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by Richard Eldred
5 December 2024 1:18 AM

  • “Farmers will fight Labour’s tax raid ‘for as long as it takes’” – NFU chief Tom Bradshaw has warned that farmers across Britain will continue to “fight” Keir Starmer’s inheritance tax raid until the bitter end, reports GB News.
  • “Public back NFU over Reeves” – The Spectator’s Steerpike sharpens his pen with a poll-driven takedown of Labour’s inheritance tax gamble and the public’s unexpected backing of Jeremy Clarkson over Reeves.
  • “Keir Starmer will not make new immigration pledge in key relaunch speech” – Keir Starmer’s plan for the next phase of his Government will not include a new pledge on immigration, reveals the Telegraph.
  • “Starmer ‘planning to give Sue Gray a peerage’” – Keir Starmer is reportedly planning to award a peerage to Sue Gray as well as a raft of ex-MPs who stepped down from Labour safe seats ahead of July’s General Election, reports the National.
  • “Taxpayers’ footing the bill for Sir Keir’s ideological mire” – In the Telegraph, Dia Chakravarty exposes the Government’s £7 million handout to UNRWA, the UN agency mired in controversy because many of its staff took part in the October 7th massacre.
  • “Starmer’s staggering incompetence makes him the worst PM in 50 years” – This is the most dangerous government for generations. Will Nigel Farage be the winner from its collapse? wonders Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
  • “Who fact-checks the self-appointed fact checkers?” – BBC Verify and Full Fact claim to be impartial purveyors of truth. But their biases are all too glaring, writes Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
  • “BBC newsreader Clive Myrie failed to declare up to £145,000 worth of events” – BBC broadcaster Clive Myrie has apologised for failing to declare at least £145,000 for external work he undertook outside his role at the corporation, reports Sky News.
  • “‘I’m a police officer and ‘hate crime’ is a bureaucratic nightmare’” – In the Telegraph, an anonymous police officer reveals how the overuse of the term ’hate crime’ is straining resources, diverting attention from more serious issues and creating a bureaucratic nightmare.
  • “We must fight to save British culture from the self-hating elite” – In the Telegraph, Allison Pearson sounds the alarm about Britain’s cultural decline, arguing that British culture is under threat from a self-hating elite.
  • “Sadiq Khan admits violence against women is rife under his watch” – The Mayor of London has admitted that there is an “epidemic” of abuse facing women as he launched a new project which aims to teach schoolboys about “healthy relationships”, reports the Mail.
  • “Keir Starmer’s allies scramble to defend PM’s changed stance on Qatar” – Keir Starmer’s allies are scrambling to defend the PM’s shift in stance on Qatar as he prepares to welcome the petro-state’s ruler to Downing Street, says the Mail.
  • “Nuclear plant closures paused amid fear of Net Zero blackouts” – The closure of four of Britain’s oldest nuclear power stations has been delayed over fears Labour’s Net Zero drive could lead to blackouts, reports the Mail.
  • “The six-figure tax problem looming over Labour’s assisted dying law” – Experts warn that terminally ill patients could end their lives earlier to spare loved ones massive bills, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Assisted dying Bill” – On the TTE Substack, Profs. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson explore the problem of predicting the end of life.
  • “MPs’ outrage at ‘bonkers’ Labour junk food ad crackdown” – Ministers have been accused of “losing the plot” with a crackdown on “junk food” ads that covers porridge and crumpets, reports the Mail.
  • “More than 300,000 ‘ghost children’ missing from the school system” – As many as 300,000 “ghost children” are missing from the school system amid a post-pandemic mental health crisis, according to Sky News.
