- “Let’s celebrate: Donald Trump is vaccinating the West against the woke mind virus” – Whether it’s gender ideology or border control, the President has torn through years of bizarre, divisive groupthink in a matter of weeks, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “DOGE sends firing notice to 9,400 USAID employees” – President Donald Trump’s administration will fire about 9,400 workers from USAID, deeming only 611 as essential employees and bringing about the near total elimination of the government agency, says the Mail.
- “America has seen sense on aid. When will we?” – The new administration in Washington has startled its critics by issuing a blizzard of Executive Orders, including one aimed at USAID. When we will cut foreign aid? asks Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “Why pervasive media propaganda is ultimately self-defeating and destructive to the political class that wields it” – On his Substack, Eugyppius reflects on the unfolding USAID scandal and concludes that the funding of woke propaganda by the US Government in Germany and elsewhere is counterproductive.
- “Trump’s ‘Thomas Cromwell’: How a little-known fixer is seizing control of the US Government” – The architect of Project 2025 has been confirmed as budget chief – securing his position at the heart of the White House, reports the Telegraph.
- “Inside Republican’s plan to end the ‘untouchable Deep State’” – A Republican is working to end the ‘deep state’ with a new law that would make it easier for Donald Trump to fire high-level officials who undermine his policies, says the Mail.
- “DOGE lieutenant’s X-rated online pseudonym leaves CNN hosts flummoxed” – One of Elon Musk’s DOGE staffers left CNN hosts shocked by his X-rated online pseudonyms as another resigns over racist digital footprint, according to the Mail.
- “Elon Musk vows revenge on college staffer who threatened his nerd army” – Elon Musk has issued a blunt response to his fans who have called for Boston University to be defunded, after an employee apparently threatened six of his DOGE staffers, reports the Mail.
- “Wealthy Hampton residents hold panicked over nannies being deported” – The residents of East Hampton, one of America’s wealthiest small towns, held a town meeting worried that their hired help would face expulsion from the US as part of Donald Trump’s mass deportation program, says the Mail.
- “What sort of parent believes their toddler is trans?” – Liberals who claim that a two-year-old can question their gender are only stirring further support for Donald Trump’s transition ban, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “J.K. Rowling says the left to blame for Trump’s transgender sports ban” – The Harry Potter author has taken to X to express her approval of Trump’s plans to ensure no transgender athletes participate in women’s sports at 2028 Olympics, reports the Mail.
- “US States with legislative efforts to ban mRNA injections as of February 6th 2025” – The number of US states banning mRNA vaccines is growing and will soon reach critical mass, writes Peter McCullough on his Substack.
- “Andrew Bailey lays bare the damage of Reeves’ broken promises” – The Governor of the the Bank of England has warned the Government about the devastating impact of the Chancellor’s economic philosophy, according to the Telegraph.
- “Farage calls for attorney-general to be fired over Chagos deal” – The Reform UK leader says Lord Hermer is partly responsible for “the betrayal of our national interest”
- “Ministers will only put up with looking like schmucks for defending Starmer’s old chum for so long…” – In the Mail, Quentin Letts compares Lord Hermer to Frank Spencer from Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em, a gaff-prone idiot who is making life more and more difficult for Labour ministers.
- “Ed Miliband’s growth U-turn” – Another day, another Labour U-turn. Ed Miliband has done a reverse ferret on his opposition to a third runway at Heathrow, reports the Spectator’s Steerpike.
- “Billpayers face £800 hit from Miliband’s carbon capture gamble” – MPs warn have warned about the “significant” impact on household costs of Milliband’s push of “unproven” technology, says the Telegraph.
- “The assisted dying bill is becoming a car crash” – Kim Leadbeater has described her assisted suicide bill as “potentially one of the most important changes in legislation that we will ever see”. And one of the most catastrophic, says Dan Hitchens in the Spectator.
- “More families will miss out on first choice school under reforms” – The Government is planning to reduce the admissions number of England’s most successful schools in an effort to force middle class parents to send their children to under-performing schools with empty places, according to the Telegraph.
