in line with our duty of impartiality”.
That claim that would be laughable if it wasn’t so serious. It certainly wouldn’t stand up to scrutiny with three years of video tape and website articles available as evidence, backing Government propaganda and spreading fear, while ignoring dissenting experts and important newsworthy events such as the huge Freedom Marches in London.
Indeed, Radio 5 Live is on record as saying it was BBC editorial policy not to debate with “anti-vaxxers,” a label pinned to anyone who dared to speak out, whatever their qualifications.
The BBC even has its own Disinformation Correspondent in Marianna Spring, whose very title suggests prosecutor, judge and jury; her reports are consistently in concert with the State narrative and she summarily dismisses opposing views with well-worn phrases such as ‘anti-vaxxer’ and ‘conspiracy theorist’. Her work is the antithesis of impartiality and time will show her on the wrong side of history.”
https://uncut.substack.com/p/a-total-filleting-of-the-telegraphmore
Radio 5 Live is on record as saying it was BBC editorial policy not to debate with “anti-vaxxers,”
I’m collecting references to such things (I’m sure I’m not alone in this effort). Can you provide a reference for R5’s claim please?
(updated to say please).
Sorry I don’t have a direct reference. The author of the above piece was referring to the linked film, ”Safe and Effective: A second Opinion”. If you skip to 49mins you will see the clip he’s referring to. Perhaps you’d have to chase up the Ofcom material which is featured just before ( 48mins approx ) the Radio 5 Live woman speaks.
https://rumble.com/v1lwbgs-safe-and-effective-a-second-opinion-2022-oracle-films-news-uncut.html
Brilliant. Thank you.
The BBC Radio 5 Live woman is Emma Barnett, who presented a mid-morning show on 5 Live at the time, and later moved to BBC Radio 4 to present Women’s Hour. She has also been a presenter on Newsnight on BBC 2 television.
Here’s what she said in that clip:
“Just to let you in on a journalistic point here, we actually don’t – as a matter of editorial policy – we don’t debate with anti-vaxers, whether they are right or wrong, we actually don’t do that.”
WHETHER THEY ARE RIGHT OR WRONG! So the BBC don’t care about truth or fairness, it’s only a particular agenda that matters, a particular view that they want to push, and opposing views can’t be broadcast regardless of whether they are right or wrong. I think that’s known as propaganda. That’s quite an admission by Emma Barnett.
Emma Barnett is a bloody stupid woman.
Many thanks for this too. I note the clip is annotated (Wed) 23 Sep 2020. On that date daily Covid (mentioned on certificate) deaths were 57. Up from a low point of about 10/day in late August. It was just the beginning of the ‘Alpha’ (Kent) variant epidemic.
For some reason (ha!) BBC Sounds don’t seem to have that recording in their archive.
I wonder if she deliberately mentioned the policy because she disapproved of it? I’m probably being too generous.
Does anyone know who the frustrated-looking guy was who was shown being interviewed? Or for that matter why there’s video of a radio show?
Marianna Spring’s evisceration of The Light paper is another example of their Disinformation campaign. They called it a paper spreading hate and violence. I’ve read the paper many times and can’t see any reference to ‘hate’ or ‘violence’. Apparently it wasn’t one of the articles but someone commenting – not even one of its writers. So any tenuous link is enough for Spring to ‘spring’ out from under the floorboards and shriek ‘disinformation!’. This untested, still wet behind the ears, so called journalist with next to zero life experience (by the way, Marianna, that’s an opinion not a hate crime if you’re reading this) gets to act as the entire legal process without really understanding what it is she is doing unless she does and she’s just drunk the koolaid and has a hewad full of ambition. It’s this bad, cynical journalism (ha – I use the word ironically) that torpedoes the BBC’s claims of impartiality. The BBC can claim what it bloody well likes, the evidence is there in stark staring black and white. So many people have now turned away from the BBC apart from the diehards, who probably still read the Guardian, who will go on believing the BS until they’re impoverished, hungry, homeless and enslaved. I pray for the day that more journalists buck the trend of following government narratives but I might be waiting an awful long time.
Well said.
How come Spring gets to call out a newspaper for hate and violence and yet provides no evidence of it! That’s as bad as calling JK Rowling a transphobe with no actual written or spoken quotes to back it up!
Great post Aethelred
Cheers, HP!
I’ve not watched this yet, but this is the unedited version of her interview on The Light.
