- “Yvette Cooper refuses to set target for cutting Channel crossings” – The Home Secretary has dodged setting a target for reducing Channel crossings, describing the issue as “complex”, reports the Mail.
- “Syrian asylum seekers in hotels to cost Britain £11 million a month” – Keir Starmer’s decision to leave thousands of Syrian asylum seekers in limbo is costing the British taxpayer up to £11 million a month in hotel bills, says the Telegraph.
- “Met to axe 370 specialist officers in schools despite record levels of teen knife crime” – Scotland Yard plans to remove 370 specialist officers from schools, despite soaring teenage knife crime, to bolster neighbourhood policing, reports the Telegraph.
- “The private police patrolling London” – The middle classes have lost faith in the Met, writes Fred Skulthorp in UnHerd.
- “Grooming gangs cover-up” – On The Winston Marshall Show, Winston is joined by Charlie Peters and Guy Dampier to discuss the untold story of the grooming gangs, as well as the failure of the media, police and politicians to tackle the issue.
- “‘You’ve stolen my happy retirement’: the letter shaming Rachel Reeves” – In the Telegraph, a pensioner who faces a £1 million tax bill on his modest savings urges the Chancellor to think again.
- “‘Labour has a horrible streak of class envy’ says revered party peer” – In an interview with Jane Fryer in the Mail, Labour peer and Countryside Alliance President Baroness Mallalieu slams Labour’s return to class envy, blasting Starmer’s inheritance tax plans that could devastate family farms.
- “Labour has made everything worse” – This Labour Government will start the new year by fighting rising inflation and presiding over a stagnant economy, predicts Roger Bootle in the Telegraph.
- “In the 18th Century, saying the wrong thing got you banned from Parliament. Those times are back” – Cancel culture is dismissed as a figment of the Right-wing imagination. Lady Meyer’s case shows that the phenomenon is all too real, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “The Trans-Pacific trade deal will make Britain richer – but Starmer may squander it” – “The treaties I negotiated give the U.K. access to the world’s largest and growing markets. But Labour shows no appetite for backing business,” writes Kemi Badenoch in the Telegraph.
- “‘U.K. should emulate Trump and Musk’s efficiency drive’” – Kemi Badenoch says that Britain should follow Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s push to make the state more efficient and cut waste, according to the Telegraph.
- “Farage is surging, Starmer is flailing. Can Kemi Badenoch survive?” – Badenoch must hold her nerve and choose her battles wisely, writes Kamal Ahmed in the Telegraph.
- “It’s time to be honest about who in Britain isn’t working” – If Labour want to tackle worklessness, they can’t be coy about who they’re talking about, says Len Shackleton in CapX.
- “Our town has become a dumping ground for new builds” – Residents in a quiet town are up in arms after a massive housing development for more than 400 homes was approved despite the council rejecting it, reports the Mail.
- “NHS staff who voice extremist views about Gaza could be struck off” – Wes Streeting has warned NHS staff not to use the Gaza conflict as an excuse for antisemitism, saying extremist views could lead to dismissal, says the Mail.
- “Welby’s ‘prayerful solidarity’ seems not to embrace beleaguered Jews” – In TCW, Rev. Julian Mann blasts Archbishop Welby’s tepid response to rising antisemitism in the U.K.
- “Stars at Gaza aid concert accuse Israel of genocide” – Paul Weller and Paloma Faith joined other Left-wing artists at Brixton’s Gig for Gaza, accusing Israel of “genocide”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Iran arrests female singer who refused to wear a hijab” – Iranian authorities have triggered widespread outrage after a female singer who refused to wear a hijab while singing in a virtual concert on YouTube was arrested, says the Mail.
- “Ed Miliband warned against giving £1.5 billion to retired miners” – Unearthed documents show that Ed Miliband has been cautioned that a £1.5 billion payout to retired miners could burden taxpayers with years of pension costs, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘Ed Miliband is our most consequential MP, I’m afraid’” – Ed Miliband’s terrible record as Labour leader and now Energy Secretary is at odds with his sense of manifest destiny, says Dominic Lawson in the Sunday Times.
- “Net Zero target at risk as households drop out of electricity rationing scheme” – Ed Miliband’s Net Zero power grid plan has faltered, as sign-ups for the key electricity-saving scheme have dropped by more than half, reports the Telegraph.
