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by Will Jones
7 January 2024 1:00 AM

  • “Paul Offit Debunks Florida Surgeon General’s Anti-Vax Warning” – “It is hard to believe that Dr. Ladapo actually issued that statement,” said the FDA vaccine adviser, reports MedPage Today.
  • “Dr. Paul Offit MD, Vaccine Propagandist” – Dr. Robert Malone artfully debunks the debunking.
  • “How the Case Against Andrew Wakefield Was Fixed – In Eight Steps – A 21st Century Medical Controversy” – On Euripides’s Substack watch the new video examining the role of the BMJ in bringing down Dr. Andrew Wakefield and his Lancet vaccine article.
  • “Good riddance to Chris Skidmore – China’s useful idiot” – While he burdened the U.K. with his Net Zero nonsense, Beijing used coal energy to power ahead, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
  • “Chris Skidmore’s hissy-fit by-election” – Did the ex-Tory MP really quit because Sunak’s delayed election got in the way of his career plans to bank all that green gold, asks Steerpike in the Spectator.
  • “Private buyers slam the brakes on electric cars as sales slump” – Individuals bought 71,984 of the vehicles last year – 23% of the total of 314,687. That’s down by 10 percentage points in just one year: in 2022 they purchased 88,910 – 33% of the total, says the Mail.
  • “TCW New Year Reads: The downfall of St. David Attenborough” – On TCW, Margaret Ashworth reviews Susan Crockford’s 2022 book Fallen Icon: Sir David Attenborough and the Walrus Deception.
  • “There is a way to make doctors’ pay competitive – but the BMA won’t like it” – The NHS is one of the U.K.’s last socialist relics – there is no real market in healthcare, argues Kate Andrews in the Telegraph.
  • “To stop NHS doctors from going to Australia, bring Australian healthcare here” – Our system has become a global humiliation, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph. Why do we still refuse to learn from countries with better pay and outcomes?
  • “Examining Academic Selection and the Influence of Grammar Schools on Society” – On the Aporia podcast, Peter Hitchens champions grammar schools as essential for social mobility and intellectual development, particularly for the working class.
  • “Petition to strip Post Office ex-chief exec of her CBE passes 730,000” – The Mail reports that Paula Vennells has faced renewed calls to give back the CBE this week – after the Post Office denied there were any problems with a faulty accounting system that led to sub-postmasters being prosecuted.
  • “Bank worker wins £490K after unfair dismissal for using the N-word” – Carl Borg-Neal was awarded almost £500,000 in damages, meaning that added to Lloyds’s legal costs and tax, the bank has a bill of nearly £1 million, reports the Mail.
  • “Britain grants asylum more than most European countries” – Asylum approval rates have soared to 75% in the year ending September 2023, up from 31% in 2018, analysis of official data shows, as reported in the Mail.
  • “Voters want a real revolutionary to stop the boats – and it’s not Nigel Farage” – There is a massive gap in the market for someone to create a movement or party that would detonate a metaphorical bomb in the system, argues James Frayne in the Telegraph.
  • “Organisers of Palestine protests could pay towards policing costs” – Organisers of pro-Palestine marches could be forced to help pay for the “great amount of police resource” used to keep protests under control, according to a new report noted in the Mail.
  • “Defence Secretary’s daughter dropped university module over anti-Israeli comments” – Tabytha Shapps said she did not feel safe as a Jewish student amid ‘antisemitic’ protests and comments at the University of Leeds, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Sadiq Khan refuses to use new laws to stop London Tube strike” – Even though the Mayor of London could have avoided misery for millions, he instead bowed to the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, says the Mail.
  • “Education charity tells governors to use ‘correct’ pronouns when addressing trans pupils” – The guidance, released in November, directly contradicts that given by the Government, according to the Telegraph.
  • “NHS asks patients to choose from 12 genders, 10 sexual preferences and 159 religions” – Some registering with the online portal before they attend appointments have said the questions are bizarre, confusing and intrusive, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Civil servant given warning after ‘inappropriately’ saying there are two sides to the trans debate” – A civil servant was told by a Whitehall investigator that it was inappropriate to say there are two sides to the trans debate, reports the Telegraph.
  • “How a Stabbing Changed France” – Christopher Caldwell in Compact Magazine says the stabbing at Crépol has changed French attitudes towards everything.
  • “Dozens of MPs oppose Abu Dhabi takeover of the Telegraph” – Frontbenchers and Cabinet ministers are among 73 to express concerns as Ofcom reviews the sale, the Telegraph reports.
  • “‘Absolute farce’: Retired policeman is slapped with a £130 fine for helping police catch Sainsbury’s shoplifter… while the thief gets off entirely scot-free!” – A retired police officer described the criminal justice system as “broken” yesterday after he was fined for pursuing a shoplifter in his car – while the offender escaped prosecution entirely, reports the Mail.
  • “Claudine Gay and the mafia of mediocrity” – The DEI agenda lends itself to corruption, argues Ayaan Hirsi Ali in UnHerd.
  • “Is the lesson of the Covid disaster that we should give its architects more power?” – Watch Tucker Carlson interview Bret Weinstein on the WHO’s worrying plans for the next ‘pandemic’.

