- “Met admits mistakes in policing of pro-Palestinian protests” – A senior Scotland Yard officer has admitted the force made mistakes in its handling of pro-Palestinian protests, reports the Standard.
- “Actor left with PTSD has ‘lost faith’ as attacker walks free” – An actor, who was left with a triple jaw fracture following a brutal and unprovoked assault, has “completely lost faith in justice” after his attacker walked free due to his mental health, says the Mail.
- “HMRC sacks 179 civil servants for gross misconduct” – So far this year, 179 tax office workers have been sacked for serious breaches of workplace conduct, an increase of 43% since 2020, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour is in denial about our bad universities” – We clearly need to think radically, both about the purpose of university education and how many institutions a government with limited funds should support, says Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “Harmer Starmer’s no Isaac Newton” – By talking about economics as though it were physics, Labour and the IFS reveal their incompetence, writes Mr. Chips on his Substack.
- “The FSU webinar: Free speech after the riots” –On Substack, Paul Sutton breaks down the Free Speech Union’s latest webinar, arguing that today’s free speech restrictions, dressed up as public safety measures, are simply a covert means to suppress dissent.
- “‘My whole life has relied on free speech – naturally, I’m gagged’” – In the Telegraph, Morrisey opens up to James Hall about the “idiot culture” blocking the release of his 14th solo album.
- “Bolsonaro leads massive free speech protest in Brazil after Supreme Court bans X” – Thousands of Brazilians flooded city streets to protest against the Government’s censorship crusade against Elon Musk’s X platform, reports ZeroHedge.
- “Elon Musk’s feud with Brazilian judge is much more than a personal spat − it’s about national sovereignty, freedom of speech and the rule of law” – In the Conversation, Yasmin Curzi de Mendonça argues that X’s legal battle with Brazil’s Supreme Court raises important questions about platform regulation and how to combat harmful disinformation while protecting free speech.
- “Reflections on Right-wing cancel culture” – Justifying censoriousness because “the Left started it” is dumb. It’s also untrue, says Jacob Mchangama on the Persuasion Substack.
- “The Total State and the twilight of American democracy” – On Substack, N.S. Lyons reviews Auron MacIntyre’s new book, and explains why conservatives need the New Right.
- “Britain could learn from Switzerland’s tough stance on migration” – In Switzerland, the message to migrants is clear: you are welcome to live and build a life here, but you must contribute to society and abide by its rules, writes James Tidmarsh in the Spectator.
- “Newly appointed French PM under pressure to suspend immigration” – France’s new Prime Minister is under pressure to follow through on an old election promise to suspend immigration, reports the Telegraph.
- “France’s Le Pen urges Macron to hold referendum to break political stalemate” – Marine Le Pen has urged Emmanuel Macron to hold a referendum on key issues such as immigration, suggesting that giving the French a direct vote might help break the political deadlock, according to Le Monde.
- “Russia presents unprecedented threat to world order, spy chiefs warn” – British and American spy chiefs have issued a warning over what they call an unprecedented range of threats to the international order, says the Mail.
- “Damning Labour report claims winter fuel raid could kill nearly 4,000 pensioners” – Labour’s own research suggests thousands of pensioners could die if the Government carries out its plan to cut winter fuel payments for those not on benefits, reports the Independent.
- “Unions join condemnation of winter fuel allowance axe” – Unions have condemned the stripping of the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners as Keir Starmer faces a revolt from dozens of MPs, says the Mail.
- “Labour-run council funds Extinction Rebellion ‘climate cafe’ using taxpayer’s money” – A Labour-run council has been criticised for funding an Extinction Rebellion “climate cafe” using taxpayers’ money, according to Bolton News.
- “Toyota slashes EV output by 30% for 2026” – Toyota has become the latest automaker to slow its EV output, reports ZeroHedge.
- “Is it ‘crass’ to question Lucy Letby’s guilt?” – With an inquiry into her crimes due to begin this week, Tory MP David Davis appears in the Telegraph studio to reveal his own doubts about Letby’s case.
- “It’s back: the Covid Inquiry” – On the TTE Substack, Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson return with a preview of Module 3 of the Covid Inquiry, which promises to examine the pandemic’s impact on healthcare systems, patients and workers.
- “Covid lockdown sped up ageing in teenage brains, study finds” – A new study suggests that Covid lockdowns – including school closures, cancelled sports activities and stay-at-home orders – prematurely aged teen brains by as much as four years, according to NBC News.
