- “Secretive Government agency brought in to monitor social media amid riots” – A secretive Government agency used to “spy on” anti-lockdown campaigners during the Covid pandemic has been deployed to monitor social media amid the riots, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Government’s sinister disinformation unit is threatening free speech again” – A secretive government agency responsible for the secretive, politicised and sometimes unlawful speech-policing is back to deal with the riots, writes Silkie Carlo in the Telegraph.
- “Social media bosses warned as Ofcom demands action to tackle surge of hate” – Britain’s media watchdog has blasted social media platforms for not doing enough to protect users from harmful videos, reports the Sun.
- “The British elites’ crazy rage against Elon Musk” – The great and the good of the U.K. are blaming Musk for the riots. This is total madness, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Protesters shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ should be arrested, says Robert Jenrick” – Robert Jenrick has sparked a row by calling for the immediate arrest of protesters shouting “Allahu Akbar”, reports the BBC.
- “Met chief hits back at ‘nonsense’ two-tier policing claims” – Sir Mark Rowley has hit back at claims of “two-tier” policing of the riots sweeping the U.K., describing them as “absolute nonsense”, according to Sky News.
- “‘Two-Tier Keir’” – If the Prime Minister condemns the “Muslim Defence League” and addresses the safety concerns of working-class Britons, then fair enough. Until then, it will be #TwoTierKeir, says Ayaan Hirsi Ali on her Restoration Substack.
- “Oh dear, Two-Tier Keir” – On Jack’s Substack, Jack Watson gives his verdict on Keir Starter’s performance in office so far.
- “Two tier policing: myth or fact?” – In the Police Oracle, Chris Hobbs, who has been following protests by a range of activist groups since the pandemic, debunks some of the criticisms being aimed at public order policing.
- “Thug, 58, who punched a police officer in riot jailed for three years” – More than 140 people have now been charged with public order offences after riots broke out across the country, reports the Mail.
- “No one wants to lead these riots” – Looting and torching and lynching are bad ways to make nationalism popular, writes Max Jeffrey in the Spectator.
- “Why did rioters believe the lies?” – The willingness to believe lies is a symptom of decaying trust, remarks Stephen Webb in the Spectator.
- “What Brits really think about the immigration riots and protests” – New polling reveals what ordinary British people think about the riots and some of the results are truly astonishing, writes Matt Goodwin on his Substack.
- “Thousands of counter-protesters flock onto British streets” – Thousands of
anti-racistfar-Left protesters have outnumbered far-Right antagonists on the streets of Britain , reports the Mail. - “Britain’s moral vacuum is leaving us dangerously vulnerable to more riots” – Our leaders’ inability to condemn all forms of violence adds fuel to the fire and erodes public trust, warns Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “‘This video I took in Leeds sums up why white communities are bubbling with rage’” – Elites who cannot comprehend these violent uprisings should spend time in parts of this country that are impoverished and disenfranchised, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “Labour risks further unrest with asylum seeker decision” – In UnHerd, Henry Hill reacts to Labour’s extraordinary decision to provide housing to 100,000 asylum seekers.
- “King Charles urged to break royal silence on U.K. riots and racism” – Although Charles, William and Kate expressed their condolences after the Southport attack, the Palace has yet to comment on the unrest gripping the country, reports the Times.
- “Weren’t the grownups meant to be back in charge?” – Shallow managerialism has failed us already, writes Benedict Spence in the Critic.
- “U.K. citizens warned that they could be arrested for retweets” – The U.K. voted for change and, oh boy, things are changing, says the Naked Emperor on Substack. But not in a good way.
- “Europe is worried that Britain’s riots might spread” – The worry for Europe is that this new ‘English disease’ will spread across the continent, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “Taylor Swift cancels Austria concerts after terror arrest” – Taylor Swift has cancelled three upcoming concerts in Austria after two suspects were arrested for plotting a terror attack on the shows, reports the Mail.
- “Comment on Cochrane review” – Editorial mismanagement has undermined the credibility of Cochrane, writes Dr. Tom Jefferson on the TTE Substack.
