- “The BMA is using this inquiry to peddle ‘austerity’ myths” – Much of the U.K.’s response to COVID-19 was shambolic – but this had nothing to do with underfunding, writes Christopher Snowdon in the Telegraph. This piece starts well, but then Snowdon goes off the rails, claiming “the biggest mistakes were locking down too late”.
- “Lockdowns were never part of U.K.’s pandemic plan, Covid Inquiry told” – Sir Chris Wormald, the Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health, told the Inquiry that the Government’s widely-criticised strategy was based on a flu outbreak, reports the Mail.
- “Covid Inquiry chief demands all of Johnson’s WhatsApp messages” – The head of the Covid Inquiry has rejected a Government compromise offer of some of the WhatsApp messages sent by Boris and Rishi, reports the Times. She wants the lot.
- “I fear we’ll never admit lockdowns were wrong” – Denouncing rule-breakers is easier than questioning our choices and risking our collective sanity, argues Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “The mRNA fanatics are nervous” – And they should be. Joe Rogan exposed them this weekend as the cowards they are, says Alex Berenson.
- “Did side effects from the Covid shots cause any excess mortality?” – PANDA continues its inquiry into the links between the Covid vaccines and excess deaths.
- “Switzerland votes to keep Covid laws and vaccine passes” – Switzerland has just voted in a referendum to retain various Covid restrictions until 2024, giving the lie to the claim that these measures were ‘imposed’ on European populations. The Naked Emperor has the details.
- “Chile returns to the mandatory use of masks” – Faced with an RSV outbreak, Chile is bringing back masks for kids and encouraging remote work. Euro ES Euro has the story.
- “Keir Starmer: I’ll scrap ban on new onshore wind farms” – Energy security is being put on the back burner as the Labour leader vows to “throw everything” at Net Zero. The Telegraph has the story.
- “Labour’s hydrogen bus breaks down on way to green event, replaced by diesel” – Sir Keir’s green power revolution launch hit a snag when the eco-friendly bus broke down and had to be replaced by a diesel bus. Then, the replacement bus got lost. Gaia Fawkes revels in the chaos.
- “Climate authoritarianism: WEF wants 75% fewer private car owners by 2050” – The climate change boondoggle acts as a mechanism for all kinds of social, economic and political changes that will greatly diminish the freedom and financial survival of the average person. Zerohedge has the story.
- “How parents are kept in the dark about sex education” – Sex and Relationship Education classes are becoming more sexually explicit and ideological, warns Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “‘They meow rather than answer a question’: The school children now identifying as animals” – The recent episode at a Sussex school in which a girl was described as ‘despicable’ by her teacher for refusing to ‘respect’ a classmate who identified as a cat has shed light on the growing trend of pupils insisting on being addressed as animals. The Telegraph has the story.
- “Auckland surgeons must now consider ethnicity in prioritising patients for operations” – Health officials say ethnicity is an important consideration in reducing historical health inequalities. Some surgeons are calling it medically indefensible. The New Zealand Herald has the story.
- “I was sacked for writing about trans censorship” – The Australian media has been taken over by activists, laments Julie Sego in UnHerd.
- “Is the Great Awokening really winding down? Part II: Evidence from news media” – David Rozado says the news media is using fewer woke words in 2022 than in 2021, but cautions against celebrating the demise of the woke movement just yet.
- “We may have won some battles but we are still losing the culture war” – Judging from the global momentum of the trans cult, woke aint going nowhere, warns Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Deconstructing Marianna in Conspiracyland” – Iain Davis explores the BBC’s Conspiracyland podcast series in OffGuardian, uncovering a disinformation campaign aimed at misleading audiences and promoting dictatorship – which no doubt Marianno would say is a conspiracy theory.
- “King Charles could face pressure to apologise for slavery” – Royal biographer Richard Fitzwilliams tells the Mail that the Dutch King’s expected apology for Holland’s involvement in the slave trade will “influence the way that others respond in European monarchies where there are former empires involved”.
