- “Boris Johnson receives first dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine” – Sky News reports that Boris has been jabbed
- “Did I give my patients Covid?” – Writing in UnHerd, an anonymous junior doctor, who they have called Jane Smith, says that she has watched her “hospital make mistake after mistake” in the face of Covid
- “Wetherspoons founder says Covid lockdowns have ‘created economic and social mayhem and colossal debts‘” – Weatherspoon Chairman Tim Martin has spoken to the Daily Mail about the damage lockdown has done to his pub chain
- “It shames this country that speaking up for children has become taboo” – “The past year has been profoundly damaging for Britain’s children,” says Molly Kingsley in the Telegraph. “Now we must put them first”
- “Furlough free-for-all is poor value for money” – The US model of higher jobless benefits and universal stimulus cheques looks a more sensible approach, says Ed Conway in the Times
- “The Covid public inquiry will be an expensive waste of everyone’s time” – Len Shackleton argues in the Telegraph that there’s not much point in holding an inquiry
- “Will Covid cost less than expected?” – At the Spectator, Kate Andrews finds cause for some optimism in yesterday’s update from the Office for National Statistics
- “Our very British brand of totalitarianism” – Huxley’s dystopian vision in Brave New World is the one we’re headed for, writes James Jeffrey in the Critic, not George Orwell’s
- “One of the lockdown’s greatest casualties could be science” – “Politicians, journalists, and scientists have transferred the disease burden onto the working class,” write Professor Martin Kulldorff and Professor Jay Bhattacharya in the Federalist. “They’ve also dangerously undermined scientific inquiry”
- “A successful vaccine campaign alone will not end UK’s Covid outbreak, study shows” – The Telegraph reports on more gloomy modelling from Warwick. Chris Snowden is unimpressed
- “Britain’s ‘One-Jab’ Strategy” – The British vaccine strategy is working and it offers “lessons for the world”, says David Leonhardt at the New York Times
- “Awakening consciences about the abortion-tainted vaccines” – An article by Dr. Stacy Trasancos in Crisis Magazine highlighting ethical concerns about the vaccines from a Catholic perspective
- “Of asymmetric risk and the ethics of coercion” – “Vaccine passports are nonsense,” says Alex Starling in Reaction. Hear Hear
- “Debate: are vaccine passports necessary?” – Watch Silkie Carlo of Big Brother Watch debate the question with Kirsty Innes of the Tony Blair Institute on LockdownTV by UnHerd
- “EU’s drug regulator backs the AstraZeneca vaccine, calling it ‘safe and effective’” – But the regulator ignored a report from Norwegian doctors linking the vaccine to a small number of adverse events, according to Science Norway
- “AstraZeneca: German team discovers thrombosis trigger” – Scientists at Greifswald teaching hospital claim to have discovered the cause of the blood clots in vaccine recipients, but doctors are saying that it can be treated, says Deutsche Welle
- “Hamburg to return to full lockdown” – The harbour city state is set to enter another lockdown, Deutsche Welle reports, and Cologne is also tightening the rules
- “Ron DeSantis on the pandemic year: Don’t trust the elites” – “Influential people in public health, Government and the media failed to rise to the moment,” says the Florida Governor while taking a victory lap
- “CDC Says Schools Can Now Space Students three feet apart, rather than six” – The CDC has relaxed its guidance for social distancing in schools, NPR reports
- “Three feet or six? Distancing guideline for schools stirs debate” – “The origin of the six-foot distancing recommendation is something of a mystery,” says the New York Times
- “The Chicken Little act isn’t working – Covid mania is wearing off” – Like Chicken Little, the public health officials keep telling people that the sky is falling in, writes Jordan Schachtel. Trouble is, people don’t believe it anymore
- “They said things would be much worse in States without lockdowns. They were wrong” – US States that came swiftly out of lockdown were told they were heading for disaster, but, as Ryan McMaken points out for Mises Wire, it didn’t turn out that way
- “The disease models were tested and failed, massively” – Phillips W. Magness recounts the dismal track record of Professor Ferguson’s Covid modelling for AIER
- “Essential and non-essential: Never again” – Governments and societies must never again distinguish between the ‘essential’ and the ‘non-essential’ businesses, writes Jack Nicastro at AIER
- “Oscars 2021 ceremony will be in-person and Zoom-free, producers say” – Reuters reports that the Oscars ceremony will be “an intimate, in-person gathering, held without Zoom and limited to nominees, presenters and their guests”
- “Tanzania’s first female leader urges unity after Covid sceptic Magufuli dies” – The Guardian reports that Megufuli’s successor, Samia Suluhu Hassan, is likely to do a U-turn on Tanzania’s Covid policies
- “Step 10: Naomi Wolf updates her New York Times Bestseller The End Of America” – In 2008, Naomi Wolf wrote that would-be tyrants always use take the same 10 steps to close down democracy. In this video, she updates the book to say that America has reached the tenth step
- “Stop Vaccine Passports” – Big Brother Watch has launched a campaign
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Actually pretty funny really. I don’t think he should be punished for private messages between friends.
