- “The peer, the pollster and the rumblings of a plan to oust Rishi Sunak” – The Times reports on the plotters trying to oust the Prime Minister before the election.
- “Who could replace Rishi Sunak? These are the agents of change” – The same paper weighs up the runners and riders in the race to succeed the PM.
- “Liz Truss backs Nigel Farage to return to the Conservatives” – The ex-PM wants the former UKIP leader to return to the Conservative fold, according to the Mail.
- “Reform would raise 40p income tax threshold to £70,000” – A tax-cutting manifesto unveiled by Reform leader Richard Tice piles pressure on the Chancellor to go further with tax cuts in his spring Budget, reports the Telegraph.
- “Parliament has taken the knee to the Islamists who rule by fear” – This week’s parliamentary shambles was merely a symptom of a wider malaise: too many in the West feel the need to apologise for our values, argues Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Not in our name” – On the website of the British Friends of Israel, Allison Pearson writes about a troubling week in which MPs were bullied by Islamists to vote for a ceasefire in Gaza.
- “Are Islamists in Charge of Britain?” – In the Free Press, Konstantin Kisin reflects on the depressing implications of what happened in Parliament on Wednesday evening.
- “The trouble with defining genocide” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray wonders why seemingly quite sensible people like the historian William Dalrymple have lost their minds over Gaza, describing Israel’s war on Hamas as ‘genocide’ when it’s plainly no such thing.
- “Apprentice star Dr. Asif Munaf is suspended from the medical register” – The Apprentice star Dr Asif Munaf has been suspended by the General Medical Council over a string of antisemetic remarks just one week after the BBC dropped him, reports the Mail.
- “A sinister agenda down on the farm” – In TCW – Defending Freedom, Sally Beck says English farmers are in the cross hairs of shadowy bureaucrats pursuing a Net Zero agenda.
- “Guy Adams joins farmers’ fight against Mark Drakeford” – A game of ‘cat and mouse’ played out on the highways and byways of North Wales this week. The cats drove rather big tractors, reports the Mail’s Guy Adams.
- “Net Zero’s days are numbered” – Rupert Darwall in the Spectator predicts that the Net Zero target will be abandoned “sooner rather than later”.
- “Vegan food fans left disappointed as burger chain is forced to close” – The British fast-food chain, The Vurger Co, which used ingredients such as tempeh, soya and Beyond Meat to make its creations, has permanently closed its doors, says the Mail.
- “Record fines for 20mph speeding despite PM’s pledge to scrap zones” – The Times has found no reduction in tickets being handed out to motorists for breaching 20mph speeding limits, with the Met issuing one ticket for every four cars in London.
- “Mercedes-Benz chief vows to build petrol cars ‘well into’ 2030s” – The German car giant has watered down its targets for electric vehicle sales as demand slumps, reports the Telegraph.
- “Left-wing anarchist made plan to kill 50 politicians” – Student Jacob Graham, who said he wanted “to stand up for the working classes” and is a member of the Green Party, is convicted of preparing to murder 50 politicians, reports the Telegraph. Not just the Far Right, then.
- “We need to talk about eco-terrorism” – The anarchist terrorist who wanted to kill 50 politicians was also a fervent environmentalist says Fraser Myers in Spiked. Should we be worried about eco-terrorism?
- “Huge spike in cases of deadliest cancer” – Cancer experts have warned of a “frightening” explosion of pancreatic cancer rates among younger women with incidence, reports the Mail.
- “Fertility rate plunges to an all-time low” – The Office for National Statistics says the fertility rate – the average number of children a women has – in England and Wales slumped to 1.49 in 2022, says the Mail.
- “Vice to shut down website and sack hundreds of staff as free news model collapses” – More misery for Vice, the once mighty new media company brought low by the hubris of its owner, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why gaudy Vice was rejected by clean-living Generation Z” – Drugs, sex, and war zones: how the publisher’s provocative coverage led to its demise, according to the Telegraph.
- “Expect Google’s Gemini 2.0 to be even worse” – According to Daniel Kalder in UnHerd, the revamp of Gemini, supposedly less politically correct than the current one, will be even more woke.
