- “A Contagion of Cowardice” – More than people right now are willing to admit, civil society as we knew it collapsed over these three years, says Jeffrey A. Tucker in Brownstone.
- “A Major News Service Finally Covered the Epidemic of Sudden Deaths” – Ed Dowd’s segment on Tucker Carlson may red-pill those still committed to the vaccine narrative, writes A Midwestern Doctor.
- “Five Lessons from Three Years of Authoritarianism” – In retrospect, America in February of 2020 seems like a libertarian, innocent age compared to our current one, writes Seth Smith in Brownstone.
- “‘School closures and nursing home visitor bans were inhumane’ – Nphet member breaks ranks on our Covid response” – Professor Martin Cormican explains the many mistakes he believes Ireland made during Covid, in Independent.ie.
- “Following third dose of BNT162b2, adverse events increased in those with prior COVID-19” – Previous SARS-CoV-2 infection exacerbates the adverse reactions experienced after receipt of the third booster dose, according to News Medical.
- “Mark Mills: The energy transition delusion: inescapable mineral realities” – Energy expert Mark Mills speaks at SKAGEN Funds New Years Conference 2023, in WUWT.
- “Sadiq Khan’s ULEZ London is a perfect place for Tories to win back voters” – Is Sadiq Khan the worst politician in Britain? asks Robert Colville in the Times.
- “Lord Frost hits out at Labour ‘fiction’ that scrapping EU laws will lead to rights bonfire” – Former Brexit negotiator accuses party of trying to “frighten” people over the review of all rules inherited from Brussels, according to the Telegraph.
- “School Choice Is Not Enough: The Impact of Critical Social Justice Ideology in American Education” – Critical Race Theory and radical gender ideology are endemic in American schools, according to the Manhattan Institute.
- “Raquel Evita Saraswati and the new ‘race fakers’” – Joanna Williams in the Spectator explores the new trend of people lying about their race to get ahead. Peak woke indeed.
- “Thank heavens for Queen Camilla, who saved Britain from Roald Dahl censorship” – It’s refreshing to have a high-profile member of the Royal family give a voice to the silent majority, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Justin Trudeau, Canada’s clown prince, is the future of the woke West” – Shallow, shameless, self-aggrandising, and obsessed with moral posturing – the Canadian PM should serve as a warning, writes Jordan Peterson in the Telegraph.
- “Daniel Mays: ‘The whole cancellation thing is wrong. And it makes me very, very nervous’” – Actor Daniel Mays admits that cancel culture scares him, citing the treatment of Laurence Fox, in the Telegraph.
- “Christians being sent to labour camps and executed in North Korea” – A charity says Christians are being rounded up in the dead of night as Kim Jong-un grows ever more paranoid about the threat of sedition, the Telegraph reports.
- “Trans U-turn is belated victory for free speech” – It was a long time coming, but this week Joe Kahn, executive editor of the New York Times, upheld the right of journalists to do journalism, writes Janice Turner in the Times.
- “Cambridge blocked white students from applying for course” – The Telegraph reports on yet another example of systemic racism against white people, this time at Cambridge university.
- “Prince Harry and Meghan now ‘more unpopular than Prince Andrew’ in U.S.” – The Duke of Sussex’s popularity has sunk 48 points since December, when the couple’s Netflix documentary was released, according to the Telegraph.
- “The clash between trans rights and women’s safety” – Ruby Sampson recounts a troubling bathroom confrontation with a man claiming to be a trans woman, in the Mail.
- “BBC bans fans of The Archers from posting on show’s Facebook page” – The BBC has banned fans of The Archers from putting messages on the show’s official Facebook page after they criticised its “woke” storylines, according to the Mail.
- “Chaplain told pupils they were allowed to disagree with LGBT policies” – School chaplain Reverend Dr Bernard Randall, sacked for defending the right to question new LGBT policies, has spoken of his fears for freedom of speech after losing an unfair dismissal case, the Mail reports.
- “Love Island is embroiled in ‘toxic femininity’ row” – Love Island is embroiled in a ‘toxic femininity’ row after women on the show reduced some of the male contestants to tears, the Mail reports.
