- “Researchers develop oral shot to kill Covid before it infects the body” – Researchers in Japan have developed a Covid vaccine in pill form which, when given to monkeys, saw them produce the necessary antibodies to protect against Covid without visible side effects, reports the Mail.
- “Do you know what ‘safe and effective’ means according to the CDC? I’m going to tell you.” – The U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention recommends updated COVID-19 vaccines for everyone six months and older. The evidence for its safety and effectiveness is unconvincing, says Steve Kirsch on Substack.
- “Trump is afraid of his COVID-19 record” – Donald Trump doesn’t want you to remember what he said and did during the pandemic, writes Pedro Gonzalez in the Florida Standard.
- “Tony Blair: Tax junk food to tackle obesity” – Tony Blair has urged ministers to tax junk food so it is too expensive for the poor, according to the Mail.
- “The worrying decline of the male teacher” – One in three primary schools and one in four secondary schools do not have a male classroom teacher anywhere in the school, writes Kristina Murkett in the Spectator.
- “‘Digital skills’ will take care of themselves; it’s the other skills we need to worry about” – Dr. David McGrogan challenges the prevailing trend of overemphasising digital skills in schools and instead advocates for traditional education that imparts knowledge not easily acquired elsewhere.
- “The cruelty of the scientific method” – In Harrumpf, Tom Forrester-Paton celebrates the scientific method and cautions against accepting claims without empirical validation.
- “Ofgem chief warns over ‘reality’ of high energy bills this winter” – Brits have been warned that they face the “reality” of energy bills being as high or “worse” this winter than last year, reports the Mail.
- “Sadiq Khan’s ‘war on motorists’ continues with biggest ever 20mph rollout” – Sadiq Khan has launched his biggest ever rollout of 20mph zones in what drivers have labelled the latest ‘war on motorists’, says the Telegraph.
- “M Zero: Glasgow’s road to nowhere” – Glasgow is unique among Britain’s major cities in having a motorway running practically through its centre. But this vital infrastructure is soon to be culled by Net Zero, warns Niall McCrae in TCW.
- “Vegan vigilantes are crushing the countryside” – Rural communities are living through a time of extreme intolerance, with the livestock farming and field sports communities on the front line, says Jamie Blackett in the Telegraph.
- “Germany’s Lindner blasts EU over ‘enormously dangerous’ green plans” – Germany’s Finance Minister has criticised Brussels politicians for proposing stricter clean energy building rules, cautioning that they could provoke a voter backlash and bolster the far right, reports Politico.
- “Gotham’s airheaded carbon law” – Set to take effect next year, the Climate Mobilisation Act will make living in New York costlier than ever, write John Ketcham and Jordan McGillis in City Journal.
- “SNP delays ban on conversion therapy amid warnings it could criminalise parents” – The Scottish Government has postponed a ban on conversion therapy amid fears it could criminalise parents who question their child’s wish to change gender, reports the Telegraph.
- “Teachers and parents are ‘crying out’ for clarity on trans issues” – The U.K. Children’s Commissioner has warned that teachers and parents are “crying out” for school trans guidance to give “clarity”, says the Mail.
- “BBC denies purging Róisín Murphy tracks after backlash to puberty blocker comments” – The BBC has denied Róisín Murphy was removed from the airwaves because of a trans row over her comments about puberty blockers, reports the Telegraph.
- “Róisín Murphy and the limits of the new authoritarianism” – The roaring success of Róisín Murphy’s new album, Hit Parade, suggests that cancel culture has finally met its match, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “To hell with woke publishers” – The gatekeepers of the publishing industry are riddled with a nasty strain of identity politics, says Gareth Roberts in Spiked.
- “BBC Scotland axes satirical cartoons after SNP complain” – The Spectator’s Steerpike eyerolls over BBC Scotland pulling satirical cartoons of politicians from social media, following criticism from members of Humza Yousaf’s Government.
- “The Left’s dangerous embrace of cancel culture” – Identitarians believe they’re speaking truth to power. They’re not, says Umut Ozkirimli in Spiked.
- “Banning smoking outside pubs is another step on the road to misery Britain” – The Government’s war against smokers needs to stop, argues Joseph Dinnage in CapX.
- “The dystopian rise of videogame censorship” – Call of Duty players will soon be subjected to AI-driven speech surveillance, warns Thomas Osborne in Spiked. You read it here first (h/t Jack Watson).
- “Australia is on the verge of a massive mistake” – In Country Squire, Prof. Roger Watson predicts that the Australian proposals for an indigenous voice will be approved, foreseeing dire consequences.
- “Book review: Elon Musk” – How can someone be so smart and so dumb at the same time, asks Dr. Scott Alexander in his Astral Codex Ten blog. Good summary of Ashlee Vance’s 2015 biography of Musk ahead of the Walter Isaacson magnum opus.
- “Apple calms angry mother nature but forgets to tell her about the lithium mines” – The Naked Emperor cringes at Apple’s latest ad featuring CEO Tim Cook and a symbolic Mother Nature, discussing environmental concerns and promoting climate-conscious behaviour.
- “Australian broadcaster Alan Jones utterly schools a panel of climate zealots on the reality of the climate scam” –Wide Awake Media has posted a video of Australian broadcaster Alan Jones – legend – letting off truth bombs in front of a panel of eco-fanatics on ABC’s Q&A.