- “The ‘new’ Mpox scare” – Mpox is more fearporn by the WHO. Don’t fall for it, says Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
- “GPs handed pay rises nearly double the recommended amount” – GPs have received pay increases almost double the level recommended by an official salary review board, reports the Telegraph.
- “Civil servants cash in on £26,000-a-year pensions – while private workers receive £7,000” – Public sector workers are on course to receive gold-plated pensions worth nearly four times those of their private sector counterparts, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Good Morning Britain episode leads to 8,200 complaints to Ofcom” – More than 8,200 complaints about Monday’s edition of ITV’s Good Morning Britain, in which Ed Balls interviewed his wife who happens to be the Home Secretary, have been submitted to Ofcom, reports the BBC.
- “GB News to consider suing advertisers over boycott” – GB News says it is “closely monitoring” Elon Musk’s lawsuit against advertisers in a sign it is preparing to sue brands that suspend advertising, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s invisible culture war” – Toby Young, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the state of free speech in the U.K. and why a woke, technocratic party like Labour poses such a serious threat to our liberties.
- “The myth of German efficiency lies in ruins” – Switzerland has embarrassed Germany’s ailing railway operator Deutsche Bahn by stopping its chronically delayed trains at the border to prevent them from disrupting Switzerland’s clockwork railway timetables, reports the Times.
- “Britain’s Net Zero crusade is leaving us vulnerable to blackouts” – On a cold, still winter evening when we need a lot of power, wind and solar contribute the square root of sod all, says Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
- “National Grid chiefs play down fears of imminent blackouts in London” – National Grid bosses have denied claims that South East England and London could face blackouts by 2028 unless the region pays more for its power than other areas, reports the Mail.
- “Can the grid take Ed Miliband’s Net Zero targets?” – We are not having an open and honest debate about Miliband’s decarbonisation plan, nor about Net Zero targets in general, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Former top Just Stop Oil donor turns on green campaigners” – Former JSO donor Dale Vince has condemned the group’s extremism and rejected its goal to end fossil extraction by 2030, reports the Telegraph.
- “The new EU initiative to solve plastic waste is stupid, will do nothing, may be counter-productive and loads of people think it’s totally cool anyway” – On Substack, Eugyppius lets loose on tethered bottle caps.
- “Indonesia’s Net Zero nickel boom fuels destruction of rainforests and coral reefs” – Rainforest and coastal communities are being destroyed in the race to transition away from fossil fuels, writes Garry Lotulong in the Telegraph.
- “Turkish fighter in ‘X’ symbol protest after losing to Lin Yu-Ting” – Lin Yu-ting faced more “XX” gender protests in the ring after winning his semi-final bout to ensure both boxers who failed sex tests now fight for Olympic golds, reports the Sun.
- “Teens to get ‘banned’ puberty blockers early next year in trial” – The NHS has announced a radical plan to tackle the increasing numbers of children suffering gender identity crises – including six new specialist clinics and offering puberty blockers to teens as part of a ‘trial’, says the Mail.
- “Doctors criticise BMA for resisting ban on puberty blockers” – The British Medical Association is being criticised by doctors and NHS leaders for its “unethical” objections to the Cass Report, reports the Times.
- “How did Planned Parenthood become one of America’s largest suppliers of testosterone?” – In the Free Press, Jennifer Block profiles Cristina Hineman, the teenager suing Planned Parenthood for prescribing testosterone after a 30-minute consultation.
- “‘There is not going to be a bloody civil war in my country’” – In a funny fake video on X, Elon Musk and Keir Starmer sit down to discuss their beef.
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Getting rid of a load of s..t?
He can afford to, he’s full of it!
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I would applaud except for the scumminess of these self appointed rulers of our lives.
Do they want as many people as possible to catch covid or is it that seeing how infections (by their positive test definition) are out of control they are saying that to make it look as if they are controlling what is happening?
I will only properly celebrate the day all these “policy makers” are rounded up and held responsible for their hubris, their arrogance and all the damage they have done.
Scum.
He wants the young and healthy infected because almost none of them will get ill. And if he has stocks of ivermectin in Iceland, he can treat the few that get sick perfectly happily.
