- “VAIDS in children: More hard evidence of negative clinical outcomes” – An obscure Moderna study shows dozens of vaccinated kids hospitalised, writes Igor Chudov on Substack.
- “American mRNA fanatics and health bureaucrats just made their worst decision yet” – The Centres for Disease Control is about to push a new round of Covid boosters on healthy teenagers and adults, even as the rest of the world admits defeat and gives up on the jabs, says Alex Berenson on Substack.
- “Pfizer XBB 1.5 monovalent vaccine was tested on 20 mice, without a control group or human trials” – Dr. Peter A. McCullough raises concerns about the regulatory practices and lack of comprehensive human studies for new U.S. COVID-19 vaccines.
- “Covid’s back. Don’t panic!” – Is the new covid variant Pirola really just a stalking horse for those who want our country locked down once again and a clamp placed securely over our jaws, asks Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
- “More mask hysteria” – As summer turns to autumn in the U.S., the maskaholics are attempting a comeback, writes Jeffrey H. Anderson in City Journal.
- “Canada’s top health officer Theresa Tam urges masks, new Covid shot ahead of fall season” – Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam has said face masks should be worn to protect against Covid, flu and RSV this autumn, despite numerous studies showing their ineffectiveness, reports LifeSiteNews.
- “Unvaccinated pupils face 21-day isolation as measles cases rise” – Unvaccinated children face being forced to self-isolate for 21 days because of a rapid rise in measles cases, says the Telegraph.
- “A&Es had busiest summer on record with 6.5m visits” – NHS strikes fuelled the busiest summer in A&E on record as patients whose appointments were cancelled turned up at hospitals, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bernard Looney and the sinister policing of office romances” – Bernard Looney’s resignation as CEO of BP, attributed to undisclosed past workplace relationships, serves as a cautionary tale against office romances, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Bernard Looney’s card was marked the minute he embraced Net Zero” – Many BP investors will be happy to see the back of Bernard Looney and his green crusade, comments Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
- “The Russian invasion was a rational act” – There is solid evidence that Putin and his advisers think in terms of straightforward balance-of-power theory, write John Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato in UnHerd.
- “Germany backs out of EU resettlement plan to stop Italian migrants” – Germany has withdrawn from a European solidarity initiative, citing concerns that Italy has not fulfilled its obligations to accept migrants back under the EU resettlement plan, reports the Mail.
- “Aboriginal woman stands up at National Press Club to say she opposes Voice” – At Australia’s National Press Club, an aboriginal woman who stood up to declare her intention to vote ‘No’ in the forthcoming referendum was yelled at and told to sit down, reports the Mail.
- “Encouraging population decline is pure defeatism” – Extolling the benefits of population decline is straight out of the anti-growth coalition playbook, says Matthew Lesh in CapX.
- “Why won’t Greenpeace admit that wind turbines may be killing whales?” – Is there a correlation between the increase in washed-up dead whales and the expansion of offshore wind turbines? And why does Greenpeace not seem to care, asks Matt Ridley in the Spectator.
- “‘We’ve cut carbon emissions by decimating working-class communities’: The leader of the GMB union on the folly of Net Zero” – In an interview with the Spectator’s Kate Andrews, GMB union leader Gary Smith says achieving Net Zero will destroy working class communities.
- “Is the EU sacrificing Net Zero to protect its electric car industry?” – It turns out that the EU cares more about protecting its own auto industry than climate change and is planning to slap tariffs on Chinese EV imports, writes Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “Publishing needs to be more diverse, but how?” – Victoria Smith argues in the Critic that publishing is suffering from a lack of diversity of thought.
- “Rishi Sunak is ignoring the true lesson of the Liz Truss implosion” – If the Tories think Liz Truss was undone by unfinded tax cuts, they’re looking at a decade in the wilderness, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Academia’s cancel culture distracts from the Right’s free-speech abuses” – Why are so many on the identitarian Left so quick to reduce differences of opinion to existential threats to marginalised groups, asks Umut Özkirimli in the Times Higher.
- “Silkie Carlo: Is the U.K. the next surveillance state?” – On Spectator TV, Winston Marshall speaks to Silkie Carlo, Director of Big Brother Watch, about the Online Safety Bill, the Digital Services Act and whether Britain will be the next surveillance state.
- “A very British coup at the National Trust” – A rebel alliance that includes Lord Sumption has formed to restore the National Trust’s original mandate, observes Harry Phibbs in CapX.
- “Conversion therapy ban to be delayed with officials ‘stuck in a loop’” – Rishi Sunak is expected to delay a promised ban on conversion therapy following disagreements over how the legislation should be worded, reports the Telegraph.