- “Yes, lab-made and lab-held viruses do jump out of the lab and have killed lots of people and caused pandemics too” – The backlash against a revealing article on lab-caused epidemics shows just how eager the ‘Biosecurity Blob’ is to bury inconvenient truths, says Dr. Meryl Nass on her Substack.
- “Surrogate mother wins access to her biological son in landmark case” – A surrogate mother has won access to her biological son in a landmark case, after a gay couple claimed it was “homophobic” for her to be involved in their “motherless family”, reports the Mail.
- “Police Scotland are letting rapists identify as women” – Trans ideology is still wreaking havoc in Scotland’s criminal-justice system, says Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Valentina Petrillo’s Paralympics was a victory for sport’s cowardice masked as inclusion” – An Italian man’s need to validate his fantasy that he’s really a woman apparently matters more in the eyes of the International Paralympic Committee than women’s right to fair competition, writes Oliver Brown in the Telegraph.
- “The Left are waging war on whiteness” – Ireland is the latest nation to pursue an ‘anti-racist’ agenda which in reality means exactly the opposite, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “The cult of inclusivity has ruined classical music – just listen to the Proms” – The BBC seems so ashamed of high culture that it feels it must trivialise it at every opportunity, writes Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
- “Rave in the nave! Cathedral slammed over £39-a-ticket concert” – Peterborough Cathedral has been slammed over its plan to host a £39-a-ticket Ibiza-style concert, reports the Mail.
- “Kamala Harris suffers poll blow ahead of critical Trump debate” – A new poll suggests that Kamala Harris’s honeymoon period and “euphoric August” are now, according to GB News.
- “Donald Trump comes out swinging for free speech” – The MSM has ignored Trump’s promise to protect social media companies from government censors. Why? Because Trump likes free speech but has made it clear he hates the MSM, says Alex Berenson on his Unreported Truths Substack.
- “‘We are going to be repaying this debt for decades to come’” – On TalkTV, Prof. Carl Heneghan explains the shortcomings of the Covid Inquiry to host Julia Hartley-Brewer.
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In many cases antibodies slowly disappear after about 5 months.
Memory B and T cell immunity can last a lifetime.
Some people still have T cell immunity from SARS over 18 years ago.
One woman was reported some years ago to have T cell immunity from the Spanish Flu 80 years later.
Natural immunity is preferable to an experimental jab.
This is relevant:
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/08/22/microbiologist-explains-covid-jab-effects.aspx?ui=1fb065e0c4152b58bd4ed94cf29c7cbfad40307fb723460ddabacd55f3c58b0c&sd=20210518&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20210822&mid=DM965495&rid=1241802876
The data could be used to “inform the ongoing approach to the pandemic and give further insight into the effectiveness of vaccines on new variants,” DHSC said.
This sentence gives me the impression most people testing positive currently are those who have been vaccinated! Every day I hear of yet another person with both vaccines (AZ) who has got covid with symptoms and gone on to test positive.
You can view all the data and numbers in the latest technical briefings here
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/investigation-of-novel-sars-cov-2-variant-variant-of-concern-20201201
For the past 10 weeks only 10% of cases in over 50’s were unvaccinated which roughly corresponds to the uptake lol.
In under 50’s as the number of unvaccinated diminishes so does the percentage of unvaccinated testing positive, down from 64% to 52%.
Oh dear Boris !!
Ah, thank you for the figures.
Where do you get these figures
This is exactly what we need – another government testing programme. All their testing and monitoring programmes so far have been such a great success, and have gathered meaningful, useful date that has been analysed honestly and used to inform a rational, evidence based response to covid.
Back in the real world, any (probably meaningless) data gathered will be used or ignored or distorted in order to fit political agendas.
They have however gathered meaningful, useful money. This is more of the same.
And the point of all this is ?
Thus the point of it is to find that a %age of those infected with covid don’t develop antibodies.
Thus they can say that natural infection isn’t great, because some (many?) don’t develop antibodies.
But note that they’re not testing after vaccination — where there are also a certain proportion that don’t develop antibodies. They’d prefer that people not know this.
The results of this are broadly known, although the MSM don’t seem to want to report this — the majority of older people develop antibodies after infection (>95%), but the proportion decreases with decreasing age, to the point where young children are relatively unlikely to make antibodies (as low as 20-30%).
