- “The man who changed British politics returns to the fray” – Nigel Farage has declared himself up for another scrap – and Sunak is the big loser, say Henry Bodkin and Robert Mendick in the Telegraph.
- “This is Nigel Farage’s finest hour: it will make the man” – Nigel Farage knows the Tories must not be allowed to continue in their current form and he is the only person who can force them to change, writes Matthew Goodwin in the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage’s election U-turn could be deadly for the Tories” – If Sunak thought he was out-manoeuvring Farage by calling an early election, it looks as if he failed, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Nigel Farage is a threat to Labour, too” – Keir Starmer risks underestimating the strength of feeling among many voters towards immigration, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Reform will dent Tory vote – but writing was already on the wall” – As Farage announces his return, Reform’s consistent polling lends credibility to YouGov’s estimates of disastrous losses for the Conservatives, says John Curtice in the Times.
- “Farage’s return could be the lift Reform needs to top Tories in polls” – Farage’s decision to stand as an MP could help Reform overtake the Tories in polls, writes Daniel Martin in the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak’s comeback plan just got a whole lot harder” – Labour is on course for a victory that will eclipse Tony Blair’s landslide in 1997, writes Steven Swinford in the Times.
- “‘Zero tolerance’ policing and tackling ‘woke madness’: Reform’s pledges at a glance” – From immigration to policing, Reform wants to make “tough decisions” about the future of the country, says Dominic Penna in the Telegraph.
- “Labour refuses to back Tory pledge to protect single-sex spaces” – Labour has refused to back the Conservatives’ election pledge to protect single-sex spaces by changing the Equality Act, reports the Telegraph.
- “Badenoch accuses BBC presenter of asking ‘trivial’ questions” – Kemi Badenoch has accused a BBC presenter of asking “trivial” and “unserious” questions during her first broadcast round of the General Election campaign, according to the Redditch Advertiser.
- “The problem with Kemi Badenoch’s transgender reforms” – In the Spectator, Iain Macwhirter has some questions regarding Kemi Badenoch’s Equality Act reforms.
- “Rishi could have protected women from trans madness. He chose not to” – The Conservatives had years to clarify the Equality Act and did nothing. They can’t pose as the party of common sense on gender now, says Kathleen Stock in the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer: an ungrateful beneficiary of Brexit” – Labour has profited from the U.K.’s departure from the EU, writes Richard Tuck in UnHerd. Starmer should be more grateful.
- “BBC pundit accused of antisemitism over ‘kids killers’ Gaza tweets” – A BBC cricket pundit has been accused of fanning antisemitism on social media after sharing antisemitic posts, including an image of Rishi Sunak sporting a Hitler moustache, reports the Times.
- “‘Is it fair? No. Is it morally right? Yes.’: parents on private school fee VAT plans” – In an unintentionally hilarious piece, Guardian readers belly ache about Labour’s plans to charge VAT on school fees.
- “WHO International Health Regulations” – In a frantic last minute rush, modified IHR were illegally approved by the World Health Assembly, says Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
- “Five questions for Fauci’s upcoming testimony” – In the Weekly lab leaker, Jim Haslam discusses Dr. Fauci’s testimony before a Congressional committee and poses five questions that should be put to him.
- “Pfizer/BioNTech C4591001 Trial – Audit Report” – The OpenVAET Substack team presents a reanalysis of the data and anomalies that have surfaced from the examination of the data from the Pfizer/BioNTech C4591001 trial.
- “The great taboo: Covid vaccination failings echo Infected Blood Scandal” – Parallels between the contaminated blood scandal and the Covid mass vaccination programme are too obvious to ignore, says Molly Kingsley on the UsForThem Substack.
- “Gain-of-function may explain bird flu jump to cows and humans” – Certain types of flu viruses that typically spread among birds are now causing infections in cows and humans, write Drs. Yuhong Dong and Xiaoxu Sean Lin in the Epoch Times.
- “The real winners” – Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson discuss GlaxoSmithKline’s legal woes.
- “Who is correct about content moderation in public heath?” – On Substack, Vinay Prasad covers the recent public spat between Elon Musk and AI researcher Yann LeCun.