- “Google’s push to lecture us on diversity goes beyond AI” – It’s not just its new AI that reveals Google’s woke agenda, says Douglas Murray in the New York Post.
- “Byline Times, Vorderman and Maitlis face threat of legal action from Dan Wootton” – Ex-GB News presenter Dan Wootton, having been told by two different police forces that they’re dropping their investigation of him, is now preparing to sue Byline Times, Carol Vorderman and Emily Maitlis for reporting the fact that he was under investigation, thereby ending his career.
- “Daily Mail publisher says it needs to buy the Telegraph to tackle Google’s power” – DMG Media says news publishers must consolidate to compete with Google and Meta, according to the Telegraph.
- “King formally removes CBE from ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells” – The chief executive who ran the Post Office while it wrongly prosecuted sub-postmasters has forfeited her CBE after “bringing the honours system into disrepute”, says the Telegraph.
- “Former Tory MP Bob Stewart has racial abuse conviction quashed” – The MP for Beckenham was convicted of a racially aggravated public order offence last November for telling a protestor outside the Bahraini embassy to “go back to Bahrain”. But justice has prevailed and the conviction has been overturned by Southwark Crown Court, reports the Telegraph.
- “Police watchdog orders ‘lesbian nana’ officer to apologise” – A West Yorkshire Police officer has been accused of using “inappropriate” language while arresting a 16 year-old autistic girl who compared her to her “lesbian nana” and has been ordered to send the girl a letter of apology, says the Mail.
- “Killer who carried out sadistic murder claimed
shehe was a cat” – Scarlet Blake, the gender-confused man convicted of murdering a complete stranger and whom the mainstream media insist on calling ‘she’, at one point identified as a cat, reports the Mail. - “The woke colonisation of London” – Does Trafalgar Square really need a tribute to transgender sex workers, asks Gareth Roberts in Spiked.
- “How the luxury beliefs of an educated elite erode society” – Whether attacking marriage, calling out white privilege or seeking to defund the police, the elite espouse ideas that confer status on them at little cost. But it’s the least privileged who suffer the effects, says Rob Henderson in the Times.
- “The Speaker of the House says the real threat to MPs come from ‘white fundamentalists’ and ‘far Right extremists” – Leo Kearse is unimpressed by Lindsay Hoyle’s cognitive dissonance.
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Restaurant/stadium/etc asks potential customers to present a “vaccine passport” before entry. As a potential customer I would first demand to see the vaccine passports of all the workers in that facility. Only fair, right?
Liberal Democrats it is then.
I have never voted for the Liberals, Lib Dems or whatever believing them to be a cowardly safe haven for those who cannot decide between Conservative and Socialist.
New, one issue, parties will achieve nothing except to waste money and split the anti authoritarian vote.
With a voice already in Parliament and the media and with their current 100% record why vote for anyone else, except those honorable notable Labour, Conservative and Other MPs that just outed themselves as champions of liberty ?
Yes Ben Bradshaw, that includes you, surprisingly.
76 is a good number to start with three years to build up the anti momentum.
Makes sense, if only because it is the only way to obtain Proportional Representation; and PR is the only way forward for small new parties to grow.
We need new parties in order to protect minorities from the ‘tyranny of the majority’.
PR is a disaster. It guarantees nothing will ever get done. That’s why ZZ Top run Israel. Strangely enough the most effective is a three party where the opposition plus the ‘third’ can stop the worst excessives of government.
The Liberal Democrats have always been a bit weak on actual liberalism. But to judge by their actions they are right on this and will get my vote unless there is an even more explicitly anti-lockdown party on offer.
Does anybody know how they voted for the 3 lockdowns and the previous covid bill?
The Liberal Democrats are not anti-lockdown; they are not opposed to the non-pharmaceutical interventions.
