- “Increasing inheritance tax would be Reeve’s worst mistake yet” – If the Chancellor increases the hated ‘death tax’, she will be making a grave political and economic error, says Mark Littlewood in the Telegraph.
- “How the top 1% pay more than twice their ‘fair’ share of tax” – Britain’s wealthy, who already pay more than their ‘fair’ share of taxes, are at risk as Rachel Reeves tries to raise £40 billion ahead of her Budget, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘A very nice life for a lot less money’: why young people are fleeing high-tax Britain” – A demographic crisis is brewing as emigration from the U.K. among young people speeds up, according to the Telegraph.
- “Top Labour minister drops major Budget hint over tax increase” – The Health Secretary said that the party had not ruled out upping the NICs made by businesses before being elected, as Rachel Reeves faces accusations of ripping up a manifesto pledge, reports the Mail.
- “Tories blast Labour’s Budget ‘myth’ about £22 billion cash black hole” – Shadow Business Secretary Kevin Hollinrake has lashed out about the “myth” of the last Tory government’s £22 billion ‘black hole’ after it was revealed the Government is to plough billions more into the NHS, says the Mail.
- “The most dangerous female economist in the world” – In CapX, famous economist Deirdre McCloskey takes aim at Mariana Mazzucato, Labour’s favourite economist.
- “Investment summit to increase energy bills” – Over half of the announcements at Labour’s global investment summit are energy related and all will increase our energy bills through subsidies, says David Turver on his Eigen Values Substack.
- “Angela Rayner receives permanent seat on National Security Council after being sidelined by PM” – Sir Keir is trying to scotch rumours he’s fallen out with his Deputy by giving her a permanent seat on the U.K.’s National Security Council, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer sparks row after removing Shakespeare portrait from No. 10” – The Prime Minister has been accused of consigning the Bard “to the dustbin” after the 18th Century painting or Shakespeare by Louis Francois Roubiliac hanging in one of the state rooms at Downing Street was placed in storage, according to the Mail.
- “Pressure on PM to rethink Rwanda plan axe as EU talks offshore ‘hubs’” – Migration will dominate an EU leaders’ summit in Brussels today, after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called for “innovative ways to counter” it, reports the Mail.
- “The EU is waking up to the same immigration catastrophe as Britain” – More countries are finally realising they can never solve migration under the current human rights framework, says columnist Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “Coventry is buckling under strain of overseas arrivals” – More than one in four Coventry residents were born outside the U.K. and one in seven (almost 50,000 people) have arrived since 2011, says the Mail.
- “White Britons dying at higher rate than ethnic minorities” – So much for ‘White Privilege’ – new analysis from the Office for National Statistics suggests white Britons are more likely to die than non-white Britons, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Double Standards of Sadiq Khan” – In the New Conservative, Frank Haviland takes aim at the duplicitous London Mayor.
- “Kemi has shown she’s fearless. That’s exactly what our party needs” – Former Coservative leader Iain Duncan Smith argues in the Telegraph that Kemi has the right attributes to lead the party: integrity, courage, and the ability to grow in stature as opposition leader.
- “Kemi Badenoch’s no-nonsense approach can win back voters” – In the Mail, Nicholas Soames says the Conservative Party needs a leader who can not only unite the parliamentary party’s warring factions but re-invigorate the Tories through a shared sense of purpose. That person is Kemi Badenoch.
- “‘Parenting is a two-person job. Where are the dads?’” – In an interview in the Sunday Times, the Tory leadership contender credits her own supportive, two-parent family for her success.
- “J.K. Rowing reveals she has turned down a peerage twice” – The Harry Potter author, 59, has announced she’s twice turned down a peerage, reports the Mail, after Kemi Badenoch floated the idea because of her stance on gender issues.
- “What I told Nick Robinson” – Matt Goodwin recounts his recent interview with Nick Robinson on his Substack.
- “Mark Drakeford ‘exempt’ from second home tax on holiday chalet” – The former Welsh First Minister’s Pembrokeshire property has been spared from a council tax surcharge on second homes, reports the Telegraph. Well I never!
- “Top police chief demands ‘whole system reform’ to punish shoplifters” – Paul Sanford, Chief Constable of Norfolk Police, says any toleration of shoplifting leads to more serious criminal activity, according to the Mail.
- “Does the Lucy Letby case stack up? We covered it and can’t agree” – The BBC journalists behind a new book and two Panorama documentaries say the debate is missing crucial information that they spotted during her trial, reports the Sunday Times.
