- “Man handed 20-month jail sentence for stirring up hate on Facebook” – Twenty-eight year-old Jordan Parlour has been sentenced to 20 months in jail for a Facebook post, reports the Spectator.
- “Woman arrested for ‘spreading false information’ about Southport attacker” – Cheshire Police says a 55 year-old woman has been arrested for spreading ‘misinformation’ about the Southport murders, according to the Telegraph.
- “In latest Bond film, 007 tasked with taking down 83 year-old British grandma who shared inaccurate meme” – The Babylon Bee’s take on Britain’s new passion for censorship under the premiership of Sir Keir Starmer.
- “Tech giants will be forced to ban fake news under Labour plans” – Sir Keir Jong Un vows to amend the Online Safety Act to give the Government the power to draw up a list of ‘legal but harmful’ content and force social media companies to remove it, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour-run council to fine people £100 for swearing in street” – The Free Speech Union says Labour-run Thanet District Council is “restricting fundamental rights and liberties” by threatening to fine residents £100 for swearing, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ditching this free speech act is a green light to campus bullies” – Passed by the Tories, the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act has been shelved by the Labour Government. But it would have protected Jewish students and sceptics of gender ideology, while standing up to China, writes Helen Joyce in the Times.
- “The Left has an authoritarian problem (but doesn’t know it)” – In Presser, Luke Conway explains how it’s not just right-wing extremists who long for an authority figure to crush their enemies, silence opponents, and restore order; it’s also those who tell people to “be kind” and celebrate “inclusivity”.
- “Let’s Shoot the Messenger!” – On his Substack, Konstantin Kisin argues that social media platforms aren’t to blame for the recent civil unrest in Britain.
- “Twitsteria, horrible herds and governments in glasshouses” – On her Substack, Laura Dodsworth reacts to the Government’s crack down on free speech in the wake of the riots.
- “These are dark times for free speech” – The riots are being exploited to justify state censorship, says Andrew Doyle on his Substack.
- “‘Think before you post’: Britain’s slide into censorship” – The Labour Government’s sudden authoritarian turn has been decades in the making, reports Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Censorship won’t address the riots” – In the face of extreme violence, we must stand strong in defence of freedom of speech, says Claire Fox on the Academy of Ideas Substack.
- “The unfashionable truth about the riots” – As the days slip by, the likelihood that anything will be learned from the recent rioting looks ever more remote, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator, judging from the response to the 2011 riots.
- “The truth about two-tier policing in Britain” – Does Britain have a two-tier policing system? Yes, says Alex Klaushofer in the Spectator, who looks back at the different ways in which the anti-lockdown and BLM protests were policed in the summer of 2020.
- “Down and out in Birmingham and Rotherham” – Why did riots happen in Birmingham and Rotherham? The Spectator’s Gus Carter meets people in the towns to hear their side of the story.
- “Starmer and Angela Rayner taking the knee was a disaster’” – Lord Sewell, former Chair of the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities, tells the Mail it was a terrible mistake for Sir Keir and his deputy to take the knee in response to the BLM protests.
- “King Charles sends ‘heartfelt thanks’ to police for restoring order after riots” – The monarch has held calls with Sir Keir Starmer and senior police officers and paid tribute to the emergency services, says the Guardian.
- “Counter-protesters jailed after attacking white men wearing Union flag” – Leeds Crown Court has been shown footage of Asian men kicking and punching a smaller group of white men, reports the Telegraph.
- “Judge savages ‘cowardly’ thugs in mob that attacked lone black man” – The Mail has a run-down of all the people mixed up in the riots who appeared before a judge in Manchester today.
- “Brave Yazidi ISIS captive describes horror ordeal of sexual slavery” – In the Mail, a Yazidi woman enslaved by ISIS describes the terrible things she witnessed during her captivity.
- “Russell Brand is ‘axed from Despicable Me films after rape claims’” – Russell Brand has lost his role as a voice actor in the Despicable Me franchise following allegations of sexual assault, according to the Mail.
