- “Andrew Bailey to install heat pumps at Bank of England in net zero drive” – Governor reveals proposals to help Threadneedle Street reach green targets by 2040, reports the Telegraph.
- “Banks are closing the accounts of high-profile people” – High street lenders are facing a Treasury probe after closing numerous accounts with the help of vast online indexes that scrutinise ‘politically exposed persons’, says the Mail.
- “Now scientists say climate change is making us blind” – Canadian researchers say climate change is blinding people, according to the Mail.
- “Free speech does not belong to the right… it’s a precious progressive value” – The High Court’s ruling on Maya Forstater is good news for everyone, says Matthew D’Ancona in the New European.
- “We can’t trust the Government to protect your privacy, says Signal boss” – Meredith Whittaker, the CEO of Signal, warns the Online Safety Bill will allow regulators to read private messages at will, reports the Telegraph.
- “Mexico has made it a crime to tell the truth” – Two politicians have been convicted for speaking out against trans activism, says Spiked.
- “Britain to axe E.U. laws that let banks shut accounts after Farage row” – According to the Express, Britain will now axe the ‘Politically Exposed Persons’ law that may have been a factor in the closure of Nigel Farage‘s bank account.
- “E.U. laws that let banks shut accounts over political views to be scrapped” – E.U. laws which banks have been accused of using to close customers’ accounts over their political views are expected to be scrapped under plans being considered by ministers, reports the Telegraph.
- “As a GP, my diagnosis is clear: The NHS is dying” – More on the basket case that is the NHS from the Telegraph.
- “Why eating red meat and cheese may not be as bad as you thought” – The odd steak or slice of gouda is unlikely to lower your life expectancy, says landmark report, with ‘profound implications for diets’.
- “Britain’s energy failure risks killing off what is left of our manufacturing base” – Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s latest jeremiad provides yet another wake-up call to sleepy ministers, reports the Telegraph.
- “Fears for EastEnders’ future as fans switch off over ‘desperate’ plots” – Get woke, go broke: Fears for EastEnders’ future have been ignited as fans have switched off in their droves over woke storylines, according to the Mail.
- “Nearly half over-50s who quit jobs in Covid now ‘in poverty’” – Half the older people who dropped out of the workforce at the start of the pandemic have struggled financially, says the Mail.
- “How the Met Office cooks the temperature books” – The climate scaremongers are cooking the temperature books, says Paul Homewood in TCW: Defending Freedom.
- “Motorist rips banners out of Just Stop Oil eco zealots’ hands” – Having disrupted Wimbledon twice on Wednesday with confetti and jigsaw pieces, the eco-protesters continued to cause fury with their slow marches, reports the Mail.
- “The Net Zero time bomb that will make holidays more expensive” – A raft of new environmental measures are on the horizon that threaten to render the days of cheap flights history, says the Telegraph.
- “What does Caitlin Moran know about men?” – Kathleen Stock gives a bad review to Caitlin Moran’s new book in UnHerd.
- “The sludge of sensitivity” – Rhys Morgan in the Critic explains why adulterating classic literature, and attaching trigger warnings to the works of PG Wodehouse, is a bad idea.
- “Lockdowns: the Self-Inflicted Disaster” – John Tierney in City Journal says it’s not just lockdowns that were a disaster. Almost every time the executive branch of government is granted emergency powers people die.
- “As Greens double down on their politically suicidal climate agenda, the German political establishment begins to crack” – The only hope for political victory against the enormously powerful governments of Western countries is a divided elite, says Eugyppius.
- “Japanese get trained in ‘Hollywood’ smiles as masks slowly come off” – Japanese people have been wearing masks for so long, they now have to get lessons in how to smile, says Reuters.
- “I’d like to report myself for murder” – Konstantin Kisin slaps down Paul Mason on Politics Live.
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Delicately put, I have rather stronger words for it.
Just what I thought 🙂
Amanuensis, ever the gentlemen. What a gentle way to say putting political expedience and pharma profits over public health.
The note about Barclay’s educational background made me think that he might be wheedling their way out of their difficulties. At least he’s not as bad of one of the previous “Health Ministers”.
Barclay has been an epic failure. The best that could be said of him is that he is about as much use as a chocolate teapot.
My view is that he is a second rate Jabbit. Guilty as sin and by omission as mired in the killings as the rest of them.
