- “Diary of an ‘Expert’ (She/Her)” – Very funny spoof by Michael Jackson in the Spectator Australia about the fact that New Zealand has only just dropped all Covid restrictions, three-and-a-half years after Covid-19 struck.
- “Long Covid Is the new AIDS” – If everything can be blamed on Long Covid, then nothing can be blamed on Long Covid. It’s all confirmation studies from here on out, writes Dr. Steve Templeton for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Heavy-handed Ulez rollout will be disastrous, small businesses say” – The Federation of Small Businesses is pleading for Sadiq Khan to show some mercy once the controversial Ulez scheme expands across London, reports the Telegraph.
- “Resentment swirls as Britain’s windiest place gears up for a green revolution” – Shetlanders are divided over the impact of the Viking wind farm on the islands’ pristine landscape, reports the Telegraph.
- “The disturbing rise of the rural Greens” – Green party eco-activists are taking over the countryside, warns Richard Rout in the Spectator.
- “Claim: Record coral reef cover hides ‘cryptic’ diversity loss” – Following the embarrassment of record coral abundance, Aussie academics now claim the reef is dying in ways which cannot be observed, says Eric Worrall in WUWT.
- “India wants the world to target per capita emissions” – The Indian Minister for Power has called for a shift in the climate change narrative from total emissions to per capita emissions of each country. Paul Homewood, writing in WUWT, doesn’t blame him one bit.
- “Britain paying up to eight times more than EU for road and rail projects, research finds” – A Britain Remade study shows that the U.K. spends up to a staggering eight times more on rail and road projects than its European counterparts, reports the Telegraph.
- “Woman given £40,000 ‘sorry’ after police burst into her home” – A woman who was forcefully arrested by South Wales Police officers after they barged into her house at 2.30am and pinned her to a wall because she’d posted gender critical comments on Twitter has received £40,000 compensation and a written apology, according to WalesOnline.
- “Why did the Tories lose interest in free schools?” – Should teachers be empowered, or take top-down instruction and forced to accept ‘oracy’, or the latest hot idea from Westminster know-nothings, asks Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
- “NHS accused of ‘trying to erase women’ as trusts sign up to scheme” – Angry MPs have called for ministers to step in after 77 NHS trusts joined the NHS Rainbow Badge Scheme, which rewards them for dropping “gendered language” from policies, forms and signs, reports the Mail.
- “Fury over the dozens of children’s books with transgender themes” – Campaigners have condemned the dozens of books with transgender themes that are aimed at young children and are being promoted by publishers and booksellers, says the Mail.
- “Chloe Cole: ‘I was told transitioning would save me. It destroyed my life’” – American Chloe Cole, who underwent ‘top surgery’ in her mid-teens to transition from female to male, wants to be a girl again and wants Congress to stop doctors from mutilating teenage girls, says the Telegraph.
- “On your bike, Vogue – we can see what you think of women’s sport” – The only athlete on Vogue magazine’s list of powerful females is a trans cyclist with odd ideas on diversity, writes Kathleen Stock in the Sunday Times.
- “Alice Cooper let go by brand after opposing kids trans surgeries” – Alice Cooper has been dropped by a cosmetics company after he made comments opposing ‘gender affirming care’ for children, according the Mail.
- “A woke witch hunt has taken over the arts” – The National Theatre has revived The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s 1953 reaction to McCarthyism, just when we need it the most, writes Nick Cohen in the Spectator.
- “The radical humanism of W.E.B. Du Bois” – Sixty years on from his death, W. E. B. Du Bois’s writing offers a way out of the identitarian trap, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Ontario court rules against Jordan Peterson, upholds social media training order” – An Ontario court has ruled against Jordan Peterson and upheld a regulatory body’s order that he take social media training in the wake of complaints about his controversial online posts and statements, reports CBC News.
- “Jordan Peterson ruling empowers woke bodies everywhere to discipline members who express unpopular opinions” – The question that should have been put to the court was whether the regulator’s code of ethics overreached, says Howard Levitt in the Financial Post.
- “Musk to sue Soros’s Open Society in Irish free speech row” – X CEO Elon Musk has announced plans to sue affiliates of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, alleging they spread misinformation to justify curbing free speech, according to the European Conservative.
- “Imperial miasma theory” – A genre of books has emerged that claims Britain’s imperial past can explain everything about Britain’s present difficulties. As its latest offering confirms, it ends up explaining nothing, writes Samuel Rubinstein in a must-read piece for Engelsberg Ideas.
