- “Don’t break Covid rules as lockdown easing begins, public told” – The Telegraph relays the Government’s advice to exercise extreme caution when engaging in those activities we’re now allowed to do – so no hugging, maintain the two metre rule and don’t meet up with anyone from outside your household indoors
- “Vaccines were supposed to liberate us, not expand the surveillance state” – No matter how obediently we stay at home, nor how many of us turn out for our jabs, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph, there is always some pretext for locking society down
- “We should all be lockdown sceptics, Sadiq” – London Mayor Sadiq Kahn called his opponent a ‘lockdown sceptic’ last week. Writing in the Daily Mail, John Humphreys explains why that is a good thing (scroll down)
- “Pub Covid checks would not be permanent, says Oliver Dowden” – The Guardian reports comments made by Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden on ‘Covid status certification’ yesterday. “Of course, we would never look to do this on a permanent basis,” he said. “It’s just whether it might be a tool in the short run.” There is nothing so permanent as…
- “The dystopian campaign of fear must end” – “It’s time to treat the public like adults,” writes Jon Dobinson for ThinkScotland, “restore freedom of speech, and stop creating fear”
- “Zinc effective against respiratory infections?” – In his latest blog, Sebastian Rushworth investigates zinc as a treatment against respiratory infections
- “Covid furlough fraud cases double in six months as bill hits £57 billion” – HM Revenue & Customs has received 26,232 reports of possible furlough fraud, according to yesterday’s Sunday Times, increasing fears that the scheme has been abused
- “Science nannies have scared us into silence, but surely vaccines either work – or don’t” – Camilla Long responds in the Sunday Times to PHE’s Dr Mary Ramsay’s turn on the Andrew Marr Show last week. “This is total madness,” she says
- “Moderna Covid vaccine to arrive in UK next month” – 17 million doses have been ordered, according to the Telegraph
- “Give pause before you raise a glass to the prospect of a vaccine passport” – The ‘papers for pints’ scheme is nothing less than a national ID card by stealth, says Stephanie Hare in the Observer
- “Vaccine passports would be final straw for battered pubs, warns Wetherspoon boss” – Tim Martin tells the Telegraph that a vaccine passport scheme could be the “last straw” for struggling pubs
- “Vaccine passports are a con trick, whatever they are called” – The Conservative Woman publishes another reader’s response to the consultation on vaccine passports
- “Covid Fascism” – Inspired by Naomi Wolf’s The End of America, Omar S. Kahn looks at the growth of Covid autocracy around the world
- “I wanna break lockdown with you” – A Lockdown poem by Alison Banville in Off-Guardian
- “The passports to hell!” – “Surely Johnson and the British government have it in their power to say ‘no’ to vaccine passports,” says Roger Watson
- “The longest three weeks of our lives” – The latest episode of The Week in Review by Bournbrook looks back on the week gone by and on a year of madness
- “Why temperature checks aren’t just pointless… they’re dangerous!” – The Medical Minefield podcast for the Mail On Sunday examines why constant temperature checks are little more than Covid theatre and why some are warning that they may create a false sense of security. Read the Mail On Sunday report here
- “Foreign holidays ‘are unlikely to be legal until August’ amid warnings people booking trips sooner are ‘very optimistic‘” – The date for relaxing travel restrictions is slipping, MailOnline reports
- “Ministers to debate adding France to Covid quarantine ‘red list’” – A Cabinet sub-committee meeting on Tuesday is expected to to discuss tightening restrictions on arrivals from Europe, according to the Telegraph
- “5,000 music fans attend Barcelona gig after passing same-day coronavirus screening” – A Sky News report on the rock concert in Barcelona on Saturday, which was said to be the largest held in a year. The 5,000 fans all took same-day screening test for COVID-19, but still had to wear masks
- “Merkel wants German states to do more to curb infections” – Having U-turned on a planned lockdown, the German Chancellor is now urging individual states to introduce their own restrictions, according to Deutsche Welle
- “Amish community may have reached Covid ‘herd immunity,’ health official says” – An Amish community in Pennsylvania may have become the first in the USA to attain ‘herd immunity’, the New York Post reports. They complied with stay-at-home orders at the beginning, but “by late April, they had resumed worship services, where they shared communion cups and holy kisses”
- “GraceLife Church pastor returns to pulpit after jail time for breaching COVID-19 public health order” – The Edmonton Journal reports that the Pastor James Coates has been released
- “Maharashtra considers total lockdown as virus cases jump” – India’s richest state, Maharastra, is considering a lockdown after recording the highest one-day jump in coronavirus infections since last March, according to Reuters
- “Gender inequality concerns rise as more men head back to the office” – The Sydney Morning Herald reports on a survey which suggests that more men are returning to the office than women, fuelling concerns of gender inequality in the post-Covid world. Are they going to ask just men to stay at home?
- “‘It’s going to hurt more than anybody thinks it ever could’: Dire economic prediction issued” – Sky News Australia interviews financial strategist Harry Dent who is predicting a worldwide economic collapse
- “Japan’s new normal in suppressing the spread of COVID-19” – An unsettling piece of propaganda from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- “The seven-day average of Coronavirus deaths is now 62” – Politics For All points out that the number of people now dying from COVID-19 is the same as it was when we released nearly all restrictions last June
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But why wouldn’t you want more people like this? I don’t get it. Anyway, usual suspects, but the police look like they’ve got these troublesome right-wing extremists well under control;
https://twitter.com/VoWalesOfficial/status/1778023699129450986
Ah, this would be “the religion of peace” then.
