- “Half of depraved Rotherham grooming gang has been released” – Five of the six members of one of the most depraved Rotherham grooming gangs have been released or have parole hearings coming up, reveals the Mail.
- “How the grooming gangs scandal was covered up” – The child victims of rape were denied justice and protection from the state to preserve the image of a successful multicultural society, say Sam Ashworth-Hayes and Charlie Peters in the Telegraph.
- “Time for action on grooming gangs” – The Head of Public Policy at Christian Concern Tim Dieppe comments on how political correctness and the fear of offending Islam have led to young girls being sacrificed to rape gangs.
- “Lucy Allan exposes how authorities hid the truth on grooming gangs” – On X, Matt Goodwin highlights a chilling account from Lucy Allan, former MP for Telford, revealing the steps authorities took to suppress the truth about grooming gangs.
- “Why don’t the white working class matter to progressives?” – Why is the abuse of white working-class girls ignored? asks Paul Sutton on his Substack.
- “Britain’s grooming gangs scandal is shattering the ultra-liberal world-view” – In the information age, progressives can no longer spin false narratives – and their fear is palpable, says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “Jess Phillips’s honour more important to Starmer than the rape of young girls” – In the Telegraph, Tim Stanley accuses the PM of missing the mark in his press conference yesterday, which focused more on defending MPs from criticism than addressing the grooming scandal.
- “Labour’s hypocrisy over Jess Phillips attacks” – The Spectator’s Steerpike calls out Labour hypocrisy as Starmer defends Jess Phillips while conveniently ignoring the attack ad he approved in 2023, which accused Rishi Sunak of not believing convicted child sex offenders should be jailed.
- “Starmer: Calls for grooming gang inquiry are ‘far-Right bandwagon’” – Keir Starmer has been accused of “smear tactics” after claiming those wanting an inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal were jumping on a “far-Right bandwagon”, reports the Mail.
- “Teach children to identify as Muslim instead of British, says frontrunner for Islamic body” – The frontrunner to lead the Muslim Council of Britain says that children in the Islamic community should be taught to identify as Muslim rather than British, according to GB News.
- “‘Disturbing’ views of Muslim Council candidates” – One of the two candidates vying to lead the Muslim Council for Britain has praised Iran and the other has said mixed gender New Year celebrations were “un-Islamic”, reports the Times.
- “The Schools Bill: pure vandalism” – On Wednesday, the Schools Bill faces its second reading. It’s a disaster, says Neil O’Brien MP on his Substack.
- “Bridget Phillipson’s educational agenda must be opposed” – The Department for Education is taking aim at standards in British schools, warns James Price in the Critic.
- “Educashun, educashun, educashun” – The blob is back, and it wants to dumb down the curriculum, says David James in the Critic.
- “What’s up with U.K. academia?” – On her Fairyland Substack, Ella Dorn shows how U.K. universities are prioritising social justice over open inquiry in the humanities.
- “Tulip Siddiq refers herself to watchdog on ministerial standards” – Anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq has referred herself to the PM’s ethics watchdog over links to a Russian deal with her aunt, the former Bangladesh Prime Minister, and properties linked to her political party, reports Sky News. How long before she resigns?
- “Is it time to lay off Tulip Siddiq?” – In the Spectator, Sam Leith argues that Tulip Siddiq’s property perks might be being overblown – after all, who among us hasn’t been given a gift by a generous aunt?
- “A restaurant apocalypse is looming” – Labour has put the collapse of the dining sector back on the menu, says Lucy Burton in the Telegraph.
- “Farage says Elon Musk doesn’t ‘know full story’ about Tommy Robinson” – Nigel Farage says that Musk’s support for Tommy Robinson suggests the Tesla billionaire doesn’t know the “full story” about the activist’s political and criminal past, according to the Mail.
- “How Jordan Peterson interview with Tommy Robinson led to Musk’s bust-up with Reform” – Reform insiders are convinced that Musk’s support for Robinson stems from his conversations with Dr. Jordan Peterson, reports the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer’s speech may be the last gasp of a floundering Government” – The PM has made a grim mistake by doubling down on his strategy of pretending that you’re either on his side or ‘far Right’, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Ministers tell Musk to get off social media as they hint at X boycott” – The PM’s Cabinet allies say that Musk needs an online “detox”, and have even hinted at a boycott of X, according to the Mail.