- “Schools, police, country piles: nothing’s safe from performative grandstanding” – That’s the thing about ‘PGB’. It often rebounds, nastily, upon those who indulge in it, says columnist Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times.
- “Jeremy Clarkson on his heart scare: Was I days from death? Maybe” – Good news, I didn’t need a heart bypass. Just a Dyno-Rod up my arm, says Jeremy Clarkson in his Sunday Times column.
- “TikTok ‘anti-Zionists’ are no laughing matter” – TikTok is spreading a bone-chilling combination of lethal ignorance and ill-intent towards the Jewish state, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s wife appears holding $32,000 bag” – Watch a video on Mailonline showing Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s wife holding a $32,000 bag as she makes her way along a tunnel leading to her husband’s secret lair.
- “Israel’s plan to launch air attack on Iran leaked” – Leaked documents show that Israel is preparing munitions and drone activity for an attack on Iran, according to the Telegraph.
- “Ukrainian men hide in houses to avoid conscription to fight Russia” – Ukrainian men have been missing their daughters’ birth, avoiding public transport and not attending weddings – all to get out of being conscripted into the military, says the Mail.
- “Parents are in revolt against comprehensive school monopoly” – Governments have been raising the school leaving age for decades, but what has this actually achieved? If the time spent in class was a measure of how educated the country was, it would be marvellous, says Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
- “Michigan’s inflated voter rolls draw scrutiny as election looms” – Michigan has more than 8.4 million registered voters, but in some counties the number of registered voters exceeds the number of people who are of voting age, reports the Washington Examiner.
- “Oil boss’s tenth-floor fall is latest in strange Russian deaths” – Mikhail Rogachev, the former Vice-President of Yukos, a now-defunct oil and gas company, ‘fell’ out of a 10th floor window in Moscow, according to the Times.
- “Follow the Science” – A new book by Sharyl Attkisson shows how Big Pharma misleads, obscures and prevails, says the Naked Emperor on his Substack.
- “Steakhouse chain sounds out investors as meat makes a comeback” – ‘Chop house’, a steak house chain, is hoping to expand as veganism goes out of fashion, according to the Telegraph.
- “BBC boss fights plans for ‘suburban’ homes near his £4 million Oxfordshire farmhouse” – BBC Director General Tim Davie has objected to planning permission being sought for two new properties just yards from his family home, reports the Telegraph.
- “The middle-class women who are tripping balls” – In the Free Press, Kat Rosenfield writes about a new phenomenon whereby respectable, middle-class housewives in America’s affluent suburbs are getting high on MDMA and Magic Mushrooms.
- “SNP claims there are 24 genders” – In what must rank as a perfect Telegraph story, the SNP has announced there are 24 genders.
- “Drag bingo and pronoun badges: Taxpayers foot £650k bill for public sector Pride celebrations” – NHS trusts, councils and fire services are spending on “extravagant events” and “pointless gimmicks” to celebrate Pride rather than improving essential services, says the Telegraph.
- “You have to watch this!” – A police officer in the U.S. deals brilliantly with a driver who refuses to hand over his licence and claims to identify as a cat. Too good to be real!
You have to watch this..!😂 pic.twitter.com/rO8m9RM7bj
—Larry
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Getting jabbed is your personal medical decision, having researched the facts in the light of your personal condition, Doing it just to travel, if that was the case, is a foolish risk, as well as a collaboration with medical tyranny.
There are no proven medical grounds that would begin to justify a decision to play Russian Roulette by injecting these very dangerous gene altering products and of course the more people play the more chance they have of winning the main prize, early death. All of this, without even taking into account the strong likelihood that these “vaccines” contain graphene oxide a nano-material which is all by itself a highly toxic substance when injected into the body.
Which vaccines are you talking about?
The mRNA vaccines do not alter any genetic material in the body. The AZ vaccine inserts some DNA into a few cells which soon die.
None of the vaccines in use contain graphene oxide. Here is a list of ingredients for the mRNA vaccines. A list for AstraZeneca is here. The confusion may arise because apparently (I just looked it up) GO already has a wide range of medical applications and modified GO may be a suitable adjuvant for vaccines in the future.
Sure.
Presumably that is ironic and you don’t believe me. What are your sources of information?
PS. ADE is back on the table, I see.
“Getting there was relatively easy. The wife and I are double jabbed – I know some people think we have sold our souls by doing this, but if it means I can take my wife and kids to Poland to see the family, then to me it is a small price to pay.”
Nope sorry. I don’t care how lovely your holiday was if you had to take a medical treatment/test you didn’t really want or need in order to go. Load of bollocks. It’s people like this who claim to be against the new normal but happily go along with it when it suits them that are preventing us from going back to normal.
