- “Downing Street refuses to call Lee Anderson’s comments Islamophobic” – Labour and the Lib Dems demand that Rishi Sunak uses the term ‘Islamaphobic’ to describe Lee Anderson’s remarks, according to the Telegraph.
- “Lee Anderson digs in as Rishi Sunak condemns Sadiq Khan comments” – Rishi Sunak has declared he is “living proof” that Britain is not a racist country, reports the Times.
- “The Islamist threat is all too real – the Lee Anderson row must not obscure this” – The foolish remarks by Ashfield MP Lee Anderson have helped Labour to distract from the real problem of antisemitism within the party’s ranks, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Paul Scully MP defends saying parts of Tower Hamlets ‘no-go’ areas” – A former Tory Government minister claims that there are religious “no-go areas” in Birmingham and East London, according to the BBC.
- “Mass migration has shattered Britain’s identity” – ‘Islamism’ is a convenient way for the Conservatives to avoid reckoning with the results of their policies, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s Islamic blasphemy law” – Outlawing ‘Islamophobia’ would turn criticism of Islamic extremism into a crime, warns Tim Black in Spiked.
- “France expels Islamists while Britain appeases them” – Unlike in France, much of the British political class remains in a state of denial about the threat to British democracy from radical Islam, says Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “Biden in danger of losing White House over Gaza, say Left-wing Democrats” – Joe Biden risks handing Donald Trump the White House with his stance on Israel, progressive Democrats have warned ahead of a key vote in a battleground state, according to the Telegraph.
- “Australian Medical Association wants Covid vaccine sceptic off the ballot at upcoming election” – The Australian Medical Association has criticised the Liberal Party’s selection of a Covid vaccine critic as “untenable” ahead of the upcoming elections in Tasmania, says Rebekah Barnett on Substack.
- “Life after Lockdown: foreword by Rand Paul” – In Life after Lockdown, the Brownstone Institute’s Jeffrey Tucker paints a picture of the living hell that was the lockdown and outlines a roadmap for never again allowing it to happen again.
- “REPPARE (REevaluating the Pandemic Preparedness And REsponse agenda)” – The Brownstone Institute announces its support for the University of Leeds’s REPPARE initiative, which aims to clarify the evidence base upon which the largest public health programme in history was based.
- “How councils have let staff ‘work from beach’ in overseas countries” – U.K. councils, already with huge budget deficits, have let workers sign in from countries as far away as Australia and New Zealand, reveals the Mail.
- “Former PM Hipkins and Profs. Bloomfield and Baker should be held accountable for quoting statistics that have now been shown to be wrongly estimated” – On Bassett, Brash and Hide, Robert MacCulloch questions why COVID-19 remains a topic of concern in New Zealand, despite other countries moving forward.
- “One Health is a massive globalist grant-making scam” – The importance of One Health, or whether it truly exists, is a matter of debate, says Eugyppius on Substack. But it is certainly very stupid.
- “Sweden to join Nato as Hungary drops objection after arms deal” – Sweden will become the newest member of Nato after Hungary dropped its objections, ending a two-year blockade in the face of the growing threat from Russia, reports the Times.
- “Nato and EU members ‘considering sending troops to Ukraine’” – The Prime Minister of Slovakia claims that Nato and EU member states are preparing to deploy troops to Ukraine, says the Telegraph.
- “Navalny was close to being freed in prisoner swap between Russia and West – ally” – A close ally claims that Alexei Navalny was killed because he was close to being freed in a prisoner swap and Putin could not tolerate the thought of him being released, according to Reuters.
- “Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence chief claims Navalny died of natural causes” – Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence, says that Navalny died of a blood clot, reports Pravda.
- “Double good news for ‘Education Not Taxation’ campaign” – On Substack, Mr. Chips celebrates a recent parliamentary debate over Labour’s proposal to end VAT exemptions for independent schools and the growing petition from concerned parents.
