- “Banks face ‘very large’ fines if they close customers’ accounts over political views” – The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has written to the Financial Conduct Authority to demand they ensure banks are following the law, reports Sky News.
- “Nigel Farage says NatWest in ‘panic mode’ after new data request delayed” – Nigel Farage has claimed NatWest is in “panic mode” after a fresh request for personal data was delayed, says the Express.
- “FCA executive was chairman of Stonewall while charity created diversity guidelines” – A senior executive of the FCA helped draw up guidelines on gender identity for major companies while he was the Chairman of Stonewall, according to the Telegraph.
- “Don’t say ‘black’ market, say ‘illegal’ instead, Finance U.K. says” – U.K. Finance has issued a guide on language which includes banning the term ‘black market’ and replacing it with ‘illegal market’, reports the Mail.
- “Why is the MHRA hiding critical safety data on the Covid vaccines?” – The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is still withholding crucial pregnancy data, say Professors Norman Fenton and Martin Neil.
- “Long Covid report is short on sense” – In all likelihood, the protection offered by COVID-19 vaccines against Long Covid is in people’s minds, says Roger Watson in TCW.
- “Was the Covid response a coup by the intelligence community?” – The Western intelligence community’s role in driving the illiberal response to Covid is now obvious, says author Michael P. Senger.
- “The cheerleader who demanded lifelong quarantine for the unvaccinated now admits nobody under 50 should have been vaccinated” – Dr. Kári Stefánsson, once skeptical of COVID-19 measures, now admits vaccines dangers while defending lockdowns. Thorsteinn Siglaugsson wonders why.
- “Sadiq Khan’s new scrappage scheme for his hated Ulez tax branded ‘a con’” – FairFuel U.K. campaigner Howard Cox has branded Sadiq Khan’s new scrappage scheme for replacing vehicles to avoid his new Ulez charge as “a con”, says the Express.
- “Greenpeace activists are arrested over protest at Rishi Sunak’s home” – Four Greenpeace activists were arrested after demonstrating for seven hours on the roof of Rishi Sunak’s £2 million home in North Yorkshire while he was away on a family holiday, reports the Mail.
- “Solar panels produce five times more CO2 than previously thought” – A new report reveals that 80% of the world’s solar panels are manufactured in China, which uses coal in the process, says the Mail.
- “Robin Harper is right: the Scottish Greens have ‘lost the plot’” – Robin Harper, the first Green Parliamentarian elected in the U.K., has resigned from the Scottish Greens, saying they have “lost the plot”. Stephen Daisley in the Spectator agrees.
- “The eco-cultists’ war against the car is built on fantasy and delusion” – No, people don’t drive because public transport is poor, and cycling is a rich man’s faddish luxury, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Conservatives give their views on Net Zero, climate change, cars, bans and LTNs in new survey” – Conservative Home crunches the numbers with a new survey, finding an emphatic 83% of Conservative Party members are opposed to the ban on new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030.
- “Public being ‘misinformed on a massive scale’” – A top climate scientist has rubbished claims July was the hottest month ever, according to Climate Depot.
- “The green agenda is fuelled by fear” – Climate alarmists want to terrify us into changing our behaviour, says Laura Dodsworth in Spiked.
- “Why they hate cars” – The green elites have no idea how most people live, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Unsold electric cars may be signalling a death spiral for the auto industry” – Endless government subsidies to encourage EV sales seems unable to allay the concerns of the average citizen, writes Ronald Stein for the Heartland Institute.
- “BBC apologises after presenter calls Dambusters raid ‘infamous’” – According to the Telegraph, viewers have lodged complaints after BBC presenter Sally Nugent referred to the Dambusters raid on Nazi Germany as “infamous” on BBC Breakfast.
- “National Risk Register reveals 89 biggest threats to life in Britain” – The Mail has got hold of the National Risk Register, listing the 89 greatest dangers posed to Britain, ranging from climate change to cyber attacks.
- “SNP by-election candidate wanted trans-sceptic MP booted out of party” – SNP Rutherglen by-election candidate, Katy Loudon, backed a grassroots campaign to have a senior MP kicked out of the party in a row over trans rights, reveals the Mail.
- “It isn’t racist to object to new traveller sites” – Welsh Secretary David T.C Davies is perfectly justified in raising his constituents’ concerns. That is the job of an MP, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Falkland Islands advertises for £43k a year equality guru” – An equalities guru is being sought for the Falklands to oversee a 3,662-strong population, outnumbered by 500,000 sheep, reports the Mail.
- “Why are feminists whitewashing Beanie Babies?” – According to The Beanie Bubble movie, every innovation that made Beanie Babies such a wild success was to some degree either inspired by or stolen from women by their monstrous creator, says Kat Rosenfield in UnHerd.
- “British Rowing bans transgender women from female events” – British Rowing has banned transgender women from competing in female races, while the men’s category will be ‘open’ for anyone to compete in, says the Mail.
