- “Britain was ‘well down the table’ for Covid deaths, Boris Johnson says” – Giving evidence at the Covid Inquiry, Boris Johnson disputed the claim by Hugo Keith KC that the U.K.’s death toll had been the second worst in Western Europe, reports the Mail.
- “Why Johnson is right about U.K.’s Covid death rate” – Boris was justified in challenging the claim that Britain’s pandemic fatality rate was the second worst in Europe, writes Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph.
- “We should shut down this Covid showtrial” – This isn’t an inquiry – it is rewriting history to fit a pro-lockdown narrative, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “The New Zealand vaccination records leak: A new analysis by William Briggs and some lesser thoughts of my own” – On Substack, Eugyppius highlights potential misleading signals in the New Zealand leaked Covid data.
- “Covid mRNA vaccines required no safety oversight” –The FDA’s Emergency Use Authorisation for Covid vaccines relied on clinical trials and manufacturing processes without binding legal standards, safety oversight or manufacturer liability for potential harms, writes Debbie Lerman for the Brownstone Institute.
- “mRNA vaccines may make unintended proteins, but there’s no evidence of harm” – A new study reveals that mRNA vaccines may prompt cells to produce small amounts of unintended proteins, but there’s no evidence that these mistakes compromise their safety, according to Science.
- “Canadian Government and media colluded to ‘instill fear’, coerce citizens into taking vaccines: Report” – According to a new report by the National Citizens Inquiry, the Canadian Government and media instilled fear about the COVID-19 pandemic and compelled citizens to take vaccines through threats of reprisals, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Nationwide scraps ‘work from anywhere’ policy and orders staff back to the office” – Nationwide has scrapped its “work anywhere” policy and told thousands of staff they must return to the office at least twice a week, reports the Telegraph.
- “Netanyahu hints at antisemitism as he blasts women’s groups” – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blasted women’s rights groups and world leaders for not “screaming” about the rape and mutilation of Jewish women by Hamas, according to the Mail.
- “U.S. Ivy League heads refuse to say calling for genocide of Jews is ‘harassment’” – The heads of three Ivy League universities have been urged to resign after they refused to say that calling for the genocide of Jews constitutes “harassment”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why Ivy League universities are so blasé about genocide” – On the 21st Century campus, everyone is protected from offence. Except the Jews, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Why the young are falling for Hamas propaganda” – Identity politics has cast Islamist terrorists as noble freedom fighters, says Frank Furedi in Spiked.
- “It’s over for this Conservative Party: Too many Tory MPs hate their own voters” – Any truly innovative ideas on immigration were destined for failure, thanks to the sizeable Tory Left-wing caucus, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Wealthy hit by soaring mortgage rates as Covid purchases go ‘horribly wrong’” – Home repossessions are rising among properties worth more than £5 million as even the wealthiest are hammered by a jump in mortgage rates, reports the Telegraph.
- “Is Conor McGregor the Irish Trump?” – MMA fighter Conor McGregor has been outspoken about Ireland’s riots. Now he has suggested he wants to run for the Irish Presidency, says John Mac Ghlionn in the Spectator.
- “Totalitarian bid to censor entire internet behind Ireland hate speech crackdown” – What is happening in Ireland sounds like an episode of Black Mirror – but it’s for real, writes Michael Shellenberger on the Public Substack.
- “There’s a reason the market is rejecting electric cars” – Without generous tax breaks, and bans on any of the alternatives, the EV is at best a niche product, says Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “COP28 is more than the Super Bowl of virtue-signalling – it’s doing real harm” – COP28 is underway and Biden is making costly climate promises that will hike energy costs and do nothing for the climate, writes Liz Peek in Climate Change Dispatch.
- “TikTok outlines funding to curb climate ‘misinformation’” – As a promise to COP28, TikTok is assembling a team of ‘Verified Champions’ to counter climate-related ‘misinformation’. What could possibly go wrong, asks Christina Maas in Reclaim The Net.
- “Doctor Who/He/Him” – Doctor Who, or Doctor WTF?, has played the woke card once again, says Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “No white faculty allowed” – City Journal’s Anita Kinney and Anthony Pericolo discuss a recent investigation into faculty hiring at the University of Washington, revealing the exhaustive efforts that universities make to discriminate against white job applicants.
