- “Seven-year-olds with poor reading skills double in number since pandemic” – New research has found that the number of seven year-olds with very poor reading skills has doubled since the pandemic, according to the Telegraph.
- “How many people really died in the Moderna trial?” – What happened to the participants in the Moderna trial. How many died? It depends when and where you look, says HART.
- “Facebook censors our accurate story on Covid vaccine mRNA in breast milk” – Facebook is still censoring and spreading disinformation, despite Mark Zuckerberg’s criticism of “establishment” censorship overreach on Covid, says Public on Substack.
- “Nobel Prize awarded to mRNA researchers in effort to ‘Encourage hesitant people to opt for vaccination in the reassurance that it is safe and effective’” – It should be no surprise that the Nobel for Medicine, in the wake of the politicisation wrought by the pandemic, has been corrupted, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Pseudouridine: What is it and why should you care?” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone suggests that the FDA expedited the approval of Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccines without conducting a thorough investigation.
- “The lockdown experiment must never be repeated” – Scientists will one day have to reckon with their enormous mistakes over Covid, says Prof. David Livermore in Spiked.
- “The Lancet was made for political activism” – For 200 years, the Lancet has thrived on melodrama and scandal, writes Ashley Rindsberg in UnHerd.
- “Laurence Fox claims police took sons’ iPads in raid on home over Ulez camera arrest” – Laurence Fox has claimed that police officers have seized his children’s iPads after he was arrested for conspiring to damage Ultra Low Emissions Zone cameras, reports the Telegraph.
- “A new financial crisis is upon us – and our political class can no longer lie” – Sunak is protecting Britain against the impending global financial disaster facing profligate governments, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “The disgraceful debanking cover-up” – The Financial Conduct Authority’s investigation has let the banks off the hook, says Thomas Osborne in Spiked.
- “Jean-Claude Juncker brands Ukraine ‘totally corrupt’ in swipe at EU bid” – Jean-Claude Juncker, the ex-President of the EU Commission, has made a heated intervention in the debate over Ukraine’s candidacy for membership, reports the Express.
- “AfD Co-Chairman Tino Chrupalla in hospital following claims of a needle attack at an election rally in Ingolstadt” – Tino Chrupalla, Co-Chairman of the German AfD party, was rushed to hospital following what he and AfD officials characterise as an attack at a rally in Ingolstadt, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Left-wing extremism is on the rise across Germany” – A spate of attacks on AfD politicians may have political consequences, warns Ralph Schoellhammer in UnHerd.
- “I’m leaving Britain – and I feel guilty” –The Spectator’s Lionel Shriver has increasingly had the sensation of living in a country that is falling apart.
- “Revealed: Eco zealots who shut down performance of Les Misérables” – The MailOnline reveals the identities of the eco-zealots who shut down Les Mis during its most iconic song.
- “HS2 is history. It’s time for a road-building bonanza” – The Prime Minister was right to slay rail’s white elephant. The Government must now make life easier for Britain’s motorists, says Matthew Lyn in the Telegraph.
- “Could your electric car kidnap you?” – In the Mail, experts weigh in after a £30,000 MG ZS electric vehicle suffered a “catastrophic malfunction” on the A803, near Glasgow.
- “The great electric car experiment has taken a dangerous turn” – A terrifying malfunction has added to concerns that the failures and risks of EVs are being ignored or casually explained away, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “Germany brings back mothballed coal plants to help keep lights on” – Germany will bring several mothballed coal plants back to the market to ensure that Europe’s largest economy can keep the lights on when demand peaks, reports Bloomberg.
- “The Pope has gone full Greta Thunberg” – How miraculous the transformation among enlightened opinion is now Pope Francis has issued an exhortation on climate change, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “AMOC: A non-tipping point” – Data collected directly in the Atlantic Ocean do not provide any support for the IPCC’s forecasts of an ongoing collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, writes Dr. Gabriel Oxenstierna in WUWT.
- “Climate scientists admit they have a 90% chance of being wrong about Arctic sea ice” – Recent research shows that other factors besides global warming are affecting the decline of Arctic sea ice, says Javier Vinós in WUWT.
