- “We’re all now paying the terrible price for lockdown” – Jonathan Sumption writes in the Telegraph that an historic failure of Government during the pandemic set a ticking time-bomb not just under the economy, but also in health and education.
- “The Tories are doubling down on a failed economic model that is condemning workers to penury” – The party’s strategy of propping up pensioners and the welfare state via high taxes and mass migration is not sustainable, writes Juliet Samuel in the Telegraph.
- “Effects of COVID-19 and Human Interventions in Care Homes: Part 3” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson look at what studies show about the causes of excess deaths in care homes.
- “Real time obstetrician/gynecologist’s data on new patients and miscarriages for 2021 and 2022” – An obstetrician passes some worrying data from her practice to Jessica Rose that show an alarming increase in the miscarriage rate in 2021 and 2022.
- “How the Collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX Connects to Ukraine, Covid Mandates, the WEF and Dodgy Democratic Party Election Funding” – Maajid Nawaz joins the dots in the world of woke corruption.
- “Sam Bankman-Fried and the Pandemic Industrial Complex” – Michael Senger on the “cynycism of the modern political machine of which Sam Bankman-Fried was a part”.
- “Hudson Bay Sea Ice Freeze-Up in 2022 Like the 1980s for the Fifth Time Since 2015” – This is the fifth year out of the last seven that enough sea ice has formed along the west coast of Hudson Bay by mid-November for bears to be able to head out to the ice, reports Susan Crockford in WUWT.
- “Judges for Just Stop Oil” – Luke Gittos in Spiked on how our legal system gives a green light to disruptive eco-protesters.
- “The climate scaremongers: Health chief caught lying about heatwave deaths” – Paul Homewood in TCW Defending Freedom on Dame Jenny Harries’ climate misinformation and other climate news this week.
- “Electric car owners have been duped by big government” – So much for electric cars being cheaper to run than petrol or diesel ones, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph, as the “lovely incentives” vanish with a wave of Jeremy Hunt’s hand.
- “‘Stochastic Terrorism’ Is About Suppressing Free Speech” – The Left’s latest gambit for censorship is built on preposterous grounds, writes Christopher F. Rufo in City Journal.
- “Cancel culture has taken over Society of Authors, claim writers” – The Society of Authors has been “lost” to cancel culture, members fear, after free speech rebels failed to oust the current chairman or pass a motion in support of free speech amidst a row over gender ideology, the Telegraph reports.
- “Bid to cancel education conference on classroom indoctrination fails” – Parents, teachers and university lecturers have been booted from a venue they booked months ago to debate the “creeping politicisation” taking place in the Scottish education system, reports the Scottish Express. Rob Lyons writes about it for Spiked.
- “Wide and Lasting Consequences: Teachers Give Girls Higher Grades Than Boys” – SciTechDaily reports on a recent study of tens of thousands of students and their teachers that found girls are often awarded more favourable grades than males with the same academic abilities.
- “Kathleen Stock wins free speech debate at Cambridge” – The philosophy professor faced down the protests – and won, writes Naï Zakharia in UnHerd.
- “Oxford University’s outgoing Vice-Chancellor says it is ‘unfortunate’ that students believe in the ‘right not to be offended’” – Oxford University’s Vice Chancellor Professor Dame Louise Richardson said there’s an “unfortunate” view among undergraduates that they can’t be upset by opposing opinions, reports the Mail.
- “How have 12 years of Tory rule left us with ruinous taxes, a migrant crisis and rampant wokery” – Dominic Sandbrook in the Mail asks, after 12 years of Conservative Government, what on earth has it all been for?
- “The implication is if you don’t have your electronic vaccine certificate on your phone, then you won’t be able to leave your home. It’s very sinister” – Watch Toby on GB News react to the G20 agreeing on “shared technical standards” for proof of vaccinations.
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Once again, this demonstrates that the youngest of the population was hit the hardest – disproportionally.
Imagine having already taken your theory test and passed, only to find out, through no fault of your own, you have to fork out for another one along with additional lessons, all because the government decided to abandon it’s pandemic strategy and locked down the country needlessly.
