- “Pull up a chair and watch The Chair” – Roger Watson, a Professor at Hull, says The Chair, the new series on Netflix about a fictional North American liberal arts college in the grip of cancel culture, is well worth a watch.
- “Woke unions are the next big threat to business” – The new breed of unions emerging from Silicon Valley aren’t interested in compromise or conciliation, but making firms unmanageable, according to the Telegraph.
- “Exclusive: Children and young people hit hardest by Covid lockdowns, says Stephen Fry” – Children and young people have been hit hardest by repeated Covid lockdowns, Stephen Fry said as he called for new walk-in services to help tackle the growing mental health crisis.
- “How not to talk to a science denier” – Tom Chivers in UnHerd reviews a new book sneering at “science deniers”, e.g. Covid vaccine sceptics.
- “Would you want London to be overrun with Americans like me?” – Lionel Shriver in the Spectator dares to question whether another influx of refugees – this time from Afghanistan – will be good for the country.
- “Another year of disrupted education for healthy children? We must be mad” – We’re now so accustomed to these freakish impositions that we forget to ask what it’s all for, says Robert Taylor in the Telegraph.
- “Furious travel firms say Heathrow queues are ‘Government strategy’” – Travel industry figures vented their fury today after Sunday’s scenes, which saw elderly people and exhausted families with young children waiting for hours, reports MailOnline.
- “The ‘tiger headmistress’ who’s the opposite of woke – and just what schools need” – Outspoken campaigner Katharine Birbalsingh is the perfect choice for social mobility tsar, says Celia Walden in the Telegraph. But will the Government dare appoint her?
- “Was Hurricane Ida really caused by climate change?” – Ross Clark in the Spectator casts doubt on any link between Hurricane Ida and climate change.
- “Eco-extremists want to force mothers back into drudgery” – For ordinary people, life without disposable nappies, ready meals and dishwashers means extra work at the end of the day, writes Joanna Williams in the Telegraph.
- “The New Puritans” – For those whose behaviour doesn’t adapt fast enough to new norms, judgment can be swift—and merciless, says Anne Applebaum in an essay about cancel culture for the Atlantic.
- “Stop calling me ‘white’ for having the wrong opinions” – Angel Eduardo argues in Newsweek that his opinions shouldn’t be dictated by the colour of his skin.
- “CDC: Effectiveness of vaccines against hospitalisations has waned” – The COVID-19 vaccines effectiveness at preventing hospitalisations has fallen to 75% as the Delta variant spreads, reports the Daily Mail.
- “Has Gavin Williamson failed his next big test before schools have even gone back?” – Allison Pearson in the Telegraph isn’t confident the Education Secretary can prevent education being disrupted by the teaching unions this autumn.
- “Don’t kid yourself: electric cars won’t save you money” – Road pricing would obliterate the incentive to buy an electric car, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Judge orders hospital to treat Ohio Covid patient with ivermectin” – A judge in Ohio has ordered a hospital to treat a COVID-19 patient with ivermectin, reports the Guardian.
- “Falling Covid cases ease fears of new wave as schools return” – Coronavirus cases in England have been falling steadily for a week, prompting cautious optimism about the return to schools and offices this month, says the Times.
- “Police injured in lockdown protests sweeping Australia” – Police were injured in protests that erupted across Australia’s populous eastern states as weeks of lockdowns in the largest cities showed little sign of stemming a third wave of coronavirus infections, reports the Times.
- “If people are basically persuaded that they’re more interested in safety than freedom, then lockdowns like Covid are with us forever” – Watch Neil Oliver on GB News discuss
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Tom Chivers devalues his article by his dogmatic assertions over climate change.
This suggest that Marcon has won the passport war in France.
https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-france-covid-immunity-passport-vaccine-pass/
I have read that vaccinated Americans, who visit France and want to get into bars museums, public transport can get their health documents transferred to an EU health passport at French pharmacies.
The passport cannot be a success by definition, it is merely another broken rung on a ladder to oblivion.
Stephen ‘oily’ Fry calls for more head doctors to treat mad children.
Might it just be better not to drive children mad in the first place, through systematic government abuse?
The solution to all distress:
A tax/debt-funded walk in centre with a ‘professional’ behind the counter.
And I thought the world of 1950’s USA where shrinks were the first port of call and you could request a lobotomy for SOMEONE ELSE and very likely get it implemented were long gone…
Vaccine passports and vaccine mandates should be called out for what they are: unscientific barbarism.
They deny the existence of naturally acquired immunity. They deny empirical evidence of the spread of disease by the vaccinated.
