- “Now scientists say Long Colds exist” – British scientists say ‘long colds’ exist and claim they are just as common as Long Covid, reports the Mail.
- “Fears vulnerable Brits won’t be best protected against Covid” – Experts have warned that the decision to accelerate the autumn Covid and flu vaccine rollouts increased anxiety over the virus, says the Mail.
- “Why a reckoning over the mRNAs is so unlikely” – Most people are happy to have Covid behind them. They aren’t getting more jabs, but they would rather believe they did the right thing than worry they didn’t, writes Alex Berenson on Substack.
- “Biden admin goes full Orwell denying vax mandates ever happened” – The U.S. Government, and many state governments, are proclaiming, for all to hear, that they did not force anyone to take th Covid vaccines, says ZeroHedge.
- “How STIs reached record levels in ‘sexually-liberal’ Britain” – Gonorrhoea and syphilis have bounced back from relative obscurity in the U.K., causing concern among experts, reports the Telegraph.
- “Fury as string of public bodies develop ‘male menopause policies’” – In what critics are describing as a “further erosion of women’s rights”, a string of public bodies have drawn up ‘woke’ protocols that insist “men may also experience menopause symptoms”, says the Mail.
- “Calculator Keir and his questionable maths” – Starmer seems to think charging VAT on private school fees and charging the schools business rates will raise £1.7 billion. But his sums don’t add up, writes Mr. Chips on Substack.
- “The SNP hegemony in Scotland is over” – The Rutherglen result confirms the run of opinion polls showing that Labour is back in contention and that the SNP’s decade-long hegemony is over, says Iain Macwhirter in the Spectator.
- “Government’s rape tsar quits and says there is ‘no point’ to reporting” – The Government’s rape tsar has told MailOnline she has been left feeling there is “no point” in reporting a rape to the police because they “won’t do anything about it”.
- “Can pluralism be low-crime?” – The aggregate feeling of having been left by our leaders to rot amid a disintegrating social contract is not a confection of the Right-wing press, writes Mary Harrington in UnHerd.
- “When will the EU take France’s Islamist concerns seriously?” – No European country has suffered as much as France from Islamist terror, and the Republic is reaching the end of its tether, says Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “Danish law that will see thousands evicted sparks fury” – Outraged residents say they will resist a “racist” Danish law which allows large numbers of people to be evicted from social housing in areas where the authorities say there are too many immigrants, reports the Mail.
- “EU ‘raping’ Hungary with migrant quotas, says Viktor Orban” – Viktor Orban has accused the European Union of “raping” Hungary and Poland with migrant quotas, says the Telegraph.
- “Meloni and Sunak are the power couple that could save Europe from oblivion” – Rishi Sunak and Giorgia Meloni have much in common in that they’ve both been vilified by Leftists for seeing the threat to Western nations from illegal migration, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Sunak is a bully, says Belgium’s trans Deputy Prime Minister” – Belgian’s transgender Deputy PM has called Rishi Sunak a “bully” after he said a “man is a man” during his showpiece speech at the Conservative Party conference, reports the Telegraph.
- “Just Stop Oil’s most miserable stunt yet” – Just Stop Oil’s interruption of a performance of Les Mis was a new low, writes Simon Evans in Spiked.
- “Green multi-millionaire Dale Vince abandons Just Stop Oil” – Eco-entrepreneur Dale Vince has stopped giving money to Just Stop Oil so he can give it to anti-Tory political parties instead, reports the Mail.
- “Shipping company bans EVs, due to their propensity to burst into flames” – Electric vehicles are so prone to spontaneously bursting into flames – which are virtually impossible to put out – that a Norwegian shipping company has banned them from its ferries, says Wide Awake Media.
- “Everywhere, there’s a growing revolt against Net Zero” – The headlong rush to Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050, pursued for so long by democratic governments regardless of cost, has finally hit the buffers of voter resistance, writes Andrew Neil in the Mail.
- “Question Time: Fiona Bruce refers to audience member as ‘black guy’” – Question Time has been thrown into a race row after the BBC deleted a clip of host Fiona Bruce referring to an audience member as a “black guy”, reports the Mail.
