- “Riot thugs torch bus and wreck police car on night of shame in Leeds” – Violence has erupted in Leeds with rioters setting a double-decker bus on fire and overturning a police car, reports the Mail.
- “Did the Covid Inquiry report just admit lockdown was a mistake?” – Though it’s long been an article of faith that earlier and harder lockdowns were the solution to the Covid pandemic, this is not the conclusion that Baroness Hallett has come to, says Toby Green in UnHerd.
- “U.K. banks told to treat politicians more fairly after Farage debanking row” – The U.K.’s biggest banks have been told by the City watchdog to do more to ensure parliamentarians, senior public servants and their families are treated fairly in the wake of the Nigel Farage debanking row, reports the Guardian.
- “Tories can’t agree how or when to hold leadership contest” – The Conservative Party leadership contest has been left in disarray after senior party executives failed to agree a timetable for the race to replace Rishi Sunak, says the Times.
- “Labour announces early release for 5,500 prisoners” – Around 1,700 prisoners serving sentences of more than five years will be let out early as part of a scheme that the Government admits may increase crime, reports the Mail.
- “Businesses and Tories warn on workers’ rights overhaul” – Keir Starmer has been warned that his radical overhaul of employment rights risks mass job losses and firms going bust, says the Mail.
- “Labour’s bills” – On Substack, Jack Watson provides a summary of the most important Labour bills.
- “Proof Labour’s plan to shift power out of Parliament is not about ‘local people control’” – Starmer’s Government is using flowery language to disguise its true intentions, says Michael Curzon in the European Conservative.
- “Small boat migrants returned to France for first time” – A British Border Force vessel has returned a migrant boat back to France for the first time in history, according to LBC.
- “The Irish elite would rather destroy their country than reduce immigration” – The Irish people have voiced their opposition to migrants for months, but their Government isn’t listening, says Michael Murphy in the Telegraph.
- “Lammy refuses to say he was wrong to call Trump ‘neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath’” – David Lammy has refused to say whether he was wrong about Donald Trump, after previously calling the former U.S. President a “neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath”, according to the Express.
- “David Lammy’s Trump problem” – David Lammy’s lack of judgment is not just a matter of record. It is likely to prove a serious problem at some stage, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “The 12 David Lammy tweets that he doesn’t want Trump to see” – The Telegraph’s Genevieve Holl-Allen has compiled a list of the Foreign Secretary’s historic insults directed at the former U.S. President.
- “Parts of our cities are Islamist, says Nigel Farage as he backs J.D. Vance” – Nigel Farage has declared that “parts of” British cities are Islamist after backing Donald Trump’s choice of J.D. Vance as his running mate, according to the Telegraph.
- “The intellectual journey of J.D. Vance” – J.D. Vance represents a clear and present danger to the very same people who elevated him to the Vice Presidency, writes Ben Domenech in the Spectator.
- “Joe Biden tests positive for Covid and cancels Las Vegas speech” – Joe Biden has withdrawn from a speech after contracting COVID-19, amid increasing calls for him to withdraw from the Presidential race, reports Sky News.
- “Obama is doubtful Biden can win Presidential race, new report says” – Former President Barack Obama has told allies that Joe Biden should seriously consider whether he should stay in the race, as speculation grows he could drop out within days, says the Mail.
- “The Biden house of cards is collapsing” – Is Biden’s precarious pyramid of power on the verge of collapse? It is starting to look inevitable, writes Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
- “Is Donald Trump now unstoppable?” – Trump’s recent display of strength was a perfect contrast to the stumbling and bumbling of Joe Biden, says Freddy Gray in the Spectator.
- “Cock-ups, conspiracies and the failed Trump assassination” – On Substack, Eugyppius explains why he defaults to systemic, distributed explanations unless he is given extremely good reasons not to.
- “During the crisis, free speech worked brilliantly” – There is only one major social media platform that is relatively free of censorship: X, says Jeffrey A. Tucker for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Adidas backlash after Bella Hadid models Munich Olympics shoes” – Adidas has provoked fury after choosing pro-Palestinian model Bella Hadid to model a revamped line of trainers first worn at the 1972 Olympics where 11 Israelis were killed, reports the Mail.
- “Scientists discover anti-ageing holy grail that can stop cancer – and grey hair – in its tracks” – A new drug has increased the lifespans of mice by nearly 25% – and scientists hope it can have the same effect on humans, says the Sun.
- “Legacy projects are costing us a fortune” – Britain has a long history of politicians sinking billions into projects that don’t work, writes Harry Phibb’s in CapX.
