- “Former Children’s Commissioner links knife crime surge to lockdowns” – Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England during the pandemic, tells the Telegraph that a surge in knife crime and pupil violence has followed the Covid lockdowns.
- “London Marathon inject £1.19 million in Parkrun after drop in kids’ activity during lockdown” – A children’s activity crisis exacerbated by the COVID-19 lockdown will be addressed with over 120 new junior parkruns nationwide, thanks to a £1.19 million funding infusion from the London Marathon, reports the Telegraph.
- “Japanese Government study finds silent school lunches were pointless” – What Japan’s Covid response lacked in authoritarian nastiness, it made up for in innovative stupidity, writes Guy Gin on Substack.
- “Swine flu could return this winter, warn experts, as ‘vulnerable’ told jabs are vital” – The virus responsible for the 2009 swine flu pandemic is set to be the dominant strain this winter, health officials have warned in a plea to the public to be jabbed, reports the Telegraph.
- “NHS Trust staff given paid leave for ‘male menopause’” – An NHS Trust is allowing staff to take a year of paid leave for the ‘male menopause’, despite the condition not being clinically recognised, according to the Telegraph.
- “Trans women to be banned from female hospital wards” – Trans women will be banned from female hospital wards under the Health Secretary’s plans to restore “common sense” to the NHS, reports the Telegraph.
- “Petition: Fund the reopening of the three state-of-the-art Rutherford Cancer Centres” – Three state-of-the-art cancer centres lie empty in Newport, Reading and Northumberland – a concerted Government effort and funding would get these centres back open and potentially help 20,000 cancer patients every year. Sign the petition here.
- “GB News bosses hold crisis talks following Laurence Fox sexism storm” – Regulator Ofcom has opened 12 investigations into GB News, including one examining the sexist on-air comments made by the actor Laurence Fox, reports the Mail.
- “Sunak has discovered his path to redemption. Now the battle begins” – The Tories can block Keir Starmer’s route to Downing Street, but only if they’re prepared to band together and fight, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “Just 3% of small boats migrants will be removed if Rwanda plan fails” – Stark analysis by the Refugee Council predicts that more than 35,000 small boat migrants a year, at current rates, will face possible “destitution” in the U.K., reports the Mail.
- “The West must choose: Borders, or destruction” – Suella Braverman has said what everyone else was thinking: Illegal migration is an existential threat, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Firm forced to axe four-day week trial after it made staff more stressed” – A London tech firm has scrapped its plans for a four-day working week after discovering it made staff even more stressed, says the Mail.
- “Dame Sharon White to stand down as Chairman of John Lewis” – John Lewis’s next Chairman could be part-time after Dame Sharon White asked the partnership to consider changes to the position as she announced plans to step down, reports the Telegraph.
- “A school phone ban is long overdue” – In the Spectator, Linden Kemkaran gives her take on Education Secretary Gillian Keegan advising headteachers to ban kids from using their smartphones during the school day.
- “Why has the ban on smartphones in schools taken so long?” – In the Mail, Molly Kingsley celebrates the news that the Education Secretary is to announce a ban on smartphones for pupils during the school day.
- “Lecturers make bid to oust universities union boss” – Lecturers at some of the U.K.’s leading institutions have called for a vote of ‘no confidence’ in the Universities and College Union boss, Jo Grady, over the “ineffective” strikes she led, according to the Mail.
- “Killing cash will make us all poorer” – A true cashless society would be a dystopian nightmare, argues Darragh McManus in Spiked.
- “Claire Coutinho: Net Zero has become a religion” – Britain’s Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho has claimed that Net Zero “has become a religion” among climate activists, according to UnHerd.
- “‘Sinister’ misuse of 15-minute cities faces crackdown” – The Transport Secretary is looking at ways to cut off access to driver licence databases if councils use them to police traffic restrictions, reports the Telegraph.
- “Now anti-Ulez warriors stage demo outside Sadiq Khan’s house” – Furious drivers have set up tents and signs outside the Mayor Sadiq Khan’s home in South London, says the Mail.
- “Ulez van wardens wear balaclavas after Blade Runner TikTok videos” – Wardens policing Sadiq Khan’s Ultra Low Emission Zone are wearing balaclavas after Blade Runners activists mocked them on social media, reveals the Telegraph.
