- “Trump set to back Starmer’s Chagos deal” – Donald Trump has suggested he will approve Keir Starmer’s deal to hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius, reports the Telegraph.
- “Vance clashes with Prime Minister over Britain’s ‘infringements on free speech’” – In the National Review, David Zimmermann reports on J.D. Vance schooling Keir Starmer on free speech at the White House.
- “US praises Starmer’s defence spending hike ahead of crunch Trump talks” – US officials have praised the UK’s commitment to increase spending on defence to 2.5% of GDP, and the PM’s offer of troops for any Ukraine peace deal, says the Mail.
- “Trump says Ukraine deal ‘soon or not at all’ after Starmer talks” – Trump has suggested that a Ukraine peace deal will come “fairly soon or not at all” as he hailed “special” Keir Starmer during an extraordinary White House visit, reports the Mail.
- “Macron has ‘no mandate’ to send European troops to Ukraine, says Meloni” – Giorgia Meloni has clashed with Emmanuel Macron over an Anglo-French plan to deploy European troops to Ukraine as part of a post-war deal, reveals the Telegraph.
- “France set to lift ban on police stopping migrant boats at sea” – The French Government is set to lift a ban on stopping migrant boats at sea for the first time in an effort to reduce illegal Channel crossings, according to the Telegraph.
- “In two-tier Britain, tweeting is now a worse crime than beating up a voter” – Disgraced MP Mike Amesbury will spend just 10 weeks behind bars, while childminder Lucy Connolly was jailed for 31 months over a tweet, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “The reformation of the Labour Party” – Labour seems to have realised there is no future in hand-wringing, virtue-signalling liberal-leftism, writes Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
- “More than half a million sick benefit claimants have never worked” – More than half a million people claiming benefits for health reasons have never had a job, reports the Mail.
- “The problem of Britain’s idle generation” – If we want to prevent an idle generation from becoming a forgotten one, ministers will have to act – and fast, warns Michael Simmons in the Spectator.
- “BBC admits serious flaws over Gaza documentary” – The BBC has admitted to serious and unacceptable flaws in the making of its Gaza documentary, saying public trust in its journalism has been damaged, reports LBC.
- “The British state is even more broken than it looks” – The British state appears increasingly unable to work out the costs of its policies, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph. And until that’s addressed, there’s little hope of improvement.
- “Peter Hitchens and Sarah Vine go toe-to-toe in our new podcast” – The lurch towards far-Right politics is because communities are feeling “angry and unheard”, says Peter Hitchens on his new Daily Mail podcast.
- “Who’d dare join the SAS now?” – In the Spectator, Mary Wakefield wonders who’d still join the SAS when soldiers are now hounded for following orders.
- “Buckingham University’s shameful treatment of Professor Tooley” – The disgraceful treatment of James Tooley, the Vice Chancellor of Buckingham University, shows that even the soundest universities are vulnerable to woke capture, writes Simon Heffer in the Spectator.
- “The terrifying moment hammer-wielding bike-jackers attack cyclist” – The Mail has video of the terrifying moment a Regent’s Park cyclist had his £4,200 road bike robbed by hammer-wielding thugs during a morning ride.
- “BMW’s Oxford retreat signals deep trouble for UK carmaking” – In the Spectator, Martin Vander Weyer warns that BMW’s retreat from Oxford isn’t just a bump in the road – it’s a flashing red light for the entire UK car industry
- “Andrew Tate flees to Florida but DeSantis says ‘you’re not welcome’” – Britain is considering submitting an extradition request to the US for the Tate brothers, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Why Trump is backing free speech absolutist Tate” – The self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate, fresh from house arrest in Romania, appears to be reaping the rewards of his Trump connection, writes Eleanor Steafel in the Telegraph.
- “What Europe gets wrong about the far-Right” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray skewers the Left’s habit of branding any Right-wing party as the next Third Reich – while ignoring why voters keep voting for them.
- “Israel offered Mahmoud Abbas 94% of West Bank in 2008, former PM Ehud Olmert reveals” – In a new documentary, former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert reveals a 2008 peace offer that would have granted 94% of the West Bank to a Palestinian state, according to the Jerusalem Post.
- “Palestinians blew their best chance for peace” – In the Spectator, Stephen Daisley argues that by rejecting Ehud Olmert’s 2008 peace offer, Mahmoud Abbas condemned his people to decades of suffering.
- “Megyn Kelly reveals she’s battling devastating Covid vaccine injury” – Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly has sensationally claimed that she was injured by the Pfizer Covid vaccine, reports the Mail.
- “Federal workers fired to improve efficiency – media outraged; federal workers fired for not complying with an unethical vaccine mandate – media silent” – The media’s outrage over federal layoffs for efficiency is loud, but its silence when workers were fired for resisting an unproven vaccine mandate is deafening, says Prof Vinay Prasad on his Substack.
