- “The Civil Service is making it impossible to stop the boats” – It beggars belief that efforts to house illegal migrants in camps are proving more expensive than the hotels, writes Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Farewell Leo Varadkar, no one will miss you” – Whatever may lie behind the decision, Ireland’s Taoiseach has plenty to resign over, says Ruth Dudley Edwards in the Telegraph.
- “Tory backlash over Hunt’s Brexit carbon border tax” – Jeremy Hunt is facing a backlash from senior Tories over his plans to copy the EU by introducing a Brexit carbon border tax, reports the Telegraph.
- “Scotland is no longer a free country” – Leaked material from Police Scotland suggests a new law will target performers, including comedians, for “stirring up hatred”. It’s insanity, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “‘Will the SNP’s new hate crime bill get me arrested?’” – In UnHerd, Andrew Doyle announces plans to put the SNP’s new hate crime bill to the test.
- “Clypes will have a field day with this stupid new act” – The SNP’s Hate Crime and Public Order Act will encourage sanctimonious allegations and waste police officers’ valuable time, warns Alistair Bonnington in the Times.
- “Police accused of attacking J.K. Rowling at LGBT event” – Scottish police have been accused of targeting J.K. Rowling by inventing a fictional character called “Jo” who thinks that sex is binary and calls for trans people to be sent to gas chambers, reports the Telegraph.
- “The West is still swallowing Hamas’s propaganda” – The media coverage from Gaza has totally distorted the truth about this conflict, writes Daniel Ben-Ami in Spiked.
- “Fear, shame and peer pressure to promote compliance with COVID-19 restrictions” – On the PANDA Substack, Dr. Gary Sidley reports on ongoing research into the U.K. Government’s use of behavioural science ‘nudges’ in Covid communications to promote compliance and vaccine rollout.
- “Science Magazine reaches new low, defames their critics” – Collaborating with their friends in biodefense virology, Science Magazine has vomited up a malicious hit piece to silence researchers pointing out scientific fraud, says Paul D. Thacker on Substack.
- “Farage hails new debanking law as he prepares for legal battle with NatWest” – Nigel Farage has backed a new law to protect victims of debanking as he gears up for a legal tussle with NatWest, reports the Telegraph.
- “Chris Whitty urges Liz Truss and critics of smoking ban to change tack” – Chris Whitty urges Liz Truss and her pro-libertarian allies not to oppose Rishi Sunak’s flagship smoking ban, says the Mail.
- “Why is the BBC smearing Reform as ‘far-Right’?” – The BBC’s branding of Reform as “far-Right” is an outrageous smear, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Unemployment is not a mental-health problem” – Vast swathes of the British workforce have been put out to pasture, says Tim Black in Spiked.
- “Britain’s shameless appeasement of Islam” – The authorities have already surrendered to Islamic extremism and by their every move we can infer they’d prefer the populace did too, writes Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
- “Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate” – Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the Government, but Christians are routinely overlooked, says Hardeep Singh in the Critic.
- “Investigation launched into King’s Cross Ramadan messages” – Rail bosses have launched an investigation into how Ramadan messages were shown on departure boards at King’s Cross station, reports the Telegraph.
- “Preferential treatment has no place in multi-faith Britain” – If Network Rail displays a Hadith during Ramadan, it should also show Christian messages over Easter, argues Rakib Ehsan in CapX.
- “Now the EU wants to regulate online influencers” – The Belgian EU presidency doesn’t trust Europeans to judge online content without government intervention, writes Tristan Vanheuckelom in the Times.
- “American C.J. Hopkins, charged again in Germany, describes global censorship effort” – Acquitted on German hate speech charges in January, American playwright C.J. Hopkins is being charged again for the same offence. He has a scary message for Americans, says Matt Taibbi on Substack.
- “Security law will not stop us doing business in Hong Kong, says Prudential” – British insurer Prudential has said it will continue doing business in Hong Kong despite the introduction of a draconian new security law, reports the Telegraph.
- “Unprecedented surge in offshore wind needed for Starmer’s Net Zero plan” – A report claims that Labour’s 2030 Net Zero target is so ambitious that Britain could run out of steel for undersea cables, according to the Telegraph.
