- “Covid inquiry ‘limits outside voices’ on whether lockdown was too draconian” – The Hallett Inquiry is seemingly reluctant to accept contrarian research into lockdowns, the Telegraph says, such as the report recently published by the IEA which found that the intervention saved 1,700 lives.
- “The Covid inquiry’s verdict already seems to be in: we should’ve locked down even harder” – In his Telegraph column, Dan Hannan says the Hallett Inquiry has already reached a verdict.
- “The main Covid lockdown casualties: Children” – “The evidence keeps piling up that children were the biggest casualties of the Government’s response to Covid,” says the Wall Street Journal, the latest being the news that suicide rates among young people in the U.S. have hit a 20-year high.
- “Tories drink, dance and laugh at Covid rules in first ever Partygate video” – The Mirror showcases some video footage of the Christmas knees-up held at Conservative Campaign Headquarter, December 14th 2020.
- “Proof Boris Johnson’s accuser did go to a party in lockdown” – The Mail On Sunday has got hold of the WhatsApp invite that Bernard Jenkin sent out offering “birthday drinks” for “a few of our favourite people”.
- “My conversation with AI over hydroxychloroquine” – The AI bot makes numerous factual errors as it discusses hydroxychloroquine with Harvey Risch of the Brownstone Institute.
- “Chinese scientist who filed patent for Covid vaccine died mysteriously” – Zhou Yusen died in mysterious circumstances in May 2020, according to the Mail, a few months after filing a patent for a Covid vaccine. Did he know too much about the virus’s origin?
- “Wildfires and climate change: Narrative ever more detached from actual evidence” – Francis Menton of the Manhattan Contrarian offers data to counter the widespread notion that climate change is the cause of wildfires.
- “Man arrested on suspicion of starting Northern California fire that burned more than 100 homes” – 71 year-old Edward Wackerman has been arrested on suspicion of starting a forest fire in Yosemite National Park in California, according to AP News.
- “Smart meters are a trial run for an even greater heat pump disaster to come” – The Telegraph’s Simon Heffer foresees a revolt over “impractical environmental schemes that will impoverish millions”.
- “There is still time for us to do right – and save Julian Assange from dying in U.S. dungeon” – Peter Hitchens calls on the Government to block the extradition of Julian Assange to the U.S. in his Mail On Sunday column.
- “Teacher Roy Huggins sex ed class nearly cost him his job and sanity” – Roy Huggins filled in for an absent colleague in a sex-ed class and told the children some biological facts. Now, reports the Mail, he is suffering from night terrors because of the fallout.
- “Sex education is brainwashing our kids – It’s time to take a stand” – “The blunt reality is Britain’s schools are now rapidly following their counterparts in America,” says Matt Goodwin in the Sun, “by exposing children to highly divisive, utterly toxic and very contentious theories which often have no serious basis in science.”
- “When will the Department for Education get a grip on its transgender guidance?” – Lottie Moore in the Spectator takes aim at the Department for Education over its new guidance on safeguarding children in schools.
- “Teach children to disagree politely, say leading heads” – Two leading headteachers have warned that free speech is rapidly disappearing from our schools, reports the Times.
- “I say, Darbishire, why are you wearing a dress?” – Katharine Birbalsingh says that private schools are “too caught up with social justice problems”. Cue a very funny column by Giles Coren in the Times in which he imagines a woke version of Jennings.
- “Federal judge rules MA student’s ‘there are only two genders’ T-shirt ‘invades the rights of others’, is not protected by free speech” – A Judge in Massachusetts has ruled that wearing a T-shirt saying “there are only two genders” could be construed as bullying, the Post Millennial reports.
- “Guilty Until Proven Innocent in Ireland” – Ireland’s new hate speech bill will be “as draconian as it ineffective”, argue Natalie Alkiviadou and Jeffrey Cieslikowski in Persuasion.
- “Council spends nearly £50,000 on ‘rainbow junction’” – Disability campaigners have urged Hounslow council to “rethink its priorities”, the Telegraph says, after it spent £50,000 on a ‘rainbow junction’ that’s leaving partially-sighted people dazed and confused.