- “How suppliers deliver ‘green’ power when wind runs out of puff” – On his Eigen Values Substack, David Turver reveals how energy companies greenwash 100% renewable claims.
- “Funny money” – Can modern monetary theory pay for Net Zero? No, says Richard Lyon on his Substack; it’s inflationary rocket fuel.
- “William’s veiled dig at ‘eco-warriors’ Harry and Meghan?” – Prince William, in what appeared to be a veiled dig at Harry and Meghan, insists he does not want to “preach” about the environment, believing that people shouldn’t be told what they can’t do, according to the Mail.
- “RSV vaccines for children: still crazy after all these years” – On Substack, Dr. Robert W. Malone warns that pushing RSV vaccine trials for babies, despite no clear need and the risk of harm, shows an industry more focused on profit than ever.
- “Pfizer failed to disclose deaths of two women in Covid vaccine clinical trials” – According to Daily Clout researchers, Pfizer-BioNTech concealed the deaths of two vaccinated participants in its COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials, reports Dr. Michael Nevradakis in the Defender.
- “On the bizarre case of Stephan Kramer – the spy chief and anti-AfD crusader who leaked secrets to journalists, hung out with a Russian biker gang and got caught plagiarising from an Antifa newsletter” – On Substack, Eugyppius uncovers the scandalous tale of Stephan Kramer, the spy chief whose bizarre antics have made him an unlikely poster child for the German establishment’s anti-AfD crusade.
- “ABC to pay Trump $15 million for defamation, issue apology” – ABC News and star anchor George Stephanopoulos have reached a settlement with Donald Trump for $15 million, after Stephanopoulos falsely said that Trump was found “liable for rape” in a civil case, reports Politico.
- “Trump insider claims drones are part of Government’s Project Blue Beam” – Social media has gone ablaze with conspiracy theorists insisting that the mysterious drone sightings all over America are connected to a chilling Government plot, says the Mail.
- “Trump vows to end ‘very costly’ daylight saving time” – President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to end daylight saving time (DST), arguing it is “inconvenient” and “very costly” to Americans, according to the BBC.
- “DEIsappearing act” – DEI will not go quietly, but it is clear the tide has turned, says Thomas Buckley on his Substack.
- “Fans accuse BBC of ‘ruining’ Match of the Day” – A row has broken out as the BBC lines up Kelly Cates as one of the three presenters to replace Gary Lineker on Match of the Day – with fans accusing BBC bosses of “ruining” the popular sports programme, reports the Mail.
- “Guinness crisis comes to a head as pubs run dry” – Consumption of Guiness has risen by more than 20% over the past year — but the drink’s sudden popularity appears to have taken even its owner by surprise, say Daisy Eastlake and Andrew Ellson in the Times.
- “Free speech is not free in this country any more” – Andrew Doyle on Free Speech Nation reacts to the news that Ipso has sanctioned the Spectator for ‘misgendering’ a trans activist.
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What a good job I didn’t need to visit a hospital during the 3 minutes in which masks weren’t required. Those moments, hazardous as they were, must have been golden, as healthcare professionals across the country briefly (and dangerously) reminded themselves what their colleagues looked like. Glad to hear they’re safe again now. Let’s have no more of this reckless face exposure in healthcare settings please, it’s just not worth the risk.
Just checking this is satire…
Nobody seems to be asking why a respiratory condition is supposedly surging in the middle of summer?
Something very wrong here.
Because this isn’t just any old respiratory virus, but SARS-COV2 (TM) virus, the Armageddon virus that will outwit us all (actually, it clearly has outwitted the so-called scientists and medical community who should know better).
COVID-19 is really a condition affecting the brain, somewhat like Alzheimer. It starts with people wrapping random stuff around their heads to get rid of that irksome feeling of being constantly visible to others and ends with them crunching phantasy numbers in a basement of Imperial college they mistakenly believe to be representable of anything other than their own, sorry madness.
Not to mention injecting themselves with a concoction with no safety data to mention, and fraudulent claims of efficacy. Worse than snake oil.
I should have added an intermediate step here
: Then, they start self-harming by constantly pricking their upper arms with needles and injecting whatever happens to be at hand because they believe it’ll vaccinate them and only thus can they avoid eternal damnation.