- “Trans row shows BBC still under Stonewall’s sway, says John Humphrys” – Veteran presenter John Humphrys has criticised the investigation into Justin Webb over his Today show trans comments, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Financial Times: ideologically captured” – On Substack, James Esses reveals that the Financial Times’s ‘Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit’ have been leaked to him – and it’s every bit as horrific as you’d imagine.
- “Banksy and the tyranny of elite opinion” – Now even graffiti artists are mouthpieces of bourgeois orthodoxy, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Censor Agatha Christie? Not on my watch, says French Culture Minister” – France’s new Culture Minister has told the National Assembly that ‘modernising’ Agatha Christie and other authors’ works to avoid offending contemporary readers amounts to censorship, according to the Times.
- “‘We need to tear up the idea of BAME’” – On the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show, Tony Sewell joins Brendan to discuss the myth of systemic racism in Britain.
- “AI image generators often give racist and sexist results: can they be fixed?” – Researchers are tracing sources of racial and gender bias in AI generated images and making efforts to fix them, says Ananya in Nature.
- “‘Sorry, I might have to get back to you’” – During a Home Affairs Committee meeting, Rebecca Knox, Chair of Dorset’s Fire and Rescue Authority, found herself at a loss for words when quizzed by Lee Anderson about her force’s alleged “institutional racism”.
— Lee Anderson MP (@LeeAndersonMP_) March 20, 2024
I quizzed Rebecca Knox, Chair of Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Authority, on why she agrees her force is ‘institutionally racist’.
Her answer is quite something… pic.twitter.com/9uCVwVOskR
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Yet another non-response from a government petition, this time regarding the MHRA.
The Government has responded to the petition you signed – “Review how to turn MHRA into a fully transparent, patient first regulator”.
Government responded:
Patient safety is the MHRA’s highest priority. There are no plans to review the MHRA, including its accountability, approval processes or its monitoring of the safety of products.
There are no plans to initiate a review the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The MHRA plays a pivotal role in ensuring the safety, efficacy, and quality of medicines and healthcare products available to patients in the United Kingdom.
The Government position reflects MHRA’s continuing priority to deliver for patients, establish and maintain consistent performance in all areas, and increase transparency with robust management of conflicts of interest.
The petitioners raise concerns regarding MHRA’s focus on enabling innovation and supporting patient access to new products. Patient safety remains the MHRA’s highest priority. The Agency works to ensure that patients have access to safe products, whether this be through assessment of new and innovative or existing products.
The MHRA has invested extensively in proactive monitoring of the safety of medicines and medical devices. The Agency takes every opportunity to encourage reporting of any safety concerns to the Yellow Card scheme. A major investment programme to upgrade MHRA safety reporting systems is well underway and this will further improve the ability to proactively detect and assess signals on the safety of products. Improvements to the reporting systems have made it easier for patients to raise their concerns and will increase transparency of actions taken in relation to reports received.
The MHRA has robust conflict of interest mechanisms covering MHRA staff, board members and those who give independent, expert advice on MHRA committees. These mitigate any potential conflicts of interest effectively.
Staff members cannot hold direct financial interests in the pharmaceutical and healthcare (medical devices) industries. Any other potential interests, or those of close members of family, must be declared by staff upon appointment or as soon as they become aware. Failure to do so could constitute a disciplinary matter. Action to manage the potential or actual conflict of interest of a member of staff would depend on the nature of the conflict but would ensure no risk of bias in regulatory action.
Board members’ interests are declared in the MHRA Annual Report and Accounts. In addition, a register of interests is available to view on GOV.UK and is updated frequently to reflect any changes from members. Furthermore, the Board is not involved in licensing decisions on specific medicines or medical devices.
Finally, the MHRA recognises the importance of providing access to information about regulatory decisions and processes.
