- “The vaccination of children is not a straightforward decision” – It is not sufficient to argue that now older groups have been vaccinated, the same should automatically happen to children, says the Telegraph editorial from Thursday.
- “Robert Dingwall axed as Government advisor” – “With Robert Dingwall’s departure from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, the wind now appears to be blowing in only one direction when it comes to vaccinating children,” writes Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “Statistics showing more young people hospitalised with Covid are not what they seem” – Number of older people being admitted has collapsed thanks to vaccination roll-out, bumping up percentage of younger patients, writes Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph.
- “Inflated A-level grades may force universities to set entrance tests” – A levels had a 100% pass rate last year and leading universities may have to set their own entrance tests if grade inflation continues, reports the Times.
- “Lockdown-Critical Academics Get ‘Canceled’” – Some academics say they’ve experienced a form of cancel culture, including censorship on social media and even losing their job, reports NTD.
- “Why we shouldn’t fear a ‘fourth wave’ of Covid” – “Will there be a Covid wave in December,” asks Philip Thomas in the Spectator. “Based on my experience tracking the course of England’s epidemic, I would say this is extremely unlikely.”
- “Brace for longer spell of post-Covid inflation, warns Bank of England” – Threadneedle Street warns that the cost of living is set to hit four per cent later this year – double its two per cent target, reports the Telegraph.
- “Macron’s Covid health pass rules approved by top court” – France’s highest court has upheld a new law requiring the public to hold a health pass to access bars and restaurants and health workers to be vaccinated against Covid by mid-September, reports Reuters.
- “‘I’m not a slave’: Briton detained in Singapore mental hospital after refusing to wear mask” – Benjamin Glynn, who was arrested after riding the subway without a face covering, calls the charges against him “insane”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Jabbing the young? It’s a sign of a sick society” – The fact vaccinating the young against Covid is even being suggested is a dismal sign of the state of modern Britain, writes Frederick Edward in his latest Bournbrook Magazine column.
- “We utterly deplore this reckless vaccine roll-out to children” – “Make no mistake, this decision [to vaccinate children against Covid] is egregious, immoral and indefensible,” writes TCW Defending Freedom Editor Kathy Gyngell.
- “Putting the commie in committee” – A senior Government adviser on Covid wouldn’t last long if they were revealed to be a member of a political party which revered Hitler, writes Rod Liddle in the Spectator. “But as Douglas Murray has pointed out, the crimes of the left almost always go unpunished.”
- “Texas Governor Says No to Another Lockdown, Calls It ‘Wrong Course’” – Greg Abbott inists there will be no more lockdowns in the Lone Star state, calling it the “wrong course” of action, reports the Epoch Times.
- “‘I’m plagued by worries of disaster’: an interview with Dominic Cummings” – “We’re going to keep having horrific problems, and there’s no one in politics equipped to deal with them,” says Boris Johnson’s former senior adviser Dominic Cummings in an interview with Lynn Barber for the Spectator.
- “Vaccine passports would create a hideously divided two-tier society” – It is deeply un-British to implement a scheme that disproportionately hits disadvantaged people, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Fake Doctors Paid to Peddle Jabs on TikTok” – An agency is recruiting actors to pose as GPs to combat “conspiracy theories”, reports Church Militant.
- “Podcast – Shining the Light: Dispelling Covid Distortions” – Omar Khan interviews Nick Hudson, Chirman of Pandemics Data and Analytics (PANDA).
- “Hart was right” – “As Herbert Hart rightly pointed out, just because something is law and some elected official has laid it down, that in itself does not magically make those laid down edicts morally right,” writes James Allan in Spectator Australia.
- “How Well Do the Vaccines Actually Work?” – Low Covid vaccine effectiveness proves that all vaccine passports are meaningless, writes Thorsteinn Siglaugsson on LinkedIn.
