- “Starmer rules out votes for EU citizens in pledge U-turn” – Keir Starmer has ruled out giving votes to EU citizens, despite previously demanding “full voting rights for EU nationals”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer woos Middle England saying he has ‘changed Labour permanently’” – Keir Starmer has vowed that Labour can be trusted with the U.K.’s “money, borders and security” at the next election, according to the Mail.
- “Keir Starmer’s tax on private school fees is a sordid strategy” – Keir Starmer’s tax raid on private school’s is a sordid strategy to throw red meat to Corbynistas – and proves he’s still a class warrior at heart, says Dominic Lawson in the Mail.
- “Rishi Sunak faces struggle to get bitter MPs up for the fight” – The challenge for the Prime Minister now is how to maintain discipline as Tory MPs fight for their futures, write Steven Swinford and Matt Dathan in the Times.
- “Leaked email blames Tory MPs for poor start to election campaign” – A leaked memo from Tory HQ reveals that Conservative ministers and MPs have failed to “get behind” campaigning and are refusing to knock on doors, according to the Times.
- “Tory minister accused of giving up after jetting off to Greece on holiday” – Northern Ireland Minister Steve Baker has been accused of giving up after jetting off to Greece instead of campaigning in his marginal constituency, says the Mirror.
- “Rising from the ashes” – After weekends of antisemitic demonstrations in London, Jews and their allies finally stood their ground at the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley, writes Peter Harris in the New Conservative.
- “The myth of Saint Corbyn” – Hamas’s pogrom on October 7th should have shattered Jeremy Corbyn’s phoney moral authority for good, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “The NY Times on the treaty failure, with my comments” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass rips into Apoorva Mandavilli’s recent NY Times article covering the failed WHO treaty negotiations.
- “Confessions of a New Zealand surgeon” – New Zealand surgeon Dr. William Makis has been left seething with anger and feeling betrayed after suffering severe side effects from being coerced into receiving the COVID-19 vaccination.
- “More than 140 hospitals to bring in Martha’s Rule” – Martha’s Rule, the patient safety initiative allowing those in declining health to seek urgent second opinions about their care, is to be rolled out in 143 hospitals in England, according to Sky News.
- “‘Crime State Nexus’ project to stop Albanian criminal bosses in U.K.” – A secret U.K. operation has been launched to bring down Albanian gangsters and their criminal empires, reports the Mail.
- “Sheffield street fight: police make 25 arrests after Woodbourn Road disorder” – Police have arrested 25 people on suspicion of violent disorder offences after a large-scale fight in Sheffield, says the BBC, although details are suspiciously scant.
- “Struggling councils ‘sit on artworks worth millions with only a third on display’” – The Telegraph reports that bankrupt local authorities have been growing their art collections for the past four years, all while cutting back on public services.
- “Distinctive British television is at risk of disappearing” – ITV warns that broadcasters risk being forced to abandon “niche” British TV shows such as Mr. Bates vs The Post Office due to budget constraints amid a production downturn, according to the Telegraph.
- “Get at ’em!” – On Substack, Paul Sutton launches a satirical rant in support of the reinstatement of National Service.
- “Britain’s class ceiling barely has a crack in it” – A job advert that lumped working class people in with criminals underscores the entrenched nature of Britain’s class system, writes Lucy Burton in the Telegraph.
- “In praise of the pub” – The great British boozer is at the beating heart of our politics and culture, says Neil Davenport in Spiked.
- “German officer who ‘threw CDs over wall for Russians’ jailed for spying” – A former German military officer, accused of throwing CDs containing official secrets over a wall into the Russian consulate, has been convicted of spying, reports the Telegraph.
- “E-bike battery fires up 70% in 2023” – Fire crews responded to 70% more electric bike fires across the country in 2023 than the previous year, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Activists dress as rabbits in protest against solar farm” – Campaigners opposed to a large solar farm near the site that inspired Watership Down have dressed up as rabbits to protest against the development, says the Telegraph.
- “Aberdeen oil jobs at risk as energy industry warns of ‘apocalyptic’ outlook” – The U.K.’s energy sector is facing an “apocalyptic scenario” with firms considering quitting the country because of high taxes and the threat of banning new oil and gas drilling, reports the Times.
- “How the climate establishment went to war over Net Zero jargon” – In the Telegraph, Jonathan Leake discusses the ongoing debate about simplifying the language we use to talk about climate change.
- “NHS trust sparks backlash over internal trans guidance policy” – An NHS trust is under fire for its internal transgender guidance policy, which campaigners warn forces staff to “comply or face consequences”, says the Mail.