So, the point of it (in the end) will be one of:
Which one of those two situations applies will depend on the pressure on the authorities (they’ll know already, but they’re certainly not going to tell us that).
I’d note also that some weird stuff is going on at the moment:
I have a suspicion that ‘something has happened’ and this has resulted in the authorities shying away from a universal third jab. Thus they’re having to put out feelers to people to say ‘don’t worry, it won’t be needed for you.‘.
The question is why? I don’t know the answer to this, but I’ll suggest:
I saw the BBC article too and was quite surprised… although like you, once you realise that there is a reason for it being there, you start the question the motive. I am guessing that the narrative will shift to be that the most robust protection will be vaccination PLUS natural infection for those that are not in the most vulnerable categories.
Yes, that article is there for a reason, there will be something behind it. Interesting to see how this plays out in the media.
Join an unpaid research project so that pharma can make more profit.
That magical money jungle keeps on giving.
Yep, and some people are making shit loads of money from this scam
I strongly believe that the true understanding of this disease is very shaky.
The current priest class of scientists collectively are no better informed in reality than Medieval soothsayers finding witches and heresies everywhere.
They are collecting your dna, folks
I just think it’s more psy-ops smoke and mirrors.
Is there solid scientific evidence that antibodies will make people immune or offer protection from Covid-19…. if so how are they becoming re-infected?
Surel cross-reactivity is a major challenge for Covid-19 antibody tests as there are six, I think, other Coronaviruses known to infect humans?
This is even if you believe the PCR detects anything real in the first place!?
Nope, just something else with which I WILL NOT COMPLY!
Why do these simple things have to be reiterated so many times? People get reinfected because the immune system counteracts infections. It can’t prevent them.
Granted, in the silly corona universe, where every harmless infection is sufficient to set the whole, idiotic machinery into motion, this may sound like a big thing but it isn’t. The fundamental contradiction here is that infection is assumed to be harmless to the infected but dangerous to the non-infected. Until they become infected. Then, it reverts to harmless to you but dangerous to others.
It’s almost as if everything Mike Yeadon wrote about on immunology last year was true after all.
Seems Yeadon and Toby Young were only wrong in one aspect of their reading of the trajectory of Covid when they claimed last summer that Covid was over and that there would be no second wave.
We can now see that Covid has knocked flu off its perch to become the dominant seasonal respiratory disease and will in all likelihood return each year.
On balance, Yeadon, Young et al have been far more accurate in their pronouncements than Ferguson and his SAGE goons.
Another ploy to keep the scam going.
The PCR is not a diagnostic tool so the results produced are meaningless. Which of course means the anti-body tests will be meaningless and let’s not forget covid has not even been proven to exist.
All in all a pile of fake science more akin to witchcraft. However, what this nonsense will provide is lots of scary headlines “proving” that we don’t produce anti-bodies after infection. What’s the betting there will be repeat follow ups just to confirm the outcome that has already been decided upon?
For an IFR of 0.15%.
More taking the P.
So, almost a year and a half after they should have started offering antibody tests they are now doing it. Making a honest tracking of how antibody levels change over time is a worthwhile study, though of course undetectably low levels does not mean that the person’s immunity has expired, only that it is sitting dormant within tissue. But one wonders why they didn’t roll out freely available antibody tests to all willing takers in around April of 2020, so we could see how many people had already had it and that we could have been unafraid even then. I would have liked to get one in about April 2020, being one of many people who suspected they had a case in the first wave, but I guess they’ve waited like this to start making the tests available because they want to make sure antibodies from earleir waves have diminished beyond detectability so they won’t have people realising that the population was largely immune by the end of wave 1.
Well, it’s a strong whiff of obsession, and commercial opportunity as a result. Worthwhile public expenditure? I doubt it.
Another disgusting pharmaceutical money spinner… we just keep allowing them to wring this out indefinitely.
Seeing as the test will always give a positive result given enough tests done I imagine these results are just another means to obfuscate the details further.
If a PCR comes back with a false positive then chances are that the person won’t have any antibodies, if they never had it why would they, and as a result based off these two tests new policies restricting your life in some way will be born.
What happened to the original thoughts touted at the beginning of this charade: Everyone will get it at some point and the “overwhelming majority” will have very little or “mild” symptoms.
By now we could all have had it and all be getting on fine.
Why anyone can think this is all just by accident and mismanaged I don’t know.
I had an antibody test as part of the Biobank program, after I had received both my AZ jabs. It was negative, make of it what you want.