- “Kemi Badenoch ‘rips into’ Rishi Sunak over election blunders” – At the first meeting of the Shadow Cabinet, Kemi Badenoch criticised Rishi Sunak’s election campaign and Suela Braverman’s recent remarks, reports the Express.
- “Suella Braverman hits back at Kemi Badenoch over ‘nervous breakdown’ jibe as Tory leadership hopefuls engage in public spat despite pleas for party unity in wake of election thumping” – Suella Braverman has hit back at comments by Kemi Badenoch accusing her of having a ‘very public nervous breakdown’, according to the Mail.
- “Can Robert Jenrick save the Tories?” – Robert Jenrick’s star has been in the ascendant throughout this year, notes Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Senior Tory confronts new 1922 chairman in bar over centrist leader ‘plot’” – Mark Francois has confronted the new chairman of the 1922 Committee in a Commons bar, accusing him of a “plot” to install a centrist Tory leader, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Red Wall may never forgive the Tories” – The Conservative Party has yet to grasp the sense of betrayal felt by voters in ‘left-behind’ Britain, writes Miriam Cates in the Telegraph.
- “The Tories betrayed Britain – and too many still refuse to admit it” – The Conservatives need to own their defeat if they’re to hope to recover, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “‘We Conservatives must unite to win back the public’s trust’” – There is important work to do in holding Labour to account and giving people a reason to vote Tory again, says James Cleverly in the Times.
- “The problem with Rachel Reeves’s ‘National Wealth Fund’” – What Rachel Reeves is setting up doesn’t really deserve to be called a National Wealth Fund, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Chancellor’s £7.3 billion green gamble to boost economy” – Rachel Reeves has set out plans to invest billions in high-risk projects to make the U.K. a world leader in green technology, according to Business Matters. Time to buy a diesel electricity generator.
- “Labour still doesn’t know what women want” – The Labour Party disregards gender at its peril, warns Sarah Ditum in UnHerd.
- “Labour MP opposes new homes in her first week on the job despite party’s housing plans” – A new Labour MP has opposed plans to build on the green belt in her first week despite it being a central part of the Government’s housing policy, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘I’m not a robot’, insists Reform candidate with AI-altered photo” – Reform candidate Mark Matlock has been forced to confirm he is a real person after a digitally altered image led to widespread accusations that he was AI-generated, says LBC.
- “Jolyon and the Guardian peddle crazed Reform conspiracy theory” – Some dark corners of the sanctimonious Left’s presence on Twitter/X have been frantically trying to come to terms with the fact that Reform did so well at the election by inventing conspiracy theories, says Guido Fawkes.
- “’I very much exist’ says Reform candidate after internet sleuths claim she is fake” – The Reform U.K. candidate for Glasgow North has been forced to insist “I do indeed exist” after internet sleuths claimed she was fake, says the Telegraph.
- “‘Conspiracy theorists say Reform’s candidates were AI avatars. If I were them, I’d feel flattered’” – A suspiciously sleek candidate photo has led to some bizarre claims being levelled at Nigel Farage’s party, writes Isabelle Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “On Call review: Anthony Fauci makes his case” – America’s top medical adviser during the pandemic seemingly has no regrets despite the collateral damage of lockdowns and school closures, writes John Tierney in the WSJ.
- “Jacob Rees-Mogg and family to star in fly-on-the-wall documentary” – Jacob Rees-Mogg and his family could become the ‘British Kardashians’ as they are set to star in a five-part series following their life, reports the Mail.
- “Jeremy Vine pursued by HMRC for disputed tax bills at BBC” – BBC presenter Jeremy Vine is the latest star to face a court battle with HMRC over a disputed tax bill, reveals the Mail.
- “Gary Lineker will not present BBC’s Champions League highlights, throwing future into doubt” – Gary Lineker’s future with the BBC has been cast into doubt following reports that he will not host their Champions League highlights programme, reports the Metro.
- “Royal Society of Literature faces summer party boycott” – Over 20 fellows are snubbing the Royal Society of Literature’s summer party in protest against a year of management gaffes and free speech troubles, says the Times.
- “Starmer is turning Britain into a vassal state” – Labour is beating Nato’s drums of war, writes Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
- “Disorderly ‘refugees’ turn commuter rail line into a daily hell of physical assaults, threats and fights; police respond by offering special classes on ‘railway rules’ and ‘German customs’” – Apparently not stabbing and spitting on conductors is a peculiar Central European cultural norm unknown to our guests from Syria, Afghanistan and Turkey, says Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Why a crack addict-filled Zombieland really does sum up Germany’s national disaster: ROBERT HARDMAN sees for himself how Germans’ pride in their competence and efficiency has been shattered as the nation goes off the rails” – Step out of Frankfurt’s magnificent central railway station, and within a one-minute walk you are inside what looks like the set of a dystopian film about a zombie apocalypse, reports Robert Hardman.
