- “Ryanair suffers £300 million annual loss” – Ryanair has suffered a £300million annual loss thanks to the pandemic – and has warned any recovery could be grounded by further Covid variants or Ukraine, the Mail reports.
- “Hundreds of students stage protest at Beijing university in lockdown” – In Beijing – which has reported more than 1,000 infections in recent weeks – most restaurants and public spaces have been shut and millions face daily testing and working from home, the Mail reports.
- “Jacob Rees-Mogg’s attack on fixed penalty notices is too little, too late – The problem with FPNs and PCNs is they have unleashed a culture in which police, councils and other authorities of the state have been able to extract large sums of money from the public for very minor infringements of laws and bylaws – without any proper right to appeal, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “British workers leads the world in refusing to return to the office” – New figures from Work From Home Research show the U.K. now tops the table of nations where workers would rather quit or find a new job than return to the office five days a week, the Mail reports.
- “Fraudulent Trial On Ivermectin Published By The World’s Top Medical Journal” – Dr Pierre Kory with a comprehensive critique of the Together trial, published in the NEJM, which he calls “fraudulent” and “designed and conducted to launch anti-ivermectin headlines across every major media outlet across the world”.
- “Can We Now See that Economics Does Not Diverge from Public Health?” – They wrecked social and market functioning and cannot fathom why we have a demoralised population, a mental health crisis, falling financials, soaring inflation, and shortages of goods and services that are essential to life, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker at the Brownstone Institute.
- “Bank of England chief issues ‘apocalyptic’ warning about food prices” – Governor Andrew Bailey revealed how further food inflation was a “major worry” for the central bank, with particular concerns about wheat and cooking oil, according to the Mail.
- “MPs maintain push for action over ‘questionable’ research” – A proposal by politicians in Denmark to establish a national body to monitor ‘questionable’ research is unlikely to be adopted any time soon, according to University World News, but there are “fears that negative public perceptions about the integrity of university-based research might emerge from all the noise”. Heaven forbid.
- “UKMFA Open Letter to NHS General Practice Managers re Face Mask Requirements in GP Surgeries” – The U.K. Medical Freedom Alliance calls upon all NHS General Practice Managers to make face masks optional for all staff, patients and visitors, with immediate effect.
- “Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Associated with Dramatic Decline in Antibody Protection Just Weeks After Second and Third Dose” – Investigating the impact of two and three mRNA-based does on 128 people, a Danish team found levels of Omicron-specific antibodies waning in strength after the second and third Pfizer jab, reports TrialSite News.
- “Covid: What we have learned” – Many who identified themselves as being on the ‘mainstream’ Left found that the mainstream Left wanted nothing to do with them, culminating in what may be an irreconcilable rift, says Phil Shannon on Left Lockdown Sceptics.
- “A live attenuated vaccine confers superior mucosal and systemic immunity to SARS-CoV-2 variants” – The robust immunity elicited by the live-attenuated-virus vaccine candidate sCPD9 was evident in a wide range of immune parameters after challenge with SARS-CoV-2 including rapid viral clearance, reduced tissue damage, strong systemic and mucosal humoral responses and rapid recall of memory T cells from lung tissue, according to a new study in BioRxiv.
- “Vladimir Putin threatens ‘response’ if Nato military infrastructure deployed in Sweden and Finland” – The Russian President’s comments come after the Deputy Foreign Minister says Nordic nations’ decision to join will have “far-reaching consequences”, the Mail reports.
- “Russian propaganda has reached new depths of insanity” – The Russian media is not just a mouthpiece but an actor within the regime, and currently it is normalising talk of nuclear annihilation, writes Jade McGlynn in the Telegraph.
- “Why Russia needs to be humiliated in Ukraine” – Too little was learnt from the collapse of the Soviet Union, says Sergey Radchenko in the Spectator.
- “Humiliating Russia is not good foreign policy” – Russia is not going to disappear as an energy exporter that can fund a substantial military force and large nuclear arsenal, and endless sanctions and continual proxy wars will create a resentful garrison state, with more revanchist nationalism and desire for payback, says Ben Friedman in UnHerd.
- “Woke Yale Law Students call to ostracise conservative classmates” – Yale Law students responded to the leaked Supreme Court opinion on Roe v. Wade encouraging each other to harass and intimidate their conservative peers, the Mail reports.
- “Are Black Lives Matter and Antifa really Marxist?” – The problem with describing BLM, Antifa, and like-minded movements as Marxist is that they hold little in common with, and much in opposition to, the ideas that we find in Marx’s writing, according to History Reclaimed.
