- “Boris Johnson: NHS crisis would have been worse without Covid lockdowns” – “People are now saying too much lockdown caused the current problems in the NHS,” said Boris, quoted in the Telegraph. “I am afraid to say that the opposite is the case in the sense that if we hadn’t locked down… then the problems we are facing now in the NHS would be even worse”
- “Boris’s ex-spinner Lee Cain hits back at Rishi over lockdown claims” – Former No10 spin doctor Lee Cain has attacked Rishi Sunak’s recent comments on the shortcomings of the lockdown policy, MailOnline reports, branding them “Covid revisionism” in a letter to the Spectator
- “First it was Sunak, now it’s Shapps – who’s next?” – Time for Recovery’s Brian Monteith wonders which Government minister might be next to say that Britain should not lock down again. There were, he writes, at least two other cabinet ministers doing their own research to sense-check the advice from SAGE
- “CEPI and the guilty men behind global lockdown – Part 1” – The first instalment of Paula Jardine’s investigation into the part that the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations played in the global rush to lockdowns, published by the Conservative Woman
- “Why didn’t more people resist lockdown?” – “I’m all for holding officialdom accountable for mistakes from on high that continue to generate dire consequences,” says Lionel Shriver in the Spectator, but “should the public not also be held accountable?”
- “#Together ‘Question Time’ First Anniversary event” – Watch the #Together campaign’s first anniversary event, featuring Luke Johnson, Dr Steve James, Adam Brooks, Toby and many more
- “It is unwise to rule out lockdowns as a weapon against future pandemics” – In Conservative Home, Henry Hill questions the wisdom of ruling out future lockdowns or any other policy response which “could be efficacious against a future plague which spreads by different means”
- “Excess mortality in children from 28 European countries.” – Tom Jefferson, Carl Heneghan and Jason Oke sound the alarm on rising rates of child mortality in Europe and call for an investigation into potential causes
- “Which Last Longer, Spike Proteins or CDC ‘Facts?’” – A potted history of CDC’s web page about the mRNA vaccines and the “constant churn of revisions” that have been made since it was first published, provided by Jon Sanders at the AIER
- “Lockdowns and the Loss of Love and Family” – Writing for the Brownstone Institute, Mark Oshinskie laments the loss of the “many fateful romantic encounters” which simply did not occur thanks to the lockdowns
- “Three months of N.S.W. data show it’s not the unvaccinated in hospitals with Covid” – Rebekah Barnett wonders if New South Wales Health quite realises that there are barely any unvaccinated patients being hospitalised with Covid. There were just 21 over the last three months, she reports, 0.2% of the total
- “Here’s how the vaccine is causing those weird ‘blood clots’” – Steve Kirsch explains the connection between vaccines and blood clots
- “Documents leaked from the EMA confirms why we aren’t allowed to analyse the vaccine vials” – Steve Kirsch again, highlighting evidence on vaccine risks that was revealed by a data leak from the European Medicines Agency nearly two years ago
- “Ba.5 Booster’s ‘8-Mice Trial’ Actually Failed” – The FDA has just approved the new bivalent jab which targets both the original virus and the Omicron variant, but it’s “uniquely dangerous”, says Igor Chudov
- “NHS general practice has passed the point of no return” – “Solutions to the crisis in general practice can only be discussed when the stakeholders agree that our GP system is irrevocably broken,” argues Consultant Surgeon J. Meirion Thomas in the Telegraph
- “Oops: Alaskan Electric Buses Run Out of Power in Winter” – Watts Up With That picks up on the story of the first electric buses to run in Juneau, Alaska which have been experiencing mechanical problems since their launch in April 2021 and did not holding their charge long enough to complete an entire route during the city’s winter
- “The Other Big Con – Net Zero Climate Change” – A rant by Doug Brodie of Nairn on Joel Smalley’s blog Dead Man Talking. “Our misguided climate and energy policies have been pushing up energy prices and electricity prices for years”
- “The elite’s green fantasies are finally unravelling” – “The desperate scramble for fossil fuels now makes the posturing of COP26 look almost otherworldly,” says Fraser Myers in Spiked
- “NCLA Suit Uncovers Army of Federal Bureaucrats Coercing Social-Media Companies to Censor Speech” – A press release from the New Civil Liberties Alliance announcing a new lawsuit over the way numerous U.S. Federal Government officials “secretly communicated with social-media platforms to censor and suppress private speech”
