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by Will Jones
5 April 2022 1:38 AM

  • “Free Covid tests will not be coming back, No.10 insists” – The move to axe tests for everyone other than health and social care workers, the elderly and the most vulnerable in England – which critics claim has come two years too late – came into effect on Friday, reports the Mail.
  • “The number of women waiting longer is 380 times higher” – Mail report that more than 570,000 women in the U.K. are suffering from extreme pain, heavy bleeding and poor mental health as waiting lists for treatment hit record levels, according to a new report.
  • “More than eight million people reject offer of COVID-19 booster despite record infections” – There are still 8.6 million people who had a second vaccine at least three months ago but have not yet come forward for a third dose, reports the i.
  • “Covid: Nine new symptoms added to official list” – Sore throats, headaches and loss of appetite are now all officially recognised as signs of infection, reports BBC News. ‘Feeling under the weather’ didn’t quite make the cut this time.
  • “Swamped NHS mental health services turning away children, say GPs” – A survey lays bare the extent of help denied by CAMHS to under-18s who are struggling mentally, reports the Guardian. Maybe all those lockdowns and school closures weren’t such a good idea after all, eh?
  • “The end of the COVID-19 pandemic” – Public health officials need to declare the end of the pandemic – mid- and long-term consequences of adopted measures on health, society, economy, civilisation and democracy may perpetuate a pandemic legacy long after the pandemic itself has ended, argues Professor John Ioannidis in a peer-reviewed paper for the European Journal of Clinical Investigation.
  • “Whoops! The TOGETHER Trial actually showed that ivermectin worked.” – Steve Kirsch says that even the author admitted it, while the media and medical establishment did not read the study carefully, seizing on anything that supports the narrative and failing to look at the study critically.
  • “Fauci’s United Front Is Collapsing” – Why did Fauci, who in early February 2020 was downplaying the seriousness of the virus, flip to the other side, asks Jeffrey A. Tucker at the Brownstone Institute.
  • “Epilogue: I got Covid” – “After writing this blog about Covid and the counter-productive measures taken to ‘fight’ it for nearly two years I appear to have finally got the bug,” writes Russell David. “Has it changed my mind on anything I have previously written? Read on.”
  • “Terms of Reference for the COVID-19 Public Inquiry” – Read HART’s response to the consultation and submit your own by April 7th.
  • “Australia Planning to Vaccinate Children Newborn to Age Four While Heavily Vaxxed Population Faces Largest COVID-19 Case, Death and Hospitalisation Surges” – Australia’s vaccine injury compensation claims scheme expanded recently to children under four years of age, as health agencies Down Under prepare for COVID-19 mass vaccination of babies, reports TrialSite News.
  • “FDA: Where is Novavax? Why Haven’t You Authorised? Who are You Protecting?” – What do Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the World Health Organisation have in common? They have all authorised or approved the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine while the U.S. FDA continues strangely to sit on a submission by the American company, says TrialSite News.
  • “Covid in Scotland: Wedding and funeral mask rules end” – The legal requirement to wear face coverings in places of worship has also been removed, BBC News reports.
  • “Scotland’s Covid pandemic response must be held to account” – Without any modelling of the scale of the collateral lives that could be lost no balance was given to the damage repeated restrictions were creating, says Brian Monteith in the Scotsman.
  • “Nicola Sturgeon is addicted to Covid powers” – 90% of organisations responding to a consultation on whether Scottish Government ministers should have the power to amend primary legislation by decree during an emergency opposed the move, but it is likely to happen anyway, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
  • “Vaccine Myocarditis: Mystery Solved?” – A Brazilian investigator may have identified the mechanism driving mRNA vaccine myocarditis, says the Swiss Doctor. Meanwhile, the U.S. CDC finally acknowledges the strongly increased risk in young males.
  • “Twenty-four Countries Ask China Not to Separate Children From Parents Over Covid” – Western diplomats have voiced alarm about the Chinese regime separating children from their parents for Covid quarantine, as around 25 million people in Shanghai, China’s largest city and financial centre, remain locked down, reports the Epoch Times.
  • “My electric car journey from hell shows buyers must beware” – Iain Dale in the Telegraph says if you only do relatively short journeys, then buying an electric car is a good decision, but if you regularly travel more than 150 miles, it isn’t – and the car manufacturers appear to lie about the expected range.
  • “IPCC climate report: Slash emissions now and world can avoid worst effects” – Times report that world leaders and businesses are telling lies when they promise to tackle climate change and there will be catastrophic consequences without immediate and deep cuts in emissions, according to a new UN warning.
  • “Boris Johnson plans seven new nuclear reactors as he drops wind plans” – The Mail reports that the Prime Minister is said to have rejected ambitious targets presented by Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng to double the U.K.’s onshore output to 30GW by 2030.
  • “We must take back control of our strategic industries from China” – The short-sighted sales of critical manufacturing infrastructure will leave us completely dependent on Beijing, writes Iain Duncan Smith in the Telegraph.
  • “Big Business and Conservatives Are Headed for Divorce” – The new conservatism is hostile to globalisation, immigration, big tech, media companies, and the idea that market forces should determine the common good, argues Adrian Wooldridge in Bloomberg.
  • “Disney vs democracy” – Woke capitalism is a pox on the democratic process, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
  • “Is it really a crime to stare?” – Emily Hill in the Spectator offers a defence of staring: “Ask a single Millennial female what her problem is and she won’t tell you it’s the wrong kind of man staring at her on tube trains; it’s the kind of man she could stare at all day not staring at her, ever.”
  • “Becoming transgender a sacred journey of becoming whole, says ex-Archbishop of Canterbury” – Rowan Williams wades into the conversion therapy debate on the anti-science side as No.10’s stance sparks boycott of its LGBT conference, the Telegraph reports.
  • “No, Britain’s education system is not racist” – Ethnic-minority pupils are happier, more confident and more successful than their white peers, writes Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
  • “Trans women can be excluded from female-only changing rooms and toilets” – Telegraph report that the privacy and dignity of users can be used as a reason to exclude transgender people from single-sex services, the EHRC has said in a report.
  • “Not only is science under attack, but free speech is under attack, truth is under attack” – Watch former Tory councillor Caroline Ffiske speak to Andrew Doyle on GB News about Women Uniting, a cross-party group developed to “stand up for females”.