- “Hate crimes recorded by police fall for first time in 10 years” – The number of recorded hate crime offences has fallen for the first time on record after new guidance ordered police to stop recording so many “non-crime hate incidents”, say the Times.
- “Rapists wrongly labelled as ‘women’ by police” – Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show, for the first time, the scale of police adopting the self-declared gender of alleged sex attackers, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Gender dysphoria: The affirmative model for children and young people, and the role of health and social care educators” – In a paper for ScienceDirect, Dr Roger Watson and others chronicle the uncritical adoption of gender ideology in health and social care education.
- “Universities are terrified of free speech” – Being accused of a thoughtcrime at a university is sufficient to inflict anxiety and fear, silence opposition and impose obedience, warns Prof. Eric Kaufmann in the Mail.
- “Boris Johnson: How the hell is new smoking ban supposed to work?” – How would you feel if you were told that the cops couldn’t investigate a burglary at your home because they were too busy arresting smokers, asks Boris Johnson in the Mail.
- “The Tories’ smoking plans are nanny state nonsense” – Our individual choices should not be made by a scientific committee. And as politicians well know, no one can live a risk-free life, says Ella Whelan in the Telegraph.
- “A smoke-free England is an unfree England” – Rishi Sunak’s cigarette ban marks the final, depressing triumph of the nags and the killjoys, laments Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “What happened to risk-taking journalism?” – In this cautious, woke age, few would publish a Hunter S. Thompson or a Tom Wolfe, says Itxu Diaz in Spiked.
- “EU digital identity wallet pilots roll out under the radar” – The EU Digital Identity Wallets could ultimately have disastrous and lasting consequences for privacy and civil liberties, warns Stavroula Pabst for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Google throws its support behind Australia’s online ‘misinformation’ censorship” – Google’s recent support for the Australian Government’s plan to strengthen the media watchdog’s authority against online ‘misinformation’ reveals its sinister agenda, says Cindy Harper in Reclaim The Net.
- “This didn’t quite work out as Owen Jones had expected” – Paul Embery has shared a video in which a young Tory delegate skilfully bats away an attempt to embarrass him by Owen Jones.
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Calvin Robinson was on yesterday’s Megan Kelly show on YouTube. Worth a look…
Good call-out, though I would say, please default to advising a video is on Rumble in preference over YouTube. Let’s break the YouTube habit. It is a very simple step we can take to combat censorship and authoritarian overreach and IMO is the minimum we should do, or else stop complaining.
I have to admit I still send out YouTube links when I should be doing so for Rumble.
https://rumble.com/v3n0ebj-wargaming-how-dems-could-ditch-biden-and-uk-criminalizing-speech-w-chris-st.html
Starting at 1:16:30
Good point! I happened to be on YouTube and the video was recommended to me. It was was late at night, so I just added it here. I didn’t notice my computer ‘corrected’ Megyn’s name to ‘Megan’ either!!
https://youtu.be/711RrprfvNc?si=QA5j09PW5a1h_hUa
Here is the link.
“Experts have warned that the decision to accelerate the autumn Covid and flu vaccine rollouts increased anxiety over the virus”. Mission. Accomplished.
Indeed, anxiety is a feature, not a bug.
Exactly. What are they complaining about?
“Boris Johnson: How the hell is new smoking ban supposed to work?” – How would you feel if you were told that the cops couldn’t investigate a burglary at your home because they were too busy arresting smokers, asks Boris Johnson in the Mail”
This is quite literally the very first time that BoJo has talked any real sense since before that fateful day on March 22, 2020. And in the Daily Fail, of all places. Wow indeed.
Faith in humanity (somewhat) restored.
Some might say the same of Boris Johnson and his pandemic care home policies.
Yet he’s still a full on Net Zero advocate, when he fancies anyway – wants everyone to have their cars banned but a smoking ban is too authoritarian.
Anyway from what I’ve heard the cops are already very disinterested if your house is burgled, unless you misgendered the burglar in the process.
Do you think a cocaine ban is also “too authoritarian”?
How about a crystal meth ban?
Are there any harmful drugs which you think should be banned, or is banning any drug “too authoritarian” in your opinion?
If you re-read my comment I didn’t give my opinion on whether or not I think it’s too authoritarian. Just said that it’s inconsistent from Boris given his Net Zero leanings. So keep your hair on and stop telling me I’ve said things I haven’t.