- “Texas, the Daily Wire and the Federalist sue U.S. State Dept. for conspiring with NewsGuard to censor American media companies” – Texas, the Daily Wire and the Federalist have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department, alleging that it funded censorship technology designed to bankrupt ‘alternative’ media outlets, according to ZeroHedge.
- “Apple reveals governments use app notifications to surveil users ” – Apple has confirmed that governments are using push notifications for the surveillance of users, says Reclaim The Net.
- “Exercise might not make you live longer” – Scientists in Finland have suggested that being too active won’t prolong life, reports the Mail.
- “Omid Scobie’s book Endgame sold just 6,448 copies in first five days” – Omid Scobie’s new book Endgame has plunged to 215 on the Amazon ‘bestsellers’ list, according to the Mail.
- “Badenoch overhauls gender recognition list” – The Spectator’s James Heale reports on Kemi Badenoch’s announcement that individuals who’ve changed gender overseas must now provide medical reports when seeking a gender recognition certificate in the U.K.
- “Britain gripped by ‘epidemic’ of gay children being told they are trans, Kemi Badenoch says” – The Equalities Minister has told MPs that young people are under threat from a “new form of conversion therapy”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Chris Byrant plays the ‘your words make me feel unsafe’ card in a debate with Kemi Badenoch. It doesn’t go well” – Watch Kemi Badenoch slap down the dreadful, sanctimonious Chris Bryant in House of Commons debate.
Chris Bryant condescendingly attempts to shut down a debate following gender recognition order statement by saying he feels 'less safe'.
— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) December 6, 2023
Kemi Badenoch wasn't having any of it!
Nicely donepic.twitter.com/7NbYDVWekR
If you have any tips for inclusion in the round-up, email us here.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
Cloud botherers of the day:
I nominate superglue sniffers, extinction rebellion:
‘….many movements come to COP trying to push for justice.’
Of course they do….and the latest movement seeking justice at COP28?
Yachties……..
https://www.cop28.com/en/schedule/responsible-yachting-today-tomorrow
Let’s be clear: COP 28 is nothing to do with mitigating Climate Change as the not-so-great and the not-so-good fly in in their private jets from their beachfront homes and glistening towers of glass and steel to lecture us of our own sins! It is an opportunity to sharpen the instrument that will be used to control us and depopulate us. Those gathering in their thousands in Abu Dhabi are most likely there to try and get some financial gain out of it as there are untold riches to be reaped from our impoverishment. It is grotesque in the extreme and anyone taking it seriously needs mental health treatment.
Damned right Aethelred.
COP28 Cloudbotherers (and yachties) Fact of the Day:
‘A detailed examination by John Christy, a distinguished climatologist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville and Alabama State Climatologist, provides a stark assessment of the validity (or non-validity) of the models that are used in support of imagined apocalypse. His testimony in February 2016 to the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space & Technology included remarkable charts that document just how much the models overestimate temperatures. The red line in the chart shows the average of 102 climate model runs completed by Christy and his team at the University of Alabama at Huntsville using the models on which the IPCC itself relies. Also shown on the chart are the actual, observed temperatures. The models exaggerate warming, on average, two and a half times the actual temperature (or three times over in the climate-crucial tropics).’
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13143-017-0070-z
We know this is the reality ( unless you’re one of the deluded ) but it’s important to have a reminder from time to time. This is the kind of warped mentality we civilized people are dealing with. It’d be nice if this pair represented the exception rather than the rule, but I really don’t believe this is the case ( 1min );
https://twitter.com/dee_didasko/status/1732605678747861470
Utterly bonkers. How would one know one was so deeply and irrevocably indoctrinated if one grew up being taught this insane garbage? To be so fixed on death and ‘meeting Allah’ as if life meant nothing. As if your one job, on being born into a human body, was to get back to where you were before you were born and to try and take as many lives as you could on the way. Bonkers! A very dangerous ideology.
Downticker – please tell us which part of Aethelred’s comment you disagree with.
My thoughts on the twitter vid: what an utterly warped way to live life.
Medical Propaganda
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Pfizer Moderna Control Medical Propaganda
“mRNA vaccines may make unintended proteins, but there’s no evidence of harm”
To my mind this reads like a propaganda piece aimed at damage limitation. They have discovered something alarming and so they are making an early announcement along with bland reassurances in the hope that nobody will pick it up and heap more opprobrium on the mRNA vaccines.