- “Police force ‘quits’ Elon Musk’s X as latest organisation to leave” – Derbyshire Police has announced it is joining the exodus from Elon Musk’s X after being bombarded with abuse from internet trolls, reports the Mail.
- “Elon Musk is neither our saviour nor our destroyer” – Musk doesn’t pose a threat to our democracy, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked. He’s more like the world’s richest pub bore.
- “Boss issued apology after he accidentally followed Tommy Robinson on X” – The boss of a speech and language therapy group has been forced to issue a grovelling apology following a five-month investigation – because he followed Tommy Robinson on X, reports the Mail.
- “Why Elon Musk cares about Britain’s sinking reputation ” – Given his British ancestry, Musk has a right to speak up about what’s happening in the Old Country – and he’s right to notice how bad things have got, says Ed West in the Spectator.
- “New polling data confirms Musk effect on support for Alternative für Deutschland” – On Substack, Eugyppius reports that Musk’s “AfD can save Germany” hype is driving their support to new highs, with even unlikely voters backing the party.
- “Starmer is failing to capitalise on the death of Europe with his delusional ‘reset’ plan” – The EU has never been in worse shape, but Labour’s Europhilia is blinding them to reality, says Robert Tombs in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer has just months to salvage this wreck” – Enough of the ‘milestones’ and resets. Labour must urgently learn how to run a country or it’s doomed, writes Iain Dale in the Telegraph.
- “Quarter of Labour voters suffer buyer’s remorse” – There’s more bad news for Labour as new polling by More in Common for LBC has revealed that a quarter of those who backed Keir Starmer’s party in last year’s election now regret their decision, reports Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “The year that will make or break Kemi Badenoch” – As they return to Parliament this week, many Tories will expect to see some evidence that Badenoch can turn back the tide of Reform, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Blundering DWP pays half a billion pounds to dead people” – The Department for Work and Pensions has accidentally paid £500 million in state pension payments to dead Britons in just five years, reports GB News.
- “MPs to debate petition demanding fresh General Election” – MPs are set to debate a petition demanding a fresh General Election after it was signed by more than three million people, says the Mail.
- “Labour MP under fire for claiming General Election petition was product of ‘foreign interference’” – A Labour MP has come under fire for claiming a petition demanding a fresh General Election was driven by “foreign interference’’, reports the Mail.
- “Labour ditches plans to ban new gas boilers from 2035” – Labour has ditched plans to ban new gas boilers from 2035, despite its obsession with heat pumps, says the Mail.
- “Trains cancelled after union tells drivers not to walk on snow” – Train services were axed after Aslef told drivers to avoid walking on snow on their way to work, halting Avanti West Coast routes between Liverpool and London, according to the Telegraph.
- “Norway doubles down on oil and gas” – Norway’s oil and gas investment is expected to reach a record high in 2025, driven by new exploration activity and increased demand for Norwegian gas, reports Oilprice.com.
- “Did FDA know a child had died in Moderna’s Covid jab clinical trial? If so, what did the agency do about it?” – On his Substack, Alex Berenson probes the FDA’s silence over a child’s death in Moderna’s Covid vaccine trial, questioning whether the agency knew but chose to cover it up.
- “Labour uses AI bunnies to promote NHS in bizarre promo video” – A bizarre Labour Party TikTok video featuring AI-generated bunnies to promote NHS reforms has been slammed for using technology that threatens the creative sector, reports the Express.
- “Labour’s TikTok video song: young girls ‘sit on d*ck’ and ‘punching’ p**y” – Guido discovers that the lyrics of the Brazilian song, featured in Labour’s AI TikTok video promoting NHS reforms, are anything but wholesome…
- “Royal Society of Literature Director quits after free speech rows” – The Royal Society of Literature’s leaders are set to step down following a civil war between writers over diversity and free speech, reports the Telegraph. Another case of Go Woke, Go Broke?
- “‘It was a political figure that brought the charge against Tommy Robinson for contempt” – On GB News, Ben Habib tells Nana Akua why Starmer’s Attorney General turning Tommy Robinson’s civil contempt charge into a prison sentence makes the former EDL leader, prima facie, a political prisoner.