- “There’s a very good reason Dominic Cummings didn’t last long in Whitehall” – The Civil Service preference for ‘generalists’ has led to a dearth of the technical skills needed to run the country, says Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “David Martin Jones, political theorist who argued that Islamic State, Hizbollah and Hamas are ‘death cults’ – obituary” – The Telegraph pays tribute to David Martin Jones, who has died aged 73, describing him as a maverick, conservative author and lecturer on political theory, militant Islamic movements, geopolitics and ‘culture wars’.
- “It feels like the social order is crumbling in Germany” – What Germany needs right now isn’t moral outrage but level-headed pragmatism, says Katja Hoyer in the Spectator.
- “Slovenia: the consequences of the double standards in Brussels” – In the European Conservative, Álvaro Peñas highlights the EU’s conspicuous silence as Slovenia’s leftist Government shuts down conservative media.
- “Global depopulation” – The depopulation crisis may be worse than people think, says the Naked Emperor on Substack.
- “J.K. Rowling accuses Labour of ‘complacency and indifference’ towards women” – J.K. Rowling has accused Alastair Campbell of revealing that Labour is “indifferent” towards women after he accused the Tories of attempting to “weaponise trans rights”, according to the Express.
- “A monumental failure” – Not only are woke warriors deciding which statues stay intact, they are now dictating which statues can be put up, says Peter Harris in the New Conservative.
- “BBC under fire over D-Day mapping blunder on Antiques Roadshow” – The Antiques Roadshow has come under fire for confusing Weymouth, where more than 100,000 men gathered ahead of the D-Day Normandy invasion, with Poole, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘Israel… which is still an Islam country, right?’” – On X, Lady Maga questions whether Queers for Palestine really understand what they’re supporting. Spoiler alert: No, they don’t.
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Whenever the NHS is mentioned on here, or outlets such as the Telegraph and Spectator, people pile in about the wasteful bureaucracy, useless managers, pen-pushers, etc.
But almost no one says anything about doctors.
This article: doctors, of all types, must have known that the withdrawal of non-covid health treatment would be an absolute disaster. Anyone with a functioning brain knew it.
And yet, with a very few exceptions, doctors said and did nothing. Ditto the stabbings.
There is something very, very wrong with the medical profession. I don’t know exactly what, but I do know something is very wrong.
Karol Sikora was one of the exceptions.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/12/called-killer-warning-lockdown-harms/
Yes, but even he was content to go along with lockdowns in the early days, although eager to get out of them in ‘small steps’, while accepting the necessity to ‘carefully monitor for any second wave’. See from 8 April 2020:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-to-find-a-safe-way-out-of-the-coronavirus-lockdown/#comments-container
As I recall, I made a couple of comments btl, as well as our very own Will Jones. Interesting to see now, nearly three years later, how such posts have stood the test of time.
A lot of people now posing as radically anti-lockdown were a lot more equivocal back in those early days.
Well, to be fair, in April 20 I was content to go along with lockdowns. I had bought the three weeks to flatten the curve lie. I didn’t wake up until July 20 after tracking the numbers over the summer using Worldometer and the re-imposition of restrictions on the people of Leicester. I did some research and realised from NHS 111 triage data the first wave had peaked before the lockdown could have had any affect. At the same time I found this site. I have maximum respect for you and others who were opposed to lockdowns from the start.
Many thanks. March/April 2020 were heady days, and to criticise lockdowns was to go right out on a limb, on your own. This site didn’t exist, and there was no focal point of resistance. Peter Hitchens perhaps, and perhaps the Spectator, Spiked, Lord Sumption (a pivotal intervention, right at the start; shame he blemished himself over the stabs, likewise Spiked, and even Mr Hitchens) but right now I can’t think of much else. To question lockdown was to be dubbed a cynically selfish murderer.
As I re-read that Spectator threat, from early April 2020, I see I wrote:
We can’t stay in lockdown for months or years until a vaccine is found (AND implemented). It seems that the only other way the spread can be contained is through herd immunity. But that means a great many people must be exposed to the virus. Implicit in this argument is that there needs to be a (possibly quite large) background level of transmission.
So WHY ON EARTH are low-risk people being instructed not to go outside??
I can understand why the number of cases needs to be kept at a level at which the NHS can cope. Hence I can understand the need for some level of social distancing, and especially the need for vulnerable people to isolate. But lockdown??
