- “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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Can anyone explain the point of T&T outside and how it would work if Infectious Ian sits at one table while Pickled Pete sits at a table far removed ? AFAIK T&T neither records location within the garden nor exit time whether the app or paper version.
I don’t know but I imagine Neil Ferguson is going to start getting a lot of phone calls
Does anyone have his number?
“Can anyone explain the point of T&T”?
It’s easy
… exercise of power and induction of submission.
Oh, sorry … you meant scientifically?
None.
Infectious Iane will NOT be sitting down in any pub garden until (well, OK, unless) normality is restored!
IanC too.
I’ll be at the beach… Oh maybe not.
You only needed to use the first seven words
Who wants to go anywhere near a pub that treats them like toxic waste?
Indeed Annie, fancy a chilly-tipple?
No thanks; I’ll stick to acts of domestic terrorism with my friends indoors around the log burner.
Tis all just a brief summer sojourn of bread-n-circuses diversion for the ‘deplorables’, pre the next draconian lockdown kicks in around Aug/Sept 2021, and just like with the Israel reality… being double-vaxxd-jabbed is offering no protection at all.
It’s already modelled in:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/975909/S1182_SPI-M-O_Summary_of_modelling_of_easing_roadmap_step_2_restrictions.pdf
You’re welcome!
The graph of woe from Israel
Ah … but the Israeli state has always had a tendency to totalitarian domination and all its accoutrements (ask any Palestinian, or those that deem ‘the wrong kind of’ or ‘self-hating’ jew). In these terms, the vaccinations have been a roaring success.
Exactly, and what are the odds of the very same tactic not being repeated here in dear ole freedom loving Blighty… eh RickH?
The IoT will include all items organic and cellular, by order of the non-elected management…
It’s a done deal.
It’s for the greater good
/sarc
Yes indeed : for the greater good – of the ruling classes and the super-rich!
The Registers of Scotland conveniently publish the weekly deaths from all causes and from/with covid, by health board and county. In Orkney, for example, the typical weekly number of deaths is around 3, rising to 5 on occasions in winter, and dropping to 0 or 1 in summer.
In 2021, the total number of deaths over the first 12 weeks of the year is nigh on twice that in the first 12 weeks in 2020. Something has doubled the death rate, but there is no covid – allegedly only 4 covid deaths in total since spring 2020. In April 2020 there were a few weeks with around 8 deaths and a week with 11 deaths, so a bad bug clearly went round but was not labelled as covid. The death rate over the first quarter of 2021 is extraordinary, and coincides with the vaccine rollout, but no-one has either noticed nor seems bothered.
Another interesting data set on the Registers is weekly deaths in Scotland since 1974. A quick plot in Exel shows that last year was nothing extraordinary at all.
Hat tip to Galene77..But from day one this has been an open secret much of the evidence, and data against government policy can be found on ‘guv dot uk’ ..
Key headings in the SPIMO report include-(my caps)
Key ASSUMPTIONS.
Current pandemic ESTIMATES.
Medium term PREDICTIONS and SCENARIOS.
ESTIMATED impact.
Modelling on the whole Roadmap.
Following this predictive BS shows a complete abdication of moral and ethical responsiblity from the utter shower of poo currently known as HMG… (seething beyond rage)
We have the news that the Pfizer vaccine does not work with the South African variant
All we need now is to find the Pfizer vaccine makes you more susceptible to death from the South African variant and we can lock down again.
This is just lip service – all part of the torture. They bloody know this isn’t going to work but they don’t care – they’re enjoying dangling that carrot! Anyone with a half a functioning braincell on active duty, know this and will not accept it. They don’t want to sit outside, freezing with a cold drink.They don’t want to be treated like a biohazard. They don’t want to wear face knickers. They don’t want to be trapped and traced, or apped, just to enter an OUTDOOR space, and they don’t want to pay through the nose for the privilege. It would be interesting to see how many, STILL unaware they’re all being played, will go along with all of this, because Daddy Government is now “allowing” them!
On a practical note, if a pub or restaurant decides it’s not viable to reopen with restricted outdoor service, does anyone know whether the Furlough money and other support will still be paid, or will the businesses be considered to have shut themselves?
The latter, I think. Permanently.
Good point, 6 months ago Jeremy Vine ran an item on London black cabs. Outside London were 6 fields each containing 200-600 redundant black taxis returned to finance companies because takings had been reduced by 80%.
The drivers were still responsible for finance repayments (some cars being all electric £70k as encouraged by Mayor Khan) but were getting no government support since they were ‘key workers’ so not obliged to stop working.
This week Journeyman Pictures YouTube are on the case.
I think it because they were self employed, not key workers. Help for self employed has been very sketchy.
Furlough is available until Sept for any business to use for all or some of their staff until normal service is resumed……or until the gov decide otherwise.
‘Hospitality‘
Itself, yet another word to be stricken from humanity’s common vocabulary.
Nothing remotely hospitable to be seen on any horizon.
Great post. With all the restrictions, rules and complete disregard for any of our civil liberties which pub and restraurant goers will be subjected to, it should be renamed in-hospitality!
Exactly why I left my job last August, I was not able to provide hospitality! I always wondered how we still had customers! But they did not seem to care to be treated as lepers and even having to pay for it!
Want to calculate your risk of dying from the C19? Oxford university have created a website where you can calculate your risk https://qcovid.org
this is gonna have to get resolved on the streets… not on the internet
Maybe now would be a good time to plan a great reopening
No Sh1t Sherlock!
Even those with outdoor space are reluctant. I spoke to a pub owner last week and asked if he was opening today. His response was ‘bollocks am I’ it’s April in England why would they. And right on que it’s snowing here this morning.
My lockdown song of the day ‘Right to Decide’, Hawkwind…
You can’t do this, you can’t do that
You can’t go forward and you can’t go back
You can’t do this, you can’t do that
You can’t go forward and you can’t go back