- “Brexit helped U.K. prepare for the pandemic, Government will argue in COVID-19 Inquiry” – The DHSC is preparing evidence to the Covid Inquiry which argues that, thanks to preparations for Brexit, crisis response teams were already place when the virus arrived in the U.K., the Telegraph reports.
- “Three things to watch as U.S. intelligence prepares for Covid ‘lab leak’ reveal” – The Telegraph gets ready for the imminent release of all the secret information the U.S. holds on the origins of Covid.
- “‘Case Zeroes’ in world did not come from WIV” – Compelling “evidence of ‘early spread’ strongly suggests the three Wuhan scientists could not have been ‘case zeroes‘,” argues Bill Rice Jr.
- “Cannabis dealer used Covid as excuse for £10,000 stash” – Josef Dawod told the police that the 1.5kg of cannabis found in his car was all for his personal use, Surrey Live says. He was stocking up due to Covid, he explained.
- “FDA asks drug makers to update Covid boosters to target XBB.1.5 for the fall” – NBC reports that the Food and Drug Administration is advising drug makers to update the booster shots to target XBB.1.5., the strain which is currently dominant in the U.S.
- “Kennedy, DeSantis and a Covid Reckoning Election” – Ramesh Thakur for the Brownstone Institute sets out how the 2024 U.S. elections could become a “referendum on Covid”. Here’s hoping.
- “Coal is a four-letter word” – Coal is a word that “can’t be used in polite company”, says Spectator Australia. “Thank goodness it can still be exported and its royalties used to fill the Treasury.“
- “The climate scaremongers: Warning! It’s summer!” – If the Government is so concerned about the elderly, then why, asks Paul Homewood in TCW Defending Freedom, “don’t they issue alerts every week in spring or autumn, when death rates are much higher?”
- “The silence should be deafening” – Jean Hatchet in the Critic celebrates Professor Arif Ahmad’s new job as the Office for Students First Director for Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom.
- “Starbucks ordered to pay $26 million to manager fired ‘for being white’” – Starbucks manager Shannon Phillips was fired in the aftermath of a furore that followed the arrest of two black customers, the Telegraph says. But she has now been awarded a substantial damages payment.
- “Eat, Pray, Get Cancelled” – Writing in UnHerd, Kathleen Stock says that Elizabeth Gilbert’s decisions not to publish The Snow Forest because it‘s set in Russia is a gift to the mob.
- “Thurrock council hid losses as it gambled millions on risky investments” – According to the Guardian, an official report has found that bankrupt Thurrock council gambled millions on risky investments and covered up evidence of its losses.
- “Harry and Meghan’s last surviving media deal is their £81 million Netflix one” – Spotify has ended Meghan Markle’s podcast after only one season, the Mail reports. That means the Sussexes are down to just one multi-million dollar media deal.
- “Boris Johnson unveiled as new Daily Mail columnist” – The Mail makes a splash about its latest hire. You can read his first column – on the wonders of a Ozempic – here.
- “Boris Johnson failed to inform watchdog over new Daily Mail column” – Boris was supposed to apply to appointments committee before taking up his new job, but according to the Telegraph he didn’t.
- “It’s a shame what Pride has become” – The interests of the new ‘LGBTQIA+’ regime could not “be in greater conflict with the interests of the gay and lesbian activists who came before it”, says Ben Appel in the Washington Examiner.
- “Church of England appoints Rachel Mann as first transgender Archdeacon” – The novelist Racheal Mann has been appointed the Archdeacon of Bolton and Salford, the Telegraph reports, and is now believed to be the most senior trans member of the clergy.
- “Boris seat Labour candidate backed trans flag road crossing” – Danny Beale, the Labour candidate poised to take Boris’s commons seat, is a supporter of a controversial Transgender awareness road crossing, according to the Mail.
- “The myth of the bad old days” – An evisceration of the idea that we are more enlightened than our ancestors by Patrick West in Spiked.
- “Boris, Trump and the revenge of the technocrats” – Matthew Goodwin joins the crew of the Spiked podcast to discuss the elites’ war on populism and the scandal in the SNP.
- “Christian school worker ‘wrongly sacked for her transgender beliefs’” – Kristie Higgs was dismissed for gross misconduct after she shared Facebook posts criticising plans to teach primary school children about LGBT+ relationships. But now, according to the Telegraph, she has won her appeal.
- “Covid Retrospective Series, Vol. 5” – Tom Elliott looks back on some of the most memorable instances of Covid hypocrisy.
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Joel Smalley’s far superior, evidence-based version of the Covid enquiry;
”The official UK Covid-19 Inquiry has no deadline and will probably run to a cost of over £200 million
1. It will serve absolutely no useful purpose because it is asking the wrong questions to the wrong people. It will result in a load of ill-informed opinions (always worthless) and ignore the evidence. So, here is my unofficial inquiry. It asks no questions of anyone and is completely unopinionated, relying entirely on evidence derived from official UK public data.”
https://metatron.substack.com/p/the-unofficial-uk-covid-19-inquiry
Enquiries.. just like voting.. would be banned if they worked..
