- “Labour ditches £28bn green investment pledge” – Kier Starmer is due to announce tomorrow that it is ditching its policy of spending £28 billion a year on its green investment plan in a major U-turn.
- “Labour’s home insulation policy will cost double what it claims, says Treasury” – A new Treasury analysis has found that Labour’s plan to improve energy efficiency across millions of homes would cost more than double the amount the party has claimed, according to the Telegraph.
- “Ursula von der Leyen scraps pesticide reduction bill, in gift to farmers” – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that she will scrap a contentious upcoming bill that aimed to slash the use of chemical pesticides in agriculture, reports Politico.
- “Wind farm operator forced to cut hundreds of jobs” – Ørsted, one of Britain’s largest offshore wind developers, has been forced to cut hundreds of jobs and quit several global markets as it battles spiralling costs, says the Telegraph.
- “Pret axes last three vegetarian-only stores” – Pret a Manger is set to axe its last three vegetarian-only eateries and convert them into normal outlets due to a slump in demand for meat-free sandwiches, reports the Mail.
- “The great electric car lie is a monstrous deception against the British public” – It’s laughable for eco zealots to blame Rowan Atkinson for the low take-up of EVs. It’s just not rational for most people to buy one, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Is the public’s love affair with electric cars over?” – Sales of new electric cars have been slowing down in Britain, raising questions over whether the public could be falling out of love with the green machines, reports the Mail.
- “Fact check: Tim Spector’s frightening climate claims” – The BBC just can’t seem to stop itself trying to frighten people over climate change, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Gary Lineker’s latest claim is utterly humiliating for BBC bosses” – When Gary Lineker gets the BBC in trouble, they don’t sack him. Instead, they indulge him even more, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “A proportionate response” – Informed by Jewish law, Israel has sought to minimise civilian casualties in Gaza, writes Shlomo Brody in City Journal.
- “GB News presenter Neil Oliver cleared by Ofcom over ‘turbo cancer’ claims” – Presenter Neil Oliver has been cleared by the broadcasting watchdog after he pushed claims that the vaccines caused ‘turbo cancer’, reports the Times.
- “Lockdown generation lacks basic workplace skills, Tory grandee warns” – Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith says the disruption to education caused by the Covid lockdowns has robbed British youngsters of the chance to learn technical skills, according to the Mail.
- “The cost of lockdown is still becoming more devastating by the day” – Young Britons will continue to pay the price for lockdown for a generation to come, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “Official COVID-19 claims – untouched disinformation or when fact-checking goes silent” – Those in power who have declared “the fight against disinformation” to be a key challenge for humanity have spread a lot of it during the Covid crisis, writes Theo L. Glück on Substack.
- “New emails show Amazon caved to Biden admin pressure to censor Covid books that expressed dissenting views” – New emails show Amazon colluding with the Biden White House and censoring Covid-related books, reports Didi Rankovic in Reclaim The Net.
- “Fluoride to be added to drinking water under new legal powers” – Fluoride will be added to drinking water for millions of Britons under new legal powers in the biggest expansion of the health measure since the 1980s, says the Telegraph. Should we be worried?
- “NHS dentistry crisis exacerbated by immigration, Sunak told” – Tory MPs and Reform U.K. say the number of new arrivals in Britain is driving an “unquenchable demand” for health services, reports the Telegraph.
- “How to get Brits to have more babies” – The common denominator in countries with rising fertility is economic growth, observes Madeleine Armstrong in CapX
- “‘Londoners deserve a new kind of politics’” – The Social Democratic Party’s Amy Gallagher talks to Spiked about why she is challenging Sadiq Khan in the London mayoral election.
- “Fascism expert warns that ‘2024 might be the new 1933’ because ‘disinformation’ is driving the rise of ‘far Right parties’ that will allow Vladimir Putin to annex Eastern Europe” – Maybe, just maybe, the National Socialists are dead and gone, and these stupid historical comparisons have no relevance to modern politics, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “How primed for war Is China?” – China’s risk signals for a conflict are flashing red, say Profs. Michael Beckley and Hal Brands in Foreign Policy.