Full unedited version of the BBC hit-piece interview the slick but cunningly sly Marianna Spring did on Darren Nesbitt, editor and founder of the Light paper. This is the antidote to the BBC podcasts based on the same footage but heavily edited and overdubbed with presumptious BBC propaganda:
https://rumble.com/v2phe1y-marianna-in-conspiracyland-full-unedited-interview-with-darren-nesbit-edito.html
Excellent.
we find:
I have just a little sympathy with Prof Devi Shridhar’s position. Our government should have listened to a much wider panel of scientists with greater diversity of opinion before making their decisions. The crushing of debate blinkered their decision-making. However, by choosing to criticise ‘eat out to help out’ the Prof is picking the wrong target – it made no difference to the course of the epidemic.
‘Eat out to help out’ was active 3 days per week 3-31 August 2020. A total of 13 days where meal subsidies could be claimed. August was about the lowest point in the ‘Covid mentioned on the death certificate’ mortality curve in 2020.
Subsequently, the Covid death rate peaked on 23 Nov 2020 and again at a much higher rate on 19 Jan 2021. These correspond to news in the mainstream media of the ‘Alpha’ and ‘Delta’ variants or as they were known at the time, ‘Kent’ and ‘Indian’ variants. The Covid mortality between September 2020 and June 2021 almost perfectly matched two overlapping Gompertz (natural epidemic) curves with no ‘kinks’ in the curves which could be linked to the effects of the lockdowns which were imposed on 5 Nov 2020 and 6 Jan 2021. If lockdowns had no apparent effect when transmission of the bug was high, it is not credible that ‘eat out to help out’ had any effect when transmission was almost at its lowest.
This information might have some value for historical purposes in years to come but currently it is over-thinking.
Sridhar is a liar plain and simple.
Fishy’s ‘Eat out…was an order from the Davos Deviants to waste as much tax payer money as possible in whatever imaginative ie bonkers way possible. For fraudsters it was a license to print and didn’t they go for it.
I am willing to bet that those who think COVID was a hoax do so not because of what they’ve heard or read in social media, but because of what they’ve seen with they’re own two eyes.
Those living in the real world will always be insulted by those poor deluded people who live glued to a screen.
“First people sickened by COVID-19 were Chinese scientists at Wuhan Institute of Virology, say U.S. Government sources”
Ben Hu clocked off from the WIV at 6pm and thought “I just fancy a nice cutlet of bat for me tea, I’ll nip in the wet market on me way home!”
And that’s where it all began!
Haha – Bat Cutlets indeed, Dings!
Has Evan Riggs considered the Bishop of Dover, the bishop of the boats?
And after all, Christ’s polity is not made up out of economies, armies, bureaucracies, and party manifestos; all the apparatus that constitutes the ‘kingdoms of this world’.
The Spiked article about the heat warnings: “These new ‘heat-health alerts’ show that climate alarmism is out of control.”
Perhaps we should call for a ban on all flights to any country where the ambient temperature is higher than 30 degrees – to protect them from the dangerous effects of global warming. This would hopefully encourage a few more to start thinking for themselves….
Perhaps airlines and holiday companies should be instructed to issue warnings once a booking is confirmed:
“We have been advised by HMG that your destination of travel is currently experiencing temperatures which indicate some localised global warming, please ensure you have packed a sun hat and Factor 75 cream. This company accepts no liability for any adverse health outcomes which you may suffer as a result of proceeding with this reckless trip.”
That should do it.
In the Unherd article, is the following quote:
“The Greens have always been perceived — rightly or wrongly — as a party of privilege. In 1979, the US ambassador to West Germany, Walter J. Stoessel J, described party members as “unpolitical dreamers, mellow lifestylers, counter-culture, anti-nuclear, anti-technology, back to nature romantics with a few cynical leftists thrown in for good measure”. He also noted that they “drew most of their supporters from the urban areas, specifically from well-educated middle and upper-middle class voters under 30”.
What a perceptive chap. I suspect it’s a similar demographic to their support here in the UK nearly 45 years later.
The Speccie might wonder why the argument is not made by the Western academics that since young people were sold abroad as slaves during the Anglo-Saxon period in England by their own people (Harold II is thought to have made a considerable fortune out of this trade), slavery could not therefore be the particular evil of Europeans against other races.
The Speccie might also consider that Muslims don’t get embarrassed by slavery in the Islamic world because they congratulate themselves that Islam forbade the enslaving of co-religionists, and that this example of enlightenment exonerates them from censure.