- “Elon Musk praises Netflix for crackdown on woke workers” – Last week the LA-based streamer dished out a new memo to staff telling them if they are offended by content the company is working on, they can quit. In a response, Musk tweeted, “Good move by @netflix”, the Mail reports.
- “The show must go on: Netflix confronts its offended staff” – It appears that the Board of Directors has concluded that appeasing the whims of a minority with a disproportionately loud megaphone is not a good business practice, writes Luke Perry in Bournbrook.
- “Is this the end of the ‘thought police’?” – Perhaps the police are starting to realise that the way to improve their relationship with the public is to tackle the crime that is actually being committed against them, rather than shaking more of them down over spicy Facebook posts, writes Tom Slater in the Spectator.
- “Social media platforms should make algorithms public” – Algorithms amplify and suppress content, creating harm, yet are shrouded in secrecy. The draft Online Safety Bill should force Big Tech to declare how algorithms work, writes Laura Dodsworth.
- “The West is wilfully abandoning its world-conquering principles” – To defend liberty around the globe, the Free World must cherish the very values that are the secret to its success, says Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “Pro-Grooming Disney’s Favourability Rating Plummets 53 Points In One Year” – NBC News buried a devastating poll finding about the shamelessly inappropriate content-pushing at Disney, writes John Nolte in Breitbart News.
- “Why are progressives so afraid of Right-wing comedy?” – A new book warns that it is a ‘monster’ the Left can’t ignore, writes Ben Sixsmith in UnHerd.
- “J.K. Rowling backs feminist campaigner who was ‘assaulted’ by balaclava-clad trans activists” – Aleks Kovacevic says she was threatened with arrest by Greater Manchester Police despite being attacked as she peacefully protested, the Mail reports.
- “They portray trans-people as fragile victims threatened by burley feminists, yet here they are at this demonstration dressed up like ninjas trying to be as intimidating as possible” – Toby on GB News answers whether aggressive pro-trans activists are setting back their own cause.
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That reminds me, did Extinction Rebellion and Insulate Britain and the rest get around to protesting at the Chinese embassy? And no doubt their Chinese branch is bringing havoc to Peking…
Good morning, Hugh.
In an attempt to find an answer to your question, I googled Extinction Rebellion and lockdowns.
i discovered that they want “to hold the mainstream media to account” for “consistently failing to tell the truth about the climate and ecological emergency”. I’m not sure whether they find them reliable on other issues, and – to be frank – I don’t particularly care.
Good morning! One you might be able to help with below…
It never ceases to amaze me how we are supposed to believe that we will improve the climate by closing our coal mines whilst continuing to import masses of goods from China (and then of course there’s India’s coal policy – no wonder it is cheaper to get telephone sales people from India!).
“Who’s On the Line? Indian Call Center Agents Pose as Americans for US‐Outsourced Firms”“employees are asked to subsume different national identities as part of the job.”
My friend in the USA once had a call from someone with an Indian accent announcing themselselves as ‘Floyd’.
“Your name’s not Floyd!” she said.
“The ‘Liberal’ Prime Minister of Australia, for example, facing a national election in two weeks, is crowing that “40,000 people are alive today because of the way we managed the pandemic” (Left Lockdown Sceptics)
Sod me, if that is true, Sweden had followed Australia’s example, they would surely have broken records for low mortality (instead of only having slightly below average mortality from January 2020 to June 2021)!
Incidentally, have any covidians compared Sweden with their neighbours lately? Makes interesting reading…
Superb article by Phil Shannon:
Covid: What we have learned – Left Lockdown Sceptics
Scotty from Marketing faces the electorate this Saturday. He appears to have regarded his last election win (in 2019) as a miracle of God, indicating that he is in personal favour.
The polls then showed that he was going to lose. Polling methods have changed as a result; but once again they are predicting that he will lose.
He is not popular. His nickname reveals what people think of his style and his trustworthiness. One of the few things it’s been easy to get general agreement about is that his “management” of anything in the last three years has been a joke.
The people who “managed” were the Premiers – and this is going to make Saturday night interesting. People do vote on state issues in federal elections. Those angry with a Labor Premier (like Dan Andrews or Mark McGowan) are quite capable of voting against Labor in a federal election.
Voting for the Senate (half of whom are up for re-election) will be even more interesting. Here, a state with a small population (like Tasmania) has the same number of Senators as a state like New South Wales. Minority candidates have a better chance of being elected.