- “Trans activists target Richard Ayoade for praising Graham Linehan’s memoir” – Trans activists have waged an online war against actor Richard Ayoade for blurbing Graham Linehan’s new memoir, according to the Telegraph.
- “Beauty salon offers celebrity clients over 40 pronouns to choose from” – An exclusive beauty salon frequented by celebrities offers its clients a list of over 40 different pronouns to choose from when booking an appointment, says the Mail.
- “Give schools trans guidance now, says Children’s Commissioner” – Dame Rachel de Souza says there is “real confusion” over what teachers should do if pupils try to “socially transition” to another gender, reports the Telegraph.
- “Gender and sexuality issues are boiling over in U.S. schools” – Recent litigation points to rising issues with gender and sexuality curricula in American public schools, writes Tal Fortgang in City Journal.
- “Canada’s Environment Minister is ordered to unblock Rebel News on X” – The Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change has been directed by a federal court to desist from blocking Rebel News’ Ezra Levant on X as long as he remains a Member of Parliament, according to Reclaim The Net.
- “Roisin Murphy closing in on first No1 album after trans row” – In a blow to the Witch-Finder Generals, Roisin Murphy’s new album, which her record company was refused to promote, is heading for the No1 slot.
- “Kathleen Stock: I don’t have repeatable words for the BBC right now” –The BBC needs to “stop participating in these ridiculous confected outrages” says Kathleen Stock on Times Radio as it drops Róisín Murphy from BBC 6 Music over her comments on puberty blockers.
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I’ve been out of medicine for 15 years, and was a GP rather than a hospital quack. But I fully endorse your assessment here. As in every profession, if you let doctors get on with doing what they’ve been trained to do (and more importantly, developed a personal nous for over the years), you can get away with underpaying them and produce only grumbles.
Treat them as jobsworths, and they become jobsworths, to nobody’s benefit. But as we all know, you can only run a world from the top down if everybody is a jobsworth.
They can go on strike, as long as they want.
If I can stop being taxed to keep the NHS on perma-lifesupport.
And as for missing out on some future treatment by Ranjit, Retard and Dizzy Blonde.
I’ll take my chances, thanks.
I’m sure that many people who dont come into contact with its world, see the BMA as a passive and moderate organisation furthering the care of patients. Thats a long way from the truth. Very interesting article again Doc.!
What a joke. £100K or more + a MASSIVE PENSION + 40 hrs a week in the communist death care system. SHUT IT ALL DOWN. START AGAIN.
I pay absurd amounts in taxes. I have private medical insurance paid by myself.
We need a system with competition, price points, quality and service.
Most importantly – these arselings loved Rona, they made record earnings, they danced in diapers in empty hospitals. They are criminals who stabbed poisons into people with ingredients they can’t spell or pronounce against a scamdemic. Cowards and criminals.
And the criminals want more of my tax money? F Off. You are fired.
….just over 151 million jags have been given out in total, in the UK…
4 million ‘spring boosters’ just this year..at (now) £15 per vax (up from £12.58) to the Doctor or pharmacist, or ‘paid volunteer’ (£20 on Sunday and Bank holidays…and £30 if it’s a home visit…….!!)
As Del Boy would have said ‘a nice little earner’…!!
“Jags”?🤔
A Scottish colloquialism, M’Lud.
Stabbinations is also good.
LOL! Picked it up on here…yes it is Scottish jab/jag…..a lot of people have used it in the past….I like a change from quacksines now and again!! LOL!!
Haha, never heard that one. And given that I’m from Newcastle, and we get the dregs of Scottish lingo, it’s surprising. 🙂
I love your common sense “to the point” attitude, it rocks!
Well as there’s no News Round-Up today I’ll just dump this here. Looks like our Nigel isn’t the only one being targeted and bullied by the banking sector;
”An Anglican vicar has slammed Yorkshire Building Society for closing his account after he accused them of promoting gender ideology.
Rev Richard Fothergill, a longstanding customer with the building society, wrote to them in June to complain about their public messaging during Pride month.
The 62-year-old says within four days, he received a reply telling him his internet savings account would be closed, The Times reports.
Rev Fothergill, of Windermere, Cumbria, has since accused the banking giant of ‘bullying’ and said: ‘I wasn’t even aware that our relationship had a problem. They are a financial house – they are not there to do social engineering. I think they should concentrate their efforts on managing money, instead of promoting LGBT ideology.
‘I know cancel culture exists and this is my first first-hand experience of it. I wouldn’t want this bullying to happen to anyone else.’