You’re right about that. What I thought was that, given his apparent training in legal work, and being educated re history, he might be working out defensive, legally acceptable methods of avoiding payment of damages etc. Not necessarily in the public interest. By comparison, one of the predecessors was an estate agent.
In Brazil there are 6 bills which will criminalise anyone who criticises the Stabs, or who spreads anti-stab ‘hate’. 2-8 years in prison.
I guess the terrifying Rona with its 0.3% death rate is still scything through Brasilia leaving trillions dead.
Why any country is still pursuing any of this bullshit, baffles anyone who walks upright and can think.
Didn’t Brazil have to sign contracts with Pfiser which required them to push the vaccines at all cost and offer land ang govt. buildings as collateral? These bills must be part of that.
‘when they’re gone they’re gone’
And good riddance! Hopefully, never to be seen or heard of again!🤞
” the Government doesn’t have a good understanding of the actual numbers of people in the U.K. (which is astounding in itself)”
Only astounding if you assume the Government is interested in governing effectively. Successive governments have allowed mass immigration to happen despite it probably being quite unpopular with a large section of the electorate. They’ve got every reason to simply play dumb over how many people live in the UK.
…They have absolutely no idea..at all…millions arrive and disappear into the ether….
I know I put this on some months ago, but part of the way they counted immigration was through the Department of Work and Pensions..they are now dropping this..presumably because, although they constantly tell us that immigrants are mainly coming to the UK to work, that isn’t born out in reality…..?
An immigrant count was always very feasible via DWP and still could be.
Once immigrants have been granted some sort of Leave to Remain they can apply for a National Insurance (NI)number. Once they have an NI they can apply for jobs. In reality only the single people apply for work because benefits are not great. However, those couples with children, well it’s like Christmas every day. Benefits including free housing and finance (cash benefits) equivalent to PAYE wages of £25 – 30 k are routine. Plus of course free NHS, dental care, prescriptions, eye care…there’s no end to the taxpayers largesse.
I would suggest counting every NI issued to immigrants and then doubling the number to account for the illegals and that would be a ball park figure.
If the ‘vaccines’ were safe and effective why withdraw for any age group? If there was no risk from the ‘effective’ ‘vaccine’, but a risk, even a small risk, from the virus, why not continue to recommend everyone has them. The move is a tacit admission of a safety problem.
They could be withdrawn on the basis of value for money. However, I think there is very defintely a safety problem, which might not be a problem for some.
Nethen – define value for money.
To a WEFfer seeing off a pensioner at the cost of one more injection as opposed to say ten more years of pension payments would be value for money.
Absolutely. Around March 2021 the AZ blood clot issue was in the news, so NL, which had purchased a fair amount of AZ, pulled it for people under 60. This promptly led to no one wanting it, as they assumed like you, that if there was a safety problem, then it must apply to everyone. I assume that’s why NL did not ban murderna for people under 30, contrary to the Scandinavian countries, Germany and France – they knew too many people would become more and more “anit-vaxx”.
In July 2022 the current Health Minister (an actual doctor, which makes it all the worse) sent a letter to parliament saying he was recommending an autumn booster for people over 50 (or 60, can’t remember exactly). He stated that people under that age had little benefit from the vaxx and to vaxx people without good cause would have legal implications. Fast forward to end August 2022, he sent another letter to parliament, saying everyone over 12 was to be offered the autumn vaxx, again admitting that there was no personal benefit for most, but it might temporarily help slow infection – almost verbatim how it was worded. Nothing about costs of offering drugs to millions of people that didn’t need it, nothing about the legal liability he had previously referred to. There has been a series of extraordinarily lame ads to get the shot going since September, clearly aimed at people over 50 – I can only assume they opened the vaxx up to everyone over 12 because otherwise those over 50 would have refused. As it turns out, most people under 60 have refused 🙂
Surely this is all about using up stocks of V before the expiry date?
….not only spinning the data, but keeping up with the farce….
I can only think that in the face of massive resistance against the boosters they’ve decided to give a ‘sop’ to the masses….I think it’s meant to hoodwink people into thinking there has been a change of tack…there hasn’t..they are as fraudulent as ever…
The whole document is inconsistent…and really doesn’t change anything very much…
Firstly, what exactly constitutes a ‘clinical risk group’? As they suggest that anyone in this group get all the jabs and boosters? This includes, people over 60 and pregnant women….? It also includes children….?
