- “Nigel Farage in talks with Coutts to keep his bank account open” – Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage says Coutts has U-turned on its decision to close his account following two weeks of backlash, reports the Telegraph.
- “10 ways the Remainer establishment took Brexit revenge” – From Nigel Farage’s bank to Boris, the Express identifies 10 examples of where Brexiteers have been singled out for punishment beatings.
- “Let’s take our overdrafts elsewhere” – The New Conservative finds that Dr. Roger Watson and Jack Watson are doing their bit to fulfil the ‘go woke, go broke’ dictum by closing their Coutts bank accounts.
- “Woke Left exposed themselves as the nasty bullies they are over Farage” – The woke Left has been exposed for its double standards and insults over Nigel Farage, says Alex Story in the Express.
- “Rand Paul announces ‘official criminal referral’, says email shows Fauci Covid testimony ‘absolutely a lie’” – Senator Rand Paul says a newly un-redacted email “directly contradicts” Dr. Anthony Fauci’s testimony about COVID-19 gain-of-function research, reports Fox News.
- “The more early childhood vaccines, the higher the infant death rate” – A study indicates the more shots people have in early childhood, the higher the infant mortality rate, says Steve Kirsch.
- “CDC likely to recommend annual Covid shot in the fall, director says” – The new Director of the Centres for Disease Control says that her agency is likely to advise Americans to get an annual COVID-19 booster to protect against the coronavirus, reports Spectrum News NY1.
- “Covid vaccines increase risk of serious cardiac events by 18 times” – Vaccinated kids are experiencing severe cardiac events at a rate 18 times higher than their unvaccinated peers, claims Steve Kirsch.
- “Starmer is about to be humiliated by the global retreat from Net Zero” – The geopolitical ground is shifting beneath the eco fanatics’ feet, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Minister says unpopular low traffic neighbourhoods could be scrapped” – Energy Minister Andrew Bowie says that LTNs could be scrapped if they are making it harder for people to get to work at a time when the economy is struggling, reports the Mail.
- “Don’t overstate 1.5°C threat, new IPCC head says” – The new head of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it’s not helpful to claim that temperature rises of 1.5°C pose an existential threat to humanity, reports DW.
- “Global boiling? Don’t be ridiculous” – It’s time to stand up to the eco-fear-mongering of our medieval elites, fumes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Climate change obsession is a real mental disorder” – Alarmist stories about the weather, not the warm air itself, are behind the Left’s anxiety and dread, says Allysia Finley in the WSJ.
- “How did the Scottish Greens end up with so much influence?” – From gender reforms to rent controls to highly protected marine areas, it is becoming impossible to know where the Green Party ends and the SNP begins, says Andy Maciver in the Spectator.
- “First two phases of HS2 are unachievable, says watchdog” – According to officials at the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, the HS2 railway, designed to connect London with the Midlands and the north of England, is “unachievable”, reports the Times.
- “Chef Thomas Straker starts diversity row over his kitchen staff” – TikTok chef Thomas Straker has apologised after facing backlash for posting a photo of his all-white male kitchen staff, says the Evening Standard.
- “Universities rebrand freshers’ week to be more ‘inclusive’” – Universities are rebranding freshers’ week as “welcome week” in an effort to become more “inclusive”, reports Ewan Somerville in the Telegraph.
- “Selection process for Tory candidates includes diversity committee quotas” – Guido Fawkes has got his hands on the candidate selection rules for the Conservative Party and there are some interesting titbits amongst the procedural dullness.
- “Gender-critical books hidden by ‘tinpot censor’ librarians” – Gender-critical books have been hidden from view at public libraries by “tinpot censors” working for a Labour council, the Telegraph reveals.
- “Andrew Neil says he is pleased to be branded a ‘TERF’” – Andrew Neil says that if being a ‘TERF’ puts him in the same camp as J.K. Rowling he is more than happy, reports the Mail.
- “Trans men apply for Miss Italy in protest at ‘born female’ rule” – About 100 trans men have applied to participate in the Miss Italy beauty pageant after its organiser said the competition was only open to people who were born female, says the Times.
- “Why did Jacqueline Rose erase women?” – Birkbeck professor Jacqueline Rose’s attack on biological sex is patriarchy in drag, writes Suzanne Moore in UnHerd.
- “Why do comedians keep siding with the establishment?” – From the Farage banking row to the London Mayor’s war on banter, comics are batting for the wrong team, writes Simon Evans in the Spiked.
- “Home Office secretly backs facial recognition technology to curb shoplifting” – Home Office officials have drawn up secret plans to roll out controversial facial recognition technology into shops and supermarkets, reports the Guardian.
- “YouTube censors James O’Keefe, scrubbing his crucial interview with presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy Jr.” – YouTube continues to censor RFK Jr. under its misguided ‘misinformation’ policy, says Reclaim The Net.
