- “Ministers ‘to name and shame extremists banned from Government cash’” – Michael Gove says groups with an “ideology” or “pattern of behaviour” opposed to fundamental U.K. values – even if they do not support violence – will fall foul of tighter rules, according to the Mail.
- “Michael Gove ‘didn’t go far enough’ says his own extremism adviser” – In the Times, Sara Khan, the Government’s social cohesion advisor, says it’s not enough to stop extremist Islamist groups from participating in public life; we need to legally ban them.
- “Is Gove handing Labour a dangerous weapon?” – In the Spectator, Toby Young is apprehensive about how the Labour Party might take advantage of Michael Gove’s proposed new definition of extremism to smear and demonise gender critical feminists and anti-abortion activists.
- “Britain’s futile battle against extremism” – Islamism is still evading Government censure, warns Liam Duffy in UnHerd.
- “London’s ‘little Palestine’ to remove flags from buildings, schools and lampposts” – The Mayor of Tower Hamlets has bowed to pressure and ordered the removal of Palestinian flags from council buildings and lampposts, reports the Jewish Chronicle.
- “It’s infuriating to watch the Covid Inquiry ignore damage caused by draconian lockdowns” – Baroness Hallett’s report must not be a backside-covering exercise for officials who floundered and made poor choices, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Could they have their money back, please?” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan argue that since the architects of lockdown have effectively acknowledged it was a failed experiment, shouldn’t those fined for refusing to comply with the policy be given their money back?
- “Why COVID-19 vaccines don’t prevent infection” – On Substack, John Leake explains why COVID-19 shots do not prevent transmission of the virus.
- “The bat dilemma” – On the PANDA Uncut Substack, Thomas Verduyn investigates the muddied origins of COVID-19.
- “‘My visit with history’s most important embalmer’” – On Substack, Bill Rice Jr. explains why “a little embalmer in South East Alabama” might be the most consequential Covid whistleblower in the world.
- “How WFH engineers caused an air traffic control meltdown” – The right for well-paid white collar professionals to work from home appears to take precedence over the interests of air passengers or the nation’s economy, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Missed opportunities to save morbidly obese teenager killed by parents” – A report has found that a 16 year-old girl who was killed by her parents after they allowed her to balloon to almost 23 stone was not seen by anyone outside her family home for six months due to the COVID-19 lockdown, according to the Mail.
- “It is now clear: ousting Truss killed the Tories” – The Conservative Party is out of options. Not even a new leader can save it, says Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
- “Frank Haviland interviews Reform U.K.’s Richard Tice” – Reform U.K. is making waves at Westminster – both in the opinion polls and with the defection of heavyweight Lee Anderson. The European Conservative’s Frank Haviland catches up with party leader Richard Tice to find out what is going on behind the scenes.
- “A police chief who wants to protect us from criminals? Yes, honestly” – In TCW – Defending Freedom, Julian Mann sings the praises of Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Stephen Watson.
- “The ECHR compromises British agents” – It is silly and extremely dangerous to adopt a moral position that says we should get rid of all double agents in terrorist organisations to make sure that we comply with Article 2 of the ECHR, argues Alasdair Palmer in the Spectator.
- “Who put the toddlers in charge?” – Regrettably, we must conclude that our culture is being dictated by two-year-olds, writes Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “World needs oil to prevent Net Zero energy shortages, warns Shell” – Shell warns the world is at risk of energy shortages unless more money is invested in drilling for oil and gas, according to the Telegraph.
- “EU takes the axe to green farming rules” – The European Commission’s move to slash environmental requirements for farmers flies in the face of scientists urging the opposite, says Politico.
- “Postpone Net-Zero targets indefinitely, says Rees-Mogg” – Jacob Rees-Mogg says the Government’s decision to build more gas-fired power stations is a good first step against the “green obsession”, according to the Independent.
- “Man driving ‘runaway’ electric Jaguar arrested a week later” – Police have arrested a man on suspicion of dangerous driving after a ‘runaway’ electric Jaguar had to be brought to a halt by eight police cars, reports the Telegraph.
- “Is the CofE about to say sorry for Christianity?” – In the Spectator, William Moore reacts to a report by the Church of England’s Oversight Group declaring that the Church should say sorry, not just for profiting from the evils of slavery, but for “seeking to destroy diverse African traditional religious belief systems”.