- “Xi’s student spy army – and how they can be outsmarted” – The Chinese President is infiltrating British universities as he tries to make China great again. Professor Steve Tsang in the Telegraph reveals that even he was approached.
- “TikTok’s U.S. e-commerce business at risk of losing over $500 million by 2023” – Popular social media platform TikTok could potentially lose more than $500 million in the U.S. due to government concerns regarding the data privacy and security of TikTok users, reports Shanghaiist.
- “The ‘false prophet’ v the Pope: Argentina faces clash of ideologies in election” – Javier Milei, a culture war populist and sex coach who won Argentina’s open primary, is in a war of words with the “communist” pontiff as he sets his sights on becoming President, says the Guardian.
- “The Covid lie that started it all!” – Independent video creator Matt Orfalea uses archive news footage to debunk the original claim that the infection fatality rate from COVID-19 was 3.4%. Trump had it right when he said it was under 1%.
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“World Health Organisation warns XBB.1.5 is the ‘most transmissible’ Covid variant yet as ‘the Kraken’ strain starts sweeping the U.K.”
Can I suggest the next variant is called ‘Fun time jolly feeling’.? Then we can really look forward to catching it.
At some stage post-modern irony might be the only option for nomenclature, once they run out of scary ones. Where they go after “Kraken” has to be “Satan,” and then what’s left for 2024?
Naming so-called variants after sea monsters after a few years of the Greek alphabet is a cynical and clearly planned move to make it sound ‘ooh so scary’ and force the normies back into mask wearing, social distancing compliance. I’m so fed up with this. Not wearing a mask, not social distancing (if I’m well!!), not taking a shot.
A cynic might observe that the “most transmissible” varieties are likely to cause relatively benign problems, which is why they survive and get transmitted. No point in killing the host, after all (and the money people know that as well).
“What we learned in 2022”
2023’s shortest document.?
And the reason for that is because they studiously ignored all actual evidence and data which did not support their anti-science, narrative, propaganda BS.
Anyway, you win Best Comment of the Day. Please accept this Cat Ass Trophy.
Thank you Mogwai. I will treasure it always…
“If Britain were more numerate, we might not have had to endure three lockdowns”
Once basic algebra has been mastered then we should be teaching about budgeting, investments and pensions. Let the brightest kids do the dead hard sums. You don’t need a working knowledge of Differential Equations to be a plasterer.
You never know; maybe competent accountants would have worked out that it would lead to a crash, and not to try “lockdown” at all!
Not sure how useful algebra is. The things you mention are useful. Key maths related skills are ability to look at statistics critically and basic economics, especially related to printing money.
But what got us to lockdowns was not innumeracy or lack of scientific knowledge, but greed, laziness, cowardice, gullibility, lust for power and plain evil.
Most important thing to teach kids – governments will do what they can get away with and they are not your friend, and it’s only the vigilance of the people that keeps them from becoming tyrants.
“Cube can be cuboid, but cuboid can never be cube”…Mr Mazumba, Craigie High School, Dundee, circa 1976.
This has seen me through life just fine.
Maybe learning something about scientific uncertainty would be more valuable, and they could start by teaching the scientists basic truths such as “models do not generate data,” “p-values do not show causes,” and even “crap peer review of crap research papers does not neutralise crap.”
It’s more than scientific uncertainty, though. It’s the corruption of science. And it’s corrupt peer review of corrupt research.
“should be teaching about budgeting, investments and pensions.”
The youth of today will have no requirements for the above subjects if CBDC becomes a reality.
“China’s Covid case ‘explosion’ not due to relaxed rules, WHO says
Then can we deduce that relaxing rules does not cause a case explosion..? Can anyone explain therefore why we are proposing to tighten rules..?
“This is the Times leading article three days into 2023. How can this be real?”
I have long been a critic of the Brian’s and Barbara’s, who turn up to the office with a streaming cold, on the grounds that they are loyal troopers for the company, and subsequently lay-up half the department with their germs. The proposal was to stay home if you are ill (a good idea), and use a mask if you are mixing with others (pointless). It is slowly morphing into something else, and for another reason, the fragility of our blessed NHS.
Well, since our ‘open borders’ policy came into force, we appear to have added 6 million people to our list, yet have reduced NHS beds by 45,000 since 2000. Did no-one imagine that our new citizens were going to get sick at some point, just like we forgot they would need to live somewhere..?
You’re right that the attitude to turning up to work with a cold may have changed. Decades ago, it wasn’t normal to take time off sick for minor ones. Lots of those working their way up didn’t want too much time off sick on their HR records, in case they were held back on account of it.