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It could never really happen anyway. If such a treaty were to be accepted it would be an implicit destruction of any country’s sovereignty and thus and ruling power structure would immeditely become defunct. All of the power players know this. They just feed you this to give you the impression that you’re still in Kansas. We were very lucky to be exposed to the film The Wizard Of Oz because it contains several hints and warnings and they have become subsumed into our psyche.
That’s why I’m amazed sunak hasn’t signed it. Yet..
The Jabs are dangerous ! Hopefully they will soon be like trying to sell a car with square wheels ( mind you if it was classed as Eco friendly some muppets would buy them
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So I imagine the WHO might just tweak that little part of the treaty, and let countries hold on to all their domestically produced jabs. So now the deal becomes: We, the WHO, will repeal the sovereignty of all signatory states during times of pandemic, “potential” pandemic or “potential” global health alert, deny the autonomy and freedom of their citizens and halt all democratic processes as we know them – and that is all fine because we’ve taken away the clause that requires the governments of such states to poison citizens of other countries as well as just their own.
What? Won’t sign because
our sovereignty would be given away? No, because the poison death and injury shots would be given away. Unbelievable. Clown World.Absolutely correct not to sign it. We should only think about compliance in the event that we’re mandated to hand over the lot, 100%. Having ‘got rid,’ we should then refuse to sign in any circumstances.
The real rulers know that we are heading for cataclysm or reset. The game is to keep the charade going on long enough to maximise their gains. Part of that is having a much reduced population after the catclysm. If you look at events from the perspective of a coming catastrophe then they start to make more sense.
That is ‘their’ hill to die on!
Look at investments in areas that are currently desert they know that things are shifting. In Russia the pole shift is common knowledge. They are already building a trade route in the Arctic with China which will bypass Anglo-American channels. To begin with it will be with high tech icebreakers but they know that the far north is going to thaw very soon. Similarly the Brits know the fate of this country in terms of climate – significantly worse. It makes a big difference if you are armed with this knowledge. How many people actually think about their people or brethren.
I fear that this is just part of the scam.
UK Gov: Look! We’re being all tough about this, Protecting our sovereignty. Not putting up with any bullshit.
WHO: OK. You don’t have to do that bit about sharing stuff. You just have to do lockdowns and masks and stuff and closing schools and doing tests and surveillance when we say so.
UK Gov: Great! (Trebles all round! See, we aren’t pushovers. We were really tough with them!)
Once again, currently-sovereign nation states are shying away from the risk of becoming outliers assuming the the WHO is going to form a kind of “club of nations” (much like the UN), this time comprised of the signatories to the Pandemic Treaty and the amendments to the IHR. Much as local populations of potential member states have absolutely no desire to be part of such a “club”, the governments of those member states probably feel themselves pressured into joining so as to avoid the the vilification and isolation from the rest of the world that they fear might result from the abstention from signing. All of this is completely unfounded, of course, as people hold national and individual sovereignty to be of greater importance than their representatives in government do. So any state that boldly refuses the coercive offer to serve under a “pandemic dictatorship” will earn the respect of the world as one who stood up for the sovereignty of the nation and its people.
Given the regard that the recent vaccines are held in by many, it seems to me that giving 100% of them to the WHO would be ideal provided that Tedros, Gates and their cronies are required to be injected with all of the doses.
Jacob Rees Mogg pushing the establishment line with no counter argument. Where is oFcom! Only joking, would not want to entertain that state censor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Hmz9-Ok34
Yes I guess the UK thinks it is absolutely fine to give away its sovereignity to the WHO, but dear Lord don’t take away are unsafe and ineffective vaxxes
. This country, this government has its priorities mixed up.
‘has its priorities mixed up’
That’s too kind, too gentle a way of describing the government – not the country, by the way: the government of whatever tint is not the country, nor does the government represent the views of the vast majority of people – far from it. We don’t live in a real democracy, for heaven’s sake!
The Uniparty government represents only its own views. An elite cabal of liblabcon has been managing this country for 100 years and mismanaging it appallingly since the end of WW2.
It doesn’t matter if it’s the cons or the labs who sit on the front benches or the opposition benches; they take turn and turnabout again and again (only fair!) with the limp dims occasionally allowed to snuggle up to whichever faction needs propping up after a doubtful ‘election’ result.
There are alternative ways of viewing the bubble-dwellers who have a stranglehold on this country’s politics: they are either incompetent morons or they are cowardly traitors to every British man, woman and child.
Only incompetent morons would even think of signing up to China’s lickspittle Tawdry Tedros’s Treaty and the WHO’s blatant attempt at a power grab to further the ends of the globalist malefactors.
Only cowardly traitors intent on selling us all down the river for personal gain and approval from their masters would sign up to the Treaty of aforesaid globalist malefactors who care nothing for nations, national sovereignty, and the native people’s rights to freedom, independence and self-rule in their own land.
‘Mixed-up priorities’ don’t come into it. The Uniparty Undemocrats who misgovern our country are either unfit for purpose or they are treacherous scoundrels.
This is Sunak electioneering, trying to look tough, standing up for British sovereignty. Two years earlier and he’d have signed it. Had the election been last month, he’d now be signing it
Starmer will be signing it soon after the next election, if Sunak hasn’t signed it by then.
To my mind, the biggest threat facing humanity is the political class, on a par with the super-rich.