- “England’s cancer backlog ‘could take more than five years to clear’” – MacMillan estimates 32,000 fewer patients than expected have started their first treatment since the start of the pandemic in England, the Mail reports.
- “Going to school ‘non-negotiable’, warns Nadhim Zahawi in crackdown on truants” – Teachers will be ordered to produce plans for tackling absenteeism now classes are operating normally after lockdowns, the Telegraph reports.
- “‘Work is no longer a place’: Civil servants revolt against back-to-office directive” – Hundreds of senior and middle-ranking mandarins across Government departments back motions to continue flexible working, according to the Telegraph.
- “The hidden dissent inside Zero Covid China” – Shanghai has mounted an unlikely resistance to Beijing’s diktats, says Leng Ping in UnHerd.
- “Britain is stuck in a priggish world of Covid Puritanism” – Starmer had a chance to reflect on the lunacy of the lockdown rules; instead he continued to moralise, writes Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “Lockdown backlog has left thousands of children without dental care” – At every step of the lockdown journey, the nation’s children have seen their lives stagnate, their futures decimated and their health both physically and mentally plummet, writes Luke Perry in Bournbrook.
- “NHS Covid test scam costing victims thousands of pounds” – One couple lost £20,000 when a fraudster phished details from a fake website, the Telegraph reports.
- “Covid ‘not more likely to cause depression than other infections’” – Oxford University researchers found the risks between developing psychiatric disorders in the long-term were ‘similar’ between people with Covid and other severe acute respiratory illnesses, the Mail reports.
- “Broadway star Patti LuPone lays into crowd member for not wearing mask” – The two-time Tony award winner berated the individual in the audience who supposedly did not have her mask pulled all the way over her nose during an after show talkback, the Mail reports – in the latest evidence that Covid rules are a petty bully’s delight.
- “Democrats Silent as Republicans Rip Into Secret Royalty Checks to Fauci, Hundreds of NIH Scientists” – A non-profit Government watchdog has estimated that Anthony Fauci, former NIH director Francis Collins and hundreds of NIH scientists got as much as $350 million in undisclosed royalty payments from pharmaceutical and other private firms between 2010 and 2020, according to the Epoch Times.
- “The Lockdown Sceptics at the WHO” – Does Sweden have the lowest excess mortality in Europe? Does Germany have a higher excess mortality than Britain? Not really, but apparently even the WHO seems to think so, says the Swiss Doctor.
- “Hypervaccinating gigamasker Bill Gates tests positive for SARS-2” – Strange how this keeps happening, says Eugyppius.
- “Shift in COVID-19 Vaccine Market from Volume to Targeted Boosts” – With a confluence of forces, from COVID-19 vaccine gluts to increasing numbers of producers and leeriness of waning effectiveness, the market drivers, heavily driven by government, give way to an unfolding new reality, says TrialSite News.
- “Scientists question the point of swabs up everyone’s nose: ‘We might have overdone it” – The claim was that mass testing would stop the pandemic in its tracks, and it hasn’t, write Nikolaj Skydsgaard and Jennifer Rigby in the National Post.
- “Students deserve a full, normal uni experience, with pre-Covid levels of face-to-face teaching” – Read the report from UsforThem on the lamentable normalisation of online lectures.
- “BlackRock is right to abandon eco-activism” – Profit, not posturing, is what matters to investors, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Rafael Nadal says it is his ‘job’ to defend Russians banned from Wimbledon” – Rafael Nadal proclaimed it was his “job” to defend banned Russian and Belarusian players after the ATP Player Council called for Wimbledon to be stripped of ranking points, the Telegraph reports.
- “Fears for historic street names as communities can vote to change them” – The Mail reports that the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, which was in the Queen’s Speech, will enshrine a name change vote in law – but will local activists scrape together enough support to change them anyway?
- “This new bill is a golden invitation to activists who want to censor content online” – Watch Toby on Triggernometry on the legion problems with the Online Safety Bill.
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*palmface*
Come on DS, you’re either having a good old chuckle while posting these links as ‘scepticism’ or you’re taking the piss out of the rest of us.
Eh? These both seem like useful stories to me. Surely we need some good news in amongst the other griping at the establishment’s errors.