  • “New peer-reviewed study: resolution of refractory COVID-19 vaccine-induced myopericarditis with adjunctive rapamycin” – On the Courageous Discourse Substack, Nicolas Hulscher and Peter McCullough reveal how rapamycin, combined with the McCullough Protocol, can offer near-complete resolution of COVID-19 vaccine-induced myopericarditis, heart failure and persistent ST elevation.
  • “The hug of hypocrisy” – The British state has lost its mind over Israel, says Melanie Phillips on her Substack.
  • “Dutch Government backs ‘toughest ever measures’ on immigration” – The Right-wing Dutch Government is eyeing a cap on the population at 20 million to “get a grip on migration”, reports the Mail.
  • “China now a nuclear threat to the West, warns Armed Forces head” – Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has warned that China’s rapid nuclear expansion signals the end of post-Cold War stability, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Cathay Pacific apologises over in-flight Family Guy episode with Tiananmen Square scene” – Hong Kong’s flagship airline Cathay Pacific has apologised for airing a Family Guy episode featuring Tiananmen Square on its in-flight entertainment, says the Guardian.
  • “America is defenceless against Russia’s new Oreshnik hypersonic missile” – In the Telegraph, Rebekah Koffler flags how Russia’s Oreshnik hypersonic missile, capable of evading current Western defences and delivering nuclear strikes in minutes, puts NATO at a stark disadvantage in the escalating arms race.
  • “America’s woke military is in for a radical shake-up — under DeSantis or Hegseth” – In the Telegraph, Joe Barnes explores how Ron DeSantis, who could be Trump’s pick for Defence Secretary, could be a secret weapon in the fight to overhaul America’s woke military.
  • “Marc Guehi escapes FA punishment despite twice breaking rules with ‘Jesus loves you’ armband” – The FA’s handling of the rainbow armband row has sparked accusations of double standards, reports the Telegraph.
  • “The problem with the FA’s Rainbow Laces furore” – Fans don’t give a flying football what players, clubs and governing bodies think about wider social and political issues. It’s a crying shame that those who run the game just don’t get it, says Jawad Iqbal in the Spectator.
  • “Marc Guehi has exposed the flaw in football’s Rainbow Laces campaign” – Is the Football Association’s Rainbow Laces campaign about inclusivity or not? The FA doesn’t seem to be able to make up its mind, writes Tom Goodenough in the Spectator.
  • “Church of England spending ‘excessively’ on HR and diversity officers” – A new report warns that the CofE is drowning in HR and diversity officers while parishes struggle to survive, according to the Telegraph.
  • “MasterChef accused of ‘double standards’ after Monica Galetti remark” – MasterChef has been accused of double standards in the wake of the Gregg Wallace saga, after a female judge made a suggestive remark to a contestant on a recent show, reports the Mail.
  • “Jeremy Vine and Dawn Neesom swipe at Mel Sykes’s ‘confusing’ complaints” – Jeremy Vine and Dawn Neesom have criticised Melanie Sykes, admitting they are “confused” by her complaints against Gregg Wallace, according to the Mail.
  • “The Gregg Wallace scandal exposes the BBC’s neurosis about class” – Working class men are few and far between at the BBC. No wonder its middle-class middle managers had no clue how to rein Wallace in, says Robin Aitken in the Telegraph.
  • “Who cares about Gregg Wallace?” – Gregg Wallace has been accused of various misdeeds – but who really cares? asks Nigel Jones in the Spectator.
  • “Angela Rayner cannot name a single company that supports Labour’s Employment Bill” – On Politics Live, Angela Rayner cannot name any of the companies that actually support her ruinous Employment Rights Bill.