- “HS2 nowhere” – Britain’s major Blairite vanity project, the HS2 rail line, is nothing short of a national disgrace verging on scandal, says Prof. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “The war on motorists has reached its Stalingrad” – An advanced industrial society cannot live without efficient road transport, and it is welcome that the Prime Minister has recognised that, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “The unseen emissions: Tyre dust and the environmental mirage of electric vehicles” – Electric vehicles, often seen as eco-friendly alternatives, produce more tyre dust, a largely overlooked aspect of vehicular pollution, due to their heavier weight and high torque, says Charles Rotter in WUWT.
- “‘Reckless’ XR activists walk free after paint attack on Telegraph offices” – “Reckless” Extinction Rebellion activists, who spray-painted the offices of the Telegraph, claimed they tried to minimise damage to the building as they walked free from court.
- “After Letzte Generation vandalise the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, journalists and intellectuals line up to explain why it’s not a big deal, why the gate looks better now and why we deserve it anyway” – On Substack, Eugyppius responds to the most recent act of vandalism committed by the activist group Letzte Generation in Berlin.
- “Stop this green gloating over New York’s floods” – The recent flooding in New York was bad, but it was not an eco-apocalypse, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “The green elites are gaslighting us” – The same politicians waging the war on motorists are now saying it is a Right-wing myth, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Eric Kaufmann: Why I’m leaving Birkbeck” – It is difficult for people with heterodox opinions to survive in modern universities, says Eric Kaufmann in the Critic.
- “Eton’s new provost will restore balance after woke shift, say campaigners” – Sir Nicholas Coleridge has been announced as the next provost of Eton College, a move welcomed by campaigners who hope he will restore the school’s “Enlightenment values”, according to the Telegraph.
- “This is now a ‘nudgocracy’” – These days, ‘nudging’ is used by the Government and its influencers to change the will of the people from the top-down, argues Laura Dodsworth on Substack.
- “New MCC President Mark Nicholas: Eton v Harrow has ‘no place at Lord’s’” – In an interview with the Telegraph, the new President of the Marylebone Cricket Club, Mark Nicholas, suggests that the Eton-Harrow match at Lord’s has lost relevance and proposes a greater emphasis on inclusive cricket initiatives and youth engagement.
- “Kemi Badenoch: Nowhere is better than Britain to be black” – Britain is the best country in the world to be black, Kemi Badenoch has declared, as she accused Labour of bending the knee at the “altar of intolerance”, reports the Times.
- “How Ofcom signed off on Channel Four’s lies” – In History Reclaimed, the historian David Elstein criticises Ofcom, Channel Four and the makers of the programme A Very British Way of Torture on the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya for broadcasting distortions and falsehoods.
- “Father Ted writer Graham Linehan demands answers after attempt to cancel his appearance at free speech event” – Graham Linehan has informed Tory members that he demands answers after initially being denied access to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, according to GB News.
- “Graham Linehan says agent has dropped him over David Tennant criticism” – The creator of Father Ted has claimed he has been dropped by his TV agent after branding David Tennant an “abusive groomer” on social media, reports the Mail.
- “What went wrong with Billy Bragg?” – “I am not a pot, or a kettle; I am especially not a hypocrite, unlike Billy Bragg,” says Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “Dis-empanelling anthropologists” – Bowing to political pressure, two leading anthropological associations have cancelled a conference discussion on the centrality of biological sex. The cancellation shows the extent to which gender ideology has captured academic anthropology, writes Colin Wright in City Journal.
- “Canadian parents are sick of progressives” – A huge range of Canadians have come together in support of a common cause: A right to have a say in their children’s education, says Hina Husain in UnHerd.
- “Elon Musk torches Trudeau for ‘trying to crush free speech in Canada’” – X owner Elon Musk took to his own platform to blast Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal-controlled Government over its efforts to control and censor speech, according to PM.
- “Trump tells cheering Iowa rally he’ll ban ‘child sexual mutilation’” – In a bid to secure Iowa, former U.S. President Donald Trump promised a cheering Iowa rally that he’ll allow gasoline engines if re-elected in 2024 but will ban “child sexual mutilation”, reports the Mail.