Perhaps that seems harsh that I’m blaming the true sceptics closest allies rather than our enemies for the enduring mess, but if we can’t convince these people not to comply then who can we?
Sadly, Toby is one of these near collaborators! As Satan knows, the route to Hell is paved with ‘small’ concessions!
This is true. I feel like Toby et al were way too naive in their optimism that the jabs would save us all and allow life to go back to normal.
To a lesser degree I also feel others were wayyy too hasty to get the jab at the first available opportunity and are now regretting it – some are just taking this on a chin as a personal misjudgment whilst some are spitefully turning on the “hesitants” with the attitude “well I had to get it and take the risks so why shouldn’t you”.
It was obvious from early on in 2020 that the supposedly yet to be invented jabs were the raison d’être of the Coronabollox. It’s been equally clear for almost as long, that the jabs have nothing to with preventing or ameliorating a respiratory infection, that was previously known as flu.
Very hard to get yourself unjabbed. There is no point though, in these reckless souls compounding their initial uninformed stupidity and going for the kill shots, rather quaintly called boosters.
And it’s almost certainly not ‘a small price to pay’!
The author is mentally deranged. The price for himself and family will almost certainly be premature death.
Virtue signalling is no more attractive than Covid mania.
Anyone with family abroad has a pragmatic decision to make, which decision is thrust upon them. I can’t blame anyone in that position risking the jab against the certainty that their refusal would make f. all difference in the face of true belief, and mean only that they wouldn’t see family.
Yes, I was just drafting a reply on the same lines. My Mrs and I are not jabbed and have no intention of being, at least not for any non-medical reason. Even if we were, I think we’d refuse to show any kind of passport using that status. We’ve never been tested either, but if push came to shove and my wife felt she needed to visit her very close family abroad, she would get tested and if she wanted me to support her on the trip then I would too. If it’s your close flesh and blood, you do what you need to do. I would like to think we could avoid having to get jabbed to do it, so far that seems to be the case with most countries – additional restrictions but you can still travel just with a test. Getting the jab would be a harder decision. I wouldn’t like to say what we’d decide. If you have a mother who might die before you see her again, what would people do?
My widowed (sceptic and unjabbed) mother lives abroad. We were lucky enough to visit her for a few weeks at the start of the summer so she could spend some long-overdue time getting to know her newest grandson. At the end of our stay we said our goodbyes knowing that it might possibly be the last time we see each other in person if these vaccine passports stop us from travelling abroad. If she gets seriously ill/dies in the future and I can only travel by taking the jabs, then she’s happy that I remain unjabbed and protect my life and future for my son. It would break my heart not to be there for her, but my Mum has a great saying that sums up this decision perfectly: “Your health is all you have, so take care of it”.
Fair point that relatives would have a view on this. Every situation is different and when it comes to your flesh and blood, especially the woman that bore you for 9 months and brought you up, I would not judge anyone.
I’m not sure where you are going with this one. On the basis of what you saying, we might as well all get the jab and be done with it.
Fairly soon though, we will all be facing intense pressure to conform and get ourselves jabbed. Resisting such pressure is the only chance we have of coming through this mess alive. So absolutely nothing justifies the risk these very foolish people have taken in their decision to collaborate with the psychopaths who are running this shit show.
I think where I was going is that there are degrees of pressure and situation and each one is different. I have chosen to remain unvaxxed but it has been an easy choice for me, so far. It is less easy for others. I can have a view on what circumstances I regard as reasonable to give in under, but it’s easy for me to have that view.
Yes there are currently many different forms and levels of pressure, which will affect us as individuals in different ways. However, that is just for now and I very much expect that all of these various pressures will fairly soon merge in terms of increasing severity, as we head inevitably towards a world of near vaccine compulsion, then forced vaccination and internment/elimination.
Covid always was simply cover for the introduction of a grotesque form of totalitarianism. In this very bleak but realistic scenario, there is no option “to give in” and survive in any meaningful way. Giving in means that they will have won and the transhumanised world that is planned for those few that survive the vaccines and other experiments will not be worth inhabiting. Resistance to the very end is then the only option.
It’s fairly obvious where I’m going, and the corollary you make is indeed nonsense (“we might as well all get the jab and be done with it”)
I have had no jabs (despite the urging of some – even on this site – who have fallen for the ‘vulnerable’ trope). Most of my acquaintances and family (largely sceptical, but unconvinced of the anti-jab arguments) have – for mistaken but genuine motives.