The issues arising from a locked down country are only now really rearing their ugly heads: suicides, depression, NHS waiting lists measuring years, hugely reduced population immunity, failed businesses, etc.
Which is severely affecting some youngsters employment chances. My son and next doors son (both 21) are in this situation, luckily they have Mums who will/can be taxi not all are so lucky. We live in an area where many jobs are not accessible by public transport. As if having their education f**ked up for the last 2 years wasn’t enough.
Early during Lockdown lite (last summer) I met a young chap who had to take two lengthy bus journeys to get to work in a distribution centre.
Previously he had made the much shorter cross country journey on his motorbike.
Sadly his Provisional licence was ‘timed out’ since the DVSA were not conducting tests because lockdown. Not only that but so had his theory test so, when the DVLC finally got back to work, he would have to start from scratch.
I posted about it at the time here at Lockdownsceptics under the general topic of unintended consequences.
Ed. Exactly as described by JIGR1969 above at the very same time of posting
I doubt this is news to the majority of us who predicted from the start many of, if not all, the problems we are encountering now. Whenever anyone brings them up I do not hestitate to tell them that they are a consequence of lockdown policies and all associated restrictions.
Likewise, lost count of the number of times someone has blamed their misfortune on the Covid when in reality it was caused by lockdown. They require remaining.
“Hundreds of thousands of learner drivers are waiting up to 24 weeks to take their test in some parts of the UK due to a backlog caused by the coronavirus pandemic.”
DM as usual playing its part in maintaining the panicker propaganda.
An honest, but cautious, way of expressing the truth would have been:
“Hundreds of thousands of learner drivers are waiting up to 24 weeks to take their test in some parts of the UK due to a backlog caused by
the coronavirus pandemicthe government’s policy choices in response to the coronavirus“.Much more honest and accurate would be:
“Hundreds of thousands of learner drivers are waiting up to 24 weeks to take their test in some parts of the UK due to a backlog caused by
the coronavirus pandemicthe government’s panic over-reaction to the latest new cold virus to hit humanity“.That Lockdow/Covid Pandemic willful ‘confusion’ has been an irritating constant from politicians and the media since April last year.
There’s a better word than ‘confusion’ that I can’t recall offhand, confabulation or something.
Yes, “if you fuck up or just don’t wish to do something, just blame the pandemic” has been the mantra from day one.
It’s shocking that nobody up there is talking about the “moral hazard” from tolerating this sort of attitude (which was quickly picked up from politicians by all other sorts of tossers across society).
“Moral hazard” used to be a big topic during the financial crisis (if we rescue the bankers, they will just laugh at us and keep behaving the same or worse), but somehow these concerns have completely disappeared during The Pandemic.
Along with the concerns about limitless resort to the magical money tree…
Could have been worse
It’s ok. It’s pointless to get a driver’s licence anyways, since under the New World Order we won’t own cars and we will depend on public transport.
Yes but you will be happy
even if it takes a lot of medicating.
Public transport needs to get a lot better then. Son works at a power station, no public transport services it. He and the other young engineers drive or they run out of workers and we all run out of power.
Coincidentally the govt will likely announce silly e-scooters can be driven on a provisional licence, and blammo, the push towards a prohibition on cars for the plebs moves ever closer,
In a video showing yesterday’s Halloween March in London the seried ranks of ‘boris bikes’ can be seen. Not one of them in use.
Similarly, when the regime forced motorcycle training to halt, and 2-year Compulsory Basic Training (CBT) certificates started to expire, there was a back-bench, genuinely cross party motion to extend them. Amazingly, even my own socialist MP agreed to support it, on the basis that Poors are likely to rely on small capacity motorcycles and scooters, and that it would allow nothing more than riders continuing to do what they’d already been doing safely for 2 years.
Of course, the regime laughed it off and said no, you have to do another training course. Except, you can’t, because we shut the training centres down. Tough.
https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/news-and-views/news/2021/february/government-refuses-cbt-extension-during-lockdown
https://www.bitchute.com/video/40Ho2GR6t86Z/
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