- “A ‘new level of baffling’ as Scots are banned from Manchester” – Scots are not allowed to go to Manchester or Salford for “non-essential reasons”, as they are virus hotspots, but they are free to go to Dundee, which is also a virus hotspot, according to the Telegraph
- “Tartan Army’s night of carnage: Scotland fans trash Leicester Square” – Huge numbers of Scotland fans massed together in Leicester Square, MailOnline reports. They knew from the G7 meeting that they didn’t need to worry about social distancing
- “Brits in 30s now more risk of Covid than blood clots from AZ jab” – The risk/benefit analysis is swinging round to favour giving the AstraZeneca jab to people in their 30s, according to MailOnline
- “Andrew Lloyd Webber backs down over threat to reopen theatres at full capacity” – The former Tory peer was warned that his entire staff and the audience could have been fined hundreds of pounds each, according to the Telegraph
- “Yorkshire dad facing prison in Singapore for not wearing mask on train” – Benjamin Glynn, from Helmsley, faces up to six months in prison, according to YorkshireLive, for his failure to wear a mask while on the train home from work in Singapore
- “Deloitte tells staff they can work from home forever” – Homeworking forever a reality at the top accountancy firm, the Telegraph reports
- “None of us knows how long we’ll live so we’ll take our chances and flee the country to see our son” – Writing in the Telegraph, Guy de la Bédoyère, a contributor to Lockdown Sceptics, explains why he is jetting off to Mexico
- “Pupils forced to isolate after Covid test result wrongly recorded as positive” – Staff and pupils at Warren School, a special needs school in Lowestoft, were warned to self-isolate after a negative test was recorded as positive online, the East Anglian Daily Times records
- “Bloomsbury staff must be vaccinated before office return” – The publisher Bloomsbury has decided that all its staff must be vaccinated before they return to the office in July, according to the Bookseller
- “Against Vaccine Passports” – A directory of businesses that believe the enforcement of identity barriers or passports for entry will create division and discrimination
- “The global elites’ exemption from travel restrictions will become a problem for the Tories” – “There is no ‘for all’ about the society that our leaders are building in the wake of Covid,” writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph about the Government’s decision to allow in 2,500 UEFA VIPs to attend the final fo the Euros without having to quarantine. “Rather it is one in which the gap between the powerful and people over whom they wield their power is growing wider than it has been for decades”
- “Science journals, Wuhan and a truly bizarre Twitter episode” – Matt Ridley casts a critical eye over the role played by scientific journals and their reporters in the debate about the origins of SARS-CoV-2
- “The joylessness of the Covid-secure wedding” – Writing in Spiked, Ella Whelan takes aim at the absurd rules confronting those trying to plan a wedding
- “The lockdown lobby” – Spiked’s Tom Slater examines how COVID-19 exposed the conformism of Britain’s media in his contribution to the People’s Lockdown Inquiry
- “We are hostages to Government fear” – “Having once offered itself as the strong, paternalistic shield against Covid, the Government will find it hard to back away,” writes Timandra Harkness in UnHerd
- “The roadmap to enslavement” – “It is necessary to understand all this in exclusively political terms and abandon any pretence to the contrary,” writes Daniel Miller in the Conservative Woman. “The ‘delay’ to the end of restrictions is not a delay; freedom won’t arrive in July either”
- “Our neverending lockdown” – In the latest podcast from Spiked, contributors Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers wonder if they are ever likely to get their old lives back
- “A whole new level of lunacy” – Latest episode of the Planet Normal podcast from the Telegraph in which Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan discuss the risk of a winter lockdown with guest Iain Duncan Smith
- “Lockdown has turned us back to superstition” – Rev Phill Sacre explains how he thinks the lockdown narrative has taken us back to a pre-scientific way of thinking