The MHRA’s responses to requests made under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act are issued within the provisions of the legislation and considering the Information Commissioner’s guidance. The MHRA carefully considers instances where it may be necessary to apply an exemption to withhold information. Exemptions such as Section 43 (commercial interests) of the FOI Act may be applied to requests when it is identified that a prejudice would or would be likely to arise because of disclosure, and after considering the public interest in all the circumstances of the case. Often decisions are taken in accordance with HMA/EMA Transparency guidelines (https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hma.eu%2Ffileadmin%2Fdateien%2FHMA_joint%2F02-_HMA_Strategy_Annual_Reports%2F07-Transparency%2F2012_03_HMA_EMA_Guidance_20120309_ComPersInfo.pdf&data=05%7C02%7CRachel.Laszlo%40mhra.gov.uk%7C6b26f4d294ba47526da508dc42d6d5e2%7Ce527ea5c62584cd2a27f8bd237ec4c26%7C0%7C0%7C638458737672695639%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=lMV%2BQdhZG1ICXs8hFCTV4bq4ClPkZsFex45bLIWgWgY%3D&reserved=0) which also sets out the types of information deemed commercially sensitive following the approval of a marketing authorisation. In making these decisions the MHRA must weigh the potential impact of disclosing the information against the need for transparency and accountability, ensuring a balanced approach to handling FOI requests.
The MHRA has implemented several initiatives that involve them proactively publishing regulatory decisions, safety assessments and adverse event reports, while safeguarding confidential information. The Agency is currently working to expand this further.
continued…
With regards to MHRA funding sources, as an Executive Agency of the Department of Health and Social Care, the Agency is funded mostly by income from fee-charging activities and sales from the products and services provided. The remainder of funds come from the Department of Health and Social Care as grant-in-aid for specific activities mainly related to medical devices regulation and scientific research. This is an appropriate model that replicates funding for other regulatory bodies in the UK and internationally. This also ensures public spending is not supporting activities that should be borne by those accessing and using these services.
The MHRA champions patient safety over any other priorities including commercial interests. The Government is confident that regulatory decisions are grounded in robust scientific data, ethical conduct, and a commitment to public health, and that transparency on how this is being delivered is reflected in the MHRA’s future focus.
Department of Health and Social Care
In other words, they have no concerns whatsoever about the MHRA.
We are being treated like idiots. There are huge reasons to be concerned, but it’s obviously a conspiracy theory…
…like the prosecutions for Horizon shortfalls.
Got the response too this morning.
I plan to read the attachment in more detail
as it does refer to the EMA’s stance on ‘commercial sensitivity’. A cursory glance suggests that there is nothing commercially sensitive regarding the disclosure of deaths by vaccination status. Will have to read it in full.
One further question I have is whether the MHRA still falls under the EMA rules?
Thanks for posting, you saved me a job.
Further to my post above re the govt support for MHRA, wouldn’t they have also approved the use of puberty blockers, which have some horrible side effects.
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/puberty-blockers-are-incredibly-dangerous
I can never again trust these fraudsters! Our medical establishment is corrupt beyond belief.
For a deep dive into how these lies are perpetuated, I thoroughly recommend “Doctoring Data” by Malcolm Kendrick.
The fact these hate marches are allowed to continue, then there’s all the other nonsense these jihadi-loving yobs and Jew-hating loons get up to in between Saturdays, is proof enough to me that the Islamists and their Leftard, Useful Idiot, anti-West supporters are gaining power and influence. Anything to do with ‘free speech’ is just a pitiful excuse, used by dhimmied, traitorous cowards, who are all about appeasement. If free speech really did exist then Christians preaching in the street wouldn’t be getting warned to quit by the police ( in case they cause offense! The irony ) nor would those same police be arresting someone who holds an anti-terrorist sign bearing a fact. Somebody else who’s seen the reality of our predicament;
”In London for a short visit this week, I decided to take a look at the latest demonstration organized by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) against what it refers to as the ‘genocide in Gaza.’ The weekly mass demonstrations in the British capital in support of the Palestinian side in the Gaza war have acquired significance beyond the specific context of British foreign policy.
As a middle-sized European power, the UK has little influence on Middle East events in general and no influence at all on Israeli or Hamas decision-making. Demands for a ‘ceasefire now’ on the streets of London will therefore produce nothing on the ground in the Middle East.
