- “The BBC’s hypocrisy is now clear for all to see” – The BBC refused to call Hamas ‘terrorists’ because it’s a ‘loaded word’. But isn’t the same true of ‘far-Right’, asks Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “A ‘two-state solution’ now is a dangerous fiction” – In the wake of the October 7th massacres, what would an independent Palestine look like and who would run it, asks Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Is identity politics to blame for the rise of antisemitism?” – It is now hip to view Jews as ‘problematic’, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Stunning new charts from New Zealand shows a large gender effect that should not happen in a safe vaccine” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch questions COVID-19 vaccine safety using new gender-specific mortality data from New Zealand.
- “The architecture of isolation 6: Fever hospitals” – In their latest historical review of infectious disease management, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan revisit Manchester’s Monsall ‘fever’ hospital.
- “Almost 10,000 sex crime cases languish in U.K.’s broken court system” – From overcrowded prisons to record court backlogs, the criminal justice system is being pushed to breaking point, reports Bloomberg.
- “London set to become like drug-ravaged San Francisco, says policing chief” – A senior police officer warns of a U.K. opioid surge mirroring the one in the U.S., reports the Telegraph.
- “Civil servants were paid £150 million in ‘golden goodbyes’ last year” – Figures reveal that a ‘golden goodbye’ of nearly £400,000 was among more than £150 million-worth of exit packages lavished on civil servants in 2022, according to the Mail.
- “Is ‘immigration’ good for the economy?” – The claim that “immigration is good for the economy” is so vague as to be meaningless, says Noah Carl in Aporia.
- “Unilever has turned mediocrity into a fine art. It faces a painful reckoning” – Without a genuine overhaul, Unilever is sleepwalking into a painful reckoning, warns Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
- “How the CCP infiltrated Britain” – Whatever else Britain’s China policy does, it must never again make Cameron’s mistake of taking the CCP at its word, says Sam Dunning in UnHerd.
- “EU launches an ‘illegal content’ probe into Elon Musk’s X” – The EU has launched an “illegal content” probe into Elon Musk’s X for allegedly breaching new social media regulations, reports the Mail.
- “Why the EU is coming for Elon Musk” – The Brussels investigation into X is a brazen attempt to crack down on free speech, writes Norman Lewis in Spiked.
- “Europe on cusp of mass secret censorship” – The European Commission is in the midst of a sweeping crackdown on free speech, says Michael Shellenberger in his Public Substack.
- “EDF customers ‘terrified’ to put heating on after sudden rise in bills” – Panicked EDF customers say they are now too scared to put the heating on after a ‘system error’ caused energy bills to soar to eye-watering sums, reports the Mail.
- “Wasted wind power adds £40 to household energy bills, says think tank” – According to the think tank Carbon Tracker, wasted wind power will add £40 to the average U.K. household’s electricity bill in 2023, says the BBC.
- “Another heat pump myth has just crumbled” – It’s time we stopped pretending that going green will save us money, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “What could happen if we just stopped oil? Six billion might die” – It’s difficult to see how an immediate ban on fossil fuels will allow civilisation to continue to flourish, says Neil Record in the Telegraph.
- “Cop28: Not much cop” – Cop28 is yet another triumph of ignorance and hubris over experience, writes David Turner on Substack.
- “Teachers can’t be forced to use pupils’ chosen pronouns, says Government” – Schools will be told to presume that a child cannot change gender in the Government’s first guidance for teachers on trans issues, reports the Independent.
- “Trans guidance offers route back to sanity” – What is important now is that the sensible new trans guidance for schools is implemented as quickly as possible and is no longer beset by delays, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Teachers can ignore transgender guidance, suggests biggest teaching union” – The National Education Union says that teachers can ignore the Government’s new transgender guidance, according to the Telegraph.
- “Activist schools threaten to flout new trans advice being issued today” – Activist schools are already threatening to flout the new trans guidance, reports the Mail.
- “Teaching children they can be born in the ‘wrong’ body is ‘harmful’” – Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch says that teaching children they can be born in the wrong body is “harmful”, according to the Mail.
- “Wanting to hire ‘fewer white men’ for a job is not discrimination” – A tribunal has ruled that wanting to hire “fewer white men” for a job is not discrimination, says the Telegraph.
- “Police record hate incident against Tory deputy chair after trans row with Greens” – Redditch MP Rachel Maclean says she will not apologise for her comments about the Green Party’s embrace of gender ideology, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rees-Mogg calls for Equality Act to be scrapped to save taxpayer cash” – Jacob Rees-Mogg says the Equality Act should be scrapped to tackle “wokery” and restore common sense to the workplace, according to Guido Fawkes.
- “Esther McVey has a tough task bringing back common sense – it’s been made redundant” – Esther McVey must tackle the waste and wokery plaguing the public sector from the ground up, writes Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “Why October 7th may mark a turning point for universities” – Psychologist and public intellectual Steven Pinker tells NY Magazine’s Benjamin Hart that the debacle at Harvard is a blow to campus leftism.
- “Harvard’s plagiarism hypocrisy” – Harvard President Claudine Gay is teaching us a lot about how corruption of words and the seductions of ideology go hand in hand, says Peter Wood in the Spectator.
- “Keir Starmer ties himself in knots trying to define ‘working class’” – On LBC, Keir Starmer struggles to provide Nick Ferrari with a definition of ‘working class’ and lands on the aspiration to own a car!
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While I agree that we (the country) should maintain a capability to make our own suitable (high quality) PPE, I don’t think this is a function of government to ensure this happens. Government’s job is to fund and appoint suitable people to positions at the top of the NHS. After that it’s over to them – and they should be held to account if they fail.