- “Truth and Deception: The Conscience of Public Health” – In his latest podcast, Omar Khan interviews Dr Tess Lawrie, Director of the Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy, about her enthusiasm for ivermectin and her “stand against the flight from facts on the vaccine front”
- “Restaurants body initiates lawsuit over ‘discriminatory’ COVID-19 dining regulations” – A body representing more than 2,500 restaurants and gastropubs is taking the Irish State to court over rules allowing hotel restaurants to open in full while other establishments can only serve customers outdoors, the Independent reports
- “AstraZeneca claims victory over EU in vaccine deliveries case, but will be fined for late supplies” – Both sides have claimed victory from the EU court ruling that AstraZeneca does not have to supply 100 million COVID-19 vaccines by the end of June, CITY AM reports
- “Spain follows France in lifting outdoor face mask rules” – As of June 26th, it will no longer be mandatory in Spain to wear a mask while outdoors, Euronews reports. The rule was first introduced in May 2020 and applies to everyone over the age of six
- “One in four Covid patients hospitalised while vitamin D deficient die” – A study carried out in a hospital in Galilee in Israel found that COVID-19 patients are more likely to die if vitamin D-deficient, the Times of Israel says. Twenty-six per cent of vitamin D-deficient Covid patients died, compared to 3% of the rest
- “Re-Evaluating Mask Mandates Part I: Science Gives Way to the Talisman” – A reminder from Masha V. Krylova in C2C Journal that the effectiveness of masking against COVID-19 is not scientifically proven.
- “Rumours swirl that China’s top spycatcher has defected to the U.S.” – If Dong Jingwei has jumped, the Telegraph says, he would be the most high-profile Chinese official to do so, and could aid the U.S. in Wuhan lab leak investigations
- “Donald Trump criticises vaccines for American children aged over 12” – Donald Trump has attacked the U.S. Government’s drive to vaccinate school-aged children, the Times reports, on the grounds that younger people are normally unaffected by the virus
- “Whitmer rescinds Michigan’s gathering, mask rules starting Tuesday” – Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a lockdown zealot, has announced the easing of restrictions in the state of Michigan, the Detroit News reports
- “The Origin of SARS-CoV-2” – David R. Henderson and Charles L. Hooper take a close look at the evidence for AIER and conclude that the ‘lab-leak’ theory is the best fit
- “‘I remember it very well’: Dr. Fauci describes a secret 2020 meeting to talk about COVID-19 origins” – Alison Young in USA Today investigates the secret conference call on February 1st, 2020 in which Dr. Fauci discussed the possibility that the virus was engineered with an international group of scientists
- “Uganda imposes new anti-coronavirus measures to stem raging pandemic” – Uganda’s president Yowreri Museveni has introduced sweeping new anti-coronavirus measures including a ban on all vehicular movement except for essential workers, according to Reuters, to help curb a second wave of COVID-19
- “Prolonged lockdown not solution to end pandemic” – The Mokokchung Chamber of Commerce in India has called for a fresh approach to COVID-19, according to the Morung Express, stating that “the price of flattening the curve should not be costlier than the pandemic itself, or the cure worse than the problem”
- “Hundreds of vaccinated Indonesian health workers get COVID-19, dozens in hospital” – More than 350 Indonesian medical workers have become infected with COVID-19, Reuters reports, and dozens of them have been hospitalised despite having been given the Sinovac jab
- “Tough Questions and Sense-Checking” – Reflections from Australian economist Cameron K. Murray on debate and censorship in discussions about lockdown, following a TV appearance that did not go well
- “New Zealand PM Ardern gets ‘pain-free’ COVID-19 vaccine shot” – Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was smiling under her mask as she received her first shot of the Pfizer jab, Reuters reports
- “Head of NHS asked if Matt Hancock is hopeless” – Sir Simon Stevens couldn’t quite bring himself to answer
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& Ursula Van der Lenin met their boss, Xi Jinping.
