- “COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities” – Keven Bardosh and his team are back with a major article in the BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics, where they argue that “booster mandates in young adults are expected to cause a net harm: per COVID-19 hospitalisation prevented, we anticipate at least 18.5 serious adverse events from mRNA vaccines, including 1.5–4.6 booster-associated myopericarditis cases in males (typically requiring hospitalisation)”.
- “How our High Streets changed over the Covid lockdowns” – There are fewer banks and shops but beauty parlours have prospered, BBC analysis of data has found.
- “‘Protecting the NHS’ was a dismal failure” – Lockdown was imposed to stop the health service from collapsing, but now it is falling apart anyway, says Jill Kirby in the Telegraph.
- “Why did Slate change its Covid headline?” – James Billot in UnHerd says the article’s title was gradually watered down away from lockdown scepticism – and away from what the article actually says.
- “So now it’s okay to protest against lockdown?” – Many of those now praising the anti-lockdown protesters in China were all too quick to demonise those in the U.K., writes Laurie Wastell in Spiked.
- “Unlike Britain, France is far from finished with Covid” – Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator says that 12 months ago Britain rebelled against Covid hysteria, but in France the hysteria was never checked.
- “Is lockdown to blame for the Strep A spike?” – Lucy Dunn writes in the Spectator that Group A Streptococcus infection is on the rise, and many point the finger at the immunity debt from lockdowns.
- “Why can’t we talk about it?” – How are we supposed to resolve our differences if every vaccine advocate in the world refuses to have a civil discussion about it, asks Steve Kirsch.
- “Japan’s quarantine, immunisation and infectious disease laws: revised but not improved” – Japan’s alarming new quarantine law allows officials to demand suspected virus-carriers to isolate at home or elsewhere on pain of a six-month jail term, reports Guy Gin.
- “Percent RNA integrity in the context of the COVID-19 shots” – Jessica Rose asks whether serious adverse event reporting frequency is linked to vaccines with greater mRNA integrity.
- “I’m Not Going into Hospital: Tales from the Front Line” – Carl Heneghan argues that the answer to the recurring ‘winter crises’ is staring us in the face: community hospitals.
- “The secret diary of Matt Hancock aged 44¼” – Matt Hancock’s new ‘Pandemic Diaries’ reads like a parody, says Laura Dodsworth.
- “Irreparable Vaccine-induced Harm” – Dr. Robert Malone shares an open letter from Dr. Charlton Brown to the Prime Minister and Government of New Zealand detailing his concerns arising from his analysis of COVID-19 vaccine surveillance and pharmacovigilance data.
- “The Mirage of Electric Vehicles” – Willis Eschenbach in WUWT sets out the figures and says: “For those who think that electric vehicles make a difference, think again.”
- “Rishi Sunak lifts ban on onshore windfarms in face of Tory rebellion” – Sunak folds again as the decisions will revert to local communities and there will no longer be a requirement for near-unanimous support, reports the Telegraph.
- “Police tell off drivers for honking horns at Just Stop Oil protestors” – The Metropolitan police officers can be seen laughing, chatting and filming the protesters, the Telegraph reports.
- “The ‘green leap’ forward” – The Dutch Minister for Nitrogen, Christianne van der Wal, announced that 3,000 farms will be forced to sell their properties to the Government for immediate closure after ‘voluntary’ measures failed, writes Alexandra Marshall in Spectator Australia.
- “The New Blasphemies” – Dr. Roger Watson writes in the European Conservative that “for there to be blasphemy there needs to be religion and, in this case, I am referring to the religions of identity politics and climate-change activism. These are not merely religions, however; they are the religions of fanatics”.
- “A royal Palace can never afford to be unfair” – Charles Moore in the Telegraph writes that: “Those acting on behalf of Lady Susan Hussey’s godson, the Prince of Wales, had publicly accused her of racism, with even less knowledge of the full situation than Buckingham Palace.”
- “King Charles should ignore Ngozi Fulani” – Gareth Roberts in the Spectator suggests that “if a visitor to my house suggested they had been abused and verbally attacked when they came to tea, I probably wouldn’t be in a particular hurry to invite them round again for nibbles”.
- “The Guardian is hiding the truth about trans” – Siuzanne Moore writes in the Telegraph that both she and Hadley Freeman left the Guardian after not being allowed to write as they wished on gender and other issues.
- “How ex-spies convinced Twitter to censor Hunter Biden emails story” – Nick Allen in the Telegraph reports on the messages revealed by Elon Mush which show how the social media giant moved to suppress the story as the 2020 US election neared.
- “Never take the Tories’ word for it on free speech” – Mick Hume in Spiked says the newly amended Higher Education Bill confirms the party “could not care less about this priceless liberty”.
- “Trans child surgeries up by 13-fold” – In what is believed to be the largest study of its kind, researchers looked at the number of mastectomies in a major health system in California since 2013, and found a 13-fold increase, the Mail reports
- “You Showed No Humanity” – Watch Australian Senator Gerard Rennick deliver some home truths to the ruling Covidians.
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550 mile range in my diesel Audi.
5 mins to fill it.
Heater on, fast as a like.
Plants get free CO2 to eat too.
Plus 12 year black kid in the Congo didn’t have to go down a mine to get the stuff that makes the silly EV work
850 on a tankful in my Renault Trafic. Heater or a/c full on
450+ in my little Hyundai i10 .. with heater, lights and radio on. £30 pa road tax; cheap to insure.
EVs are simply not a practical idea for long-distance driving. But perhaps that’s the whole point. They want us either not to travel far, or to use public transport and ditch private vehicles altogether. Remember the old prediction that people will own nothing, and be happy.
And the most galling thing is that all this inconvenience isn’t going to have the slightest beneficial effect on the climate.