- “The woke censors are not going anywhere” – Having two versions of Roald Dahl’s books is not a victory for common sense. It further entrenches the culture wars, says Dominic Green in the Telegraph.
- “Roald Dahl warned ‘politically correct’ publishers – ‘change one word and deal with my crocodile’” – Roald Dahl threatened to strike if editors changed “a single comma” of his writing and claimed “Marx and Lenin” were responsible, according to the Telegraph.
- “James Bond books edited by sensitivity readers” – Reissued versions of Ian Fleming’s classic works will feature a disclaimer following a review by sensitivity readers, the Telegraph reports.
- “What if ‘sensitivity readers’ came for my novels?” – Lionel Shriver updates We Need to Talk About Kevin for our more ‘progressive’ times, in Spiked.
- “The many missteps of Humza Yousaf” – The apparently irresistible rise of Humza Yousaf reveals much about the dearth of talent at the very top of Scottish politics, says Jawad Iqbal in the Spectator.
- “The Jasmine Sari” – Country Squire reviews The Jasmine Sari, by Philip Tucker, sponsor of the Weekly Sceptic podcast!
- “Teenager Exposes Woke School Board” – Watch this heroic school student share his experience of the woke, CRT-infested education system.
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Speaking of which, did we ever find out the details of what led to the murder of that boy in Warrington? Judging by the protests that occurred in various places in the aftermath, it appears to be widely assumed to have been a “hate crime” (against a boy pretending to be a girl) However, the last I heard, no details had been released about the circumstances. Naturally one wonders what they are hiding. Whilst one naturally has sympathy for people with psychological issues ( or indeed those persuaded that they do, especially for example young victims of “Mermaid”), and whilst one obviously doesn’t wish to see violence, I think that there are legitimate questions to be asked about the confrontatoinal stance of some people involved in identity politics, and the discomfort that may be caused to vulnerable groups by their actions (such as in women’s refuges or women’s prisons). Simply blindly following political ideology down the road of actions which are inevitably going to stir up trouble is simply not good enough, and these things need to be properly thought through, as we have seen in Scotland. This is not to excuse a despicable murder, of which we know no details, however I refer to the reports that in the so-called “United States”, places governed by the Democratic Party are more divided than those governed by the Republican Party. We want a society where people get along. Blindly pushing through ideological measures that will cause resentment and harm to some people, whether it be in Afghanistan (where women have been banned from aid work) or Scotland, or wherever else it may be, is not the answer.
Speaking of Warrington, someone from that town tells me that his friend’s ten year old daughter, who lives near a hotel in the town that is now given over to”undocumented migrants”, went to the shop over the road where she encountered a gang of men apparently from this hotel who harrassed her and grabbed her bum. So naturally I was not surprised to hear of trouble surrounding a similar hotel in, I think, Kirby, apparently sparked by a local girl being propositioned by one or more of these “illegals”. She protested she was only 15, but he replied that he didn’t care. Now if we are not going to stop these people crossing illegally into the country over the English Cannel from France (though I can’t for the life of me see why we don’t) and whilst I dare say that plenty of them are decent enough people (though it should be said that allowing large numbers of mainly young men to enter the country illegally is always likely to be problematic), I make no apologies for calling for such people to be detained in secure facilities (possibly on St. Kilda Island) rather than, for example, being put up in hotels and allowed to wonder around freely with no consideration given for the entirely legitimate concerns of locals. If these sorts of things continue to be so horrendously mismanaged, I fear it is going to cause a whole lot of trouble, and those doing the mismanaging will have to take their share of the blame.
P.S. say what you like, but to me, this is a ludicrous paragraph from the article:
” It was as she moved to the door to leave that it happened. I remarked that we had no choice but to awkwardly shake our hands dry, and she turned to me and replied: ‘I’m going to wipe my hands on my penis.’ With that, she disappeared.”
Haven’t read the article that you link to but just to say that I 100% agree. And I’d be going apoplectic if that incident you describe happened to my daughter. The locals need to band together en masse to oppose what is happening in their neighbourhood. The odd complaint here and there will get fobbed off but this issue needs wider attention drawn to it as obviously the police cannot be relied upon to protect or stand up for the rights of the folk affected by this. Well, they can’t even remove idiots sitting in the road, despite them breaking the law by doing so, and would rather drivers ( including emergency vehicles ) divert their route before they actually do their flipping job!