They still suggest persons aged 12 to 49 years who are household contacts of people with immunosuppression get the jag…
They still suggest persons aged 16 to 49 years who are carers, get the jag…
What studies are they basing this on exactly? I would like an FOI to find out?
So are they still manufacturing the primary, long-obsolete doses of clot shots? Or have they just got a load of near to expire stock they need rid of? Same for the boosters. I’m not keeping track of what letters we’re up to now of which ‘scariant’ is meant to be dominating the world but I’m pretty confident the current boosters are not relevant for this ever-mutating alphabet ‘virus’. We’re at a 10 on the ‘Desperation Scale’ now aren’t we? Bloody farcical! Pff…
…yes…..I’ve not thought about it much but.what did happen to the ‘scary, much more transmissible…hide under the bed’ …..Kraken??
It was swallowed by a Leviathan.
Due to constant overexertion, it shrunk to the size of still violently thrashing goldfish which is kept in a fishbowl at the reception of the UKHSA building.
The point of the covax jabs is to stop other people from being afraid of you having a cold. That’s an important public health benefit!
I’m rather looking forward to Dr John Campbell’s podcast on this.
His masterful “take out” of Pfizer’s protestations of innocence after Dr Walker’s revelations was the funniest thing I’ve seen since Delboy fell sideways after the bar had been lifted.
Just one small addendum to the article (and fast becoming my own personal bugbear): unvaccinated under 50s will no longer be able to get the primary course (lol) without first consulting a medical professional.
I am astounded this is not being more widely referred to. A vaccine that was so vital billions were spent on its rollout and a campaign of mass manipulation and coercion to get people to take it; a vaccine that was considered so safe and effective care workers were mandated to get it and genuine consideration was given to vaccine passports, is longer available without going to your GP to ask for it?!
wtf?
Re: “A vaccine that was so vital billions were spent on its rollout and a campaign of mass manipulation and coercion to get people to take it…”
Re the campaign of manipulation and coercion, see Angus Dalgleish’s aggressive promotion of the Covid jabs for young people, in the Daily Mail in July 2021: What every young person who fears the jab MUST be told: Vaccine expert ANGUS DALGLEISH dismantles beliefs that have seen rates stall among the 18-30s.
The Covid jabs are unnecessary medical interventions for young people…and many others…
See my email to Angus Dalgleish: Re: Health practitioners, Covid jabs and ‘valid informed consent’ – a medical ethics disaster. Response to Gus Dalgleish, 13 January 2023.
In computer science, there’s something called the law of diminuishing returns: This is supposed to apply to attempts to tweak code in order to make it run faster. It’s always possible to tweak it some more to make it run yet faster but after all the low-hanging fruit was picked, these tweaks need ever more work put into them and their effective benefit keeps getting smaller.
The same presumably applies to the covax campaign: The cost of increasing covax uptake yet more became higher than the profit which could be made by doing so. It was safe and effective and absolutely vital while large segments of the population were still unvaccinated and thus, large vaccintation yields could be expected from aggressively campaigning for it.
Seems quite a thorough and damaging assessment to me. Nice piece of work. All our institutions are broken so what next ?
(1) ‘The authors have not declared the population estimate.’
(2) ‘Quite where the JCVI got the data to populate its table of vaccine effectiveness is unclear.’
Presumably this information could be obtained through a freedom of information request.
(reposting this from a few days ago as relevant)
I was looking at the latest UKHSA vaccine surveillance report week 2
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1132668/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-2-2023.pdf
On page 50 is a breakdown of hospitalisations by vaccination status. I thought I would add in on the right a column of percentage unvaccinated (see attached). I don’t have the unvaxed under 40 figure to do a comparison in that age group as UKHSA data only covers over 5s.
As you can see the percentage of ‘covid-19’ hospitalisations that are unvaccinated is almost identical to the percentage of that age group who are unvaccinated in every age group.
So for example 3.5% of the ‘covid’ hospitalisations in the over 75s are unvaccinated and 3.6% of the over 75s are unvaccinated according to the UKHSA’s own data. The 3.5% goes up to 3.7% if you exclude the unlinked but it’s still essentially the same as the unvaxed proportion.
So even in relation to the thing that the experimental vaccinations are supposed to protect against, hospitalisation from ‘covid’, there is no benefit at all with experimental vaccination. Of course experimental vaccination comes with all the significant harms.
Of course this isn’t mentioned in the UKHSA report at all. They simply claim ‘vaccination is highly protective against hospitalisation as VE studies show’
Can anyone confirm my figures are correct?