You took the words right out of my mind.
The foreign aid budget otherwise known as the ‘Ripped off British taxpayers fund for foreign dictators’ should be scrapped. While we have so much as one Britishh person going homeless or hungry in this country we have no business lavishing cash on foreign gangsters and murderers.
The corollary of abolishing the foreign aid budget would also mean we have no money for immigrants so the Royal National
LifeboatTaxi Service would have to be stood down. And because there would no longer be foreign aid money available to be spent in this country we would have to start deporting all those who have rocked up these last ten years.Genius.
Except it isn’t “Aid”.——— It is “Altruism”.
No harm in using their own words against them.
I am not being critical of you. Only of the farce that is “Aid”
“I am not being critical of you.”
I know.
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And foreign sexual predators, because try as they might, no matter what they do they just can’t get themselves deported. What does a scummy PoS have to do to get themselves kicked out the country nowadays??
”An Afghan sex offender avoided deportation after lawyers claimed his treatment of women would put him at risk of “mob violence” in his home country.
The 31-year-old asylum seeker was jailed for 12 weeks for “outraging public decency and exposure” and was placed on the sex offenders’ register for seven years.
However, the Afghan was awarded refugee status and avoided deportation after claiming it was a breach of his human rights to deny him asylum in the UK.
Doctors told the immigration tribunal that the Afghan man, referred to only as DH, continued to act “inappropriately” towards women despite his conviction.
An immigration tribunal judge agreed with lawyers that his “risky behaviours” would expose him to “ill treatment” and even “mob violence” if he returned to Afghanistan.
Christopher Hanson, the tribunal judge, therefore ruled that the man should be granted refugee status, allowing him to remain in the UK.”
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/afghan-sex-offender-avoids-deportation-over-risk-of-mob-violence/ar-BB1lpsNd?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=SMTS&cvid=fa7aa08e8d8b407ad95fd035addacad6&ei=22
It is becoming increasingly clear that the best way to obtain ‘refugee status’ is to become a low-level convicted criminal – a kiddy fiddler, a rapist or a non-lethal stabber. The judiciary love ’em.
That reminds me of certain MPs…
“An immigration tribunal judge agreed with lawyers that his “risky behaviours” would expose him to “ill treatment” and even “mob violence” if he returned to Afghanistan.”
The tribunal judge is well versed in Afghanistani mores then? I wonder how many years he / she has lived there.
I thought Afghanistan women were second class citizens in their own country or is that just in the UK?
I hear what you say and I agree.
The end result of the current arrangements is the disposal of U.K. taxpayers money goes to either a corrupt government overseas to misuse or to the corrupt government in the UK to misuse.
I recall in the past, U.K. taxpayers money was sent to China of all places, to improve the lives of Chinese pensioners. Unbelievable!
In all corners of the country, even in the smallest towns migrants pop up like daffodils in springtime. They just appear out of thin air. I ask the squirming hand wringers in both main parties. How many people do you think can comfortably live in these Islands? 70 million? 80 million? 100 million —HOW MANY?
dandelions
To some people dandelions are considered weeds.
Whoops.
Hate speech!
Surely calling dandelions weeds cannot be ‘hate speech.’
Can it?
So how many dandelions can we house in this country before we need to go to B&Q
In my local country town of Shaftesbury, I have noticed more darker skinned ‘gentlemen’, never ladies, walking down to the town in their ones and twos. It’s a gradual process of normalisation. Just a few at first, then more and more.
If you drive thru Small Heath in Birmingham it’s more like downtown Hyderabad
Oldham, Saturday afternoon – my worst nightmare…Pakistan…or Bangladesh.
I can’t tell the bloody difference.
Immigration Policy seems to consist of only one thing ——Dispersal. —————-All of these hundreds of thousands of people are going to have to live somewhere and presumably that will be in a HOUSE. I see plenty of migrants but not so many houses.
How long before Birmingham becomes a no go area for non Muslims.
How long before we all need to seek asylum in a country not over run with these people?
I have noticed that, there is a large Victorian Hotel up the road, I suspect that is housing a few.
I suspect these islands could comfortably accommodate 100 million people if the additional people were industrious, responsible, and capable of being integrated into British society. The problem is less that of high numbers than the primitive and barbaric nature of most of the imports.
Maybe we could accommodate 100 million but why would we want to? And do we really want the whole country all choc a bloc like London where it takes 2 hours to make a 15 minute journey?——What is the point of all this self inflicted clutter?
Allows Government to claim 1% annual growth in GDP.
(for a population grown by 1.5%).
And diverting some of the foreign aid budget to the local landlords might result in a stable income to some of them, compared with a typical holiday trade. Spot the vested interests.
Overseas development aid ought to be abolished in its entirety. It enriches corrupt officials and pseudo charities while retarding genuine development in poorer countries. real development requires a culture in which hard work and personal responsibility, property rights, and the rule of law are respected. It does not require much else and certainly not interference by leftist bureaucrats.
Unfortunately it is systemic and can not easily be stopped in the sense of th emechanics of the system. You will get flotsam and jetsam pushed hither and yon by the forced of capital and the British seem to be more seduced by cheap labour than most countries. You can talk about your country turning into a craphole, and it definitely has, but how can you ignore the forces that have made it this way. In terms of prognosis the future of this country is perhaps the bleakest of all western countries in terms of the next five years. After that I would wager that there will be so few left from our perspective that it will die out completely. We led the world with everything including the jab. Don’t assume that Britain will be top of the world forever because it is looking very different.