Lockdown means destroying the economy (with all the concomitant health damage) and the destruction of our civil liberties. …
Not a lot I’d change 3 years later, except that I probably over-estimated the degree to which ‘social distancing’ would slow infection rates, and I was naive about how corrupt and evil the vaccine developers actually are. It’s worth pointing out that even now, nearly three years later, there is no effective vaccine (quite apart from a safe one).
They are highly educated, over-domesticated humans that have little capability or even desire to think for themselves.
In an interesting inteview, Eckhart Tolle explained quite well how it is that intelligent people very often do very stupid things. Not occasionally, but constantly and persistently.
He draws a distinction between intelligence, which is related to performing specific tasks with competence and wisdom, which is related with making good decisions, usually of a complex nature.
The key to wisdom is not intelligence but awareness. You can be very intelligent but lack awareness. In fact, the more absorbed you are into something, as intelligent people often are, the less aware you can become.
You can also lack awareness because you refuse to see things out of convenience or fear.
So, lack of awareness, lack of wisdom. And lack of wisdom makes you do stupid things.
I found that explanation very enlightening.
Brilliantly put. I’ve heard it out this way: there are stupid people who are clever and clever people who are stupid.
Indeed, I’ve thought about those explanations too. Also that it appears the medical profession is extremely hierarchical, with an ethos of almost blind deference to authority imbued at every level.
But even so, even after allowing or all this, how can doctors be so apparently stupid?
In my view they can’t be. But that points to a whole load of other very uncomfortable questions.
My guess is that one problem is, despite their arrogance, doctors are actually very reluctant to take responsibility – and thus hide in the group so as to avoid responsibility. A hypothesis that imv deserves investigation – I can’t do it, asI’m not in the profession.
Anyone else got any ideas?
As I say, there is something very, very wrong here, which if we want a decent society we need to understand and correct.
WTF is up with doctors?
The obvious explanation is two-fold. 1) being paid £15/shot creates a huge conflict of interest 2) they’re now in it so deep they can’t possibly do a reverse ferret – that would make them a target for all manner of law suits.
Other professional institutions are quite similar, that is to say, hierarchical. They don’t want to be on the wrong side of the fence – after all, their personal balance sheet could be under attack.
42 years in the profession has taught me that it is blind deference to authority that causes doctors to be so “stupid”.
From succeeding at school and university, which requires memorising huge quantities of information and regurgitating it without analysis, to being coerced into following edicts from the medical colleges, health departments, etc.
Medical practitioners are great at rote learning but lousy at engaging their right brain, meaning they are unable to see nuance or context in their algorithms.
Many thanks for this – as I suspected. Yet does it really fully explain their inability to recognise what is starring them in the face??
As I write, I suspect it may well be in part owing to a reluctance to take responsibility, to stand up and go against the grain. Those fearful of responsibility will always take refuge in the crowd, and move with the crowd where they feel safe.
These are topics I believe need to be explored more fully – nice if it could be done ATL here. But I can’t do it, as I have no medical background. All I can do is stand on the outside, look in, and make observations. Any proper discussion would have to come from someone within or close to the profession.
But it seems to me that this is a very important subject. As I say, something is very wrong with the medical profession, and like it or not that’s bad news or all of us.
When I get past the security to actually see my GP, I intend to ask these questions directly to his face.
Good one! Please let us know how you get on.
The medical profession has changed in the 35 years I’ve been working alongside it. Increasingly doctors are political actors and have become much more collectivist in their outlook.
A year ago I witnessed one brave doctor asking pertinent sceptical questions about the Covid jab about to become mandatory. She was monstered by her colleagues whose arguments amounted to little more than emotional spasms and appeals to authority.
I think a generation ago doctors were more individualist, more patient focused, and more prepared to challenge conventional wisdom.
Good to hear a view from near to the profession.
She was monstered by her colleagues whose arguments amounted to little more than emotional spasms and appeals to authority.
That’s a terrifying statement, but one which rings oh so true.
As I say, wtf is wrong with doctors?
Genuine question. Any views welcome.
Just to state the obvious but…it’s going to get a lot worse as T cell production in boosted populations result in increased cancer across the board.