- “Mrs Thatcher showed the way – when the centre-Right is optimistic it wins” – In the Telegraph, John Howard, the former Australian Prime Minister, urges the Conservative Party to avoid timidity and emulate their greatest leader since Churchill.
- “Could a Tory/Reform pact be looming?” – In the Spectator, Katy Balls says Reform UK and the Conservatives are inching closer to an electoral pact ahead of the next General Election.
- “Tomorrow belongs to the AfD” – Germany’s establishment parties are gradually facing reality and resigning themselves to working with the AfD, writes Lisa Haseldine in the Spectator.
- “‘Our side is significantly sexier’: an interview with Germany’s most controversial politician – Elisabeth Dampier interviews Maximilian Krah in the Spectator.
- “Kyiv ‘is very near to really ending war by a just and lasting peace’” – A top Ukrainian official has claimed that the country is “very near to really ending this war by a just and lasting peace”, reports the Mail.
- “Can Hamas ever be defeated?” – In the Spectator, Jonathan Sacerdoti shares his thoughts on how to defeat Hamas once and for all.
- “The depravity of the Palestine marchers is now undeniable” – While the Israelis were still being butchered by terrorists on October 7th, the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign was already planning a protest, says Danny Cohen in the Telegraph.
- “Lego isn’t homophobic” – In the Spectator, Patrick West mounts a heroic defence of Lego, arguing it’s not “homophobic”, as an exhibition at the Science Museum has claimed.
- “Greatest President ever!” – Elon Musk celebrates Trump’s pledge to pass an Executive Order next week lifting the ban on plastic straws.
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“… the 1.4 million claimed sufferers of long Covid.”
Funnily, all of them are ‘vaccinated’.
Yeah.. funny that. It couldn’t be that toxic shite injected into people, of that we can be sure.
All those embalmers unable to embalm because of peoples arteries blocked by long rubbery clots were just making it up.. obviously ‘conspiracy theorists’..
Talking of long rubbery clots.. if you’ve a strong stomach.. see below..
https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/p/hydrogel-coagulates-blood-and-causes?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Huge rubbery blood clots..
https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/p/huge-rubbery-blood-clots-in-an-unvaccinated?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
How are the 1.2 million that arrived last year getting on ?
Ok I expect.. I doubt they’ve been jabbed!
Time to reshare Ed Dowd’s UK data. Lockdowns don’t cause disabilities. Enough of this ridiculous ignoring the obvious. ”The great resignation” indeed!
https://twitter.com/DowdEdward/status/1679185829372268544
Ignoring the obvious is the only game in town I’m afraid..
Here’s John Campbell’s latest ( 15mins ) and he takes us through the Australian data, which is shocking and even more so when comparing the adverse effects of the Covid jabs to those from traditional vaccines. At the 2min mark he even states he would never have taken the shots himself had he known what he knows now. Fair play to him for coming out and saying what many are probably feeling. So don’t tell me, you intelligence-insulting and patronizing MSM rag, that any of the above in your article is to do with flaming lockdowns! It’s all lies and you know it! We all know what’s killing and disabling people, both quickly and over the long term.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l6Q2r5VWLo&ab_channel=Dr.JohnCampbell
Damn right we do.. the wretched injections, and many of them pushing the things knew they were harmful too..
But if I knew the virus posed a trivial threat to almost everybody and the gunk couldn’t possibly have been properly tested, why didn’t he?
(I stopped watching him when it became clear that he believed the CCP)
I think at that stage he simply trusted the establishment. He had no idea of what we know now.
Nothing to do with anything safe and effective?
How dare you!!!!!!!
While it could be that some of us have quit work a little earlier than normal, could it be that the attitude to minor illnesses has changed? A few decades ago, it was unusual to take time off sick due to minor “common colds”, for example. In those days most of them did not want to have too many days off in case it affected their chances of promotion.