UKHSA is a branch of government and should have no influence on purchasing of anything within the NHS.
Agreed – we should be moving towards less involvement of government with the healthcare system. Once again, the NHS let us down. Not that I think that more PPE would have made significant difference to the coronavirus waves.
No.
The Government NEVER learns any lessons, because those running it never go to gaol for their corruption and reckless mis-use of public funds and abuse of powers and the taxpayer ends up paying for their ‘mistakes’.
All of the money spent on “covid” was wasted (assuming the objective was “public health” rofl). Furlough, PPE, “vaccines”, advertising, “information”, data-gathering (deliberately not gathering anything useful), testing, “track and trace”, collateral damage to the economy long term, increased healthcare burden from replacing the NHS with the National Covid Service and “vaccine” damage, have I missed anything? Ventilators, useless “anti-covid” drugs. I imagine in the UK alone the total cost has got to be several hundred billion at least.
You missed the 17bn of fraudulent and defaulted ‘bounce back’ loans for which our current PM was responsible. Anyone with a heartbeat (and many without) were able to apply, and since there was zero verification or credit checks the scheme was a disaster waiting to happen. It duly fulfilled its promise.
Yup good point
Never mind “Test & Trace”. Who stole all that money off us?
I do not believe the £9 billion was wasted as such. The sums involved are too great to be brushed aside as panic buying. As with much government spending these last four years the intention, deliberate intention is to impoverish the country. Monies have been diverted in ridiculous deals simply to empty the nation’s coffers so it is not just PPE but money to arms manufacturers (Ukraine – none of our business), further billions on windmill subsidies when we are fuel rich, useless infrastructure projects such as HS2, brain dead DIE projects, grotesque millions spent advertising “You are all going to die” throughout the Scamdemic. God knows how much shipping in young, able-bodied men and accommodating them in 5 star hotels along with the latest mobile phones. None of this was or is necessary so the only conclusion is that it is deliberate. Our government wants to destroy this country and take all wealth from its people. Let us be under no illusions about this and if Kneel is elected he will swiftly turbo charge our destruction.
We must not be led to believe that frankly criminal levels of government spending are purely down to the utter stupidity of utterly stupid MP’s or equivalent government lackeys.
This looks like this was set up for the job of guiding the Government in an emergency:
“The Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE) is an expert group activated in an emergency to integrate independent scientific research and analysis from across government, academia and industry.”
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/explainer/scientific-advisory-group-emergencies-sage
And the evidence is that there was no clear guidance, nor any preparation for such an event.
In addition, it looks like there is a lack of Scientific, Engineering, Manufacturing, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Planning, or Business knowledge and understanding within Government. And, in addition to this, there’s has been no joined up thinking within the Civil Service to connect the competent people that surely exist.
It appears that whoever picks the experts need replacing as well.
Who is going to take the wrap for this waste of taxpayers money?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/i-dont-recall-fauci-unable-answer-key-questions-pandemic-probe/5846409
Fraudci “unable to recall.” He’s been on the same duck and dive courses as Krankie.
“burn”. Does Greta know?
While I know now that none of this was accidental waste I am still shocked at NHS managerial incompetence. Even by the general public sector yardstick. I have posted about this before. Over 3 decades, I built up and ran a private sector high-tech multinational Co; Efficient procurement of fit-for-purpose components and sub contract deliverables was essential. Very occasional mistakes made were usually expensive but were never made twice.
A former employee engineer had married into a Shanghai-nese family and set up a high-tech business there. Having seen harrowing footage of N Italy on TV early March 2020 and hearing the UK NHS was desperately short of higher grade N95/FFP2 N99/FFP3 masks for staff, he contacted me to see if a large consignment of these would be welcome as a family member, a senior official in a Tianjin factory, was able to supply at less than £1 a unit. He wanted no profit, merely to be reimbursed at cost. I knew he was genuine. With samples, we worked to reference their 30 Chinese market certification documents to the UK Medical Devices Directives, Regulations and EN Standards.
I had emailed the NHS procurement director and was eventually directed to 2 clerks sharing a single procurement role post responsible for these products. As is normal practice, I sought from them a Purchase Specification and quantity required. I might have been speaking a different language. Over a tedious 10 day exchange, I was amazed they had no access to technical expertise to define what the NHS needed, no specification and no apparent understanding of the basics of what was offered, let alone the standards to which these products might need to comply. To their obvious relief, we gave up when we learned, the Belgian government had been bought up the factories’ next 4 months production. I later learned that this Welsh NHS office paid between 7 and 9 times per unit for lower grade masks.
Early on, the documentation exercise revealed to me that all these masks were absolutely ineffective against virus containing aerosols. And the studied dis-interest from NHS procurement, that both the mask procurement and probably the risk from Covid was a scam. If the Welsh procurement reflects the general NHS (in)competency in basic procurement I am not surprised that between £ 8 and 15 billion (thousand million) pounds has been wasted.
“And the studied dis-interest from NHS procurement, that both the mask procurement and probably the risk from Covid was a scam.”
The people at the top, the pretend powers that be knew from the start it was all a scam. One of the purposes of the scam was to waste money as I have pointed out in my earlier post.
Everything makes sense if you understand that the primary objective is the destruction of our country.
Enriching your mates, and through that yourself with a small delay, is a welcome byproduct.
YES of course they have: How to Launder More Money with Impunity & create Billionaires.
Oh PS. Let Not Forget The Billions on Nightingale Tents!! That went down well.