- “In conversation with Laura Dodsworth and Patrick Fagan” – Join Laura Dodsworth and Patrick Fagan for a live discussion about their new book on October 26th.
- “Why Japan doesn’t do Pride” – Pride celebrations in Japan – even in the capital Tokyo – are often low-key affairs compared to their Western counterparts, says Philip Patrick in the Spectator.
- “The SNP’s fall could be as rapid as its rise” – Scottish Nationalists are downplaying a recent poll showing Labour in the lead. “Support for independence is now significantly more resilient than support for the SNP,” writes Ian Macwhirter in the Spectator.
- “The uncivil service” – In this week’s Critic podcast, Graham Stewart and Dr. Radomir Tylecote discuss the extent to which the Civil Service has been politicised in Britain.
- “Great unseen state machine called for Boris’s head, and got it on a plate” – The power of the unseen agents of the state – woke, self-interested, and against the people – has never been stronger or more sinister, writes Alex Story in the Express.
- “Trump and Boris have both been treated unjustly” – This is not how things should be done in an Anglo-American democracy, says Douglas Carswell in the Telegraph.
- “Why do Right-wingers prefer Trump to DeSantis? Because of the vibes” – DeSantis claims he’s more likely to win than Trump, and he’s right. But that won’t stop Trump becoming the Republican nominee, says Dan Hannan in the Washington Examiner.
- “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tops Biden and Trump in new favourability poll” – Forbes has news of a new poll showing Democrat RFK Jr. soaring above other 2024 presidential candidates in terms of favourability, although Biden and Trump still lead their respective fields.
- “Complex systems won’t survive the competence crisis” – America’s interconnected systems are collapsing due to a decline in competence caused by prioritising diversity over meritocracy, argues Harold Robertson in Palladium. Compelling.
- “Mark Zuckerberg goes in for the kill as Elon Musk’s Twitter bleeds ad dollars” – Brands fed up with the instability at Twitter may flock to Meta’s new sanitised version, reports the Telegraph.
- “Best-selling newspaper in Germany to replace editors with AI” – Bild plans a radical overhaul amid declining circulation and a string of sex scandals, reports the Telegraph.
- “What’s that got to do with him performing at a Pride festival?” – Julia Harley-Brewer asks the Free Speech Union’s Ben Jones why Take That’s Howard Donald was dropped from a Pride event for ‘liking’ tweets that were so innocuous.
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Party time: John Campbell.
Find the link for yourself, but I see a good man falling! I have no idea how to contact JOHN Campbell but he needs our help!
Link:
https://youtu.be/YwOpkwU1yx4
John campbell needs all our help now!
What on earth are you on about Dinger?
JOHN CAMPBELL needs our help!
Why? Is his channel being taken down? Are the police after him? Have TPTB chucked him in a cell with Julian Assange?
He’s rightfully angry, like the rest of us but he doesn’t appear to face any particular peril, unless you know something the rest of us don’t?
Does anyone know how to contact Dr john campbell?
I had a look at this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwOpkwU1yx4 – ‘Party time’ which you mentioned. There were 7230 comments on it in YT around 07:45 today. If one comments he will end up with incoming mail for each one, if his YT setup is the same as my own (it’s not under the same name as this place).
Anyway, according to his YT site, to which I subscribe, he does have this address for “business enquires”: campbellteaching@hotmail.com under his Description.
Just give me a number for john
Richard vobes , same thing ! This is the best of us!
I don’t think I can face another few years of hearing about the “Covid inquiry”,
I vote that DS ignores it. Like everything else about Covid, it’s just theatre. Dear covidians, prove there was a pandemic. Can’t? Then you can F off.
The DS are still doing articles about masks after 3 years so I’m not confident your wish will be granted tbh, although I do share your views about this particular farcical pantomime.
Wholly agree Mogs. What have we got coming up?