- “Google to bans apps containing ‘misleading health claims that contradict existing medical consensus’” – Google Play has introduced sweeping new rules to ban apps containing “misleading health claims that contradict existing medical consensus, or can cause harm to users”, Reclaim the Net reports
- “Australian Academy of Science Demands Dissent be Silenced” – Watts Up With That takes aim at the Australian Academy of Science which has “demanded that ‘disinformation’ about climate change, the great barrier reef, and Covid vaccines be censored from broadcast news and the internet”
- “Woke police have completely lost the plot” – The police need to be “out on the streets arresting criminals” writes Iain Duncan Smith MP in the Telegraph. “Not acting like social workers, ferrying people to hospital or virtue signalling on Twitter”
- “As a statue of Joe Orton is scrapped, is anything safe?” – Plans for a statue of gay playwright Joe Orton have been shelved indefinitely, causing Mick Hume, writing in the Daily Mail, to wonder if anybody can ever be safe from the “statue-smashing, history-erasing thought police”
- “Wind farm contract delay diverts £1 billion in savings from consumers” – Consumers could miss out on more than a billion pounds of energy bill savings from the world’s biggest offshore wind farm, the Times says, after its owner delayed a contract to provide cheap power from the project
- “Last orders: U.K. pubs brace for mass closures as energy costs soar” – Reuters reports that thousands of British pubs are fearing financial ruin this winter
- “Putin has pulled off a shock win that could destroy the free world” – “Britain is now in grave danger of falling into Vladimir Putin’s trap,” says Alistair Heath in the Telegraph. His kamikaze economic war is “beginning to inflict immense, permanent damage on the Western way of life”
- “Snooker engulfed in transgender row after former world No 1 calls for Jamie Hunter to be banned” – Snooker is the latest sport to be caught up in a trans row, the Telegraph reports, after transgender player Jamie Hunter was met with calls to be banned from the women’s game after winning the U.S. Open
- “‘Thanks a bunch, Tony‘: Boris Johnson hits out at Labour’s ‘abject failure‘ to invest in nuclear power” – The Telegraph reports that, in one of his final acts as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson took aim at Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg for their failure to invest in nuclear power
- “Blair v Cameron on Nuclear Power“ – Tides of History looks back at a Queen‘s Speech Debate on Nuclear Power between Tony Blair and David Cameron. Tony said he was in favour of it. Cameron and co are ambivalent
— Tides of History (@labour_history) September 1, 2022
Blair v Cameron on Nuclear Power
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I wonder if Chris is planning a critique of this week’s BBC TV’s Panorama programme on Climate Change? One interesting aspect of the programme was the examination of alternative methods of trying to regulate the climate (shades of Canute) where some concerns were stated on the wisdom of such attempted manipulation and the possibility of dangerous unforeseen consequences of such meddling.
The meddling you describe, is a terrifying prospect.
There is another programme on BBC about this crap complete with the tosser Rowlatt next week that will be worth avoiding for your own sanity.
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The excellent Frank Haviland.
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/islam-farages-achilles-heel/
Farage has been flaky since he pushed for Bliar to be awarded the job of “Vaccine Tsar” – God help us – but his recent comments on islam have pretty much drained my hope from this man.
There can be no pallying up with Muslims, they want to destroy us and our country. War against muslims might not be official but it is where we are at and Farage won’t acknowledge this. A friend commented that he might be playing the long game, the problem is we haven’t got the time.
Reform are nothing more than pseudo tories.
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
Yes he got a lot of stick online for that comment, though it was about 50/50 because some were defending him saying he has to be careful politically, yadda yadda. I appreciate he may choose to proceed with caution when commenting about Islam and the now significant Muslim population that the UK bent and treacherous governments have welcomed with open arms ( though the British public have had thrust on them, having not voted for any of this replacement guff ), as not every politician is ready to live like Geert Wilders over here, but I do wish he’d be a bit more forthright on issues and basically take a leaf out of John Prescott’s book, especially where the weaponizing of certain food and drink items come into play;
”John Prescott just being John Prescott.