Does the generation of rogue proteins really have no implications for the cognitive problems that some have experienced following the mRNA vaccines? You do not have to be Sherlock Holmes to pick up the intention of this article. It is enthusiastic over the potential for the ever more extensive use of mRNA technology and the therapeutic (cash generating) opportunities that will provide. The article concludes with the quote; “It’s a much bigger problem that people are underestimating the Omicron variant and are not getting the updated booster,” he says. One has to ask; a problem for who? people with mild cold symptoms or the people looking to make money and size power by the use of mRNA technology?
The attitude that “this product may do something unintended, but there is no evidence of harm” suggests that they have a completely different concept of safety compared with many other industries. For those that might be interested, I suggest looking up the definition of “Safety Integrity Level (SIL)” and delve into it if you like. Essentially, there are lots of risk versus benefit sums for any device that is in use in anything, including your house and car etc.
Maybe the concept of SIL is foreign to the medical trade, but most of the gadgets they use will have a rating by their manufacturers, such as SIL2 or whatever.
Bunter runs out of blotting paper:
‘The historian AJP Taylor once wrote that the first world war-era prime minister, David Lloyd George, could arouse “every feeling except trust”.
The same is true of Johnson. The two prime ministers, a century apart, had other things in common too. “He cared nothing for the conventional rules – neither the rules of personal behaviour nor those economic rules of free enterprise,” adds Taylor. “Lloyd George lived in the moment, a master of improvisation.” He could almost be describing Johnson there.
But there is one absolutely crucial difference. Unlike Lloyd George, Johnson was lazy.
Lloyd George could also take a decision. He may not have had a plan, and he certainly did not have a system. In that respect, he was quite similar to Johnson. But, as Taylor puts it: “When faced with a difficulty, he listened to the ideas of others and saw, in a flash, the solution.” It is the difference between a great national leader who saved his country in a crisis and a fraudulent one who did not.
Johnson suffers from a fatal combination of qualities in any leader. He combines indifference to principles and disregard for others with disorganisation of mind and behaviour, and indecisiveness and laziness in action.
These qualities have never been hidden. They are part of the role he played in public life. Yet in the unlikely event that anyone switched on the live coverage of the inquiry to see Johnson for the first time, they will have been aghast.
Seeing him in action once again, and with more to come on Thursday, it is the reckless incompetence and manifest unsuitability that stand out most.’ (Martin Kettle)
At these words, ten thousand swords slept peacefully in their scabbards (rusted because the army POL budget was spent on unused Nightingale hospitals).
Well done Bunter…….not.
And he had a bit of history on display, having been a journalist at a well known newspaper, and being the Mayor of London for a while.
First class Aethelred.
Thanks, HP!!
I am old enough that when I was at school the word gay still had its original and correct meaning.
Is it possible that the Civil Service is the biggest threat to our prosperity, our freedoms and our democracy?
Isn’t it the case that they basically run the country and make all our laws (for MPs to rubber stamp) with essentially no accountability?
When was the last time the civil service was held to account for anything?
The COVID enquiry, as an example, looks to me like a public spectacle designed to crush any reappraisal of their policies (yes, THEIR policies), by trotting out like hostages the politicians that fronted for them, to read out their carefully prepared statements that everything that was done was perfect.
To me, the civil service seems more and more like a merciless, cruel, cold dictatorship.
Yes, Minister. Something those at the Beeb wouldn’t take the risk of writing the script for these days!
Couldn’t agree more, Stewart. The civil service seems to do what it wants, ignore Ministers as some sort of irritation, while getting on with the business of irreversibly altering our society. Once you get a job in the civil service, it is apparently a job for life. Having worked on the margins (for a quango that was subsequently amalgamated into the civil service), I saw close up how deadening and lifeless it was, obsessed with meaningless meetings and process, racing through its schedule at snail pace, dragging things out unless there was an urgent need, and populated with people who were as dynamic and charismatic as blotting paper. That might be an unkind assessment but the quango I worked in was the exact opposite – buzzing and fizzing with ideas and possibilities, much humour and laughter, fine keen minds working on solving things in exciting new ways. When we joined the civil service, that all ended and we were informed that we needed to ‘button it’ and keep the laughter down!
Showtrial is exactly the word for this covid investigation, led by the lock-’em-up sooner longer harder brigade. Stalin would be proud.
Shouldn’t that read “The Science”?