Ep. 60 Is the lesson of the Covid disaster that we should give its architects more power? Bret Weinstein on the WHO’s plans for you. pic.twitter.com/ku3O5BdeoF

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) January 5, 2024

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wokeman
wokeman
1 year ago

Claiming ulez has any public benefits is on a par with claiming the Holocaust had some plusses for the Jewish community.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  wokeman

Or Nazi’s built some nice roads.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

They did. You can still drive on them. I wasn’t keen on pretty much everything else they did.

I was in a discussion about Clean Air Zones the other day, and decided to do a bit of digging. Deaths from Asthma is what is usually quoted as justification, but these total 1,400 a year in the UK, not in the top 10 causes of death, and less than the excess deaths since lockdown by some margin.

Then I thought I’d compare India, you know with thick smog in the cities and wood and dung fires in the villages. Asthma sufferers in the UK 8% of population, India 3% of population. Curious, don’t you think. I mean, ULEZ and CAZ are all about revenue generation, but I’d like to understand why with filthy air, (and I’m old enough to remember filthy air here), India can have just a third of UK cases. Anyone explain it to me..?

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A Y M
A Y M
1 year ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Higher jabbed populations in UK?
Adjuvants are suspected to increase incidents of autoimmune disorders.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

This data is from 2016, well before jabs. I suppose I’m curious about our modern lifestyle and intolerance of cold atmospheres and bacteria in general (…kills 99.,9% etc). Is anyone doing grown up research about it, I wonder, perhaps with an unpopular answer.?

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MichaelM
MichaelM
1 year ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

I think AYM is right. Adjuvants have been used in vaccines since the 1920’s.

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
1 year ago
Reply to  MichaelM

And over the last few years many kids have allergies to peanuts for God’s sake
WHY –

https://vaccinationinformationnetwork.com/peanut-allergy-yet-another-vaccine-related-epidemic-2/

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

Kids had virtually no immune disorders until after the 1980’s – which coincided with – guess what.
Now nearly 50% of kids suffer from –
Asthma.
Eczema.
Autism.
Obesity
And no doubt cancers in later life – if they get there.

WHY. Wild animals do not suffer from these problems, neither do 3rd world countries (although they are catching up).

I would refer people tp “Vaccinepapers.org” – but that page is no longer available.
I wonder why – nothing to do with bigpharma is it.
May they rot in hell.

Last edited 1 year ago by Sforzesca
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186NO
186NO
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

Which, by all non partisan accounts, have exploded since WWII; now, what could possibly have caused that?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

I suspect the differences between UK and India are linked to diagnosis. I have worked with lots of people who claimed to be asthmatic when the reality was they were just unfit. Doctors are happy to write prescriptions and the ‘patients’ are chuffed to bits to be ‘victims.’

‘Where’s mi puffer?’

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186NO
186NO
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

How many neo asthmatics had their immune system function tested prior to that prescription? I suspect none.

I know I did not; severe allergies that peaked in my mid 30’s (or so I thought) were attributed to some form of asthma by GP and I was prescribed steroids… had all childhood jabs. Circa 2016 developed extremely severe Anaphylaxis….now every day I have to be on red alert.

Still, to my knowledge, immune system never tested….Ig3/Ig4 capacity? GP now very arsey about ANY testing regimes, and will not consider this course of action until some ill health event occurs – their words , not mine.