The retired vicar insists his observations were a polite rebuttal of transgenderism, in response to material on YBS’s website.
But the building society wrote it has a ‘zero tolerance approach to discrimination’ and their relationship with the customer had ‘irrevocably broken down’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12253081/Vicar-accuses-Yorkshire-Building-Society-bullying-closing-account-trans-protest.html
This is particularly interesting because unlike banks, Building Societies are (ostensibly) democratic associations of lenders and borrowers, who elect a board to manage their stash. Shareholders are entitled to vote, and so should be free to initiate an AGM motion against promoting Pride.
So to close the account of a shareholder expressing an opinion is to uncover that the democratic nature of the society is a sham.
Excellent clear account of exactly how consultant pay is calculated. GP pay is similarly based on very complex arrangements.
it was crystal clear to me when consultant and GP contracts were renegotiated by the government some years ago that the bureaucratic system introduced for the determination of pay was open to widespread manipulation to guarantee the very best possible remuneration for the least effort. It was also crystal clear that administering such a bureaucratic payment structure was itself very costly and open to counterproductive abuse.
The medical profession at a stroke was reduced to a trade and, as we all know, a workman is “worthy of his hire”!
At one time doctors were treated as professionals and regarded themselves as such. They outperformed because it was their professional obligation. All extra effort above and beyond their contractual obligations was provided for love. Now every effort not required by the contract of employment attracts additional payment.
A prostitute won’t wash your socks for free! There is no love and no obligation involved for the oldest profession!
The most junior doctors have great justification for their pay claims to compensate for years of relative decline. With student debts of around £100k they are effectively paying a graduate tax out of a salary that does not begin to compare with that achieved by the brightest and best students who chose the private sector rather than public service.
Loan forgiveness for all junior doctors would go a long way towards ameliorating their current situation and earning their goodwill in return for a period of commitment to NHS service. There would be no immediate huge cost to the government and it would help those in most need now who have paid most to train as doctors. Since 85% of student debt is never repaid it seems like a common sense approach which is probably the reason it will never happen!
beanie, I basically agree. except that when the new GP contract was negotiated, the government side worked on the assumption that GPs were all workshy and on the golf course all day, so needed to be incentivised to cover things like chronic disease and so on.
They were warned by the BMA negotiators that most GPs were doing this extra work already without remuneration, as it had been devolved from hospitals over many years, and that therefore the costings were completely out. Gordon Brown personally rubbished the warning, and so the contract did not alter.
As a result, as soon as the new contract came in average GP remuneration increased massively, because of work that was already being done, and a government disinformation campaign began to persuade the public that avaricious GPs were always intended to spend the money investing in extra services rather than taking a pay rise for work designated in the item-of-service fees. That denigration of my decades of hard work for my patients was one reason I left.
No doubt there were, and are, workshy GPs gaming the system, and the system encourages it. But it’s also true that for decades beforehand the system was gaming the GPs by adding new work and staff costs without paying for it, by repeatedly cutting pay review body recommendations under the guise of “affordability.”.
Great article, thank you DS. Every article by this author has been extremely insightful and well written.
Sadly that is not the case for articles written by Ian Rons about Ukraine, which completely ignore the endemic corruption etc in Ukraine that used to be widely reported by the MSM, plus Nato’s role in reneging on the agreements made in the Minsk agreement; plus of course the US government’s role in overthrowing a democratically elected government. In addition – also ignoring the now well documented involvement of Boris Johnson sabotaging the draft peace agreement that apparently Ukraine & Russia were on track to sign. Of course there have clearly been atrocities on both sides – this is an appalling war as all wars are, but the DS is doing itself no favours by supporting this continued doubling down & wilful ignorance of the well documented other aspects of this awful situation. If the DS ends up losing its well deserved reputation for questioning the mainstream narrative – I will stop funding it.
If I was still working I would not be striking. The current pay demand is absurd in the current national financial climate. In my last 10 working years pay rises were less than inflation, and often less than the supposedly independent review body recommended. Did consultants strike then? We just grumbled. But a practical point… you cannot increase productivity if your outpatient clinic is limited in length, as my managers at the time insisted upon. You cannot increase operating time if there are not enough theatres to operate in, not enough staff to staff them, restrictions on start/stop times and not enough beds to accommodate postoperative patients. And if in such a constrained system you increase the number of consultants then productivity decreases per individual. I know of a provincial surgeon who used to have two NHS operating sessions a week, but with the arrival of new colleagues is down to one a fortnight. I know of few doctors who want to sit around doing nothing, so it’s hardly surprising they take to the private sector where they can actually do something.