Two years have gone by to round them up. Are we really still waiting for ‘the lawyers’ to turn up and drag the likes of Michie and Ferguson off to the Nuremberg trials 2?
Are Ukrainian refugees now queuing up at the test centres in the hope of getting a ‘negative test result’ for Covid’ so they can enter the EU? Only a day or two for the results to come through… or do they have to be ‘fully vaxxed’ to enter Slovakia?
Perhaps the next ‘wave’ of ‘Covid’ will be blamed on Ukrainians bringing in yet another exotic (and totally made up) ‘variant’.
We’ll have to bring Sir Chris Whitty out of retirement for his ‘expert advice’.
Blimey! No wonder mum’s gone to Iceland.
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Sanity.
Iceland solved the 2008 financial crisis by kicking out the bankers.
It’s now solving the Covid ‘pandemic’ by kicking out the vaccine peddlers.
Amazing how a tiny country can teach its ‘superiors’ the basics of good statecraft, eh?
Is it though?
Or in the case of a better offer.
So long as it’s not Poltroon Wales.
Call me irresponsible but I’ve done my best to carry on as normal including flying. Damm me I can’t catch the thing. I’m putting it down to my working class scum genes. To have evolved this far I guess I’m immune or have had it and didn’t know cuz I took no tests.
Same here!
I think my sturdy Yorkshire blood saved me. Eh by gum.
Lowest vaccine uptake in the UK! 💪 By ‘eck!
There’s a craze in Yorkshire at the moment – rubbing ectasy across the teeth. It’s called E by gum.
My wife’s the same; try as she might she can’t seem to get it even though I’ve had it and god knows how many times the kids have (we won’t test them so we’re not sure) it would appear you have pre-existing immunity. If you’re really, really keen on getting it, you could take the vaccine 🤭
Finally the penny drops
Until there’s a better offer on the table.
Consistent with the commentary from Bill Gates – ‘Sadly, the Omicron variant is a type of vaccine’ .
But why did he say ‘Sadly’
Because he can’t charge for it?
No question mark needed there.
Holy moly that’s some white flag waving, long may it continue, forced common sense!
Will the UK be lifting travel restrictions?
I see the need to ‘quarantine’ has changed to ‘should follow public health advice’.
Still not good enough – you are still forced to hand over your money to Javid’s shifty mates flogging ‘tests’.
If you are not fully vaccinatedThis is what you need to do if you do not qualify under the fully vaccinated rules for travel to England.
Before you travel to England – not fully vaccinatedBefore you travel to England you must:
You will need to enter your PCR test booking reference number in the passenger locator form.
When you arrive in England – not fully vaccinatedYou do not need to quarantine when you arrive in England.
You must take the COVID-19 PCR test that you booked before you travelled.
You can take the test any time after you arrive and before the end of day 2 at the latest. The day you arrive in England is day 0.
If the test result is positive or unclear, you should follow public health advice.
This guidance came into effect on 24 February 2022 and will be updated on 1 April 2022.
determined to make dosh one way or another AND talk double-speak ‘the danger has passed, but just in case it hasn’t …’
With “fully vaccinated” being a constantly moving target.
How about just not doing it? Surely no-one’s checking at this stage.
Will be updated on 1 April – well after the CoronaCircusAct has been renewed, then?
Herd immunity? But isn’t that just a myth? After all, they have been telling us for 2 years that it doesn’t really exist, just some unsubstantiated theory by some half-baked scientists.
Every political leader, scientist or doctor who even mentioned the words ‘herd immunity’ was vilified and referred to as wishing to commit mass murder by ‘letting people die’. But now, like a deus ex machine, it’s a real thing after all? Ain’t ‘The Science’ grand.
Oddly, NL is also lifting most of its restrictions on Friday 25 February..
I’ve been arguing with vaccine zealots for the past 20 years and they only believe in “vaccine” induced herd immunity and not “natural” herd immunity.
I really, really don’t get that. I can understand someone believing vaccines help in priming your immune system without actually undergoing the illness itself.
