- “Pandemic death toll three times higher than official figures suggest” – Two years after the WHO first called COVID-19 a ‘pandemic’, a new study suggests 18 million people have died – but it’s based on dubious modelling and funded by Bill Gates.
- “Unrepentant Met Police considers appeal after High Court judges say they breached Sarah Everard vigil organisers’ human rights” – The Metropolitan Police breached the rights of organisers of a vigil for Sarah Everard with its handling of the planned event during Covid restrictions, High Court judges have ruled, the Mail reports.
- “NHS cancer performance drops to worst ever level for eight targets” – Thousands of suspected and confirmed cancer patients in England are being left behind with the NHS recording its worst ever performance in eight of its nine diagnosis and treatment targets, the Mail reports.
- “NHS urged to get on with the rollout of fourth jabs for the elderly” – No.10’s vaccine advisory panel recommended over-75s, care home residents and patients with weakened immune system should be given top-up shots around six months after their original booster, the Mail reports.
- “How to measure vaccine harms” – The flawed reporting system doesn’t measure the scale of the problem, says HART.
- “WHO says it advised Ukraine to destroy pathogens in health labs to prevent disease spread” – The World Health Organisation advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country’s public health laboratories to prevent “any potential spills” that would spread disease among the population, the agency told Reuters on Thursday. What exactly are these labs doing and who is funding it?
- “Covid is rising again. Should we be worried?” – As immunity drops in local areas (those hit by new variants first) cases will rise until immunity is regained, but there’s no need to panic, says Michael Simmons in the Spectator.
- “How Fact-Finding Fauci Led To My Cancellation At Forbes” – The inside story of how Adam Andrzejewski was dropped by Forbes after he published investigations of Fauci’s income, net worth, investments, royalties, and more.
- “Pfizer to Ask U.S. Regulators to Authorise Second Booster Due to Waning Effectiveness: CEO” – Pfizer plans to ask U.S. regulators to grant emergency use authorisation for a second booster of its COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Epoch Times.
- “Quarter of rise in ‘Covid’ beds last week were primarily for virus” – Just 136 of the nearly 600 extra coronavirus patients in English hospitals over the last week were primarily there for the virus, according to analysis by MailOnline.
- “Hong Kong pays a heavy price for Zero Covid approach” – Hong Kong is currently experiencing the highest Covid death rate, per capita, of anywhere in the world, at any time during the pandemic. Until Christmas, it had seen just over 200 deaths caused by Covid; the figure now stands at just shy of 3,500 and it’s going up fast, writes Philip Cowley in UnHerd.
- “It’s time to drop the Net Zero agenda” – For years British energy policy has been an exercise in wishful thinking. We’ve been living in a fantasy world in which Britain can somehow achieve ‘Net Zero’ by 2050 without paying any serious economic price, and with no one significantly poorer as a result, says the Spectator in this leading article.
- “Ukraine and the Changing Normative Architecture of World Order” – Ramesh Thakur in Global Policy argues that we’re experiencing an international order in transition, with terrible consequences for Ukraine, few options for NATO and big wins for China.
- “This Is How Wars End” – Remember the Tamil Tigers, says D.V. Williamson on his Substack page.
- “Potato and pasta prices set to rise by up to 50% say farmers” – Prices of basic food items in the U.K. could soar by as much as 50% as a result of the conflict in Ukraine, the Mail reports.
- “EU says it needs five years to wean itself off Russian energy” – The EU has said it needs five years to wean the bloc off Russian gas, oil and coal as the country’s invasion of Ukraine sparks chaos in energy markets, the Telegraph reports.
- “Three ways the Ukraine war could crash the financial system” – It is quite conceivable that things will get worse than they already are, warns Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “The problem with the U.K.’s transgender clinic” – Life-changing and sometimes irreversible medical treatment is being administered to a growing number of females, without evidence for how that treatment will affect females but mainly on the basis of limited evidence about how such treatments affect males – and the people administering that treatment don’t even know why so many of their patients are female, writes James Kirkup in the Spectator.
- “Why is the EU attacking Poland and Hungary in a crisis?” – If war doesn’t give Brussels some perspective, then what can, asks Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
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I’m surprised it was so little. Were the flags and whatnot hung up and taken down by volunteers free of charge? Was there no formal risk management effort expended? There may not be a line item for it but I’ll bet the lost opportunity costs were far higher than half a million quid.
100%. I would bet it was several orders of magnitude greater than £500k across the entire public sector.
And added to the ‘P’ tax payer bill is all the money spent in schools ( mine included) on numerous flags small and impressive huge hanging ones! Party food teachers time, wigs hats and so on. The flags remained hanging like the third reich headquarters outside until the last day of term, July!!!! Not just June, Why we know! We all staff and students and visitors had to walk past them to enter or leave the building as the colours caught our every gaze, setting the scene for educational setting!!
As students left on their last day at school EVER they were clapped as they paraded past these flags and proud parents took videos and photos, just to add to the visual brainwashing as these pics will adorn family albums with cult rainbows in the background of smiling young faces as they leave their school, to brainwash the next family generations into the ‘new world not for old souls’ that now presides.
When Labour get in their ideologue canvass has been helpfully primed by the cowardly government so if you don’t wear the flag by then you will be marked out? Cancel gulags for me then.
I think the taxpayer should not be funding anything that is not core to a specific public service .
The list includes brainwashing events like this, BLM,Climate Alarmists , all charities that get any cash from any public organisation .
Also the whole Arts and Culture bandwagon .I really do not think we should be funding experimental , Lesbian Art Exhibitions from Upper Volta or similar .
Lets not forget overseas aid while we are at it beyond short term disaster relief.
Just off to complete my application for support for a 2month Christian, St George and the Hetrosexual Festival .I am sure old Khan has a pot of money put aside for such causes.
I will not be holding my breathe though ..
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Sadiq Khan you are a clown, use the funding to but some Ronald McDonald big red boots so we can hear you flop around London, I really find it amazing,. that anyone could’ve been a bigger clown than Boris, but you are winning that crown by a mile,.resign now please, so we don’t have to listen to any more of your stupidity!!