- “Young Tories are nowhere to be found” – Eric Kaufmann analyses the latest polling on voting intentions among young people in a piece for UnHerd. “If today’s cultural trends go unchecked, the Tories are on track to becoming a natural party of opposition.”
- “An Inside Job” – The New York Times sets out the evidence that it was Russia that blew up the Kakhovka dam.
- “The revolutionary power of heresy” – Spiked publishes an extract from Brendan O’Neill’s new book, A Heretic’s Manifesto.
- “We need a 9/11-style commission to get to the bottom of the cover-up” – Michael Shellenberger appears on Calvin Robinson’s GB News show to discuss the origins of Covid and his claim that patient zero was a Wuhan lab researcher.
‘We need a 9/11-style commission to get to the bottom of the cover-up.’
— GB News (@GBNEWS) June 17, 2023
US author Michael Shellenberger speaks to Calvin Robinson about his report which claims Covid’s ‘patient zero’ was a Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher.Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604 pic.twitter.com/bNf8HutlbY
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So a whitewash then as always seemed likely, and will presumably limit itself to such questions as whether Peking Piffle partied too hard and whether enough had been spent on health since 2010.
Just out of interest, is there any point in contributing to the enquiry (as radio adverts are now urging), and are any serious attempts being made to prevent it being a complete whitewash, and ensure that pharmaceutical companies, the media (including Oliver Wright and the Times muppets) and other collaborators (such as ICL, or the people behind the rigged vitamin D trials) are held properly to account for their actions?
If you’re referring to EveryStoryMatters then contributing is a good idea. Otherwise, it could be dominated by stories that may be critical of selective aspects of the government response but generally support the narrative.
Like any government consultation, it may not make any difference on the outcome but the point is to ensure the information is there so it cannot be claimed there was no criticism of lockdown, unethical use of psychology, bypassing of informed consent by coercion, computer modelling etc.
An alternative is to be less critical and put in a positive experience: how uplifting it was when you saw those around you start to shed their trust in the government and mainstream media.
“may be critical of selective aspects of the government response but generally support the narrative.”
I think this part of your statement says it all! This is the target the inquiry is already aiming for, the arrow is already heading for the bullseye!
I have never heard or seen any such advert. Perhaps their agency did not chose GB News or Daily Sceptic?
GBNews did an article on it but there doesn’t appear to be a link in the article.
https://www.gbnews.com/health/covid-lockdown-pandemic-rules-inquiry
Here’s the site:
https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/every-story-matters/
Interestingly enough, I just watched a film, Death Comes To School” (1953), a murder mystery about an unpopular teacher who was murdered. In the end, it turned out that it was one of her fellow teachers who did it, to protect a niece at the all girls (and all female teachers) school, from having her father forced into a divorce by this teacher (Miss Cooper) who was having an affair with him. Now I absolutely don’t condone murder, and accept that there is a legitimate debate to be had about affairs. However, the point stands that in general, those who are prepared to make great sacrifices to protect children are greatly to be admired (see the Birkenhead Drill) – the exact opposite, shamefully, of what happened with the lockdowns and their “obsessive safetyism” (Toby Young) – but not for the safety of children. Of course we know now (if we didn’t after Diamond Princess) that they didn’t make anyone safe. Put that in your “covid” enquiry.
As it happens, some of our people from the anti-lockdown church had a bit of a Christmas knees-up towards the end of December, 2020, and we make no apologies for it. Never forget, Peking Piffle’s crime was locking us down and the associated human rights abuses. The parties just rubbed salt in the wound.
Where are the reports of how many people were hospitalised or died as a result of civil service parties and lockdown gatherings? Would that not be the headline story? The event highlights the hypocrisy, the silence on the consequences highlights the fraud.
There are of course three genders – masculine, feminine and neuter ( der, die, das). I dare say though that he didn’t mean to bully the Germans…
let’s not be beastly to the Germans noel coward at DuckDuckGo
The Hallett Inquiry sounds like an (expensive) attempt by The Blob to lay down an “official” history of the Covid years. Probably won’t work these days quite as well as in former eras.
