- “Police ‘execution’ of teenager sparks riots in Paris as cars burned” – Rioting has broken out on the streets of a Paris suburb as a policeman is accused of executing a teenage driver in cold blood, reports the Mail.
- “Lockdown-induced phobias and anxieties fuelling long-term sickness crisis” – In the Telegraph, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has suggested that musculoskeletal problems have increased among home workers since the pandemic due to poor posture.
- “Fight this sinister power grab by the WHO: part three” – In the last in a three-part series, Dr. Elizabeth Evans argues that the proposed WHO Pandemic Treaty and changes to the International Health Regulations would be a dangerous assault on medical ethics and individual freedoms.
- “The disgrace of Australia’s pandemic betrayal” – John Stapleton’s new book, Australia Breaks Apart, is “the definitive account of Covid Australia” and a thundering reminder of the evil that men (and women) do, says Paul Collits.
- “The perils of Net Zero coercion” – Sweeping bans to cut greenhouse emissions in Europe are leading to widespread public backlash, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.
- “Britain’s pothole crisis could be made worse by electric cars” – A study led by the University of Leeds has found that the excessive weight of electric vehicles could decimate roads that are already ill-equipped to handle the strain, reports the Mail.
- “Just Stop Oil throw paint over energy firm’s Canary Wharf office” – Eco-zealots staged a sit-in outside the Total Energies HQ after using repurposed fire extinguishers to spray paint its exterior fluorescent orange, says the Mail.
- “If the ‘godfather of ESG’ is confused, then you know there’s a problem” – BlackRock CEO Larry Fink found himself tangled up in knots over the weekend facing questions about the lacklustre performance of ESG funds. It’s time for a refink, says Ben Wright.
- “NHS nursing strikes are over… for now” – NHS nursing strikes have temporarily halted as the Royal College of Nursing fell short of achieving a 50% participation rate in its latest ballot for industrial action, reports the Mail.
- “MP’s bid to ban ‘social gender transitioning’ in schools is defeated” – Reclaim Party MP Andrew Bridgen failed to attract support for new gender and parental rights laws, says the Mail.
- “Gender-critical woman wins Arts Council England harassment claim after trans row” – An employment tribunal has ruled that Arts Council England employee Denise Fahmy faced a ‘hostile environment’ because of her view that people cannot change their biological sex, reports the Telegraph.
- “Lifeboat crews are caught in sexism and racism storm” – RNLI lifeboatmen have accused the charity of being on a “woke crusade” amid a row over “alpha male” among volunteers behaviour, says the Mail.
- “The world’s wokest country is leaving Britain’s economy in the dust” – A dose of Canada’s ultra-liberal realism could solve the U.K.’s stagnant growth, says Matthew Lynn.
- “The witch trials of Davina McCall” – Brendan O’Neill explains why the trans set is so terrified of women with opinions, following the monstering of Davina McCall for tweeting her approval of Sharron Davies‘s new book.
- “The problem with ‘cis’” – “Language is being manipulated by trans activists,” warns James Esses in Spiked. “The sooner we leave it behind, the better.”
- “Who is controversial director Nicolas Winding Refn?” – The BBC has raised eyebrows by picking a controversial Danish film director to helm its re-interpretation of Enid Blyton’s children’s classic.
- “There’s nothing rebellious about Glastonbury” – Every politician, broadsheet hack and nepo baby now insists on being seen there, says Julie Burchill.
- “Meghan labelled talentless after Spotify podcast deal collapse” – According to the Telegraph, Hollywood agent Jeremy Zimmer says the Duchess of Sussex is “not a great audio talent, or necessarily any kind of talent”. Ouch.
- “Nigel Farage is named News Presenter of the Year at the TRIC Awards” – Nigel Farage last night called on his hecklers to “keep the abuse coming” as it “says a lot more about you than about me” after he was named the best news presenter in the country at a trendy awards ceremony, reports the Mail.
- “Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning” – Apple joins WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in condemning the Online Safety Bill for allowing a state regulator to view messages on end-to-end encryption apps, reports the BBC.
- “Exposed: secret Government effort to regulate your mind” – The U.S. Congress must defund and dismantle the corrupt Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and fire its director, says Michael Shellenberger.
- “Britons currently have the worst access to healthcare in Europe” – On the 75th birthday of the NHS, the New Statesman’s George Eaton says the NHS (and the Government) needs journalistic scrutiny, not quasi-religious indulgence.
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Tess Lawrie’s statement about the situation in NZ regarding baby Will;
“Update (8 Dec 9 pm UTC): The family reports that just before midnight local time Thursday night, Will was removed from their hospital room by five uniformed police officers. He is currently in the PICU awaiting the operation that was scheduled for 8 am local time (7 pm UTC).
Despite available donors, supportive doctors within New Zealand, and warnings of cardiac issues after mRNA injection from Medsafe’s website, the organization tasked with ensuring that medicines in New Zealand are safe, the judge has trampled the rights and wishes of baby Will’s mother and father and devastated their loving family.
All people have the right to choose non-mRNA vaccinated blood, not least for their children. The decision to remove Will from his parents’ care is unconscionable and sends a chilling message to all New Zealanders about the State’s overreach and blatant disregard for the rights of parents to make their own informed decisions about their children’s health and well-being.”