- “France has ended up with a socio-political Frankenstein” – Macron must now play second fiddle to an ideological Left that poses a much greater threat to economic sanity than Le Pen’s National Rally, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
- “Emmanuel Macron is cornered” – All the world’s a stage for Macron but voters from the Left and Right aren’t buying it. And even the Centre is having its doubts, writes Jonathan Miller in the Spectator.
- “Putin is about to deliver Nato’s final humiliation” – The critical summit in DC this week is the last chance for NATO to show its strength in the face of the new Axis of Evil, says Hamish de Bretton-Gordon in the Telegraph.
- “The New York Times fact checks Biden” – To measure the terror now gripping the mainstream media in the wake of the Biden-Trump debate, consider this: the New York Times is now fact-checking Joe Biden in favour of Donald Trump, writes Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “End your run now, George Clooney tells Biden as he hosts NATO leaders” – George Clooney has issued a damning call for Joe Biden to quit the U.S. presidential race hours after senior Democrat Nancy Pelosi swerved questions about whether he should continue, reports the BBC.
- “Synchronised messaging – the expanding phenomenon on behalf of those in power” – The media is failing to provide independent, critical perspectives on power, says Theo L. Glück on the Freedom Research Substack.
- “‘Pragmatic’ Democrats fall in behind President” – President Biden has been bolstered by a series of endorsements as he battles to save his re-election campaign, reports the Times.
- “Biden is not too old, suggests Starmer” – Keir Starmer has denied that his plans to force peers to retire at the age of 80 means Joe Biden is too old to remain in office, says GB News.
- “Just Stop Oil activist who sprayed paint at World Snooker Championship spared jail” – A Just Stop Oil activist has dodged prison after throwing orange powder on a snooker table at the World Championship, reports the Telegraph.
- “Police Federation demands ITV changes ‘grossly offensive’ title of Piglets show” – ITV has been accused of being “grossly offensive” for planning a comedy about police cadets called Piglets, reports the Telegraph.
- “Poll finds only 36% of Americans have confidence in higher education” – Americans are increasingly sceptical about the value and cost of college, with most saying they feel the U.S. higher education system is headed in the “wrong direction”, says ABC News.
- “‘Key campaigner’ for pro-Gaza MP who unseated Jonathan Ashworth charged with terrorism offence” – Former Labour MP Jonathan Ashworth has called on the man who took his seat to “provide a full account of all his dealings” with one of his supporters who has been charged terrorism offences, reports Sky News.
- “Oxford students are mocked for closing their pro-Palestine encampment as students break up for summer holidays” – Oxford University students have been ridiculed after the city’s pro-Palestine encampment ended in time for summer getaways to the south of France, says the Mail.
- “Birmingham and Nottingham universities win fight to close pro-Palestine encampments” – Two universities have won the right to start eviction procedures against pro-Palestine protesters who set up encampments for weeks, reports the Mail.
- “The Killers celebrate England’s Euro win in style” – On X, Henry Moeran posts a clip of the Killers celebrating England’s victory against the Netherlands last night at their O2 concert.
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I presume Dr Jay is being coy, because everyone else knows the reason why children are being targeted for vaccination: money.
This is far bigger than crooks trying to make themselves rich; Bill Gates for example does not need to make himself more rich and he himself is on record talking about a desire to reduce surface population.
https://youtu.be/obRG-2jurz0
History shows us that fanatics motivate support by appealing to basic emotions. In this case greed. Gates isn’t interested in money but he needs the cooperation of those that are.
Absolutely correct and the “vaccines” which aren’t vaccines are the main depopulation tool. It was clear from last spring, that the “vaccines”, which supposedly didn’t then exist, would be the only way out of the fake pandemic. No other solution has been allowed to get in the way of these intentionally and exceedingly dangerous gene altering products. The nightmare is happening all around us, as the idiots line up to be terminated.
Gates’ pseudo Malthusuan model is wrong, family size does not decline as health improves but as wealth increases.
It’s far worse than the lust for money, they want the children sterilised or better still dead.
That vaccine causes clots.
In some people they might not feel the effects but they’re there. In some the clots kill
them.
Why a government would want as many people with clotting issues is a mystery.
I agree – I have an elderly parent with a horrendous extended family history with clots, brain haemorrhage etc and after having had the jab twice I am seeing substantial memory loss which was not present before the jabbing which makes me wonder has there been some kind of clotting process happening in the brain as a consequence of the jab
The John Tamny article is a breath of fresh air, as per usual. He brings a perspective which is sadly lacking in even generally conservative media.
Hancock says ‘looking good for Freedom Day on June 21st’.