Pandemic Preparedness Treaty
Revised International Health Regulations
CBDC
Digital ID
Fifteen minute cities
Rampant inflation
Rampant immigration by soldier age young men
Collapsing Health services
Ballooning excess mortality which some people…erm…believe is linked to some…erm…cough… dangerous injections
Grotesque fuel price inflation alongside a collapsing fuel supply industry
Attacks on food and farming and the push for synthetic foods
Online Harms Bill
Billy’s next Pandemic
What have we got today? Masks.
This news item can be placed in the NR certainly but it does not warrant a full piece ATL.
Also:
attacks on free speech
attacks on individual liberties e.g. motoring
attacks on farming and landscape
And general attacks on the human race, society, and LIFE itself. Everything that is being rolled out seems, to me at least, anti-life. It is a death cult. Nothing is about nurturing, inspiring, lifting up, and nourishing the human soul but in constricting and restricting it, stifling its expression, weakening it, confining it and suffocating it. Of course, out in normieland I would be called a madman and a conspiracy theorist for expressing such views but I would challenge anyone to argue the alternative position.
“anti-life… I would challenge anyone to argue the alternative position.”
There is none Aethelred. This is what we are up against.
Exactamondo huxtable. It’s up to me, thee and any other willing peeps to keep on sharing to plug the gaps. It’s all we can do. The mask issue was exhausted back in early 2021 tops, in my opinion.
With you as always Mogs.
They meow rather than answer a question’: The school children now identifying as animals
Fine. Serve them their food in a bowl on the floor and make them take a shit in next doors garden. Kids aren’t stupid. If you let them take the piss, they will. Truly baffled by what mindset the teachers have to permit this to happen.
“Truly baffled by what mindset the teachers have to permit this to happen.”
Not really. For the teachers signed up to this woke / alphabet crap the whole caboodle is a goldmine:
Teacher wins brownie points for a “cat” student
Teacher absolved from teaching said student – she can’t very well teach a cat
Teacher will play the “I’m not a vet card”
Teacher will be taken out of the classroom for special meetings about ‘the cat”
Teacher gains her 15 minutes of fame
And best of all Teacher can ignore the rest of her students.
It’s a marvellous opportunity
NP I totally agree. I watched this and realised I might have done this at 7 or 9 if I’d have thought of it. But teachers had more common sense then and would have done what you said and I’d have been mocked by my peers.
This is a really good 20min documentary explaining all about the ideologies and sexual grooming which is going on in schools and being pushed on kids in the form of ”education”. It also covers why parents are being kept in the dark ( ”copyright” my arse! ) about it and the agenda driving the insanity. Highly recommended. I think it should be shared as all parents need to be aware of this. It’s also been out for a year so not sure why I’m just seeing it now tbh;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA07ta2tJpQ&ab_channel=ReclaimTheMedia
Since when couldn’t you view teaching materials due to “copyright”? Used to be known as textbooks!
Parents have a right to know what their children are being taught. B*ll*cks to this copyright argument – seeing copyrighted material is not abusing the copyright. It’s nonsense.
“It’s also been out for a year so not sure why I’m just seeing it now tbh;”
It’s because you are an investigator.
Detective Mogs.
A jabbed Robbie Williams over here playing at PinkPop, lacking stamina and struggling to get through songs, blaming ”Long Covid”. What a nob. We weren’t born yesterday, Robbie.
”British singer Robbie Williams was forced to stop singing only a few songs into his set at the PinkPop festival in the Netherlands on Sunday, saying he was exhausted from Long Covid.
Before moving onto his song Monsoon, the 49-year-old asked his band to pause, saying ‘No, stop stop. I’m f**ked. I’m f**ked.’ ‘It’s long Covid, I’ve got long Covid. It’s not my f**king age, you f**kers,’ told his audience on the Landgraaf country estate.
After a short pause, Williams went on to perform 16 other numbers, including hits such as Angels and Rock DJ. However, Dutch media reported that Williams appeared out of sorts for the rest of the set.”