My resistance has had absolutely no effect, except in terms of making some others think and question their decision as more data has emerged. The issue is separate from that of compulsion and coercion, and from the wider issues about the imposition of pointless and totalitarian NPIs.
Cutting your own and your family’s throat is a totally pointless gesture – aka ‘virtue signalling’ – when the vast majority are willingly taking the jab, and totally unaware of the reasons why it’s not benign.
I don’t believe in confusing pyrrhic battles with heroism.
To be fair the chap obviously wanted to see his family in Poland, also no mention was made of the kids having the jabs.
We don’t know all his personal circumstances that meant that he had to visit his home country, so please don’t condemn him.
I have now returned to my home in Thailand and I REFUSE to have the jabs. I have paid over 550 quid for the RT-PCR tests to enable me to go to the Uk and return here. I am currently in 15 day quarantine at a cost of 1500 quid – alot of money as I am sure you will agree.
I am single so although i have taken a fnancial hit it has at least been doable.
It could be said why bother to return to the UK for a holiday but after 3 years i was desperate to see friends and what family i have got left.
“…unlike in the U.K., where if you choose not to wear a mask you are looked at with a mixture of disdain, smugness, disgust and pity,”
I cannot second that statement at all, to the contrary, and I have never worn a mask in the UK.
Maybe those looks were due to other factors?
yes, the author is talking bollox.
Some people do this, although, by now, they’ve pretty retreated to lurking in dark corners of M&S and Waitrose stores. 🙂
I still see quite a few masked up zombies in the local Co-op. Mainly older people, more particularly older men. What a set of tossers they are.
Life is even more back to normal in those regards in the UK, if you want it to be, live that way and ignore the MSM.
Much better than continental fascist hellholes like Germany, Austria, France or Italy, that’s for sure, and not just for the unvaxxed.
So far!
Small price to pay? You don’t even know what the price is yet. You got coerced my guy.
He just bought a lemon, but it was discounted!
….unlike in the U.K., where if you choose not to wear a mask you are looked at with a mixture of disdain, smugness, disgust and pity, the Poles respect your decision and leave it at that.
In the UK, for me at least, more or less the opposite applies and I view the masked with disdain and disgust, but without smugness and hardly any pity. These people, whether they know it or not, are complicit in the criminal activities of governments, Big Pharma and the clique of psychopathic oligarchs who are closely allied to the WHO and the WEF.
I am loathe to criticise the author for having the jabs and that he considers it a price worth paying to see his family. At the end of the day it is about having the freedom to choose and to make our personal decisions without fear or favour. Have the vaccine, don’t have the vaccine, just as long as we are all allowed to go about our business totally unhindered whatever we choose to do. I do not have family that live in other countries but I can understand the different decision making processes of those that do.
Indeed. It seems at times the comments section is at risk of becoming an extension of Life of Brian, with people deriding others for holding sceptical opinions of the lockdowns but taking the vaccine. There is that almost constant undertone of being labelled a ‘splitter’.
It is simply an individual choice. One can choose their fights with the Establishment, with the system or with proponents of lockdowns, anyhow they please. Plenty of people wore Nazi badges yet worked to undermine the system. There are bigger challenges.
PS great choice of username.
I am puzzled as to why any sceptic would take the vaccine on medical grounds as I have not found any reliable data which would allow me to decide the benefits outweighed the risks. But it’s their choice and I would not deride anyone for it.
What I would “deride” people for is thinking that getting jabbed is a small price to pay for going on holiday, going to a nightclub, watching football, approving of vaccine coercion and propaganda or passports, using their vaccine status to gain access to things denied to the non-vaxxed, any support for vaxxing children or the young, and being generally naive about the motivations behind mass vaccinations from governments or big pharma. I personally think that the vaccines should never have been approved under the emergency use license so the whole program is an abomination.
If people are forced into a corner with regard to seeing close family, or their job, I again would not deride anyone for that.
That is the rub of it. Knowing I will not see my friends or family abroad again has wavered my commitment to being unjabbed, untested and unmasked. It’s not as though I or many others can expect to wait it out. This is it.
But this also doesn’t make me hate the powers that be any less or subdue my desire to see them all rounded up and blown to kingdom come – it entirely reinforces it.
I will get back at these politicians and public ‘health’ officials and associated criminals the way I want to. Millions will do the same. The Soviet Union was rotted out from the inside by many who complied with the system but dragged it down through an enormous black market, satire and underground networks linking dissidents and spreading their messages. The same will happen to China and it’s cronies in the West.