- “Violent crime is returning with vengeance, but the politically correct elite doesn’t seem to care” – The cycle of violent crime is doomed to repeat itself until leading figures conduct a robust discussion on the cultural aspect of the crisis, writes Ben Obese-Jecty in the Telegraph.
- “Union member who spoke at pro-Brexit rally wins unfair dismissal claim” – A Norwich tribunal has ruled former Fire Bridge Union Leader Paul Embery was unfairly sacked as a victim of an “appalling witch hunt” after speaking at pro-Brexit rally alongside Nigel Farage, reports MailOnline.
- “Want to enjoy foreign travel? Join the political elite” – Britain has created the most hostile environment in the world for ordinary travellers. But those attending the climate conference due to be held in Glasgow this autumn are getting a free pass, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Climate Minister Alok Sharma jetted to 30 nations in last seven months” – Climate Tsar Alok Sharma has travelled tens of thousands of miles across the globe over the past seven months to prepare the ground for the COP26 global environment summit this autumn, according to the Mail.
- “Teachers ordered to promote ‘social justice’” – The General Teaching Council for Scotland says teachers should promote social justice, reports the Times.
- “It’s time for us to protect our children, not use them as a shield to protect us” – Children should not be vaccinated against Covid, says NHS GP Dr Renee Hoenderkamp in an appearence on talkRadio.
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All these once respectable institutions, formerly in the hands of sensible normal rational people have been taken over by self-serving ideologues whose own personal prosperity and success is not just completely detached from the prosperity of the population at large but actually comes at the expense of everyone else.
That of course can’t continue for ever. But boy are they going to cause plenty of damage before it catches up with them.
ECF, ECIU, CBI, GVA…
…Tinkling of acronyms, cymbals and sounding brass, signifying an 18% increase in the price cap in less than a year – the unit price of electricity is the only hard metric that matters here.
The Confederation of British Industry betraying its members – should be forcefully reminding the Department of Energy Insecurity of how the businesses of CBI members are saddled with the highest industrial electricity unit price in the world.
Brought home to me the other day, on hearing how a final-year chemical engineering student at one of the country’s most prestigious universities is scratching around to even get an interview in the once-robust British chemical industry.
State-sponsored energy vandalism – all brought about by decades of pandering to climate fallacy, fantasy and folly. Arch-panderer in chief, Edward Samuel Miliband, fruitcake of Marxist loins.
Lock him up in the Tower and throw away the key.
“The Confederation of British Industry….. should be forcefully reminding the Department of Energy Insecurity of how the businesses of CBI members are saddled with the highest industrial electricity price in the world.”
The fatal weakness in this suggestion is that the CBI has recently been very coy about its membership numbers and the sources of its funding. It would now be a reasonable expectation that the majority of its key members are global multinationals with limited UK manufacturing activities, who simply belong to the CBI to lobby for their own wider interests. In addition, the CBI’s near-collapse in 2023 has no doubt increased its reliance on government contracts to supplement its membership revenues.
Like so many British institutions, (including the Conservative Party), its “cuddly” public image masks its actual policy drivers. “He who pays the Piper….”
Interesting take on the CBI.
You could also add that these groups who pretend to defend their members interests are far too cosy with government and have no intention of rocking the boat and missing out on hob-nobbing with the elite. Look at the NFU for example. Why were they nodding along with all the Net Zero nonsense that is damaging farmers in the UK? They have been dragged into the battle over Labour’s plan to destroy family farms because they couldn’t stand by on this issue.
I spent almost all my working life within the “once-robust British chemical industry”. It remained pretty robust and dynamic until the mid-1990s, at which point the weight of regulation broke the will of so many companies to survive. Simultaneously, the Chinese and Indian governments encouraged their companies to step in and undercut our indigenous producers.
Now, 30 years on, our own chemical infrastructure has been damaged to the point where it’s virtually impossible for a new entrant to get started. In addition to the planning and other legislative barriers, so many key chemical feedstocks are simply no longer available in the UK.