- “BBC asks Huw Edwards to return more than £200,000 from salary” – The BBC has asked Huw Edwards to return some of the salary he earned in the past year, having continued to pay it in spite of knowing of the allegations against him, reports the Telegraph.
- “Is the ‘motherhood penalty’ really behind the U.K.’s falling birth rate?” – Over the last half century, more and more women have delayed marriage and children, says Annabel Denham in the Spectator. We’re now paying the price.
- “How Jack Karlson became immortal” – Imagine a stubbled Brian Blessed in a half-buttoned polyester shirt, caught in the middle of a police scrum. That was the scene Karlson caused, says Terry Barnes in the Spectator, paying tribute to the late, great Covid protestor.
- “From Covidiot to Covictor – the Olympics goes full circle in three years” – On Substack, the Naked Emperor contrasts the paranoid, germ-phobic approach to athletes either with Covid or at risk of catching Covid at the Tokyo Olympics with the laissez-faire attitude at Paris 2024.
- “COVID-19 may protect against the common cold” – An article in Medical News discusses new research on immune system cross-reactivity to different coronaviruses. (Note to IPSO: you upheld a complaint against me for saying something very like this in the Telegraph in 2020.)
- “On the mediocrity and mendacity of Tim Walz” – No wonder Kamala Harris was so happy with Tim Walz, says Alex Berenson on Substack. He’s a less ambitious version of Joe Biden.
- “Iran’s new president battles revolutionary guard to stop all-out war with Israel” – Iran’s top generals are demanding a missile strike on Tel Aviv, but Masoud Pezeshkian, the new Iranian President, suggests targeting secret Israeli bases instead, reports the Telegraph.
- “Migration figures are falling – but the crisis is far from over” – A large section of the British electorate now demands an altogether more radical change when it comes to immigration policy, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Parents scramble to find state school places to avoid VAT on fees” – With tax on private school fees set to increase costs by 20% from January, parents are scrambling to find places at good state schools, according to the Times.
- “Civil servants on over £100,000 rises by 40% in a year” – The public will look at the growth in Civil Servant salaries with disbelief, say the Tories, as nearly 3,000 mandarins take home six-figure pay, says the Telegraph.
- “How much Labour could save by scrapping gold-plated public sector pensions” – Taxpayers could claw back £28 billion a year if public sector pensions were brought into line with private sector ones, according to the Telegraph.
- “Kemi Badenoch: Tories were wrong to extend windfall tax” – The former Business Secretary has admitted that a windfall tax on oil and gas companies was a terrible idea, reports the Telegraph.
- “Telegraph bid backed by U.S. billionaire Ken Griffin makes shortlist” – A U.S. billionaire bidding for the Telegraph, alongside U.K. billionaire Paul Marshall, has made the shortlist, according to the Telegraph.
- “I didn’t think Starmer would go this far!” – On X, Alex Armstrong has produced an amusing video portraying Sir Keir as a Chinese-style Communist leader.
I didn’t think Keir Starmer would go this far!!!!!
— Alex Armstrong (@alexharmstrong) August 9, 2024pic.twitter.com/hgvtqLRTuo
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Biden has just given the Pharmaceutical Companies, US Government “scientists;” hospitals and individual medics who administered the jabs immunity from prosecution by those killed and injured until 2029.
By which time, many of the injured will have died. And the guilty men/women will be long gone.
It’s basically an admission that massive harm was done.
Given that Biden is known to be mentally incompetent, can any such ‘indemnity’ (absolutely unethical in any case) be legally valid?
Pretty certain it is not legally valid.
Trump will unravel the current president’s thoughtless acts in his final days as president. And most likely Joe will be found to be mentally incompetent at this point.
Does Toby still think this was all a cock up?
I think it was planned, deliberate and ruthlessly implemented.
I agree but I have held this opinion since the start.