- “The world… re-Imagined” – On Substack, Bill Rice Jr. envisions a ‘Great Awakening’ where citizens begin to realise the devastating truths about Covid vaccines.
- “Nurses win battle to name trans colleague who was in their changing room” – NHS nurses have won a legal battle to name a biologically male trans colleague who used their female changing room, reports the Telegraph.
- “Oscar committee members abstaining from voting due to woke nominees” – Oscar voters believe the awards may be on their way out, as DEI rules lead to woke, niche movies being nominated over big box office successes, according to the Mail.
- “‘I did not have sexual relations with those children, on that island’” – A satirical video has surfaced of Bill Clinton reacting to news that Pam Bondi is releasing the Epstein client list.
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“‘If masks don’t work, why do surgeons wear them?’” presumably to reassure people or because it has always been done. May help with sneezes I guess? Blood splatter is another one I have heard. But the evidence is that there is no difference between post surgery infections, so probably not. If you are that ill then you should stay at home. Simple. A bit of a sniffle will just pass on infection around the community and build up community immunity. The other thing is the covid test- people get ill and say “oh it is alright- it’s not covid” (or is it COVID to scare people?). As if flu or one of the respiratory viruses don’t matter any more!
Or perhaps personal protection, along with eye protection, when working close to certain things, e.g. a dentist working on you.
I’d understood it is to stop bits of the surgeon (sweat, saliva) falling on the patient and bits of the patient (spurts of blood or other fluids) covering the surgeon and other people in the operating theatre and there is a study somewhere which says infection rates are the same in operating theatres with and without mask wearing. (Also remember we watch a lot of telly and a lot of medical drama are not always accurate.)
Reading the article first would have helped.
It/a surgeon gives all the answers, aka debunks Covid masking and all the masktards.
As of 2021, so to no avail.
As such, it is obvious that this masking craze never had anything to do with public or ones own health, to the contrary.
‘….back in 2008, Keir Starker voluntarily defended the extremist group’
Starker’s second name is Rodney……
Rodney Starkers it is then………
Nah. Call him Sir Keir. It has several good things going for it:
1) It’s accurate and formal.
2) It alienates some socialists from him.
3) I understand it drives him nuts.
Sirkir sounds like a name from the sun-continent. But think if the fun an imaginative comedian or political opponent could have by referencing Rodney in Only fools and horses.
Which of his front bench would be Del Boy, which Grandad and which Charlene.
Charlene? Oh that’s Ranting. She’s a shoe-in.
Okay, his full name shall be Sir Kneelalot Beer Rodney Starkers-Korma.
I am rather fond of Kneel.
This is a key problem and is an essential tool of the elites toolkit. DEI, coupled with ESG, all but guarantees that unsuitable people will be promoted to positions of high influence (if not all-out control). These people are then easily manipulated into doing what the elites want them to do, simply by pushing an agenda that the unsuitable people don’t have the mental capacity or courage to push back on. Incompetence by design.
Yes
“Britain has punished piracy prominently for 300 years.”
That’s not what the Spanish say.
So I guess it depends on the definition of “piracy”, “Britain” and “punished”.
“‘If masks don’t work, why do surgeons wear them?’”
To stop snot which is clumps of bacteria held together by mucous falling from the surgeons nose into a surgical field or open wound. It’s not brain surgery.
Unless it is, of course…
“If Masks Don’t Work, Why Do Surgeons Wear Them?”
To prevent bacterial infection in a patient during open surgery
(Not viruses!)
People who work with viruses Wear hazmat!
Kier Starmer practising for new government child policies!
I was looking at the date of the academic article to see if it was published on 1 April.
Surely this was published as a wind-up?
“The Post Office scandal is proof we trust technology too much” – In the Telegraph, Andrew Orlowski explores our tendency to trust computers more than our own experiences.
I used to run IT for a small international company. Among the many ‘humourous’ quips the IT folk exchanged with the rest of our colleagues were:
1) Don’t anthropomorphize the computer – they hate that.
2) TIOATIOA (turn it off and turn it on again).
3) Computers are really stupid. They’re so stupid they do exactly what they’ve been programmed to do.
The last point being particularly apposite to the Horizon fiasco.
“Revealed: the nine universities where gender-critical academics are labelled ‘transphobic’”
Only 9? I thought it was a requirement at all of them these days…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/01/15/fujitsu-post-office-scandal-proof-trust-technology-too-much/
What a cheap bit of deflection. Crozier and Vennells were the problem. They failed in their jobs. Fujitsu should have been taken to court not the postmasters.
https://trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/smokescreens-part-11-5cd
No Professor Heneghan we do NOT need tests for the illusory C1984 and ‘flu. Three reasons:
1. We do not want to embed a testing culture in this country.
2. The country cannot afford the costs of the tests.
3. So what?