I think we should all resist as much as we can and avoid being overly critical of others who resist less, while encouraging them to resist as best they can given the circumstances
I am puzzled as to why any sceptic would take the vaccine on medical grounds..
Puzzling it will remain, though likely much more so.
My sense is that most of England is almost back to normal now.
Am in North Yorkshire currently and other than some people choosing to wear masks you would hardly remember Covid exists. I do not wear one and nobody has scowled at me. Many other people do not wear them either. Traffic during the day also seems to be at normal levels and I even saw a completely full bus earlier.
I agree that Central London very much feels a ghost town currently. This is because the so called professional middle classes are choosing to work on zoom and are not venturing to offices or riding on trains to get to them. But the real world very much seems to be getting on with life in most of England.
My son travels into Manchester working days. From what he says it very much mirrors central London in its ghostliness.
Also because London is missing its tourists and temporary residents from overseas, although they seem to be trickling back now.
It will remain a trickle.
On the tube in central London on Saturday at least no ghost town. Piccadilly station was like ..well you know
I was in North Yorkshire a couple of weeks ago, and was much heartened by the lack of masks outdoors. Nor did I see any undue antagonism.
But no, things are not back to normal when hospitality businesses feel compelled to continue with ‘optional’ restrictions, whatever they personally feel, and you have, in many cases, to queue before entering an eating place (although I was heartened to see pubs with barriers being spurned for the open alternative).
I’ll suspend judgement until the autumn rise in infections is well underway.
No new normal?
Have to be jabbed or tested to get in. Have to wear a mask in airports hotels and big establishments. And by the sounds of it plenty of masks around, albeit not much peer pressure.
No new normal? Have we really forgotten what normal is?
The most I would concede to these maniacs running the world is to wear a mask on a plane and be tested and quarantined, and that only if I absolutely had no alternative but to travel abroad. To get jabbed simply for a holiday smacks of collaboration to me.
I live in an upscale hi-rise whose main appeal is the Club Level with its pool, spa, gym, outside patio and lounges. All are off-limits to the unjabbed.
My teen daughter is desperate to attend normal in-person school where they have now banned the unjabbed.
All of my extended family is abroad and off limits to the unvaxxed.
My livelihood is a business located in an overseas territory that is now off-limits to the unjabbed.
Still not complying.
Medical info is private have you considered just lying?
all the above require vaxx cards/certificates. (i also forgot to add bars, restaurants, etc also off limits)
Anywhere that requires a certificate of stupidity is obviously not worth the bother.
Principles are principles, well done.
In all other settings, masks are not worn and, unlike in the U.K., where if you choose not to wear a mask you are looked at with a mixture of disdain, smugness, disgust and pity, the Poles respect your decision and leave it at that.
Sorry, but that’s just a crap – I never wore a mask since day one where I live and never once have I been looked at in disgust or pity etc. In fact everyone has been very good about it – mind you, my exemption card helped a bit I suppose? A friend of mine in Spain told me that he wished he was over here in Britain at the height of the covid paranoia that swept Spain – over there people were locked up in their homes for weeks at a time without knowing when it would end and the reaction of the Spanish public to anyone who went out anywhere without wearing a mask was like going out without your trousers on. Im open to any criticism of the British public reaction to covid – but I think the above is just very unjust.
I’ve never worn a mask and have never been harassed about it, other than by a masked up and visored old lady in the local park café. She shut up when I told her that she wasn’t entitled to know why I was bare-faced. I don’t have an exemption card and nor do I want one.
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To those who take the injection in order to fit in, to avoid ostracisation, to cave to peer pressure, or from a misguided belief that it’s their path to freedom & travel – I say they are weak in mind, body & spirit. I pity them. Including an increasing number of close friends and my own family.
The jabby jab is a train you shall never get off. Boosters for life. You either sacrifice your future for a present, or you sacrifice your present in order to have a future. I choose the latter.
I will not convert to the new normal ideology. I will not submit. I will not break. I will not give up on trying to reach those in the throes of the mass delusional psychosis.
Being double jabbed with experimental gene therapy is NOT a small price to pay. Legally and clinically it is NOT a vaccine.
“The wife and I are double jabbed – I know some people think we have sold our souls by doing this”
If ‘some’ people are right then you have sold your souls and they will be reaped shortly. The problem is no one can believe it’s possible that our leaders could commit genocide because this is the West. I think we should assume the worst in the unprecedented climate of coercion and force. I’d rather not take the chance for a holiday – hoping to be one of the
survivorsslaves they’ll need to do the work. I’d prefer to fight but unless the majority awaken it would be pointless suicide.