- “Holland & Barrett slammed over ‘menopause almond’ chocolate bar that is ‘insulting’ to women” – Holland & Barrett has sparked outrage over its “insulting” chocolate bar, described as containing “menopause almonds”, reports LBC.
- “Gender and Josef K.” – In the wake of a tribunal finding discrimination against Roz Adams, a former employee of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, due to her gender-critical views, Jean Hatchet reflects in the Critic on what it feels like to be accused of imaginary crimes.
- “Nigeria’s First Lady slams influence of U.S. stars after Meghan’s visit” – The First Lady of Nigeria has warned the country’s women not to “lose who they are” in a speech given shortly after Meghan Markle’s visit, where she also slammed the “nakedness” of U.S. celebrities, reports the Mail.
- “Mark Zuckerberg faces shareholder protest over child safety” – Mark Zuckerberg is facing a shareholder revolt over Facebook and Instagram’s approach to child safety, says the Telegraph.
- “The Silicon Valley geeks could destroy Hollywood” – AI’s rise spells disaster for our culture, warns Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “‘China’s Kim Kardashian’ banned from social media” – An influencer dubbed ‘China’s Kim Kardashian’ has been banned from Chinese social media for bragging about his wealth, reports the Mail.
- “WHO Director-General admits defeat on the WHO Pandemic Agreement” – WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirms that after more than two years of negotiations, Member States have failed to come up with a final draft of the Pandemic Preparedness Treaty.
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I’m so glad she was all over the media nine weeks after the jab was first administered warning Joe Public about the dangers of having this poorly tested, experimental gunk.
That would have been about the time I was “invited” to have “my” jab. Fortunately, I’d done my own research and knew by then that the jabs were positively dangerous so I declined.
I remember when the risk of blood clots emerged and some countries started withdrawing the AZ vaccine from the under 50’s – the British mainstream media went ballistic, accusing these countries of undermining the vaccine effort, fearmongering and endangering the population.
So the media has a lot to answer for: rather than asking questions and uncovering the truth, they flipped into full propaganda mode.
Now of course they would rather forget about the whole thing, so it’s all gone quiet on the Covid front.
”Speak dollars to power”
How relieved Pfizer and Modrna must be that the discontinued AstraZeneca “Immunity Modulating Substance” is taking the rap. What gets modulated one way can also get modulated the opposite way.
Now can we please have equivalent media coverage of the safety-efficacy profile of the Pfizer and Moderna injectables not currently taking the public rap.
FYI for followers of finance in general and Moderna Director share sales in particular: “Listed below are trades carried out by directors and other individuals which are required to be notified to the market…”
https://www.hl.co.uk/shares/shares-search-results/m/moderna-inc-usd0.0001/director-deals
…Relatively small beer over the last five months, but scroll down to 16 Feb 2024 for ~$2.3M realised by Moderna CEO Monsieur Bancel.
Last time I looked, tip of a massive dollar-berg accrued from CEO share sales over the last five years. Not for nothing is Monsieur said to be a multibillionaire.
Monsieur first come across over a decade ago, when spotted as named inventor on early Moderna patents, despite career background in finance and some of these patents looking like they pre-dated Monsiuer’s appointment as Moderna CEO.
May not sound a big deal, but to this purist acquainted with the concept of invalidating Intellectual Property rights by dubious inventorship claims, it was very telling from the start.
Ample precedent for vanity and small untruths fostering more profitable untruths over time. Sceptics please draw your own conclusions.
mRNA “vaccines” seem to me an infinitely more dangerous proposition because of the mechanisms used, the lack of a long term safety profile, the tendency to see them as a magic bullet because of the perceived ability to develop new “vaccines” quickly. Nobody will want to look at the long term safety profile because there’s too much money, power and kudos at stake.
The moment the industry started parallelising and short-cutting on established “vaccine” clinical trial timings set the alarm bells ringing.
They rang like an air raid siren, when ever-younger arms started getting morally blackmailed by the mandatpry altruism con, in a free for all to work in the NHS, travel abroad, study, etc, etc.
Derelection of duty of care by MHRA, JVCI and all those Rt DisHonourable Ministers, Privy Councillors, Medical Offizers, Profs, Sirs, Dames, FRSs, Professor Sirs and Lord Sir Sir himself in person.
As Charlie Munger memorably puts it “Folly and evil”.
“parallelising” – yup, you can’t create a baby in 3 months by deploying three mothers instead of 1.
The classic sci-fi story features a disaster facing the world, and our hero scientist coming up with a nick-of-time untried solution that may actually make things worse and destroy the universe. The whole tension in the story is always about whether the hasty solution is salvation or armageddon.