Mogs, have a read of the Simon Elmer piece I posted yesterday in the NR. Very enlightening re your last sentence above.
Cheers huxtable. I went and found it per your recommendation. A very interesting and thorough article. I didn’t know most of that so I feel educated now.
It all becomes clear, especially under the heading ‘Manufactured Crises’. So these protesters ”are the promoters of the UN’s Agenda 2030”, and as such are untouchable? But they do get removed and arrested here and other EU countries though. The ones that glued themselves to Van Gogh or Vermeer’s painting ( I forget which now..) did a few piddly weeks behind bars. Still more than what the UK will do with protesters there though.
Where there is a political will, there is a political way to deal with these huge numbers of folk who have no regard for the law & customs of the UK as has been done in Denmark by a left wing political group.
https://rmx.news/denmark/10-ways-denmarks-left-wing-government-reduced-asylum-applications-by-82-and-dramatically-cut-immigration/
They’ve censored James Bond novels as well. When will they stop inciting hatred against white people?
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Please Toby can you help the Reverend Dr Bernard Randall featured in The Mail story above ?
Just utterly blown away by the above video! Cannot say enough good things that would do it justice. What an awesome, awesome kid and his parents must be super proud to have brought up a child to be that aware, confident, compassionate to others and unafraid to speak up. And the fact he feels so strongly that he’s going to leave the school, as opposed to just adjusting to the blatant indoctrination that is happening within the establishment speaks volumes. He definitely will go far, bless him!!
Agree, Mogs, totally brilliant and on point. We need more like him to break this logjam of indoctrination and fear. He will definitely go far.
Meanwhile, in Devon, my daughter’s headmaster master tells parents to”respect the rights of teachers to strike”. Perhaps he missed that part of the school year when the strikers union forced schools to close due to specious arguments that teachers could catch the rona from children.. I don’t seem to recall them showing any respect for our children’s education and their mental health back then.
Show them respect? I wouldn’t walk down the garden to pi55 on them if they were on fire.
A very fair and reasonable assessment.
Long one, and, like the ONS analysises, a bit ‘complicated’. Intro in brief:
“Last night, I got a USB drive in my mailbox with the Medicare data that links deaths and vaccination dates. Finally! This is the data that nobody wants to talk or even ask about.”
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/game-over-medicare-data-shows-the
“GAME OVER: Medicare data shows the COVID vaccines increase your chance of dying.
This is why the CDC has NEVER used the Medicare data to prove the vaccines are safe. And this is why NOBODY in mainstream medicine wants you to see this data. EVER. They ALL want it hidden. FOREVER.
….
Nota Bene
This may well be the most important article I’ll write in 2023.
In this article, I publicly reveal record-level vax-death data from the “gold standard” Medicare database that proves that:
The vaccines are making it more likely that the elderly will die prematurely, not less likely
The risk of death remains elevated for an unknown period of time after you get the shot (we didn’t see it return to normal)
The CDC lied to the American people about the safety of these vaccines. They had access to this data the entire time and kept it hidden and said nothing.
If there is one article for you to share with your social network, this is the one….
Acknowledgements
I had Clare Craig of the HART Group look this over for any flaws. She liked it.
Professor Norman Fenton had a look as well and he didn’t find anything amiss either.
This doesn’t mean there aren’t any flaws, but it just means that there aren’t any obvious flaws. If you find a mistake, let me know in the comments.”
Update from Claire Craig and Prof. Fenton on this.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/02/23/mark-mills-the-energy-transition-delusion-inescapable-mineral-realities/
This is quite a long talk but I found it fascinating, there was a car advert once with the slogan ‘you do the maths’, well this guy has certainly done the maths and it is scary stuff. If our politicians crash on with net-zero in the face of this sort of reality then the result will not be pretty! 250 tonnes of mineral ore to make one EV battery, the world will be so full of mines there will be nowhere to put the solar farms! Not only that but as this guy points out, the more we mine the lower the quality of the ore and so we need more ore and it takes more energy to process it, a bit like the mad dog chasing it’s tail.
