- “Farage is telling uncomfortable truths on Ukraine” – Vladimir Putin is obviously responsible for the war. That doesn’t mean we can’t debate what happens next, says Tony Brenton in the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage is a Putin appeaser, says Sunak” – In an interview with the Telegraph, Rishi Sunak tells voters only the Tories can prevent potentially “decades” of Labour rule.
- “The plain-speaking appeal of Nigel Farage” – Voters are turning to the Reform leader because he tells a story that chimes with their lives, says John Gray in the New Statesman in a piece about why populist parties are thriving across the Western world and technocratic elites are floundering.
- “How Nigel Farage became the Left’s greatest weapon” – Nigel Farage is about to turn British politics upside-down for a third time, writes Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
- “Let’s be clear where blame for this Tory disaster really lies” – In the Telegraph, David Frost says the real reason for the Tories’ impending defeat is their failure to pursue genuinely conservative policies.
- “Donor who gave Tories £500,000 tells them to ‘get stuffed’ and backs Farage” – Sir John Hall, a former Newcastle United owner, says he is voting Reform because he fears English culture is being “destroyed”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Labour to shut loophole in VAT raid on private school fees” – Labour will prevent parents paying private school fees in advance to avoid VAT, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Pro-Palestinian protesters vandalise Barclays and JP Morgan buildings” – The Leeds offices of JP Morgan and a branch of Barclays in the city have been vandalised by pro-Palestinian activists, reports the Telegraph.
- “Plumbing company vets customers and won’t serve Zionists” – A London plumbing company has refused to provide its services to anyone supporting Israel and has a policy of blackballing customers if they sympathise with Israel, according to UKLFI.
- “1/200 chance of death in context of new bird flu injection – five times higher than placebo according to clinical trial” – The new H5N1 bird flu vaccine Audenz poses serious risks, warns Jessica Rose on her Substack.
- “First death linked to E.coli outbreak” – A patient in England has died in a case linked to the ongoing E.coli outbreak, the U.K. Health Security Agency has said, reports the Telegraph.
- “During the Covid pandemic, the BMJ massively published Zero Covid zealot views and seldom the other side” – The BMJ failed to live up to the role of a scientific journal during the Covid pandemic and revealed the bias of its editor, says Prof. Vinay Prasad.
- “‘USA Today published our op-ed calling for the questioning of Trump/Biden Covid policies in debate’” – Disastrous pandemic policies straddled two presidencies and left a legacy of unnecessary death, disability and poverty. The candidates need to answer for their actions, says Dr. Pierre Kory on his Substack.
- “The youth vote is turning Right” – Across the Western world, young voters are turning conservative, writes Yascha Mounk in the Spectator.
- “The Muslim Vote campaign is poisoning democracy” – The cranks and conspiracy theorists that The Muslim Vote has endorsed do not speak for British Muslims, says Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
- “How the German Foreign Office collaborated with asylum NGOs and pressured foreign embassy officials to grant entry visas to thousands of fake refugees with forged passports” – Germany’s borders aren’t just open by accident, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Le Pen threatens Britain’s economy, Bank of England warns” – The Bank of England has warned that the French election poses a threat to Britain’s financial stability if Macron loses to Le Pen, reports the Mail.
- “France’s ‘Somewheres’ want revenge” – The French ‘Somewheres’ have suffered this century, but on Sunday they hope to take their revenge, says Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “Labour considers ‘Office for Net Zero’” – Labour is planning to create a new office for Net Zero to push through the green transition, writes Eric Worrall in WUWT? Never has a proposed Whitehall taskforce been so aptly named.
- “The true cost of Labour’s Net Zero plans is slowly being revealed – and the sums are staggering” – Electricity bills would have to double by 2030 to achieve Labour’s goal of decarbonising our grid, says Gordon Hughes in the Telegraph.
- “The problem with Reform’s plan to scrap Net Zero money” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark has spotted flaws in Reform’s energy proposals.
- “Europe’s largest renewable producer scales back plans for wind and solar plants” – Statkraft has cut its wind, solar and battery storage targets as part of a strategy update under its new CEO, reports Forbes.
- “Denmark imposes world’s first carbon tax on flatulent farm animals” – Denmark is to start taxing livestock farmers for the greenhouse gases emitted by their cows, sheep and pigs, according to Fox News.
- “David Tennant’s pride and prejudice” – Pride has gone far too far, and most of us are thoroughly bored of it, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “Why won’t Dawn Butler show solidarity with Kemi Badenoch?” – Labour MP Dawn Butler has weighed in with her usual tact to the Tennant-Badenoch showdown, writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Gender-critical social media accounts on X are temporarily suspended” – Hundreds of accounts on social media giant X have been temporarily suspended in a new twist to the trans debate, reports the Mail, although some of them have now been restored.
- “‘A transwoman with a penis would use which lavatory?…’” – On LBC, the Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson can’t tell Nick Ferrari which toilet a transwoman with a penis should use, the Ladies or the Gents.