- “The Democrats no longer believe in free speech” – Without free speech, we don’t have freedom to think, much less a functioning democracy. Franklin D. Roosevelt understood this truth. Why don’t modern Democrats, asks Alex Berenson.
- “Hunter Biden’s former business partner to testify Joe Biden ‘joined calls with foreign clients’” – The then-Vice President, Joe Biden, was put on speakerphone at least 20 times by his son Hunter to “sell the brand” to potential business partners and investors, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Cut him off! He’s comparing me to a Nazi’” – TalkTV host Andre Walker has a very entertaining, if not very constructive, clash with climate alarmist Donnachadh McCarthy.
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“First two phases of HS2 are unachievable, says watchdog”
I know people will tell me its more about the capacity of the network than the 12 minutes it saves on a journey to Manchester (or whatever the number was), but there is a certain inevitability to this failing project. Just a waste of money that could have been spent uprating the services in the North and the South West, but no. I was staggered when Boris said we’d continue on with it.
Loving in rural Somerset, I can conform that the South West is the land that government forgot. Governments of both colours. Labour hate us anyway as we only ever vote Tory or Lib Dem, and the Tories just ignore us.
In the recent Somerset & Frome by election, we received crap from the Lib Dems every day for a fortnight before the election, sometimes more than one lot of crap a day.
From the Tories, NOTHING. You wouldn’t have known there was a by election.
….I saw this last week and just thought Oh?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-announces-680m-for-new-high-speed-electric-railway-in-turkey
UK backs £680m loan guarantee for new high-speed electric railway in Turkey
It’s already been ‘fact-checked’,
https://fullfact.org/online/uk-turkey-railway-loan/
….which usually means a lot of people are putting it on information platforms and asking questions….
As I’m not a finance person..would I be right in thinking that if the UK underwrites the loan, and it goes tits-up..the UK taxpayer will be left with the bill?
(Not the banks loaning the money?)….and is it just another way of laundering UK taxpayers money?
It’s wonderful how our government uses OUR money to fund ridiculous project after ridiculous project, billions wasted on Track and Trace, PPE, HS2, arms to Ukraine and all the rest. We don’t get a say in this unless you call an election a democratic process, which it isn’t. And they continue to try and find new ways to get OUR money. The following is a list of the taxes that we currently pay I believe, from a post by Steve Gamble:
· Stamp Duty
· Tobacco Tax
· Corporate Income Tax
· Income Tax
· Council Tax
· Unemployment Tax
· Fishing License Tax
· Petrol/Diesel Tax
· Inheritance Tax (tax on top of tax)
· Alcohol Tax
· G.S.T.
· Property Tax
· Purchase Property Tax
· Tax on Title Searches
· Tax on Building Inspections
· Tax on supplements
· Taxes on various food items
· Taxes on Dining out
· Tax on all utilities – Phone, hydro, water, waste disposal
· Service charge taxes
· Social Security Tax
· Vehicle License / Registration Tax
· Vehicle Sales Tax
· Workers Compensation Tax
· And now Carbon Tax
Soon, they will introduce road charging – all the infrastructure is being put in place, look for those cameras beside junctions and along main roads – and increased taxes on fuel. There’ll be taxes on woodburners at some point no doubt. HS2 has been an absolute money pit that has ruined vast swathes of the countryside. For what? For who? Remember that a billion days ago, no-one walked on the earth on two feet; a billion pounds ago was only 13 hours and 12 minutes, at the rate our present government is spending it! (or something like that!)
Ugly, bloated fat cat railway! Utterly useless to the ordinary citizen, so, of cause it will be finished irrelevant of the spiralling costs!
The ordinary citizen just has to shut the f up and pay for it!
Rand Paul announces ‘official criminal referral’, says email shows Fauci Covid testimony ‘absolutely a lie’”
You have to hand it to Sen. Paul. He’s doing some sterling work at uncovering the monstrosity of covid. Is anyone listening though.?
Don’t overstate 1.5°C threat, new IPCC head says”
He won’t last the week…
Still not winding back on the original claim though, is he?
Exactly..
They never admit, they double-down on the lies and wait for the storm to pass.
“Trans men apply for Miss Italy in protest at ‘born female’ rule”
Surely with that number of applicants they could run their own They/Them Italy contest and leave the wimmin alone? Think of all the DEI companies they could get to sponsor it – Budd Lite, Disney, Coutts…
We should not indulge these people. They will never be women and can never be women, however much they want to be women.
Red weather maps fake temperature records
The new Director of the Centres for Disease Control is a very stupid woman. She is also extremely self-regarding.
She is an excellent example of the Dunning-Kruger effect and therefore very dangerous in the position she’s been put in.
Of course Harari is no fan of free speech and all for censorship instead. People like us pose a threat and might just scupper their plans. And he did actually say this as I watched the podcast clip. Flaming lunatic;
”Yuval Harari, Klaus Schwab’s right-hand man has called for so-called “conspiracy theorists” to be banned from the Internet because of their “dangerous” belief that a global clique of elites controls the world, Azernews reports.