Scotty’s latest line will be believed by very few (even in, or perhaps especially in his own party). But that might not matter.
For those who want specifically Oz details from Phil (complete with link to Scotty himself – in full marketing mode):
COVID SCHMOVID – by Phil Shannon – Lockdownunder (substack.com)
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His nickname? You mean “Scomo”?
“Scotty from Marketing” or “Scomo”. I use both, but I know people who refuse to use the shorter “Scomo” because they think it’s too amiable.
I like Scotty from Marketing AE. Sort of accurately states his real level in all of this.
‘Scotty From Up***king’ works fine for me.
Hey that’s our Phil! Excellent.
Well I always thought he had a very good way of writing. I shall have a read later.
Thanks for the link to Phil’s article, Alt. He’s done well.
People do vote on state issues in federal elections – damn right they do. I hope that Masky and Dan will be in frantic denial come Sunday, but it’s a fact.
Australians have copped it from both sides, stuck between Liberal and Labor, over the last two years. They have no reason to put their faith in either.
I’m sensing irritation with both. I’m hoping for a Senate that will jolt whichever is in government.
After last year, I’m wary about the polls. I think pre-polling has disrupted our sense of what’s likely to happen.
The 2019 federal election was a walk in for Labor – according to the polls. That does make me worry about the reported swing to the freedom friendly parties. On the other hand, people might be lying to the pollsters again and preferring Lib or Lab.
Informal polls, and the size of the turnout for the rallies last Saturday, suggest the majors will be getting a huge boot in the backside.
Yes. Anyone remember the Versailles treaty? History does teach us one thing though – that man (or huperoffwinter or whatever) learns nothing from history.
Yes, Ludwig Von Mises remembered that it was rarely enforced and not as severe as was claimed.
The real villain was German philosophy and Russia has long absorbed German philosophy.
Are these people going full on German Democratic Republic then?
I think once again of the “American” town where people get to vote for the wages of their local police – and consistently vote to give them high wages. In return, the police make jolly well sure that they tackle the issues that matter to locals. They do have some good ideas over there…
“Oh, but what a difference a year makes, a year filled with Disney coming out of the closet to openly advocate for schools to sexually groom prepubescent children with gay porn and anti-science transsexual voodoo.” (breitbart)
Ah. And you were saying about Rochdale, RS?
Disney should of course be boycotted, along with the likes of Starbucks.
“Disney should of course be boycotted, along with the likes of Starbucks.”
Some people on this site said they were going to boycott Tesco’s because of their Vaxx Pass Santa in the Christmas TV advert.
And then they didn’t. Out came the excuses: “It’s convenient” “It’s our nearest supermarket, the next one is 5 miles away…” “It’s not the fault of the staff, some of them are lovely.”
Reminds me of that comedian (presumably “left-“wing) who implied that supporters of UK independence from the EU are liable to be upset at having to treated by Nigerian nurses. In reality of course it is rather different, with some people with connections to the EU (which has been a terrible thing for many in Africa), and a UKIP member I met being an honourary leader of Nigeria’s Yoruba tribe. Now does anyone know any good jokes about left-wing comedians?
“Now does anyone know any good jokes about left-wing comedians?”
Not me, but undoubtedly there are more of them than there are good jokes by left-wing comedians…
Begs the question, why do we seem to see so many of them…
Greater Manchester police again! I remember those crooks previously attacked a blameless commuter at Salford station for not wearing a mask
“They portray trans-people as fragile victims threatened by burley feminists, yet here they are at this demonstration dressed up like ninjas trying to be as intimidating as possible” – Toby on GB News answers whether aggressive pro-trans activists are setting back their own cause.”
Now I wonder if it is a “non-crime hate incident” to talk about trans fat…
These are not trans people. They are vile brainless morons who currently use transexual people to project their venom against civilisation. I would actually describe them as fascists, ready to turn their hatred onto the next target minority group – perhaps this time it will be orthodoxy dissenters who will be the new Jews, and this scum will be manning the concentration camps.
There are remarkably few trans people and I would be very surprised if a significant number of them have anything to do with these “activists”.
It has long been understood that those with gender dysphoria are mentally disturbed. A six foot man with masculine features who claims he is a woman as he has always felt wrong is partially correct. But it’s manifestation as feeling you are the wrong sex is a creative attempt to avoid the underlying issues.
Like so much today what was accepted wisdom only twenty years ago is now seen as hateful.