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My contention throughout has been that the first lockdown was responsible for the second wave simply by delaying reaching the herd immunity level.
What ‘second wave’? What I see is a fairly normal seasonal rise, probably enhanced at its peak by further dry tinder deaths caused by the vaccine.
And how many deaths were caused by the lockdowns themselves?
The major were caused by the correct medical care not being available, either through ignorance, political evil or bedwetting.
The CQC has asked to investigate the number of involuntary DNRs signed on behalf of the disabled in OURNHS.
https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/04/01/do-not-resuscitate-scandal-led-to-disabled-people-accounting-for-3-in-5-covid-deaths-according-to-ons-figures/
Other factors to consider are that we know that lockdowns, not the virus, added to mortality in several ways. It is well-documented that there were more deaths due to untreated cardiac disease and cancers. If you add these back into the data, I suspect that age-adjusted mortality would not have been very different from the last few years.
Hole digging exercise for the world
This makes perfect sense to me – its the vaccinated who are creating the variants!!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/h467LeHsPNDF/
The variants of concern are almost certainly vaccine driven variants.
It’s a bit long and technical but there’s a fantastic presentation by Paul Bieniasz (pronounced Bin-osh) which uses in vitro experiments to infect spike protein antibody cells with SARS-CoV-2, The evolutionary cycle is effectively speeded up.
Eventually, a cluster of cells became infected. The infected cells included common mutations, e.g. E484K.
The E484K mutation is present in the UK, South African and Brazilian variants. .
It will be a never ending merry-go-round of jabbing. However its even more important for non vaxxers, myself included to keep our bodies healthy and our vitamin intake to a maximum, particularly in the coming autumn and winter months. I pray this government and its psychopathic advisers will feature in the Nuremburg II trials very soon.
Those variants are completely within the T-cell repertoire of every person immune through infection or vaccination.
https://www.rnd.de/politik/corona-schwedens-sonderweg-in-der-pandemie-eine-bilanz-P5OUJ6FLFZFCFBARECIA5UAVUA.html
There was a very objective and fair article mentioning this and other advantages of the Swedish approach in the German MSM (RND is a left German feeder service then used by many large newspapers) yesterday.
First time ever, maybe the blame game and CYA is about to start there too.
I will be dead and gone
However I suspect my grandchildren in their dotage will give talks to schoolchildren about the British Holocaust
They will tell how scientists and doctors were central to the poisoning of millions
The children will gasp as they hear that anyone could be arrested for sitting on a park bench
My grandchildren will tell how they saw men, women and children beaten to death in the streets for refusing the poison
There will be exhibits, the propaganda posters, camouflage cool bags, fake vaccine passports etc
The schoolchildren will agree this must never happen again, however a new Pig Dictator will emerge in due course
“British Holocaust”
Cecil – hyperbole doesn’t really help. Hard, cold facts are enough.
“when you calculate mortality the correct way – as the age-standardised mortality rate”
The ‘age standardized mortality rate’ is not the ‘correct’ method of calculation. It is one way of looking at mortality. It is useful for some purposes. It does, for instance, give some indication of the ‘dry tinder’ effect in a year like 2020. The problem is that its general use introduces theoretical assumptions about the age profile in a population’s mortality figures. It conflates basic description with projection.
Think about it.
Simple size adjustment is clearer in that it avoids such theoretical modelling.
Similarly, we have our old friend ‘excess mortality’ : another shaky notion that pretends to authority – but is actually a flexible variable arrived at by chance and habit
In the end, the underpinning of ‘exceptional’ mortality in 2020 is a fiction that has been known as such for over a year, and can be seen in simple population adjusted figures.
For purposes of comparison, ASMR is the most reliable way to calculate mortality. It adjusts for the age profile of a country so comparisons can be made with previous years and/or with other countries.
I’ve already answered that notion. You’re just asserting the convention.
It is useful to note that the popularity of age-correction suddenly emerged when the Covid zealots thought it might work in their favour. I remember it being used to suggest that this was, indeed a 100 year event – the worst since the Spanish Flu. Previously, they were happy to quote raw numbers.
Thus my favouring, on balance, simple transparency.
P.S. A useful article, taking apart the ‘excess mortality’ stuff is found in today’s Round Up :
https://shahar-26393.medium.com/not-a-shred-of-doubt-sweden-was-right-32e6dab1f47a
Can anyone point me please to the source for age-adjusted Swedish mortality data from 2015 to 2020?
Thanks in advance.
“well-executed focussed protection strategy.” Exactly how?
A clear statement of the facts. Thank you!
We are living way beyond facts now, however. Listening to any minister, like Jenrick for instance, or Zahawi or Shapps, let alone Gove and Johnson, is proof of that they have eaten of the insane root.
I begin to suspect that some of them actually believe what they are saying.
…move along, nothing to see here…LOOK, A WEDDING!!