Because there’s nothing surging. We had the same theater last summer, just on a larger scale, because these people were still allowed to do forced mass testing of healthy pupils at the taxpayer’s expense. ONS guesstimates are continously manufactured. Whenever the outcome matches what it’s supposed to be, they’re magically making headlines.
For as long as NHS trusts have plenty of money for face coverings and routine mass testing of everyone who stays too close to a hospital for too long a time, they’re obviously flush with money and under enormous pressure of getting bored. A solution could be a law dictating that all the extra funds which have been made available to the NHS must be spend on clinical care and not on political stunts certain people in NHS management consider more important.
Corona’s witnesses will always corona when this can be excused somehow.
Are summer colds, flus that strange?
I have yet to see figures comparing this year’s respiratory virus hospital admissions versus years prior to 2020.
I actually think not. In normal times I would typically get 2 colds a year: one in the autumn (usually Nov) and one in spring summer (May/June). In fact I have repeated that pattern over the past 12 months. Means I can’t run for a week or so, and spend money on tissues and lockets. No other impacts to mention. Much like the covid.
Same here. Always been susceptible to colds. My birthday is late May – I recall having a bad cold at least twice on my birthday.
Oh joy.My last visit to my local Mid Norfolk Doctors to pick up a prescription was wonderful as all the must wear masks notices of previous visit were gone.
I guess they will be back soon .Let battle commence again..
Seriously, isn’t it time we try a different approach? This one clearly isn’t working.
I say that we take anyone we suspect of being positive for the lurgy, tie weights to their ankles and throw them in the water. If they sink and stay down for 10 minutes, they don’t have the lurgy. If they float, they have the lurgy and need to be given injections of AZ/J&J/pfisser/murderna (yes, all 4) every day for 2 weeks, in alternating orders and in varying doses. As we now know with the lurgy, after 2 weeks you will either have died or be recovered. It’s time we start using real SCIENCE rather than this hocus pocus we’ve been trying up to now.
Or we could just carry on as normal, as we do with all the other viruses floating around.
That’s a bit complicated. Can’t we just see if they weigh the same as a duck?
No, JD, that is malinfornation. They must be given the opportunity to renounce their transgressions and swear fealty to Moloch. Then and only then can they be burned to disperse their ill humours safely.
Rochelle Walensky tweeted this advice a few days ago, please keep up.
>Seriously, isn’t it time we try a different approach? This one clearly isn’t working.
It’s all so draining as well. Just fed up of all the crap. Didn’t something like 5 people died of COVID in England last week?
Maybe challenge the mask stasi with this image of the cultures grown from a mask worn for just 20 minutes…. Nice & healthy to be breathing in….
“Many medical and scientific experts agree that bacteria, not influenza viruses, were the most significant cause of death during the 1918 flu pandemic.
“We agree completely that bacterial pneumonia played a major role in the mortality of the 1918 pandemic,” says Anthony Fauci (https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14458-bacteria-were-the-real-killers-in-1918-flu-pandemic/#ixzz7Tk7UEA3j).
A study from 2014 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4202234/) indicates why this might have been the case. Masks serve as incubators for bacteria, fungi and other pathogens. Apart from the fact that masks do not affect the spread of the disease, they would need to be replaced every 20 minutes not to harm the wearer (attached pic: petri-dish after 20 min mask wearing).
So we are talking about an ineffective tool imposed on billions of people while not being effective. Instead, it pollutes the world’s oceans and requires oil/gas to be produced.
It is a kind of hypocrisy that those who pretend to be “pro-science” and “pro-environment” are strongest proponents of making wearing face masks obligatory.”
@Goddek
My initial scan of the image lead me to believe it was a small tray of seashells. I think, given the appalling reality, I’m going to continue to see it as that. Lovely whelks.
I’m posting this on FB & asking folk to guess what it is cultured from. May make folk think before sticking their nose back into the petri dish of whelks!
Indeed, the rank hypocrisy is so thick you could cut it with a knife! It is an ecological disaster at this point. There are more plastic “jellyfish” in the ocean than actual jellyfish, and that was nearly two years ago. Now there are many times more. Jacques Cousteau must be spinning in his grave right now….