Positioning himself for pole position in the Personality Cult sweepstakes as the cabal of delirious pro lockdown lunatics claim Victory over the dangerous, unprecedented worldwide Pandemic as a result of his bold and decisive policies.
Actually handcock and the rest of of your gang lockdown 1. made sod all difference to me as an out and about ‘key worker’ who survived unmasked and unscathed despite coming into close up contact with approx 6,000 random people during that time.
Lockdown lite (last summer) was a miserable fucking experience with social distancing in pubs and restaurants/cafes, asinine rules in supermarkets that are now universally ignored; masks enforced at a time when any use that they might have had had long gone.
You can stuff your simulacrum of Freedom Day; who wants to go to a half empty sports stadium, religious function or music event to be pushed around by minimum wage Covid Safety Enforcers sticking carcinogenic swabs in my cavities.
As it happens I am now medically housebound (non covid) and doing what the NHS finally got around to telling me I should do, shield at home because of other pre-existing conditions, that they should have told me last March (which I would have ignored). At least I’m no longer exposed to BBC propaganda bollocks courtesy of the Today Programme and Jeremy Vine on the car radio.
When the sun comes out I’ll take a taxi a short distance up into the hills to sit on a particular bench with fabulous views while enjoying a couple of fags and a miniature Laphraoigh while pondering about anything but bloody Covid.
Hope the view makes itself particularly beautiful for you.
Excellent post.
great post
but “ a miniature Laphraoigh while pondering about anything but bloody Covid.”
I bet you end up thinking about covid!
It would be like going to the pub with Neil Armstrong and trying not to think about the moon
Laphraoigh – top choice. Good for what ails ye. Enjoy the view.
Excellent choice of Single Malt! Enjoy the view.
“despite coming into close up contact with approx 6,000 random people during that time.”
Actually – 1 in 6000 is probably less than your overall chances of coming into contact with someone with an infective virus load.
So, your chances of catching anything are even less.
Thus the non-epidemic. See CEBM :
“The levels of suspected COVID-19 have not reached epidemic consultation levels and are dropping dramatically.”
(Nov 2020)
This, of course, raises the question of how a ‘pandemic’ can lack the characterisics of a epidemic?
Answer : by fiddling the definition of ‘pandemic’.
I have a funny feeling that “Freedom Day” might be something which someone decides in future should be “marked” and celebrated – a bit like thanksgiving in USA. It would of course be sickening, but I just have a feeling that that is the way the cult is going.
Inspired by you I went out and bought a bottle of Laphraoigh and yes it is not at all bad.
I’m in Lisbon, and sadly the sheep are in the majority. But it seems it is getting better though.
For sheer covviechutzpah, this one takes the biscuit:
“…the CDC’s updated guidance which recommends that fully vaccinated people who have no symptoms do not [need] to be tested for the virus, even if exposed to someone who is infected.”
And why are they not to be tested? Answers on a postcard please.
Because the fully vaccinated will be the Special People looking on in scorn at the unvaxxed pulled out of the line and frogmarched to the testing wigwam.
Not watching the news you will have missed out on the covid-sniffing dogs and the coming internment camps “to help people to self-isolate” (for now)
Because they might test positive which might, just might, get people asking awkward questions.
Loving your choice of newsreader to illustrate this column….!
I don’t have a telly, who is he, George Alagiah ?
I know that he has survived cancer (so far).
Thank you, I’ve heard of him too
200 million per month for seven beds in private hospitals … Moorfields rate is 500 per night per bed (had to go private because NHS is closed …) which for seven beds works out about a hundred grand a month … Some slight government overspending methinks ….
The NHS commandeered our local Nuffield at the start of lockdown 1. but only started using it to help clear the, non-covid, backlog several months later.
bit like setting up nightingale hospitals – fully covered to death in bogus broadcasting corporation news bulletins – which the then dismantled after barely using them – but like the private hospital contracts they had to do both of those things to crank up the fear and make people believe that there was a massive public health emergency afoot irrespective of the cost to the public purse.
From the Fauci story, for anyone who missed it..
https://www.poynter.org/united-facts-of-america-a-festival-of-fact-checking/#1617292355199-b65d2bab-7d3b
It’s hard to believe that this isn’t a parody website
Looks like Factchecking has spawned a lucrative source of employment for people who who expect to be highly remunerated.
As for the roundup link, ‘Fauci laughed and said “if the virus escaped from the lab someone must have introduced it into the lab from nature, therefore it already existed in nature . . .”
Yes but that was when Fauci illegally facilitated funding for gain of function research on the virus while in the Wuhan lab, twat.
Sorry karenovirus, not picking on you.
Mr Censor please explain why we can call Mr Fauci a ‘tw at’ without censorship, but not Mr Fon?
Probably because fauci is not a guest on this site which, rightly in my view, discourages ‘flaming’ of contributors.