They are the tool of big pharma fundamentalists and power hungry authoritarians.
Something fundamental…
It is now pretty clear what is happening across the world.
Not so clear is how it can be stopped.
Not at all clear is what and who would replace the current regime and how to ensure that it is an improvement.
In Canada Justin Turdeau has called a snap election… vote the GREAT RESET aligned, bought and paid for politicos out…. simples
I can’t stand that little twerp Trudeau. His father would be ashamed to know what his son has become.
Who was his father? Madame Trudeau was a very friendly woman, from what I read.
Castro was his father if the rumour mill is accurate.
This new jab, (not that one – the one for lowering ‘bad’ cholesterol) in the news today.
Can it be trusted?
Exactly the point I made to my MP, by mandating vaccination the Government will create a rod for their own backs. More vaccine hesitant people = worsening state of health in UK, needless to say he ignored my missive.
Yes I saw that on the BBC (sorry!)
The resurgence of the cholesterol theory will result in massive profits and I seriously don’t like the idea of a long term “vaccine” against cholesterol which is useful stuff and better adressed by a better diet.
They profit from both ends, selling crap food and then crap drugs as the antidote.
ITEM: “Police injured in lockdown protests sweeping Australia” – Police were injured in protests that erupted across Australia’s populous eastern states as weeks of lockdowns in the largest cities showed little sign of stemming a third wave of coronavirus infections, reports the Times”
The truckies’ protests and blockades of parliament kicked it all off and Australia’s police responded as any political police force would – with riot squads, and dog and mounted units. Just enforcing ‘Public Health Orders’, they said, apparently forgetful of when they took the knee during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. Some ‘super-spreader events’ are more equal than others apparently.
At least the truck drivers, who were protesting about mandatory testing and mandatory vaccination to cross state borders and thus keep their jobs, have had one positive result – the South Australian authorities have done a back-flip on their proposal that truck drivers be double-vaxxed if they want to enter the state (but multiple, tiresome, invasive testing will still be required).
Get together and make a noise and you get back in the game.
Phil, South Australia
The Guardian article on the Ohio judge ordering the hospital to give Ivermectin to a patient in ICU is all lies and condescension….a sampling from the diet most sheeple feed on daily.
That is news in other locations. Maybe not only the G is publishing lies.
“Children and young people hit hardest by lockdowns”.
Maybe the blasted BBC could post daily figures for how many children and young people are being described anti-depressants (and how it compares with previous years)?
There was a time when it was considered a duty to help damsels in distress…
“CDC: ‘vaccine’ effectiveness has waned”.
Should read: “CDC, which is in bed with Big Pharma, talks up ‘vaccine’ boosters”.
see https://easyhealthoptions.com/cdc-bed-big-pharma/
I repeat, these conflicts of interest should be made clear.
And it should perhaps be read in conjunction with this video on the gene therapy drugs if people are going to be asked to take boosters every few months forever. (Dire warning from Dr. Charles Hoffe)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/HzFryvUuryvs/
Disgraceful if people are going to be discriminated against for not taking these things!
Book on “science deniers”?
Maybe someone could write a book on science corrupters?
Oh, wait a moment, someone did!
https://credenceonline.co.uk/shop/product/cancer-why-were-still-dying-to-know-the-truth-2013-version/
Yes, I read – part-read – that Unherd article and its Harvard professor’s message which can be boiled down to ‘how to talk to dumb people’ – (people that aren’t him in other words). In this case, ‘dumb’ people can be taken as those that question things and don’t take what they are told at face value – bit like how some scientists in the middle ages decided that the sun didn’t spin round the earth but hey, they were just ‘science’ deniers. Some ‘dumb people’ have some wacky beliefs – flat earth theory for instance which doesn’t make any sense whatsoever in a universe of spherical objects that adhere to some basic laws of physics – but they have their arguments and beliefs for whatever reason and are best left to it. However, when it comes to the lumping in of anyone who doesn’t want a vaccine as an antivaxxer or who believes that COVID might not be so dangerous to warrant the taking away of all our hard-won freedoms, as if we’re naughty children who are too stupid to know better then I have a problem with this blatant attempt to undermine our fairly rational, evidence based arguments.… Read more »
He sounds like more of a Thrasymachus.
A surprising number of academics aren’t very bright – they advance in their respective fields by learning and repeating dogma.
I believe it is possible to make the same assessment of an awful lot of GPs.
And most of them are part of the huge mass brainwashing. They are the “trusted voices” that were discussed during Event 201, to encourage adherence to the “rules”.