Help! The NHS needs saving! We must mandate Vicks vapour rub, red flannel and covering the silver in thunderstorms. Only quack remedies can protect a quack health system.
What has changed for Mark Harper. Oh, he’s a minister now…
There are only two explanations for Mark Harper’s ‘conversion’ :
1. Skeletons in his wardrobe
2. Brown envelopes, although a minister’s salary might qualify.
So his initial rejection of all the anti-human outrages was utterly false and amounted to posturing.
Either false or he has now been “got at” or bribed, as you suggest. Either way, disappointing but not surprising.
I do think blackmail and physical threats from organised crime groups are part of the overall equation to ensure the official narrative isn’t undermined – as well as “carrot-based” incentives, of course.
The Times: reliably shyster since 1981.
Today I received an email from Glos CC to say they are dropping out of the so-called “missing link” project as a website producer, with a link to this National Highways one: https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/south-west/a417-missing-link/ Evidently, “Something has been done”, in as much as they have held a meeting (sarc). Note the start and end dates, and the outline budget. Have fun.
Stringency Vs Life expectancy decline.
Pretty clear and impressive results.
Kraken !!.. Do me an F- in Favour ! That’s up there with Wancocks William Shakespeares 1st jab moment on GMB when he pissed himself laughing as Morgan tried to cover it , WTF is going on , it’s beyond all levels of sanity now but I bet most proles will fall for it
Oh, for fs sake !
The Kraken, this just makes them less and less believable, yet another cry wolf!
How about, variant “COVID sars Death spiral armageddon end of days bielzibub virus .0.2”
Kraken?
I think it’s hilarious. It reminds me of an 80’s TV space series, Star Trek, or even Red Dwarf.
Hilarious.
“Thunderbirds are Go!”
The NHS is utterly broken already. It just seems like it’s working. They trot out this trope every winter now and I’m surprised we don’t treat it like a sort of Anti-Christmas and have ‘Save the NHS’ chocolates and bunting going up shortly after the real Christmas – we like our festive occasions don’t we? Of course it’s used as the reason to bring back the controls as we all know. Next Christmas, it’ll be ‘NHS tottering along on a gammy leg’ and the one after ‘NHS on a trolley in its own corridor’ and so on. Apparently, according to Sunak in his embarrassingly short and vacuous New Year message, the NHS has been recruiting record numbers of doctors and nurses, and they’re pumping more money into the old girl than ever before…but it’s never enough. She, or he, has become a hopeless addict, addicted to managerial and admin staff on which much of its money goes….it certainly doesn’t go on nurses’ salaries or training. Or beds… When you haven’t got enough beds, maybe it’s time to build some more hospitals and fill them with doctors and nurses and drastically reduce those admin roles and maybe stop funding foreign adventures with your seemingly bottomless treasure chest. Everything is possible in a rational world, just not so in an insane one.
Or maybe slow down or possibly even stop the flood of ‘new patients’ followed by their families, arriving without passports in rubber dinghies.
TPTB in the UK have been systematically dismantling the NHS over at least the last twenty five years. This has also been used as a means of vastly increasing National Debt.
Each Winter we are told the NHS is on the point of collapse – it never is of course but the message helps to increase the sense of victimhood amongst the staff and undermines their morale. At the same time the public have become conditioned to expect poorer services and poorer outcomes because the NHS is under so much pressure.
Meanwhile, successive governments tell us we have a world class health service (clearly we don’t) and in order to save it, just a few more billions are required. Of course the country cannot afford these billions but if the economy is to be trashed there could not be better cover than pissing away money via our sainted NHS. Who would complain?
Why has “diversity and equality’ recruitment continued unabated. Well, this enables funds to be spent on trouble causers while their costs are hidden within the NHS budgets. Make no mistake these ‘diversity’ people are employed to create diversity but their definition of diversity is limited to a hotchpotch of random staff competing against each other and as malignantly directed by the Equality and Diversity officer; these are the sort that remain largely hidden from staff but issue strife inducing mandates to upset and undermine employee moral. The net result is that the whole organisation is permanently on edge and “on the point of collapse.”
At the moment the Unions are aiding and abetting the turmoil by promoting strikes which will simply turn public opinion against health service workers.
This is gaslighting on a par with the Scamdemic.
At some point some turd in government will be appointed to announce that “our world class and sainted NHS is sadly incapable of continuing in its present form and will be broken up,” neglecting to mention that as it collapses it is every man for himself. Of course by this point the economy too will be at or near collapse as the country will be busted. Certainly the loss of our hopeless NHS will exacerbate the death count but with depopulation a central feature of the One World Government agenda this will do nicely, thank you very much.