20 years of planning.
All coordinated in the G20. CIA-DoD-NATO project. Test pilot.
It seems the commentor above still does.
That’s exactly what I asked myself. I wonder if he’ll kiss and make up with James Delingpole? They fell out because of their difference of opinion.
He has just joined a different club! Pretty sure if that was his stance, nothing will change now
Never forget this was actively being waved through by a Conservative Government. Only about a dozen of their MPs raised any objections at all, the rest were sheep. They followed the instructions left by Mr B Gates when he visited Johnson in Downing St in 2020 and again in 2021.
The Tories haven’t changed even with new ieaders. They would do it all again in a heartbeat.
Yes, but at the same time there was no effective opposition. At the time, I was a member of the Labour Party – but I put a stop to that when KS and others argued that they would have been worse, as it were. So, my subscription as a member found another home (here, in effect).
There was indeed no effective opposition but that in no way excuses or explains what the Tories did. Quite the opposite.
They would repeat it all again if they could.
They operate on the basis that the population needs to be told what to do by more intelligent, better educated people like themselves who know what’s best for everyone.
That is the basis on which our society is now administered.
And its becoming more aggressive than ppreviously because whereas before the channels for programming the population were few and well controlled, the Internet, smartphones and soc media has made it possible for people to programme themselves. And that’s making it difficult for those that know better and want to tell us what is best for us.
Better educated – all those useless PPE degrees – certainly, but more intelligent. Hardly. More ignorant – definitely.
And we know how the government ‘hates’ foreign interference!
These disgusting people need to do some serious prison time. It makes me so angry that they are literally getting away with murder. In fact, they are being rewarded with peerages etc. There will be a day off reckoning when they will reap the whirlwind.
Interesting- looks like a political decision to me. “Follow the science” until the “science” doesn’t suit your agenda. Question is- did the political pressure come from Whitty or was he following orders?
Ah, The $cience.
Let’s look at this from the bottom up. What we witnessed was crimes against humanity. Some of us recognised it as genocide. I see no reason to change that opinion. And two British doctors tried to alert the population as to what was going on, Vernon Coleman and Mike Yeadon. They have been vindicated.
And vilified.
Indeed.
There were times on that podium, looking at Boris and his motley crew that would be interesting to a body language expert. Tears of a Crime bloke where are you!
I just popped over to TCW and found this marvellously complementary article:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/watteel-analysis-exposes-real-damage-of-trudeau-lockdowns/
“The fraud was the ‘science’ that Fisman produced for the Trudeau government that asserted the unvaccinated were a risk to the vaccinated. This ‘science’ was then used to justify draconian Covid-19 measures – the vaccine mandates and passports without which it was impossible to eat in a restaurant, drink in a bar, play ice hockey, work for the Canadian government or travel by plane or train across the vast expanse of Canada.
Contrary to Fisman’s ludicrous modelling simulation, Watteel’s own analysis of the real-world data showed covid vaccines were a complete failure for which the unvaccinated were being scapegoated. After the rollout, covid cases in vaccinated-only workplaces rose to unprecedented levels, Covid-19 numbers dwarfed pre-vaccination peaks, and Covid-19 hospitalisations doubled previous records.”
A bit of a pattern emerging methinks.
Indeed – the incompetence virus that Monro is convinced exists must have spread to Canada.
“In March 2020, Imperial College London published its seminal projections paper advising ‘lockdown until vaccination’,”
Three weeks to flatten the ‘curve’.
It seems they always intended to extend it, but with media organisations like the BBC screaming at any suggestion of opening back up, they were kicking at an open door. There is more coming out all the time to show that it was planned, the ‘countermeasures’ the NATO involvement to name a few.
The incompetence lay in the panic and the invocation of the precautionary principle without any cost benefit analysis, an indispensable accompaniment to that principle.
Whitty, Farrar and Ferguson had worked as a team previously.
‘The UK government has decided to support another strategy: passive case-finding with community isolation.