He should have had his operation by now so I wish him a speedy recovery and that he can be back in the full-time care of his parents where he rightfully should always have been. It’s obvious why the judge made this decision though. It would open the floodgates of people demanding non-vaxxed blood and initiate people asking questions and raising justifiable concerns over blood and organ donations. Can’t have anything giving rise to public concern and unrest about the impact of mRNA floating around in donated blood can they? I hope this case has made some people stop and think though.
https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/news/statements/baby-will-new-zealand/
So this isn’t totally disturbing!
I was reading on Telegram that Will’s mother is allowed to be in a room with Will but she has police chaperoning her round the clock and even when she goes to the toilet. Madness.
https://rumble.com/v1znqv6-baby-w-our-baby-has-just-been-medically-kidnapped.html
However, on a more positive note, just saw a vid of the parents speaking outside the hospital and Will is out of surgery and doing well.
Can you imagine if anything bad happens with this baby’s health now though? 
The world is watching.
Truly this story makes me want to cry.
Here is the brilliant Kit Knightly over at Off-G giving some wider aspects of this case an airing.
A short but well ‘worth reading in full’ article.
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/08/dangerous-precedent-nz-court-orders-baby-removed-from-anti-vax-parents/
And about bloody time hux you plonker.
Apologies everybody.
An interesting new substack from Igor looking at how the WEF wants our homes to be worthless due to a change in regulations;
“If the WEF gets its way, your building could become a “stranded asset” — that is, abandoned due to changes in regulations — unless you perform an expensive and often impossible retrofit — at your expense, of course!
Installing corn-based carpets and repainting the inside with soy-based paint is the easy part. Some ideas are crazy, like watering your garden with water coming out of showers and washing machines. Switching to heat pumps and geothermal heating or cladding your home with custom panels for greater insulation will likely cost more than the value of your house — necessitating a demolition or abandonment of your home.”
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/the-wef-wants-your-house-to-be-worth
And the to a high degree privately-owned and property obsessed UK actually seems to be the pilot country, as it is the only one which has already put the initial steps and demands into law. Pure expropriation already passed, and everyone just puts the kettle on.
“initial steps and demands into law.”
What are the initial steps to which you refer?
Indeed. I was under the impression it was Cameron who eased up on building regs some years back (‘bonfire of the building regs’ 2014) which is why so many new builds are really badly constructed and poorly insulated. The green build mob were really p*ssed.
https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/archive/cameron-claims-victory-in-bonfire-of-the-building-regulations
Interesting post, thanks for flagging. As well as being yet another pointless Net-Zero wet dream, its further evidence of the eradication of history and the vernacular landscape, who we are as distinct cultural and geographical peoples across the globe – real diversity, not this deliberately divisive stuff currently being pedalled – and running alongside all that ‘decolonisation’ of academic history cr*p. And I assume corn carpets (wot, no wool??) and soy paint will need to be organic and GMO free: where are they going to grow it all to meet demand if all the agri land has been rewilded? Insanity.
Wonder what Historic England are going to say about it given all the present restrictions on listed and conservation area buildings. Will be fun to see how they try and justify it.
The WEF won’t get their way.
I have very little doubt that there will be an immunity deficit in both children and adults thanks to lockdowns. I suspect, however, that is not the cause of the strep A deaths.
The severity of the effects that this bacterium causes have varied greatly over the years. It used to cause great outbreaks of scarlet fever, and late sequelae of rheumatic heart disease and gomerulonephrits. All I ever saw it doing in 40 years of medical practice was cause what we called scarletina, a very mild form of scarlet fever, and sore throats/tonsillitis.
I suspect this problem is more down to changes in the organism rather than children.
I would be interested to hear the views of others on this issue.
The Twitter Files Part 2 – not a long thread, worth reading in full. I don’t have a Twitter account, just read in it a web browser, select “sign up” when prompted then press the X to close that window.
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601023504916172800
3. Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya
) who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/is-german-crackdown-on-far-right-plotters-a-blueprint-for-tyranny-everywhere/
One of our stalwarts alerted us to the news of mass arrests in Germany. My first thought was ‘false flag.’
I wonder who will be the fall guy(s) in the UK?
Coming soon to a BBC / SKY channel near you.
https://azgeopolitics.com/?p=3239
Thanks ebygum.
..thanks Hux, I did wonder at the time if they really were ‘far-right’…?
the article says what a lot of us think…how do we warn people against the next spurious crisis….and how do we fight against something that no one is giving us a vote or say over?
Like this, from the Netherlands, tweeted from Eva Vlaardingerbroek, who often appears on GB News…
“The majority of the Dutch Parliament ordered the government by means of a motion to NOT support the European Digital Identity Project.
What did our Secretary of Digitalisation do? She went to Brussels and voted in favour of a European #Digital ID anyway. “
The democratic contract between Government and the people seems entirely broken to me…
Without doubt the first part of our war us with our own governments.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/conspiracy-theorists-todays-new-mainstream-in-the-covid-state/
And it is excellent articles such as this by Paul Collits at TCW which destroys Isobell Oakshott’s “no malign intent” in the Spectator article featured yesterday and which rightly got a good drubbing from many of us on here.