- “COVID-19 shot may be linked to unexpected vaginal bleeding: Study” – A new study implicates the Covid vaccine in incidences of abnormal bleeding among non-menstruating women, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Flip-flopping and turning coats on an evidence-free stage” – On Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Henneghan tackle the conflicting statements of Cabinet Ministers and Sir Patrick Vallance in the Hallett Inquiry.
- “Together Second Anniversary event from London” – Together was formed with one main purpose: To unite people from all walks of life to oppose the Government’s draconian response to COVID-19. Watch a livestream of its Second Anniversary event, with speakers including Prof. Carl Heneghan, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Laura Dodsworth, Matt Goodwin, Dr. Renee Hoenderkamp, Julia Hartley-Brewer, Sherelle Jacobs and Alan Miller.
- “Over 277,000 COVID-19 cases in 2021 in the vaccinated hidden by CDC: Files” – Newly obtained files reveal that over 277,000 COVID-19 cases among individuals who had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine were reported to the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in 2021 but were not disclosed to the public, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Vaccine and mask mandate issued in California county” – A county in California has issued a mask and vaccine mandate, forcing all healthcare workers to get yearly vaccines or wear a mask at work, says the Epoch Times.
- “Conspiracy theories are flourishing because governments engaged in Covid disinformation” – We must stop our governments and public bodies engaging in what they see as noble lies, writes Dan Hannan in the Washington Examiner.
- “Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine: Factcheck” – On his Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone, who is recognised as one of the inventors of mRNA technology by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office, responds to the Nobel Prize being awarded to two people who did not invent it but are getting the credit for doing so.
- “GB News sacks Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson” – GB News says it has “ended its employment relationship” with Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson after they were suspended over the former actor’s remarks about a female journalist, reports the Mail.
- “Laurence Fox ‘found out he’d been sacked from GB News while in custody’” – Laurence Fox has been released from custody after he was arrested for conspiring to damage Ulez cameras, according to the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak pitches to voters in pre-election Tory conference speech” – Rishi Sunak made his pitch to voters to “fix” Britain as he dramatically cancelled the rest of HS2 to free up £36 billion for “hundreds” of better transport projects, reports the Mail.
- “Did Dominic Cummings derail HS2?” – The scuttlebutt at the Tory Conference is that Dominic Cummings is behind the abandonment of HS2, says Joshi Herrmann in UnHerd.
- “Rishi’s war on waste has defeated HS2. Now he must scrap Net Zero” – Sunak has shown he has a far harder-headed approach to spending taxpayers’ money than his predecessors, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak reported to Scottish police for Nicola Sturgeon comments” – Sunak has been reported to Police Scotland over comments he made about former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in his Tory conference speech, reports the Mail.
- “Kemi Badenoch shows why she is the obvious choice for next Tory leader” – Kemi Badenoch has received the sort of rock star welcome not seen since Boris Johnson was in his pomp, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Nana Akua: Kemi Badenoch is right, Britain is best place to be black” – The Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch was right when she said that Britain is the best country in the world to be a black person, writes Nana Akua in the Mail.
- “John Lewis bids farewell to Dame Sharon ‘Empty-Shelves’ White” – For the sake of John Lewis’s shareholders, let’s hope Dame Sharon’s successor is better suited to running a retail business in challenging times, says David Craig in TCW.
- “Ulez camera that wrongly charged more than 900 drivers outside the zone is removed” – An Ulez camera had to be switched off after it incorrectly charged more than 900 drivers, reports the Mail.
- “The LTN tide may have finally turned in Newcastle” – Recently the U.K. has seen a rash of low traffic neighbourhoods, where the intentions are well meaning, but the reality is the opposite, writes Lucy Denyer in the Telegraph.
- “The motorists are fighting back” – Unherd’s Freddie Sayers sits down with author Matthew Crawford to discuss the motorists’ fightback.
- “Chris Packham threatens Government with legal action over Net Zero policy delays” – TV presenter and conservationist Chris Packham has written to the Government, threatening court action unless it recommits to phase-out timelines for gas boilers and internal combustion engine cars, according to Business Green.