Yes, I seem to remember hearing Bliar advised Rebekah Brooks to embrace enquiries because you get to frame the debate, limit the negative exposure and release the report during high summer when everyone is on holiday.
I can write the official enquiry conclusion right now and save £200m:
Lives could have been saved by locking down earlier, harder, and longer. Sweden and Florida do not exist. Well meaning but flawed politicians like Hancock should not be in charge of future lockdown decisions which should instead be outsourced to the experts (i.e. unelected technocrats) at the WHO.
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Fab stuff from Joel Smalley. When sense is absent, nonsense will prevail. Is there really no one with common sense left in a position of authority any longer? Are they really so dense, myopic, ignorant, corrupt, bought off, and unable to see beyond a limited scope and their own already conjured up opinions? It would seem so. Official inquiries, such as this, are so obviously not going to work. It’ll be a whitewash and we’ll be told that all is done and dusted (under the carpet).
Thanks for the link Mogs – erudite, succinct, faultless and saves a fortune.
Re:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/16/brexit-helped-uk-prepare-covid-pandemic-government-argue/
Paywall so unread and all the tips to breach paywalls never work for me.
As far as I am aware, the U.K. had a perfectly reasonable and long-standing pandemic preparedness plan / strategy that was cast aside when the scamdemic hit the U.K. shores in 2020.
Have you tried copying the web address (URL) for the article into the box on the home page of the site below?
https://archive.is
Thank you so much. It worked!
You are welcome…
Pressing ‘Esc’ button just as it begins to load also works.
I’ve tried this in the past but I think I’m just not quick enough to stop the page loading and the paywall appearing. After several failed attempts, I get annoyed with myself.
Are we not upset by the murderous events in Nottingham ??
Yes, there seems to be a dearth of information / reporting about that shocking event.
Is it due to contempt of court laws that heavily restrict what media can report before a trial?
“Is it due to contempt of court laws that heavily restrict what media can report before a trial?”
No. What is keeping MSM zippered is the fact that the perp was a black, Muslim, illegal immigrant with a history of violent offences who was known to the security services.
I suspect you are right.
I thought the msm hated muslims as they’re not lgbtqwerty compliant…
Thank you for drawing attention to the Spiked podcast. The only think that surprised me was Matthew Good man’s reference to institutions being captured and the focus that might be given to that after 2024 elections in the USA and UK.
I was surprised because I for one have been complaining of political capture for years. It was brought to my attention very powerfully when I attended secondary schools before 2016 to debate our EU membership. Most of them promoted EU membership and exuded a strong left wing bias which was not even concealed.
my children told me that at University they were not comfortable speaking about their father’s euro scepticism and activism. My wife kept her opinions very much to herself when working at the BBC.
Latest video from Tucker Carlson…I enjoyed this one….and I learned that the banner underneath a news story is called a Chyron! LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDz-k1kHUQ8
Yes, my first freelance job in London was for an American series being produced in the UK, because of that era’s US writers’ strike. I had to learn loads of new terminology. It also took ages to get back to thinking about UK frame rates after spending half a year using NTSC!!
So is Pluto’s moon! sorry I digress
Close..but no cigar..dinger….the moon is called Charon…. the mythological ferryman who carried souls across the river Acheron, one of the five mythical rivers that surrounded Pluto’s underworld.
The banner is a Chyron pronounced (Ki Ron ) LOL!!
Oh well! I did noticed the spelling was difference but wasn’t reckoning that anyone would check up on it! Your too clever by half sir/madam/him/Her etc etc 👏
Excellent interview from the very good Jermwarfare
https://jermwarfare.com/conversations/a-beginners-guide-to-vaccines-and-germ-theory
Roman Bystrianyk co-authored Dissolving Illusions with Suzanne Humphries.
It challenges the conventional narrative about the role of vaccines in public health, arguing that they have not been responsible for the decline in infectious diseases, and that they might actually have contributed to illness.
“Brexit helped U.K. prepare for the pandemic, Government will argue in COVID-19 Inquiry”
What the Hey as politics got to do with a microscopic organism! I’m sure that everyone who caught bubonic plague voted for someone or something, and it didn’t do them any good either!
“‘Case Zeroes’ in world did not come from WIV”
Of course not, it came from whang Po who unfortunately eat a nice piece of undercooked bat cutlet!
“The novelist, poet and vicar has been appointed to the senior position in a move described by LGBT+ campaigners as a ‘beacon of hope’ “
A beacon to drive more real chirstians away from the church more like, Box ticking tw@ts!
“Garth Brooks opens inclusive bar with promise to sell Bud Light and make everyone feel ‘safe’”
Ho just F off Garth!
https://www.technocracy.news/technocrat-vision-for-the-future-of-food/
Some info on what Farmer Bill is up to.
Shouldn’t that be Pharma/Farmer Bill? 🤭
Yes. Good point.