- “Covid’s cancelling Christmas… again! Top experts predict at least 1.5 million will be infected on Xmas day as health bosses ‘urge the ill to celebrate alone’ – and frustrated Brits are already ditching their festive plans” – U.K. Health Security Agency bosses urged anyone ‘feeling unwell’ to avoid loved ones this weekend, with frustrated people venting their fury after testing positive in the days before festivities, the Mail reports.
- “NHS bosses come under fire for spending millions on ‘woke non-jobs’ as frontline workers strike for better pay’” – More than £1 million worth of ‘equality, diversity and inclusion’ related positions are on offer in hospitals and trusts across England and Wales, with most salaries dwarfing that of the average nurse, the Mail reports.
- “NHS thinks £115,000 Director of Lived Experience is worth three nurses” – Leo McKinstry writes in the Mail that “in effect, the ‘equality, diversity and inclusion’ managers form a new priesthood, spreading a perverse gospel”.
- “250 million people in China infected in 20 days, officials estimate” – The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention believes 18% of the population have been infected, including half of Beijing, after the Government U-turned on its controversial Zero Covid policy last month, reports the Mail.
- “How SAGE almost stole Christmas” – This time last year, scientific experts were baying to put us in lockdown, Christopher Snowdon reminds us in Spiked.
- “Dr. Byram Bridle vs University of Guelph” – Read the vaccinologist’s lawsuit against his employer.
- “False Profits” – “Adopting multiple alternative ways to trade will ensure that by the time governments bring in CBDCs, not only will we have choices, they will already be up and running,” writes Suzie Halewood in OffGuardian.
- “New Zealand Documentary Memorial Day (Silent No More NZ)” – Watch the new New Zealand documentary telling the stories of the vaccine injured and bereaved.
- “The Media Very Rarely Lies” – Scott Alexander in Astral Codex Ten makes the case against ‘fact checkers’ and censorship of ‘misinformation’.
- “Japan Embraces Nuclear Power, Cancels Phase Out Plans” – Japan has adopted a new policy promoting greater use of nuclear energy to ensure a stable power supply, in a major reversal of its phase-out plan following the Fukushima crisis, WUWT reports.
- “The woman who could cancel Net Zero” – Iain Hunter in TCW on Professor Valentina Zharkova of the University of Northumbria, who is predicting a cooling climate in the coming years owing to the changing influence of the Sun.
- “Teacher jailed in row over use of pronouns for transgender student is released” – The judge accused Enoch Burke of “exploiting his imprisonment for his own ends” after it turned him into a “household name”, according to the Telegraph – which is a bit rich, given it was the Irish state which chose to jail him for using biologically correct pronouns.
- “The Sun newspaper ‘sincerely sorry’ over Jeremy Clarkson’s Duchess of Sussex column” – The Sun has capitulated and said it regrets the publication of the column and is “sincerely sorry”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Christianity’s retreat has left the West vulnerable to harmful new beliefs” – Our societies are in a severe muddle, which makes for fertile ground for woke zealotry, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Student who lost court fight against university that investigated her for saying ‘women have vaginas’ in trans seminar launches crowdfunder to pay for appeal” – Lisa Keogh took Abertay University to court after she was investigated for saying “women have vaginas” during an online seminar on transgender issues and is now crowdfunding for her appeal, reports the Mail.
- “Joe Lycett and the trouble with wokescreening” – Julie Burchill in the Spectator highlights the numerous misdemeanours and hypocrisies of the self-righteous woke set.
- “Keir Starmer: Pro-trans laws are needed across U.K.” – Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to change the law to allow trans people to self-declare their gender, according to the Telegraph, in the wake of anger over similar moves in Scotland.
- “Are Holyrood and Westminster heading for another Supreme Court showdown?” – Stephen Daisley in the Spectator argues that politically it would be astute to veto Scotland’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill.
- “Why has the Church of England embraced the woke cult? Is there a god-shaped hole now in the Church of England?” – Watch Toby join GB News‘s Andrew Pierce to discuss the Christmas carol God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen being rewritten to be more ‘inclusive’.
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Councils will politely tell the Minister to foxtrot oscar and carry on regardless. Nobody but the most gullible are fooled by these statements.
Agreed. They know they need only wait a few months for sir-kneeler to become PM. Then they’ll feel empowered to hire twice as many political commissars and hang the expense.
What an unpleasant prospect.
Quite, just another word salad straight out of the Rishi Sunak book of “words speak louder than action”. Or, as my mother would have put it: “Fine words butter no parsnips.”
It has been her party that has institutionalised wokery into every workplace in the country.
Don’t believe one word she utters, nor any of the Braverman, Patel, Mogg, Redwood, Davies, Anderson gang – they are all peeing in the same pot.
Too little too late. Tories failed for decades on all the big issues.
“Tories failed for decades on all the big issues.”
Now, now tof what Ms McVey is talking about is hardly a big issue, it’s pissing in the wind stuff. And knowing how councils work I can guarantee that away days for the “directors” will not disappear because Ms McVey has directed it to be so. This sort of expense will simply be filed under something reasonable and innocuous like ‘staff training.’ Now who could argue against staff training?
The real waste in council expenditure is Directors pensions which in the case of our local council is costing millions. If Ms McVey really wanted to achieve something useful for residents she would take a chainsaw to that largesse along with the numbers employed as ‘Directors.’
Quite frankly I believe McVey has insulted the electorate with this paltry nonsense. The cost saving apparently amounts to £67,000 per council – so what?
McVey needs to keep her head down because conning the public with faux cost-cutting measures will get her nowhere. The Tories are toast now anyway at the next election – if we have one – although it is difficult not to believe that their destruction is not being deliberately orchestrated.
Indeed just a sop to try and fool voters into thinking they are conservative. And McVey is one of the less bad ones.
“And McVey is one of the less bad ones.”
Aye, and she’s nice on the eye.
Redwood, Patel, Braverman, Davies, Anderson, Mogg, Anderson et al are all out the same fake mould. They all take the whip at the end of the day.
This may be true. But when each council, on average, employs 2 EDI people at an average salary of £33500/ year, these posts should certainly just DIE.
If we want to truly cut waste in all area’s of government and public sector this would be an extremely long response, and I’d still be typing on Monday.
But, just for starters, cut out all the BS related to Net Zero and Green energy, scrap the pointless Covid enquiry and commission a “proper” one, using a few notables from here for starters.
I have a life, so I’ll leave it at that for now!
I’m intrigued to read this report about local government spending.
https://www.tussell.com/regional-spending-report
I’m torn. Will it be a whitewash or a greenwash?
Apparently you can download it for free (which always makes me suspicious). If anyone gets the time, do share its contents.
Or the Government could just scrap (or amend) the Equality Act and make the whole nonsense stop completely.
But they’d rather posture.
Have Tory MPs been asleep for 14 years or are they desperate to save themselves from oblivion.
Both.