- “Just Stop Oil interrupts performance of Les Misérables” – Just Stop Oil has interrupted a performance of Les Miserables in the West End, reports the Mail.
- “Terrified driver is kidnapped by his own runaway electric car” – A driver was heading home from work in Glasgow when his new £30,000 MG ZS EV suffered a “catastrophic malfunction”, reports the Mail.
- “Cruise driverless car runs over pedestrian after she was thrown into its path” – According to reports, a woman crossing a San Francisco street was trapped under a self-driving vehicle after being struck by a hit-and-run driver and knocked into its path, says the Messenger.
- “Is this really the end of the A-level?” – Rishi Sunak needs to proceed with caution before he launches into yet another reform of school qualifications, especially if it means the end of the only one that has stood the test of time, warns the Spectator in a leading article.
- “The many flaws in Sunak’s smoking wheeze” – Rishi Sunak’s preposterous anti-smoking gimmick was lifted from Jacinda Ardern, writes Christopher Snowdon in the Spectator.
- “Sunak’s smoking ban is a terrible policy” – There is no way to spin as conservative the idea of working towards a complete ban on cigarettes by legislating a progressive age-related bar on buying tobacco, argues Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “Barristers need more free speech, not less” – The attempt to regulate barristers’ online speech is deeply troubling, writes Andrew Tettenborn in Spiked.
- “Kathleen Stock: Am I really such a danger to Oxford’s students?” – In UnHerd, Kathleen Stock takes issue with Oxford Vice-Chancellor’s recent speech in which she vowed to defend trans students from gratuitous attacks.
- “Struggling with CRT in the workplace” – In the Critic, Freddie Attenborough applauds a groundbreaking Employment Tribunal ruling that upheld Free Speech Union member Sean Corby’s right to challenge Critical Race Theory in the workplace, striking a blow against cancel culture.
- “Kevin Keegan claims he has ‘a problem’ with female pundits” – Kevin Keegan has claimed women pundits are not qualified to commentate on men’s football, reports the Mail.
- “Labour’s foolish embrace of BLM ideology” – Starmer’s planned Race Equality Act is a recipe for division, argues Patrick O’Flynn in Spiked.
- “Ian McEwan criticises hiring of ‘sensitivity readers’ looking for offensive material in manuscripts” – Ian McEwan has expressed his opposition to sensitivity readers, accusing young people of wanting “to bind their arms and legs in ways that are just trivial”, reports the Guardian.
- “Professor says schools should teach young men ‘how to pick up women’” – A New York University professor has said that “mating dynamics” should be taught to young men at school because “approaching women and making them feel safe is a skill”, says the Mail.
- “Swiss LGBTQ groups praise jail sentence for commentator who called journalist a ‘fat lesbian’” – LGBTQ groups have praised the 60-day jail sentence a court in Switzerland has doled out to a writer and commentator for calling another journalist a “fat lesbian”, reports NBC News.
- “The diversity trap” – Stonewall’s diktats create a workplace culture that scares and silences sensible people, says Dr. Helen Joyce in the Critic.
- “Everyone needs to calm down about AI” – British politicians have fallen for the apocalyptic AI fantasies of effective altruists, writes Andrew Orlowski in Spiked.
- “Rishi Sunak: A man is a man and a woman is a woman” – In his conference speech, Rishi Sunak said: “We shouldn’t be bullied into believing people can be any sex they want to be, they can’t.”
'We shouldn't be bullied into believing people can be any sex they want to be, they can't. A man is a man and a woman is a woman', says Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.https://t.co/xItZsH7tea
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https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-many-flaws-in-sunaks-smoking-wheeze/
Why is he doing this? Basically, because he can. The Davos Deviants want to rub our noses in their power plays so that is why Fishy the WEF underling is being told to push this totalitarian crap.
This is a thinly disguised insult to the British people. The boot on the face.
What a Next Tuesday.
It certainly advances the idea that the state is responsible for managing the “health” of the population.