Please Read “Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning”
by Xi Van Fleet
So this AfD politician has been fined 6,000 Euros and now has a criminal record just for sharing actual data on who is committing the sex crimes in Germany. Echoes of the Scamdemic years here;
”Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician Marie-Thérèse Kaiser has now been convicted for publishing gang rape statistics in response to news that Afghan migrants would be moved to her district.
The 27-year-old politician was found guilty in the Verden regional court in Lower Saxony on Monday for “inciting hatred” against local Afghan workers.
She is ordered to pay a fine of €6,000 and being charged €60 a day for 100 days. She will also have a criminal record.
The case relates back to a post from August 2021, in which she made a post on social media, writing: “Afghanistan refugees; Hamburg SPD mayor for ‘unbureaucratic’ admission; Welcoming culture for gang rape?”
The politician linked an article showing that Afghans in Germany feature particularly high levels of gang rape activity. Kaiser was responding in 2021 to Hamburg’s First Mayor, Peter Tschentscher (SPD), who announced that 200 Afghan workers would be arriving in Hamburg. Kaiser protested this decision with her statistics, saying she was concerned about immigration and the potential for rape from “culturally alien masses.”
Kaiser had perhaps mistakenly believed resorting to data would protect her, which shows that foreigners are represented in half of all gang rape cases, according to official government statistics. Afghans’ roles in serious crimes, including rape and gang rape, are tremendously high relative to their population.
The case has sparked international attention, with major X accounts reacting to the news of the conviction, including X’s owner, Elon Musk, with at least two of the posts generating over 40 million views.
Kaiser’s statements allegedly led to hatred of a nationally determined group, according to the judge.”
https://rmx.news/article/germany-young-afd-politician-convicted-for-publishing-gang-rape-statistics-in-connection-with-afghan-migration/
Can Putin survive a Chechen civil war?
What’s really going on?
‘Although rumours about (Kadyrov’s) health have cropped up repeatedly in recent years, this time things do not look good.’
Events in Chechnya are instructive, because it offers a window into the future for whatever part of Ukraine, if any, is retained by the Russian ‘Union State’ once hostilities cease.
That is because Chechnya was the first victim of Russian revanchist colonialism on display every day in Eastern Ukraine.
Chechnya declared its independence in 1991, and Russia took twenty years to force the Chechens back into the ‘Union State’.
What happens in Chechnya is what will happen, in due course, in Eastern Ukraine.
For now, the question is: will Kadyrov’s successor be able to keep Chechnya quiet while Putin has his hands full in Ukraine?
“Other university towns and cities where similar protests have happened include London, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, Leeds, Warwick, Swansea and Bristol.”
Let’s not omit the University of Edinburgh particularly given the presence and location of their camp is related to Arthur Balfour’s long association with the university at the time when the Balfour declaration was penned.
Let me be clear that I don’t think anyone should be calling for the extermination of anyone. That said, I can’t help thinking there is an awful lot of misrepresentation of the position of pro-Palestine protestors. It reeks to me of the gross misrepresentation of anti-lockdown, anti-vax passport protestors during covid.
Are all protestors really anti-semites? Is that what it’s all about or is it a genuine concern for what people in Gaza are going through?
I have no doubt that there are people in the crowd with awful ideas and opinions. There always is in practically most protesting crowds. But do they really represent what the protests are about?
When I read:
I think, ok, that’s not my view. But is that any different to an Israel that refuses (in reality) to contemplate a two state solution and therefore is in effect advocating and pursuing the end of Palestine as a country?
The more I see of this the more the whole thing reeks of an instigated psyop.
Agreed – it’s exactly the same playbook as the anti-lockdown/anti-vax passport propagandist MSM coverage, and exactly the same coverage of the anti-war protests when this conflict first started. I’ve seen several interviews on alternative sites in which people attending the current student protests are reporting events which bear absolutely no resemblance to how they are presented for general consumption. And come the next plandemic protest, or biometric IDs, or CBCDs, etc they’ll roll the same playbook out again and again. That’s if protest of any kind hasn’t been completely outlawed across the ‘democratic’ West by then.