He concludes that trying to be optimistic we could end up with 10-20% of vans and cars being EVs around the world. That is a long way from the 100% enshrined in UK Gov policy.
When I speak to people there seems to be a growing reality that EVs and Heat Pumps are not feasible for wide-scale use in the UK. However most people then conclude that QED the Gov will have to change the net-zero policy but I see little indication that any future Lab/Con UK Gov will change the net zero commitment. So if UK net-zero policy continues and if this guy is anything like correct? then misery, penury and a diminishing standard of living seems like the future for many of us.
ThatS what they want for us !
“So if UK net-zero policy continues and if this guy is anything like correct? then misery, penury and a diminishing standard of living seems like the future for many of us.’
I have been pointing out for months here on DS that misery, penury and no standard of living is exactly what the Davos Deviants have planned for those who survive the cull. I posted at least three article links yesterday in the NR discussing exactly this. It might be worth looking them up. Others such as BB, ebg and Mogs have posted similar.
Hence the 15 minute cities – the likes of us won’t be travelling anywhere.
An excellent ”science summary”, with many references, showing how the Covid jabs have gone from useless to harmful;
”The jabs being negatively effective should already end the debate, but there is another concerning stream of evidence, revolving around the mysterious rise of excess non-COVID deaths, throughout the world, which no-one seems to be able to explain. What they do know with absolute certainty, however, is that it isn’t the jab. Even though the jab can cause the very things driving the rise in excess non-COVID deaths. This is more speculative, but highly concerning, and the jab, as you will see, should be considered to be a major suspect.”
https://okaythennews.substack.com/p/science-summary-covid-jabs-initially?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
I’ll repost this here in case it was missed yesterday about deaths in Canadian care homes in Spring 2020. Absolutely shocking, even to me who knew about the horrors going on.
Also on Dr Paul Alexander’s substack is a similar exploration of the UK data
https://palexander.substack.com/p/shocking-80-of-all-covid-deaths-in/comments#comment-13089891
https://palexander.substack.com/p/devastating-four-4-graphs-in-uk-that
Nothing says white privilege more than people pretending to be black in order to have a better chance of success in life
Of course what is meant by “white privilege” is “white success”. What is the reason for this success? Is it “privilege”? From what source is this “privilege” conferred?
OK, this is entirely off any of the topics listed above. I’ve come to the realisation that I spend far too much time reading and watching stuff that confirms what I believe to be happening and true. Most of us here agree with each other and it has been like a safe refuge to air one’s concerns, grievances, triumphs and so on and I am a saner man because of it, so thank you. Now, I am just about to go out and see my SitP friends but I feel time is too precious now to spend any more time endlessly chatting about the injustices and dystopia while the digital prison and all its strictures on normal every day life is quietly, patiently and consistently constructed around us. I want to be more active so I am going to suggest that we become a planning organisation with clear goals about what we want to achieve in order to build numbers, create greater awareness etc in order to get the message across. Of course, there are many people who will never ‘get it’ but there are also many who feel something is not right but can’t quite put their finger on it. So, we start by dealing with the things that can’t be called conspiracy theories – the digital IDs, the CBDCs, the 15 minute cities, the WHO treaty – and go from there. If we get too far into things like 5G, immigration, woke, vaccine damage, we will lose people and they can point the finger at us and call us racists, anti-semites, conspiracy-theorists and so on. Once that label is applied, it’s a devil to wash off! So, I am going to suggest we look at how we frame these things in a way that shows how ordinary people would be affected in their day-to-day lives. Since the government used emotional tactics to get people behind them during the pandemic (save the NHS, clap for the NHS, save Granny, take one for the team, do it for the greater good etc etc) I am going to suggest we do the same. Emotional tactics. Appeal to the common denominator. If all Stands did likewise, it would be a movement and I feel we need a greater movement to gain the traction we require to have real agency. I am concerned that personally I don’t do enough. Well, I want to change that. I don’t want to be talking about all the same things 3 or 6 months down the line. So, I just thought I would share this with you. Have a great Sunday or, if you’re in NZ looking at potential test match defeat, Monday!
You may want to look at #Together.
Woody Harrelson confuses the Saturday Night Live audience: –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8LX8MQMrag