- “Why are House of Lords clerics so anti-Tory?” – Two archbishops and 24 bishops of the Church of England in the House of Lords appear to have thrown aside any pretence of political objectivity and have pitched themselves all-out against the Government, writes Andrew Roberts in the Spectator.
- “Rishi Sunak faces Tory backlash against ‘illiberal’ smoking ban” – The Prime Minister used his Tory conference speech to announce he wants to increase the legal smoking age annually, reports the Mail.
- “Rishi’s prohibitionist lunge is proof that his Party has forgotten itself” – Throughout history, efforts to ban vices like drugs and alcohol have failed, points out Joseph Dinnage in CapX.
- “What really motivates the ‘new progressives’” – People who really cared to correct unjust social disadvantages would be eager to understand the causes, remarks Nigel Biggar in the Spectator.
- “Number of hate crimes recorded by police in England and Wales falls” – The number of hate crimes recorded by police in England and Wales has fallen year-on-year for the first time since records began, as the Government wages a war on ‘woke’ policing, says the Mail.
- “Lucy Frazer: We must stand up to people who want to erase history” – The Culture Secretary has vowed to stand up to those who “seek to erase” history as she unveiled new guidance to protect historic statues, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why is an NHS trust offering slavery reparations?” – The decision by NHS Lothian to spend taxpayers’ cash on “a programme of reparations” will raise more than a few eyebrows, especially among Edinburgh residents enduring painful delays for an operation, remarks Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Have the Tories finally seen sense on trans ideology?” – The ‘woman question’ could well decide the next General Election, says Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “Female BA staff ‘furious over cheap uniforms for non-binary crew’” – Furious female British Airways staff have blasted the airline over “cheap” uniforms designed for non-binary crew, reports the Mail.
- “Virginia women’s swim team tell of ‘demoralising’ trans battle” – Three members of the Roanoke College women’s swim squad have told the Mail of their anger at being forced to work out how to deal with a trans woman wanting to join their squad.
- “Joe Biden to build border wall in major U-turn” – The U.S. President has waived 26 federal laws in Texas to allow the construction of 20 miles of barrier to curb a surge in migrant arrivals, reports the Telegraph.
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When fantasy and reality meet, there is only one winner.
Absolutely marvellous news. What a grand way to start the weekend.
Oh dear, never mind. Next WEF toss pot please.
Couldn’t agree more 👍
One does have to worry about the 72k who are left…
1/3 are Muslim.
1/3 LGBTQZ+++.
1/3 Retarded.
Any Scottish at all?🤣
Not known as the Special Needs Party for nothing..
😀 😀 😀
Muslim number far too high. Glasgow neds and Dundee tossers increase the retarded by 100% and the number of Queers is about right
There have been so many final nails in the SNP coffin, like their idea to criminalise what people say in their own living rooms under absurd Hate Speech Laws, or the Named Person Scheme, whereby a government appointed person like a teacher or other professional would observe and report back to government on the “welfare” of each child up to the age of 16 (or maybe 18). Yet Scots still backed this anti English, Anti Tory bunch of eco socialists that wanted to pour concrete in oil and gas wells, in a kind of scorched earth pact with the commy Greens. But I am so glad to see that Scots have finally been aroused from their sleepwalking, and it took this insidious gender garbage to awaken them.
“But I am so glad to see that Scots have finally been aroused from their sleepwalking”
I hope you are right but the jury is still out on this as far as I am concerned.
“aroused from their sleepwalking” does not imply that the party is over for the SNP. I don’t for one second take that for granted. But I speak to a lot of SNP supporters, and what I see is that they mainly vote SNP because they HATE tories.. They think somehow that if they get away from Westminster and run off with the Germans that they will be in control of their own affairs. —-They could not be more wrong. All they would be in the EU is Local Administrators putting in place diktats from Brussels. They have blinkers on when it comes to all the Gender, Hate Speech absurd eco policies that wants rid of oil and gas. All they see is “I hate tories”. These same people used to vote Labour, till they fell out of love with Blair, so they started to vote for the only other bunch of socialists available. The SNP ——I am hoping that these parasites are now on the way out, but I never assume.