He should be punished for being a slimy, hypocritical, corrupt bastard though.
I disagree with the personal messages bit,
someone in his position should be painfully aware than no comments on the Internet are personal anymore, saying anything online or on here is not personal, whisper it in someone’s ear if you want it to be personal.
At least now his future job,if any,will be emptying bins not joking about them!
Quite agree, Dings. Nothing’s personal once it’s out there on t’internet. If these had been posted on social media then things might have been even worse for him. As you say, say what you like among friends in person or on a call, but politicians should be held to a higher standard than other people. The guy comes across as a Grade A dickwad. A nasty pasty indeed. Just one among many, though, when it comes to that godawful party.
And his penalty…six months on the back benches for being naughty and then a nice, quiet sinecure. Or a quick shunt to the Lords.
He needs pelted with rotten cabbages by his neighbours and slung in the back of a bin lorry, off to the land fill. Arse-weasel.
And the loss of salary, with more to come if he’s expelled from the Party and won’t be elected again at the next GE.
Nah! They wil find him a quango job. His future iis assured just as they did for Stephen Byers.
“I’ve served the Labour Party all my life”
What he really meant was…
“I’ve taken the piss and filled my pockets all my life.”
Oh yes punish a man who utters a few words, yes let’s punish him. Meanwhile your current gov’t removed winter fuel allowance to thousands of elderly, placed vat on private school fees, slapped inheritance tax on the people who grow our food, and wrote an online safety act to prevent you from free speech, jailed people for writing something on social media. But yes, by all means let’s punish the mp who uttered a few words. The Uk is a joke.
Malcolm Tucker MP
Except he’s worse than Tucker, he was only fictional.
And Sir Two-Tier has the sheer blind effrontery to bleat on about the Far Right.
Pure comedy gold. Cosmic Political Sketchwriter on good form.
Most insightful thing to come out of Labour Head Office since Not Flash Gordon and the recording device left on in the official limo outside the loyal Labour voter’s house.
Wonderful to see a madleft lump of slime slithering out into the daylight.
Yes, he needs maximum humiliation, that one. I hope he gets lots of flack from the public as a result of this. He might want to leave the house wearing a disguise or lay low for a while..until the next Labour scandal takes the heat off him.
Ladies and gentlemen: what this episode reveals is the true, unfiltered nature of the Left.
The views of this guy are not an anomaly, not specific to one rogue individual, not some silly careless remark after a beer too many.
No. These are the views of most leftist politicians.
If anybody thinks that Marx, Lenin, Mao gave a monkey’s about the working class, just look at the fruits of their actions.
I have it on extremely good authority that Debbie Abrahams MP, Oldham East and Saddleworth, who relies on the muslim vote for her election and particularly the muslim bloc postal vote actually detests the people she relies on for her life of luxury.