Sort of on topic. I worry about being injured and requiring a blood transfusion from an infected person. (Vaccinated)
Don’t worry. It’s unlikely you’d get a transfusion (person to person). More likely you’d get an infusion of red cells from a donor. These are pressed by separating the plasma and white cells, rinsing, then adding saline. Effectively “red cells in brine” if you like. So nothing like small proteins that were floating about in the plasma, and red cells don’t have a nucleus, so no issues there.
Thank you. Not a scientist and when I read that this crap is found in every cell for me this means EVERY cell.
let’s just pay people to stay home and do nothing for months. what could possibly go wrong, they said.
Workers will get right back in as soon as they’re allowed, of course.
WTF did they expect?
When they censor the truth bad things happen. Any comment, Marianna Spring??
”The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is in charge of the Ministry of Truth, which the government of the United Kingdom established in 2019 in reaction to what they claimed was the overwhelming volume of false information and fake news flowing online.
They called this Ministry of Truth, The Trusted News Initiative (TNI).
The AP, AFP, First Draft, Google/YouTube, Twitter, Reuters, Financial Times, Meta (Facebook), European Broadcasting Union, CBC/Radio-Canada, The Hindu, Microsoft, and The Washington Post are just a few of the influential partners in the BBC’s Trusted News Initiative.
It is the only “forum” of its sort in the entire world created to accept information that has not been authorized by The Ministry of Truth in real-time.
The Ministry of Truth’s (TheTrusted News Initiative) strategy was quite effective in preventing the dissemination of accurate information that jeopardized their attempts to completely dominate the information landscape.
Experts and scientists were effectively kept in the dark, with any research or conclusions that didn’t support the government’s version of events about COVID-19 being labeled as “fake news.”
It also resulted in a culture where people were reluctant to express their opinions, where governments exercised excessive control over what people knew and believed, and where freedom of expression and independent thought were suppressed.
The Ministry only provided the public with material it deemed to be “true,” although frequently this meant withholding crucial information that may have saved lives.
Millions of lives were tragically and needlessly lost as a result of the Covid-19 injections.”
https://theleadingreport.com/2023/07/13/bbc-could-be-responsible-for-majority-of-2m-excess-deaths-in-europe-due-to-misinformation-campaign-used-to-censor-the-dangers-of-covid-vaccines/
That just reminds me, I first complained to the BBC in early April 2021 –
YOUR COMPLAINT:
Your continual covid 19 fear propaganda
You are supposed to be independent. Your covid 19 coverage is nothing but government and big pharma’s propaganda. You refuse or are incapable of asking their “experts” any critical questions. You refuse to give any truly independent experts opportunity to give alternative views regarding vaccine safety, quarantines, actual covid death figures, masks etc. In no small measure you have propagated the totally unwarranted climate of fear which exists.
Do your job. Rediscover the art of investigative journalism and actually THINK. Do some research – look at what proper experts have to say – John Loannidis, Bryam Bridle, Geert Vanden Bossche, Mike Yeadon, Carl Heneghan, and if you want your eyes opening re the safety of vaccines – which you promote without question- read vaccinepapers.org .
You are promoting an ideology. Your censorship would make Goebbels proud.
I used to value the BBC. Not any more.
Finally what about your virtually non existent reporting of the “lockdown protests”.
Needless to say I got the usual fob off.
At the time I didn’t realise the extent to which they’d already been captured.
I don’t suppose any of this will feature in the “inquiry.”
Cost / benefit analysis. What’s that when it’s at home?
As soon as a ‘benefit’ is ‘one human life’ the discussion stops.
My mother died at age 93. She was desperate to avoid going into hospital where she thought they could keep her alive almost indefinitely. She didn’t like people ‘fussing’ over her but tried to be polite (not always successfully). I hope I’m a bit like her.
Correlation only proves causation when it supports the narrative, ergo ‘global warming’ did it, in the dining room with the lead piping. This story is very insulting to a thinking person’s intelligence. A higher than average number of people died in nursing homes, where they aren’t sat in the greenhouse but in a lounge with aircon and/or fans, out of direct sunlight, therefore the common denominator must be the excess heat. But we know that in the winter they’d blame the cold. Give me strength!