I suppose if a partially sighted person happened to spit at this particular junction, it would count as “hateful behaviour”. Maybe fines could be issued to such partially sighted people so that the council could recover some of their costs…
And where are the
child poverty crossing/disabled crossing/heterosexual crossing/abused women/mental illness crossing and many other underrepresented minorities (and unrepresented majorities) in the UK? all deserved of note, but, no, just gay crossings!
Diverse my @r$£!
And an insult to Zebras! Pelicans will be next, mark my words…
Federal judge rules MA student’s ‘there are only two genders’ T-shirt invades the rights of others
Clearly woke nonsense, the student’s right to wear the T-shirt is surely covered by the First Amendment.
Which organisation financially backed whoever took legal action against the student?
The student should claim to be a Christian, even if they aren’t, and being banned from wearing the T-shirt breaches their freedom of religion. Years ago when the woke mob wasn’t as powerful as it is now several students won the right to wear T-shirts saying “homosexuality is a sin” on a freedom of religion rather than freedom of speech defence.
According to the judge, wearing the shirt within the school is not covered by the First Amendment:
‘Citing multiple precedents, the judge ruled that “A school need not tolerate student speech that is inconsistent with its basic educational mission, [ ] even though the government could not censor similar speech outside the school.” So there was no constitutional violation that occurred.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12205705/Chinese-military-expert-filed-patent-Covid-vaccine-died-mysterious-circumstances.html
‘…in Wonderland, nothing is as it seems.’
‘“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice…’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/17/smart-meters-are-a-trial-run-for-an-even-greater-heat-pump/
It increasingly seems to me that the net-zero fervour of the western world is looking like the deranged rantings of a demented and irrelevant cult. Meanwhile the rest of the World seems to be getting on with real life in the real world.
China has just donated 20,000 tonnes of fertiliser to the Philippines to aid rice production.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202306/1292736.shtml
Russia has sold a load of oil to Pakistan with the trade settled in Chinese yuan. A group of African leaders have met with Putin in Russia to discuss peace in Ukraine. The Russian and Chinese air forces are carrying out joint flying exercises over the Pacific.
I have a premonition of the UK in the future as a country of immiserated, hungry, cold people struggling to survive in our new net-zero third world status. Maybe by then the BRICS nations will have grown so prosperous and powerful that they will send us food parcels and blankets?
Totally agree
any country that holds on to cheap energy will rule the world, in some cases, they already do!
Or walk in an invasion force and use the country as a prison island.
A guy from Take That was cancelled from singing at a Pride event because he liked some Tweets. But that’s not the worst bit. The worst bit is his pathetic, arse-kissing apology for doing so. What a pitiful excuse for a man you are, Howard Whatsyername!
”Sharing his own statement to Instagram, Howard wrote: ‘I have made a huge error in my judgement liking social media posts that are derogatory towards the LGBTQIA+ community and for that I a deeply sorry and I know I have let everyone down.
‘I am really disappointed in myself and I am sorry for any hurt that I have caused by my uneducated actions I clearly have a lot to learn and it’s a priority for me that I do this.’
MailOnline has contacted representatives for both Howard and Nottingham Pride for comment.
Prior to his account being taken down, Howard had liked Tweets such as: ‘Only women have periods! Men cannot menstruate. Transgender ‘women’ cannot menstruate,’ according to PinkNews.
Howard had also liked a Tweet from Turning Point UK founder Charlie Kirk as he called for Disney to be defunded for holding a pride concert.
Other Tweets included anti-vax messages and conspiracies.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12205931/Take-Thats-Howard-Donald-axed-Nottingham-Pride-liking-transphobic-homophobic-tweets.html
The equivalent of a conquered tribe being led through the streets of ancient Rome in chains. What an idiot! Then again, so many have suffered the same fate and done exactly the same thing. Like Clarkson grovelling and apologising on bended knee to the Sussexes (Windsors?). Where are the backbones? Of course, women are the only people who can menstruate! How daft do you have to be to not say the effin’ obvious? Since when did lies become truths? I would bear the fact of being cancelled at a Pride event for such tweets as a badge of honour – something to be really proud of. You know, speaking the actual truth and not being cowed into some subservient groveller agreeing with lies.
