- “Amy Winehouse statue’s Star of David covered with pro-Palestine sticker” – Police are investigating after the star of David necklace on the statue of Amy Winehouse in Camden was covered over with a pro-Palestinian sticker, reports the Standard.
- “Spineless Starmer would sell British foreign policy to the largest voting blocs” – Keir Starmer’s stance on Gaza and Israel was a sobering and powerful counter-argument to that of his critics – and then he caved, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer’s antisemitism dilemma” – On the Battle of Ideas Substack, James Heartfield explains why the Labour Party can’t seem to shake off its problems with antisemitism.
- “The woke wing of Hamas” – From London to New York, young radicals have become foot soldiers of Jew hatred, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Islamism is exploiting Britain’s political vacuum” – Europe‘s leaders have allowed Islamism to thrive, says Ayaan Hirsi Ali in UnHerd.
- “U.S. moves to stop Israel’s invasion of Rafah” – The U.S. says that Israel’s planned invasion of Rafah “should not proceed under current circumstances” as it tries to use the UN to stop it, reports the Telegraph.
- “The deliberate lies in the Washington Post” – The Washington Post ran a piece heralding the Arab journalists killed in Gaza. But Investigative journalist David Collier points out the paper ignored the links between those journalists and Hamas.
- “Largest Covid vaccine study yet finds up to three times greater risk” – Covid vaccines made by Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca have been linked to a small but significant proportion of heart, blood and neurological disorders, reports the Mail.
- “‘Our paper critical of the Covid vaccines will be retracted by Cureus!’” – The paper Steve Kirsch co-authored with six other authors calling for a vax moratorium will be retracted by the journal because the publisher won’t allow any paper that is counter-narrative to be published, says Kirsch. Download it here before it disappears.
- “First-trimester Covid vaccination is 28% more dangerous than third-trimester, another study shows” – For a safe vaccine “not affecting pregnancy”, the trimester in which it‘s taken shouldn‘t matter, says Igor Chudov on Substack.
- “New Zealand OIA request reveals the Covid vaccines increased your risk of dying” – An OIA request to the New Zealand health authorities shows that the vaccines didn’t protect people from Covid. It killed them, writes Steve Kirsch on Substack.
- “The Wuhan Cover-Up by RFK Jr.” – “The Wuhan Cover-Up does a better job than any other book or article I have read at exposing the trends, forces and institutions that brought us the Covid catastrophe,” says Debbie Lerman on Substack
- “From Zika to Covid and the corruption of science” – On Substack, Prof. Norman Fenton highlights his recent discussion with Dr. Randy Bock on a range of issues relating to the Covid years.
- “Labour vows to ‘eliminate’ fox hunting” – Labour has vowed to eliminate fox hunting within its first five years in power, saying there is not a majority in “any part of the country” that wants it to continue, reports the Telegraph.
- “Mass immigration is bringing a European-style populist revolt to Ireland” – Republican voters are turning against Sinn Fein as they reject the party’s open borders policy, says Michael Murphy in the Telegraph.
- “The Irish should reject the new hate speech bill” – The Republic of Ireland could soon become one of the worst violators of the right to free speech in the Western world, warns Paul Coleman in the Critic.
- “High energy costs are a choice – and an act of national self-harm” – Governments like to claim that globalisation means that our destiny is beyond their control. That’s wrong, says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “Men and women’s brains do work differently, scientists discover for first time” – The brains of men and women operate differently, scientists have shown for the first time in a breakthrough study, according to the Telegraph.
- “Defence minister defends military’s ‘woke’ policies as necessary to represent modern society” – Andrew Murrison, the Minister for Defence, People and Families, tells MPs he is “guilty as charged” if he’s accused of wanting to make the military a more inclusive and diverse workspace, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sadiq Khan puts ‘anti-U.K. propaganda’ on a pedestal in Trafalgar Square” – The London Mayor has been accused of promoting “anti-British propaganda” with a shortlist of woke sculptures for Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why is the NHS indulging ‘breastfeeding’ men?” – Discharge from a transwoman’s nipples is not breast milk. Stop pretending otherwise, says Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “Cathedral apologises as transgender activist eulogised at funeral as ‘mother of all whores’” – A New York cathedral has apologised for holding a “sacrilegious” funeral for a transgender activist eulogised as the “mother of all whores”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Disney: a billion-dollar casualty of woke” – Disney is paying a heavy price for trying to shove identity politics down our throats, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Nick Clegg boasts 60% of Meta staff used for censorship” – Meta’s President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg has let slip how much effort goes in to sanitising the platform, says Guido Fawkes.