- “The war on the family home” – On his Uncibal Substack, Dr. David McGrogan takes aim at modern economic policies that undermine personal freedom and property rights.
- “GPs have no right to lecture their patients about climate change” – The Telegraph’s Michael Deacon would prefer doctors to inform him of his own ailments rather than those of the planet.
- “Just Stop Oil co-founder Roger Hallam is jailed for five years” – Five Just Stop Oil protesters, including one of its co-founders, have been jailed for conspiring to organise protests that blocked the M25 motorway, reports the Mail.
- “U.K. off track for Net Zero, say country’s climate advisors” – The Climate Change Committee says that only a third of the emissions reductions required to achieve the U.K.’s 2030 target are currently covered by credible plans.
- “Italy bans solar panels on farm land” – Italy is prioritising the food supply over its Net Zero agenda, says Peter Imanuelsen on his Substack.
- “How the West’s big bet on hydrogen fell apart” – Hopes of a seamless transition to hydrogen are crashing into economic reality, writes Matt Oliver in the Telegraph.
- “ESG and DEI policies were always luxury goods” – The end of the low interest-rate era has coincided with both the public and corporate sectors pulling back on efforts to be virtuous, says Merryn Somerset Webb in Bloomberg.
- “Male sex predator visited ‘trans-inclusive’ female rape crisis centre” – A male sexual predator who harboured “hostility towards women” accessed services at a “trans-inclusive” female rape crisis centre, reports the Telegraph.
- “The violent misogyny of the trans movement” – Cameron Downing’s behaviour is extreme, but the views he expressed are depressingly widespread within self-identified ‘progressive’ circles, says Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “Klaus Schwab’s co-author turns against the WEF, pens novel on Davos racket” – On the Dossier Substack, Jordan Schachtel reviews Thierry Malleret’s new novella, Deaths at Davos.
- “Are the Rees-Moggs ready for their new reality?” – Half the fun of Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg’s new reality show will be watching the posh Rees-Moggs trying not to say anything snobbish, says Toby Young in the Spectator.
- “‘Do you think he’s having a tough time right now?’” – Nigel Farage is left wondering why he bothers, after being repeatedly asked by Emily Maitlis whether he thinks Trump is having “a tough time right now” following his narrow escape from death.
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Did the Covid Inquiry report just admit lockdown was a mistake?
‘…the imposition of a lockdown should be a measure of last resort […] indeed, there are those who would argue that a lockdown should never be imposed.’
Hurrah! Three cheers for Baroness Hallett.
Now, Milady, please consider this.
If PCR tests up to 45 cycles (actual illness identified circa 20 cycles), as recommended in the NHS Standard Operating Procedure issued with the test kit, will find Covid in everyone with the slightest trace of covid antibodies, then just about everyone presenting with classic common cold symptoms during the (highly contagious) SARS CoV 2 epidemic will have been diagnosed with Covid.
And we are expected to believe that all the usual Influenza Like Illnesses (ILI), OC 43, Rhinoviruses, influenza, disappeared during the ‘pandemic’.
But we know that, in other countries, patients presented with other ILI alongside or instead of Covid 19.
And we know that the average age of mortality from Covid in Britain is pretty much exactly the same as normal life expectancy.
So, two questions for you:
Could it possibly be that all the usual ILI were out there in March 2020 but no-one was testing for them so no-one was finding them?
Given that Covid average age of mortality was almost exactly the same as normal life expectancy, the winter of 2019/20 must have been pretty much the same as every other winter.
Therefore no ‘pandemic’ ever happened……….did it……..
References:
‘One hundred and seventeen children with suspected COVID‐19 and respiratory symptoms were referred to Children’s Medical Center, Tehran, Iran, between April 1 and July 30 of 2020.’
‘Real‐time reverse transcription‐polymerase chain reaction (RT‐PCR) methods were performed for the detection of HCoV‐OC43 and SARS‐COV‐2. Totally, 23 (20%) had a positive RT‐PCR for HCoV‐OC43 and 25 (21%) were positive for SARS‐COV‐2. Two patients (2%) had a positive PCR for both HCoV‐OC43 and SARS‐COV‐2.’
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8661600/
‘The time period in concern coincided with the winter peak of influenza and other respiratory illnesses. The number of ILI cases in all age groups increased dramatically starting in early December and reached the peak by the New Year.’
‘As the epidemic developed rapidly, the ILI surveillance in Wuhan was suspended in 2020W04, because both the CDC virology laboratory and the sentinel hospitals were reformed to focus on handling the explosive medical needs of COVID-19.’