And lastly – it will all be our fault.
What’s not to like?
Excellent rant, HP!
By the way:
‘At some point some turd in government will be appointed to announce that “our world class and sainted NHS is sadly incapable of continuing in its present form and will be broken up,” ‘
They won’t put a negative spin on this but a positive one about choice and hitting targets and providing opportunity etc etc. It’s the way they roll.
Thanks Aethelred and yes, your final para is correct. The collapse of “our sainted” NHS, although all our fault will of course allow for the doors of our wonderful democracy to be thrown open. The freedom of (no) choice will be an inspiration and an opportunity to…oh, I don’t know.
What about?
“Build Back Better.”
The world now looks at America and laughs at what it’s become, its weak, poor morals and box ticking ideology with a decrepit old president and the worst administration in history have destroyed this once proud nation, its a sh#× hole.If i was Djokovic, I’d hold my head high and go no where near the dump!
I agree.
Djokovic should go on the offensive and tell the U S of A that henceforth he will be refusing any and all invitations to play in that country. No exceptions.
Job done.
Or perhaps more pertinently announce the above and add the rider that he is taking such action in order to support the International Hand Ball players; milk it for all its worth.
If Britain were more numerate, the gene therapy uptake would be in the single digits, not in the high double digits.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-quest-to-re-educate-jordan-peterson-11672854385
Those who sit on the so called professional committees, listening to the whinging bullies who complain “please sir, suchabody won’t do as they are told and should be penalised” make me heartily sick! They need to grow a backbone.
On a lesser note, I’ve been in and out of ‘rsebook jail on several occasions for spreading the truth. Threats and penalties don’t and won’t make me change my mind.
I’ll wear my ‘misinformation spreader’ badge with honour.
Before the mandates, I’d have agreed with Peter Hitchens.
Now, this is like saying to people that although the Nazis lost or are in their final stages, it’s still OK to continue to wear the armband and do the salute.
And he actually expressively confirms that in his article when making clear that this never was nor is about health but out that performative function.
The normalization of masks must be stopped NOW, to prevent their reintroduction via a mandate and also any other assault on one’s bodily autonomy, of which these mask mandates were most certainly the well planned for first step.
Agreed. And I still think it would be a very interesting social experiment to announce a return of clapping for the NHS every Thursday night, in your garden with your pots and pans. I’m genuinely interested how many would still be up for doing that compared with previous years. It’s a handy indicator of just how many brain dead muppets you still have in your midst. Just incase the feedback from the masktards is insufficient evidence…
Kraken. Tsk. They need to be more international in their approach like astronomers are with asteroids. Some cracking monster names they can work through, should keep them going until the next disease entity Billyboy has got lined up for us.
https://list.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_monsters
The next one, in alphabetical order, must surely be Leviathan, swiftly followed by the most deadliest strain of all – Muppet.
ONS weekly deaths publication just out
Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: week ending 23 December 2022
Looking at the death occurrence data looks like there has been a huge spike in all cause death occurrences in England and Wales over the 2 weeks ending 23rd December 2022.
Caution required here as the last 2 weeks figures can be unreliable because it includes unreliable estimates of deaths that have occurred but not yet been reported. The update of these figures by ONS in the next two weeks should be more reliable as by then most occurred deaths will have been reported. We’ll see if this has been a big spike but I suspect there has been.
The ambulance strike was on 21st December, could be questions asked about that (?)
Here is the chart of death numbers vs the 2015-2019 average
And here’s the same data but this time showing the percentage by which deaths have exceeeded the 2015-2019 average i.e. the percentage by which the green line is above the blue line in the previous chart
And a reminder that even deaths labelled as covid are, as this ONS chart shows, a very small proportion of all cause deaths albeit this is looking at registered deaths up to 23rd December rather than deaths by occurrence date
Don’t like to post up things involving deaths labelled as covid as clearly that’s all it is now, a label in every case for deaths that are actually from a different cause (and some would argue that’s all it ever has been although I wouldn’t go that far)
But that huge caveat aside, if you look at the age distribution of covid labelled deaths from the ONS data, it’s startling that the most boosted age groups form an increasing percentage of all such deaths. And the covid labelled deaths amongst younger people is impossible to see on the chart without x-ray eyesight. And yet the experimental vaccination continues.
The EuroMOMO figures are awful as well: particularly France and Germany. No updated figures from Italy as yet. For week 50 Germany has a higher level of excess deaths by this measure than since before the virus arrived. That’s got to be impossible to ignore.
I think the only thing that could possibly save the NHS, after sacking a load of managers obviously, is if doctors start doling out prescriptions for red pills. They can start with their own staff!
