- “No 10 to consider Wuhan leak theory after backlash to ‘entirely coincidental’ remark” – The PM’s spokesman says there are “still questions to be answered” after the Lockdown Files showed censorship of China comments in Matt Hancock’s book, the Telegraph reports.
- “Is Congress finally getting serious about investigating Covid’s origins?” – Dr. Alina Chan writes in the Spectator that Wednesday’s hearing on the origin of COVID-19 by the select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic was long overdue – and she doesn’t fail to mention that U.S. scientists have plenty they could be telling us even while China refuses to cooperate.
- “Lockdown supporters called me a killer – they should be disgusted with themselves” – Professor Karol Sikora in the Telegraph says his lockdown inbox was overflowing with desperate cancer patients whose treatment had been indefinitely postponed.
- “Children’s IQ dropped during lockdown, study finds” – German research suggests stress, anxiety, and social isolation could have caused children to perform below their usual standards, the Telegraph reports.
- “Increase in mental health callouts received by police over past five years” – Some forces told the BBC they saw incidents multiply by four or five times between 2017 and 2022.
- “20c diabetes drug slashed Long Covid symptoms by 42% in clinical trial” – Metformin – the world’s most common treatment for type 2 diabetes – is thought to suppress the production of the virus or reduce inflammation and oxidative stress, which contribute to Long Covid, according to the Mail.
- “Britain may well repeat its lockdown blunders sooner than anyone thinks” – From Sweden and the WhatsApp leaks, it’s clear what needs to be changed. But will anyone do it, asks Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Just 62% of NHS staff are happy with care patients get, survey shows” – Fewer than 63% of the 636,000 NHS workers in England polled said that if a friend or relative needed treatment, they would be happy with the standard of care provided by their organisation, the Mail reports.
- “Here comes the Bird F Word…” – As the UKHSA says it is turning to Bird Flu models, Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson ask if more terror is on the way.
- “Jim Jordan goes nuclear on Dr. Fauci, lays out devastating timeline of lies” – Watch the Republican congressman lay out the charge sheet against Fauci vis-à-vis the lab leak.
- “NHS waiting list shoots to another record high of 7.21 million” – NHS England data show there were 7.21 million patients queuing for operations in January, the highest figure ever logged and nearly three million more than pre-pandemic levels, the Mail reports.
- “U.S. Invested in mRNA Vaccines for Decades Pre-Pandemic: Study” – In the first study to systematically examine the public investments in mRNA vaccines, researchers have found that the U.S. Government was substantially invested in mRNA vaccine technology before the Covid pandemic, the Epoch Times reports.
- “Balaji Srinivasan: The Man Who Couldn’t Wait for Covid to Ring In the ‘New Normal’” – Michael Senger suggests Balaji’s Twitter ‘prophecies’ may be evidence that there was an early plan to recreate China’s Covid response globally.
- “Take the Jab and Live Forever!” – The Naked Emperor analyses the latest ONS release and finds clear evidence of heavy confounding in the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups.
- “Follow up on DNA contamination of Covid-injectable products” – It’s worse than originally thought based on new results, says Dr. Jessica Rose.
- “Three Years Ago This Week, the World Ended” – Jeffrey Tucker revisits the start of the pandemic for the Epoch Times.
- “Dr. Redfield’s Bombshell Testimony” – Dr. Robert Malone on the former CDC Director’s insider account of the lab leak cover-up.
- “Conspiracy Theories Become Conspiracy Facts” – The core claims behind lockdowns, masks and vaccines are unravelling and the prevailing narrative has been in retreat on all three fronts, writes Ramesh Thakur for Brownstone.
- “New Israeli MoH study shows Covid vax increases your risk of death over time” – A new study covertly released by the Israeli Ministry of Health “confirms what we know from the Medicare data: the Covid vaccines increase your risk of death over time”, writes Steve Kirsch.
- “Claim: Climate Change will Cause More Drought and More Frequent Intense Rainfall in Britain” – WUWT skewers the contradictory claims emanating from the U.K. about the consequences of climate change.
- “State-commissioned studies in Germany skewed by green agenda” – Alarmist research appears to have been motivated by faulty assumptions, writes Ralph Schoellhammer for UnHerd.
- “Cold weather can cut an electric car’s range by a third, says study” – If you’re thinking about buying an electric car, you need to know that they do not like Britain’s chilly winters and when temperatures drop they will not perform to the levels quoted, according to This is Money.
- “Goosebumps hit with secret ‘woke’ edits” – Kids’ horror author R.L Stine has denied sanitising his classic Goosebumps books to “appease the woke” — accusing his publisher of altering his work behind his back, reports news.com.au.
- “Kathleen Stock: ‘Young women would rather change gender than say they are lesbian’” – After losing her job over the trans war, the professor of philosophy – along with Martina Navratilova – wants the word reclaimed, reports the Telegraph.