Yes we can see how Union members attack people as ‘Far Right’, who want control of our boarders.
And which is the Nasty Party again?
Well here’s an ‘interesting’ party;
”Pro Islam party launched in Birmingham
Notorious Islamic Lawyer Akhmed Yakoob and ‘muslim activist’ Shakeel Afsar have started the INDEPENDENT CANDIATE ALLIANCE
– They will be targeting the Muslim Bloc vote
– Expect Labour to start pandering heavily to keep them on side”
https://x.com/Basil_TGMD/status/1888305927746437423
This will drive the Anti-white Party (the Labour Party) into paroxysms of anger, fear, and despair. And our anti-white government will rush to introduce Muslim blasphemy laws, and to demonise patriots and supporters of free-speech.
Already happening and will inevitably get worse.
Indeed. Further to my post on loonies running around with knives and chasing girls in Reading the other day, this one’s been caught. By members of the public, I hasten to add. Looks like your typical Labour voter, if not then one of these Muslim independents will welcome him, I’m sure;
”You may have seen my story about an armed man allegedly chasing after women and girls in Reading.
He was caught by two locals with a massive knife on him and is in custody.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1888543090740191736
While it would actually help them if they criticised them more, and ended the Woke mind virus. But that won’t happen.
The muslim vote has decided to cut out the middle man ie Labour and take the gravy for themselves. It’s already happened in Oldham. I posted on here months ago that if there is another GE the Labour Party will be toast because they are loosing the muzzie vote in vast numbers.
I’m guessing that’s why they’ve gone ‘warp speed’ in the brown-nosing department with all of this talk of ”Islamophobia” and further censorship. Reminds me of this;
https://x.com/dsisme48/status/1888546985302536409
I wonder how common is this disdain for vaters in MPs of all stripes. It has floated to the top in this case, as it did with G Brown and the “bigotted woman”.
Massive given they only have to be nice to us once every 5 years. Note how completely detached the vast majority are from the views of the ordinary people – you know, the Far Right. Probably 90% favour doing nothing on immigration for a start.
True and we sometimes forget that the Muslim vote is made up of different who hate each other as well.
‘start pandering’? They have been doing that for years as they ignore the rape gangs.
Seems to me there are more grounds to prosecute this man tan the hundreds (?) wo were persecuted for posting about the murder, many of whom turned out to be right and the government’s spin was wrong.
He is completely safe as they dare not hold a bye bye election. They must be dreading any of their MPs dying, especially in a Red Wall seat.
So that makes three ministers gone from the Student Union government already.
A YouTuber who made humorous if impolite comments like the lovely Mr Andrew Gwynne has made (but in his case about our Great Leader) was arrested last week and held In a Police cell overnight. I presume Mr Gwynne will be likewise arrested later tonight….
He is a nasty piece of work. I hope he never comes back to public life.
It was Judge Tan Ikram who boasted of imprisoning those policemen for exactly this. Will this case go to court, with T.I. as the judge? Don’t hold your breath.
This news has been a bit of a shock to me – I don’t mean about most MPs being two-faced, lying, greedy, self-serving slime bags – but that it is about him. I always thought he was a decent, honest, hardworking individual, one of the rare gems, who frequent the halls of Westminster. He is not. He is a great disappointment. I am also disappointed with myself. I thought I was a better judge of character in identifying such folk but I have failed myself.
My first reaction to these WhatsApp messages is how unbelievably childish…. How ignorant not to know WhatsApp isn’t safe too. What kind of calibre are these people given power over us? A grown man pissing about on his phone about old people and their dustbins says it all.
I smiled at a couple of the remarks. It’s not appropriate for an MP to express them in a shareable medium, so I suppose the punishment was warranted, but I don’t want my ‘side’ becoming as humourless as the other.
Oh dear, no one dose has uttered the few words this man did. He is the drip, drip, feature of tge news the past few days. Don’t worry britain. Rome is burning but your best and brightest are very busy crucifying a Mp who uttered a few words. The country is a shambles.