The demonstrations are significant, however, in that they showcase the arrival in British public life of a new political force: namely, a mass, Islamist-led street presence that seeks to enforce its will on the public space and intimidate its opponents.
Regarding the mob in question, the weekly demonstrations for Gaza, which have temporarily taken over central London regularly, attract upwards of 250,000 participants. The PSC is the main organizer, but a flyer handed to me as I approached the area where the march was due to set off on March 9 contained the logos of five other organizations identified as backing the protests. These were the Friends of al-Aqsa (FOA), the Stop the War Coalition, the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), the Palestinian Forum in Britain, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).”
https://www.meforum.org/65691/the-uk-has-an-islamist-problem
More on the slow suicide of the West as our moronic, treacherous leaders stab us in the back as they bend over for Islam, the ‘religion’ of supremacy, which is seemingly beyond reproach and is given precedence over all others;
”Last week, Joe Biden issued a schoolmarmish warning to Israel, which he has been browbeating for months to placate his party’s anti-Israel left and Muslim American voters in Michigan, a critical swing state. Speaking to the press, he threatened, “There’s got to be a ceasefire because Ramadan – if we get into circumstances where this continues to Ramadan, Israel and Jerusalem could be very, very dangerous.”
This solicitude for Muslims’ sensitivity about their faith bespeaks the West’s long bad habit of caring more about Islam––the faith that conquered and occupied, and to this day still occupies, much of the Christian Roman and Byzantine empires––than they do about their own civilization’s foundational religion, whose adherents today are being persecuted and massacred in Islamic lands.
This cultural tic does not demonstrate, as many “citizen of the world” globalists believe, a superior morality based on both an uncritical tolerance for the exotic “other,” and a haughty disdain for alleged parochial American nationalism and jingoist patriotism. Rather, it signals to the world a civilizational failure of nerve so widespread and intense that it has become a form of geopolitical masochism, manifested in conspicuous displays of cringing apologetics and shameful guilt for the West’s alleged historical sins.
Our current malaise and dysfunctions are not just about our appeasement of modern jihadism. We are closing out a century of relentlessly sawing the civilizational branches we are sitting on, by discarding our Constitutional foundations, common sense, tradition, and the authority of nature and nature’s God in order to pursue impossible utopias.
We are swiftly approaching the consequences of such suicidal blindness––and, as George Orwell put it, we’re heading for a fall not into “a bed of roses, but a cesspit filled with barbed wire.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-civilizational-masochism-of-the-west/
Bending over for Islam but unequivocally supporting Israel and bombing Muslims at the same time?
Not a lot of bending going on but plenty of actions to try and trigger responses against Muslims and Jews and generally create discontent.
Europe Is Wargaming a Food CrisisIn the same way that the soothsayers in global health ‘war gamed’ the Covid pandemic response in Event 201, it seems now the next crisis is to be food shortages.
if you look in the fields you will see they are waterlogged, if you look up to the skies you will see that they are either overcast and drizzly or criss-crossed with solar radiation management chem trails.
What is their intent?
Less sunshine = less photosynthesis = reduced crop yields = hunger = centrally planned solutions like farm confiscation, plant based meat and insects.
The same people who want us to eat the bugs are behind this malign ‘planet saving’ project.
Look up!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-03-06/eu-governments-prepare-for-possibility-of-food-crisis?embedded-checkout=true
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8338853.stm
Clever use of narrative in the Bloomberg article. By shifting between reporting fact and reporting what the wargaming scenario states the author attempts to avoid the accusation of spreading lies.
Is the above a lie by the author or just part of the scenario being presented to the wargamers? The very next paragraph is clearly part of the wargame:
By mixing apparent fact with fiction the author implants the idea that Weather and climate events are hitting farmers regularly. Yes. As regularly as usual. For example, Medieval farmers used to use ridge and furrow techniques as a form of insurance against bad weather destroying all their crops. Now farmers just rely on financial insurance – but the point is that farming has always been known to be at the mercy of the weather.