- “Renewing academia” – In the Critic, Eric Kaufmann announces the launch of his Centre for Heterodox Social Science at Buckingham University, the only explicitly non progressive-dominated social science research centre in Britain.
- “Small manufacturers forced to answer 300 questions on Net Zero” – Small manufacturers are being forced to fill out 300-question spreadsheets on their eco-credentials as part of a Net Zero drive by big business, reports the Telegraph.
- “Buses take two hours to travel three miles in low-traffic neighbourhood” – A new LTN is causing such bad congestion that buses running along its boundary are taking up to two hours to travel less than three miles, says the Times.
- “How pensioners are being fined for going 22mph in 20mph limit zones” – Police forces are trying to fine pensioners for travelling just 2mph above the speed limit in 20mph zones, leaving them “absolutely terrified”, according to the Mail.
- “Protesting farmers spray Brussels police with liquid manure near EU’s base in a new display of power” – In a fresh show of force, farmers in Belgium sprayed officers with liquid manure and threw eggs and flares at them, as EU ministers met in search of ways to address the protesters’ concerns, reports AP.
- “John Kerry has unwittingly exposed the climate change wheeze” – Why shouldn’t other countries develop their own oil ad gas supplies when the U.S. has been busy doing just that? asks Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Chicago sues Big Oil for climate change as its weather has been nice and unremarkable for years” – On Substack, Igor Chudov reacts to the City of Chicago suing five major oil and gas firms, accusing them of causing damage to the city and its residents due to climate change.
- “Sky nature show boss reveals sounds are recorded in editing suite” – The team who worked on Sir David Attenborough’s new Sky’s new series, Secret World of Sound, says “‘many of the actual sounds of the animals come from existing sound libraries or recordings”, according to the Mail.
- “Problems of being young now branded mental health issues, critics claim” – A new report suggests that it is now more likely for a Brit in their 20s to be classified as too ill to work than one in their 40s, says the Mail.
- “Guardian writer boycotts newspaper for failing to tell readers ‘cat killer’ murderer was transgender” – A writer for the Guardian has boycotted the newspaper for failing to tell its readers that a cat killer who murdered a stranger was transgender, reports the Telegraph.
- “Children aged five are being asked if they want gender-neutral toilets” – Primary school pupils as young as five have been asked to give their thoughts and opinions on whether gender-neutral toilets should be installed in their schools, says the Mail.
- “Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth has become a running joke” – Sadiq Khan is using London’s public spaces to promote a dreary political agenda, writes Harry Phibbs in CapX.
- “Stonewall funded Church of England guide that said primary schoolchildren can be trans” – CofE guidance telling primary schools that children as young as five can be transgender was funded by Stonewall, reveals the Telegraph.
- “The Church of England should stop distracting itself with ‘racial justice’” – St. Paul would have had little time for identity politics, remarks Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada claims males who identify as ‘women’ do not have male anatomy” – Canada’s former Deputy Prime Minister is under fire after repeatedly denying that biological males who identify as “women” have “male anatomy”, according to Reduxx.
- “The enduring ghastliness of Alastair Campbell” – The Rest Is Politics host Alastair Campbell has been a staple of British public life for decades. Why? asks Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “Google has drowned the internet in a sea of stupidity” – AI models are being fed a diet of low quality data – and Google is to blame, says Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “Why are Americans becoming more stupid?” – America’s entire education system needs a revolution, argues Joel Kotkin in UnHerd.
- “Javier Milei’s Argentine revolution seems to be working” – Argentina’s President has made a lot of progress in a very short space of time, remarks Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “‘While his words were clumsy… he expressed a sentiment that most of the British public will get behind’” – On TalkTV, Laura Dodsworth tells Mike Graham that the row over Lee Anderson’s comments “are a distraction from a much more serious issue”.
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Now the slaves are conditioned and obedient they can ease off on the leash during half time.
The second half is going to be something else folks !
A period of loosening followed by a false sense of hope. Interesting how Covid and school terms work together. Mid-term is coming up and we’re allowed out to play but what happens after that? We’re still under restrictions which makes it easier to impose new ones for spurious reasons.
