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News Round Up

by Jonathan Barr
31 March 2021 1:49 AM

  • “They Think It’s all Over” – Nice round up in MailOnline of all the people across Britain ignoring lockdown restrictions to enjoy themselves in the sun
  • “The only people ‘taking liberties’ as we emerge from lockdown are the gloomsters in charge” – Why would families wanting a Covid-free BBQ in a Covid-free garden “obey the non-sensical rule of six?” Allison Pearson asks, in the Telegraph
  • “Two-tier policing, two-tier reporting of protests: stark evidence from Bradford” – The ‘Unite the North’ rally and the mob outside Batley Grammar School were policed and reported very differently, Niall McCrae points out
  • “Crude and Unethical: Why Boris Johnson was wrong to try and terrify us into submission” – The Government’s fear messaging was “ineffective, unhealthy and unethical”, says data psychologist Patrick Fagan
  • “Gove hints at vaccine passport app” – In the Spectator, Katy Balls describes a ‘listening exercise’ Michael Gove held with MPs about immunity IDs. It looks as though the general idea being discussed is that individuals could be asked to show either a vaccine passport, a negative Covid test or proof of antibodies to enter a venue, likely in the form of an app designed by, you guessed it, NHSX
  • “The flawed technologies behind vaccine passports” – Cybersecurity experts are warning that the race to create a vaccine passports app could be placing privacy and security at risk, the Telegraph reports. You read it here first
  • “AstraZeneca renames Covid vaccine as firm fights off controversy over drug” – The jab is henceforth to be known as ‘Vaxzevria’, reports RT. The European Medicines Agency has signed off the name change and the company says that it “does not involve any alterations to the actual drug”. Not an April Fool
  • “Kent coronavirus variant is not deadlier than the original strain but it increases the risk of being hospitalised by a third, PHE study finds” – Public Health England has found that the Kent variant is not 30% deadlier, MailOnline reports. It increases the risk of hospitalisation, but that the risk remains slight for the majority of cases
  • “Domestic vaccine passports aren’t just discriminatory, they’re unnecessary too” – “If the Government has any sense, which they seem to have lost as of late, they’ll throw out any idea of a domestic passport system,” writes William Parker in Bournbrook Magazine
  • “Our Biblical duty to challenge lockdown” – Peter Simpson sets out the Christian case against lockdowns for the Conservative Woman
  • “Is Britain turning into a ‘bio-security state’?” – Fraser Nelson talks to James Forsyth and Katy Balls on the Coffee House Shots podcast to discuss Britain’s potential transformation into a ‘bio-security’ state, the subject of Fraser’s recent Telegraph column
  • “Reverend Jamie Franklin on the Delingpod” – The Irreverend‘s Jamie Franklin joins James Delingpole for a conversation about the ideology underpinning lockdowns from a theological perspective – and much else
  • “EU’s Covid Vaccine Export Curbs Ensnare Other Shots in Italy” – Bloomberg reports that Italy’s customs authority has help up a shipment of meningitis vaccines and plans to test its contents amid suspicion that manufacturer GSK may try to export coronavirus vaccines out of the EU
  • “Study shows no vaccine-resistant mutation exists in Israel” – According to Ynet news, the preliminary findings of research commissioned by the Israeli health authorities indicate that there is “no coronavirus variant currently in the country that is resistant to vaccines”
  • “Joe Biden urges states to pause COVID-19 re-openings as CDC warns of ‘impending doom’” – The U.S. President has called on Governors and Mayors to “maintain and reinstate” their mask mandates and pause their efforts to reopen, according to the Telegraph
  • “Lockdowns are more economically devastating than voluntary social distancing” – Writing for the Mises Institute, Dr. Mihai Macovei explains why the IMF’s claim that lockdowns have little or no economic cost because the epidemic would have wreaked havoc through the economy anyway “flies in the face of reality”
  • “Florida Governor to Forbid ‘Vaccine Passports’ With Executive Order” – “It’s completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose upon you the requirement that you show proof of vaccine to just simply participate in normal society,” DeSantis said, according to 6 South Florida
  • “Free states faring far better than lockdown states in one huge way, new data show” – The Foundation for Education highlights a pattern revealed in the latest unemployment figures in the US
  • “Needed: A COVID-19 Lockdown Commission” – The American people need a truly independent inquiry to examine the cost of lockdown and how to stop it re-occurring, says Alan W. Dowd for AIER
  • “Wars and ‘following the science’ are sure paths to tyranny” – Writing for AIER, Richard M. Ebeling sets out how America and many other parts of the world now face a “tyranny of science”
  • “Why is vaccinated Chile locking down again?” – Chile is ahead of the UK in vaccinating its population, but infections are increasing and large parts of the country have been placed back in lockdown. In the Spectator, Ross Clark wonders if this is because they are mainly using the Sinovac jab
  • “What went wrong in Canada’s Pandemic Response? A presentation by Lieutenant Colonel David Redman” – A presentation by the former soldier and head of emergency management in Alberta on where Canada went wrong in dealing with COVID-19, how long-term care has been needlessly devastated, and how to get out of this mess
  • “Our children’s futures are being put on indefinite pause” – The UNICEF Chief Executive Henrietta H. Fore makes a plea on behalf of the world’s children