'Not only is science under attack, but free speech is under attack, truth is under attack.'

Former Tory councillor Caroline Ffiske speaks to Andrew Doyle about Women Uniting, a cross-party group developed to 'stand up for females.' pic.twitter.com/AGewjJ4D9k

— GB News (@GBNEWS) April 3, 2022

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago

Blimey 1:38 before I regain no. 1 spot.

Good day all and DS team.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

I thought we weren’t doing “first” anymore? 🙂

Anyway, how does anyone’s gene therapy “vaccine” work if it only works if everyone has them, and there are still over 15 million who haven’t had a dose, and over 30 million people who haven’t had 3 doses? Either there is no need for healthy people to take them, or the whole thing has failed.

PS down tick just to keep the trend going 🙂

Last edited 3 years ago by Hugh
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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Good morning, hp and all.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

Good morning AE.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
  • “Free Covid tests will not be coming back, No.10 insists” – The move to axe tests for everyone other than health and social care workers, the elderly and the most vulnerable in England – which critics claim has come two years too late – came into effect on Friday, reports the Mail.

Seriously, why did I ever have to pay for idiots? If fools want to waste their money, the rest of us shouldn’t have to suffer.

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scamdemic
scamdemic
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

What happens with venues where you are required to show proof of a negative result? Do you then have to pay?

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A Heretic
A Heretic
3 years ago
Reply to  scamdemic

Where are these places? In my world they don’t exist. (ie I’m not supporting anyone who promotes this bs)

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JohnK
JohnK
3 years ago
Reply to  scamdemic

Declare you are exempt from the whole thing, if they want to trade with you; otherwise walk away.

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
3 years ago
Reply to  scamdemic

Your health status is a private medical matter which you have no lawful obligation to share with anyone outside of healthcare.

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
3 years ago
Reply to  scamdemic

Those places deserve to fail then. Don’t give them your business in the first place!

