- “Pfizer seeks authorisation for updated Covid vaccine, without fresh clinical trial data” – Pfizer and BioNTech have announced they’ve asked the FDA to authorise a new booster shot targeted at Omicron, reports Stat. They also said that a clinical study investigating the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of the vaccine is expected to start this month
- “The SARS-CoV-2 transmission riddle – Part 3” – An explainer from Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan on the “insanity of mass screening with PCR in the absence of sufficient information and detailed follow-up of each person tested”
- “Philippine students return to school for first time since Covid” – Students in the Philippines have finally returned to the classroom, the BBC reports, after one of the world’s longest school closures
- “Disastrous impact of Covid on children is ‘at risk of being forgotten’” – Former Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield says discussions about moving to a three-day school week this autumn are a major “red flag”, according to the Telegraph
- “Inside the mind of one of my very smart pro-vax friends” – Steve Kirsch relates an encounter with a pro-vax friend who “gets his belief system from the mainstream media”
- “Cold comfort for Sturgeon’s Covid hypocrite” – “There is no place for cough crime in our statutes,” writes Niall McCrae in the Conservative Woman as he reflects on the news that Margaret Farrier M.P. was “convicted for having a cold”
- “Where did the pandemic start? Anywhere but here” – “China now insists the pandemic didn’t start within its borders,” reports Jon Cohen, a writer for Science. “Its scientist are publishing a flurry of papers pointing the finger elsewhere”
- “Four things I want to know about the origin of Covid” – In the Washington Examiner, Epidemiologist Andrew Noymer asks four questions about the origins of COVID-19 which, he reckons, probably won’t be answered as long as the Chinese Communist Party is in power
- “Lockdown Architect Anthony Fauci Quits to Write a Book” – The Brownstone Institute bids a not-so-fond farewell to Dr. Anthony Fauci
- “Downfall: Anthony Fauci Resigns” – Michael P. Senger noticed that Dr. Fauci’s resignation letter does not discuss the response to Covid, and so he has filled in the missing text himself
- “Lifetime Government bureaucrat resigns, following 54 year career of corruption, deceit, death and destruction” – Jordan Schachtel expresses some surprise that Dr. Fauci does not intend to retire but to move on to the “next chapter“ in his career
- “Unknown Cause of Death? Our Latest Propaganda!” – A special report on ‘unknown cause of death’, a malady which has become the leading cause of death in the Canadian province of Alberta, courtesy of the inimitable JP
- “Polio spread in Israel, U.S., U.K. highlights extremely rare risk of oral vaccine” – The recent outbreaks of polio in New York, Jerusalem and London are linked to the oral vaccine, according to the Times of Israel
- “How we fell for antidepressants” – “Irrespective of the benefits of antidepressants in individual cases,” writes Theodore Dalrymple in the Spectator, “I suspect that their overall cultural effect, when prescribed almost in the way that hypochondriacs take vitamin supplements, has been, like that of psychoanalysis, negative or harmful”
- “Lithium lies” – “Ecars, wind turbines, solar panels, and batteries are doomed by 2025,” says Spectator Australia’s Flat White
- “There Is No Climate Emergency: So Say Us All” – William M. Briggs explains why along with more than 1,100 scientists and other professionals he signed the World Climate Declaration
- “Free Speech In Crisis” – Claire Fox kicks off the new-look Academy of Ideas newsletter with a rallying cry in defence of free speech
- “Andrew Tate: free speech is for twats too” – “Censorship is always more dangerous than the thing being censored,” says Fraser Myers in Spiked. “And the rantings of Andrew Tate are no exception”
- “Meet the British charity boss who supports the fatwa” – Writing for Spiked, Rakib Ehsan investigates the Islamic Human Rights Council, whose chair Massoud Shadjareh praised the Fatwa on Sir Salman Rushdie as recently as a year ago
- “Poison pens: leading writers call for overhaul of U.K.’s Society of Authors” – The Society of Authors stands accused of taking the side of trans rights activists who want to censor authors who disagree with them, the Observer reports