‘We re-analysed 640 throat swabs collected from patients in Wuhan with influenza-like-illness from 6 October 2019 to 21 January 2020 and found that 9 of the 640 throat swabs were positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA by quantitative PCR, suggesting community transmission of SARS-CoV2 in Wuhan in early January 2020.’
‘…analysis by the China CDC indicated that 80.9% of confirmed COVID-19 cases were characterized as the mild or moderate types—that is, without breathing difficulty and hypoxia.’
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0713-1
‘….if you look at the cases outside of China the mortality rate is <1%. [Only 2 fatalities outside of mainland China]. 2 potential reasons 1) either china’s healthcare isn’t as good – that’s probably not the case 2) What is probably right is that just as with SARS there’s probably much stricter guidelines in mainland China for a case to be considered positive. So the 20,000 cases in China is probably only the severe cases; the folks that actually went to the hospital and got tested. The Chinese healthcare system is very overwhelmed with all the tests going through. So my thinking is this is actually not as severe a disease as is being suggested. The fatality rate is probably only 0.8%-1%. There’s a vast underreporting of cases in China. Compared to Sars and Mers we are talking about a coronavirus that has a mortality rate of 8 to 10 times less deadly to Sars to Mers. So a correct comparison is not Sars or Mers but a severe cold. Basically this is a severe form of the cold.’
Professor John Nicholls, Professor of Pathology, Hong Kong University 06 Feb. 2020
There was no pandemic, just another bad ILI winter, exacerbated, as usual, by very poor air quality in large conurbations like, for example, Wuhan, Bergamo, Lima and so on.
Political and psychological problems may have been the real threat. Hopefully she’ll find a diplomatic way of expressing that.
Remind me, how many of the Cabinet, including the Prime Minister, had admitted to ingesting harmful chemicals?
What? The Covid ‘vaccines’?
Before SARS CoV 2.
‘Following Michael Gove’s admission that he used cocaine “on several occasions” when he was working as a journalist, other Conservative leadership hopefuls have come clean about their experiences with illicit substances. From cannabis yogurt drinks to opium at weddings, here are their confessions.’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/09/high-tories-how-the-leadership-candidates-drug-pasts-compare
The vaccines are documented to cause many harms including, indirectly, dementia.
Obviously, however, key lunatic/socialist fascist decisions regarding the response to Covid were taken well before the vaccination programme began.
One possible conclusion is, therefore, that ingesting harmful chemicals turns you into a complete lunatic.
Personal observation seems to bear that out.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/bob-newhart-dead-show-actor-b2582268.html
Legend.
https://youtu.be/bcSAQyzPcl0?si=QDYvIbSrHEOZpPcB
I care not one iota what conclusion Hallett has come to. She is one person, and one person that’s had obviously been given the answer before the question. The fact that this one person might have subtly implied the ‘wrong’ conclusion is of zero consequence. Society needs to get back to a state of natural being, shaped through an implicit collective agreement of what’s right and wrong, and not be dictated to by supposed experts and the ever-expanding victim groups. How can society be comfortable with a common moral guide without religion though? That’s the question.
Does anyone have anything more on this? The images appear to show the rioters were, ahem… predominantly not of English origin.
TOUSI TV has it covered !
https://www.politico.eu/article/what-another-trump-presidency-would-mean-for-nato/
Have the team at Blenheim got the memo?
You know; this one:
‘“I don’t give a sh*t about NATO,” (Trump) yelled at his then-National Security Advisor John Bolton during a heated debate.’
Who else doesn’t give a sh*t about NATO?
Oh yes! Der Friedenskanzler, Herr Scholz.
And, let’s face it, loads of the ‘bourgeoisie’ in Central and Eastern Europe are more than comfortable with Russian revanchism, possibly even with a return to the geography of the USSR in the shape of a ‘Union State’ of Greater Russia.
Where does Britain stand in all this?
I know where I stand. I looked into East Germany and I did not like what I saw. That is why I am still incandescent about lockdown: socialist fascism.
But today’s Britain? The pots and pans bangers?
Trump means what he says. The U.S. strategy is to let Ukraine/Europe fight it out with Russia.
Putin’s strategy is to link Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus with Kaliningrad via the Suwalki corridor de facto incorporating the Baltic States into the ‘Union State’.
That means a confrontation with NATO in Eastern Europe.
The U.S. will do nothing. Germany will do nothing.
What will Britain, a militia devoid of armour, an Air Force half the size of that of the US Marine Corps, do?
Nothing. Does it matter? Would it have mattered if we had sat on the sidelines in 1914 and 1939?
We may very well be about to find out.
“That is why I am still incandescent about lockdown: socialist fascism.”