Did anyone else experience issues donating using the Donorbox form (on PC)? It kept asking me to do the Recaptcha and then just hanging. Eventually, after about 5 or 6 goes I got it to work but I have no idea how. Anyway at last here I am!
…I’m on IPad and had to have a couple of goes too….welcome….
Bloody ‘captcha’ is an absolute PITA.
Anyway, glad you are here.
https://metatron.substack.com/p/mainstream-media-is-starting-to-get squeaky bum.
From Joel Smalley…
Last night I heard from someone operating in much higher circles than me with respect to the COVID scam. He informed me that this is the talk in newsrooms all around the UK:
So, they’ve got a bit of a quandry, haven’t they? The tide of public opinion has already turned against them. To continue on their current course of ignoring the facts in favour of the false narrative is just going to make things even more difficult for them to ever regain public trust. To continue the analogy, they are “swimming against the tide”. Or, as I have to tell my kids quite often, when you’re in a hole and want to get out, the first thing you do is stop digging!
And then to prove the point, my inbox is full of links to this Daily Mail article, trying to denigrate the courageous Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire, Andrew Brigden for daring to try and bring public and political attention to the evident harms of the mass mRNA experiment, especially to children who are at zero risk from the disease:
I wouldn’t subject you to the torment of having to read the pathetic attempt at “journalism” but you should take a look at the comments section!
Take a look now before they disable it!
Propaganda works really well.
Until it doesn’t.
And then those that peddled it suffer the consequences. Let’s hope they are very dire!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11595547/Prestigious-medical-journal-slams-Tory-MP-Andrew-Bridgen-peddling-misleading-Covid-jab-claims.html#comments
We can only hope…..
Many thanks ebg.
There are still quite a few thickos infecting the Fail.
Yes, but at least the majority were on the ‘right side’…which is the best we can hope for.
I do genuinely often wonder what it must be like for those people, and there are a lot of them, who genuinely believe the entire thing….(I also genuinely wonder how they got like that as well!) Who have seen no reason to read or research anything and only know the MSM narrative….which they totally accept as the truth…!!
pandemic, death, masks, overrun hospitals, effective quacksines….
Alternative views to theirs must be bewildering….they must think we are off our trolleys!!? I suppose as the reality of the situation filters through they will come to understand….?
Long, interesting read on VAERS safety signal data which was only released via FOI
They really don’t want the truth out there.
https://jackanapes.substack.com/p/cdc-finally-released-its-vaers-safety?publication_id=747747&isFreemail=true
https://spectator.com.au/2023/01/are-genetically-modified-vaccines-safe/
Adding to the voices asking for the quacksines to be halted….a good article from Australia, where they are at least asking questions like this…..
If only we had equivalent media….
“At the World Health Summit in 2021, Stefan Oelrich, head of pharmaceuticals at Bayer said ‘mRNA vaccines are an example of cell and gene therapy,’ and marvelled that ‘If we had surveyed the public two years ago (and asked) ‘Would you be willing to take a gene or cell therapy and inject it into your body we would have probably had a 95 per cent refusal rate’. But as the unexplained excess death rate continues to rise alarmingly in Australia, it’s long past time for the gene technology regulator to halt the use of the Covid vaccines until their safety can be demonstrated.”
…adding to the posts from Freecumbria…isn’t the lack of any official discussion of this getting ridiculous…??
Clare Craig….Deaths 20% above expected levels in week 51.
2,493 extra deaths.
There were a total of 829 deaths from influenza and pneumonia and 429 that mentioned covid.
Deaths at home 38% above expected levels.
https://ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/latest
Maybe something to lift the spirits?…
https://babylonbee.com/news/world-in-panic-as-science-announces-retirement
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The entire world is in a panic this morning at the news that Dr. Fauci, the living embodiment of science itself, will be retiring in December. The scientific community is already announcing mass resignations now that the High Priest and the mediator between mankind and the laws of nature will be gone. Experts are predicting a dangerous rise in superstition, divination, and Twitter misinformation without the wise and infallible words of Fauci there to guide humanity toward safety and ultimate perfection.
“This is a disaster,” said one scientist. “We are surely headed for another Dark Age without the transcendent wisdom of Gaia’s Oracle here to guide us. The end is nigh.”
Sources say Fauci plans to spend retirement golfing, spending time with family, and weaponizing Monkeypox in his basement.
LOL!
https://newspunch.com/world-economic-forum-declares-pedophiles-will-save-humanity/
Read it and weep.
This is who Jelly Welby is teamed up with.