Wow. Angela Rayner cannot name a single company that supports Labour's Employment Bill.

This is painful to watch. pic.twitter.com/1BuSigo22j

— Peter Lloyd (@Suffragent_) December 4, 2024

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RW
RW
2 years ago

Despite all of this, it’s still possible to talk to some person well below thirty on one evening and on the next, he’s wearing a really military-grade-looking (paper) face mask to protect him from something (bar staff at Spoons pub in Reading). 🙁

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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

Must be something nasty in the kitchen to justify that!

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  JohnK

I suspect that the kitchen serves as hangout for vanished bar staff and that he’s very likely not wearing it there.

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

Also from Reading. Is that the Hope Tap?

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  GroundhogDayAgain

Yes.

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emel
emel
2 years ago

It’s ‘Our Wonderful NHS’, if you please.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago
Reply to  emel

‘The envy of the world’ don’t you know?

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago

I wish it were true, but I’m not seeing this grand public awakening. The only real acknowledgement I encounter is people openly stating they’re not taking any more jabs and a clear reluctance to go any further than that in the thought process.

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Castorp
Castorp
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

The awakening is here though. Don’t underestimate the fact that this seemingly subtle acknowledgment up on the surface of the conscious mind is accompanied by a turbulent rearrangement down below, in the unconscious, where the real ‘belief making’ takes place.
As for the seeming reluctance to go any further, it is only natural. As a species we are hard-wired to avoid pain. And we sceptics are asking people to willingly inflict pain upon themselves, by facing up to the psychopathy that has engulfed us.
As Desmet has said, keep banging on about it. Persevere. Again, and again, and then some more. Fight the good fight. Truth is a manifestation of Light and has a wider spiritual redeeming purpose that makes life worth living.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago
Reply to  Castorp

And a lot of people cannot handle cognitive dissonance

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cyclingnut69
cyclingnut69
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

I know an awful lot of people who have JRS (Jab Remorse Syndrome) and have woken up to the tyranny that’s being thrust upon us. Others say they wont have anymore but as soon as the global digital ID /Vax Passport is rolled out and you will need updated lethal injections in order to travel then these second cohorts will
crumble and revert to type aka pin cushions for Big Pharma.

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
2 years ago

The information was hidden in plain sight.

I’m taking the word ‘hidden’ as a verb in that sentence. People in positions of authority must be held to account for what they did and an example made to ensure it can never happen again.

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FerdIII
FerdIII
2 years ago

I revel in being right. Right about the LDs, Right about the dead, wounded, injured and psychologically, physically scarred from the LDs. Right about the Poisons. Right about the millions of stabbed dead and injured. Right about the Diapers. Right about the scamdemic. Right about Digital IDs. Right about losing our freedoms, free speech, our jobs, our families, our sanity, our travel, our civilisation. I remind everyone all the time I was right. What Rona taught all of us is that 80% of the pop are stupid, or compliant, or cowardly, or fascistic, or all the aforementioned.

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JohnK
JohnK
2 years ago
Reply to  FerdIII

Yes, just like my attitude to it all. What it does demonstrate is how vulnerable society is to the methods used to encourage people to fall in line. A bit like 1930’s Germany in spades, perhaps.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  FerdIII

I certainly agree with 99% of your post. I disagree with:

“I revel in being right.”

There is nothing to revel about. What I feel is a terrible sadness at the evil that has been unleashed on the world. Instead of seeking to murder, constrain and control millions why could not decency and a genuine desire to improve the futures of our fellows be followed?

What corrupted mayhem must infect the minds of the psychos who will if they succeed destroy not just humanity but our planet? And all “For a Few Dollars More.”

The dystopian miseries that a reset will bring forward will affect the “victors” too, a bit like a child whose every wish is met at Christmas and by day’s end is so bored that he seeks solace in the discarded wrappings his presents arrived in. They too will become frustrated and bored as the realisation that every whim can be met by nothing more than touching a screen. Where is the joy in that?

Attempting to remodel humanity can only fail. The desire for love, for friendship, for company will always win out. These are hard-wired. And family; the evil attempts to undermine and destroy families will never succeed, this need is part of our birthright. It is doomed to failure.

There is going to be a reset alright but it is our duty to ensure that the evil doers amongst us are wiped from the earth and we must strive to replace their evil with the decency, goodness, compassion and fairness which really is inherent in the majority.

There is one hell of a fight before us.

Last edited 2 years ago by huxleypiggles
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James.M
James.M
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

There is a fight for the soul of humanity. These obsessed geneticists splicing and dicing our DNA have one goal in mind and that is to disconnect our consciousness from our physical bodies. They have no idea what they’re doing and only think of humans as hackable biological entities they can play around with in order to edit out our genetic imperfections.

https.globe.globe/category/consciousness-and-evolution/

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  James.M

Exactly. Seeking to literally digitise the human brain is hubris combined with grotesque ignorance on steroids.

