- “Nicola Sturgeon branded a ‘convincing fraud’ after Covid Whatsapp messages were deleted” – Nicola Sturgeon has been branded a “fraud” by one of her own former MSPs after revealing to the Scottish Covid Inquiry that she had deleted all her pandemic WhatsApps, the Telegraph reports.
- “Mapping the PPE debris” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson assess the environmental impact of Covid PPE in Trust the Evidence.
- “Climate chiefs admitted Net Zero plan based on insufficient data, leading physicist says” – The Climate Change Committee has privately admitted it only looked at “a single year of data” when making controversial green energy claims, according to the Telegraph.
- “Port Talbot has been sacrificed to the altar of Net Zero – which is why Labour’s crocodile tears are hard to stomach” – Port Talbot is the latest victim of the Tory Government’s headlong rush towards Net Zero, says Andrew Neil in the Mail. Yet, “at every Tory turn of the Net Zero screw, Labour has urged the Government to go further and faster”.
- “Why we need to talk about CO2” – Tom Ed on Substack takes a look at the big picture on carbon dioxide.
- “The bossiness of veganuary” – Laura Dodsworth on the Free Mind wonders why the vegan evangelists “think that a month-long monk-like abstinence from steak and bacon will tempt us into following this miserable and unnatural diet for the rest of the year”.
- “Has this shock Tory victory exposed the costs of Labour’s trans extremism?” – The unexpected Conservative triumph in Hackney has lessons that go wider than just east London, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Is DEI About to Die?” – Another victory against woke was won this week, says Nick Dixon on Substack, as ‘Big Four’ accounting firm PwC, which employs 46,000 people in the U.S., was forced to tone down (though not completely scrap) its racist ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ policies.
- “The curious case of Israeli ‘genocide’” – The performance at the Hague bodes ill for international law, says Yehudah Mirsky in UnHerd.
- “South African Lawfare at The Hague” – Norman J.W. Goda in Quillette argues that “motions before any court contain references to hard evidence and a careful reading of legal precedent, but the South African ICJ application has neither”.
- “Accusing Israel of genocide is a perverse moral inversion” – If there is a genocidal force in this war, it must be Hamas, argues Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis in the Telegraph.
- “Smug world elites have been exposed by a chainsaw-wielding libertarian” – New Argentinian President Javier Milei spent 40 minutes telling the assembled elites at Davos how, in theory and in practice, state intervention tends to make people poorer, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Humourless crybabies are making office life impossible” – Now that a bit of banter with colleagues can cost you your job, is it any wonder so many people choose to work from home, asks the Telegraph‘s Michael Deacon.
- “I would block UAE-backed bid to take over Telegraph, says Lord Heseltine” – The Conservative grandee is the third Cabinet minister from the Thatcher era to speak out against the proposed acquisition of the titles by a foreign state, the Telegraph reports.
- “Civil servants told they should ‘yield power to the marginalised’” – Civil servants in HMRC were told to “yield power” to the marginalised and that they “unknowingly benefit” from racism, according to the Telegraph.
- “FBI And Secret Service Are Covering Up Their Role In Alleged January 6th ‘Pipe Bomb’ Plot, New Evidence Suggests” – Public reports on the curious incident of the little known January 6th ‘pipe bomb’, as video footage shows multiple agencies may have lied about the alleged explosive devices and mishandled their investigations.
- “Crackdown on ‘activists’ in the Civil Service” – The Government will crack down on civil servants accused of wasting taxpayers’ money on diversity activism, the Telegraph reports.
- “Novak Djokovic is heckled by a spectator who shouts ‘Get vaccinated’ as he is about to serve for the match at the Australian Open” – His response? He serves an ace and wins the match. Watch the video, courtesy of James Melville on X.
Novak Djokovic is heckled by a spectator who shouts “GET VACCINATED” as he is about to serve for the match at the Australian Open…
— James Melville
His response?
He serves an ace and wins the match.pic.twitter.com/df7oVWadXV(@JamesMelville) January 20, 2024
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Morning , any thoughts on Toby’s denigration of Trump to Nick Dixon on The Weekly Sceptic .
Morning, Freddy. I think that is a good discussion topic and I would like to hear your thoughts.
For me, Trump is one topic on which (IMO) Toby’s seeming unwillingness to move beyond the mainstream narrative or Overton window means he gets things massively wrong. He cannot contemplate that the 2020 election was actually “stolen” or illegitimate or that there wasn’t an insurrection on January 6 2021. He cannot acknowledge that Trump’s first term was actually pretty successful pre-Covid. He does not seem to realise that Trump’s key policies and beliefs are traditional conservative ones – national pride (MAGA), law and order, control of immigration, energy independence, strong economy, strong on defence and foreign policy, anti-woke, anti-climate nonsense… the list goes on.