And that’s before we even get into the Foegen Effect, whereby masks actually concentrate and incubate the virus further and make it MORE deadly. Google it.
I’ve read that Foegen Effect info. Yet the cut through to the main stream is so low.
Spoke yesterday with a new resident of the village. Not fully awake but open to listening, discussing & questioning. She is now fully aware of the harms to children from a developmental perspective of seeing adults fully masked up, already aware of the increase in CO2 breathed in & now aware that she can self exempt just by saying that she’s exempt.
Masks and antisocial distancing didn’t work every other time, everywhere so why do these idiots think it will work this time?
Why is a Winter season virus ‘surging’ in the Summer? mRNA ‘vaccines’ could it be, or is definitely not the ‘vaccines’ like it’s definitely not them causing sudden unexplained deaths, heart attacks, myocarditis, neurological problems, reduced fertility and increase in failed pregnancies?
Time to dig this out:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eq1TpRKW8AEkEmi?format=jpg&name=small
So it looks like the perverted mask fetishists are trying to impose a mask mandate on the whole of society again by starting with hospitals.
I suppose it will be schools next as we’ve got to ensure that we cause as much psychological damage as possible to the next generation of brainwashed proles.
Soon, we can all wonder around Tesco pretending that we are taking part in some sort of satanic initiation ceremony again (except me and about 3 other people)
I suppose the only way out of this is to try the same thing we’ve tried already and rush out an experimental barely tested 100% safe and effective mRNA injection. It’ll work this time and won’t kill or injure anyone – but only if everyone is
forcedinvited to take it.Or declare “exemption” and TTFO.
I’m not declaring an exemption as that constitutes participation. If I am challenged the response will be “NO.” And then we can have an argument.
I have been a non-participant since the start. That ain’t changing now especially given the wealth of evidence in our favour.
That’s how it starts, people. Don’t give them an inch, or they will take a mile.
Wife just had her yearly consultation by phone regarding cancer she had some years ago. Told she would be speaking to a professor. Turned out he didn’t speak much English and couldn’t understand my wife’s questions.
Well done NHS on ticking the box that an appointment had been met
I was in an NHS hospital last week and sat in a restaurant used by staff at lunchtime.
I was fascinated to watch a constant stream of no doubt highly qualified healthcare professionals walk in donning masks, sit down at tables with their colleagues, take their masks off, eat their lunch for 30 minutes while chatting to everyone, then stand up, put their masks back on and head back to work.
They of all people must know it’s all a nonsense?
I was in Spain in June, where a fair number of elderly people were still wearing the rags. An elderly couple were sitting near us having tapas and saw a couple they knew walking by, wearing face rags. The lady jumped up, embraced the other lady, who lowered her face rag to kiss her friend on the cheek, then put the face rag back over her mouth… The lurgy is well kind, it won’t get you when you eat or drink or greet friends. But go for a walk in the woods on your own…
The problem I see is that the fantasy that masks are helpful in some way is not only not going away, but reinforced with every company and institution that reintroduced it as a response to “rising infextions”. As if masks do something to stop that.
It’s just not healthy to indulge these crazy delusions. It’s going to make us all madder than we already are.
Brainwashing by the mainstream media will have that effect.
Add University Hospitals Leicester NHS trust to list.
It’s clear now that the zealots and the Covidphobic are going to keep this running and running. Especially depressing in the middle of summer.
How many times did they all listen to Chicken Licken before they started ignoring him, I can’t remember?
Shedding.
Rense – always entertaining. Just use discretion LOL!
https://mediaarchives.gsradio.net/rense/special/rense_070122_hr2.mp3
@ 35’24 plays clip of some dr regarding the hazards of shedding -vs- coronavirus.
So tell me, how successful were hospitals in preventing the spread of Covid the last time they all put on face masks?
Weren’t 2/3rd of COVID cases caught in hospital after admission?
Do not comply.
Have we learned nothing over the past three years? Nhs ruined, economy on its knees, families driven into poverty, children’s education destroyed and the idiots running this show want to repeat the horrific mistakes we now know destroyed this country. Why? Masks simply do not work. Social distancing was a manufactured decision pulled from the air. Boy oh boy if you people fold on this you deserve everything that will follow.