Eloquent but largely opinion masquerading as facf.
“There are remarkably few trans people and I would be very surprised if a significant number of them have anything to do with these “activists”.”
Trans people would have nothing to do with these thuggish morons.
Russian propaganda plumbing new depths of insanity?
What a sick joke and yet another example of western projection. The West gives every impression of wanting a nuclear conflict, starting with NATO expansion, extending through tearing up the ABM Treaty and continuing on through its eight year bloody caper in Ukraine.
Sadly, the whole of the West’s legacy of the past five hundred years has been ditched in favour of the worst sort of excesses and depravity, and that includes the chief one, pride. Devilish pride, masquerading as self=righteousness.
Did I mention that the government and media propaganda of the last two years would have put Goebbels to shame?
It hasn’t taken them long to destroy the West has it?
Mention of Goebbels reminded me of this. Brian Berletic talks about contemporary attitudes to Nazism (a couple of days ago):
West’s Support for Extremism “Blows Back” in New York Shooting – YouTube
He starts with yet another American mass shooting, but heads straight to attitudes towards Nazism and the UN vote in December 2014. Only three nations voted “No” with regard to “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”.
Those nations were the United States, Canada and Ukraine.
There was mention in the general comments section yesterday (down in the basement of this site) of an old X-Files story, “Gender Bender.”
Mention of the X-files brought to mind the underlying theme of that series, how the Nazis escaped justice by way of Operation Paper Clip. It really begins to look as if these people, or their theirs to be more precise, are running everything in the West.
And the very people who think free speech is “nazi” are their biggest supporters.
Just saw this from Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst who worked in the US State Department’s Counter-Terrorism Section:
Azov Battalion Giving Up the Ghost in Avostal (sonar21.com)
You mentioned “western projection” above. The examples multiply constantly.
Quite the opposite. It is their enemy, the Bolsheviks who run the show.
Nazi’s ultimately evolved to believe in something like racial purity. Whatever you think of that philosophy it definitely didn’t endorse multiculturalism or the promotion of homosexuality, both features of today’s west. All pushed by an elite and rejected by ordinary people.
That’s the problem with simplistic labels used as weapons. They retard thought. Our country has been scheduled for demolition. We need precise clear insights if we are to prevent this.
Not projection at all, Russia is a heavily censored country and always has been.
The fact that the west is emulating Russia doesn’t mean Russia has free speech.
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At 100,000 signatures, this petition will be considered for debate in Parliament.
Lets make that number higher
Do not sign any WHO Pandemic Treaty unless it is approved via public referendum
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/614335
We want the Government to commit to not signing any international treaty on pandemic prevention and preparedness established by the World Health Organization (WHO), unless this is approved through a public referendum.
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I am not chuffed. Ask the zombies to vote on any such notion and they will howl for the WHO to rule every aspect, not just of their own miserable non-lives, but also of our real lives. Never entrust your safety to a walking corpse.
I’m with you Annie. Referendums, as we all know, can be manipulated and there are an awful lot of ignorant people out there who will believe the hype. If a referendum vote for the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty passed, it would give it additional legitimacy. We all know that the media will be blowing the WHO’s trumpet (in more ways than one) on this and it’ll pass. A very dangerous move. This treaty is undemocratic and against all our human rights. We should, we must resist this. Next thing, there’ll be WHO police and all the Health Marshalls enforcing our ‘protection’. This is tyranny the like we have never seen in this country. I would rather fight for our freedoms until my final breath than live under such a system.
I could almost guarantee, that other than GB News, we will not hear so much as a cheep out of MSM on this UNTIL the treaty is signed, and then, of course, the likes of BBC will present it as a “good thing”
Yes, like Benjamin Butterworth on GB News last night who said that he wanted the UK to sign the treaty so that the WHO could “keep us safe”.
Too many snowflakes would vote similarly without a proper understanding of the issues and what is really at stake. Far too risky for referendum.
However pressure needs to continue to be brought to bear to ensure UK stays out of the treaty.
40,000 petitions already thrown in the waste paper basket…. but this one will get through!
‘They wrecked social and market functioning and cannot fathom why we have a demoralised population, a mental health crisis, falling financials, soaring inflation, and shortages of goods and services that are essential to life, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker at the Brownstone Institute.’
On the contrary my dear Jeffrey these were the intended consequences of the entire affair, now that the ‘site’ has been cleared they can ‘Build, Back. Better’.
I wonder how many ‘trans activists’ are on the dole? One way to ward them off would be to wave a bar of soap in their general direction.