- “Trans activists ‘must stop invoking suicide in puberty blockers debate’” – The Government’s adviser on suicide prevention says that trans activists must stop claiming that children will kill themselves if they are prevented from changing gender, reports the Telegraph.
- “British countryside can evoke ‘dark nationalist’ feelings in paintings, warns museum” – Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum suggests that paintings of the British countryside evoke dark “nationalist feelings”, according to the Telegraph.
- “If Starmer legalises assisted dying, we’ll live to regret it” – Euthanasia may start off as being for those with terminal illnesses, but its justification would soon blur – just look at Canada, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “‘Bring back National Service!’ Pensioners hit out at ‘lazy’ Gen Zers” – Pensioners have called for National Service to return to shake-up snowflake youngsters who aren’t willing to graft, reports the Mail.
- “Marlboro cigarette owner sells $2.2 billion stake in Bud Light after trans controversy” – The owner of Marlboro cigarettes plans to sell £2.2 billion worth of shares in AB InBev, following a decline in sales due to backlash over its trans ad campaign, according to the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk abruptly cancels The Don Lemon Show on X after first interview turns ‘tense’” – Former CNN anchor Don Lemon claims that Elon Musk has ended their partnership on X, after the social media owner sat for a no-holds-barred interview, reports the Telegraph.
- “Love it or loathe it, GB News is surely a valuable shake-up of the media landscape” – In a House of Lords debate on regulation of news broadcasting, Baroness Claire Fox gives an impassioned defence of GB News, and challenges the presumption that other channels – like the BBC — are bastions of impartiality.
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Well this is a corker from the HART team and I can think of one particular person who might appreciate this piece…
”The word pandemic used to have a very specific meaning. It was used to describe a scenario where there was extensive incapacitation of key workers and large numbers of deaths, including young people. A genuine pandemic is not something that would have needed billions of dollars in advertising for people to even notice and fear. Using this long-established definition of the word, we conclude that there was in fact no global pandemic in 2020.
The word was deliberately misapplied and weaponised against an unsuspecting public. Let us be clear, this article is not questioning the existence of a virus SARS-CoV-2 or an illness named Covid-19, but even the choice of ‘SARS’ (Severe Acquired Respiratory Syndrome) as the name for this coronavirus was already setting the scene for systematic fear-mongering.
The notion of a ‘pandemic’ was relentlessly promulgated through mainstream media to ramp up fear in the population, to help enforce unprecedented lockdowns and other extremely harmful policies (e.g school closures and universal mask wearing) and to push through Emergency Use Authorisations of novel technology mRNA and viral vector DNA products.
This would not have been possible were it not for three false premises that covid was:
It was none of these things.”
https://www.hartgroup.org/pandemic-definitions/
Yes, the definition was changed a few years ago. Under the original definition, there was never a pandemic. I never use the word ‘pandemic’ in the context of the last few years: I always say ‘lockdowns’.
Yes quite. The only things that were novel, lethal and unprecedented were the restrictions + death jab combo.
Me too. I have refused to use the word and have always called it the ‘Covid debacle’.
Dawkins is right about affirmative action is racist and one only has to look at the awful outcome of that policy in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Pingdemic?
That was plainly obvious to everyone with a working mind once the name SARS 2.0 had coined (the real meaning of SARS-CoV2) by a guy who had spent a career with SARSing and who now finally wanted to make some real money from that. That was Christian Drosten of the German RKI, co-inventor of the COVID PCR test, together with a guy who owned a company selling such testkits! That was the original scam at the heart of this pan-blame-it which grew to really monstrous proportions as more and more people who also wanted to assign blame to other people realized that they had just hit the jackpot: Whatever your fellow humans happen to do you really hate and always wanted to see prohibited, just wield the pan-blame-it and all your wishes will be fullfilled — from outlawing fireworks to hospitality curfews, from wrongly declaring people public health risks because they’re sweating to bans on visiting relatives in nursing homes, from stopping supermarkets selling improper goods to closing down cinemas. Truly Alice in wonder-verboten!-verboten!-verboten!-land.