And anyone who doesn’t realise that after smoking it will be the next thing, and then the next thing and then the next thing after that is quite frankly a menace to society at this point. A dangerous idiot.
…yes..you are right……leading to when you don’t want to eat that mandated lab-made burger, with a side of cricket chips…which Bill made millions from, and is telling you is much more healthy and ‘sustainable’ than a real meat burger….
Even if they are right that smoking is bad for you, it’s my choice.
The real danger isn’t when they are wrong. That falls apart quickly. It’s when they are right in what they tell you is healthy or unhealthy that it becomes dangerous.
Because it doesn’t seem that our society is prepared to accept the right of each individual to decide to do things that aren’t necessarily good for them. People seem prepared to accept being treated like children.
“Even if they are right that smoking is bad for you, it’s my choice.”
But not if the consequences of your choice result in extra cost for the publicly-funded NHS … they go on to argue.
I know, that is what is so spectacularly dangerous. Because where do you stop?
Do you treat an obese person?
Someone who has a motorbike accident?
Someone who breaks a leg playing football?
Someone who falls over and hurts themselves and are found to be over the limit of alcohol?
It opens the door to regulating all risk taking, with no limits.
The people who push themselves forward to decide these things for us, you can be sure those people have no limits. They are insatiable in their appetite to rule over others.
Yes..the Russel Brand segment I have posted speaks to this…couching censorship and restrictions in words like equality, being kind, being inclusive…etc….
No one is safe until everyone is safe…
…so ultimately no one will be able to do anything…..
The middle and upper classes have always seen it as part of their responsibility to tell the oiks how to live. That restrictiveness doesn’t extend as far as highly moral and disciplined people such as themselves of course. Just the oiks….
It does demonstrate that top-down authoritarian ideology is behind whatever policies are pursued.
Next: sweets, dairy food, ICE vehicles, meat. Now, if only there were an easy, digital way for govt to identify who you are, how old you are, and what you’re trying to spend your money on, so that your purchase could be stopped by a centrally imposed algorithm. And if only there were a software development house – owned by a close family relative, say – which had recognised expertise in developing these sorts of digital control systems. And if only those trying to use cash could have their details checked using facial recognition based, say, on a passport photograph. But that would be too many coincidences, wouldn’t it?
Giving up smoking is good for you. Do it regularly.
There’ll be an even bigger black market on smuggled in tobacco, is all…
‘Kemi Badenoch shows why she is the the obvious choice for next Tory leader’
We can still hope that Rishi has enough political sense to read the mood in the country and do what is needed, e.g. withdrawing from the ECHR so the Rwanda scheme can start and rolling back more net zero commitments, to win the next election.
I’m not a big fan of Fishy but would much rather see him get another 5 years than see Starmer get the chance to completely trash the country especially if he needs SNP support to form a government.
If Rishi has to go I’m not sure if I’d prefer Badenoch, Braverman or even Pritti Patel to be the next Tory leader, although chances are a Tory wet will stand for leader and be elected by the parliamentary party regardless of what the grassroots members want.
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
“Rishi’s war on waste has defeated HS2. Now he must scrap Net Zero”
We have become addicted to public expenditure, and government intervention. Most folks don’t even think about why they are taxed on everything the earn, and everything they spend, and why this may not be a good thing. There are so many people being paid from the public purse, self preservation is deeply in play. Yet, as Elon Musk said when asked how it was possible to fire 80% of Twitter staff and still be able to function, “Turns out you just don’t need that many people”
Really? The fake onservatives (no ‘c’, not little ‘c’) have been in power for 13 years, 8 of those completely unimpeded and were voted in at the last election with an 80 seat majority. They have been at the helm while I’ve been made to watch my country be torn apart by an insidious mix of totalitarian beliefs and woke ideology. And now they want to change things? What, with an election round the corner? Surely nobody is stupid enough to buy this sh*t? But then…
Isn’t this a disgrace? Criminal actually. Guy Hatchard is in New Zealand but I wonder if it happened in other countries.
