- “Health officials back Omicron-specific booster jab for the Autumn” – The Mail reports that GPs in Britain have been told that the NHS is preparing to start its booster campaign on September 1st, with officials expressing a “definite interest” in a new Moderna vaccine.
- “Covid returns to Wuhan as Xi praises China’s Zero Covid policy” – A pair of port workers in Wuhan have shown signs of asymptomatic infection in the most recent confirmed cases in the Chinese city where the virus first emerged in 2019, reports the Mail.
- “Save our babies from the jab” – TCW Defending Freedom publishes in full the letter from 78 U.K. doctors to the Medical and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) setting out comprehensive reasons why infants must not be jabbed in Britain.
- “Covid shots for little kids are DOA” – Alex Berenson is glad to report that despite fawning media coverage, uptake of the vaccine for infants has been pitifully low.
- “The Insufferable Arrogance of the Constantly Wrong” – Clayton Fox in Brownstone with a detailed rundown of all the messages from mainstream scientists and media that even they had to subsequently admit were false.
- “Are pockets of Covid in the gut causing long-term symptoms?” – Scientists are investigating whether reservoirs of virus ‘hiding’ in the body are contributing to Long Covid, according to the Guardian.
- “The End of Political and Ideological Allegiances” – Dr. Pierre Kory in Brownstone says that tribalism and polarisation have made our political and medical discourse nasty and divisive, but doctors must be kept above the partisan fray.
- “On Covid, schools, and the death of the liberal expert class” – Alex Berenson summarises analysis in the New Yorker that found opposition to school closures, mask mandates and lockdowns marked the beginning of new political movements and divisions in the U.S.
- “Is the West really prepared to pay the price of defeating Putin?” – One minute the pundits believe Ukraine will win, the next we are warned that Russia is winning. But what does ‘victory’ mean – and is the West really prepared to pay its price, asks Professor Mark Galeotti in the Times.
- “Prepare for gas rationing this winter, factories told” – The National Grid warns it may have to impose “involuntary” restrictions on supplies, according to the Telegraph.
- “Satellite Data: coolest monthly tropics temperature in over 10 years” – The latest monthly global temperature update from Dr. Roy Spencer on Watts Up With That? See also Christopher Monckton’s write-up: “The New Pause Lengthens to 7 Years 10 Months”.
- “Antarctic fish growing grotesque skin tumours thanks to climate change” – Report in the Mail on a bizarre study which claims the fish’s ocean habitat is warming for the first time in 20 million years – even though global temperatures were warmer than the present as recently as a few hundred years ago.
- “‘We have to drive a lot less’, says Chris Boardman, the PM’s new travel tsar” – The Telegraph reports that the ex-Olympic gold medallist has been given £2bn to encourage motorists out of their cars – the Government spending even more money it doesn’t have.
- “Jacob Rees-Mogg scraps ‘absurd’ Civil Service diversity training” – The minister says departments must provide courses that actually help people in their daily work, not “wokery”, reports the Telegraph. Good luck with that.
- “Single-sex lavatories to be mandatory in all new public buildings” – Kemi Badenoch, the Equalities Minister, insisted it is legal and “important” to provide separate facilities for men and women, the Telegraph reports.
- “Scout Association faces backlash over new ‘trans fun’ badge for members as young as four years old which have been slammed as ‘inappropriate’” – Youngsters were also offered a “bisexual fun badge”, a “lesbian fun badge” and a “Pride fun badge”, reports the Mail.
- “The Church of England is obsessed with racial self-flagellation” – Michael Mosbacher writes for the Spectator that the Church of England has been displaying distinctly masochistic tendencies of late, with the latest race report telling the Church to make amends and offer “reparation and redress” for assets it may have accumulated originating from the profits of slavery.
- “How the BBC was captured by trans ideology” – The Corporation has forgotten about its duty to be impartial, says Charlie Walsham in the Spectator.
- “Human rights and legal wrongs” – Niall Gooch in the Critic asks why British legislation doesn’t protect free speech.
- “How the smoking ban ruined Britain” – It’s been open season on our lifestyle choices ever since, says Christopher Snowdon in Spiked.
- “‘Victory for transparency’: Oxford University must reveal Stonewall’s influence over its policies” – Scores on diversity efforts from the controversial workplace scheme must be disclosed, the Information Commissioner has ruled, according to the Telegraph.
- “Ideology has poisoned the West” – We are living through a dictatorship of ineptitude, says Jacob Howland in UnHerd.
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Chris Boardman wtf ! Two F- – – ing Billion pounds !!… To do what ? That’s enough money for him to go to every car owner & confiscate their car keys ! Must be another loan off uncle Klaus !!
I mentioned yesterday that it was a shame that following the introduction of “pay to comment” here we had lost some of our most prolific and valuable commenters.
While £5 is a very low barrier to commenting, especially given the huge value this website brings, and I don’t blame the DS for introducing a charge – the authors atl have to make a living and hosting websites professionally costs money – I also don’t blame those whose comments might make them “a bloody menace” in the eyes of the authorities and have therefore chosen not to pay up.