Modelling can help to predict what provisions are needed
We hope that in the coming months, safe and effective vaccines will be produced at large enough volumes to stop this outbreak’
Nov 2014 Paper by Whitty, Farrar, Ferguson et al.
https://www.nature.com/articles/515192a#:~:text=Controlling%20transmission%20requires%20minimizing%20contact,evolve%20as%20the%20outbreak%20expands.
They thought they were geniuses with novel methods of disease control that would read across to covid 19.
Farrar knew covid 19 was not SARS but panicked:
‘It was a relief to hear him rule out SARS, a deadly disease that features on the world’s worry list and for which there is no vaccine or cure. It first appeared in 2002 – and one of its victims, Carlo Urbani, was a good friend of mine. He died while investigating an outbreak in Hanoi, Vietnam. He was just 46 and had a young family………Having spent eighteen years running an infectious diseases research facility in Ho Chi Minh City, I was badly shaken by Carlo’s death. I know what it is like to deal with the science and politics of a new disease. I helped to alert the world to a potentially serious outbreak of H5Nl bird flu in Vietnam in 2004,’
He thought covid 19 was worse than SARS
‘It is not SARS. The virus is in a similar family as SARS but this looks different … and the difference is probably it is easier to pass between human beings. I think we can expect many more cases in China and many more cases in other parts of the world.’
https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/21180503/INQ000208834.pdf
But Whitty, Farrar and Ferguson lacked experience of the common cold…..and covid 19 was simply another common cold coronavirus, as a real coronavirus expert in China, who had experience of SARS, pointed out:
‘So the 20,000 cases in China is probably only the severe cases; the folks that actually went to the hospital and got tested. The Chinese healthcare system is very overwhelmed with all the tests going through. So my thinking is this is actually not as severe a disease as is being suggested. The fatality rate is probably only 0.8%-1%. There’s a vast underreporting of cases in China. Compared to Sars and Mers we are talking about a coronavirus that has a mortality rate of 8 to 10 times less deadly to Sars to Mers. So a correct comparison is not Sars or Mers but a severe cold. Basically this is a severe form of the cold.’
Prof John Nicholls University of Hong Kong 06 February 2020
Farrar profited personally from the panic so his motives are suspect but Whitty and Ferguson (and Vallance, Johnson, the well named Hancock) were, tragically, just a bunch of buffoons.
Maybe there is evidence of some kind of venality but, other than Farrar’s massive bonuses from the Wellcome Trust, I am not aware of any, would be interested to see it.
It will certainly be needed if these buffoons are properly to be held to account.
It was obvious very early on that “Covid” was a nothingburger. They will all have realised that but they chose not to admit it publicly. “Covid deaths” which is what was used to justify it all were utter nonsense. That’s not incompetence.
Funny how every government and public health body on the planet were equally incompetent.
What constitutes ‘early on’?
Obvious to whom?
Every government and public health body, public sector are equally incompetent.
The exceptions prove the rule.
Even Sweden admitted to the mistake of not protecting care homes.
DeSantis in Florida went with the pack until convinced otherwise by an enlightened medic of strong character.
Bhattacharya 2021:
‘the strategy, the idea was that if we could find all of the cases of it, test enough, isolate the people that have it so they don’t pass the disease on, then we’ll suppress the disease down to zero. That worked, I think, with SARS one, it worked with Ebola, it has worked in the past with other diseases.’
That is the profoundly stupid strategy advocated by Whitty, Farrar and Ferguson which the WHO jumped onto and spread, disastrously, around the world.
What constitutes ‘early on’?
Before now. None of them have admitted the whole thing was a nothingburger.
Obvious to whom?
Not many people it seems.
Obvious to you I imagine. Thousands of “public health experts” and “scientists” all over the world didn’t see it, and continue to pretend they didn’t, but you did.
This is what happened:
‘Senator Paul asked Dr. Fauci about, well, what about these other harms?
