- “NHS shut down more services during Covid than almost every European country” – Cancer-related surgery dropped by more than a quarter in 2020 compared to 2019, according to the latest data, the Telegraph reports.
- “Strep A surge linked to lockdown, health officials admit for first time” – The tally of children to die from the bacterial infection climbs to eight following deaths in Hampshire and Lewisham, London, according to the Telegraph.
- “More than 200,000 workforce dropouts report long Covid” – Telegraph report that the number of people who say they have condition is thought to help explain the U.K.’s labour crisis.
- “China to downgrade Covid from a serious contagious disease to help relax restrictions” – Businesses have been reopened and testing relaxed in Beijing and other Chinese cities ahead of an expected reclassification, the Telegraph reports.
- “China Covid: Xi’s face-saving exit from his signature policy” – Stephen McDonell writes for BBC News that “if you want to know what the Government’s plan is, look at what it does rather than what it says”, and points to the loosening of restrictions despite high infections.
- “Apple plans to leave China as Covid protests delay production of its products: Tim Cook could move factories to India and Vietnam after brutal lockdown at iPhone plant mean key deliveries won’t arrive in time for Christmas” – Apple is hoping, long-term, to ship up to 45% from India, according to the Mail, as China’s totalitarian Zero Covid policy makes the country increasingly unreliable for trade.
- “McCullough: Pandemic Won’t End Until Mass Vaccination Stops” – Dr. Peter McCullough writes in the Defender that research published in ACS Infectious Diseases shows mass vaccination against COVID-19 is backfiring as SARS-CoV-2 readily mutates and thrives in the vaccinated.
- “The great Covid and fags cover-up” – Christopher Snowdon writes in Spiked that “study after study shows that smokers are less likely to get Covid” – but this “inconvenient truth has been buried”.
- “Coming to terms: The Covid lockdowns were all for naught” – Dan Hannan in the Washington Examiner writes: “Across the world, we are in denial. We simply can’t bring ourselves to admit that everything we went through – the disrupted education, the spike in mental health problems, the ruined careers, the debts – was for nothing.”
- “The rate of respiratory infection among German children is now approaching 25%, as lockdowns continue to bear their awful fruit” – Without regular exposure to common pathogens, mothers can no longer confer crucial early immunity to their infants through breast milk, says Eugyppius.
- “My Latest Panel with Dr. Paul Alexander and Justin Hart” – Watch Michael Senger’s panel at the Brownstone Great Restoration Conference in Miami last weekend. A recording of the full conference featuring Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Dr. David Bell, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, Tom Harrington, David Stockman, Jeffrey Tucker and more is available via Epoch TV.
- “Responses to Freedom of Information Act requests reveal shocking disregard for children” – UsforThem writes that the masking of children was a political decision that was not risk-assessed for 17 months.
- “I was a happy, healthy postwoman. Two jabs later my life is hell” – Writing in TCW, Becky Vowler, previously a dedicated young postwoman, recounts her existence since her Pfizer jab and the utter failure of the NHS to help with her continuing extreme symptoms.
- “Covid confusion: reckless and illogical governments” – Dr. Philip Altmann writes in Spectator Australia that he has been “searching for nearly three years to find a reason to explain the apparent illogical and reckless policies and the near total denial of the harm done by the Covid vaccines to people across the world” – and now thinks he has found it.
- “The Mysterious Case of Zika-Microcephaly’s Disappearance” – What happened to all the congenital microcephaly that Zika in Brazil in 2015 was supposedly going to cause, asks Randall Bock in Brownstone.
- “White House-linked group backed by George Soros wages behind-the-scenes war on gasoline” – Governing for Impact (GFI), a secretive George Soros-funded group which has advised the Biden administration, issued a memo to policymakers on how to curb gasoline usage, Fox News reports.
- “We don’t need more laws to stop the green zealots – we need to enforce the ones we already have” – Ian Acheson writes in CapX that we have plenty of laws already to deal with the likes of Just Stop Oil.
- “Florida’s Divestment From BlackRock’s ESG Hijacking Is Sound Public Policy” – Paul du Quenoy in Newsweek reports that Louisiana and Missouri also removed substantial amounts of capital from BlackRock’s management, while five states have placed restrictions on ‘woke’ ESG investments.
- “Critical Race Theory is infecting Britain’s schools” – Matt Goodwin says that we need a full Government review before it’s too late.
- “Elon Musk is proving his miserable doubters wrong” – Sam Ashworth-Hayes writes in the Telegraph that an “organisation run with considerable bloat is being stripped back and rebuilt – and even Twitter’s harshest critics are still tweeting”.
- “Lady Hussey and the tyranny of identity” – The cancellation of this elderly lady shows just how cruel and ruthless the new elites can be, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
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The explanation for all the COVID madness by the bloke from Spectator Australia was, shall we say, rather underwhelming. A two word explanation that explains nothing: national security.