Instead, Toby asserts that “if he is elected it will be another nail in the coffin of western civilisation” (IMO, he might be the guy we need to save western civilisation) and that “I’m not sure he has any of that moral authority, he just seems to be a pretty reprehensible, dishonest, unpleasant character”.
Further, he argues that Trump’s first term wasn’t “a disaster” because of “the infrastructure and people in place to run the country” – little realising that the Establishment in the US is the problem and it was the same Establishment that heavily hindered his ability to implement his agenda. Notions of “the Deep State” and “the military-industrial-intelligence complex” are well outside Toby’s window of contemplation, despite their fingerprints being all over Covid and the Ukraine war.
He is the one complacently sleepwalking as we move towards the death of western civilisation, IMO.
I think a lot of well-spoken conservatives struggle with Trump. Hitchens is another one. I certainly would not want the man to marry my daughters, but of the choices on offer in what will be the three elections he will end up contesting, he is by far the preferable choice. Trump failed badly on “covid” and also failed to execute on his promise to build a border wall, but no politician is perfect and none are our saviours – but the direction of travel was if not reversed then at least halted. We should be glad that he won and glad if he wins again. He has dragged the Republican party a little further to the right, in line with their support. The US political right represents what seems to me the most powerful force globally that is resisting the changes that are destroying our way of life. We can sneer at them as much as we want, and turn our noses up at their supposed vulgarity, but what has the political right achieved in the UK, a nation that is dominated by a country (England) with deep conservative tendencies?
Would you prefer your daughter worked in the Clinton White House?
I am 100% confident that they would have the good sense to steer clear of that too.
Or would you prefer your daughters to be “entertained” by Biden. Maybe they could take a shower together
Like I said above, they’re not that dumb.
I didn’t listen to the podcast, but are you sure he was talking about Trump and not Biden when he said “I’m not sure he has any of that moral authority, he just seems to be a pretty reprehensible, dishonest, unpleasant character.” /sarc. I mean, there is orders of magnitude more dirt on demented, drugged-up Genocide Joe than there ever has been on Magaman…
Totally agree with your sarc observation. Trump clearly has some character flaws (including narcissism), but next to Biden he is a saint. No doubt our friend Toby was lulled by the Sleepy Joe portrayal to believe things were going to get much better under Biden. How’s that worked out, do we think?
Thanks for asking , I think I could write a book on USA politics since the Brexit vote & Trumps first term began ! I have become super sensitive in an almost supernatural way to any Bullsh1t produced mostly by Democrats ( not all Republicans can be trusted though ) How Toby can diss Trump when what he actually said describes Biden ! Toby is still Establishment with all his Clubs , Dinners & Lunch’s & I’ve always cut him some slack as I suppose he has to keep his toe in the hierarchy water but I thought that was for our Benefit ! However I’m looking at him sideways now especially as he didn’t know about the “The Light” newspaper !
A first class explanation.
Thank you, HP.
It was
Trump faced two soft coups (Russiagate and Covid with Birx (boasted about in her book) and Fauci) and two impeachments using perjured evidence and manipulated video evidence. He also faced the ‘Fedsurrection’ on 6 January 2021 and the kangaroo court Jan 6 Committee with, again, perjured evidence and manipulated video. The 2020 election was ‘fortified’ at the very least (Zuckerbucks, mailed votes, drop box stuffing, ‘dirty’ electoral rolls, sudden jumps in votes in the dead of night). Despite all that USA was energy independent which helped to usher in Abraham Accords, minority wages increased and inflation was low. Also none of his children are in hock to CCP or have blown millions on crack and hookers.
The corruption at heart of USA is surprising (and somewhat frightening) to outsiders but it’s very real. Mark Steyn in Superior Court of DC, Room 518 is demonstrating that. His chances with a ‘company town’ jury seem slim but the evidence should be devastating to Mann’s reputation (unlike the 270 word blog post 12+ years ago).
I’m very glad that someone else noticed. Below is what I posted under the article in The Daily Sceptic. He appears to have a well developed case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Acquired I suspect on the West Coast of the USA.
“Toby, your position on President Trump is pathetic. You scrabble around trying to find something negative to say about him and come up with precisely nothing. It’s ok to not like someone, I don’t particularly like him either, but he is a leader and not a career politician which is exactly the point and is therefore the only hope for America and by extension the western world. Oh and you conveniently forget to mention North Korea. Please try to get a grip to see beyond your very obvious bias on this issue.”
I don’t think we are the only ones ! Also Toby has kicked Delingpole into the long grass !
