- “Army soldier stabbed in attack near barracks as ‘wife screams for help’” – A British Army soldier was repeatedly stabbed in an attack outside his home while his wife looked on, reports the Independent.
- “Kent soldier stabbing: counter-terror police helping investigation into attack on lieutenant colonel” – Counter-terrorism police are reported to be supporting the investigation into the stabbing of a lieutenant colonel outside an Army barracks, says the Telegraph.
- “PMI figures show economy surging as Rachel Reeves sounds gloom” – Despite Rachel Reeves’s looming doom-and-gloom report, evidence suggests the U.K. economy is thriving, writes James Tapsfield in the Mail.
- “The truth behind Labour blood-curdling claims about what was left” – Labour made a number of blood-curdling claims about the situation they inherited from the Tories. But they should all be taken with a large dose of salt, says the Mail.
- “‘I’m ready to leave the ECHR’” – Tom Tugendhat has become the second senior Tory to announce a leadership bid (James Cleverly was the first), indicating he would be prepared to quit the ECHR to protect the U.K.’s borders, reports the Express & Star.
- “The Tory party faces disintegration if it fails to get the next leader right” – In the Telegraph, David Frost outlines five key questions that Tory leadership candidates must answer to stand a chance of success.
- “We need an immigration referendum” – It’s time we put membership of the ECHR to the people, says Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
- “More under-30s voted for Reform than Conservative” – According to YouGov analysis, more voters aged 30 and under backed Reform than the Conservatives at the General Election, reports the Times.
- “It is madness to close down the Bibby Stockholm barge” – The Bibby Stockholm was good enough to house oil rig workers – but weeping human rights lawyers demand only the best for migrants, writes Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s universities can no longer act as visa mills – they have nowhere left to turn” – There is only one appropriate reaction to the news that universities are in crisis, with 40% set to run deficits this year: “Good. Now let them go bust,” says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “Letting the worst universities collapse would be an act of kindness” – We probably have too many universities, writes Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “Shoplifting at record high as thieves ‘operate without fear’” – Shoplifting has reached its highest level since records began as thieves operate “without fear of apprehension”, reports the Times.
- “Democrats boycott Netanyahu as pro-Gaza protestors flood D.C. streets” – Capitol Police confronted pro-Palestinian protesters with pepper spray and riot shields as chaos erupted during Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress, says the Mail.
- “Antisemitic violence is out of control in Canada” – Montreal is now the most dangerous place for Jews in North America, writes Hardeep Singh in Spiked.
- “Cambridge University is in a state of moral collapse” – Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph laments Cambridge University’s capitulation to the pro-Palestinian protestors who set up a camp outside King’s College.
- “Kamala Harris’s leading VP candidate choice labelled ‘too pro-Israel’” – According to the Telegraph, a New York Times columnist claims that the Jewish Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is too “pro-Israel” to be selected as Kamala Harris’s running mate.
- “The Democrats do not care a whit about democracy” – The Democrats believe that “democracy” means “rule by Democrats”, says Roger Kimball in Spectator World.
- “Trump says J.D. Vance ‘doing really well’ despite record low polling” – Polling shows that J.D. Vance has a negative six point rating among the electorate, according to Susie Coen in the Telegraph.
- “The flaws in the Lucy Letby case” – In UnHerd, criminal barrister Adam King explains why Lucy Letby’s convictions should be referred back to the Court of Appeal.
- “GPs are the most entitled ‘workers’ in Britain” – Bottom-up reforms in medical personnel would go a long way towards improving patient services in the NHS, says J. Meirion Thomas in the Telegraph.
- “Labour goes soft on civil servants working from home” – Keir Starmer has been accused of backtracking on efforts to force civil servants to work in the office for at least three days a week, reports the Telegraph.
- “British holidaymakers heading to Greece issued urgent Covid warning” – Brits preparing to travel to Greece for their summer holidays have been warned they are at risk of catching a new Covid variant, says the Mail.
- “Australian drug regulator goes on record: Pfizer mRNA shots ‘not contaminated’” – At least four independent labs around the world claim to have detected excessive levels of plasmid DNA contamination in mRNA Covid vaccines, writes Rebekah Barnett on her Substack. But Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) denies that the Pfizer mRNA Covid vaccine is contaminated
- “Russia to lose one million men in Ukraine advance” – The head of the British Army says that Russia will lose a million more soldiers if it continues its “grinding” advance, according to the Times.
- “Nine Just Stop Oil protesters arrested at Heathrow” – Nine Just Stop Oil activists have been arrested at Heathrow during a summer “international uprising” by the environmental activist group, says LBC.
- “Crown Estate to make billions of pounds from Miliband wind farm spree” – The Crown Estate is poised to rake in billions of pounds from Ed Miliband’s green energy blitz, as it rents out swathes of Britain’s seabed to offshore wind farms, according to the Telegraph.
- “How the failure of carbon capture risks causing a Net Zero nightmare” – Labour’s green pledge hinges on technology that is proving less transformative than hoped, says Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph.
- “Nandy changes her tune on the culture wars” – Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has done a U-turn, first criticising the Conservatives for waging ‘culture wars’ and now championing the inclusion of biological males in women’s sports, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “J.K. Rowling attacks Labour’s Lisa Nandy over trans athletes row” – J.K. Rowling has blasted Lisa Nandy after the Culture Secretary waded into a row over trans athletes competing in women’s sports, reports the Mail.
- “NHS equality training tells staff using the wrong pronouns for trans people raises risk of suicide” – NHS staff have been told during equality training that using the wrong pronouns for trans and non-binary people increases their risk of suicide, according to the Telegraph.
- “Autistic kids are at the mercy of trans activism” – Teens with autism are being funnelled into gender clinics, while their real needs go ignored, writes Ian Stewart in Spiked.
- “Piers Morgan wades into Strictly row” – Piers Morgan has vowed to “save the day” by offering himself up as a contestant for the new series of Strictly Come Dancing amid ongoing bullying and abuse claims, reports the Mail.
- “There is more to the Strictly scandal than meets the eye” – As a huge fan of Strictly, the Telegraph’s Allison Pearson can’t understand why the BBC is not standing by its best-loved dancer.
- “How woke universities demoralise their best people” – On Konstantin Kisin’s Substack, an anonymous U.S. academic explains what woke universities are like from the inside.
- “The Dukes of MAGA” – A new trailer on X reveals that The Dukes of Hazzard has had a MAGA makeover.
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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.