Is this what’s around the corner?
“Unvaccinated man denied heart transplant by Boston hospital“.
And the man is 31 years old.
Maybe some crowdfunding to pay for his surgery is in order?
even in the face of the supreme court jab coercion ruling?
Wow this needs to go to court.
What kind of mindset does it take to downvote a comment like this?
Our 77. Different names, but he’s usually around.
the hidden venereal disease. Infects every post. Coward too.
A determinedly contrarian one?
If ever there was a case for someone NOT to get the clot shot it would the 31 year old man who already needs major heart surgery, as is already in the greatest risk category for myocarditis.
If he had had the jab likelihood would be he wouldn’t even make it as far as the operating theatre for his heart transplant.
Absolutely disgraceful.
In other news Pfizer BioNTech working on next gen covid jab for omicron variant. One of its uses is to be given in 3 doses to the unvaccinated. That is obviously how they plan to “catch up” the unjabbed to get them all ‘on the programme’.
“Struggling to let go” is when your Chief Medical Officer, or senior manager in a trust, doesn’t appear to see that the end is in sight and says something like “NI is still in the middle of the pandemic”. As reported on BBC News day before yesterday.
You know when statements like that are being read by the public that the Executive government is going to be very disinclined to remove the remainder of the restrictions, espec mask wearing, in any kind of a hurry.
As Prof Mesmet said, the pandemic has given a lot of people who previously had isolated, meaingless lives, a purpose and an identity, and the post-COVID world will constitute a return to obscurity, isolation and a meaningless existence again, so little wonder they hold onto COVID like grim death, because they face a psychological death when COVID is gone.
Great comment. Self interest drives much of what we see.
Sturgeon?
I was thinking more about all these “public health” experts who are all over our screens, but if Sturgeon is going to return to obscurity I’m all for it.
The sooner the better,
She’ll want to control her people until they vote for independence. She’s in her element at the moment with no opposition at all.
Do you mean Prof Mumsnet?
Desmet, apologies, but Prof Mumsnet describes a lot of the COVIDians very well.
I find the Mumsnet community very depressing. The children they are brining up will hopefully form their own opinions and be less herd-like and more accepting of different opinions. (Whatever happened to diversity and inclusion, eh?). We have a neighbour of the Mumsnet demographic who reported her daughter’s friends to the head teacher when she discovered they were wearing their mask under their noses…
You are right, but people hang on to their every word and while that continues to happen it is very hard to break the vicious cycle and wake people up. They are the narrative and to constantly have to push against that narrative, however gently, feels like trying to push a double decker bus up Mt Everest single handed.
there’s a pandemic of lying by governments.
Nothing more.
Well said.
Meanwhile in “enlightened ” England, on national ‘you can chuck your muzzles away’ day, at least 90% of the customers I saw in my local Tesco’s were still covering up! Un- effing- believable!
As an expat Scot I will be maintaining my policy of remaining at least 480,000 metres away from Nicola Sturgeon.
LOL! That’s very good.
Thank you.
On a more serious point I would ordinarily go “home” several times a year to visit friends and family and explore the beautiful landscape but I have little desire to go there while her regime remains in power.
Understandable.
Presumably, the remaining virus is so enfeebled that a 2-metre jump is now beyond it?
Be free, my little ones, be free… but only until someone sneezes….
Ms Sturgeon has said a requirement for two-metre physical distancing in settings where face coverings are exempt is being reduced to one metre.
She added that this would, over the course of several months, see a further staged reduction: 0.75m, 0.5m, 0.25m ….
You can tell that Nicola Ceausescu would rather sing ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ while wearing Geri Halliwell’s Union Jack minidress than ease restrictions.
LOL!
What a vision… Nightmare actually!
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/welsh-businesses-demand-vaccine-passport-exemptions-after-government-fails-prove-they-work
“The government responded to to first two questions by stating, “This information is not available. There is no guarantee about where someone caught Covid-19, therefore there is no data on cases caught in specific locations.”