- “Shocking” – A video posted on X shows a man at a pro-Palestine rally, who held a sign saying Hamas is a terrorist organisation being aggressively removed by the police, rather than having his right to counter-protest protected.
We are now in the absurdist position in this country where standing with a sign that states the law will get you carted off by the police. The authorities should have protected his right to counter protest. Instead they aggressively removed him. Shocking. pic.twitter.com/RZkItgQZMr
— Heidi Bachram(@HeidiBachram) February 18, 2024
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Interestingly enough on this subject I have just had an eye consultation refused this morning at my local NHS clinic in St Albans because I declined the offer of wearing a mask in the facility. I had a very repetitive conversation with the medical care professional there who explained how good they were at keeping everyone ‘safe’.
I failed to succumb to her less than compelling persuasion and left as neither of us was going to give way.
I’ve emailed the NHS outfit that manages this service to seek confirmation on whether we have a de facto refusal of treatment and access to services if a face mask is not worn. I asked for a one word answer. I will await a reply.
Based on my experience and speaking to doctors and nurses I know over the years, I am pretty certain that people who work in the NHS don’t like the patients. That is of course not true of every doctor and nurse nor of every patient, but for the most part, the staff find interaction with patients not very pleasant and something they can’t wait to get over and done with.
This impression is somewhat validated by the experience of the last 2+ years. Every opportunity that has presented itself to push patients away has been taken, be it cancelling service, online consultations, barring visitors.
It also explains partly why the NHS has legions of staff doing all sorts of jobs that in aggregate make up the service to patients. Think of a typical visit to the NHS. You’ll see a chain of people, none of who spend more than a few minutes with you at most before you get passed on to someone else. Everyone is very rushed and simply have to get on to something else (rarely another patient, but rather writing something down, looking something up, checking something).
I see masks as part of that effort do push patients away. Masks create a barrier between people and for doctors and nurses, they serve to put distance between themselves and their patients. A doctor I know confessed as much to me, saying that she didn’t mind the masks and in some ways was grateful for them as it saved her having to put on an empathic expression when she was tired or low on energy – which is most of the time.
If they could anaesthetise us at the door, wheel us in, carry out a diagnosis without our participation, treat us, attach a set of follow up instructions for us read, then wheel us back out and wake us up, that is exactly what they would do.
And they would claim it was the best thing for our safety.
Nurses used to train on the job, as such there was never any doubt in their minds about what the job was about.
These days, they have to “study” for ages and are perhaps then a little dismayed when expected to do the actual work. They are also, in my experience, looking to be promoted to one of the endless “management” or “consultant” positions; they have been patronised by their “education”.
My qualification required to register with the NMC was a three year DipHE of which 50% was in practice and 50% in university. In the good old days, when my father trained, it was two years for SEN and 3 years for SRN. Yes the training was ward based, but there were classroom sessions as well. The other difference was that student nurses were included in the numbers as they were employed by the hospital.
Personally, I don’t think that there would have been a difference for me whichever training scheme was used, I was 50 when I qualified after a previous career as a systems/software engineer.
However, and it’s probably truer now that it’s all degree only, it is a means to obtaining a degree.
To fulfill the role of nurse practitioner I needed courses at level 7 post graduate level.
Your inalienable right to refuse to consent to a NPI as stated in Article 6 of the UNESCO Universal Declaration of Bioethics & Human Rights has been breached. It states that not giving consent to an intervention, which masking is, does & should not be detrimental to an individual’s right to receive medical care.
Stating that one is exempt, as you lawfully are exempt just by deciding not to submit to wearing a muzzle, is a route which is unchallengeable & they have no right to question the reason for the exemption.
I hope that you receive a reply.
Correct. That is why it was possible, right from the start, to download all the graphics for creating “exemption” badges from a gov.uk website. Not well advertised, but it’s up to us to use it if required. Soon after the scam started, there were some cases (in the legal definition) in which damages claims were made against organisations that refused to provide services on those grounds. The Discrimination Act 2018, and the Equality Act 2010 were also useful. The ones I read about appeared to have settled outside court, but cash changed hands on account of that.
Along the lines of selective publication, the bureaucrats kept quiet about the fact that there was never a requirement for a third party to grant exemption. Unilateral declaration, and printing out the bits and pieces published (quietly) by themselves, was what I did, almost two years ago.