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Idris
Idris
3 years ago
Reply to  scamdemic

No you just don’t go.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
  • “The number of women waiting longer is 380 times higher” – Mail report that more than 570,000 women in the U.K. are suffering from extreme pain, heavy bleeding and poor mental health as waiting lists for treatment hit record levels, according to a new report.

Something for he people who wanted a jolly lockdown holiday to think about (assuming they think of people besides themselves). As I’ve said before, people used to help a damsel in distress.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

“As I’ve said before, people used to help a damsel in distress.”
Now they wonder if they can afford the rape allegations.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

They should show a bit of courage.

Yes – she might be one of those hysterical harpies pretending to be a damsel in distress, just so that she can ruin a man’s life. Or she might be, you know, a woman who needs a helping hand.

Those who don’t dare to take the risk can of course walk on by, comfortably blaming women and feminism. Problem solved.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
  • “My electric car journey from hell shows buyers must beware” – Iain Dale in the Telegraph says if you only do relatively short journeys, then buying an electric car is a good decision, but if you regularly travel more than 150 miles, it isn’t – and the car manufacturers appear to lie about the expected range.

I suspect that they are not technically lying. I once got 70 mpg from my (petrol) car, but only once. It would be very stressful to do it every time, and impossible for many journeys.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Ian Dale is a tosser. Disregard anything from that idiot.

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

If you use any more than a fraction of the cars range before charging the battery life will be poor. Optimum for battery life is to keep the charge level between 65% and 75%. Which pretty much means just short journeys.

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JohnK
JohnK
3 years ago
Reply to  Brett_McS

And rapid charging (setting aside the unit prices) won’t be that good, either, due to thermal loss. They don’t advertise “pay more for less”, but that is what is on offer at some places.

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Steve-Devon
Steve-Devon
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

They want us to believe nonsense about everything, covid, gender and the climate. There are currently around 30 million diesel/petrol cars registered in the UK. It is impossible for each of those vehicles to be replaced by an electric car and it is impossible for electric cars to deliver the same sort of free and easy, low cost egalitarian travel freedoms that petrol/diesel cars have provided. Half the time I feel the powers that be are taken in by the lies themselves, half the time they are taking us for suckers.
There was an advert phrase a while back ‘you do the maths’ well yes indeed o’level maths is sufficient to show that in a whole host of ways the electric car thing just does not add up.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago

I should note that Mark Steyn gave a mention to Toby Young and TDS yesterday (in connection with more negative “vaccine” efficacy).

As I have said previously, GB News has been a positive development.

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Aletheia of Oceania
Aletheia of Oceania
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Only if you like living in an ’80’s time warp.

Far too many vaccuos, opinionated self-promoters.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago

“Nine new symptoms” – none of which seem as covid specific as the loss of taste and smell. That effect hasn’t been much talked about since Delta AFAIK.

As for mass vaccination of Lockdownunder’s Little Un’s, I need an explanation why people who are saying ‘Eff Your Boosters’ would happily hand over their offspring for the same.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

As for mass vaccination of Lockdownunder’s Little Un’s, I need an explanation why people who are saying ‘Eff Your Boosters’ would happily hand over their offspring for the same.

I suspect that they’re not the same people. I also have serious questions about people who would hand over their child to experimental injections of this nature. I think they should be asked to explain themselves. Why are they doing it, really?

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Mogwai
Mogwai
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

Same. They are demonstrating that they are 100% unfit to be a parent as far as I’m concerned. Mind you, this would also apply to healthy kids of any age, but there is something about the jabbing of newborns and tiny babies with this now known dangerous and ineffective product which makes it extra sickening. 🙁

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

It does however fit the depopulation thesis so understood in those terms it is a logical if monumentally evil push. Actually injecting babies and children with this killer gunk is monumentally evil whichever way you look at it.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Yes. I am concerned by the nature of the people carrying out the act. If they are not sure that it is entirely safe for babies and children, they are behaving immorally. It is a betrayal of trust.

Guessing that it must be okay because they are being paid to do it, is not good enough. I want them questioned by legal authorities.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

i agree – I used the term “child” to refer to any child, and I don’t simply mean the “healthy”.