Rafael Nadal. Good for you for properly speaking out against the oh-so-righteous Russian player ban at Wimbledon. Now please make my month by getting the top-20 players together and boycotting the tournament entirely.
He’s found his lost balls, then?
Pity the tw*t didn’t take the same stance about a certain ludicrous ban in Australia.
It is very strange but I do not remember British players being banned from Wimbledon (or any other sports event) when Black Demon Blair took us into Iraq or when Cameron (may his soul rest in pieces) took us into Libya.
If any such suggestion had managed somehow to get reported in the British media, the hypocritical refrain would have been “Let’s keep politics out of sport”.
The Wimbledon tournament gets millions of eyeballs on TV; it’s attended by members of the British royal family and by filthy rich “high net worth individuals” of various types if they happen to be in London at the time (it’s part of the social “season”), as well as by various not quite so filthy rich types cashing in their bribes; it’s a big “soft power” thing – what with the BBC, posh accents, straight backs, British military personnel in uniform, talk of continuity and tradition, etc. – so I can confidently predict there will be lots of blue and yellow references in support of the Kiev regime’s war effort. They wouldn’t want Russian and Belarusian players publicly turning their backs.
Somewhere along the line there has almost certainly been “Russian” “oligarch” money at Wimbledon. I don’t know where, but up until a short time ago “Russian” “oligarchs” went down like strawberry and cream and Landrovers in British social elite circles.
Big sport is a filthy business. There’s no reason to think Wimbledon is any less filthy than the National “Football” League in the USA, or that international tennis is any cleaner than international association football.
Novak Djokovic has been great though. Credit where it’s due.
Like Marcus Rashford, Nadal should stick to playing his sport rather than signalling his virtue constantly. Russians and Chinese for that matter should be banned from all international sport until Putin is put to the sword and that rubbery faced chink condemns him
Today it’s Bill Gates, yesterday it was Stephen Colbert.
At least Bill Gates didn’t dance for the vax.
What I don’t understand is why the very people responsible for coercing and bullying others to not just get the jab but keep getting any further jabs that are offered, go straight to social media to basically broadcast the fact said products are totally ineffective. I mean, that’s what they’re doing by telling the whole world, first on some virtue signalling trip by declaring they’ve had the shots ( complete with pic! ), then by sharing that they’ve got Covid after receiving multiple shots. Politicians in the UK do this regularly too. It’s weird, like they don’t get that they’re sending the wrong message. “Make sure to go and get your vaccines that demonstrably don’t work. You too could catch Covid despite being triple jabbed!” Wouldn’t you think people would keep that sort of info to themselves? Their behaviour is contradictory and abnormal.
Spot on. I’ve been wondering this for some time. Those I know who aren’t jabbed have had ‘it’ once (or presume it was ‘it’ as they also eschew ‘tests’) and the jabbees keep getting ‘it’ – several times.
But why, as you say, do these silly, shallow people broadcast the fact? I think the drug does something to their thought processes.
Well if I was wanting to encourage people to get a jab and instill confidence in them to come forward I’d definitely be leaving out the part where I contracted Covid despite being “fully vaccinated”. Especially given politicians/powers that be lie ( inc by omission ) as part of their job description, but on this occasion they’re guilty of being too honest! Very strange. But let’s be honest, anyone who’s not been jabbed thus far is hardly likely to cave now. We’ve all managed to survive the ‘virus apocalypse’ and live to tell the tale so any further badgering will fall on deaf ears for the likes of us, it’ll be instead directed to those already jabbed to keep on lining up like farm animals for their next inoculation, which doesn’t actually inoculate. Even these numbers will dwindle with time as each booster is rolled out.
But I did have to laugh at Gatesy. What a shining advertisement he is for his own product! Albert Boula’s wife was another recent glowing endorsement of how “highly effective” their pseudo vaccine is. Pff!
‘Contradictory and abnormal’? Our politicians? No, no, that can’t be the case.
They’re actually telling us none of it is real or that it works. I take the view that it’s “All In Plain Sight”. Yes, I believe they are using elements of Freemasonry to tell us exactly what is happening, for those with eyes to see, of course. Those that dont, they’ll say “well we did tell you!”, hoping that this will “redeem” them, as they take their believers down a path of no return! Of course everything is back to front. Hold a mirror to most of what is being said and done, and you’ll see the truth.