In other words, despite imposing COVID passports on nightclubs and numerous other venues, the government has no information on whether they work at all.
Publican Jon Bassett told Wales Online the response to the FOIA request was “unbelievable” and clearly shows that the restrictions aren’t justified.
“My WhatsApp group with other licensees is going crazy since this has gone into the public domain,” said Mr Bassett.
“I would have thought there would have to be more evidence for them to do it. I just don’t get it,” he added.”
Evidence? What has wrinkly little cheap-edition-of-Stalin Dungford to do with evidence? You might as well mention compassion, or humanity, or sanity.
If school kids must wear masks all day, why shouldn’t all office workers?
the kids are being abused.
It’s incredibly frustrating that the devolved governments seem to desire an upturn in infections/hospitalisations/deaths to justify their approaches and to be able to say “I told you so.”
I know it’s nothing new, but I would have been much more content over the past 2 years if the UK had reclaimed its health powers to ensure a unified approach…it’s so tedious having subtle differences
Subtle???
You would have thought that in such a “state of emergency” as presented by a global pandemic of a deadly plague that the UK reclaiming its health powers to ensure a unified approach would have been absolutely essential wouldn’t you?
Very odd that they didn’t do that – and the ensuing differing of restrictions, especially in border areas between England and Wales and England and Scotland has at times made a total mockery of ALL the restrictions and still no one gets it.
Like the golf course that straddles the Welsh border. About three holes couldn’t be played when Engkand first relaxed restrictions, because those holes were in Wales.
And then there’s the football ground that has one set of terraces in Wales, so until last week, fans couldn’t sit on those terraces but could sit on the English ones.
Or the supermarket in Hay-on-Wye., which is in England whereas most of the town is in Wales. So in spring 2020 shops in the town didn’t demand face nappies whereas the supermarket did. And in summer 2021, the supermarket didn’t demand face nappies but all other shops did.
And so ad infi-nitwit-um.
You literally couldn’t make it up??
I assure you I didn’t.
Gulag Wales still muzzled and with Nazi passports. Some relaxation.
In North Wales for a few days at the moment, Annie. About 90 miles away from home and feel we have travelled back in time. Some cafes are still asking for contact details. No problems going maskless in shops as “we’ve been told that we shouldn’t challenge people”.
Escaping tomorrow!
Lucky you to have an escape route.
My contact details in pubs are a pretty piece of fiction, perfected by long practice.
Ours too!
Even England won’t drop everything fully, the testing exemption for arrivals into the reserved only for those willing to prove they’re a fully established member of the vaccinated morons union
If her easing of restrictions is anything to go by, Sturgeon would probably consider continental drift irresponsibly hasty.
If she was in the first episode of Red Dwarf, she’d say three million years wasn’t long enough for Lister to be in stasis.
She knows it is. It was continental drift that welded England on to Scotland. Bad mistake. Before that, they were happily separated by thousands of miles of ocean (Iapetus, the proto-Atlantic).
Bring back Iapetus, say I.
‘Loosen Restrictions’.
I suppose, once you’ve become accustomed to corsets, that it wouldn’t do to step out of them too quickly.
If you become accustomed to being punched by Frank Bruno, it wouldn’t do to have him stop punching you too fast….
They test for the flu since they’ve never isolated Covid-19. Which makes me wonder how they can tell there is a delta variant. They never isolated the virus but they use a test to show the damage of a solution does on monkey kidney cells then show the cellular debris as proof of the virus. So, they can use this method to claim an UNENDING! amount of variants. A lot of cancers and “viruses” are probably just different forms of parasites. Since the tests can’t differentiate between cold and flu and covid then doesn’t that mean ivermectin cures both the cold and the flu? Welcome to “they’ve been lying to us our entire lives about everything”. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
McSturgeon and Droneford will never relinquish the powers they’ve grabbed during the past 2 years. Powers will have to be ripped out of their antiseptic hands by rebellious Celts! True freedom is being able to say enough is enough.