When these people are currently not busy with riding wave after wave of some pan-blame-it, they usually do climate change politics. Unsurprisingly, that’s supposed to be fixed by an exactly identically unhinged orgy of prohibitions.
The active promotion of one entity/ person/ peoples above that of others is discrimination. The drive towards equality is causing inequality, and division, the very antithesis of what they purport to desire. Or is it?
Dawkins is reaping the whirlwind he helped create by undermining the Judeo-Christian roots of our civilisation. There’s a fundamental difference between the religious God and the constitutional ‘God’ whose existence limits the reach of governments. By helping undermine God in general, he helped reduce the impact of natural law. In a society that respected the constitutional God, we would never have allowed lockdowns to happen.
I appreciate Dawkins speaking out on this subject – it’s possible to be allies on one issue and opponents on another in a sophisticated society – and his view is the majority view, however a minority dare say it out loud, because a small cadre of extremists hold the levers of power right now!
Curiously his web-site (https://richarddawkins.net/) leads with the link ‘Combat Misinformation: for information about COVID-19, please check out our Coronavirus Resource Cente’ (https://centerforinquiry.org/coronavirus/?_ga=2.226230426.1043099632.1686154517-828840931.1684836977), where the ‘misinformation,’ ‘falsehood,’ ‘unfounded rumour’ and ‘conspiracy theory’ that we indulge in on the Daily Sceptic are angrily refuted in favour of articles explaining ‘How to properly wear a mask,’ why COVID jabs are ‘A lifesaving product’ and ‘Where to find your state health department’s guidance’ or ‘COVID-19 Testing Site.’ An ally against Wokeism he may well be, but, with a fervour that even the Medieval Inquisition would baulk at, he continues to denounce any view that contradicts the approved Dogma of the Scientific Establishment, regardless of actual scientific evidence, reason or (Darwin forbid) consideration of Conscience or the wisdom handed down to us through religious tradition.
The very notion of historic crime is absurd. A crime is some action which is against the law at some point in time. That wasn’t the case for any so-called historic crime, otherwise, it had been regarded as crime at the time when it was current. I really disapprove of some things long dead people did in the past! may form a foundation for developing some kind of philosophical ethical system concernedn with what people should or shouldn’t do in future. It’s not suitable for anything else.
One should also take the origin of this idea into account: It’s principally the notion that wars of conquest are considered a crime and this idea was invented by the Entente powers after their great war of conquest against central European states not seeking any quarrels with them had succeeded and said states had been either been crippled or completely dismantled. That’s clearly just a self-serving pretext: We won. Hence, the right was on our side and our rearrangment of the world must not ever be questionened or changed! As such, this notion is to be discarded, especially since all of these powers have since engaged in more wars of conquest with more-or-less success.
Uncreative as they usually are, the wokesters just borrowed the notion to see if they can’t somehow make it useful for their cases as well. That’s why disagreements regarding male dress code are nowadays described as genocide by the people who aren’t willing to tolerate disagreeing opinions on anything they favour. That should really be enough to bury the whole idiocy and everything that’s attached to it.
We have three children, born and raised under our roof, sent to the same schools, given the same or similar experiences, and with continuity of parents and grandparents. They’ve all had good outcomes, but not equal outcomes. If we can’t achieve it under one roof, then how on earth are we supposed to do it across society. Another piece of ‘socialist compassion’ taken to their hearts and implemented without recourse to thinking about the practical or economic reality.
Woke culture with it’s loopy morality is what has emerged to fill in the gap left by traditional religions, which Dawkins was so enthusiastic about condemning to the scrap heap of history.
I hope he puts as much energy into fighting woke stupidity as he has into attacking traditional religions.
The woke believe that they are awake. In reality their use of morality demonstrates that they are in the dream of self-excuse.
I agree that science is the way to the truth, but how do we recognise the truth when we have so many opposing views. There are three topics that fall into this category where the majority seem to believe utter nonsense – climate change and alarmism, the covid pandemic and vaccines, and gender issue. Only last night Rees-Mogg said that he had researched the covid vaccines and discovered that they were safe and effective. I would like to know where he found the evidence because it was not in the Randomised Control Trials published before the vaccines were approved.