Which elements of freemasonry?
They’re not trying to persuade people using logic. They’re
Not the Nine O’Clock (or any O’Clock) News, but important: Finland and Sweden will soon be announcing their positions on NATO membership.
Some points to consider?
Scott Ritter; Ukraine, Finland and Nato, a Warning to the People of Finland (bitchute.com)
Meanwhile, Britain extends its nuclear umbrella to Sweden and both Bozo and Sweden say relations with Putin can never be normalised. I guess if Putin was replaced by Shoigu they would not be normalised either.
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/05/11/uk-and-sweden-say-relations-with-putin-can-never-be-normalized/
Yes – who, precisely, do they want as President of Russia? Who would they find pleasing and acceptable?
Shoigu is way too smart and competent, and Medvedev has proved to be terribly disappointing. Perhaps they can find a comedian they like somewhere.
Even Medvedev has woken up from his enchantment with the West.
Another nutter posting from his bedroom?
What room in the house do you use to post?
Our ‘office’. One half is her patchwork/sewing workspace/desk, the other half is my ‘domain’. I like to think of myself as ‘not a nutter’ – but, who knows?!
Finland’s President on the TV News this morning saying that the Finnish Government doesn’t like Russia telling Finland what it may or may not do, so they are aiming to join NATO just to show Russia that they are ‘independent’ and can do as they please. He said Russia started it in the first place, by saying they wanted to absorb all former bits of ‘Russia’ back in – and as Finland was under Russian rule for 100 years (until 1917) Finns are getting nervous.
My guess is that Finland will join NATO, several politicians will get backhanders for this, and that will be about it. With only 5.5 million residents in Finland there’s still plenty of room here… it’s the population in the UK that needs reducing with 80 million all squished up.
I hope you don’t live close to Finnish or soon-to-be “NATO” military infrastructure. Perhaps consider a move out to the country in the near future…..
You should read this MP’s reply to Tina Brooker of Unity News Network regarding The WHO Pandemic Treaty
The WHO Pandemic Treaty – An MP’s Response
unitynewsnetwork the-who-pandemic-treaty-an-mps-response
(Adam James Harold Holloway is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gravesham since 2005.)
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“OurNHS” really is a wonder, isn’t it? Huge backlog of cancer patients, some of whom will undoubtedly die before starting or finishing treatment.
Hospitals that are still messing about with covvitests and quarantines, thus delaying treatment still further. Hospitals that will only permit one visitor for the duration of a patient’s stay, and won’t let anyone be accompanied for so much as a diagnosis visit, thus adding to the stress and misery of the whole situation. Heck, if you have cancer, that surely takes priority over an illness with a 99.7% recovery rate….except if you are “OurNHS”, when covid beats everything else.
And as for dentists, NHS dentistry is all but gone where I live. It’s go private or go on some sort of plan that costs you over £35/ month for 2 check ups and a hygienist visit. On the face of it, you can still pick NHS treatment, but if you do, you will be offered one appointment, if that date or time doesn’t suit, you cannot change it – you will go back to the end of the list to wait for another appointment. This was made very clear to me. So not just children who can’t get to see a dentist!
“The envy of the world”? Yeah, that’s why no other country has copied the NHS model.
“The laughing stock/embarrassment of the world” more like. And what’s going to happen going forward? They’re always going to be playing catch up now, especially if any restrictions are reimposed in the upcoming winter. GPs not seeing people face to face…how many things are getting undiagnosed or misdiagnosed as a result? It’s malpractice and it’s negligence. I’m horrified every time I hear stories of the state the NHS is in. People needlessly dying due to not being seen in-person sooner…just “collateral damage”, tough shit!!
And aren’t they still enforcing mask wearing in these settings? If ever there was a time I’m glad I pay so much for health insurance it’s now. They’d never get away with that here ( NL ), as we pay 150 euros/month each so if we wanna see a GP or consultant we’ll damn well see one. And no muzzles necessary either!