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SimCS
SimCS
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Having visited Delhi and seen the summary of the causes of air pollution, the primary one was road dust, by a large margin, followed by diesel particulates because of the mass of very old and unmaintained lorries and buses. Just resurfacing Delhi’s (main) roads and replacing these old lorry/bus engines with modern units would provide a massive cut in air pollution. I would also imagine the situation in Delhi is replicated in most major cities.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

I know they built nice roads, that is why I made that remark. —–But I am so glad you were not keen on other things they did. ——-ULEZ is more than just a revenue generator though. It is all part of the GREEN war on cars and on the western world in general.

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186NO
186NO
1 year ago
Reply to  wokeman

Very tempted to link that sort of comment with “some thing and someone else” but on balance I will stop there…

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

ULEZ does not save lives –

 leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online. 

04a-ULEZ-does-not-save-lives-MONOCHROME-copy
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FerdIII
FerdIII
1 year ago

Muslim Khan lying? Wow. Shocker. Particulate pollution is down 98% since the 70s. There isn’t a pollution issue from cars. They emit trace amounts.

Now maybe address the marketing and terror campaign for Rona and the safe and effective mantras which were splashed everywhere (and still are). Oh wait. People who oppose Pharma end up dying. Maybe pass on that one.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

I would vote for a chair, a turnip, or a pile of dogshit before I voted for this parasite.

data
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Monro
Monro
1 year ago

The dirty little secret is that much ulez funding derives from investors in green energy/battery powered vehicles.

Where does Khan invest his own money?

He loves a one way bet…….

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Sceptical Steve
Sceptical Steve
1 year ago

As a chemist in a former life, I had to chuckle at the reference to “reducing levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) particles”. I assume it’s just another example of the Telegraph employing technically illiterate interns to comment on scientific matters.

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CircusSpot
CircusSpot
1 year ago

Boris & Khan were both elected on mandates to lower public transport prices or stop them rising. This has caused big problems with the finances, hence the increase in the LEZ to bring in more money.
It has nothing to do with pollution as the cars are not stopped entering but charged to enter.
The other increase in pollution is the slow movement of buses through the City caused by the increase in cycle only lanes, even though buses are the greener solution, as they can transport greater numbers per metre of road space than cycles.
The electoral procedure is also changing in 2024 favouring Khan unless another notable Independent stood on the Left.

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
1 year ago
Reply to  CircusSpot

Exactly. It was always about money, they just needed a reason for the charges. The fact that if you pay you can enter, even in a smoky fume spouting old banger, completely torpedoes their argument The real problem of pollution is the London Underground.

I despair that Khan could get another term if the electoral procedure changes favour him. He’s ruining the city I was born in and spent a large part of my life in. I haven’t been to London for ages but I remember it with great affection. Getting rid of the Routemaster buses was a major blow.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

Why shouldn’t my ex-wife enter London.

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
1 year ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

Hahahaha! Good one, Roubles 😀

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CircusSpot
CircusSpot
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

I agree it is very sad and I am fortunate to have wonderful memories of my time in London.
Our world seems to be changing with the young folk no longer having the same need or interest to explore as we had. I do not know why and expect to be shouted down and down ticked for these thoughts.

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186NO
186NO
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

Good shooting ATR; he did not perform well when he was summoned to a session of ? Westminster Council ? to “discuss” this. The video of the person with the air quality monitor going from road to Underground immediately in the vicinity tells you everything.

How will he be sanctioned; appears to me that the punishment is in inverse proportion; bigger the lie by a person in a position of trust in the tax payer funded public sector the diminution of any sanction shrinks further. Banning from any future public office should be the de minimus punishment to be enhanced the bigger the lie.

Sorry, do you know I thought I was living in the UK for a moment.

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

Khan lied. Quelle surprise (not).

ULEZ is about control, surveillance, money and forcing poor and marginalised people out of their cars.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  RTSC

Seconded 👍

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186NO
186NO
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Passed without a “lobby clearing division”, imho.

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Glynthepin
Glynthepin
1 year ago

Not the first time this man has ‘misled’ in order to impose his own way.

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Epi
Epi
1 year ago

“The Vice-Chancellor of Imperial College, who was at the reins during the Covid modelling scandal and the Ulez data scandal, has been given the biggest pay rise of any V-C in the UK. Her salary ‘bump‘ of £186,000 brings her total remuneration, including salary and benefit, to £714,000.”

Presumably funded by W Gates.

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SimCS
SimCS
1 year ago

“The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is set to criticise Transport for London (TfL)”. Criticise!! The ASA should fine Kahn in the form of all ULEZ charges to date being returned to the vehicle owners, and all future ones declared null & void by the same token, effectively scrapping the scheme.

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