And yes, I think banning tobacco altogether would in some ways be better than this. I’m not totally against the idea, IMO there are good arguments both for and against.
How is asking very appropriate questions not “keeping your hair on”? I didn’t say you had given your opinion, I asked you for your opinion, and you have consequently given your opinion, and we have both keep our hair on, so I don’t see any problem in asking the questions I have asked.
It just sounded a bit judgmental with all the “too authoritarian” quotes. My mistake if not. I wasn’t looking for an argument.
Given Bozo’s performance through the Scamdemic and beyond your “faith in humanity (somewhat) restored” is sadly misplaced. He certainly would NOT be walking away from a Nuremberg 2.
If Boris had stuck to his original plan in 2020, he’d likely be seen as a defender of freedom and the great leader he wanted to be. Instead, he’s a journalist talking of lesser crimes than his governments following his stint as a useful idiot for the Communists.
He’d probably have been bumped off if he had. You know…bicycling accident, tripping over his prose, being strangled with his own hair sort of thing. Look what happened to the Prez of Tanzania.
Sweden should stand as a warning for all other European countries for what the natural conclusion is if this insanity and Islamization of our lands does not stop. They have approx 60 ‘No-go zones’ where even the police don’t dare go, therefore are completely lawless and ran by armed gangs, governed by criminal clans. Politicians are waking up now and talking tough about getting the army in to tackle it ( why now and not years ago? ) and deporting gangsters but most are well established and have Swedish citizenship. I can’t see much happening.
This is an interesting article written by somebody in Norway and describing the differences between Sweden, Denmark and Norway regarding immigration;
”For many years, there’s been one major legislative difference among the three countries, a difference that has given rise to a significant divergence in socioeconomic outcomes. The difference is this: while Sweden, until relatively recently, kept its gates very wide open for Muslim immigration, Denmark began cutting down the flow many years ago, and Norway has been somewhere in the middle. The result: massive Islamic violence, criminality, and other varieties of malefaction in Sweden, considerably less of that sort of thing in Denmark, and, again, a state of affairs somewhere in the middle in Norway.
In recent months, the Swedish mayhem has been steadily ramped up. Not that Norway is the peaceable kingdom it used to be. Women used to walk at night in downtown Oslo without fear of being raped; that sense of security ended years ago. These days, pretty much every weekend brings a new round of stabbings in the city – something that just didn’t happen a few years ago – and a while back the hobby of car-burning, long popular in Sweden, started to be taken up by the capital’s young Muslim set. On June 25 of last year, an Iranian gunman killed two people and wounded twenty-one outside Oslo’s major gay bar. Still, so far Osloites have yet to become accustomed to the bombs, hand grenades, and massive explosions that have made many parts of Sweden feel like wartime Afghanistan.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/sweden-dying/
Always interesting to hear of Sweden’s problems, when we were told they didn’t need to lock down like we did because Swedes are so peaceable and sensible and obedient.
Now here is a Nobel prize I can get behind and is more than deserved. I wonder if the artist who created that gargantuan sculpted insult to women’s rights, in Birmingham, knows this lady even exists..
”The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 to to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.
In a release, the Committee said that Mohammadi’s “brave struggle has come with tremendous personal costs. Altogether, the regime has arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times, and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. Ms Mohammadi is still in prison as I speak.”
In September 2022 a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Jina Amini, was killed while in the custody of the Iranian morality police. Her killing triggered the largest political demonstrations against Iran’s theocratic regime since it came to power in 1979. Under the slogan “Woman – Life – Freedom,” hundreds of thousands of Iranians took part in peaceful protests against the authorities’ brutality and oppression of women.
The regime cracked down hard on the protests: more than 500 demonstrators were killed. Thousands were injured, including many who were blinded by rubber bullets fired by the police. At least 20 000 people were arrested and held in regime custody.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377984
Technology chickens come home to roost
All the articles and news items here on the problems with EVs and heat pumps give a clear indication that the majority of people are not going to be able to simply swap their ICE cars and boilers for EVs and Heat pumps and then carry on with life as before. The current technology has failed to deliver the simple pain free switch that the net zero politicians wanted.