“Our children’s futures are being put on indefinite pause. We must prioritize reopening schools, and we must prioritize reopening them better than they were before.”@unicefchief on the COVID education crisis. pic.twitter.com/jUKPNoS19J

— UNICEF (@UNICEF) March 29, 2021
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MTF
MTF
1 year ago

the GLP, an entity funded primarily by the public

This statement might give the impression it was in some way tax-payer funded. To be clear – it is non-profit funded by donations.

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jburns75
jburns75
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

I wonder where some of those donations have come from?

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago
Reply to  jburns75

Suckers. Maugham loses every case.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

“We are hugely grateful to have received support from Avaaz, Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, Lund Trust, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, Necessity, 38 Degrees, and Dale Vince, CEO of Ecotricity.“

The enemy.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

The GLP is headed up by Jolyon Maughan, the fox killing KC, a legend in his own lunchbox.

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

in his wife’s Kimono, I think you mean.

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

Three downvotes for pointing out a fact!

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MTF
MTF
1 year ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

I am just pleased to get 44 upvotes – a novel experience for me.

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wokeman
wokeman
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

It’s essentially funded by the radical left/big money.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

The Good Law Project?

This rogue outfit clearly does not have a clue about ‘good law’ and is very definitely conducting itself via false promises. The failure to understand what has gone on these last three years is staggering. Furthermore, the dangers of the so called vaccines are now becoming mainstream. Does the GLP not understand what underscores the Hippocratic Oath – first do no harm?

HART and other like-minded groups should consider taking the GLP to court. I would happily contribute.

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Perhaps it should be renamed; how about “The Oxymoronic Project”?

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
1 year ago
Reply to  JohnK

Or Grift Law Project?

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Scunnered
Scunnered
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

The Good Law Project that loses every case it takes to court.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago

At the same time, didn’t the GMC try to section Dr Sam White if I remember correctly.

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
1 year ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Dr Sam White won his case on the basis of freedom of speech, judgement since removed from the website where case judgements are posted for reference, so it’s good to see that the GMC are applying the judgement to Dr Malhotra’s case.

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zebedee
zebedee
1 year ago

My understanding of the GLP is they only exist to campaign for donations to pay their fees so that they can carry out lawfare.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago

Congratulations to all the signatories in support of Dr Malhotra.

An courageous and outstandingly honourable position to have taken

Last edited 1 year ago by Monro
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HicManemus
HicManemus
1 year ago

The GLP has form. See Guido Fawkes for his many postings on Jolyon Maughan, the founder of GLP. He comments that “Jolyon Maugham triggers Judical Reviews as often as Guido has hangovers”. I rest my case m’lord.

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Valerie_London
Valerie_London
1 year ago

Well this particular ‘case’ is not on the GLP website, so I’m wondering if they have since disassociated from it (this dates back to June). The fact that they have ‘nearly raised £5k in all that time since speaks volumes.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago

the legal action supported by the GLP risks undermining the resolve of medical professionals to speak candidly on serious health issues,

No doubt that is precisely the intent.

Somebody doesn’t want independent doctors but rather obedient foot soldiers.

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
1 year ago

Didn’t the GLP get one of their recent cases thrown out when the judge decided that they themselves had no ‘standing’ inthe case (ie not directly impacted by the law they were seeking to challenge)

Well, GLP are clearly neither involved in, nor impacted by the decision to allow Aseem to speak his mind.