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/06/robbie-williams-blames-long-covid-for-pinkpop-show-problems/
Also Robbie Williams;
”Robbie Williams and Ayda Field have had their first COVID-19 vaccines.
Ayda, 41, documented her and her husband’s trip to the vaccination centre in Los Angeles on social media.
The beauty posted a clip of herself and Robbie, in which she asked the singer: “What’s happening?”
To which the ‘Let Me Entertain You’ hitmaker replied: “We’re about to get vaccinated.”
Ayda also branded her posts with Instagram’s ‘let’s get vaccinated’ sticker in a bid to encourage her followers to get the jab.”
https://www.dailylocal.com/2021/04/16/robbie-williams-and-ayda-field-get-first-covid-19-vaccines-2/
What a bloody idiot.
He’s got no sympathy from me.
Funny how the “despicable” teacher failed to notice that “cat” is not a gender. Or if it is, presumably so is “hydrogen.”
Update on the Hotez/Rogan/Kennedy debate – charity pot now standing at over $2.6 million.
https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1670631890288619522
https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/16/deconstructing-marianna-in-conspiracyland-introduction/
I am absolutely delighted to see Iain Davis’s work featured in the NR because in my opinion he is one of our foremost investigative reporters. And of course Off-G itself which is a cracking news site.
This from Iain’s article:
“For the 2020/21 financial year the BBC claims that it received £3.8 billion in license fees and more than £1.5 billion in other income—direct government funding, etc.—giving it an annual budget of more than £5.3 billion. It also operates its own “charity,” called BBC Media Action, which spreads BBC propaganda and disinformation globally.
BBC Media Action was supported in 2022 with “charitable—tax deductible—donations” from, among others, USAID (the CIA), The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth office—by far its biggest donor—the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN).
Unsurprisingly, the BBC license fee is currently set by the UK government. Nearly 30% of the BBC’s operational costs are directly funded by the UK government and its “charitable” operations are exclusively funded by a global public-private partnership between the UK government, other governments, global philanthropic foundations, intelligence agencies and supranational intergovernmental organisations.”
Notwithstanding the above the BBC is of course ‘independent.”
https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/20/deconstructing-marianna-in-conspiracyland-part-1/
The link provided in the NR is Iain’s introduction to what will be a three part series. My link above is to Part 1.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-on-earth-is-the-covid-inquiry-demanding-that-attendees-take-trash-lateral-flow-tests/
Introduction to a six-part series. Links embedded.
Read just this intro. And weep.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/politicians-weve-never-had-it-so-bad/
An absolutely blistering take-down of our politicians and the vicious sarcasm is wonderful:
“First, we had John Major, who signed the Maastricht Treaty without any democratic mandate. His ‘Back to Basics’ campaign in support of traditional family values came unstuck when it turned out he was partial to a Currie.
Then came Tony Blair, who signed the Lisbon Treaty, also without a mandate, and became known as Tony B Liar for his monstrous lies about weapons of mass destruction which led directly to the invasion of Iraq and the end of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. Strangely, Blair wasn’t forced out of Parliament for his lies, and his sidekick, Comical Ali, is still regularly given airtime by the BBC to peddle his delusional nonsense.”
Marvellous.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/blessed-are-the-cigarette-makers-in-uns-world-of-woke/
A short but much needed filleting of the ESG industry where money is stolen from private companies via the trick of forcing them to produce useless reports on, yes, ESG. Obviously supporting companies have needed to be founded in order to help businesses to write their ESG reports and here is a sample of what is on offer:
Create Alignment
“Without alignment, progression is nearly impossible. With our ESG Maturity Assessment, you’ll be able to quickly evaluate the degree of maturity and consensus at the board and C-suite level. Uncover impactful insights and steer the company in the right direction with complete focus as a winning team.
This complete drivel – word salad would be grossly overstating its content -shows what an absolute farce the ESG industry is and doubtless it will expand on this utterly useless base.