Why was there ever a ‘vaccine solution’ to Covid-19, given it was known from the beginning it wasn’t a serious threat to most people?
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was off and running in January 2020, apparently being the longed for ‘Disease X’ to justify a vaccine…but how was this vaccine response justified?
What was happening in January 2020 that justified this response?
Andrew Pollard, who subsequently became the Chief Investigator of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine trials, was in a French taxi, The BMJ reports, on his way to present his group’s research on typhoid, sharing the ride with John Edmunds of the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, and they discussed a new virus emerging in China.
But why? Why ‘straight away’ did Andrew Pollard think “we needed a vaccine”? Pollard was also the Chair of the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation – the conflicts of interest of this role for a person initiating a commercial vaccine trial must be questioned.
Also see: Developers of Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Tied to UK Eugenics Movement, Unlimited Hangout, 26 December 2020.
So why was a ‘vaccine solution’ initiated against Covid-19, given it wasn’t a serious threat to most people?
Why were healthy people 18-55 years old included in the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine trials?
Why were children included in these trials?
I contacted the chair of the ethics committee responsible for assessing and approving vaccine trials on this matter, the Berkshire Research Ethics Committee, see this email thread: HRA response to FOI 2021/FOI/062.
My request was refused “in part, under FOIA exemption section 43 – trade secrets & prejudice to commercial interests.”
I raised this matter with Andrew Pollard, Chief Investigator of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine trials, and also Chair of the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, see: Who initiated the plan to vaccinate the entire global population against SARS- CoV-2? 30 June 2021.
As I said in my email to Andrew Pollard:
Yes indeed, this was seriously unethical, and now billions of people around the world have been injected with worse than useless Covid-19 jabs, thanks to the UK taking the lead in getting the Covid-19 jab response off the ground, and being the first to insert needles in December 2020.
Countless people have been subjected to mandated Covid-19 jabs...mandated medical interventions. It’s diabolical. Voluntary informed consent has been trashed, certainly in Australia, where Covid jab mandates have been widespread.
Bill Gates was the leader of the ‘race for a coronavirus vaccine’.
Speak critically of Bill Gates in 2020/2021 and eyes would roll…
But yes indeed, Bill Gates was the kingpin leading the coronavirus response.
See his GatesNotes article, published on 30 April 2020: What you need to know about the COVID-19 vaccine which led in with the statement:
Yes, a software billionaire was leading the coronavirus vaccine response, he’d been leading international vaccination policy for over 20 years – e.g. via influence at the WHO, Gavi, CEPI…
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was also a funder of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine trials, along with CEPI and others.
Brilliant posts, thanks.
“Yes, a software billionaire was leading the coronavirus vaccine response”
I’m reminded of a post on Twitter by the incomparable Ian Brown, nutjob conspiracy theorist, covid sceptic, anti-vaxxer. Someone replied to one of his tweets along the lines of “why should we listen to a musician on the subject of covid vaccines”. His answer was to wonder why we were listening to what he memorably termed a “computer salesman”.
Thanks very much Elizabeth. An absolutely staggering article from Unltd Hangout.
The JCVI should Withdraw all jabs immediately
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Given that Steve Barclay is pushing “vaccines” in a manner akin to a supermarket BOGOF deal I have to conclude this chap is compromised and with some hefty skeletons in his loft.
I hear the feet of rats scurrying across the deck…way past time…after devastating damage has been done to the world – medically, politically, economically and socially.
It’s Time for the Scientific Community to Admit We Were Wrong About COVID and It Cost Lives Written by a medical student and researcher, and published in the mainstream media.
The mainstream media is coming to save us…but there will be many who won’t forget how the mainstream/corporate and taxpayer-funded media, such as the BBC and ABC in Australia, lied to and betrayed the people.
Lies, damned lies and statistics. Who could have believed that critical information could have been so massively distorted to keep the official narrative alive?
I am about to write to the MHRA. They are simply not doing their job.
Is the reason for this simply related to the origin of their funding?
Here in Scotland, the updated Covid-19 guidance for care homes etc continues to promote the jabs as necessary, safe and effective for all staff, including pregnant and breastfeeding women. Unbelievably they’re still claiming they’re important in reducing infection and even to some degree transmission! The importance of vaccination as the main factor in managing the virus is threaded throughout the whole document and makes for depressing reading.