‘SARS-2 will at some point join a handful of human coronaviruses that cause colds, mainly in the winter, when conditions favor their transmission.’
https://www.statnews.com/2021/05/19/how-the-covid-pandemic-ends-scientists-look-to-the-past-to-see-the-future/
Remind me….how are we doing for overall all cause mortality for 2021?
Oh! Plumb normal!
So, in short, SARS CoV 2 already joined the ranks of endemic common cold coronaviruses around May 2020.
All the rest has been a global weird out by a bunch of Mr Pooters.
But, for our great entertainment, the biggest Pooter of the lot of them is putting on a show this week about how he was right all along about locking everyone down, despite Sweden, Florida, South Dakota, Texas…..
As a general rule of thumb, if that other hopeless Pooter, the prime minister, says something, and he has said the lockdown policy was responsible for ‘defeating’ the virus, then that must reliably be a load of old ‘covid balls’.
Enjoy this week’s panto……
Millions of jabs, claim success, get full licence, make trillions, the race is on
Unless there are too many dead horses on the course, to follow the metaphor. Need to redesign the course, to reduce the risk in future.
‘Promoting Covid jabs on dating apps . . .’
Dozy Joe excluded Grindr from his list of dating apps whose members could include their vaccine status on their profiles.
Is this discrimination against the Gay Male community or does he think they might prefer not knowing their prospective new partners vaccine status as this could add an extra frisson to their encounter ?
I’ve been waiting for an update from Reiner Fuellmich. Get a cup of tea/coffee or something stronger (you might need it!) and settle down for an hour. It is riveting.
Thanks James.
I didn’t understand the 97% false positive claim for PCR cT=45. It sounds plausible if you are only considering positives that score cT<=45, if anything it’s much too low, this paper https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1491/5912603 suggests that the 97% rate kicks in at cT=35. But in observed PCR results most positives are way below 45 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.25.20219048v2 so the 97% figure would only apply to the upper tail of the distribution? Dr Fuellmich makes it sound like it applies to the whole distribution, or maybe I misunderstood.
“England is at risk of “replacing the Covid crisis with a cancer crisis”, the Telegraph says, as official figures show that 304,555 fewer patients were given an urgent referral in the 12 Months to March”
It would be interesting to know what proportion of referrals translate to (a) cancer diagnosis and (b) ultimate fatality from the llness.
It is widely stated that the annual average number deaths from cancer is 450. How long will it take to see if this number increases as a result of late or non diagnosis?
450? That doesn’t sound credible. Is there a missing ‘0’?
Oops, should read ‘daily’.
That’ useful, Friedrich – but what about the ration of examinations to confirmed cases of cancer?
Surprised no one has commented yet on Richard Madeley’s views on “ring fencing” communities that are “vaccine hesitant”.
Ah well Richard, with your new found credibility completely sabotaged I suppose you can go back to discussing amongst other things; carrots that look like penises, why do some dogs eat their own jobbies, and will Taylor Swift change her pronouns on your highly successful “This Morning” show.
My mum says you and your missus make a lovely couple.
Disclaimer….haven’t paid much attention to daytime TV for the past few decades, so apologies if this “show” has been removed from the schedules.
The bulk of Richard’s article is complaining about the government changing the definition of an Amber* country from whatever it was to ‘don’t go there unless absolutely essential’ and claims that ‘all travel is dangerous’.
His demand that areas still with high rates of Covid cases should be ‘ringfenced’ (how this might be done he does not explain) after he makes it clear that he and Judy are going on holiday to an Amber country whatever the government says. Just self obsession really.
* Actually bozo is quite correct, an Amber traffic light means either Stop or Proceed ‘when it is safe to do so’ whereas in much of continental Europe overnight a flashing Amber light means ‘all vehicles may proceed with caution at your own risk’ which definition would be fine by me.
I see that dogs have been “trained” to smell out Covid on human beings.
I wonder when the “hunting season” will be?
I would say it will be 365 days a year.
Richard Madely opines in the express:
“the situation in Lever Edge, Bolton?
There, barely 37 percent of the population – which has the highest weekly coronavirus rate in the area; almost 900 per 100,000 people – has been vaccinated.
Many locals are exceptionally “vaccine hesitant”, and their stubborn refusal to have the jab is putting our national roadmap to normality at risk.
We can’t force people to be vaccinated but surely we can ring-fence the area with red lights so the rest of us can get our lives back. Can’t we?”
Words fail me. This is what people have been reduced to – something to be imprisoned, penned in, ghettoised, because they opt to exercise autonomy over their own bodies, and people cannot see that we have reverted to a kind of “holocaust” type situation regarding the unvaccinated. I just didn’t think it would happen this quickly. I am scared now, more so than I have been at any other stage in this ‘pandemic’.
What an absolute bloody idiot he is. But then his appeal is to idiots.