My point is that I am unable to conceive how so many in my erstwile medical profession were not crossing their fingers, toes and everything else whilst praying and fasting when a novel pharmaceutical, rushed through in nine months, was rolled out to the whole population.
Yet instead of having their hands poised over the off switch, they express shock and horror that the lack of adequate safety trials predictably resulted in lack of adequate safety.
The sci-fi story always includes blockheaded generals, politicians (and the scientist’s bureaucratic boss) oblivious to risk… they seem to be with us in force even now.
Cue Professor Richard Feynman’s concluding remark to the US Presidential Commission investigating the 1987 Challenger space shuttle disaster:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-challenger-disasters-minority-report/
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
Made we wonder about how long it will be before Astra Zeneca renames itself. Perhaps the shareholders will have an influence on that.
From speaking to British people and listening to them I get the impression that they definitely prefer the Astrazeneca. You can listen in on a discussion in a coffee bar among middle class English women and they will chat about Moderna, Pfizer etc and they will settle on the Astra because for one thing it isn’t of dubious Yankee extraction and also its a charity thing for them. Honestly that is the level of the discussion. Maybe two years later the cackling hens all get turbo cancer. That is entirely unrelated of course.
That attitude now may be put down to the government’s quiet shadow-banning of the AZ vaccine without any public discussion of why it was withdrawn. I have some sympathy for ordinary people not inquiring into that which they’ve been carefully led to forget.
How is it possibly that a highly trained haematologist could believe any vaxx could be developed in such a short time. Where were the safety and efficacy data? And to advise one’s daughter to participate in the trials of AZ? Dear Lord, you cannot make up a story like this.
Had she had real courage she would have blown the whistle loud and clear at the earliest opportunity.
I had my second AZ jab in April 2021 after this association was well recognised by her and a few other haematologists. As haematologists they should have had sufficient understanding of the low risk of most people from the virus and the potentially serious, though rare, risk of VITT from the AZ jab. Armed with that information many people, including me, would have refused and avoided other fortunately less serious side effects.
Dr Pavord is clearly adopting Chris Whitty’s line of telling us how she recognised the potential problems of the vaccine but failed to stick her head far enough above the parapet
There must be many scientists and doctors who in my view are guilty of professional cowardice in a similar manner who failed in their first duty of a doctor under the GMC Good Practice Guidelines of making the care of the patient their first concern.
All doctors have a duty to report to the relevant authorities if they believe patient care is at risk.
Professional cowardice is a good term: how many of the military would be allowed to be professional cowards and still keep serving? Actually it is a term that can be applied to a lot of professions these days. Courage is sadly lacking amongst people of today.
Moral and Ethical Fortitude.
Pavord was so keen she even persuaded her daughter to take part in the trial.
Not herself? Clearly a kind and loving mother.
The deaths of course have to be contextualised. The risks to those under 50 are twice that of dying under general anaesthetic, for example. Although Pavord supported the Government’s response to Covid, she was lobbying for it not to be given to the under-50s.
Great if you are under 50.
A Canadian group around Denis Rancourt has analysed mortality data from 125 countries, arriving at the conclusions presented in this 10-minute video: https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-denis-rancourt-there-was-no-pandemic-it-was-the-state-that-killed-granny/5876206.
Quoting from the end of the video:
“This was a mega-campaign, … it was planned by the CIA, the military, it was executed, they were going to do it no matter what, and it killed people by how they treated people, and then the vaccines themselves are toxic.
“So the experiment’s been done globally, we know this now, we know that death [from the ‘vaccines’] increases exponentially with age, many elderly people died, it’s hard to complain because they were elderly but, still, they died.
“So just to give you one quantitative figure to leave you with, in most countries, [for] people over 80, the risk of dying per injection is one death in between 5 and 20 injections, depending on the country. That’s the level of toxicity of the vaccines for elderly people. And this is not to mention all the serious harms that are done to young people and young adults, including myocarditis, heart conditions, you name it.”
Just what is wrong with these doctors who so desperately believe in vaccines? Even I – with zero medical training – am aware that drugs need years of experimentation to confirm they are both safe and actually do what they are supposed to do. Has everyone forgotten Thalidomide?
For anyone interested, a simple question on the internet at the time of the ‘pandemic’ revealed that vaccines need 10 to 15 years of development to ensure their safety. But most of the world’s doctors were happy to inject their patients with completely unknown ‘stuff’ that labs had supposedly created in record time. And all in answer to a supposed ‘pandemic’ where the same doctors must have noticed from the patients they were seeing daily that there was no pandemic whatsoever – or, if at all, a pandemic of fear.