- “Southport stabbing suspect pleads not guilty to killing three children” – Axel Rudakubana, charged with murdering three girls in a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, appeared via videolink at Liverpool Crown Court, where not guilty pleas were entered on his behalf, reports the Mail.
- “Starmer facing fresh cronyism row as he prepares to appoint new peers” – Keir Starmer faces a fresh cronyism row as he prepares to appoint 30 new Labour peers this week – including his former Chief of Staff Sue Gray, according to the Mail.
- “Reeves misses deadline to answer questions over ‘embellished’ CV” – Rachel Reeves appears to have broken her own Government’s guidance by ignoring questions about whether she lied on her CV, reports Pieter Snepvangers in the Telegraph.
- “Budget is forcing us to close shops, warns high street retailer” – High street retailer Shoe Zone says it is shutting shops because of the Budget, after tax rises and an increase to the minimum wage made some locations “unviable”, says GB News.
- “Factories suffer worst output since Covid as Budget triggers ‘widespread’ cancellations” – Britain’s factories slashed output at the fastest pace since the first Covid lockdown as Rachel Reeves’s Budget was blamed for triggering a wave of project cancellations, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s Truss-scale shock over Bond yields” – In This is Money, Alex Brummer highlights Labour’s failure to stabilise the U.K.’s bond yields, which have soared to their highest level in 34 years.
- “Police ‘failed to spot rise of far-Right violence before riots’” – A new report claims that police failed to realise the significance of a series of events leading up to the summer riots, reports the Mail.
- “Jews are the victims of institutional police racism” – In the New Conservative, Joe Baron reveals how woke policing in Britain has left Jewish communities feeling vulnerable and betrayed.
- “The public sector spends millions on translation but the true cost is incalculable” – In the Telegraph, Dia Chakravarty exposes the staggering £27 million spent by the Department for Work and Pensions on translation services.
- “Kim Leadbeater has stacked the deck on assisted dying” – A rushed, unscrutinised Assisted Dying Bill will have catastrophic consequences when its safeguards inevitably fail, says Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “What Nigel Farage gets wrong about ‘two-tier justice’” – In the Spectator, Andrew Tettenborn argues that Nigel Farage’s ‘two-tier justice’ complaint misses the mark, claiming that a milkshake in the face hardly warrants heavy-handed legal treatment or special privileges for politicians.
- “The real reason people don’t like Elon Musk funding Reform” – In the Spectator, Freddy Gray blasts the outrage over Elon Musk funding Reform, pointing out that the real threat to British politics is the homegrown elite already pulling the strings.
- “Reform would use Musk millions to recruit young army of voters” – Reform’s Richard Tice says that a large donation from the world’s richest man would be put to use in encouraging young people to sign up to vote, according to the Telegraph.
- “Labour considers law change as Elon Musk weighs Reform U.K. donation” – Labour is considering plans to limit political donations from companies owned by foreigners as Elon Musk is about to give a significant sum to Reform U.K., reports the Mail.
- “Elon Musk net worth more than Bezos and Zuckerberg combined” – According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Elon Musk’s estimated net worth has leapt to $486 billion (£383 billion), reports LBC.
- “Tories fight Reform for Musk’s millions to defeat ‘woke mind virus’” – Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith says Elon Musk should donate $100 million to the Conservatives, not Reform, if he truly wants to defeat the “woke mind virus”, according to the Mail.
- “Labour lied to pensioners – and got away with it. No wonder people loathe politicians” – The Government’s U-turn betrayal of the Waspi women reveals just how deceptive Starmer’s promises in pursuit of power really were, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “The Waspi women don’t deserve compensation” – We are being invited to believe that tens of thousands of women drew up detailed plans for their retirement – all now undermined – without actually bothering to find out at what age they would retire, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “New Ofcom guidance will stifle free speech online” – In UnHerd, Timandra Harkness warns that Ofcom’s new Online Safety Act guidelines will strangle free speech online, pushing tech giants to over-censor and silencing debate in the name of “safety”.
- “The Left are losing because they are hated, not because of ‘dark money’” – Just name the election or referendum that turned out badly for progressives and they will whisk out a list of excuses for their failure, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “It is not the mission of the Church or the Museum to give away our national treasure to foreigners” – The British Museum and the CofE have been behaving in ways that are against their own interests, immune from public scrutiny and damaging to the nation, writes Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “Miliband’s coal ban eclipsed by surging global demand” – Demand for coal is continuing to grow as efforts to cut consumption by Britain and other wealthy nations are eclipsed by growth in China and India, reports the Telegraph.