”I have made enquiries and found some staff prepared to leak information. One source has told me that 95 consultants in the Dunedin region alone benefitted from vaccine exemptions. Another source has pointed to a group of doctors working in Northland who arranged among themselves to remain unvaccinated. The total appears to run to hundreds and possibly more.
It seems that those granted exemptions were restrained by gag orders. In other words, they could not tell anyone that they had been granted exemptions—it was a secretive process that the Ministry of Health was anxious to hide from the public.
In any case, any doctor advising a patient that mRNA Covid vaccination might be risky faced disciplinary action and many were actually suspended.
So medical staff allowed themselves to be manipulated into a position whereby, if they were unvaccinated themselves, they were still required to advise their patients to vaccinate—a recipe for widespread hypocrisy in the health service.
The criteria for granting exemptions apparently entailed an assessment concerning how vital staff were to the working of the health service. In other words, senior figures and those holding key surgical positions could actually insist they remain unvaccinated and continue to be allowed to work. Whilst unvaccinated nurses for example could not gain exemptions and lost their positions.
If senior staff who wished to remain unvaccinated had spoken out publicly, the issue of Covid vaccine safety might have been given a public airing. Instead the Ministry of Health and the government kept a lid on all and any discussion. It did so through liaison with mainstream and social media outlets to censor content and through tight control of staff.”
https://hatchardreport.com/the-ministry-of-health-granted-vaccine-exemptions-to-hundreds-among-its-key-staff/
And on the topic of NZ. What a f*cking prat!
https://twitter.com/c_plushie/status/1708463821604708803
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/nz-doctors-avoided-covid-jabs-while-insisting-the-public-had-them/
This is in today’s TCW.
And if staff in the health service managed to get sly exemptions what’s the betting that dick of a PM got the real deal?
Don’t piss on my back and tell me it’s raining.
Exactly.
There was an update:
‘It appears from the OIA HNZ00023978 dated 2 August 2023 that we reported yesterday that the actual total may be as high as 11,005. This figure includes over 1,500 administrative managers.
The health service employs around 80,500 staff. This means that as many as 14% of MoH staff were granted exemptions.’
I wonder how many of the ‘exempted’ participated in the mass jabbing of others? I sincerely hope that none did.
Latest leaflet Net Zero Britain Committing Economic Suicide
Why is “fat lesbian” an insult?
Don’t they keep telling us it’s wonderful to be homosexual and transexual?
And if the woman is overweight? Can you be thrown in jail for stating an observable fact?
This is how insane things are getting. Not even the censors are clear about what they want to censor,
They want to stop misinformation, no hold on, hate, they want to stop hate speech. Wait no, harm, that’s it harm is what they want to avoid. Or is it fake news?
Confusing right?
Not really, here is what they really want. They want to intimidate you and shut you up whenever they want. They want to have at their disposal a set of tools that allows them to arbitrarily go after whoever they want any time they want.
Don’t they also keep telling us it’s wonderful to be fat? So being called a fat lesbian seems to be the highest form of praise one could wish for.
Joking aside, it’s just someone being a bit nasty. How can that be a police matter?!
I have slowly come to realise that this isn’t the system failing, over reaching.
This is a systematic and deliberate change in how things are done. Basically a societal take over by totalitarians
The ambiguous norms are a well known feature not a bug of totalitarian regimes. Whether we will end up with one remains to be seen, but they are definitely trying.
..I’m suing the next fecker that calls me a tall, curly haired Yorkshire bird…..!!
It’s all true, but what the hell..they have no right to be observant or fecking call out the truth!!?
Barstewards!!
Calvin Robinson in this 10min vid talking about what it’s really like at GBN. Really sad that this is the reality actually.
”How long can a station keep calling itself “the home of free speech” when it continues to engage in cancel culture?
I supported my friends/colleagues and will continue to do so. That should not be a fireable offence.
GB News is controlled opposition.”
https://twitter.com/calvinrobinson
I think that at this point anyone who tries to operate within “acceptable” boundaries is going to look like controlled opposition. If for no other reason that the norms are constantly shifting, highly arbitrary and capricious. The only way it is possible to stay within these fuzzy lines is to try to guess and anticipate what they want to hear and what they don’t find acceptable.