Though it probably escapes the notice of many that this rule was a powerful incentive against apostasy. Any Muslim converting to Hinduism would in that past age immediately become a candidate for enslavement. Not that that conversion was likely since not even the most energetic Arabic-speaking Christian missionary, such as the American Samuel Zwemer, made no more than a few converts in the entire Arabian peninsular and neighbouring lands in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Any churchgoer today might notice that the verse in the hymn, Hail to the Lord’s Anointed, that refers to the Arabian desert ranger coming to worship Christ is never sung anymore.
Posted in CIF comments on the article covering the inquiry a couple of links – one to an Israeli FOI request which revealed that NO-ONE in Israel under the age of 50 died FROM Covid. Similar linked to an ONS page which shows that between Feb 2020 to Dec 2021 <10k in the UK died FROM Covid, ONE under the age of 14 and <100 under the age of 50.
I noted that the “died with Covid” stat used by the authorities was meaningless, that it has never been used with any other disease before, including the annual ‘flu and suggested that this lie was used to frighten us.
Comment removed. **** the ******* Guardian
FYI
https://www.illusionconsensus.com/p/new-israeli-report-no-covid-deaths
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/covid19deathsandautopsiesfeb2020todec2021
Excellent post.
This is a bit of a “stab in the dark”. I was at The Lockdown Files Live event last night in Leicester Square and met a lady called Hilary. Apart from her first name and that she lives in Yorkshire is all I know about her. We had a good chat and I’d love to keep in touch with her. I had to rush off at the end so didn’t get any contact details. I know she reads the Daily Sceptic everyday so hope she might see my comment here and get in touch. Hilary, if you read this please leave me a message or email me on maggieruthdew@hotmail.com. Thanks
I’m late to the party today but any news on the horrific events in Nottingham following not long after the similar French knife attack ?? This sort of thing had slowed for quite a while but now it’s back !!..
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/bbcs-disinformation-queen-shoots-herself-in-both-feet/
Another welcome hit job on the waste of space that is Marianna Spring.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/paid-to-do-nothing-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/
A few thin words on UBI.
The writer fails to understand the purpose of UBI. It is not just about creating a population of indolents it is about bankrupting the country.
Exactly, HP. And reliant on the state and enslaved to do what the nanny state tells them to do…no protesting, no dissent, no spreading ‘disinformation’. no questioning…it’ll be ‘Just quietly die somewhere while we take away your health, your heat, your food, your travel, your voice, and your life.’ Well, f*ck ’em! Barstewards!
Thanks Aethelred
I’m so glad the state has advised me to “wear suitable clothing while outside”. I was planning to spend the day wrapped in thermal layers and a winter coat, but the current “health alert” has rescued me from my folly!
I was going to wear pyjamas, a smoking jacket and a top hat – is that suitable enough for nanny?
https://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/ltBedoN56xkM
I don’t know if this will work. Excellent 20 minute vid on 15 minute cities.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/atlanta-struggle-stop-cop-city-continues-after-council-approval/5822237
Cop Cities.
If what is happening in the US occurs in the UK, and I wouldn’t bet against it, my prediction that the thousands of military aged immigrants currently being imported will at some point become soldiers to be used against British people will be proved correct.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-shots-associated-increased-risk-blindness/5822248
Covid injections increase the risk of blindness.
Katherine Watt has interpreted the recent announcement between the WHO & the EU that they’ll adopt the digital ID system under construction in Europe.
It’s strongly worded but there’s no exaggeration in my opinion.
Each of us has a decision to make.
I’ve decided I’m not signing up to / signing onto this digital ID. There will be immediate consequences, I’m sure.
Signing onto this is part 1 of a small set of parts (cashless CBDC being the most obvious) which I believe will form what I call the human slaughterhouse.
Can there be any doubt that the ruthless enforcement of administration of deliberately toxic injections is to followed by a totalitarian control system that is anything but benign?
There’s no point in hoping it’ll be OK.
If enough of us resist the blandishments and threats & just say NO, it fails. And vice versa. If you sign onto digital ID, everything after that requires nothing active from you. We’ve not the power to decide if, when and how CBDC is introduced or at what rate & method use of cash is restricted.
This is a moment when I ask that you pause and spend time contemplating life in a system where you can’t do anything that matters without digital permission.
They’ve no right to do this, and if installed I see no way it’ll ever be removed.
So this, as it approaches, is in my view, free humanities last stand.
Best wishes
Mike
https://open.substack.com/pub/bailiwicknews/p/the-european-commission-and-who-launch
The latest from Dr Mike Yeadon. Not pretty.
I was thinking maybe we stop paying our Tax ! Then I realised they will just take it anyway once they get control