- “Trans prisoner who impregnated inmates tried to remove her testicle” – Trans prisoner Demi Minor has revealed that she was sent to the emergency room last week after trying to remove a testicle with a razor, the Daily Mail says
- “Cathy Boardman: Lecturer in trans row sues over ‘sacking’” – Cathy Boardman is suing the BIMM Institute in Brighton, the Times reports, over claims that she was forced out of her job because of her stance on trans issues
- “AI flags father with nude photos of his ill child to show doctors” – A father used his phone to share a picture of a rash on his son’s groin with a doctor and was subsequently locked out of his Google accounts and investigated by the police for potential child abuse, according to MailOnline
- “How Could We Have Been So Naïve about Big Tech?” – “There is no longer any doubt at all about the symbiotic relationship between Big Tech – the digital communications industry in particular – and government,” says Jeffrey A. Tucker at the Brownstone Institute
- “Apple workers say going back to the office would stifle ‘inclusion and diversity’” – A group of Apple Employees allege that the company’s leadership did not consider “the unique demands of each job role nor the diversity of individuals” when it required staff to go back to the office, the Post Millennial reports. Sounds like something in the Babylon Bee!
- “Energy bills ‘to hit £5,300 by April’ amid calls for price cap freeze” – A forecast by energy consultancy firm Cornwall Insight says energy bills could be capped at £5,341.08 in April next year, MailOnline reports, while the figure for January’s cap is expected to be £4,649.72
- “U.K. inflation to almost double to 18.6%, economists warn” – Citigroup has predicated that inflation will almost double to 18.6%, the Telegraph says, which could force the Bank of England to raise the interest rate to 7%
- “The monstrous NHS bureaucracy cares more about saving itself than patients” – “The health service is stuck in a vicious circle, whereby it only avoids collapse by failing to treat the public,” writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph
- “Colin Wright has been suspended from Twitter” – Reality’s Last Stand highlights the absurdity of Twitter’s rules against hate speech
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That too could backfire & morph into a digital ID for children, the very society which needs to be avoided at all costs, for their ‘safety’.
It will be tracking & tracing of children. Truly terrifying.
How about parents take some responsibility for setting up controls? Difficult to do? Yes. But parenting isn’t easy.
treason
/ˈtriːz(ə)n/
noun
the crime of betraying one’s country.
The abuse of our language becomes more aggregious day by day so I thought it pertinent to provide a dictionary definition and this is from ‘Oxford Dictionaries.’
Is anybody, certainly on here, under any allusions that our government is and has been for over 2.5 years acting daily in a treasonous manner?
We are being insulted, betrayed, denigrated, laughed at on a daily basis. Just one example from yesterday, the F & C spending, whoops ‘investing,’ £11.6 million, or was it billions, and who cares, in taking over coffee plantations in Mexico. Yet this government knows very well that people in this country will shortly be facing live or die questions such as ‘heat or eat.’ If this is not bald, naked treason I don’t know what is.
Would it be surprising if the BBC even now was rehearsing some funeral footage or doctoring some old Stalingrad films in order to present the nation’s dire Winter plight? The queues outside the soup kitchens doubling as warm centres and the pitiful sites outside food banks.
Let’s be in no doubt and no need to corrupt our wonderful language, we are being assaulted and betrayed by a treasonous government.
Government = Mafia
I wish I felt this wasn’t an eternal truth.
Knowing this makes a lot of things easier to understand and deal with.
I’ve posted this before but it bears reposting as it seems to me an excellent from the horse’s mouth insight into how these people think. It’s from Michael Wendling of the BBC disinformation unit, in answer to a complaint I made about unbalanced reporting of an early anti-lockdown protest. He clearly doesn’t see his customers as adults and he’s not ashamed to admit it.
“Of course those who believe in conspiracy theories are not going to call their beliefs conspiracy theories, and are going to call themselves mainstream, moderate people.