I can understand that a parent might reasonably consent to an experimental injection of some description for a desperately ill child in serious danger of death – but not to “experimental injections of this nature”.

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

Even worse is the idea that some initially handed over their children when they KNEW it was for ”study” purposes – to be used like guinea pigs, knowing (or they SHOULD have known) that the animals in those trials died.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago

Baby steps, perhaps, but they’re steps in the right direction.

Queensland’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for cafes, pubs and clubs set to ease.
NT scraps its vaccine pass system, unvaccinated people now allowed in pubs, nightclubs.
Masky Mark’s goal to be the Shoichi Yokoi of covid is getting closer by the day.

On the second link, I note that Bug Eyes Gunner now says that the NT’s covid surge is mostly in Darwin. And then completely avoids mentioning his lockdowns last year on the remote communities. Almost as if he’d be embarrassed to mention them.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

Masky Mark’s goal to be the Shoichi Yokoi of covid is getting closer by the day.

Is that because Masky Mark is never wrong and always special?

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

HE certainly thinks so!

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Phil Shannon
Phil Shannon
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

It’s an Easter miracle!! Whilst Queensland, and the Northern Territory, are easing up somewhat on the vaxx passport thing just before Easter, we in little old South Australia are to be liberated from our masks on the Thursday before the Easter long weekend (because the day before Easter is when the modelers – or should that be astrologers – deem it safe to get rid of the masks that don’t work).

Mind you, they have no choice because only the small minority of Covid True Believers are still wearing the things over mouth and nose, all the time. We’ve moved on and the ‘experts’ and politicians are just starting to catch up.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  Phil Shannon

Modelers, astrologers – coin flippers, readers of entrails, who knows?
I took my first venture into an eatery with the ‘have your vax status ready’ sign on the door. Nobody bothered to ask.
As for the masks, they’re worn in shops and on public transport. Out walking, I see very few. But then I’ll see half a dozen cars go past and the drivers, alone, will be masked. CBD based businesses are calling for the end of the masks but McClown has dug his heels in and has just extended the SOE to July! As I’ve said before, there must be many who are waiting for him to meet one of those unfriendly staircases.

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Horse
Horse
3 years ago

The death of a seven year-old boy, murdered by the vaccine, has been registered on the Australian yellow-card data. Myocarditis-induced heart attack. At the same time, the vermin in power continue to coerce parents into injecting their children and this when the WHO now says new XE variant “has no severe symptoms whatsoever”.

It’s time the trials began for everyone who pushed a universal vax mandate. Life sentences.

And a record 17 clicks today to get verified to post on here today, which is getting a bit silly, I’m sure we all agree.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Horse

I had one the other day where I didn’t need to click on a single picture. A first.

I suspect that most of these forums (fora?) tend towards greater restrictions, whatever they may intend when they start out. Like with terrorists, events change your way of life, even if they don’t end it (we’re still on no drinks taken on aeroplanes).

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  Horse

If we don’t hold those who inflicted vax mandates to account, we’ll be in danger of them forever.

But 7-year-olds are not mandated for the Covid jabs in Australia. Jabbed children are not being protected by their parents. What’s their excuse? It seemed like a good idea at the time? I wanted to show people that I was a good person?

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sophie123
sophie123
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

Darwinism in action.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  sophie123

The speeded-up version is horrifying, especially when you know parents who are doing this.

There are family members who can no longer bear to speak with each other.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  Horse

That damned catchall is a PIA. Trying to identify stuff in pictures on an android “phone is extremely difficult.

I wouldn’t mind but the trolls still get on.

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Horse
Horse
3 years ago

“Trans women can be excluded from female-only changing rooms and toilets” – Telegraph report that the privacy and dignity of users can be used as a reason to exclude transgender people from single-sex services, the EHRC has said in a report.

The first thing to do to end this insanity is to fight fire with fire. The radical Neo-Jacobins and commies who have caused all this did so with language. Stop calling these people “Trans women”. As soon as you do this, you give ground and make your own argument harder. They are male transsexuals, and male transsexuals do not get to go in ladies toilets. Male transsexuals do not get to go into female prisons.