Updated to add: So what we really need to do is reduce food production throughout Europe… /s
Just giving some news from abroad. In the Netherlands a member of parliament of the VVD (conservative party) has put a motion forward to make vaccination of children mandatory if they want to go to a nursery. As everywhere vaccine uptake is diminishing. Two days ago I watched a program on Dutch national tv where this MP was putting her position forward. She was quite militant. It was as if we were back a few years: -no mention of ethics -no discussion as to why people have become more vaccine hesitant. Her suggestion was that this was all due to misinformation and that hesitant people just needed to be talked to, so they would change their mind. It was so patronising. No debate. They had a parent at the table who’s baby had died of whooping cough at 5 weeks old (before vaccination was even possible) and a parent who had adopted a child from Nepal, who had had measles as a child and developed side effects of the measles virus 10 years later and died another 12 years later. All to stir up emotions and fear. So in my opinion debate is still not possible and we are back to where we were with the Covid vaccines.
Sqwawkbox continuing to cover the ‘physician associates’ scandal, this time reporting the debacle of the Royal College of Physician’s recent emergency general meeting on the matter. Who knew – RCP are right behind PAs as they get a shed load of money out of it. How unusual for the medical
professionbusiness. /sarc.https://skwawkbox.org/2024/03/17/video-egm-leak-reveals-ecp-refusing-to-answer-patient-safety-questions-and-more/
Link to full meeting here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Qu6BKDy98
James Roguski lists 100 prominent people who have signed a ‘joint letter to leaders of WHO member states calling for an urgent agreement on a pandemic accord’ – without actually seeing the final agreement or knowing what it contains or how it would utterly subjugate their nations. Blair and Brown included, natch.
https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/can-you-smell-the-desperation?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
“A new pandemic threat will emerge – and there is no excuse not to be ready for it.”
The blunt certainty with which the letter ends is absolutely galling. There is not even the pretence of a cover up which words such as might, may, possibly would offer. They know full well that Billy’s brew is ready and simply awaits the green light.
A new threat will emerge but “pandemic,” – taking the piss more like.
Sack Knox, what a disgrace, just a mouth piece who spouts whatever she thinks she needs to say to keep the right side of those who hate white people, and who hate this country. She is a disgrace to every woman who is highly competent and worked hard to achieve anything, because tokenistic appointments of people like Knox covers the entire female population with the garbage.
Pathetic, desperate, treacherous creature.
“Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate” – “Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the Government, but Christians are routinely overlooked, says Hardeep Singh in the Critic.”
As soon as I saw this, I knew it was going to be used as a cover for Sikhs to demand more taxpayers’ money for themselves, and sure enough, after a few lame nods in the direction of Christianity, Sikh Hardeep Singh shifted the focus towards his own. Then he suggested one large pot of Taxpayers’ Money to “protect all places of worship”.
This is just the start of every cult demanding money to “protect” their gathering places.
The demand for British Taxpayers’ money is just more and more and more, never giving the taxpayers a chance to decide how their money is spent.
Since the government has plenty of Taxpayers’ Cash to waste, the entire tax system needs an overhaul, because everyone is obviously paying too much tax in the first place.
According to the BBC: Easter eggs costs rise as climate change hits crops
A few paragraphs later…
My emphasis added to the quotes from the article
It looks like someone’s overdone the manure.
The independent has an article Easter weather forecast: Four-day bank holiday weekend could be washout, Met Office warns
What a surprise! A wet weekend in March/April.
However, they’ve illustrated the
hoped foranticipated terrible floods with a picture of flooding in Yorkshire in January. Not exactly Easter weekend then, is it?“Scotland is no longer a free country” – Leaked material from Police Scotland suggests a new law will target performers, including comedians, for “stirring up hatred”.”
“Comedians”???—how odd.
Looks like Sultan Humza is going after Leo Kearse for daring to criticise him, and being popular.
Like Lula going after Bolsonaro for surviving the assassination attempt, and being popular.
“How can we put Bolsonaro in prison when the people like him so much?” whined Lula.
“Don’t worry”, said his advisors. “He faked his covid jab—we’ll do him for that.”