A far cry from today’s scaredy-cat politicians, too afraid to have an opinion in case they upset a snowflake.
And he did deserve that kicking..”
https://x.com/AvonandsomerRob/status/1859527790426476836
Politico made that point a few days ago, and showed some videos of Farage before & after regarding Islam. A stark difference. Not sure I could vote for them again with the Trojan Horse of Islam in his Chairman. Not that he doesn’t speak well and agree on other subjects. We can’t agree on everything after all.
I wonder whether urban development is the cause of lower wind speeds? The anemometers now being sited in places where the natural wind flow is disrupted by new buildings.
1966: oil gone in 10yrs
1967: dire famine forecast by 1975
1968: overpopulation will spread worldwide
1969: everyone will disappear in a cloud of blue steam by 1989
1970: the world will use up all its natural resources by 2000, urban citizens will require gas masks by 1985, nitrogen build-up will make all land unusable, decaying pollution will kill all the fish, killer bees, ice age by 2000 and America will be subject to water rationing by 1974 and food rationing by 1980
1971: new ice age coming by 2020 or 2030
1972: new ice age by 2070 and oil depleted in 20yrs
1974: space satellites show new ice age coming fast, ozone depletion and “Great peril to life”
1976: scientific consensus planet cooling and famines imminent
1977: department of energy says oil will peak in the 90s
1978: no end in sight to 30yr cooling trend
1980: acid rain kills life in lakes and peak oil in 2000
1988: regional droughts in the 90s, temperatures in DC will hit record highs and Maldives will be underwater by 2018
1989: rising sea levels will obliterate nations if nothing is done by 2000 and New York City’s West Side Highway will be underwater by 2019
1996: peak oil in 2020
2000: children won’t know what snow is
2002: famine in 10yrs if we don’t give up eating meat, fish and dairy and peak oil in 2010
2004: Britain will be Siberia by 2024
2005: Manhattan will be underwater by 2015
2006: super hurricanes
2008: the Arctic will be ice free by 2018 and Climate Genius Al Gore predicts an ice free Arctic by 2013
2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles says we have 96 months to save the world, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown says we have 50 days to “save the planet from catastrophe” and Climate Genius Al Gore moves his 2013 prediction of an ice free Arctic to 2014
2013: the Arctic will be ice free by 2015
2014: only 500 days before “Climate chaos”
2018 A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels by 2023…Greta Doomberg.
2019: Hey Greta, we need you to convince them it’s really going to happen this time
2020 Greta Thunderberg global warming will cause temperatues to rise to 80 degrees celsius and drown 80% of the population.
2024 Greta still alive.
2024 WEF
A succinct summary of the latest religion, man-made climate change
There’s always been a big market for irrational belief and false prophets
‘Peak Oil’ every year since the 1920s in fact.
Hydrocarbons have zero to do with ‘fossils’ or ‘devonian algae’.
So much ‘science’ is just so much stupidity.
The Climate Hasn’t Changed
Homewood observes that sea levels have been rising at between 1.3mm and 2mm a year around the U.K. after taking into account vertical land movement …
So, all around UK you can measure a sea-level rise of 2mm (0.08 inches)? To what degree of accuracy (2𝜎 values)?
I am aware of satellite measurements becoming ever more accurate but to that level? The data will have been collected over multiple years but sea-level (tidal) variations would have to be taken into account, data collection possibly from multiple satellites, satellite orbital data inaccuracies and so on and so forth.
All very interesting work but one wonders if the final results do not indicate that the measurements, presumably spanning not that many years, are at the limit of their usefulness/credibility.
I stood in Ephesus which was a port and the home of John and Mary for eg. I stood in the centre – it is 3 miles from the Med. In ancient times I would have been 0.5 mi from the harbour. What sea level increase exactly? Or is it subsidence? In reality land is demised and will flatten. This gives the impression of a sea level rise.
It is logical that sea and ground levels rise during interglacials (the latter due to being relieved of the massive weight of ice) but, as you write, there will be many local factors to take into account. And I think an extrapolation into the future of what will not be a linear reaction is pushing it a bit, especially when you are in the mm range. Whatever. I was in Ephesus ages ago – an amazing place.