And so the question is, what happens now? We seem to have a bunch of awful low level, miserable politicians with no understanding of technology and no ability to formulate a workable inspiring vision for the future. To my mind this bodes of messy uncomfortable times ahead.
Many politicians have a legal background so are more familiar with bending facts and excluding information to fit a narrative. No benefit when dealing with the real-world practicalities of technology but great for creating legislation to impose it on everyone.
What happens whenever the poliutical class are shown to be acting in a stupid way – they carry on regardless. They are so self confident about their elite status that even reality will buckle under the weight of their illiberal legislation.
We need a Canute like demonstration whioch maybe they will understand, but don’t bank on it.
More on Sweden here. They were a brilliant and shining example to all other countries on how to behave during the scamdemic but are easily at the bottom of the pile when it comes to handling years of uncontrolled immigration of people who have zero intention of respecting European cultures. It was always about conquering and domination, and closing the stable door after the horse has bolted is not going to fix this.
”The scale of the gang wars in Sweden has grown to such an extent establishment media has seemingly begun to realise multiculturalism has ravaged the country.
“Everyone feels at risk,” declared Charlie Duxbury of the neo-liberal POLITICO website on Tuesday, as he reported that a fourth bombing had occurred in his area of Stockholm since the start of the year. In total, there have been at least 134 bombings across Sweden in 2023, compared to 90 for the entirety of last year. Meanwhile, there have been 289 shootings since the start of the year, following 391 in 2022.
While the POLITICO article seemingly sought to overlook the impact of mass migration on the situation in Sweden as a talking point of the right, it did acknowledge that much of the gang violence is believed to be a result of a battle between the so-called “Kurdish Fox”, Iraqi-born Rawa Majid, and a former fellow gang member Islmail Abdo.
However, the Times of London was more blunt in its assessment last week, noting that the gunmen fighting for the rival factions are “typically first or second-generation immigrants who often grow up in the crime-ridden suburbs of Sweden’s larger cities, with little sense of having a stake in mainstream society.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/10/06/everyone-feels-at-risk-legacy-media-catches-on-to-swedens-failed-multicultural-project/
Flagging this as a sign of the total capture of the education establishment in this country. Talking to a chum who is on grandparent duty, this absolutely disgraceful example of sanctioned discrimination was reported (amended to protect anonymity):
Child 1 was talking about school so I asked if any children had had a spray up their nose recently. Child 1 got slightly upset and said s/he didn’t get one; the children who were “brave” got one and then got a sticker and s/he didn’t. First experience of vaccine discrimination at 4 years old! Child 2 [7 years old] then chipped in about a similar incident where the children got 2 house points each and extra playtime and something else…s/he’s still puzzled about it and thinks it’s because s/he [has special needs & extra tuition].
How many equality, discrimination and child safeguarding laws and regulations are being ignored here? A child can call themselves a cat or demand pronoun tyranny, but vax refusal – for, I might add, entirely justifiable medical reasons – gives the school carte blanche to discriminate at will AND rub their little noses in it? What next, having to wear some sort of symbol to indicate their non-compliance, as has happened in the past with certain religious groups? Disgusted beyond words.
Yes it is disgusting. Fortunately in the Netherlands kids in primary school don’t get vaxxed in school, you have to take your kid somewhere else. Something less to worry about and letters for upcoming vaccinations are just ignored by me. The latest was the HPV one.
Also, this could be considered ‘cherry-picking’, but either way this is tragic;
https://twitter.com/_aussie17/status/1710512436728725614
Will everyone go off sick now with Long Cold?
“Meloni and Sunak are the power couple that could save Europe from oblivion”
If Sunak is described as a ‘power’ in anything, then we really are scraping the bottom of the barrel!
“Hate crimes recorded by police fall for first time in 10 years”
Thank goodness the police are stomping down on ‘non hate incidents’!
How’s their efficiency in ‘real crime’ coming along?
Palistine has just invaded Israel!
Bidens millions to Palestine has finally paid off!
Israel has declared war on Palestine!
Saw that first thing this morning and there’s horrendous footage on Twitter. I don’t want to see civilians being indiscriminately shot dead or taken hostage, dead soldiers being stripped and dragged around or paraded on the back of trucks. It’s just appearing on my feed so I skip past it. It looks bloody terrible over there and my thoughts are with the good people of Israel ( and Palestine of course ) who are having to endure this. Enough already and time to get out in the fresh air and sunshine I think.