As a person living in Scotland for the last 30 years and was in politics – you are spot on and you most probably live in Scotland to know that. Peopl ‘Down South’ have no real concept of the anti English feeling that permeates throughout Scotland. The support for SNPs has no logic whatsoever, and particularly when one looks at the policy debacle in education, health and commerce – it is almost entirely driven by being anti English and anti Tory.
Good points.
“absurd Hate Speech Laws, or the Named Person Scheme, whereby a government appointed person like a teacher or other professional would observe and report back to government”
Or witch finder general, as he/they/them used to be known! 🧙♀️
Best news since stepping down!
I would argue that the parties have all become ‘uniformly left-wing organisations’ instead of right-wing ones. Otherwise, he is correct: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/10/the-party-is-over/
“… Those who lead political parties – and here comes my promised perception – believe they don’t actually need members any more. Almost nobody attends hustings meetings, nobody reads leaflets and nobody engages with canvassers. Elections are now fought almost entirely through the mainstream media, and online.
For the modern campaign, parties need paid PR practitioners and they need paid troll farms. They don’t need little old men and women going door to door, other than once or twice for a candidate photocall.
The members, bluntly, are redundant old nuisances in the eyes of the political class. Nobodies who presume a right to have a say in party policy which should be dictated by the professionals.
Nor do they need the members’ subscription money. Starmer is delighted to have shed hundreds of thousands of Corbyn supporting members, to pursue instead corporate and billionaire money. The SNP Conference in Aberdeen was simply a festival of corporate lobbying. The Tories have always run on dark money in huge tranches.
Then there is the ever increasing largesse of Short money – taxpayer funds which the political class have awarded themselves to fund their party administrations. This state funding of political parties is one of the very worst innovations of my lifetime and fundamental to the development of our careerist and unprincipled political class.
The UK’s political parties are becoming uniformly right-wing organisations which represent a very narrow spectrum of views – those of the corporate sector and billionaire donors; who also of course own the mainstream media, which thus has precisely the same narrow spectrum of view.
This is a fundamental change in what a political party is – it no longer is a free association of citizens holding a common political outlook and working to elect representatives to support that philosophy. This great change in society – which renders western “democracy” entirely meaningless – is being consolidated before our eyes.
The destruction of Corbyn and his member-supported left-wing programme is mirrored in the destruction of Truss and her member-supported right-wing programme.
Nobody is allowed any longer to put forward any programme that is not within the narrow and entirely unimaginative confines of the professional political class.
An election that pitched Corbyn against Truss would offer voters a real choice between two radically different visions of society, with the Lib Dems as an option for those who liked neither. That would be a real democracy. But it is not to be permitted to voters.
Irrespective of what Labour and Conservative Party members would like to offer, the electorate is likely to be presented with Sunak or Starmer, two people so close in political outlook and policy there really is little point in turning up to vote. In Scotland you can choose the SNP, with the same basic economic policies and no genuine desire to change much on the constitution.
This of course links to the ease with which the “markets” were able to destroy the Truss/Kwarteng mildly radical economic policy. Be in no doubt the “markets” would have done precisely the same to Corbyn/McDonnell. Again, no actual political choice that deviates from our unseen masters is to be permitted.
That is a much larger subject, for another day.”
“…. becoming uniformly right wing organisations…. ” Really, is that how you see it? I hope I don’t come across you when out driving on the ‘right’ side of the road!!
“Ms. Sturgeon insisted her 89-year-old party was experiencing “growing pains” during the contest.”
Sounds more like dying pains to me!
Everything comes to she / he / they who wait…or not, in some instances 😂 🤣
I bet she’s feeling cranky and rankled.
Meanwhile these members will get to vote for the next leader of the party who are still in charge. The Scottish people still have to put up with whatever nonsense the SNP + Greens come up with until the next election. The ill effects of that partnership will linger for sometime.