- “Everyone should have the right to insult Islam” – No religion, idea, prophet or god should be protected from ridicule, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Lizzo and the problem with ‘fat activism’” – Simultaneously self-adoring and self-pitying, ‘fat activism’ appears to be the latest entry in the Victim Olympics, writes Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “Costa’s woke mural leaves me no choice but to boycott them. Who’s with me?” – Judith Woods in the Telegraph calls for a boycott of the woke coffee chain.
- “The liberal metropolitan elite charged with governing us are completely at odds with the majority of the British people” – Speaking on GB News, Toby finds common cause with Allister Heath, Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, suggesting majority opinions are being ignored by an elite minority in the U.K.
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Quickie update from Joel Smalley on excess deaths in Sweden. Yep, totally vindicated. And interesting comments below, including from our Elizabeth Hart, asking the same as me; why on earth did the Swedish government then urge/coerce its citizens to get a jab they demonstrably didn’t need? If they didn’t lockdown, mask up or close schools then they can’t say it was the restrictions which saved them from certain death, but get vaxxed anyway…? Makes zero sense.
https://metatron.substack.com/p/sweden-cant-explain-away-the-fact
Simple.. because it was all about getting that jab of toxins (nanotechnology) into peoples arms..
Hydrogel Interfaces for Merging Humans and Machines – MIT Research Review
I can’t answer your question…but people didn’t always act as we would hope or think…..and that what we see as totally illogical, might not have seemed so to them….??
It’s very difficult to answer…was it money?..a genuine belief they would work?….
Panic? Stupidity? Evil? Collective Insanity? An overriding sense of being seen to do something..even if it was the wrong something? Shame?
Who knows?
This is a good substack from Thorsteinn Siglaugsson….(try saying that fast ten times!! LOL!)
“The Cheerleader Who Demanded Lifelong Quarantine for the Unvaccinated Now Admits Nobody Under 50 Should Have Been VaccinatedWhat is it that prompts Dr. Stefánsson to come forward now, years after it became abundantly clear how useless the vaccines were and how dangerous to the young and healthy?”
…and again, it’s as if they know they were wrong, but just can’t get to actually admitting it wholeheartedly….
https://thorsteinn.substack.com/p/the-cheerleader-who-demanded-lifelong?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
All you need to know about Sweden in two handy graphs…
Why was Hancock not hauled over the coals at the inquiry when he proudly announced if it happened again, he’d lockdown even harder.
In essence, he stated publicly “I am a Sociopath”
I am slightly mystified by Sweden. Yes, they didn’t lockdown, but they did have huge “care home issues” in the early days (which caused them to look bad compared with other Scandinavian countries), and they did roll out the vaccines quite aggressively (with mandates, I think). Their excess death performance would have been much more understandable (to me, at least) if they had also rejected the vaccines, but they didn’t.
Any thoughts?
Hard to know for sure. There has been at least one study, covered here I think, which analysed adverse “vaccine” events by batch and found huge variations, leading the authors to think that a lot of the batches were close to a placebo. Maybe Sweden got mostly placebo batches, or maybe the vaxx is less harmful to people who had covid before they were “vaccinated”.
One thing is for sure – there won’t be any state connected body doing serious studies into all of this.
“Why was Hancock not hauled over the coals at the inquiry when he proudly announced if it happened again, he’d lockdown even harder.”
This was Handicock announcing to the Davos Deviants:
‘Gissus a job!’
Getting himself in position for the next one.
OFF TOPIC!
any chance of a private members forum for all of us at this amazing place? So we can meet chat, and become friends (or enemies)
should we wish? Toby?
Dinger, if you go to the Forums at the top of the page you’re able to private message people from there. I don’t know how a group one would be set up though.
Oh right, sorry, not up on all this stuff!
thanks mogs
I’ll give it a look
I’ve always enjoyed David Bell’s articles and I’ve always agreed with him. This is a notable exception, as he writes about how the toxic gene therapies should not be removed from the market and people should have the choice to get jabbed or not. I think they should be ditched, but it is rather a moot point anyway given that they’re not going anywhere anyway. Too many vested interests in this lucrative but proven dangerous mRNA tech for them to ever be investigated let alone ditched. Plus, if they were ever removed from the market how will the globalist psychos ever be able to say ”No jab no travel” and all the rest of the restrictions on daily life they have planned for us with the vax pass? These shots are necessary for their agenda to progress.
”Mass vaccination in this context is obviously a flawed policy. Mandating a non-transmission blocking vaccine for immune people at minimal intrinsic risk could only be driven by gross ignorance or corporate profit. The use of behavioral psychology to instill fear and the use of coercion are clearly unethical by any modern ethical standard. The many people who have lost their jobs and homes, and were publicly vilified for standing on principle and refusing to submit to such practice, have a clear right to redress. Those who committed fraud should have to answer for it. Those who abandoned the precautionary principle and informed consent should be required to justify their actions and their right to continue to practice.