Says the man who voted for the party that imposed it
You have no idea how I voted.
I can tell you that my constituency MP is a Liberal Democrat.
And I certainly did not vote for a party whose leader admires Putin as a political operator.
How would Farage respond to Putin annexing the Suwalki corridor?
I am pretty sure you posted that you were going to/had voted Conservative; apologies if I have that wrong. You certainly expressed admiration on more than one occasion for Sunak, the Lockdown Chancellor.
Your big bugbear seems to be Russia/Ukraine – fair enough. My perception of threat is more that our country will be lost in a small number of generations if we don’t close the borders now, and another red line for me is any political party responsible for or supportive of lockdowns.
They all supported lockdowns at the time.
All the Westminster parties, yes. I didn’t vote for any of them. Voted ADF (initials curiously similar to the “far right” party in Germany).
Let us not forget Mr Sunak’s good work, albeit late in the day, in flying back from America specifically to prevent a third lockdown.
Let us also never forget Macron’s part in strong arming the spineless Johnson into the first lockdown.
My view is that any senior politician who didn’t stand up more or less immediately and say it was all nonsense cannot be trusted, bar those who appear truly repentant like Bridgen and De Santis.
Macron, Johnson just two names on a long list of the guilty, worldwide. Just because they all did it doesn’t excuse any of them.
The “Hallett Inquiry” is just another part of Covid theatre. How anyone paying attention can take it seriously is beyond me
“Scientists discover anti-ageing holy grail that can stop cancer – and grey hair – in its tracks”
Ah, an anti-gerone.
I recommend reading ‘Trouble with Lichen’ by John Wyndham.
“Tories can’t agree how or when to hold leadership contest”
What a surprise.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/tory-leadership-contest-chaos-5x3tv7wh7
Or to put this in English – nobody wants the job.
Leeds riots
“Because of agency workers and the children”
?
what kind of an explanation is that?
Something demographic behind this I surmise hence the obvious lack of detail!
“Tories can’t agree how or when to hold leadership contest”
Who cares?
Humour springs from unlikely places.
“Labour announces early release for 5,500 prisoners”
And if any of those prisoners cause any kind of serious harm to the public then the government should be held directly responsible for that crime!
Not the government Dings – Kneel and Kneel alone.
“Joe Biden tests positive for Covid and cancels Las Vegas speech”
Well slapper my thigh! How fecking convenient.
He’s going to need a lot of illnesses over the coming months to avoid all public contact isnt he?
Which ‘community’ is in danger of being inflammed prey tell?
https://www.gbnews.com/news/nigel-farage-leeds-riots-comments-row-hareshill
” community?”
Is that now a euphemism for Third World Detritus?
I was absolutely amazed looking at the footage just how many
members of the publicimmigrants were able to take a day off work on Thursday. Was this some heathen holiday that I am unaware of?“Scientists discover anti-ageing holy grail that can stop cancer – and grey hair – in its tracks”
Statements like this make my blood run cold!
Why can’t we ask ‘should we?’ instead of ‘could we?’ each time we meddle with nature?
“Italy bans solar panels on farm land” – Italy is prioritising the food supply over its Net Zero agenda”
Oh you lucky barsteds!
If only in the uk too!
Right, fry up brunch time
Speaking of David Lammy, the UK i.e. taxpayers, are resuming funding for UNRWA (a popular subject in the recent past). There’s always funding available for Elsewhere and Someone Else.
https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-811046
The anti renewable sceptics might not like these reports: https://eandt.theiet.org/2024/07/17/major-australian-solar-project-2671-mile-undersea-cable-singapore-gains-environmental According to one of the embedded links, even the Pope want’s to be 100% solar (in real time; I know we’re all 100% from the past via the plants etc).
What does “renewable” mean in this context? Do you have figures for how “renewable” all the resources are that are required to generate this “renewable” energy, including the move away from ICE vehicles and gas boilers?
“Riot thugs torch bus and wreck police car on night of shame in Leeds”
Wondering why, after reading the Daily Mail article in which no reason was given, I looked in the Comments section, and found that it was a “No-Go Area”. Translation: “Hostile Alien Parasites”.
Another article elsewhere said the “Far-Right Turkish Grey Wolf Hand Signal” was being banned in some European countries, but when you look it up, it is the signal for the grey wolf-headed brother of Anubis, Egyptian god of death.
“Far-right” Muslims??? The media’s contorted attempt to label The Unholy Muslim-Marxist Alliance as “Far-Right Thugs” comes from the main Egyptian god of death, Set, whose offspring was a Crocodile Deity named…”MAGA”.
Masonic Drumpf sneering at patriots.