Requiring payment removes anonymity – we need to provide real life banking details which allow someone to be traced fairly easily if the authorites are determined enough.
People might call me a conspiracy theorist to think that – but if so, just look at what has happened to the level of authoritarianism in this country over the last two years, and look at the trend towards removing anonymity more widely on the internet, and the desire the authorities have to label pretty much anything said on the internet which upsets someone to become a criminal offence.
..you could be right, but I’m sticking with Edward Dowd…’either we win or it’s the Gulag’…..I’m not trying to sound glib, but I think I decided a while ago that I’d stick my colours to the mast and be damned!
Even Mr Gum, the ‘quiet half’ told a neighbour who was complaining about catching Convid…again, that she could expect to catch it a lot more if she carried on getting stabbed!!
We are ‘out’ and I don’t think we have any intention of going back ‘in’….
Yes I feel the same way now and am now posting under my own name on Twitter. It’s time to put heads above parapets!
Yes…I don’t start anything, but for months now I’ve been making comments if people start with the Covibollocks…masks, lockdown, jabs etc..and thanks to Sceptics both ABL and BTL, I’m pretty full of knowledgable stuff!……and I don’t give a stuff if they think I’m nuts.
funnily enough most of them are coming around to the fact that they’ve been conned…well plenty I know are…
It is not the amount of money, I have donated and presumably have done so enough to still be allowed to comment. It is somehow the concept of pay to comment and the fact that I generally avoid all regular subscription payments unless I cannot avoid them. I will probably donate again at some stage but will not sign up to a monthly account and so on the basis that I might be struck off at any moment I tend to do more of my discussions on the Reddit site.
More dramatic birthrate declines, this time Sweden.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/swedens-birth-rate-dropping-precipitiously
The cat already had a closer look at it. No Bueno. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/swedish-birth-rate-data-what-does
Thanks. The fact that it is consistent with data from several other countries points to it being genuinely worrisome.
Fish with growths and lesions. And how do they know it’s not caused by pollution?
Chris Boardman and 2 billion quid! Is that a misprint? It’s all very well encouraging motorists out of their cars, but if I want to do my weekly shop I have no choice but to drive. It’s a 20 mile round trip to the nearest big supermarket and, in common with large swathes of this country, there is NO public transport at all. Some villages that did have a decent service have found them cut massively (mostly by Stagecoach, it has to be said) or amalgamated routes so they have become useless and time consuming.
The government would do better giving the money to certain supermarkets so they can reinstate their shoppers buses. These were very popular and many people in this village were distraught when Tesco withdrew theirs.
…yes, so much is London centric….they forget what it’s like for the rest of us. I live only three miles from the nearest ‘busy’ town, I can’t get a bus after 5 p.m !!
And I’m surrounded by freaking giant hills….
2 very good reads:
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/coronamania-and-liking-america-less
https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/pandemania-part-1?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
‘We have to drive a lot less’, says Chris Boardman, the PM’s new travel tsar”
Why?
“We” usually actually means “You” in these situations.
On yer bike Boardman.
…exactly! Because if you don’t you’re selfish..you’re killing Polar Bears…you’re selfish if you don’t wear a mask, get jabbed, you’re selfish if you don’t stop eating meat…same if you forget my pronoun, blah! Fu****g blah!
I am sick to the teeth of being battered with this crap, and I suspect the majority feel the same…..they won’t be happy until we live in caves grubbing for worms….
Thank God for the occasional rebels….they give us all hope….
https://petersweden.substack.com/p/farmer-protest
VIDEO: Dutch farmers spray manure on town hall in protest of climate plans
Cheers e by.
https://brownstone.org/articles/are-the-covid-mrna-vaccines-safe/
Kulldorff on the Fraiman study.
For most, the risk/benefit ratio of them is negative.
Pandemic logic
Covid is a multi system disease affecting your heart, lungs, brain and all major organs.
That’s why most people who get an infection show little to no signs of such damage.
A deep dive into the history of the organisation orchestrating the lies, manipulation & cull.
Challenges everything one has been taught & values one has held.
https://crazzfiles.com/the-khazarian-mafia/
Heavy stuff ! It’s dated two years ago so will anything change , will Snowden’s info come out 🤔
The Government appear to have released some early papers from SPI-M-O
this one from 3/2/2020….
“This is SPI-M-O’s statement on the possible impact that potential interventions could have in delaying the spread of a UK epidemic of 2019-nCoV, were there to be widespread outbreaks in other countries. SPI-M-O were asked to consider whether any combination of these interventions would be expected to delay the start of a UK pandemic (or its peak) by a month.
SPI-M-O’s view was the impact of any intervention would be highly dependent on the patterns of transmissibility.”
interesting to note a couple of things….
on school closures they conclude…
…. mass school closures could increase the overall attack rate if done at the wrong time.
Mass school closures have a large cost in terms of parental absenteeism as well as foregone education.
and on masks….
The wearing of facemasks by the general population is unlikely to meaningfully reduce transmission.
hmm….