We viewed footage of the speakers and spoke to people who were there.
We have no obligation to give a platform to erroneous ideas. We don’t, to take an extreme example, broadcast the manifestos of mass murderers alongside police statements so that people can “make up their own minds”.
I’m not saying the people there were violent. Some of them were (as the story reflected) were drawn by legitimate concerns. But the speakers (Mr Icke and others) were not expressing mainstream views that would benefit from airing and debate.”
It’s that 1% again… 99% are worried about energy costs, rising prices, jobs, crime/policing, education, medical care, but top of the agenda for the 1% is climate change, ‘misinformation’, Russia/Ukraine, gender/homosexuality, racism, hate speech.
Indeed
A nut job conspiracy theorist would think that small groups of powerful people are manipulating the narrative and pushing the 1% issues for their own ends
I have a YouGov account and every second survey has questions about sustainability and diversity etc regardless of the subject- they want to make people think these things are what we should be worrying about
Why do you have a YouGov account?!
I started during covid when they kept quoting polls that said the public supported lockdowns. I thought I should try and correct the imbalance. I’ve carried on doing the same thing with questions regarding their or their clients’ woke agendas. They give you a bit of money from time to time, though that’s not my main reason for doing it.
Fair enough. I tried that for the same reasons but the endless questions about B list personalities was eroding my brain.
I’ve never heard of any of them so I just switch off for those bits
I find it an interesting insight into what the enemy are thinking
I would pay good money to know the extent to which all the woke agenda type questions are requested by clients or suggested by YouGov staff. I reckon mainly the latter as they are almost always worded the same.
The left are better at pushing their causes in general because they find the most abhorrent opponents to their causes and then paint everyone who doesn’t support them with the same brush.
If the right did the same thing then anyone who even said a peep in favour of the Online Safety Bill, even if the views were reasonable like wanting to make sure children didn’t see pornography, then we would loudly and aggressively call them totalitarians.
Our “problem” is that we don’t do that. We try to engage reasonably. But of course it’s a losing battle. We’re bringing knives to the fight while they’re bringing semi-automatic assault rifles.
Funny you should mention this, because this popped up in my YouTube suggestions today and Victor Davis Hanson from just under 4 minutes in has some interesting things to say on this subject: Victor Davis Hanson: This is why the left feels ‘morally superior’ – YouTube
Good stuff. VDH is a legend. I love the clarity with which he conveys his messages.
Unless some mandatory, digital ID scheme which can’t be forged, at least not easily, is introduced, there’s no way to determine if someone sitting in front of a web browser is legally minor or not. Hence, it makes ‘fuck all’ of a difference if this bill is said to be about child protection or about the proper rearing of wild Tibetan donkeys. The effect will be universal censorship by default in order to ensure that no unsupervised children can ever access something the goverment says they must not access.
Policing their children’s behaviour is responsibilty of the parents.
“Policing their children’s behaviour is responsibilty of the parents.”
Absolutely, and there are already lots of tools available to help with this, though I still think the best approach is to talk to them, set an example, and trust them as long as they repay that trust.
Precisely. To see what happens when it goes wrong, look to the publicity given to Ian Russell
Yes, but where ARE the adults these days, hm?
I would argue that the greatest source of misinformation in the last 50 years has been the US Government.
The list of prohibited subjects will be attached in a Statutory Instrument because that can be amended almost immediately by a Minister if “there is an emergency” – with no oversight by Parliament whatsoever.
It will be a Dictators charter.
We have been bombarded with misinformation by the Government for the past 2 years but they have sought to silence whistle-blower experts who were challenging the official narrative. That alone is proof that an Online Harms Bill should never go ahead. It will silence dissenters and critical-thinkers. It’s the equivalent of the Medieval Inquisition and the ban on the Bible being translated from Latin into languages ordinary people could understand for fear it would “challenge the Priesthood.”
But how can we posibly disagree with more censorship when Ian Russell is assuaging his feelings of guilt over his daughter’s suicide by emoting all over the MSM?