Utterly and totally agree! It’s tragic news
Utterly and totally agree! It’s tragic news
Boris: “Will shops have to demand ID cards from middle-aged customers, to show they were indeed born before January 1, 2009? And how will we check, in the decades to come, that A is not buying cigarettes for B?”
If anyone over the legal age is determined to smoke, they should be determined enough to obtain an official document showing their age, if they want to buy the cigarettes they are so determined to smoke.
A smoking ban, for those under the age, doesn’t have to be 100% effective or 100% enforced, with no loopholes. It doesn’t matter if in 20 years from now a 40-year-old will be able to buy cigarettes for a 39-year-old, the point is that it will prevent a lot of people from smoking.
If a few underage smokers are so determined to damage their health by smoking that they get around the ban by putting others to the inconvenience of buying cigarettes for them every few days, it doesn’t change the fact that most people just won’t bother, the corrupt tobacco industry will soon go out of business and children will grow up healthier.
And after smoking? Booze?
Always remember Fishy is not British and does not understand the British way of life. He is a foreigner and his allegiances are elsewhere.
No, not booze. Just because one thing should be banned doesn’t mean something else should be banned. Everyone knows banning booze wouldn’t work after the prohibition era in the United States proved it didn’t work, and there is zero chance of it happening again.
Many people said banning smoking in public places wouldn’t work, but it worked.
Male homosexual activity is very unhealthy: I can’t remember who referred to gay men as “human petri dishes” but it seems apt.
If it is morally permissible to make it illegal for adults to damage their health by smoking why wouldn’t it be morally permissible to gradually increase the age of consent for male homosexuals?
There is no consensus or widespread belief that homosexual activity is very unhealthy, so that’s not going to happen.
If there was widespread acceptance that “male homosexual activity is very unhealthy”, there might be some discussion about making it illegal – though it would be impossible to police and very detrimental to try to police it (society should learn from past mistakes) – but there is no widespread acceptance that “male homosexual activity is very unhealthy”.
A better analogy is with pedophilia, or sex between adults and teenagers under 16 – for which there is very widespread acceptance that it’s harmful. I’m sure you will agree that it should be illegal for an adult to have sex with a 14-year-old, despite the restriction on personal freedom.
I don’t think banning smoking should be compared to banning anything else – such as alcohol or homosexual activity – it should be looked at specifically on its own merits.
Errm, “consensus or widespread belief” isn’t the same as “truth”.
You’re an utter moron: paedophilia is about being sexually attracted to the pre-pubescent.
Fancying a girl on the day before her 16th birthday is entirely normal and something that hetero men are programmned to do. The age of consent isn’t about criminalising paedophilia but about preventing the exploitation of the physically mature but emotionally immature and inexperienced.
My God, I had no idea how many queers are on here.
‘The number of recorded hate crime offences has fallen for the first time on record after new guidance ordered police to stop recording so many “non-crime hate incidents”’
The definition of a “non-crime hate incident” is so woolly that the police can make the numbers fall or rise as they please, for any reason:
’11. A non-crime hate incident (NCHI) means an incident or alleged incident which involves or is alleged to involve an act by a person (‘the subject’) which is perceived by a person other than the subject to be motivated – wholly or partly – by hostility or prejudice towards persons with a particular characteristic.
…“Incident”
14. An “incident” is defined in the National Standard for Incident Recording (NSIR) as “a single distinct event or occurrence which disturbs an individual, group or community’s quality of life or causes them concern”.‘
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/non-crime-hate-incidents-code-of-practice/non-crime-hate-incidents-code-of-practice-on-the-recording-and-retention-of-personal-data-accessible
So if you encounter a ‘trans woman’, whom you don’t like, whom you think may be pretending to be a woman because they’re either deluded or perverted, and the ‘trans woman’ senses some hostility from you, it could be regarded by the police as a non-crime hate incident – even if you don’t say or do anything other than give out bad vibes and body language which can be interpreted as ‘hostile’. It’s up to the discretion and common sense (or lack of common sense) of the police as to whether or not to record it as a “non-crime hate incident”.