(Jim Radcliffe’s success at Ineos has been to acquire many of the UK’s last remaining production facilities for key industrial chemicals and then screw their captive customers in the knowledge that imports from abroad are neither feasible nor economically viable.)
The rot set in during the 1970’s. If memory serves right, mighty ICI built a plastics plant in Billingham that was never commissioned due to emergence of competition in the Far East.
In 1983, the colourful newly-appointed ICI Chairman, John Harvey-Jones, described the company’s 1982-figures as lousy. Within a decade ICI had been broken up. Corporate descendent AstraZeneca is pretty much all that’s left.
The national dumbing down goes on. Pains me to say it, but seems like difficult degrees in difficult subjects like Chemical Engineering going the way of Textile Chemistry in the 1970’s.
I’d rather attach him with handcuffs to a north sea electricity inter-connector and sink it to the sea floor.
I suggested on X that Ed Miliband should be hoisted up in a cherry picker and fed feet first into a wind turbine. I was suspended for making ‘violent threats’ and only reinstated once I’d retracted the post. Ridiculous. This was a practical, well thought out idea that would have kick started the salvation of the UK.
The owners of the world are the Big International Private Banks. They also own nearly all of the media. It is they who create money out of nothing and lend it to governments who have to tax us to Kingdom Come to pay back the debt. ——-Climate Change Policies, Net Zero, Sustainable Development etc are policies forced onto the UN, WEF and our own so-called Governments, who then impose all of that on their citizens with the seemingly plausible excuse that it is required to save the planet. Ed Miliband is the perfect example of the bought and paid for politician telling lies straight to our faces about the manufactured climate crisis and even as bills continue to rise year on year to pay for all the GREEN CRAP he continues to insist bills will come down. This is like a pack of Lions insisting they will soon stop hunting the Wilde Beast.
Ah, Wildebeest Theory – overdue for lions led by donkeys to turn the tables and make Miliband, the donkeys and the acronyms the wildebeest…
That’s the point though isn’t it – no one is paying back the debt, they are simply paying more and more interest, on more and more debt. It’s why these banking overlords have so much power – they literally own everything one way or another…
Paying down debt, and running a small budget surplus, may be quaint and old fashioned in the eyes of modern politicians, however as far as I can tell it’s the only way for a sovereign nation to actually remain sovereign long term.
Owning everything including the governments they lend to enables them to dictate policies. —–GREEN being the current diktats the governments pander to. The solution is ofcourse for governments to create their own money. But we see what happens to Politicians who try to pull that one ——JFK, Lincoln
The Emperors New Green Clothes are wonderful! Or perhaps just fantastic.
I’m sure the redundant / soon-to-be-redundant workers in the steel industry; Grangemouth; car workers in Luton, Cowley and in-due-course Sunderland; the pottery industry in Stoke on Trent …. and the rest of our traditional manufacturing …. will be delighted to know that their household energy bills will be going up again and nothing is going to derail the Eco Nutters in the Establishment from the Net Zero SCAM.
Unless, of course, we get a Government which pledges to scrap it.
All coming to pass on the watch of the party of “working people.”
The destruction of the UK is coming along tidily.
The “broken window” parable in all its glory
I predicted the cap would rise but I think surprisingly the Standing Charge is going down which I did not expect. Will we get a reduced cap in July of will Ed Siliband make it a clean sweep of rises in his first year? We can be sure that whatever the July figure is there is no chance it will be less than October and so the steady rise of electricity continues.
We need a figure of how much the economy would have grown without all the spurious green taxes and legislation
“ Ed Miliband is not equal to the task of managing the ‘Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’, and needs to be removed from any position of responsibility at all.”
And prosecuted for his gross malfeasance in office.
These uninformed ideologues should be sacked or switch their attention to black tulips.
It’s obvious – Milliband E. is desperate to out-Soros Milliband D.