And this not “transgender people being excluded”. You’re using their language again and no look unreasonable and bad. This is “women being treated with the basic dignity that has been afforded to them from the dawn of time until the commie revolution of the last few years”. That wasn’t so hard, was it?

Stop using their language.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Horse

I.e. men. One would hope they would be excluded from female bathing areas too. And good luck to the Jacobins (aren’t they the reign of terror people?) if they try and force Muslims to allow “trans women” in female worship areas. I suspect the curious Muslim/feminist/trans alliance could fracture beyond repair (though to be fair, there were signs of this some time ago in Birmingham)..

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watersider
watersider
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Yes I remember ‘people’ swimming in boiler suits.

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watersider
watersider
3 years ago
Reply to  Horse

That is why I NEVER refer to the weather changes as klymate change, always Global Warming. That gets up ‘their’ nose.

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
3 years ago

The vaccine program is looking more and more like a eugenics exercise. The blissfully ignorant and docile are being weeded out in favour of the independent thinkers and the hornery. I don’t think that was the intention, though.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Brett_McS

Hopefully they’ve badly miscalculated, like China with their one child policy (among others).

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watersider
watersider
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Did you see the nice Chinese government have insisted that all domestic pets have to be destroyed in Shanghai

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scaredmama
scaredmama
3 years ago
Reply to  Brett_McS

And yet it was entirely predictable. So have they made a mistake? I’d like to think so, makes them seem less all-knowing. If these last two years were some post-apocalyptic movie, it would seem that the evil ones made their hubris driven error, showed their plans too early. I can imagine the scene, with the lower ranking scientist saying ‘but sir, its too soon, we haven’t tested the dosage’ and the Big Bad saying, ‘no its ready, we can test it in vivo’

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Horse
Horse
3 years ago
  • “Nicola Sturgeon is addicted to Covid powers” – 90% of organisations responding to a consultation on whether Scottish Government ministers should have the power to amend primary legislation by decree during an emergency opposed the move, but it is likely to happen anyway, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.

If Sturgeon was running a Russian Oblast and had done everything identical to what she has done in Scotland, there would be universal demands across the West for her arrest and imprisonment for crimes against humanity. So, let’s start doing that anyway.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Horse

I.e. the first fish. 🙂

Is England now the nearest Europe has to a country that has avoided authoritarian government in the last 100 years?

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

I think that has been the case for some time.

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JXB
JXB
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Needs adjective ‘least’.

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watersider
watersider
3 years ago
Reply to  Horse

Yes up here it is unbelievable how docile the locals are.
The one common denominator is a virulent anti English mind set which seemingly justifies any and all Draconian measures.

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JayBee
JayBee
3 years ago

From the Swiss doctor piece:
“So what did the CDC get wrong? It’s a classic mistake (or trick):…
But the CDC made another basic mistake…..”

The CDC does not make mistakes.
It deliberately manipulates, frames and misrepresents data and studies to arrive at the politically desired forgone conclusions.

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JXB
JXB
3 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

The CDC is an organisation do it can do nothing, it’s the parasites who infect it that do the doing.

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Phil Shannon
Phil Shannon
3 years ago

ITEM: “Australia Planning to Vaccinate Children Newborn to Age Four While Heavily Vaxxed Population Faces Largest COVID-19 Case, Death and Hospitalisation Surges” – Australia’s vaccine injury compensation claims scheme expanded recently to children under four years of age, as health agencies Down Under prepare for COVID-19 mass vaccination of babies, reports TrialSite News.

So, in another world first from Covid-crazy Australia, our little ‘uns are going to partake in the jab frenzy. The government is well prepared, having topped up the bucket of money for the government’s, taxpayer-funded, Covid vaxx injury compensation scheme whilst subtly flagging to the ‘independent’, government medical regulator (the Therapeutic Goods Administration – TGA) that formal approval to authorise the kiddie jabs would be appreciated, thank you very much. Not that the government has much arm-twisting to do – the TGA receives all its funding from ‘industry’ (wonder which industry that would be) and knows what is expected of its sponsors.