- “Can an English-loving tantric sex expert really be Argentina’s next leader?” – Javier Milei, who sports an Austin Powers haircut and identifies as an anarcho-capitalist, is leading in the polls in Argentina, writes Simeon Tegel in the Telegraph.
- “Social media, streaming services must register with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission by November” – All online services with audio or video content, including social media, that meet a revenue threshold in Canada will have to register with the federal broadcast and telecom regulator by November 28th, reports the National Post.
- “AI will let people live to 100 and work shorter weeks, says J.P. Morgan boss” – The boss of Wall Street’s biggest bank, Jamie Dimon, has said that AI will eventually enable people to live to 100 and work just three-and-a-half days a week, reports the Telegraph.
- “The science did not change. Why did Dr Fauci?” – On X, Dr. Kevin Bass has posted a reminder of what Anthony Fauci used to believe back in 2019 when asked whether people should wear masks and socially distance to avoid Covid infection. The advice he gave could have come straight from Joe Rogan.
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“Fears that restrictions could be in place until Spring”.
Nah, it’ll be much longer than that. Would they bother with all this “vaxport” stuff and so on if this was going to end soon?
Oh and Fon et al, if those “vaccines” are so good, why would they be talking about continued restrictions with all the vulnerable having been offered these injections and 94% (or whatever) volunteering for these trials? An unprecedented rate and still not enough.
Spring? Which one?
I initially thought the vaccine passports were the end goal, but I now think that’s just part of the coercion campaign. The restrictions are obviously part of the coercion campaign, and the new goalpost shift is that not enough people have been stabbed twice.
The goal, in my opinion, is to inject as many people as possible ASAP.
My hypothesis is that they will release a new bioweapon (called “Covid-21”) that will be designed to bypass the s-protein antibodies.
I’m convinced that ADE will occur anyway, but it won’t happen fast enough to prevent the sheep waking up and going violently batshit crazy when they realize what has been done to them.
“Give us our liberty” – Sir Graham Brady.
A pity he’s too principled to be PM…
I think we just have to accept that the majority of the population don’t want liberty. They want to be swaddled, suck on a dummy and call that life.
Slow infantilisation of the British people especially since the death of saint Diana aided by MSM pushing moronic drivel such as “strictly”,repair shop and endless keep fit/exercise “stars” such as Joe Wicks, and don’t get me started on “footie” etc.
Sadly you are correct. Most people don’t want liberty, I find it very strange.
“Give me liberty, or give me death.”
Patrick Henry, 1775
And Fon, why do pharma need a trend of “altering Covid practices” to make “vaccines2 look “positive” if they are so good? Just asking, like.
(Don’t know why I’m asking, they has never once properly addressed my points. I’m all for free speech, but they seems more interested in rudeness and preaching than engaging in good faith).
Bunter is a weak coward, scared out of doing the right thing by a bunch of bought off scientists, if he really did want to end these ridiculous restrictions there are plenty of qualified people available to back that up. The buck stops with him he can’t stand behind Chris Whitty forever. There will be a brief respite over the summer school holidays to appease the middle class skive at homers and then it is another long winter.
Always was the plan. BLiar and co were always after stopping re-opening on June 21st, too risky to leave for too long, before the autumn virus season restarts.
I feel for the young who are destined by the million to a future with no purpose, not those supine middle classes who deserve what is coming.
You are correct. There will almost certainly be a lockdown again this autumn. As you say though sooner or later this will catch up with the self interested middle classes who have enjoyed the last 15 months lazing at home and they will richly deserve everything they get.
The only difference is how much of a reprieve they deign to give us in the meantime. The autumn.winter/spring lockdown is a done deal.
Johnson has abdicated his duty to a dubious group called Sage. He is allowing them to run the country as they see fit, and as they are communist members, anarchists, NGO’s, it’s not looking good. The Tory party need to get rid of Johnson, who got his majority by default.
“they are communist members, anarchists”
Grow up and stop sucking that ludicrous comfort blanket. There’s enough wild fantasy on the Covid side.
These down-votes are a useful measure of the ‘duggie quotient’ on the site – the proportion of hobby-horse jockeys using it to push political fantasies.
Theresa May speech is not good if you break down her speech she basically just saying. Give vaxxed the ability to travel abroad.
I suppose so but at least she is arguing for some form of foreign travel. Johnson seems hellbent on destroying the travel industry.