P.S. This was the original source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own It says that it is “withdrawn”, but that’s no surprise. What I have attached above was a DHSC publication back in August 2020.
Well done for not giving way, Savage. Horrible times indeed. Yes, do please let us know the response.
WTF a downvote???
Earlier this week I was refused a mammogram because I refused to wear a mask and I also refused to use hand sanitiser. When I pointed out that there was no mandate for hand sanitiser, I was met with stunned silence. My refusal to wear a mask was met with even more incomprehension.
So basically the people there felt that the risk to them of Covid (all ladies under 40, healthy) was greater than the risk of me having undiagnosed breast cancer – despite having a family history of that.
Thanks NHS.
I think they just wanted your compliance.
They all carry out normal unmasked lives on trains, in pubs and supermarkets.
It’s just that when you are in their little fiefdom, you do what they say. They don’t care about you, obviously. They care about themselves and their own authority.
Authority without responsibility; the happy hunting ground of incompetent bureaucrats to bully the people who pay their wages
What a surprise. Perhaps they have actually learnt about it all? I never used them anywhere during the last two years.
There was a fair bit of useful information, from the British Standards Institution, and others. In particular, much of the junk on sale had tiny labels that most people would not read, that said that they were NOT masks to any standard, so as to avoid being prosecuted under trading standards. Much of it was a con, and an opportunity to sell junk.
I have pointed out the very same label to many people wearing masks, they stare at me vacantly.
Lights on, nobody home.
I still remember the inscription on the set I bought when they were mandated. It said (in the kind of broken English one expects from the Chinese) Fashion mask. Not a medical mask. Use for dust protection, sun protection, fashion. Yet, there are still people clinging to them.
Here in Thailand we had the mask mandates lifted yesterday, HOORAY.
I chucked the remainig box of masks in the cupboard and checked the price I paid for them
50 ‘masks’ 40 baht = 95p sez it all really.
It’s really good to see Niall is still fighting.
When you see people still wearing masks you ask yourself “do the no wonder how all these unmasked people are not dropping dead?”
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Deserves to be mentioned here again (and it may be useful in such disputes): The Ebola stations set up during the most-recent Ebola epidemic represented a serious attempt at preventing viruses from escaping into the environment and infecting health workers or other patients. Despite all these efforts, some people still got infected. That so-called Sars-CoV2 infection prevention measures never even came remotely close to that is a conclusive proof that they’re nothing but theater and that neither actors nor directors of this penny dreadful drama take it seriously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism “Something must be done” etc. Many so-called experts were attempting to create an impression of competence; with some of us, it’s backfired.
Can nobody read, it says on the box that the masks are not intended to prevent infection??
Right. Something’s happened. I’ve just been to Tesco and a significant number of shoppers were masked. All varieties out in numbers, from the anxious elderly to the virtue-signalling young. What’s happened? How have they been nudged?
Nothing particularly unusual. Just another ONS junk estimate about rising levels of infection in healthy people. The only noteworthy thing about that is that Omicron variants have now supplanted Sars-CoV2 variants in official messaging and that the UKHSA is trying to pull a WHO by labelling some of them as variants of concern.
As I’ve already written in the past: Until the professional pandemic bullshitters have their microphones disconnected and other resources repurposed, we’re only out on bail and the nonsense can start over at any minute.
I have noticed recently that more and more adverts for NHS services are creeping in on tv and are showing people wearing masks.
Oh Lordy ! Will they ever leave us alone?
Well done Niall and those who have to put up with this nonsense. I’m retired but do my best to challenge maskers where possible. As ever, the NHS is a postcode lottery. I was refused access (without facecloth) to a gp surgery for stitches removal by a young nurse who claimed she was “vulnerable”. Not so far away the nurses at the Minor Injuries Unit were more accepting. We are living amongst the possessed – people who barely function because they see threats everywhere – but must keep chipping away and staying sane.
This kind of nonsense is still going on all over the world and much worse besides.. The basic problem is global leaders aided by the media can not admit that most of the rules and regulatons that were imposed on their societies have been utterly pointless. As a consequence Covid zealots (who were afforded unprecedented influence during the panicdemic) continue to persecute people by whatever means is available to them.They want lockdown or semi-lockdown to be made a permanent way of life. Why? Look at the Green movement. It is full of nutters too!
I believe the WHO do not regard masks as PPE either—this should further remove question one from the equation.