I may have said this before but on the whole I see protests as a good thing. To me it’s a healthy sign of a population that is engaged and actually gives a sh*t.
God forbid the plebs should have a contrarian view or actually care enough to raise their voices. No doubt the ruling classes would much prefer everyone to sit quietly at home absorbing BBC information, only to go out to work and consume. Basically the lockdown regime.
The Nazi organised protests against the Jews were very effective with Kristallnacht being a particularly successful evening and it certainly engaged the population.
I don’t think your example is a protest as much as a mob assault.
You think the pro-Palestine protests are like kristalnacht? Really?
In general I agree. I’m sure there are people using the situation for psyop purposes. I find the flavour of some the protests somewhat unsavoury but I think we need to hear what everyone thinks.
FAT PIG NEWS
Cambridge plonkers protest and upset the resident GAMMON (our gorgeous pig)
See HIS take on what’s going on in the latest video!
“EV private sales fall and market downgrades 2024 sales expectations”
As this article sets out, the Gov’s Zero Emissions Mandate (ZEM) means that at this level of EV sales manufactures will be hit with fines at the end of the year. How will manufacturers respond to this? well Ford have to some extent lead the way by ceasing sales and production of their Fiesta model. And so they have ceased production of a product that in its petrol form was too popular, if they had continued with the Fiesta they would have sold too many and collected fines. So they are ‘focusing’ on higher priced models – fewer models sold but with higher price tags.
As it is, EV sales are propped up by corporate fleet sales, presumably mostly as lease deals. If EVs continue to depreciate as fast as is currently the case, these leasing costs will go up and these costs will be passed on to the customers of the firms leasing the vehicles.
Having looked at EVs my conclusion is that a full car sized EV is not a viable option for private ownership. The liability of EV ownership seems to great to consider actually owning one. As a private motorist the cheapest EV lease cost would be at least £300 a month for a full sized car and probably more. And so as a low budget private motorist looking to the future what can I hope for? Clearly the supply of cheap and cheerful secondhand Ford Fiesta’s will dry up as they are no longer made, I cannot buy or lease a full sized EV. It would seem the best I can hope for is that they eventually bring out a small, low range EV that I can use for local utility trips with no more motoring holidays around the countryside and trips to see friends and relatives to be done by train. For most of my three score years and ten we have mostly looked to the prospect of things getting better and improving we have now entered a strange period of spending a lot of time money and effort into making things worse, people will not be happy and it will not end well.
There’s an awful lot of Israel/Palestine in the DS news round-up.
I don’t know about everybody else, but I resent so much of public discourse, including on this website, being dominated by this issue.
Ultimately, this is just another regional war in a troubled region.
Well, its still wall-to-wall in the bought-and-paid-for propagandist MSM: as that’s mainly where the DS gets its news, plus the DS’s obvious biases in this matter, it’s not surprising. That said, coverage is so skewed these days it is getting rather tedious. Neither skeptic nor septic; sadly, conformity to this particular message seems complete.
“Prolific burglar first to be jailed after private prosecution”
He was stealing Prosecco amongst other things. Surely the death penalty is in order?
This needs to be spread far and wide: Dr Tess Lawrie and the World Council for Health send a ‘cease and desist’ notice to Billy Gate’s puppet Teddy at the WHO:
https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/the-notice-of-liability-delivered?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
On behalf of living men, women and all their sons and daughters living right now and those yet to be born on Earth, we hereby place you: a man: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, doing business as the Director General of the World Health Organisation (hereafter W.H.O), on notice that:
Worth reading in full, as they say.
Fantastic.
https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/the-notice-of-liability-delivered?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
An excellent read.
Obviously this ‘cease and desist’ will be ignored but it puts the whole bleeding lot of them on notice.
Right Billy, don’t say you haven’t been warned. And that goes for any of those chemists you are paying to “mess around” with mRNA concoctions.