And he said, well, that’s not my job, in effect.
Well, whose job is it? Right?
If you are going to make policy decisions like this, you cannot assume that the things you’re doing are automatically effective, just because there’s uncertainty about the effectiveness of it.
You cannot assume there has no harm.
That’s not part of the precautionary principle.
That is essentially a public health malpractice to assume that the thing you’re doing has no harm, that the thing you’re guarding against has enormous harm.
You end up in a situation where you take actions that end up with the kinds of consequences we’re talking about.
Without actually stopping the disease, you have catastrophic harm to the population at large, from the lockdowns.’
Bhattacharya 2021
https://www.hoover.org/research/what-happened-dr-jay-bhattacharya-19-months-covid-1
Weak political leadership hid behind the sofa hoping the over promoted but politically astute snake oil promoting senior international medical cabal had a cunning plan, developed in response to Ebola etc.
It did have a plan but it was an inept and particularly inapposite solution looking for a problem that simply didn’t exist.
In other words, hopeless incompetence born out of hubris.
Cabal? Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me
Enjoy your Sunday!
And the same to you.
‘The term cabal traces back to cabbala, the Medieval Latin name for the Kabbalah, a traditional system of esoteric Jewish mysticism. Latin borrowed Cabbala from the Hebrew qabbālāh, meaning “received or traditional lore.”
I don’t think it was a conspiracy by the international medical establishment, more a case of ‘nanny knows best’; an arrogant ‘de haut en bas’ attitude towards the general public.
There was no need for a conspiracy. The WHO offered a ready made supranational medical network operating pretty much in plain sight.
One of the most important lessons of this global disaster is the inutility of undemocratic supranational organisations.
Fortunately, the incoming U.S. President is, I believe, very much of that mind.
“One of the most important lessons of this global disaster is the inutility of undemocratic supranational organisations.”
Worse than useless – positively harmful.
I hope Trump quits the lot.
I hope he kicks those that have offices in the U.S. out of the country.
Let them move to Beijing or Moscow or even Brasilia.
They can move to the UK – with Lammy and Mandelson we have world
class diplomats.
In the same way that Noddy and Big Ears were world class diplomats.
Though you make a good point. Moving the U.N., W.H.O. to London would bring them a great deal closer to the many of us keen to get our hands on them…….
Lammy seems genuinely “steady”, Mandelson is a slipperier customer
Who acceded to the English throne at the age of nine on the death of his father, Henry VIII, in 1547?
Noddy’s answer: Henry VII
President Trump’s co-campaign manager view of Big Ears:
‘Absolute moron’
Yeah, I did chuckle when I read that.
Apart from anything else it shows a distinct lack of ability to think clearly under pressure – exactly the quality you might wish for in someone whose job it is to represent the country abroad.
Apart from Professor John Nicholls correctly calling out the C19 as a common cold the rest of this post is utter tosh. I suggest you do some research both here and over at TCW where you will find many articles destroying the “pandemic” narrative and many of which I have previously linked to on here.
Bug eyed freak isn’t he? Not a doctor. Reads the history of medicine apparently. Yet he and unelected ‘SAGE’ were given control over our lives so they could implement a scam-plan-demic and destroy our existence.
Locking up is not good enough….Mussolinied is better.
I think it became obvious that something sinister was going when the vaccinated were still contracting Covid and still spreading it, yet vaccine passports were being introduced.
All for a, symptomless in the majority, virus that needed a test to identify it in that group.
What really boils my piss is that these people can knowingly cause damage and end endanger peoples’ lives for their own gain and self interest. They are not punished or even criticised but rewarded. This lack of accountability and encourages others to do the same knowing they too will not face sanctions.
Link to minutes won’t work over VPN, just soze folks now
Integrity and a moral compass. Long term Safety and Efficacy data, all necessary for anyone who sits in a CMO’s seat. All three appear to have been missing in this case. Lives lost. A sad day for our world.