Just like the attacks on Farmers harvest (pun intended) very little. This seems to be part of the Agenda 2030 push to Build Back better.
Or ‘Extract Money Faster’
“EVs are simply not a practical idea..”
You could have stopped there. If they were we would have been driving them for decades instead of ICEVs.
And you wouldn’t need to subsidise them with taxpayers cash or use taxpayers money to provide charging points.
Recall of MPs Act 2015:https://notonthebeeb.co.uk/so/c8PDZE4U1?languageTag=en&cid=426765f9-8b6f-43e7-9ca1-b318db924f5c
£1.12 per kWh is a rip off, if you convert the thermal content of petrol at roughly 9 kWh per litre & guesstimate the efficiency of your engine at around 30%. It’s like paying out £3.50 a litre.
Incidentally, at todays prices my petrol car averages about 9p per mille, with most fuel being bought from ASDA – and a lot of the total is longish M road trips.
The whole “Green Energy” thing is a rip-off. Pay more and get less. (If it’s available, that is. And with unreliables such as wind and solar, that’s not guaranteed.)
The huge question is will TPTB allow us to continue to nurse our ICE cars for as long as we can manage? Or will there be a huge bunch of taxes, ULEZ schemes and restrictions on spare parts so as to ‘drive’ us off the road?
If we are allowed to keep them going? I think there will be a big industry in keeping old ICE cars on the road. But if they force the issue and make it EVs or nothing then it is a dismal outlook. I suspect that new technologies will come along for transportation but the current generation of EVs will spell the end of happy family leisure motoring. At best us hoi-polloi may have a cheap low range Chinese EV for local utility travel.
I’m sure the easiest thing for TPTB would be to target fuel supplies. If they can find a way to stop us getting supplies of petrol and diesel, then it’s basically game over for the ICE vehicle.
And there was me thinking the Government are there to facilitate the will of the electorate!
Oh no, it’s there to shape the nation according to its own will. But first it has to hoodwink enough of the electorate into thinking that they both have the same interests.
What a quaint notion!
Let’s face it – if you remove personal transport then the leisure industry is dead. Unemployment, no tax income follows. Think of all the places that are not reachable by public transport. Think of all those who support motor vehicles who will now be unemployed. The hit to the government finances would make Rachel from Account’s imaginary black hole real by many times more.
Mileage with the heating off is not the proper mileage though. It is like saying my plate of steak and chips will fill me up but only if I eat 3 Kitkats first.
The British writer Patrick Hamiltion wrote about the horror of the motorcar. He is almost completely forgotten these days but his novels are well worth reading. Hangover Square, The Slaves of Solitude. He lives on though in one sense and that is through a play he wrote called Gas Light. There was a good Ingrid Bergman film of it. This term has found its way into modern political discourse, gaslighting, although its meaning has been distorted slightly.
One thing I like about the Brits, the common people, is that they never get all enthusiastic about a new technology like the Yanks do. They might adpot it eventually, usually out of laziness and vacantness but there isn’t any expectation that all of this crap could ever make life better. Although I have read horrible stories in educational supplements about how teachers are applauding the fact that every child in their class has an electronic tablet. Basically a zombie machine and you hear that parent give phones to children as young as ten. This is horrific just slightly less horrific than the demoniac smiles of the Yanks selling this crap.
The number of mobile phones per capita far outreached that in the USA in the 1990s.
The cost per unit of electricity obviously varies depending on which type of tariff you’re on but is at least 40p/kwh so charging the author’s Ford at home would work out as about the same cost per mile as his Honda Civic. Therefore it would be impossible to recoup the massive extra cost of the Ford. Proof that EVs are only for the well off.
It would be interesting to compare the cost per mile of an EV versus a petrol or diesel for urban driving and see if the costs work out about the same as motorway driving. Driving at speed means far more air resistance hence higher energy use per mile but urban driving is often stop start. Accelerating uses far more energy than driving at a constant speed and a lot of this energy is lost when braking so driving in traffic may result in roughly the same energy use per mile as motorway driving.
The nail in the coffin is the cost of battery replacement.
It astounds me that anyone chooses to buy an EV – apart from company car drivers who have to get one and gain some tax advantages.
“if you regularly cover high mileage in an EV, you need to travel when everyone else isn’t to avoid queuing at chargers.”
Au contraire, I see all the BEVVERS travelling in groups. It’s so they have fellow BEVVERS to socialise with while they wait together for two hours to charge their BEVs not too quickly to avoid damaging the batteries. They also get to share enlightening, heartwarming stories about how well they are saving the planet. And they MUST be friends, because fighting over chargers isn’t a very planet friendly look. Too much CO2 is emitted when you fight.
A bevvy of electric car drivers.
“Every cloud has a silver lining though. Your correspondent predicts an impending boomtime for old style garages and the market in spare parts for petrol cars for years to come.”
The Government will simply outlaw cars over a certain age, 12 years perhaps, and maybe make it illegal to sell spares apart from brake pads – all with no reference to Parliament of course.
Drugs are illegal but people get very rich selling them without too much problem.
”To eke out the range I travel everywhere with the heater off, which currently demands a substantial coat, hat and gloves.”
Yes prior to the 1970s cars required that, and many afterwards too for a number of years.
I do so love technological progress.
James May a few years back showed that the range of battery cars had barely increased since the 1890s. Yes, they are more comfortable. Yes, they go much faster….for a short while.
That’s the funniest bit for me – EV’s are not new tech. Sure lithium ion cells and 0-60 times in a few seconds is newish (and pointless day to day), however the electric BEV is over 100 years old… and we ditched them for petrol and diesel powered vehicles… until governments started bribing people with subsidies and tax breaks to start buying them again