- “Women’s rights have gone ‘too far’, say majority of Gen Z and millennials, study shows” – More than half of younger generations polled say women’s rights are now discriminating against men, reports the Telegraph.
- “Confusion reigns over promised Government guidance on blasphemy in schools” – On Saturday, Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced that the U.K. Government will introduce guidance on blasphemy in English schools, but the Department for Education seems to have other ideas, reports Humanists U.K.
- “Exposed: America’s Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex” – U.S. Government officials, agencies and contractors are violating the First Amendment, says Michael Shellenberger – and he includes the full report detailing the breaches he submitted to Congress this week.
- “Donald Trump: I’d have let Putin annex Ukraine to end the war” – The former U.S. President says Russia “would have never” invaded if he were still in power, but also claims he may have “made a deal” if necessary, according to the Telegraph.
- “Majority of Americans think ‘wokeness’ is good” – A confusing poll finds that people have a generally positive view on the word, but that when ‘woke’ is used to describe someone it is to insult them, reports the Telegraph.
- “The unbearable wokeness of Humza Yousaf” – The SNP leadership contender just cannot let gender ideology go, says Malcolm Clark in Spiked.
- “The former CDC director just said that your tax dollars funded the creation of Covid and his colleagues lied about it to cover their own asses” – Where the hell is the media, asks Colin Rugg.
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I expected Phillipson to dig her heels in on this. I guess the government has made a calculation that this is a hill not worth dying on. They are so unpopular on many fronts that this has, I guess, had a sobering effect on the degree of zealotry they feel. I expect to see partial backdowns in other areas too.
Fingers crossed
New laws protecting free speech on campus are likely to be given the green light in the new year.
Given that the madleft is the junior partner in an alliance with the transnational corporate aristocracy, an alliance founded on both groups seeking to impose a post-democratic total-control state on us, I’m sceptical about this. And where would the madleft be without its endless proliferation of thought-terminating heresies – its “isms” and “phobias”, and its designation of us as “ists” and “phobes”? I just can’t see them giving up their attempt to control our language and speech.
Meanwhile, a so-called response to the petition to call a general election.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700143
Fixing the foundations, 22bn black hole… All the usual buzzword tripe.
The best part is doubtlessly this:
The Government was elected by the British people on a mandate of change
Presumably, on a mandate of chump change, as the people’s government on a budget. With everything getting more expensive all the time, nobody can afford a really full-featured government anymore. Starmer might not be the greatest PM in British history. But he was 75% reduced to clear!
Meaningless drivel the apparatus excreted in lieu of a response after being poked with a stick. Starmer’s gang of people who are unsure if they can really tell whether they are men or women or maybe something else altogether doesn’t even pretend to have some kind of political vision beyond We run the show now! And we’ll save the climate until you all get blue in the face! Hahahahahaha!
The closing maniacal laughter is of course really inappropriate for this bunch of automatons tasked with extracting more money for UN projects from the general public. They’re not that human.
There is no freedom of speech without freedom of thought. Can you not feel how the shackles feel heavier every day? As if even if you stayed true to speaking your truth, there would be less people who publicly acknowledged agreement wth you lest they be identified. It has happened, people being sacked for ‘liking’ something. This is the real issue. You need to remove this cloud of fear and apprehension. There is no excuse for turning a blind eye to this given that you can feel it yourself.
Well done to Toby Young and the Free Speech Union for fighting against this anti-democratic attempt to completely discard an Act of Parliament that had already received Royal Assent.
News said the Labour government are doing the same thing to another historically important Act of Parliament that had already received Royal Assent: The Troubles Legacy Act, one of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s greatest contributions to justice and peace, which gave British Army veterans the same immunity against vindictive prosecutions as Traitor Tony Blair unilaterally and outrageously gave to the Catholic IRA Terrorists. Prime Minister Johnson had promised to do this, and he fulfilled his promise faithfully.
Now Labour will reignite the endless persecution of British Army veterans for things that happened half a century ago, while letting the Catholic IRA Terrorists off scot-free for all their heinous atrocities, including the murder of Protestant mother-of-ten children Mrs. Jean McConville, who was dragged from her house, shot dead on a beach, and buried secretly in the sand, as punishment for the “crime” of helping a wounded British Army soldier who had fallen to the ground in front of her garden gate.
Why is the Legacy Act being abolished and what does it mean for Northern Ireland? | The Independent
Thought I’d correct the governments slogan for them…
I suggest
Let’s get Britain’s future backwards!
Does this mean the Free Speech Union does not have to take her to court?
Let’s just remind ourselves that this whole fiasco is the fault of the previous Conservative government.
The Act was passed as an “enabling Act”, giving the Minister the power to activate it by issuing regulations. This is how Acts of Parliament are normally drafted these days, in post-democratic Britain.
If the Conservatives had passed a proper Act of Parliament as opposed to letting the Blob govern, the provisions would have been put into effect long ago.