- “Nicola Sturgeon is losing her grip as half-baked vaccine passport scheme unravels” – Once so sure-footed on Covid, the Scottish First Minister is increasingly muddled, writes Alan Cochrane in the Telegraph.
- “Just half of children in England want a Covid vaccine” – Researchers surveyed more than 27,000 nine to 18 year-olds across the country earlier this year ahead of the controversial plans to jab healthy secondary school pupils and found exactly 50% wanted the vaccine, with the youngest and poorest the least likely to accept a jab.
- “Covid has made us a nation of hysterics. It’s time to get a grip” – There is no shortage of fuel, just an excess of moronic behaviour, writes Robert Taylor in the Telegraph. He asks: “How on earth would we respond to a real crisis?”
- “Another lockdown would hurt the NHS” – The NHS is once again in trouble, writes Amy Jones in UnHerd. A mix of “bed blocking”, staff shortages and increased presentations to A&E have all conspired against it and we may be looking at a “firebreak” lockdown to “save” it once again.
- “Got long Covid symptoms? Well, they might be something else” – Nearly a million people across the U.K. have long Covid-type symptoms, according to the latest survey by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), but this is based on self-reporting rather than confirmatory tests, according to the Times.
- “Lockdowns may have caused us to think less about others and the future” – Covid lockdowns may have made Britons more selfish, a team of researchers from the University of York have found.
- “Petrol crisis will cause spike in Covid cases, experts warn” – Professor Paul Hunter has said cases will inevitably rise if people go back to using buses and trains, but he added this would not trigger a “major surge”, thanks to the U.K. vaccine rollout.
- “Defying Delta: Back to school goes better than feared” – School for children in many nations has been underway for more than a month and fears the Delta coronavirus variant would derail in-person learning have largely proven unfounded, Reuters reports.
- “Reclaim’s Laurence Fox: I will fight this to the death” – Kathy Gyngell interviews Lawrence Fox in the Conservative Woman a year after founding political party, Reclaim.
- “Boris Johnson needs to get a grip” – Unless our Prime Minister gets a grip soon Britain is going to decide that – just like Labour in the 1970s – Boris isn’t working, writes Dan Wootton in MailOnline.
- “Pfizer submits data to FDA on Covid vaccine in children aged five to 11” – Pfizer and BioNTech have submitted initial trial data for their COVID-19 vaccine in kids aged five to 11 to the Food and Drug Administration for review, but approval may not come for many weeks.
- “New York state vaccine mandate for medical workers goes into effect” – New York state’s vaccine mandate for all medical workers is now in effect, potentially putting 83,000 workers at risk of termination. Hospitals across the state say they support the mandate, but some are confronting staffing shortages as a result, Errol Barnett reports on CBS News.
- “Ivermectin ban sparks row between medical professionals in Australia” – Conflict has arisen between Australian citizens, health staff and professors after a recent decision to ban health practitioners from prescribing Ivermectin to COVID-19 patients, TrialSiteNews reports.
- “Greta Thunberg mocks world leaders as she addresses climate summit” – Greta Thunberg mocked world leaders, including Boris Johnson, accusing them of making “empty promises” on climate change as she opened a youth summit in Milan today. Change the record, sweetheart.
- “The New Yorker asks, should the climate movement embrace sabotage?” – In this guest essay on Watts Up With That, Eric Worrall explores accusations that the New Yorker is promoting ecoterrorism by publishing the book How to Blow Up a Pipeline and a podcast on “Should the climate movement embrace sabotage?”
- “Climate policy meets cold reality in Europe” – The rush to renewables causes severe energy price spikes and shortages; Biden’s policies would do the same in the U.S., writes Allysia Finley in the Wall Street Journal.
- “Trans ideology has taken over on the Tories’ watch” – Sajid Javid says trans dogma is “unscientific”. So why is he letting it overrun the NHS, asks Caroline Ffiske in Spiked.
- “Jordan Peterson’s return to Cambridge is a critical test of our commitment to free speech” – That he has been re-invited goes some way to removing the stain on our institution, writes Dr. Arif Ahmed in the Telegraph.
- “The scapegoating of Peter Thiel” – Being thoughtful is dangerous in a society where everyone copies each other, writes Luke Burgis in UnHerd.