James Ward, mathematician:- “If you’re trying to run an NHS or even (sic) run an economy, the peak matters.”
These people have completely lost touch with any reality, even assuming they had it in the first place.
How can any country without an economy, which has been destroyed by the government of the day, assisted by the Opposition parties, think it can afford an “NHS”, let alone run one? The same applies to universities (e.g. Imperial, Warwick et al), the police, the Armed Forces, education, industry, transport, housing and the rest.
If you wreck the country, for personal and political reasons, and continue on this track, then the country is well and truly buggered. It’s high time people like Ferguson, along with the cretins that pass for politicians, have any pay withdrawn immediately.
“How can any country without an economy, which has been destroyed by the government of the day, assisted by the Opposition parties, think it can afford an “NHS”, let alone run one? “
It can, as it is demonstrating. The NHS is ‘afforded’ by the people that work within it. Since we are all clearly fed and watered with all our basic needs fulfilled, and yet we still have many people on furlough and the NHS is fully staffed, then we can obviously afford it. We don’t need those working in the NHS to do anything else.
The economy is doing its job and has been since the start of this. What is clear now is that the economy doesn’t work in the way that quite a lot of people believe it ought to. And it is that belief that many are struggling to let go of.
Those on the other side of the debate already knew that the economy can be run like this. So it isn’t a surprise to them when it functions perfectly adequately, nor have they any desire to return to a belief in the way the world works that patently isn’t true.
I don’t agree. The “economy” is now based upon yet more borrowing and QE, which bears no relationship to anything that is sustainable in the future, and won’t be if interest rates rise. The furlough scheme, if it indeed ever ends, will carry future consequential costs, if only in those of unemployment.
I would suppose “basic needs” to include adequate and timely medical treatments of all sorts, which isn’t happening, but I’m delighted to know that the NHS is fully staffed, which appears to run counter to the narrative of there being shortages of nursing staff and doctors.
Whether we are all clearly fed and watered is also questionable. I would agree that there aren’t large numbers of people dying on the streets through starvation, but there are many who live “on the brink”.
I’m afraid I don’t share your Panglossian view, and we must agree to differ.
I don’t agree. QE is propping the country up at the moment and this situation cannot go on forever. It will either cause rampant inflation or the international markets will loose confidence in the U.K.
To use a basic analogy, the U.K. is currently like a person who has lost their job using their credit card and overdraft to fund their lifestyle. While this situation lasts in the short term sooner or later they will hit the buffers and so will the U.K.
Try telling this drivel to families using foodbanks..
I agree, ideally they should also all be made to hand over their personal assets to the state to go towards paying for the damage they have caused but that will never happen. Part of the problem is that many government advisors and senior politicians have never done a days work in the real world and so have no idea how to run things. It should be made into law that nobody can enter government until they have achieved success in business.
ITEM: “Digital certificates for vaccinated Aussies who’ve had Covid jab ” – Australians who receive a Coronavirus vaccine will get a digital certificate to prove they’ve had the jab, according to the Daily Mail Australia“.
Well, it’s here, the vaccine passport heavy-lifter in the push for mass ‘vaccination’. Note that the federal government (a ‘Liberal'[!] Party government, take double note) is leaving it up to the six state and two territory governments to decide if, when and how it will be used to discriminate re access to venues and services. This stance displays all the moral detachment of the armaments manufacturer (‘we just make the things – it’s up to others if they use them’). The second level governments will also likely fob off their ethical responsibility by simply allowing private enterprises and public institutions to make the running on its use. Here’s betting that none will do a de Santis and ban the vax passport’s use in their state. It’s almost as if they sense there is something wrong with medical apartheid and want to keep at arms length from it whilst reaping its benefits.
All sorts of ideas are being floated for vax passport restrictions on Australians’ freedoms – to travel overseas, to cross state borders, to enforce lockdowns, withholding ‘franking credits’ (a key source of income for self-funded retirees), going to the movies, etc.
Ugly!
Phil
South Australia
Who would have thought we would get that from the fit, butch Aussies.
Until Spring? Next year?