And if your pride-and-joy does get a severe reaction or dies, what do you get for your compliance? A claim for up to $20,000 for lost income, medical bills and other expenses – and that paltry amount only for serious adverse reactions involving spending at least one night in hospital, and signed off by a doctor prepared to document that the illness (one of only a very narrow range allowed by the TGA) is definitely related to the Covid vaxx. Good luck finding a doctor prepared to face deregistration for doing, or saying, anything that contradicts “public health messaging,” even if their “views are … evidence-based” (https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/in-australia-doctors-are-now-being?s=r).
So, that’s what an infant’s life is worth these days in Australia – $20,000, tops. Covid derangement isn’t over down here, by a long chalk.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  Phil Shannon

And they do this with a federal election just weeks away, because they figure it’s a vote-winner.

I’ve seen for myself how intimidated doctors are – very cautious about what they say to patients, in case one is an informer posing as a sceptic.

Evidence is ignored; changes in other nations’ policies are ignored; those protesting are ignored (so far as I’m aware, the beatings have stopped).

What will it take to restore even a semblance of sanity and self-respect?

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TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

Fear of informers….this is how Eastern Europe lived for 50 years!

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  TheTartanEagle

It’s how Oz lives now. Not the compliant of course. Doctors who say what they’re supposed to say and ignore what they’re supposed to ignore are fine.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  TheTartanEagle

Have any of the snitches in the UK, who reported their neighbours to the Police during lockdowns, ever been identified?

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TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

No idea, I guess the victims could hazard a guess. Unfortunately certain strata of UK society seem to alleviate their inner worries regarding their lowly status by dobbing in neighbours for dogs acting like dogs, toddlers screaming their heads off, like they tend to etc etc, so snitching became endemic over the last 25 years.

“Authority” milks this attitude from an early age, encouraging children to tell on each other, placing legal obligations on certain employees to “report concerns”. This means that most mothers live in constant fear of accusations of child abuse, groomed by the likes of mumsnet. It goes down to the level that child minders have to keep a log of whether a child arrived in a coat, its parent’s words on departure, to monitor for signs of abuse. Anyone tried getting a coat on a 2 year old that refuses? This is state micromanagement of daily family life, and women in particular bear the brunt of it, because mostly they are the ones who deal with family stuff.

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
3 years ago
Reply to  Phil Shannon

Holy cow! They’re even telling you in plain sight, in the headline that the jibs don’t work but get it into new humans anyway…before their own immune systems even have a chance to fully develop.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago

Australia explores national digital ID
https://reclaimthenet.org/australia-to-actively-explore-a-national-digital-id-system/
By Ken Macon

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  Lockdown Sceptic

Australia explores national digital ID
https://reclaimthenet.org/australia-to-actively-explore-a-national-digital-id-system/
By Ken Macon

In the 1980s, a Labor government under Bob Hawke tried to bring in an Australia Card. Politicians from his own party protested; a Labor senator resigned.

It was called a “Hitlercard” or a “Stalincard”, and denounced as a gross invasion of privacy. There was resistance even from within the public service, and the idea was shelved.

It was a different country.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

Hawke called a double dissolution election in 1987. He cited the Australia Card as one of the triggers for the DD, and then ignored it throughout the campaign.
As I recall, John Howard tried to get some focus on the issue but the media didn’t follow him.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

Once Hawke realised it wasn’t creating a patriotic desire to have an Oz Card, he more or less dropped it.

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

Hawke was a patriot. It was his one redeeming feature to those opposing him.

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vivaldi
vivaldi
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

Now it’s a ‘test country’ for the Five Eyes group….see what the public accept and then introduce in the other 4 members.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  vivaldi

Perhaps in some respects – not in all.

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Londo Mollari
Londo Mollari
3 years ago

Is the quotation from Rowan Williams irony or some genuine form of pronouncement on religious faith? If the latter, then he’s bonkers.

On an an an entirely different matter, it is being reported on interwebs that a senior US military guy, General Roger L Cloutier, has been captured fighting alongside Azov Battalion butchers in Mariopol.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

I’ve seen a report of his death there on March 28. He’s listed as having assumed command of NATO’s Allied Land Command in August 2020.