This is simply an attempt to use the courts to cancel someone they dislike. Fatuous nonsense, I hope this case dies on its ar5e.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  GroundhogDayAgain

It probably will and the GLP probably know it too.

Regardless, they will have achieved their aim which is one of intimidation.

Other doctors will have taken note and will be that much more reluctant to speak up just to avoid the hassle of a lawsuit, because however spurious, fighting one takes time, money and energy.

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NickR
NickR
1 year ago

Jolyon Maugham, who runs GLP is the classic champagne socialist. There may be people who don’t know in which case please the following link highlighting his notorious role as a notorious beater to death of foxes, just in case….. RSPCA investigates after lawyer Jolyon Maugham kills fox with baseball bat – BBC News.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/doctors-resist-attempts-to-silence-dr-malhotra/

TCW have reported this as Breaking News.

The more the better.

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
1 year ago

Oh dear, if the kimono-clad fox-killer is involved then it certainly isn’t anything related to good law. Leftwaffe arse.

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Cameron
Cameron
1 year ago

I’m just thankful we still have a modicum of free speech in this country – evidenced by the freedom of the ‘Good Law Project’ to make an utter fool of themselves. Chilling, nonetheless and also chilling is their 1984 distortion of language in their title.

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ekathulium
ekathulium
1 year ago

Who is Dr Matt Kneale and why did he instigate this case against the GMC and Dr Malhotra?

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
1 year ago
Reply to  ekathulium

Jealousy or money. The old favourites for legal action.

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RogerB
RogerB
1 year ago
Reply to  ekathulium

I suspect a sectarian angle: “Malhotra” is a name associated with Hindu and/or Sikh beliefs; “Matt Kneale” has clear Islamic connotations.

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rachel.c
rachel.c
1 year ago
Reply to  RogerB

Thank you for lightening my mood.

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ellie-em
ellie-em
1 year ago
Reply to  ekathulium

Never heard of him before but if it’s the same Matthew Kneale who has made several (approx 900) FOI requests, he has a keen interest in Trust disciplinary processes and GMC referrals…and also free car parking for NHS staff.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/user/matthew_kneale

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
1 year ago
Reply to  ellie-em

a.k.a. a complete Bellend with far to much time on his hands. Co-Chair of Doctors; Association UK – “A non-profit organisation lead by frontline doctors. Led by frontline doctors. For frontline doctors. We advocate for both the medical profession and patients and we fight for a better NHS”
That’s alright then, no possible conflicts of interest here. A low rent version of the BMA.

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
1 year ago

The Good Law Project – which supported Mermaids in their disastrous own-goal legal challenge against the LGB Alliance – has a name like 1984’s Ministry of Peace, Ministry of Love and Ministry of Plenty. 

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wryobserver
wryobserver
1 year ago

Only sorry I didn’t hear about this, as I would have signed it as well.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago

“Good Law Project”

Pull the other one.

If you’ve got to include the word “good” in the name, it means it probably isn’t.

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rachel.c
rachel.c
1 year ago

BTW good interview with Dr Malhotra on the Highwire last week.

Hopefully this is a case of any publicity is good publicity for the cause. We need more medics to speak out.

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Peter W
Peter W
1 year ago

I have previously supported the Good Law with donations. Never again.

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Valerie_London
Valerie_London
1 year ago
Reply to  Peter W

Me too and I am or was on their email list, but certainly never got one about this case.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
1 year ago

Once again I do not see one GP or rheumatologist’s name in our practice or local hospital. Surely they are witnessing the severe serious adverse events and deaths post covid vaxxes. I have lost faith in our GP’s and consultants. How on earth, can they continue to participate in the admin of these unsafe and ineffective experimental biologicals?

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rachel.c
rachel.c
1 year ago
Reply to  marebobowl

My guess is that they are keeping their heads down, knowing how deep in the sh1t they are and incapable of imagining a way out.

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Peter W
Peter W
1 year ago

GLP seem to have shut down their contact form as mine would not send.

“I have previously donated to GLP’s projects. 
Your apparently unreasonable witch hunt of Dr. Aseem Malhotra is beyond the pale and I will not be supporting GLP ever again.

Such a shame and very much anti free speech. “

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago

Jolyon Maugham, Law’s most affected and Narcissistic practitioner, expert in emptying the pockets of suckers to fund his hopeless cases.

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JXB
JXB
1 year ago

Good Law Project.

I declare an oxymoron.

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