Harari condemned the theory that a shadowy elite of billionaires and globalists control the world, he called it “anti-Semitic” and “dangerous.”
During a discussion at the Warwick Economic Summit, Harari boasted that the world’s “elites” would soon be able to use their immense power to avoid global mass extinction, which they themselves would create as part of a depopulation program.”
https://www.azernews.az/region/212843.html
Time someone dosed Davos…
Yeah.. preferably with a nuke!
Nukes, putin could come in handy after all!
It’s pure comedy clown world:
“A man has called for so-called “conspiracy theorists” to be banned from the Internet because of their “dangerous” belief that a global clique of elites controls the world, says man who works for a global elite who claim to have infiltrated parliaments and governments throughout the world and who says we will own nothing and be happy.
Harari’s own deranged speeches exemplify a ‘shadowy elite of billionaires and globalists control[ing] the world’. The man’s rants about ‘hacking’ human beings and abolishing free will give me the same shudder of terror I get watching rants by historic communist leaders and German national socialists. Harari is like a real life ‘Davros from Davos’!
Good morning everyone!
This is priceless…LOL.
The journalist Matt Orfalea has done this little cartoon about the proximal origin paper..using words from their own e-Mails and substacks etc……Short and Brilliant….!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhAGPQE0H-U
“Let’s take our overdrafts elsewhere”
Sorry, but, am I supposed to know you jack watson and Rodger watson are?
Well off, obviously!
“Don’t overstate 1.5°C threat, new IPCC head says”
Are you listening?, Mr “Global boiling” git head? Sorry Guterres!
“Chef Thomas Straker starts diversity row over his kitchen staff”
Maybe you just have to have the correct credentials and experience to do the job?
So its all come down to
” I’m black so give me the job or else”
Global boiling,scorching,searing,blazing,infernal,blistering, bubbling,rampant death spiral!
Bugger! It’s cold and raining here!
“Trans men apply for Miss Italy in protest at ‘born female’ rule” – About 100 trans men have applied to participate in the Miss Italy beauty pageant”
With 100 applicants they can have their own mentally deranged ambiguous “beauty” pageant!
Gawd, Lub a duck!
“Home Office secretly backs facial recognition technology to curb shoplifting”
Attention all blagards: wear a mask!👍
This appears to be confirmed as true…so great news….he’s trying to get into Hungary apparently…..
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If you don’t hear from me in the next 12 hours—whelp! I’m on my way to a labor camp!
Wish me luck.
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New Cedars Sinai Study Finds Heart Attack Deaths Are Up Nearly 30% in People Ages 25 to 44
“A national study from Cedars Sinai hospital shows the deaths related to heart attacks increased across every age group since the spring of 2020 but the group that saw the biggest increase isn’t who you might think…The relative increase in heart attack associated deaths among 25-44 year olds was a staggering 30%…Experts are still working to figure out why young people are so impacted.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9839603/
Now what could it be?…..think…No, I’m baffled!!
Hmm!!?
https://finance.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-adopts-european-sustainability-reporting-standards-2023-07-31_en
31.7.2023
The Commission adopted today the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) for use by all companies subject to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). This marks another step forward in the transition to a sustainable EU economy.
The standards cover the full range of environmental, social, and governance issues, including climate change, biodiversity and human rights. They provide information for investors to understand the sustainability impact of the companies in which they invest. They also take account of discussions with the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in order to ensure a very high degree of interoperability between EU and global standards and to prevent unnecessary double reporting by companies.
The reporting requirements will be phased in over time for different companies.
Aug 1 (Reuters) – Pfizer on Tuesday said it will launch a cost-cutting program if its COVID-19 vaccine and antiviral treatment keep underperforming expectations in the coming months due to plunging demand.
Pfizer said it anticipates more clarity on the future size of the COVID market later this year as infection rates rise in the autumn and the U.S. switches to a commercial market from government contracts for the vaccine.
Chief Executive Albert Bourla said this fall’s COVID-19 vaccination rates should be a good predictor of what annual rates will look like going forward, “with the only upside if we have a combined vaccine with flu or with RSV, that would increase the vaccination rates.”
If COVID vaccinations are very low this year, the company will scale back its investments for the virus, including combination shots, as part of its cost plan, Bourla said.
Sales of the COVID-19 vaccine, Comirnaty, which Pfizer shares with German partner BioNTech fell 83% ……Sales of antiviral treatment, Paxlovid, tumbled 98%.
Of course they still made billions, …..but maybe, finally, the people have spoken and really don’t want any more of the poisonous goo?
“About 100 trans men have applied to participate in the Miss Italy beauty pageant after its organiser said the competition was only open to people who were born female, says the Times.”
Er, no, let me fix that for you
About 100 MEN have applied to participate in the Miss Italy beauty pageant after its organiser said the competition was only open to people who were born female, says the Times.