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Interestingly enough on this subject I have just had an eye consultation refused this morning at my local NHS clinic in St Albans because I declined the offer of wearing a mask in the facility. I had a very repetitive conversation with the medical care professional there who explained how good they were at keeping everyone ‘safe’.
I failed to succumb to her less than compelling persuasion and left as neither of us was going to give way.
I’ve emailed the NHS outfit that manages this service to seek confirmation on whether we have a de facto refusal of treatment and access to services if a face mask is not worn. I asked for a one word answer. I will await a reply.
Based on my experience and speaking to doctors and nurses I know over the years, I am pretty certain that people who work in the NHS don’t like the patients. That is of course not true of every doctor and nurse nor of every patient, but for the most part, the staff find interaction with patients not very pleasant and something they can’t wait to get over and done with.
This impression is somewhat validated by the experience of the last 2+ years. Every opportunity that has presented itself to push patients away has been taken, be it cancelling service, online consultations, barring visitors.
It also explains partly why the NHS has legions of staff doing all sorts of jobs that in aggregate make up the service to patients. Think of a typical visit to the NHS. You’ll see a chain of people, none of who spend more than a few minutes with you at most before you get passed on to someone else. Everyone is very rushed and simply have to get on to something else (rarely another patient, but rather writing something down, looking something up, checking something).
I see masks as part of that effort do push patients away. Masks create a barrier between people and for doctors and nurses, they serve to put distance between themselves and their patients. A doctor I know confessed as much to me, saying that she didn’t mind the masks and in some ways was grateful for them as it saved her having to put on an empathic expression when she was tired or low on energy – which is most of the time.
If they could anaesthetise us at the door, wheel us in, carry out a diagnosis without our participation, treat us, attach a set of follow up instructions for us read, then wheel us back out and wake us up, that is exactly what they would do.
And they would claim it was the best thing for our safety.
Nurses used to train on the job, as such there was never any doubt in their minds about what the job was about.
These days, they have to “study” for ages and are perhaps then a little dismayed when expected to do the actual work. They are also, in my experience, looking to be promoted to one of the endless “management” or “consultant” positions; they have been patronised by their “education”.
My qualification required to register with the NMC was a three year DipHE of which 50% was in practice and 50% in university. In the good old days, when my father trained, it was two years for SEN and 3 years for SRN. Yes the training was ward based, but there were classroom sessions as well. The other difference was that student nurses were included in the numbers as they were employed by the hospital.
Personally, I don’t think that there would have been a difference for me whichever training scheme was used, I was 50 when I qualified after a previous career as a systems/software engineer.
However, and it’s probably truer now that it’s all degree only, it is a means to obtaining a degree.
To fulfill the role of nurse practitioner I needed courses at level 7 post graduate level.
Your inalienable right to refuse to consent to a NPI as stated in Article 6 of the UNESCO Universal Declaration of Bioethics & Human Rights has been breached. It states that not giving consent to an intervention, which masking is, does & should not be detrimental to an individual’s right to receive medical care.
Stating that one is exempt, as you lawfully are exempt just by deciding not to submit to wearing a muzzle, is a route which is unchallengeable & they have no right to question the reason for the exemption.
I hope that you receive a reply.
Correct. That is why it was possible, right from the start, to download all the graphics for creating “exemption” badges from a gov.uk website. Not well advertised, but it’s up to us to use it if required. Soon after the scam started, there were some cases (in the legal definition) in which damages claims were made against organisations that refused to provide services on those grounds. The Discrimination Act 2018, and the Equality Act 2010 were also useful. The ones I read about appeared to have settled outside court, but cash changed hands on account of that.
Along the lines of selective publication, the bureaucrats kept quiet about the fact that there was never a requirement for a third party to grant exemption. Unilateral declaration, and printing out the bits and pieces published (quietly) by themselves, was what I did, almost two years ago.
P.S. This was the original source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own It says that it is “withdrawn”, but that’s no surprise. What I have attached above was a DHSC publication back in August 2020.
Well done for not giving way, Savage. Horrible times indeed. Yes, do please let us know the response.