Series of studies point towards natural coronavirus spillover event, scientists suggest
“The data that we have in our paper offers an observation that animals capable of being involved in Covid transmission were present in Wuhan up until the point of the epidemic being declared,” Dr Chris Newman, an evolutionary ecologist at Oxford University and co-author of the report, told The Telegraph. “But we don’t know if they had Covid.”
So no bats and no Covid but it all points towards natural emergence of course.
And no comments allowed – of course!
Did anyone seriously think we’d get our ‘freedom’ back on 21st June? If we want this to end WE have to do it! The government sees compliance as consent and it ain’t ever gonna stop! I’ve trying to tell people this over and over, that the unlawful Coronavirus Act is in place until AT LEAST September 2022, to give them enough time to destroy our society, our economy, our health, our minds…and bring in all sorts of new laws, diktats, and biosecurity measures to ensure we can never go back! They’re gas lighting us all the time, whilst laughing in our faces – you’ve only got to look at the marvellous jolly they had in Cornwall, keeping the plebs at arms length, or fully muzzled if they are servants, whilst they all mingled and chatted – rule free. Rules for thee but not for me!
And traveled here by aeroplane with no quarantine
Restrictions “until spring”. I would be quite happy to see restrictions placed upon Johnson, Hancock, Whitty, Vallance, Ferguson, etc., until spring. To only allow them half an hour each day out into the prison exercise yard until the spring… of 2099.
What a turn around.
Teresa May making “libertarian “ Boris look like an irresponsible fool.
Not only that but Boris Johnson has managed to be an even worse Prime Minster than Theresa May – a feat many thought unachievable.
The individual may change, but the script doesn’t.
It isn’t a difficult task – essentially just a statement of the bleedin’ obvious.
https://twitter.com/SpookdBlog/status/1403922367831678980 Have a laugh. Trump spoof.
To give her her due Theresa May is now a very good back bench MP with many sensible ideas and suggestions
Well, one or two (maybe).
Agreed. She was excellent.
She should have been shot as a traitor
Indeed.
“We are not seeking a competitive advantage”
What is the point of having a Prime Minister who thinks like that?
Now that she has received her bribe (AKA fees for a “speaking tour” of the US) for doing her utmost to stymie Brexit she can afford to be.
Her paymasters know she did her best and have released her from further obligations – for now.
Kim Jong-Johnson has never been bold and, in answer to the Daily Mail, Britain will never be free.
I should imagine there are quite a few nervous jabbed footballers around Europe today considering getting a full heart checkup ASAP.
It’s now being claimed that Eriksen had not been jabbed
In the (sort of ) words by Mandy Rice Davies “Well, they would say that, wouldn’t they? “
Isn’t it strange how a number of very senior doctors have suddenly turned into crackpot conspiracy theorists over the past 12 months or so?
Dr Peter McCullough has chaired several medical boards and is one of the most published researchers in his field of medicine. Poor bloke has completely lost it.
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/dr-peter-a-mccullough-fighting-against-this-fake-covid911-hoax_oTqJFiOPAQn5GVf.html
He’s the same doctor he always was.
Meanwhie the world around him has gone insane.
Yes I know he is.
I suspected so but irony doesn’t always comme across well on the internet.
Fair point. It’s probably the way I tell ’em.
It’s just an international p*ssing contest, financed by MMT, which this has degenerated into completely.
Boris&co now concerned that Germany’s numbers are falling whilst ours are rising again- God and the vaccines forbid!
And so on, a vicious circle we’re trapped in.
Until the money has run out.
“We all continue to pay the price of not following a policy of Focused Protection.”
The woke brigade in politics, media and medicine decided to play God instead, financed by MMT and not giving a toss about any collateral damage and victims, least of all in the 3rd world, of course.
To anyone sane, it was always clear how this would end.
“A senior minister has told the Telegraph of his fears that the planned four-week delay to the reopening will leave too short a window to open up before calls to lock down again in the autumn, with the risk that restrictions will remain in place until the Spring”
Well f. me, I never thought of that! Quelle surprise!
(And I never would have believed that the thought : “I thoroughly agree with Theresa May” would ever have crossed my brain).
“We won’t be free until Boris dares to be bold”
“Boris” is now proven beyond doubt to be a eugenicist globalist. If anyone thinks he is somehow going to save us they are exceedingly foolish.
Another useless speculative graph. Reminiscent of the 4000 a day lie.