- “Weird binary: Not hypocrisy, compliance signalling” – When it comes to the persecution of conservatives (especially white conservatives) and demographic shift, progressives put out peculiarly alternating messages: “It’s great – it isn’t happening – it’s great – it isn’t happening – it’s great.” Alexander Adams explores this “weird binary” in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has misled Parliament over the cost of Net Zero” – In this Twitter thread, the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s Harry Wilkinson examines why we desperately need a proper assessment of the full costs of Net Zero.
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has misled Parliament over the cost of Net Zero.
— Harry Wilkinson (@HarryWilkinsonn) September 28, 2021
Why we desperately need a proper assessment of the FULL costs of Net Zerohttps://t.co/q3zbljDCKy
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“Moment conspiracy theorist Piers Corbyn crashes XR church service and tells eco-activists they’re ‘working for the Devil’ during rant” Oh dear. Piers Corbyn really doesn’t do himself any favours here and certainly doesn’t help those of us who are pushing back against councils for all their Net Zero and sustainability plans to be taken seriously. Corbyn has some wonderful arguments against man-made climate change nonsense but why open yourself to ridicule like this? It’s as if he is now being brought in to ‘discredit’ our movement rather than promote it. I am disappointed in him to be honest. Clearly something was triggered when these smug-looking climate activists had a church service dedicated to them and to all intents and purposes it really did seem as if the crushing of our lives and freedoms by the insanity of Net Zero was being held up as a part of God’s work!
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/on-epistemological-imbalance-inversion
Phew, what a mouthful the title of the article is. I haven’t read it yet. I’ll have to psych myself up with a cup of tea and a piece of toast for sustenance first. Back later.
I haven’t read the title yet. I’ll have to psych myself up with a cup of tea and a piece of toast for sustenance first.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/21/net-zero-fuel-failure-triggers-chaos-across-south-west/
Dearie me, algae produced by green fuels blocking engines v leaves on the lines – same result – no trains, no travel…
At least algae in the fuel is slightly on our side.
Good old Algy, Biggles’ sidekick, to the rescue…oh, er, ALGAE, right! My mishtake!
Good grief! I’m just going to have a full English and not bother reading it at all!
“Chicago Workers who Refused Covid Vaccines to be Reinstated with Back Pay”
YES! now make this law for all workers who were treated this disgustingly!
I have not read the barrister’s report but I can see no reason for Raab to resign but every reason to discipline many civil servants.
for Sunak, Raab’s departure allows him to further tilt the balance the Cabinet in favour of Rejoin. Forget any solution to NI, EU regulations here or to unlimited immigration.
the big story is that the bureaucracy and political class has shown, yet again, they can get rid of Ministers who do not follow their policy preferences. I would argue it happened with Thatcher, Johnson, Truss and Raab. I’m sure other lesser ones too.
Why is everyone testing emergency alerts all of a sudden?
The BBC et al label people conspiracy theorists for saying that an unelected technocratic supranational elite are pulling the strings of democratically elected governments, then these supposedly democratically elected governments all start proposing similar pieces of legislation and policies in lockstep with each other!
…actually been saying this…we are being told China is totalitarian, CBDC’s, lack of freedom, internet censorship etc…then they tout exactly the same stuff…but without the pleasure of a future with a growing economy!!?
Actually ebg I’m not sure freedom and a growing economy go together any longer.
Well you know I don’t believe all the propaganda about China…although I’m not unaware of their faults….….but the IPSOS global happiness study shows that Chinese people are some of the happiest….(Netherlands is up there as well..Mogs!)….
So it doesn’t really chime with the propaganda we get fed….
On average the global south are happier than the West…
affluence, marriage and better educated are all happier…all things that seem to be in decline in the West…..I think that the growing economies make people feel as though they and their children have a future?
I do sometimes wonder what freedoms we have anymore..free to vote, but the game is rigged…freedom of speech? questionable….I don’t feel like I have a say in anything anymore….but I live somewhere that tells me I’m free and democratic…but I’m not sure any more….
I know it’s a poll but it’s quite interesting…..
https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2023-03/Ipsos%20Global%20Happiness%202023%20Report.pdf
And what do you think would happen to any Chinese who said they weren’t happy?
Currently in Spain and coincidentally the Emergency Alerts are going to sound here tomorrow as they are in UK. Spain is also celebrating St George’s Day tomorrow. There has to be some sort of reason for the synchronicity.
Those campaigners the BBC platformed: Tracy and Kevin? No, Indigo and Rupert. They say you know you’ve made it in life when your kids are environmentalists.