I suspected that. It’s just this specific extension they are against
Yup, I got a bit excited at that too, then I saw this https://www.libdems.org.uk/s21-covid-motion – they are firmly part of the ‘lockdown earlier and harder’ and ‘close the borders’ brigade. And it seems some of the labour MPs didn’t think the bill went ‘far enough’ in supporting people to self-isolate. So sadly this is not really coming about as a result of these people looking at the scientific evidence which says that quarantining the healthy is pointless, in the case of the lib-dems it’s probably a desperate grab for attention prior to the local elections, after which their local councillors will be pressing at every stage for ‘local powers’ – it never ends….
Ben Bradshaw seems to have made the transition so why not the Lib Dems, even if only for short term electoral advantage (which Ben does not require).
Doesn’t look like Bradshaw has made that much of a transition – only last week he was pushing for hotel quarantine to be replaced by a GPS tracking system. Replacing prison with house arrest enforced by electronic tag for the crime of going on holiday doesn’t cut it with me I’m afraid. I would be more convinced if he was asking when we are going to have an international tourist industry again….
Point taken, his main interest seems to be the resurrection of the local tourist industry which would, of course, benefit from the destruction of overseas travel.
my MP is firmly against all restrictions (as he emails me) and is in the CRG. Then he votes for everything going
And that only because they know that they’ll never be in a position to exploit it.
Sir Forensic fancies his chances at taking the helm of HMS Despotic if they can make this temporary emergency permanent.
Why are you simping for a party?
We don’t vote for parties, and we certainly don’t vote for leaders. We get one vote, in our constituency, and we vote for the actual candidates who are standing there. Please, please, try to get that through your skull.
Look at the individuals actually standing. Find out what they believe, and vote for the individual who best represents your beliefs, or for none of the above.
Sure, most low-information voters are just going to scrawl their X by the picture of the rosette that they’ve always voted for, but perhaps informed voter might try to be better than that. If we don’t, then all we’re ensuring is that the second-worst Party of Davos candidate will get in, time after time after time.
I have never voted for Ben Bradshaw precisely because he is of the Labour party (not that any other party has ever put up a candidate of merit against him).
Despite my now advocating voting Lib Dem on the basis of their new stand re Coronovirus legislation in Ben’s case I would now vote for him for that same reason and because he is the sitting MP.
I made that proviso in my initial post.
This from a conservative who never forgave them for getting rid of Enoch Powell because he was anti Common Market and never voted for them since they got rid of Mrs Thatcher for similar reasons.
Wonderland. Simply not where we live. I lived for a while in Andorra. Got to vote. You actually wrote the name on the ballot. That’s Democracy. In the UK it’s very simple. The only workable is a single issue anti lockdown. The rest will be fixed.
Regarding lockdowns being “electoral gold” in Australia and NZ, I wonder why in those countries the bottom-up popular will to stop Covid is so much stronger than in the Americas or Europe?
From an Australian poster on a (members-only) forum which I frequent:
Wow, is there no opposition to this? It’s so brutal, just for a mild respiratory illness.
In an extension of the orientalist attitudes that many Westerners have shown regarding East Asian responses to Covid, some argue that what has happened in Australia is that the country has gone back to its penal colony roots.
Repressive regime seems like repressive regime wherever it happens. Don’t see how that’s ‘orientalist’ or any other ‘ist’.
I can’t help but see regret in Aus/NZ future if this continues; this from someone who lives in a small, repressive, ‘let’s do zero-covid’ island which is in the same uncomfortable position.
Isle of Man?
Yup, the home of terrifying motorbike road racing, now run by bedwetters for bedwetters and going down the shitter with nary a peep.
See Paula’s excellent comment below.
Was the Isle of Man capable of following a zero covid plan in the way that the UK wasn’t simply because its much smaller size means it’s far more difficult for someone to reach it illegally?
If you head out to sea from the northern coast of France in a vaguely northwesterly direction you’re almost assured of making landfall in Great Britain, but reaching the Isle of Man would likely require far greater navigational skills.
I don’t think so, it’s fairly visible; I can see England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales from our coasts.
There’s just no pull factor to reach it illegally as benefits and housing are dependent on residency for five years at least.
I’m sure that there are other European countries that are far more attractive to benefit scroungers, and that most illegal immigrants to the UK come here not to scrounge but to work.