Totally, Aethelred. The guy has just demonstrated he has zero credibility or balls, thus is not worthy of our respect. It’s ”Howard the Coward” from now on from me. Somebody else we can not add to our list of allies in the fight against this madness. Hope he doesn’t have kids if this is his attitude to this extremely damaging ideology sweeping the world. What sort of message would he be instilling in them if this is the kind of person he’s proven to be? Everyone should be standing up for reality and biological facts, not pandering to the fantasies of the crazies just because you’re trying desperately to remain relevant now that your heyday is long past. Utter Woketard!
Howard the coward is an absolute canker.
See what I did there?
“There is still time for us to do right – and save Julian Assange from dying in U.S. dungeon” Perhaps in many people’s minds this is not the most pressing issue of our times yet still this is the metre by which we can judge our own society. Assange has still not been convicted anything yet he has been held in Belmarsh high security prison for 5 years now. Before that, he had a netherworld existence in a cramped space in the Ecuadorean Embassy because he knew that if he was arrested, he would be extradited to Sweden – on trumped up charges subsequently dropped – and from there to the US. This man has suffered. And for what? For exposing the crimes of the US government and NATO. All that power focused on this one man because they hate the fact that he briefly shone a light on their nefarious activities and broke the spell that the US is a force for good. The US is a gangster state disguised as a democracy. They are evil beyond understanding. Nothing the US government and its deep state string pullers does is for the collective good of humanity – they might think they do, in their twisted reasoning, but really they don’t. If Assange is extradited – and it looks like he will be – then it is an awful reflection of a system that doesn’t stand for truth, life, or liberty, if it ever did, but one that crushes, silences, censors, cancels, constricts, stamps on and kills to protect its veneer of respectability, patriarchal concern and quiet uncontested authority – and it is just a veneer and veneer peels off in the light and heat! Sadly, all truth seeking journalists will be just a little bit more wary in holding aloft the torch of truth and shining a light on the dark festering heart of the establishment.
Totally agree….do you remember Sunak on 3rd May ‘World Press Freedom Day’?
He talked about how important it is, and how he stands ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with the US on Russia’s detention of US journalist Evan Gershkovich…
..but on one of the most egregious arrests ever…crickets!!?
The fact that the UK is supposed to send him to a banana republic where the wannabe dictator is currently arresting his political rivals, is the cherry on the cake!
Great post, Aethelred – I agree with every word – and love your description of the US as “a gangster state disguised as a democracy”.
A quality post Aethelred.
So the New York Times thinks Russia blew the dam?…well they thought Russia bombed Nordstream initially as well….?
I have no more idea than anyone but I know that the UK have sent Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine, and lo and behold, one of the functions of the missile is that it can penetrate a structure before it explodes!……
Wikipedia…..
The Storm Shadow’s BROACH warhead features an initial penetrating charge to clear soil or enter a bunker, then a variable delay fuze to control detonation of the main warhead. Intended targets are command, control and communications centres; airfields; ports and power stations; ammunition management and storage facilities; surface ships and submarines in port; bridges and other high value strategic targets.
When engaging hard targets, such as Hardened Aircraft Shelters or bunkers, the missile will strike the target at the estimated optimum dive angle, selected during mission planning. On impact the detonation sequence commences. The precursor charge will perforate the target structure, and any soil covering, and the follow through penetrator warhead will continue to penetrate inside the target to be detonated after a pre-selectable fuse delay.
Just putting out there!!
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/twenty-four-reasons-why-net-zero-must-be-abandoned/
A pretty comprehensive take-down of the myths around Co2 and its impacts on non-existent anthropogenic climate change.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/blogs/truro-diocese-on-the-way-to-closing-churches
The destruction of English churches and in this article specifically Cornwall. Indicative of the systematic dismantling of the British way of life.
I don’t but doubt similar destructive practices are under way in other counties. All led by senior members of the clergy. Well I never. It’s almost as if Satan was taking over.