- “Miliband’s Net Zero grid upgrade means household charges will almost double” – Household charges for the upkeep of Britain’s power transmission grid are on course to double this decade as part of a £35 billion upgrade to prepare for Net Zero, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour council to dim street lights to save money despite spending £25 million on eco initiatives” – A cash-strapped Labour council plans to dim street lights in a bid to reduce energy bills, despite spending £25 million on eco-friendly initiatives, says GB News.
- “The vegan wind-farm owner who wants to shape Starmer’s politics” – Concerns have been raised about the outspoken green energy tycoon Dale Vince – one of the Labour party’s biggest donors, writes Jim Norton in the Telegraph.
- “Trump’s rejection of Net Zero will leave the U.K. in the dust” – As America embraces energy abundance, Britain is stumbling into a new dark age of energy insecurity, warns Peter McCusker in Spiked.
- “The energy transition that couldn’t” – In Project Syndicate, Richard Haass and Carolyn Kissane argue that replacing fossil fuels with renewables is an idea whose time has passed.
- “Why cats are the new pigs – and could spark the next pandemic” – Scientists have dubbed cats a “mixing vessel”” that could form a “bridge” for the deadly H5N1 virus, according to the Daily Star.
- “Gavin Newsom declares state of emergency over California bird flu outbreak” – California Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency after an H5N1 outbreak among dairy cows on Southern California farms, reports Fox News.
- “Humza Yousaf’s top five worst Covid WhatsApps” – In the Spectator, Steerpike uncovers Humza Yousaf’s most cringeworthy Covid WhatsApps.
- “The negative efficacy of COVID-19 mRNA injections has been demonstrated” – Four studies show that vaccinated individuals face a higher risk of infection than the unvaccinated, says Nicolas Hulscher on the Courageous Discourse Substack.
- “Pfizer’s own study shows their Covid vaccines increase your risk of serious adverse events (up to 71% higher)” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch shines a spotlight on Pfizer’s secret study, exposing alarming risks of adverse events from their Covid vaccine – risks they’d rather you never saw.
- “Labour will let trans people use some single sex spaces” – Labour has been accused of breaking its pledge to protect female-only spaces by allowing both public and private bodies to admit men who claim to be women, reports the Telegraph.
- “Millionaire who changed gender three times sues NHS after ‘botched’ op” – A multimillionaire transwoman who has changed gender three times is suing the NHS after a “botched” operation which left her in “constant pain”, says the Mail.
- “Inside the battle to ban puberty blockers” – In Spiked, Malcolm Clark reveals how an unlikely grassroots coalition took on the might of the LGBT lobby – and won.
- “‘I was fired for social media posts about being a good Christian wife’” – In the Mail, Gozen Soydag, who was fired from a Catholic school for posting about traditional Christian values, argues that in today’s world, inclusion means everything – except faith.
- “Study blames ‘sexism’ for causing dementia in women” – U.S. researchers, reviewing data from over 21,000 people, say inequality in access to resources and power – driven by “social policies and societal norms” – is fuelling dementia rate disparities, according to the Mail.
- “Judith Butler is no longer a feminist” – Judith Butler has regressed to the angry adolescent stage of calling any middle-aged woman who disagrees with her a fascist, says Victoria Smith in UnHerd.
- “Don’t blame the sexual revolution for Lily Phillips’s gross stunt” – The rise of OnlyFans speaks to a pervasive fear of intimacy, not to 1960s-style liberation, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Welcome to the BBC’s post-Lineker world – where women rule the roost” – Keely Hodgkinson’s triumph at Sports Personality of the Year marked four in a row for female sports stars, whose dominance was reflected in the presenting line-up, says Jim White in the Telegraph.
- “Grace Dent revealed as Gregg Wallace’s MasterChef replacement” – Gregg Wallace will be replaced by restaurant critic Grace Dent in the next series of the BBC’s Celebrity MasterChef, reports Sky News.
- “Crystal Mangum: the woman who lied for 18 years about being raped by three Duke university lacrosse players” – Former stripper and current murder convict Crystal Mangum has confessed to lying about being raped by three Duke lacrosse players, according to Fox News.
- “Duke lacrosse rape hoax accuser’s confession teaches a lesson the Left won’t learn” – The Left just can’t seem to stop hitching its narrative to bogus stories, says the NY Post.
- “Tate brothers’ £2 million can be seized by police over unpaid tax” – Police have been granted permission to seize £2 million from Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan in unpaid tax, reports GB News.
- “Trudeau’s resignation speech” – On X, an AI-generated Justin Trudeau bids farewell to the Canadian people.
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Getting rid of a load of s..t?
He can afford to, he’s full of it!
Anyone enquired as to Vaxx status?
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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.
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!