- “Rishi Sunak risks backlash with trans swipe at PMQs” – Labour was accused of “weaponising” the murder of trans teenager Brianna Ghey amid a row over an attempt by Rishi Sunak to mock Keir Starmer’s position on gender rights, says the Mail.
- “No, Rishi Sunak should not apologise for his ‘trans jibe’” – It is the chattering classes’ weaponisation of Brianna Ghey’s death that is truly offensive, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “A social media ban is not the way to protect children online” – Tragedies make for bad policy, and the murder of the teenager Brianna Ghey is no different, says Matthew Feeney in CapX.
- “Another pillar of Queen Nicola’s woke legacy has crumbled” – None of Nicola Sturgeon’s mistakes can compete with her insistence that trans women are women, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Swansea University censorship row after pulling Trans book from shelf” – Swansea University has been accused of censoring Helen Joyce after library staff pulled her book from a display following a single complaint, reports the Mail.
- “Feminism run amok” – On the Aporia Substack, Eirik Garnås explains how feminism hurts both men and women.
- “Angry Christians say Canterbury Cathedral’s silent disco should be cancelled” – Angry Christians are calling for an “absurd” silent disco being held in Canterbury Cathedral to be cancelled and are planning a protest, according to KentOnline.
- “Why Elon Musk and a Star Wars actor are going to war with Disney” – Mandalorian star Gina Carano claims her politics got her fired – and she has a billionaire on her side. What happens next could change Hollywood, says Ed Power in the Telegraph.
- “Biden’s AI plan to censor you revealed” – A new Republican report reveals how the Biden administration is spending millions on AI research designed to make anti “misinformation” tools which could then be passed to social media giants, reports the NY Post.
- “YouTube CEO vows to censor ‘hate speech’ and boost ‘authoritative sources’ in recommendations when people look for election news in 2024” – Big Tech is taking a bigger role in moderating online speech in 2024, writes Christina Maas in Reclaim The Net.
- “Newcastle United fan banned over gender-critical posts ‘not an isolated case’” – The Free Speech Union’s Toby Young warns the Premier League might have been investigating 1000s of people’s social media accounts for wrongthink, according to GB News.
- “‘She is one us and it could have happened to any of you!’” – On TalkTV, Julia Hartley-Brewer urges fans to boycott Newcastle United games in support of Linzi Smith, the fan who was banned for posting her views about transwomen on X.
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Didn’t Kariko and Weissman nick the original idea from Malone – and he’s got the patents? Alfred Nobel must be turning in his grave….
That’s a big fat no from me.
Shots. A strange name to use. When you’re being ‘shot’, it usually mean you’ve been injured. That aside, this reeks of evil and who knew that evil would come to you in a smiling jolly, jokey way starring your fave handsome football star, imbuing you with confidence and all-round feeling good vibes. I’m only surprised they aren’t giving away free Subway sandwiches laced with gmos and seed oils too. Or maybe when you turn up for your shot, they just shoot you in the head instead.
Shooting people in the head would be more merciful and you’d probably have a better chance of surviving covid 😉
This is what happens when ‘credentialled experts’ are allowed to spout whatever crap they want unchallenged (in MSM) for nigh on 3 years.
Of course they haven’t studied whether there could be problems in stabbing people with 2 different ‘vaccines’ at the same time.
Just as they didn’t study what would happen if you gave someone a covid vaxx right after they had had corona.
Just like they didn’t study what would happen if you mixed and matched a viral vector vaxx with an mrna or a subunit vaxx.
Just as they didn’t study what would happen if you kept stabbing people with the same worthless crap that didn’t work the first 50 times they were stabbed with it.
Just as they didn’t bother to keep track of AEs.
Just like they said it stopped infection and transmission, without having tested for this and knowing full well a respiratory virus will not be stopped by antibodies in the blood.