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TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

Begs the question, what was a US general doing in the Ukraine? And he wouldn’t be alone, there would be a whole staff contingent with him.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  TheTartanEagle

And not any US general either. The head of NATO’s Allied Land Command was in Mariupol.

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Steve-Devon
Steve-Devon
3 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

”If the latter, then he’s bonkers.”
it’s the latter he’s bonkers!

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Londo Mollari
Londo Mollari
3 years ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

Thank you – I’ve been looking into this.

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
3 years ago

“We must take back control of our strategic industries from China” – Kim Jong-Johnson must stop driving business away with his obese communist fraudulence.

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A passerby
A passerby
3 years ago

Epilogue: I got Covid or something

More or less same symptoms recently, didn’t bother seeking confirmation, skipped my usual weekly 40-60 mile cycle rides in favour of doing nothing. Every immune function probed and tested, one after another. Upper respiratory cough most annoying part. Recovered after a week. While out cycling, noticed sense of smell missing, that returned in a couple of days. Unvaccinated, age 66. Only treatment R.E.S.T.

Last edited 3 years ago by A passerby
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wryobserver
wryobserver
3 years ago

The HART response to the Covid enquiry is barely a response to Covid-19,although it is a vey comprehensive response to SARS-CoV-2.

in terms of examining treatment it refers to two vaguely useful drugs but fails entirely to ask to examine the delay in instituting a diagnostic regime and treatment with two things that do work – steroids and tocilizumab – for which the theoretical rationale already existed.

Never mind. I have.

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A passerby
A passerby
3 years ago

My electric car journey from hell shows buyers must beware

I’m considering buying a pre 2000 car. My current diesel with sensors and computer/s appears to function more as a cash cow for garages, with constant vague warnings of impending doom unless I take it to a dealer bend over and receive a good kicking in the wallet. I’ve heard electric vehicles are worse. Owned a lot of cars in the past and they just worked.

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JohnK
JohnK
3 years ago
Reply to  A passerby

It often seems to be the case that faults outside the warranty time are expensive given the hourly rates for workshop time at the dealers. A few years ago I had a couple of temperature sensor failures on a diesel car that chewed into my account that way – easy to find faults like that by franchised dealers; not so easy for some.

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harrystillgood
harrystillgood
3 years ago

On the ‘everything is under attack’ theme are we not doing the one think which might produce fruit?

That is, STOP focusing on facts, science and (my)truth. And start focusing on the deeper problem making these things useless.

Anyone around here interested in going along that path to freedom?

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago

“Australia Planning to Vaccinate Children Newborn to Age Four While Heavily Vaxxed
Population Faces Largest COVID-19 Case, Death and Hospitalisation
Surges
” – Australia’s vaccine injury compensation claims scheme
expanded recently to children under four years of age, as health
agencies Down Under prepare for COVID-19 mass vaccination of babies,
reports TrialSite News.

They’re jabbing BABIES?

How utterly depressing.

We failed.

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watersider
watersider
3 years ago

A question for Toby and anyone in the know.
What has happened to James Delingpole?
Has he retired or is he unwell?
I miss him.

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MrTea
MrTea
3 years ago
Reply to  watersider

He does podcasts here –
https://delingpole.podbean.com/

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JXB
JXB
3 years ago
Reply to  watersider

He appears from time to time at TCW (The Conservative Woman) site.

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ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
3 years ago
Reply to  watersider

JAMES DELINGPOLE JON RAPPOPORT..
https://www.bitchute.com/video/bJuR2Eeg8uru/

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paul parmenter
paul parmenter
3 years ago

“Swamped NHS mental health services turning away children, say GPs” 

But you can bet they won’t be turned away from having their experimental jabs.

It’s all a matter of priorities.

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MrTea
MrTea
3 years ago

‘There are still 8.6 million people who had a second vaccine at least three months ago but have not yet come forward for a third dose, reports the i.’

Perhaps they are waking up to the vaccine dangers or maybe having had their second stroke they are now unable to drag themselves to the vaccine clinic?

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