The opening scenes of the film The Death of Stalin come to mind, where everyone is constantly looking at Stalin to see his reaction before they laugh or scowl at a comment. Basically they all know there are no norms, the norm is you can say what a Stalin approves of and your job is to quickly suss out what he thinks.
This is what the modern town square has become. A tyrannical, totalitarian capricious creature that you need to be constantly assessing to make sure it doesn’t devour you.
I agree with him, he shouldn’t be fired for just supporting his mate but why did he get involved in this spat in the first place? Surely he can see that there is free speech (but if you speak freely, there may be consequences) and there are codes of acceptable conduct which GB News has the right to insist on. A good example is right here where the DS promotes free speech but insists on no swearing in the comments section – that’s just the house rules. I always taught my kids to abide by the house rules of the person we were visiting, whether we thought they were a good idea or not.
I wouldn’t say the presenters at GB News are “controlled opposition” but I do think you have to hold in mind that its biggest contributor to the tune of £60 m is the Legatum hedge fund. It seems reasonable to assume that they might have an agenda ….
https://twitter.com/UnityNewsNet/status/1561663678935695361
The sad thing about all this is that the very serious issue that we should be talking about, male suicide, has been overshadowed by this.
Just Stop Oil just stops freedom
This episode of Tucker is a really good one. He is talking to Victor Davis Hanson…
They are talking about the USA, but so much of it relates to us all….immigration, lies, censorship, wokism..Democracy, and how do we fight back?
Well worth a watch…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUr3XP59-CU
Seconded – excellent discussion…
https://rumble.com/v3moc81-this-is-end-game-canadas-authoritarian-crackdown-on-dissent-stay-free-215.html
A good episode of Russel Brand talking about Canada..but also an interview with Stella Assange @1.14 ….
#free Julian Assange ….
England must be smoke free by 2030 – some background:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-khan-review-making-smoking-obsolete/making-smoking-obsolete-summary
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“The CDC decides to no longer publish US Excess Mortality Data, when it was not going away and was rising for a third straight year.
Therefore, make access go away.
Here was our final chart using the old system.
4,200 excess deaths in wk 37. 601,000 excess deaths, and rising.”
Contd….
”Here was our final Excess Non-Natural Cause Mortality chart, before the new director shut down the CDC reporting engine.
20.2% to the excess, 3.5 years past our coercive and panic-fueled decisions – with no sign of abating.
175 K dead.”
Del Bigtree’s Highwire from last week…
https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/turbo-trouble/
It is a fantastic episode..it starts with the Florida Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo , who is always worth watching…
but if you haven’t the time or inclination to watch it all….the main thing that is a must watch is the Jaxon Report about @40 in…
A court order has released the fact that yet another thing that we were told..namely that the vaxx Spike Protein acts like a natural infection and leaves the body in a couple of days?? Was a lie….
They never even looked into it…..at all…
“The (Spike) Protein encoded by the RNA in BNT162b2 (Pfizer) is expected to be proteolytically degraded like other endogenous proteins.
Therefore no RNA or Protein metabolism or excretion studies will be conducted…”
I know this has been inferred or surmised by many..but here is the proof…..utterly shocking…
You could NOT make this up….
BREAKING: The Biden administration says there is an “immediate need” to wave regulations and build a border wall as the migrant crisis spirals out of control.
Remarkable. 4 years ago this was “racist.” Now they’re advocating for it.
“There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States in the project areas pursuant to sections 102(a) and 102(b) of [the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996],” Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas said in an announcement.
Gee, maybe they shouldn’t have sold all the border wall parts.
Funny that, an election on the way and Trump likely to walk it.
….yes I’m sure that is the point..
the mayor of New York, who said it was a ‘Sanctuary City’ until there were millions of the blighters having to be dealt with …. has been ‘on the border today’…funny how, when it bothers the wokist’s in New York…suddenly they look for a solution.!!??