Just like they claimed they knew there would be no long-term AEs, with zero long-term data.
Just like they claimed it was safe for pregnant women, with zero data.
Just like they claimed the mrna would not be present in breast milk, with zero data.
Just like they claimed children born of vaxx mothers would suffer no side effects, with zero data.
On a side note – I happened to have heard of this football player about 2 days before this ad came out. Some twatter nonsense about him hooking up with Taylor Swift. The only thing I know about her, besides being mega-famous and rich, is that she has an unending string of boyfriends who apparently provide her with all her hits, so when he was first mentioned I thought nothing of it. As soon as I saw this ad – well, let’s say I don’t believe it’s a coincidence and I believe they were pushed together to try to boost the reach of the ad. If true, how pathetic, how low will any of these money-worshipping whores sink? And no way on this earth they actually stabbed him with the poison, they wouldn’t dare risk having him collapse in the middle of a game.
Well said, Jane. You’re right, he obviously received the placebo, saline solution.
The Nobel Prize for Medicine is going the same way as the Nobel Prize for Peace, won by the IPCC a few years ago: just a political badge that the elite award each other for singing from the same song-sheet on cue, in time and in tune.
Yes! I’ll get my ‘flu and Covid-19 shots at the same time… when Hell freezes over.
Please tell me this is parody! WTAF did I just read?? This is just wrong on every level.
”Katalin Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman, American scientists whose long collaboration has revolutionized the making of vaccines and raised the prospect of new treatments for a range of afflictions, were awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday for their work on messenger RNA.
Hungarian-born biochemist Karikó, 68, spent nearly a decade at BioNTech, the German pharmaceutical firm that collaborated with drug giant Pfizer to produce the pandemic’s first vaccine against the virus that causes COVID-19. Physician-scientist Weissman, 64, is a professor of vaccine research at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine.”
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-10-02/kariko-weissman-mrna-covid-vaccine-nobel-prize
Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize despite continuing the business as usual tradition in the USA of bombing or invading other nations they don’t approve of, so why not.
Well I can tell by the picture of them wearing matching face nappies that they know a thing or two about viruses. 🤦♂️🤦♀️🤡
Glad Aussie17 has picked up on this as well and shown that it’s always a case of ”follow the money”,
”Dr. Karikó was a senior vice-president at BioNTech, and Dr. Weissman is a vaccine research professor at the Perelman School of Medicine from University of Pennsylvania.
Yes, the same University of Pennsylvania that forged a long term partnership with Pfizer.
A revenue of 100 billion dollars can buy you a multitude of joyful toys! Meanwhile, observe their choice of cloth masks (not even N95!), which do not effectively work. Pardon my aussie, what a shit show!!”
https://www.aussie17.com/p/pharmafiles-news-october-2-2023-biontech
Of course.
How else will they pay for their yachts, exec jets, fancy holidays and expensive food?
I don’t trust any establishment institution. But one of the first I started distrusting, long before the covid terror, was the Nobel Prize.
When Obama got his for peace I immediately came to the conclusion that it was all political BS.
And then of course looking back Kissinger, the IPCC.. Jesus, what was I thinking.
My OH has been chin-wagging with both sets of neighbours today and the conversation turned to the latest jabs. Married couple on one side were both poorly afterwards (not enough detail obtained by OH but sounds like flu symptoms)
Elderly man on other side actually needed an ambulance because he felt so ill.
I must have been busy because I didn’t see an ambulance but it bears out a remark from a visitor I had last week who had a brief chat with him and he had made a similar complaint to her.
Maybe they will learn this time, if it’s not too late for them.
Went out to lunch yesterday with some fellow retired work friends. At one stage they were all talking about either having just had their flu and Covid jabs or were about to get them. They’re all university graduates apart from me! We don’t speak about the dangers but they know my views. All very sad and very stupid.
To be honest, I think anyone who is still paying attention to these discredited spokesmen/ women for Big Pharma and gets these jabs deserves everything they get.