But the bottom line is the same – your immune system is exposed to an alien invader, it mounts a response to eliminate the invader. A person’s own immune response does all the work, one way or the other. If herd immunity is achieved, it’s because enough people’s own bodies have built up immunity, however it was achieved.
I think a lot of people think that vaccines themselves provide protection, like a bullit proof vest does against bullits.
The vaccine zealots argument was that anyone who doesn’t have a vaccine is causing potential harm to others.
My argument was that I would rather risk a dose of an illness and gain natural immunity than risk the harmful effects of vaccines.
They only wanted herd immunity from vaccines and not give people the individual right of natural immunity.
Every disease was waning due to better sanitation than the introduction of vaccines.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/child-health-topics/false-narratives/deaths-from-childhood-diseases-were-declining-before-vaccines/
If the vaccine does anything, it mimics one infection and triggers an immune response. That is then remembered next time the person comes into contact with the virus. Whether it actually does that, and for how long, now seems doubtful, but there was never any assertion that it would do more. It was just intended to be a way of arriving at herd immunity faster. The end result would be the same.
The Covid jab is NOT a vaccine.
It produces antibodies against the spike protein of the Wuhan variant only and no other parts of the virus or variants.
The antibodies wane within months.
It makes infection more likely.
It doesn’t give any form of immunity.
It causes no end of health problems and should be stopped immediately.
That is my understanding; cod science maybe…
vaccine >Spike protein ( approximation of Alpha strain spike protein not precise replica) >”less severe ” – therefore extremely narrow effect; does NOTHING for other variants because spike protein sufficiently genetically different variant, except induce ADE potentially; immune effect zero beyond a brief initial reaction.
Virus>full spectrum antigenic “hit”> natural immune response to whole antigen spectrum including memory T cells, leucocytes and lymphocytes> significantly wider and longer lived.
And this ignores any prior immunity from previous exposure to Coronaviruses…
That’s about it but the “extremely narrow effect” is not a beneficial one.
Granted – I was not intending to praise ” the jab” but bury it..
How do these zealots think normal vaccines work?
They’ll next tell us that they’ve discovered Ivermectin etc. can treat covid! Where have they been for the last 2 years??
”Most of” just isn’t good enough. They’re servants, not masters. When will people stop kowtowing?
after 2 years, finally going back to their pre-pandemic response.
the Director of the hospital will need a new mattress – but that’s about it
Well, knock me down with a unicorn’s nose feather.
Anything more I could say would be superfluous.
Will Iceland now be uncountried for peddling harmful disinformation and anti-science?
Really, how long do you reckon a Twatter or Failbook account would last if you simply cited what they have just said?
Totally agree, ridiculous
Entry to Iceland. Yes, sounds very ‘free’.
Third-country citizens are still not authorized to travel to Iceland unless exemptions apply. Note: As of January 1, 2021, UK nationals have the status of third-country nationals.
Rules at the border are in force until February 28th 2022.
https://www.covid.is/sub-categories/risk-areas
But all restrictionss are gone.The above quoted does not exist today
no shit
Another reverse ferret by a formally wholly compliant NWO technocracy client FAKE democratic administration! In other news, Trudeau gets an arse kicking from his globocap handlers for letting the cat out of the bag by seizing trucker’s assets! Result…he wind’s his neck in and cancels his Neo-Nazi totalitarian legislation…
We were in Iceland in January 2020 and noticed that most of the Chinese tourists, thousands of them, were wearing masks.
Icelands main industry is tourism and ending the unnecessary restrictions is a decision they should have made 2 years ago.
What a pity our lot of so and so’s can’t admit the same. I, and many others, have been saying so since day 1.
2 lost years and a financially ruined and fundamentally changed country for what. For what!!
At last, a country showing common sense.
“Restrictions do not have any effect at this point in time,”. Er, restrictions have never had any effect. The virus is airborne, carried by aerosols, so the only effective measure would be a pure vacuum.
Having a population living in a pure vacuum is a Eugenicist’s Nirvana…?
Did you ever get that feeling that you wanted to scream from the rooftops…We F’ing told you so two F’ing years ago you PLONKERS!