Although the real issue isn’t illegal immigrants per se, but about British citizens returning illegally if they’d ended up stranded abroad by an Australian-style border policy.
In Victoria it was highly publicized when an illegal gathering in a garden shed was discovered after someone at the local KFC drive-thru made a suspiciously large order, which alerted the manager to call in the licence plate to the police.
The problem is you can have ‘popular will to stop Covid’ until you are blue in the face – it’s a waste of time if the methods you are using are ineffective. If I was going to be very unkind I would say Europe and especially those parts of the US that are opening up are more alert to the follies of thinking you can ‘control a virus’ The UK had a carefully thought-through pandemic plan which it threw out of the window in favour of measures that had no evidence base. But at least in some quarters we seem to be very slowly realising our mistakes.
Surely the point is that if people have a strong will to stop Covid then they will accept the methods that are effective, such as sealed borders and highly intrusive surveillance: like the universal QR code checking mentioned above, which in NZ also applies to buses, shopping malls (both the mall as a whole and the individual shops within) and each building within university campuses.
It’s interesting that Americans are typically appalled by the harsh lockdowns in Australia and New Zealand, while Europeans are more likely to be appalled by their sealed borders.
I live in Auckland, NZ and have used the bus twice lately. There is no pressure to use the QR code and I have not worn a mask either, I now have an exemption but have not shown it.
I didn’t see anyone using a QR code at a mall entrance the other day, though I did see some using individual shop’s ones.
Recently there has been more PR about using them as compliance has fallen considerably, which pleases me!
You’re joking of course? If not you need professional help.
What did I say in my message above that implies that I “need professional help”?
Just reading about antibody-dependent-enhancement and I came across the following meeting “Consensus summary report for CEPI/BC March 12–13, 2020 meeting: Assessment of risk of disease enhancement with COVID-19 vaccines”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7247514/
Part of the conclusions are
“Data are needed on whether antibody waning could increase the risk of enhanced disease on exposure to virus in the long term”
I don’t suppose they have that data yet do they? Hasn’t really been enough time
IT GETS BETTER!!!
BLOOD TESTS TO ENTER A PUB???????
Apparently supported by the Damm man.
‘In March 19th the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a press release detailing changes to its operational strategy for K-12 students. It stated that among other things, students may now reduce their social distancing from 6 feet to 3 feet.’
https://www.aier.org/article/the-6-foot-mandate-was-bad-science/
Europe, and this country, begin to look embarrassingly backward, even stupid/dumb.
The case of Holmseley Care Home in Devon is very puzzling. The police have arrested two care workers on the basis of “wilful neglect”. The Home has had an outbreak of Covid 19. Nine residents are reported as having died of the disease. Yet the residents and most of the staff had been vaccinated. None of this makes sense. If the residents were vaccinated – and the vaccines are safe and effective, as we are constantly told by the authorities – how could the residents die of Covid 19? What did they die of? Surely the deaths would be vaccine adverse reactions? Why have two of the workers been accused of wilful neglect? What is it that they allegedly did not do? Why is there a police investigation?
“As part of their enquiries, officers are speaking to staff and conducted a search of the home. Post-mortems have been conducted on three of the deceased residents.”
maybe just trying to look like they are doing something?
Very odd report indeed (Local Live), it implies both that the deaths are Covid related and that the Staff are at fault.
Normalising Police involvement in cases of Staff non- compliance ?
Don’t understand how they could have an outbreak with vaccinated residents unless either the outbreak began too soon after vaccination for immunity to take effect, or at least half of the residents had such weak immune systems in the first place that the vaccine didn’t work.
I fear for the upcoming Panorama ‘Covid’ documentary. Glimpsing the trailers it looks like they’ll try to trash Sweden and extol Boris. Maybe with a ‘not soon enough, not hard enough, not long enough’ flavour. (I really hope I’m wrong). Of course the Sheeple will gobble it all up. Panorama used to be a strong investigative program. Hope lives eternal!
Outside of the metropolitan bubble it will reach those ten viewers who can’t be bothered to switch it off.