None of this should remove the right of the public to make their own decisions on accessing these new genetic vaccines as a currently marketed commodity. Where expected harm clearly outweighs benefit, no medical practitioner should offer it, just as it would be inappropriate to offer Thalidomide to a pregnant woman with nausea. Where there are plausible grounds for overall benefit, if should be available as an option. These individuals can decide, based on the information available. While this group of potential beneficiaries appears diminishingly small, it remains conceivable that elderly obese diabetics with no prior Covid infection may benefit. Market forces can then decide whether the product is viable, rather than authoritarian dictates.”
https://brownstone.org/articles/theres-no-need-to-ban-these-vaccines/
I agree with you that they should be removed from the market – they are purportedly being used in animal “vaccines” and the traditional “vaccines” are being changed to mRNA technology. The stuff is everywhere.
“Why they hate cars”. I have long thought that the view of these smug idiots who tell us cars are not necessary generally live in the leafier parts of London, with everything on the doorstep, and have no concept at all about rural (or even semi-rural) living. We have one bus a week to a local town, that’s it. I would love it if there was an hourly bus to our nearest shopping centre ten miles away, but no bus company would run it because there’s no money in it. In fact, bus services in local areas are constantly being amalgamated and withdrawn due to lack of use.
I remember, with amusement, the person who got a lift into the village for some reason, but then wanted to get out. He approached me near the bus stop (no details of bus times are displayed!) and asked how he could get a taxi. It turns out that he thought he would simply phone for an Uber. He was even more dismayed when I told him that if you want a taxi you have to, generally book it a few weeks in advance. I suggested he stuck out his thumb.
I think they might alter their views if they lived here for a bit.
“Don’t say ‘black’ – say ‘financial’.”
I think I get it:
“This is the worst bank crisis since Financial Monday.”
“The Financial Death wiped out a third of Europe.”
“Justin Trudeau often appears in financial face.”
“Come and see my new financial labrador.”
That should stop the prejudice, eh?
What about the financial box in planes? Some people are great fans of Financial Sabbath Financial seems to be a very popular colour for doors and window frames at the moment. Financial ice is a problem in winter.
Etc. etc.
Makes sense doesn’t it?
Stop that immediately Gefion.. or you’ll end up with an ether delivered financial eye..
You have a down tick! As have I. I wonder what was going in the mind of the downticker. If there is a mind….
Actually, ‘financial’ does sound like a shade Farrow and Ball would come out with.
Wow it gone dark, it’s a financial out!
I’m blinded by the snow, its a white out!
Why one rule for one?
“Don’t say ‘black’ market, say ‘illegal’ instead, Finance U.K. says”
They’ll be coming after Brilliant White next.
Space, the final frontier, is a vast illegal place full of illegal holes and…. I can hear lawsuits being busily prepared on the Enterprise. May the daftness continue…
Not to mention ‘Old English White.’
Please don’t ever mention that again…
‘Whiter than white’
‘Black spot’
‘Black mark’
‘Lily white’
‘White noise’
The list is long!
How about an illegal cab? Might be a few of them on the road. None in Bristol, though; they have to be blue.
A whiter shade of pale?
“Pink noise” is probably “problematic.”
“Nigel Farage says NatWest in ‘panic mode’ after new data request delayed”
They must have run out of printer ink!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12362697/Greens-senator-Nick-McKim-melts-climate-sceptic-politician-Matt-Canavan-Mate-shut-mouth.html
This is very funny…the Green Party Senator Nick McKim absolutely loosing his marbles over global warming….
The article isn’t behind a paywall and has the video…LOL!
This is a good video, which someone has gone to a lot of trouble to cobble together…
Showing the Democrats doing exactly what they are prosecuting and accusing Trump of doing (election interference and questioning the result)!
Someone commented that the Democrats have clear double-standards..but those are the only standards they’ve got…LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX2Ejqjz6TA
12 Minutes of Democrats Denying Election Results.
That is very amusing. And all based on the Russian collusion argument that we now know to have been a complete hoax.
I attach a link to a clip on Twitter showing a GB News interview yesterday with a US journalist called Jan Halper-Hayes, where she argues that the latest Trump indictment is a big mistake by the Dems.
“2020 election is going to be RE-LITIGATED over this..they made a huge mistake… Biden is..president of what is now the bankrupt US Corporation..that was a treaty in 1871…Sept 12th 2018 Trump created an Executive Order..specifically for the 2020 election”
https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1687361516931092480?s=20
Why the outrage? What else would one expect from the BBC? Who on earth watches their output or pays heed to their pronunciations. Me? R5 & Extra for Sport, occasional R3 (now also hugely dumbed down). Otherwise they may as well not exist. In essence, they are talking to themselves.
We junked our TV nearly 20 years ago. Not missed it for one day.
Admission. I do occasionally switch on Today. Why? To remind me why I never listen to it.
Always works.
Oddly, I’ve never heard the term ‘whitewash’ and took offence based on skin colour. I see it as completely unrelated. Perhaps I have missed a trick here and should be demanding some form of reparations?
Why isn´t Stefánsson in prison or, at least, debarred from practising medicine?
OFF TOPIC!
any chance of a private members forum for all of us at this amazing place? So we can meet chat, and become friends (or enemies)
should we wish? Toby?