WTF a downvote???
Earlier this week I was refused a mammogram because I refused to wear a mask and I also refused to use hand sanitiser. When I pointed out that there was no mandate for hand sanitiser, I was met with stunned silence. My refusal to wear a mask was met with even more incomprehension.
So basically the people there felt that the risk to them of Covid (all ladies under 40, healthy) was greater than the risk of me having undiagnosed breast cancer – despite having a family history of that.
Thanks NHS.
I think they just wanted your compliance.
They all carry out normal unmasked lives on trains, in pubs and supermarkets.
It’s just that when you are in their little fiefdom, you do what they say. They don’t care about you, obviously. They care about themselves and their own authority.
Authority without responsibility; the happy hunting ground of incompetent bureaucrats to bully the people who pay their wages
What a surprise. Perhaps they have actually learnt about it all? I never used them anywhere during the last two years.
There was a fair bit of useful information, from the British Standards Institution, and others. In particular, much of the junk on sale had tiny labels that most people would not read, that said that they were NOT masks to any standard, so as to avoid being prosecuted under trading standards. Much of it was a con, and an opportunity to sell junk.
I have pointed out the very same label to many people wearing masks, they stare at me vacantly.
Lights on, nobody home.
I still remember the inscription on the set I bought when they were mandated. It said (in the kind of broken English one expects from the Chinese) Fashion mask. Not a medical mask. Use for dust protection, sun protection, fashion. Yet, there are still people clinging to them.
Here in Thailand we had the mask mandates lifted yesterday, HOORAY.
I chucked the remainig box of masks in the cupboard and checked the price I paid for them
50 ‘masks’ 40 baht = 95p sez it all really.
It’s really good to see Niall is still fighting.
When you see people still wearing masks you ask yourself “do the no wonder how all these unmasked people are not dropping dead?”
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Deserves to be mentioned here again (and it may be useful in such disputes): The Ebola stations set up during the most-recent Ebola epidemic represented a serious attempt at preventing viruses from escaping into the environment and infecting health workers or other patients. Despite all these efforts, some people still got infected. That so-called Sars-CoV2 infection prevention measures never even came remotely close to that is a conclusive proof that they’re nothing but theater and that neither actors nor directors of this penny dreadful drama take it seriously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism “Something must be done” etc. Many so-called experts were attempting to create an impression of competence; with some of us, it’s backfired.
Can nobody read, it says on the box that the masks are not intended to prevent infection??
Right. Something’s happened. I’ve just been to Tesco and a significant number of shoppers were masked. All varieties out in numbers, from the anxious elderly to the virtue-signalling young. What’s happened? How have they been nudged?
Nothing particularly unusual. Just another ONS junk estimate about rising levels of infection in healthy people. The only noteworthy thing about that is that Omicron variants have now supplanted Sars-CoV2 variants in official messaging and that the UKHSA is trying to pull a WHO by labelling some of them as variants of concern.
As I’ve already written in the past: Until the professional pandemic bullshitters have their microphones disconnected and other resources repurposed, we’re only out on bail and the nonsense can start over at any minute.
I have noticed recently that more and more adverts for NHS services are creeping in on tv and are showing people wearing masks.
Oh Lordy ! Will they ever leave us alone?
Well done Niall and those who have to put up with this nonsense. I’m retired but do my best to challenge maskers where possible. As ever, the NHS is a postcode lottery. I was refused access (without facecloth) to a gp surgery for stitches removal by a young nurse who claimed she was “vulnerable”. Not so far away the nurses at the Minor Injuries Unit were more accepting. We are living amongst the possessed – people who barely function because they see threats everywhere – but must keep chipping away and staying sane.
This kind of nonsense is still going on all over the world and much worse besides.. The basic problem is global leaders aided by the media can not admit that most of the rules and regulatons that were imposed on their societies have been utterly pointless. As a consequence Covid zealots (who were afforded unprecedented influence during the panicdemic) continue to persecute people by whatever means is available to them.They want lockdown or semi-lockdown to be made a permanent way of life. Why? Look at the Green movement. It is full of nutters too!
I believe the WHO do not regard masks as PPE either—this should further remove question one from the equation.