The guy led the ‘vaccine’ rollout to the the West. He still stands by the ‘vaccines’. Enough said.
Yes that takes some explaining but his re election is our only hope !!!
So according to the G20 et al we now live in a ”pandemic age”. But scratch the surface and we see this is absolute cobblers. This comprehensive, datatastic report does a stellar job of demonstrating this;
”As our analysis shows, the data upon which the G20 has justified pandemic risk is weak. The assumptions of a rapidly increasing threat drawn from that data, which is used to then justify huge investments in pandemic preparedness and a substantial reordering of international public health, are not based on solid ground. Moreover, the likely impact of the surveillance structures being put in place to detect natural threats must also be questioned, as the savings claimed are predominantly based on historic influenza and HIV/AIDS, for which mechanisms are already in place and risks are reducing, while mortality from spillover events from animal reservoirs, the basis of the G20’s claims of increasing risk, is also low.
Covid-19 alone also presents a poor justification on various levels. If it is of natural origin, then based on the G20 data it could be understood as an isolated event and not part of a trend. In addition, Covid-19 mortality is predominantly in the elderly and already ill, and complicated by changing definitions of attributable mortality (of, as versus with, the pathogen). If SARS-CoV-2 is laboratory-modified, as some have argued, then the massive effort underway to build surveillance for naturally occurring threats would not be justified nor appropriate to the task.
As a result, we must ask ourselves whether this is an adequate justification for rushing new international legal agreements that could divert significant resources from larger disease burdens that pose everyday risks. The G20 is basing its recommendation for over $31 billion a year in new pandemic financing on mortality figures that pale beside the everyday health risks that most humans face. In effect the G20 is asking countries with endemic infectious disease burdens orders of magnitude higher than these small outbreaks to divert limited resources to intermittent risks largely perceived to be threats by richer governments.”
https://brownstone.org/articles/before-preparing-for-pandemics-we-need-better-evidence-of-risk/
Just a suggestion of course, but if we stopped ‘gain of function’ research to viruses that make them much more likely to cause pandemics, I have a feeling that pandemics might go back to being a once in 100 years event.
Please, no need for applause…
I couldn’t resist.
Thanks Mogs
Manufactured Excess Deaths From Covid
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
For those pious enough to follow the religious law that a Jew killing a non-Jew can never be considered murder, it would make sense that accusations of genocide would be an outrage. Killing thousands of Gentiles would be no more a crime than killing a swarm of flies.
Depending on the alignment of the media, describing Israelis as being “killed” and Palestinians as “dying” as if there was no violent act would be consistent with this if those with certain beliefs are not to be offended.
Similarly for talk of “human rights”, such rights would only apply to those who believe they are human beings.
There aren’t any humans in Gaza or the West Bank, didn’t you know? Not according to Netenyahoo and the rest of the Knesset, anyway. Am sure the ICJ will concur, if enough pressure is applied. /sarc.
Why be sarcastic? As far as some are concerned, there will be no humans in Gaza other than perhaps some hostages. Their land is occupied by Arabs and is being taken back. Liberating property and possessions from the Palestinians is bringing it redemption from Satan.
Yes, the narrative is truly astonishing. I have to regularly remind myself that we’re actually in the 21st Century with millennia of intellectual, moral and ethical development behind us, not some pre-Neanderthal backwater up the a*se end of an ice age, fighting for every morsel of food, warmth and shelter.
“Novak Djokovic is heckled by a spectator who shouts ‘Get vaccinated’ as he is about to serve for the match at the Australian Open”
Just brilliant.
“Government crackdown” forecast, this time on a particular fault of the tax payer funded sector. Do they expect us to believe it will happen, other than in their imaginations, or have any effect?
after all these years, do me a favour.
https://www.humanevents.com/2024/01/20/journalist-who-tried-to-cancel-novak-djokovic-over-not-taking-covid-vaccine-collapses-and-dies-while-covering-australian-open
In this case the jabs got their man.
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According to his family Mike Dickson was “a truly great man.” Having read some of his comments about Djokovic I will have to disagree – he was an utter Next Tuesday.
Djokovic could have ignored this but he courageously posted a message of condolence on Twitter. I admit I could not have gone that far.
No loss.
Falsified or concealed data, by John Campbell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoiE-OLIr44&list=WL&index=9 just over 7 minutes.
Did anyone see the Witch Woman on stage at Davos chanting then blowing in the faces of the seated freaks ! She had a brown face mask painted directly on her face ! Unreal !!
Saw it Freddy. Bloody nutters the lot of them.
I still can’t believe I saw what I saw Hp so I’m glad you witnessed it ! Insanity !!