I don’t think they want anything other than to cause trouble – they are looking for a punch-up with anyone who disagrees with what they believe in which is… err… err.. err…. no-one really knows.
These are the kind of people who steal bicycles.
Well they believe the definition of the word ‘woman’; an adult biological female, to be offensive, that men can have babies and that J.K Rowling is the devil incarnate. These loonies give actual respectable transgender people a bad name. A bit like Muslims should not be judged by the psychopathic terrorist extremists, transgender people should not be put in the same category as these extreme nutters.
I don’t get the bar of soap reference mind.
Mentally disturbed people are generally not productive. The trans group in particular are characterized by extreme self consciousness bordering on obsession. Many gays are similar. Their sexuality is their defining feature.
Back in the real world you are judged by what you can produce. Anything that retards this causes you to fall behind. This in turn convinces the mentally disturbed there is some grand conspiracy at work.
What the hell are you smokin?
I used to appreciate your views but this one is off the scale looney tunes.
Here’s another one! LOL The man with nail varnish, a pink scarf covering his face and his female pronouns stitched onto his clothing loses his shit because the reporter thought he was a guy. Which he is! ROFL…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE2-WReCN8s
We need a version of The Gods of the Copybook Headings for wokesters.
They have all moved to the countryside. So they cannot work in the office. Commuting from say middle of a green field is nigh on impossible.
Leaked emails reviewed by The Grayzone reveal possibly
criminal plot by pro-Leave elites to sabotage Theresa May’s Brexit deal, infiltrate government, spy on campaign groups, and replace May with Boris Johnson.
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/05/15/operation-leaked-emails-intelligence-coup-boris-johnson/
This is our democracy?
Prediction: They go for the whistleblower not the culprits.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10820493/British-workers-lead-world-REFUSING-return-office.html
Johnson has always aimed for the U.K. to be ‘world leading’ …
““Are Black Lives Matter and Antifa really Marxist?” – yes, they are.
Antifa take their name from the communist paramilitaries of the Weimar Republic, BLM are explicitly Marxist and stand in solidarity with Marxist Cuba.
Sod off with your pretentious nit-picking.
Although, tbf, most members of these vile groupings are almost certainly too thick and ill-educated to support any sort of meaningful views on pretty much any issue!
And that is the result, in practice, of Marxism.
Marx denied, essentially, that man has a mind and his philosophy is hatred of the good for being the good. Once that premise is established and put into practice, the result must be and is destruction for the sake of destruction.
“Jacob Rees-Mogg’s attack on fixed penalty notices is too little, too late ” – correct, Ross Clark, lockdown is against British tradition and he did precious little to oppose it.
“British workers leads the world in refusing to return to the office”
Yeah, the problem with that headline methinks “British workers” how about ‘skivers union’?
“Jacob Rees-Mogg’s attack on fixed penalty notices is too little, too late
I’d take this article more seriously if it didn’t repeatedly refer to FPNs as “fines”, thereby illustrating the very serf-think that it professes to rail against.
You haven’t been “fined” until a Magistrate, Sheriff or Judge issues a ruling after conviction or a guilty plea. Until then all you have is a blackmail demand from some snivelling apparatchik.
We don’t live in Mega City One quite yet, and Judge Dredd (or Traffic Womble Anderson) do not have the power to issue “fines”. Tell them to shove their bit of paper, admit nothing, accept nothing, and let them make their case against you.
even if it does go to court and the judgment is against you, plead poverty and promise to pay at a penny /month.
“Are Black Lives Matter and Antifa really Marxist?”
Wrong ways around, they blm and antifa came out of the Frankfurt school playbook, critical theory was, is designed to atomize the west.
The woman who heads BLM in the USA, buying up her mansions, is a WEF alumnus….
Even more important is the question, “Are Conservative Party MPs and Ministers really conservative?”
[Spoiler: not in the slightest respect!]
‘“A live attenuated vaccine confers superior mucosal and systemic immunity to SARS-CoV-2 variants” – The robust immunity elicited by the live-attenuated-virus vaccine candidate sCPD9…’
‘Abstract: Vaccines are a cornerstone in COVID-19 pandemic management.’
No it isn’t… clearly it isn’t since actual viral infection has been adequately been managed by natural immunity and seasonality.
What we don’t need is yet experimental ju-ju medicine for a pathogen of no threat to 99.8% of the population.
The way to manage the ‘pandemic’ is to put all the politicians and experts in gaol.