The Netherlands still don’t seem very keen on people visiting or travelling through without ‘proof of vaccination’ or ‘proof of recovering from Covid’:
“Tourists and foreign travellers from countries inside the European Union/Schengen area can travel to the Netherlands. An EU entry ban is in effect for people from countries outside the European Union/Schengen area. There are exemptions to the entry ban. Travellers from inside and outside the European Union/Schengen area have to check what documents they need before they travel to the Netherlands.”
https://www.government.nl/topics/coronavirus-covid-19/visiting-the-netherlands-from-abroad/checklist-transit-or-short-stay
“If you do not live in the EU, you are subject to the EU entry ban and cannot travel to the Netherlands, unless you can show a vaccination certificate.”
Yes it is all very illogical and hostile. Pure control, obviously. I know an expat who needs to get back to Ireland before the EU travel pass comes in July 1st. Ordinarily people with kids travel home in the summer vacation but god knows how she’s going to wangle getting her 3 kids out of school in term time as that incurs hefty fines here unless circumstances are exceptional, i.e death in the family. None of her family are vaxxed or are supporting the ‘vax pass’ bollocks, and how many other families living abroad is this scenario playing out for? I know people who’ve succumbed under duress just so they can get home.
In Australia, many of us were very proud of our health service. Note the tense. Who can trust a health service anywhere that made such a balls-up of the past two years?
Doctors and nurses who tried to stand up for evidence-based medicine were victimised, with the active collaboration of those “services”.
A medical professional of my acquaintance was reported by one of his patients for saying inappropriate things about Covid, and is now awaiting his fate. He was not involved in Covid treatment, so he can’t be accused of not using approved protocols. His crime was that of not toe-ing the official line.
Who wants to be “cared for” by good bureaucrats?
FFS, turned in by a patient…
I know they’re fearful of it – it’s the first time I’ve encountered it.
The patient is disgraceful; so is the professional body that accepted the complaint, instead of telling this revolting zealot to go away.
And the list gets longer every day as hundreds of illegals arrive by dinghy from the northern coast of France, escaping the war in France. Those Ukrainian refugees will be needing dental treatment too.
It could be time to invest in a new toothbrush, a tube of Aquafresh, an electric drill and some putty!
An ice skate was good enough for Tom Hanks in Castaway!
These dental plans sound a bad deal. I have two checkups and hygienist visits a year and pay direct, around £75 a time. £150 a year against your £420. At least my private dentist is working more or less normal, unlike the GP.
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RE:4th jab: “Powers that be” must have got bored and found something else to play with.
MIL aged 97 has not heard a thing or been contacted concerning the above, meanwhile her 77 year old neighbour (fully paid up lockdowner and maskateer has tried at least 3 times to get said jab and each time found the venues closed or unmanned (sorry, unpersoned).
You’ve gorra loff ay yer?
But seriously the PTB don’t seem bothered now whether the “vulnerable” get these”lifesaving and essential” vaccinations anyway.
Hunger and war will do the same job.
And freezing to death when you can’t afford the heating. Luckily winters in the UK are mild, and you can spend all day in the library or riding round on the Circle Line to keep warm.
I don’t have any crypto but seems to me that the market is being undermined at the moment by an attack on pegged USD crypto.
Where will it end up?
What’s the motive?
Black holes exist, at least in space but not satisfied with that, NGO’s, together with the creator/s of a hoax virus have manufactured a metaphorical one here on earth and it is sucking all rational thought and common sense from humanity
”…Teachers will be ordered to produce plans for tackling absenteeism…”
Does that include the absenteeism of teachers themselves? I understand there are still many of them.
Re Gates saying he’s ”tested positive” – why the need to tell anyone? Or is there more to it? ”Look! Here’s that next wave coming! Back into your bunkers, peasants. ”
Truly the Gates of Hell.
Presumably that’s how long it will take for all those who have been denied treatment until too late to die?
Here is how the Kiev regime’s defence ministry vilely laughs at Russian soldiers’ deaths:
This event by the way didn’t happen in Ukraine. It happened on the Donetsk-Luhansk border.
Imagine soldiers serving Rump Britain invading a newly independent Scotland because Paul Eddington from “Yes Minister” told them to.
Swiss Doctor doesn’t impress me. The theme of his analysis is his own brilliance.
Within Europe, one pattern is that Eurozone countries have been consistently more authoritarian than the others, whether the UK, Switzerland, Scandianavia or Eastern Europe, which all led in the wave of removal of regulations this Spring.