- “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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Climate change?
And what were the rest caused by? “Protect the NHS”?
“In previous waves, almost all excess deaths could broadly be explained by Covid.”
Really? Some, probably. But almost all? Shutting down the NHS, throwing the old and frail out of hospital, isolating people…
I think they mean they can be explained by Covid magically curing dementia and cancer deaths. They were doing it last year and the same think seems to be happening, periodically now…some weeks when Covid deaths are up, some of the usual suspects are down.
Ah yes of course, how silly of me. Lots of things that used to kill people seem to have become much less dangerous because of covid.
…and the magical disappearance of flu …
No, no no – lockdowns caused the disappearance of the flu which proves that lockdowns work…
That was amazing but it’s because we weren’t circulating apparently? Does this mean covid can travel from an infected person, out of their letterbox and into next door via the same route? It’s a bloody clever virus
Damn right, it also knows the difference between shops and pubs
And it knows it should stay away from supermarket employees.
“All deaths within 28 days of receiving a positive test”
For whatever reason :97 years old, 32 stone, Suicide, etc.
Feel free to add any other type of death.
And Midazolam.
“could broadly be explained”
If Guy Fawkes were alive today, this column might argue, his target should be the government’s health science establishment.
I’d strongly suggest, Fleet Street instead.
When I was growing up, the Fourth Estate openly prided itself as the guardian of society, the monitor of the government. The Fourth Estate had as its duty, factually informing the public and – as needed – sounding the call to arms.
Today (partly because of the rise of the Web, and then social media) the Fourth Estate has largely turned tabloid in a desperate rush to maintain revenues.
It’s pursuing the eternal truth expressed by America’s H. L. Mencken: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
Without the Fourth Estate, the health science establishment would be a housewife yelling across her back yard fence.
(And so would Boris and Donald be ….)
More pointless duff data.
Carry on regardless.
I find this a puzzling article, only a few days ago they published an item discussing how age adjusted mortality was at normal levels;
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/29/octobers-age-standardised-mortality-rate-was-equal-to-the-five-year-average/
I would have thought this article today would have taken the previous item into account to give a balanced consideration with regard to UK deaths. Is there cause for concern in any way? Of particular concern is deaths in the under 40s and do they give any indication of possible vaccine effects.
The problem there is ‘age standardised mortality’. It is a concept that tends to be misunderstood and is often used inappropriately.
It certainly does nothing to highlight additional deaths in younger age groups — it, like the raw death rate, will mainly be sensitive to changes in the death rates in the elderly and will be unlikely to show any shift at all with even substantial changes in the death rate in the young.
Specifically wrt covid, it is idiocy to use age-standardised mortality to describe deaths during a pandemic which has a very strong age dependency for deaths.
My father died of a heart attack at home on 21st November, he is one of the non Covid unexpected deaths at home . He had had his booster vaccine the day before, he’d then immediately felt unwell, the following morning he had chest pain, he died that evening. We will never know whether his heart attack was caused by the vaccine, but I strongly suspect it was the straw that broke the camel’s back. What I do know is that I had only seen my dad for 4 hours since March 2020, because he was scared of catching Covid. His last 20 months were lived in fear, away from his family. People must wake up and realise that Covid is not worth giving up our lives for. Life is for living, not just avoiding dying. We are not merely cells to keep apart, in order to avert death, we are social creatures who need human touch and love to thrive. I hope that in saying all this, one person might go and see their family, one person might stop being so afraid of Covid that they hide away from life. If my comment helps anyone, then Dad’s death will not have been wasted. Please live your life today, because nobody knows what tomorrow will bring.
Sorry to hear about your Dad. Beautifully put. The state of fear that these lies have created in the old (and the young) will last for years and will not be easily undone, and this is one of the most egregious of the many evils perpetrated in the name of “saving lives”. To use “saving lives” as an excuse for political and financial self-aggrandisement, and to knowingly destroy lives in the process, is simply wicked.
So sorry to read about your Dad. I will wager that there are many people who have been led to a similar and horrible situation. Hiding from a entirely survivable disease and being given experimental vaccines that likely cause significantly more harm than good. Scared witless by government and pseudo medical propaganda.
One day there will be a reckoning, people are awakening to the truth and every day I hear more and more of my friends and family express disgust at the actions of the government. The slow drips of truth are forming in puddles, soon there will be streams and rivers which will begin to wash away this madness, our time is coming.
help! I’m not in a good place at the moment. Fallen out with my mother who I love dearly over my refusal to have the Covid jab. I have put forward all the reasons for me not having it but she cannot see my point of view at all. She basically thinks that by not having it I am dicing with death and not only that want to kill her too. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated – I really do despair.
Depends on how old she is and how much you value the relationship…you could just lie to her and say you’ve had it? It’s not like she will ever suspect the truth because all the jaboids seem to catch awful wu flu anyway. You’re not putting her in any additional “danger” so morally it’s only a white lie.
I get the same from my mother and sister, both work in the national covvie service so are regularly dosed with extreme propaganda. I haven’t yet found a way to break through I’m afraid, I guess it’s going to take something bigger. I just refuse to talk to them about it – divert all conversations to topics that are much more pleasant and entirely unrelated, ideally that emphasise how much better life used to be. There you go, nudge theory being used for good instead of evil.
In the first wave, covid and excess deaths were closely aligned at 51.6K to 50K
Whereas in the second wave covid deaths exceeded excess deaths by 23.4K (151.5K vs 128.1K) so even tho’ the NHS was closed to everyone except covid cases we are asked to believe that there were 23.4K fewer deaths from CVD & cancer etc.
And the ones that are linked to covid are exaggerated because of the bizarre policy of counting a death from any cause that occurs within 28 days of a positive test result as being due to covid.
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Yes many linked to the vaccine. You know things like heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary embolisms. Little things like that. Any autopsies done on the victims? Any history taking? History of Covid vaxx?
So how come, then, that the FOI requests to local authorities showed that across the country there were few ”excess” burials or cremations?