There seems to be a resistance to the idea that plain evil, malice and greed can have such a huge impact on our lives.
Modern man, in his comfortable arrogance, has discarded traditional religion and with it the simple ancient wisdom that where there are humans you will find good and evil and that evil does often prevail. And when it does the world can be a truly miserable place.
Brilliant post.
Good round-up! Thank you!
With ref Lady Hussey; I got a lot of red down-votes for my post on this issue a couple of days ago despite saying explicitly that I agreed with Fulani herself that Lady H should not have lost her post as a result of the exchange, or at least not on the grounds of identity politics but only on the grounds of what one commenter here called cloth-eared incompetence ( something like that ), because she was apparently not able to respond diplomatically to what was apparently a clear refusal on Fulani’s part to discuss her family’s “origins”.
I think that the official reaction is out of all proportion, cruel and unnecessary, mad even … unless she has actually been asked to step down because her “job responsibilities” specifically include “diplomatic handling of guests at events”, at which she clearly failed, but usually that sort of failing/mistake in a job should only mean a bit of a talking to from line manager, not redundancy …. so yes, it is a massive hysterical “woke-/identity politics-driven” overreaction, and Fulani herself thinks exactly that. I wonder if Fulani will ask herself why she didn’t want to talk about her family’s origins.
A wise comment. The matter has certainly made it on some news channels. It could be that the organisation in which Fulani is involved has attracted some free advertising, though, as her background that way was published via GBN.
I see your point of view, but Fulani is a fake, pretending to be something she isn’t (African…) and dressing in a style that didn’t really represent anything, Thats why she didn’t want the conversation. It may be that Lady Hussey saw through her and that explains the protracted questioning, although it appears to have been friendly enough.
I think we have to look not at Lady Hussey, but at the King and William who have treated Lady Hussey disgracefully. She isn’t an ’employee’, she is Lady in Waiting to Charles late Mother, a seasonsed and loyal courtier over decades. How weak and guilt ridden do you have to be to see any minor situation as an opportunity to prove their woke credentials. ?
Another point of view could be that the conversation went exactly the way Fulani was hoping for.
The Lady Hussey affair does the Royal family no favours. I can see that they are trying to maintain the relevance of the monarchy following the long reign of Elizabeth II, a difficult act to follow, and make it more responsive to criticism and keep it modern. This however just seems unnecessary and something that could have been handled far more sensitively if they’d been given the right advice or been able to make decisions based on heart not head. To me it emphasises how out of touch they have become. No doubt the advice to dismiss Lady Hussey came from the courtiers and the royals just went along with it. This is highly important though because it gives us a glimpse of the measure and character of both the King and Prince William. Are they able to make sensible, level-headed, fair decisions by themselves or are they just going along with the tide of woke to stay relevant and ahead of the curve that seeks to abolish a very out-of-date institution? Lady Hussey has served their family faithfully for 60 years, she is part of the furniture, to cut her out of the picture like this is cruel and is the sort of action that one would attribute to some Dickensian-type landlord or aristocrat. As for Fulani, she is just the catalyst for much deeper questions.
Stephen McDonell’s reported statement on BBC N, “look at what it does rather than what it says”. This made me think: He’s probably in the wrong job! Any reference to Xi can easily be transferred to someone else.
More than 200,000 workforce dropouts report long Covid
I thought I might have Long Covid, but then I realised I own a small business. The treatment is a cup of tea and two paracetamol, and then get on with the day.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/scandal-of-hope-filled-alzheimers-therapy-shelved-to-save-big-pharmas-profits/
Basically pharma companies condemning dementia sufferers to misery and yet a treatment has been found and released. Once pharma realised its effectiveness they had it stopped.
Gotta protect the bottom line and f#ck the public.
Dr. Altman does a fine writeup, but when he finally drops his ‘bombshell’ conclusion towards the end, he, his imagination and his investigation just stops. Strange stuff.
Another across the pond YT entry: “Why I’m NOT getting the new COVID booster”, by Rick Kelly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEood_EMkxA&list=WL&index=3 In the last minute he says: ….as someone who studies history, the history of science and medicine is rife with universally accepted teachings that we now know are false.
Money talks: https://www.gbnews.uk/politics/baroness-mone-takes-leave-of-absence-to-clear-her-name-over-ppe-allegations/401959 £29M into her account, according to the G.
Ah. Now that Jumping Jim as been reelected for another term. As expected. These crooks will still probably be history by 2049 though.
We need to abolish Tony Blair’s “supreme court” for a start.
Whatever ails our country at the moment Bliar’s name inevitably crops up and doubtless even when the planet has seen the back of him he will still be causing trouble.
A next Tuesday if ever there was one.