Gotta address the obvious elephant here…Doctors and pathologists ( Ryan Cole, Dr Hoffe, Ute Kruger etc ) have been warning of this for a while now and Dr Hoffe has been struck by how he’s seeing many significantly accelerated cancers in his Canadian practice. He talks about seeing tumours grow several inches in so many months, which is unheard of, and the common denominator is these patients have all been jabbed. They’re presenting with stage 4 cancers too, which means the prognosis is bleak. There’s videos of him talking about this and showing case studies. Here’s a short article describing the mechanism of how the jabs can accelerate cancers, so-called ”turbo cancers”;
https://www.newstarget.com/2022-11-15-t-cell-lymphoma-progress-rapidly-mrna-booster-shot.html
I don’t think this paper has myself as a reader in mind, well except when they are painting me as a ‘literal Naz!’.
“From Italy to Sweden, Hungary to France, the far right is once again a force to be reckoned with. Its hostility towards immigrants encourages xenophobes everywhere, including in the UK. Its social conservatism threatens hard-won LGBTQ+ rights. Its euroscepticism has already upset the dynamics of the EU.
The normalisation of far right rhetoric has gone far enough. For decades, Guardian journalism has challenged populists like this, and the divisions that they sow.”
Indeed
Loving the downvotes!
Suppression of the cancer control gene P53. – and on the immune system generally
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X
See Ss. 2 and 4
Sent this to the bloody Guardian.
And the BBC.
They’re sure to take notice.
Not the impact of Covid, just of the folly & evil perpetrated by the state etc.
Nobody could have predicted this….
Well almost no one in the highly rained medical community that is.
I know 4 people who have been “suddenly” diagnosed with terminal cancer in the past year. One has already died; two others have months to live. The fourth is in Stage 4 but they’re planning to operate in a week’s time although the prognosis is still very poor. She’s considering cancelling the op and just letting nature take it’s course.
To put this into context, a year ago I only knew one person who had received a (bowel) cancer diagnosis (10 years ago) and she was successfully treated.
Ah of course Guardian, it was ‘a virus’ that caused this.
Seeing the Gates and Globalist funded Guardian report on the catastrophic effects of crushing a society and its health service for two years is like reading a forensic fire investigation report from the arsonist.
In August 15 months ago I noticed a penny sized black patch of skin on my back. My GP, a locum with no facemask who I didn’t know advised me not to bother with the NHS and gave me a phone number for a private consultant, while referring me on to my local NHS hospital. I saw the private consultant 2 weeks later, and she rearranged her list on the spot and removed the lesion (she said it was ‘striking’) which was subsequently confirmed as a malignant melanoma at a very early stage. A further operation was required just to be sure. The NHS after acknowledging receipt of my referral eventually offered my an appointment dated 16 weeks after the initial referral, a lead time of which they were aware but hadn’t bothered to tell me.
I wrote to the UK prime minister with the receipts asking to be refunded, he referred me to my regional assembly.
I wrote to the First Minister of my regional assembly. I received a response from the head of the civil service cancer strategy unit, by email. The letter was unsigned, not cc’d to the original addressee and had the wrong street address, and a total of 27 errors of fact, spelling or convention. And the blame was placed firmly on Covid-19.
I wrote to the head of my regional NHS Trust. After a second letter threatening legal action and requesting a copy of the risk assessment leading to the shutting down of the hospital, she responded and blamed high patient volumes. She foolishly told me that they knew how long the 16 week wait would be, but declined to say why I wasn’t told. And an apology along with a several paragraphs of meaningless word salad was offered, and rejected by me in my unanswered response. The NHS, and our political system has failed us. I struggle to see how things will change without a violent confrontation with the subsequent winners and losers.
Is it just the missed appointments? The bodies immune system is key in suppressing cancer cells (which pop up all the time). A widespread reduction in the immune system’s effectiveness could cause a cancer epidemic.
There’s me thinking it woz the jabs wot dun it !!..
Doctors are also highly controlled by their professional bodies. Their license can easily and quickly be removed, as has been shown many times over the last 3 years. Without their license they cannot work or feed their family. They cannot easily travel between countries since they are required to get licensed in that country. This power also extends to big pharma who can easily restrict access to medicins required for the Doctor to function. And we cannot ignore the fact the whole world was going mad. There was a great wave of insanity sweeping the world. Nothing they could do as an individual could make any difference, as was shown by those imminent Doctors who did speak up.