”In the second quarter of 2023, over 39,000 people died in the Netherlands, 1,900 or 5 percent more than expected for this period. In three weeks of June, there was excess mortality among people in long-term care and senior citizens. This coincided with a heatwave in the country, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reported on Friday.
June 2023 was the warmest June since temperature measurements started in the Netherlands in 1901. Temperatures were over 3 degrees higher than typical. Elderly people and people with weakened systems are vulnerable to heat.
In the second quarter, about 150 more people died per week than expected, but there was only excess mortality during weeks 23, 24, and 25 – the three weeks in June when there was a heatwave in the country. Excess mortality is when the number of deaths is so much higher than expected that it exceeds the accounted-for fluctuations.
The higher-than-expected number of deaths in the second quarter can also partially be attributed to a flu epidemic in the Netherlands in April. Covid-19 is also still circulating in the country, though the number of virus particles in sewage water decreased in the second quarter. According to CBS, 319 people died of Covid-19 in February, the latest known figures.”
https://nltimes.nl/2023/07/14/heat-wave-causes-5-percent-deaths-expected-june
I am not alone in my scepticism. So all these elderly people ”dying from the heat”, what exactly do the doctors put as the cause of death on the certificate? ”Heat stroke”? From sitting in a lounge in the shade, far away from any actual direct sunlight? Crazy. A heat wave = causation of death but all of those serious adverse event reports = coincidence.
https://twitter.com/BareReality/status/1679772952139649025
I asked a friend of mine about these absentee rates – had he noticed this in his business? He said no, there is no difference whatsoever in absentee rates in his business with about forty people. He was aware of these figures (and most are vaccinated, he assures me although he never asked them, considering it wasn’t an appropriate question to ask employees) and he put it down to them having stayed open all the way through the lockdowns, if only with a skeleton staff initially and then staff coming back as soon as they felt able. I’m not a fan of vaccines (and that’s been the case for at least twenty years) but I think it is too easy to just jump on that as a reason for this increase in absenteeism. I think there are many factors at play here including psychologically it being OKay to be off work for a sniffle (fear of contaminating the office) as mentioned by another commenter.
I somewhat disagree – but have an up-tick for a sensible argument.
Except for the pesky fact of continuing excess deaths, I would suggest malingering, quiet quitting, and hypochondria are causes of the disability increases in the UK and in the US. Are people sicker–the excess deaths would indicate so. I personally don’t know anyone with a chronic illness, new disability, adverse jab effects, or death from covid. Maybe I need to get out more….
He’s not in the public sector!
Britain’s public finances crippled by 26 years of mass immigration.
I’d love to know what the supposed skills shortages are, whether they are in the private or public sector, and where they are geographically. Maybe they are just down to vacancies in zero hours jobs that people only do short term until they find something else. Does anyone know of any statistical analysis?
Trying to remove those stupid 2m lines from our church floor. Governments have left humanity a catastrophic legacy eminating from the big Covid-19 lie. History will judge them harshly. The golden rule is NEVER believe what the government tells you.
Hmmm.. Elephants and rooms spring to mind.
I’m largely economically inactive by choice. (I have an arrangement (you can’t really call it a contract) with a small local company which means I work when they need an extra pair of hands and IF I want to.)
Fortunately, I have a pension, savings and a BtL which means I can afford not to be a wage slave. I’m prioritising a very nice lifestyle over working and paying tax to the moronic Government which stripped me of my Civil Liberties and Human Rights over a virus they KNEW was only dangerous for a small and easily-identified section of the population.
I didn’t cause the devestation.
Lockdown served to erode the work ethic of much of the nation and embedded a dependency culture. The benefit system in the UK incentivises chronic sickness particularly. Decades of welfare statism were causing society and economy to decay gradually and Lockdown greatly accelerated the decay. It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that we’re doomed.