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The Enforcer
The Enforcer
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

I agree HP. My wife keeps saying to anyone who will listen that I was right from the 2nd day of lockdown when I wrote a 2ft long email to my Tory MP and set out what would happen if we locked down. I then emailed him every 5 days for a year putting him right – mostly from the now Daily Sceptic.
He may not have read it all but he certainly was left in doubt that his support for the Government’s actions was wrong and counter productive and would create a financial burden for the UK.
My next goal for the rest of my life – I am 75 – is to fight Net Zero and the cognitive dissonance that is rampant in the general public and the Green supporters.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  The Enforcer

Thank you.

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A Y M
A Y M
2 years ago

Yes. Next up:

These jabs are killing millions of people some quickly, some slowly….

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cyclingnut69
cyclingnut69
2 years ago
Reply to  A Y M

Yep, I’m sure you’ve heard of Dr Ryan Cole? I started following him early on in this scamdemic.

Ever wondered why not everyone is injured or dies from the Covid shots? This 2 min video embedded in this article explains why.

https://expose-news.com/2022/12/14/ryan-cole-gives-his-insights-into-covid-vaccines/

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Rose Madder
Rose Madder
2 years ago

Well at least discovery is speeding up. Over in the climate nonsense world someone posted this, from 2010

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/08/the-logarithmic-effect-of-carbon-dioxide/

noting Willis Eschenbach pointing out that co2 warming effect, being logarithmic, fades (or becomes saturated, as Will Happer now details).

Comments include a chap mentioning Richard Lindzen noting that the co2/water vapour feedback loop was nothing more than a theory in IPCC-1…back in 1990.

The money force is strong in this one.

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DickieA
DickieA
2 years ago
Reply to  Rose Madder

I am a big fan of Willis Eschenbach. His article about the Diamond Princess cruise ship convinced me in March 2020 that the chances of me dying from Covid (as a healthy 58 yeard old at the time) were slim.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
2 years ago

This has all the signs of being a snowball rolling down an Alpine hill.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

Let’s hope so. And line up all our recently ennobled Heroes Of The Corona in the valley below.

Last edited 2 years ago by RW
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HK Ga Yau
HK Ga Yau
2 years ago

You need to review the data in Table 3. You’re using the wrong denominator. To get the correct figures for the “Likelihood of dying with/from Covid” the appropriate denominators would be the number of people in each cohort with and without a pre-existing condition, not the total number of people in the cohort. (I have no idea where you would get those denomiator figures though)

What you are currently showing is “the chance of (having and pre-condition) AND (dying with/from Covid)” which is not a very helpful number. What you imply, wrongly, to have shown is “the chance of dying with/from Covid given that you have (or do not have) a pre-existing condition”. Using the correct denominator would make the changes of dying given a pre-existing condition substantially higher, and the chances of dying without a pre-existing condition only slightly higher. I would expect the ratio in the final column then to be much higher (particularly in the younger age groups).

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Epi
Epi
2 years ago

I’m finding people are trying to ignore what went on. They are not willing to admit they’ve been hoodwinked. It will be interesting at Christmas as I will be meeting my step-son-in-law for the first time since we had a bust up back in Autumn 2021 when he refused to let me into his father’s house because I wasn’t jabbed. We haven’t spoken since that day. The rest of that family are total Covidians apart from my Partner. I suspect the gargantuan elephant in the room will be ignored unless….

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago

‘ “I told you so!” Don’t tell me there isn’t a slight pleasure in that? ‘

I disagree. It’s not slight… it’s huge and glorious! 😄

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago

It would be interesting to see the same analysis for deaths from influenza and other respiratory infections. I would suggest likely the same, deaths skewed to the elderly with comorbidity.

So CoV 2 was in fact Just Another Respiratory Virus.

197 000 deaths from ‘flu and pneumonia to date since January 2020, just about the same as alleged CoVid deaths, yet not a number you see published.

Source: https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/selected-deaths-vs-covid-19-united-kingdom

Last edited 2 years ago by JXB
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