It’s enough to make anyone believe that as the requirement to produce ESG reports filters down to the one man bands, and it will, that the intention is to drive smaller companies out of business.”
Conspiracy theories eh?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/hands-off-our-culture-and-especially-our-children/
A worthwhile double header lambasting the travesty of the current Tate alphabet exhibition and the appalling sexualisation of children in our schools which to me at least seems to be plumbing the depths of depravity.
Mark Zuckerberg goes in for the kill as Elon Musk’s Twitter bleeds ad dollars”
says the Telegraph…
Elon wants to put chips in pur brain..says the Telegraph…
Macron’s wooing of Elon Musk is a looming political disaster for Sunak..says theTelegraph…
says ebygum….
Elon Musk’s hopes of being the White House kingmaker are in tatters..says the Telegraph…..
A reckoning awaits Elon Musk’s renegade rocket rivals..says the Telegraph..
The Telegraph hate Elon Musk and are full of
Nice one Mrs Gums.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/19/rule-by-decree-the-emergency-states-plot-to-override-the-constitution/
Rule by decree. Declare an emergency and then do as you please. The complete inversion of “democracy.”
“They meow rather than answer a question’: The school children now identifying as animals”
Sorry, but they’re all sheep
and donkeys 
to me!
Not in todays News round-up, but it should be. Redacted on the origins of the Ukraine war and the tragic waste of life:
https://youtu.be/myRW5CV6Rck
How do I cancel my subscription? Tried all different ways and cannot cancel it. Advise would be appreciated
What for?
It’s too depressing and I can’t afford it anymore
It’s only 6 euros/month though. That’s all I pay anyway. And rest assured, I’d squander that on naff all over the course of a week let alone a month. Why ”depressing” though? You’re part of the gang now and your presence and input are appreciated. Well I’d miss you anyways.
Come on Dinger. Ignoring what’s happening, as many are doing, won’t make the shyte go away and I believe we have a small role to play in facing up to the onslaught. New people are joining us every week.
Hang on in there.
Dinger please just have break..we all need one sometimes…do something else for a few weeks, away from the computer..and come back refreshed…
I don’t post anywhere as much as I used to…we are in a bit of a ‘waiting’ rut, aren’t we at the moment?
Don’t feel obliged to comment….as I have sometimes in the past. Do a ‘Freddy’ and just pop in now and again until you feel can or want to engage more….
have a bit of away time….refresh..regroup….you’ve earned it….
https://petersweden.substack.com/p/digital-id-2030
Billy is pushing for a Global Digital ID. He is also now awarding gongs.
“And the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is giving out what they call Global Goalkeeper award to people who have done good work in pushing this Agenda 2030.
Guess who was awarded Global Goalkeeper for 2022? Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission…”
Disturbing.
Dr Mike Yeadon is reporting just now that the new Samsung Galaxy phone has an Agenda 2030 app pre-installed.
I can’t recall where this YT entry sprouted from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoMAR9rOCrk&list=WL&index=5 but it’s copy of a testament to a Pennsylvania state senate hearing on the topic of C-19 vaccine injury, by Dr. McCulloch. About 56 minutes in total. The presentation quality is a but weird, with the audio being a little out of step with the images, but that’s not the real point.
Just happened to be reading an article about somewhere in the world having just appointed its first “gender balanced cabinet”. One presumes they mean a the cabinet is divided 50-50 between men and women. However they cannot be too smug because of course we are now told there are an infinite number of genders so appointing a “gender balanced cabinet” would appear to be impossible.
Why has commenting been closed on Will Jones’ piece this evening :”Surprise Lockdown Sceptic George Obsorne Criticises School Closures as Ex-Chief Medical Officer Sally Davies Says “Awful” Lockdowns “Damaged a Generation”?”
Not strictly part of the daily roundup, but unless it is a mistake this is somewhat concerning on a site committed to free speech.
Now fixed – must have been a glitch somewhere!