- “Malfunctioning NHS app for Covid vaccine status causes travel delays” – Problems accessing the Covid pass has caused travellers to be turned away from flight and ferry, reports the Guardian.
- “Ditch ‘illogical’ Covid travel tests for under-11s, ministers urged” – England is the only country in Europe to require children younger than 11 to be tested on their return, exempting only those four or under, reports the Telegraph.
- “A response to the House of Commons’ pro-lockdown report” – “The report makes no attempt to evaluate the scientific evidence on lockdown efficacy, gives no consideration to focused protection as an alternative strategy, and shows no interest in weighing up the total costs and benefits of lockdown,” writes Noah Carl in his latest Substack update.
- “Locking down harder and faster is not the right conclusion” – “A door has been opened and we have walked into a place in which our health and well-being is worse, we are poorer and we are less free, in exchange for dubious claims of safety,” writes Jamie Walden in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “Is the economic recovery still on track?” – “If inflationary pressures continue to surge (a glance at yesterday’s labour market update gives no reason to think they’ll let up soon), the Bank of England may have no choice but to act,” writes Kate Andrews in the Spectator.
- “The U.K.’s National ‘Crisis’: Age-Adjusted Mortality Is at 2008 Levels” – Looking at the U.K., the overall death rate for 2020 is not unprecedented, and some of the increase in the death rate is likely the result of an incomprehensibly bad Covid policy, writes Mark Avis in Mises Wire.
- “Merck Ignores Molnupiravir’s Cytotoxicity” – “The broad use of Molnupiravir is a global catastrophic risk because the increased rate of coronavirus mutations is likely to create more dangerous variants,” writes ‘LeoG’ in TrialSite.
- “Southwest Airlines pilots and staff are flying in the face of corporate and Government vaccine mandates – and about time, too” – Southwest Airlines’ top brass can deny the massive delays they’ve been experiencing have anything to do with their insistence staff take Covid shots or lose their job till they are blue in the face… but no one is buying it, writes R.M. Huffman in RT.
- “Catholic Troops Can Refuse Covid Vaccine: Military Archbishop” – U.S. troops who are Catholic can refuse to comply with a Covid vaccine mandate if they believe getting vaccinated will “violate his conscience“, says the military’s archbishop.
- “Top virologist says Delta defeated, predicts 6 plus months of Covid quiet for Israel” – New variants will be held at bay for now, says Rivka Abulafia-Lapid, whose optimism comes as number of new serious Covid cases per day almost halves over two weeks, reports the Times of Israel.
- “Murray backs calls for mandatory vaccination to enter Australian Open” – The Victoria Government announced earlier this month that all professional athletes in the state must now be double jabbed by late November – a move that Andy Murray is fully supportive of.
- “Victorian post office licensee backs down over refusal to get Covid jab” – Angela Spedding had cited freedom of choice for her refusal to get the vaccine but now says she has booked an appointment for next week, reports the Guardian.
- “Should genetics make us socialist?” – “The Genetic Lottery, by University of Texas psychologist Kathryn Paige Harden, is a good book whose central ethical argument is unpersuasive,” writes Bo Winegard in the Washington Examiner.
- “Insulate Britain is in bed with the establishment” – It’s no surprise that one of its activists is married to a TfL boss, writes Ben Pile in Spiked.
- “M25 protests: Insulate Britain activists arrested after defying court order” – Insulate Britain protesters were dragged off the road by frustrated motorists in angry scenes by the M25 after the demonstrators blocked major routes despite injunctions granted by the High Court, reports the Times.
- “The madness of the green agenda” – Even as gas prices soar, the Government is planning to hike bills even higher, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Cambridge Student Union trans guide claims being woman is not down to ‘biology’” – Cambridge Students’ Union’s “How To Spot TERF Ideology” accuses some feminists of being “transphobic” and linked to the “far right”, reports MailOnline.
- “Why is British Airways banning ‘ladies and gentlemen’?” – “You might think that after 18 months of turbulence, B.A. has more important things to worry about,” writes Annabel Denham in the Spectator.
- “Professor Kathleen Stock was abused by students accusing her of transphobia but her union chose to back students” – Toby tells talkRADIO: “Gender ideology has spread across universities. You are branded a transphobe, and activists will come for you.”
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Good morning. It’s me again.
“A new day will dawn and lead us to…”
Feel free to fill in the blanks.
The downtickers won’t have a clue.
Morning HP! Another day, another holler…
Oh I see you’ve got 5 DTs already and you posted 5 hrs ago…so…doing the maths…one an hour, a sort of trickle of DTs…maybe the hosepipe ban affects them..
As for your ‘blank’, may I suggest ‘a great awakening’, it’s either that or ‘the Fox and Hounds’…although a bit early for the pub…
Cheers Aethelred
“coffee and scrambled eggs”. Morning back.
Thanks Mogs.
Bit delayed but MORNING!
I downticked as a sort of protest within a protest
Well you’ve confused me with that one.
I never had you down as a Downticker Joe. Ah well, live and learn.
I think this is one of the deepest downticky threads ever.
Morning HP.
A new day will dawn and lead us to … Same shit different day
“another dusk” would be my suggestion.
NB: Relative to my working hours, it’s 5am now.
JP Reacts to Klaus Schwab’s Plan to Block the Sun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP8B4M0EYAc&list=WL&index=59
JP Reacts
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Lunacy of an order of magnitude so vast it can almost not even be imagined.
“Corporate insolvencies jump in England and Wales after withdrawal of Covid support”
For my little business, it was the pointless scare about Omicron that very nearly did for us. I dread the words ‘work from home’ dripping casually from an officials mouth, as that will be the end of us.
Absolutely. We must not forget that although there was not a lockdown over Omicron (which Sunak claims he personally prevented – I’m not believing that yet), there was certainly a massive campaign of fear, which frightened people away from pubs. “The new variant is spreading fast”, Saint Boris said. Every time I have written to my MP, I have said that their lockdowns have actively deterred people from setting up business, because we never know when the government might snatch it all away on a panicked whim, with no Parliamentary scrutiny, and no exit plan, now that the precedent has been set.
And yes, it’s despicable the way politicians are so CASUAL with words that have massive implications for people less rich and famous than they are. “I’m sorry I destroyed your business; but can we pleeeeeease move on from Barnard Castle?” “We need to squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze the brakes on reopening.” “Can we please move on from Partygate?” Yeah, let’s just move on from the massive hypocrisies. So casually uttered.
If you’re on Telegram I strongly advise you to join Anna de Buisseret’s channel. She’s a UK lawyer specialising in employment law, former Army Officer & is all over the lawfulness of the government diktats. Some very useful stuff on there. Plus if you needed to engage an employment lawyer & you’re in London, she’s your woman. The other option you have for information is PJ Hyland (solicitor for Dr Sam White) as he too specialises in employment law.
Both of these are Truth Warriors & have been standing up & speaking out from the start.
We are involved in events BB. On the day that the first lockdown was announced I had 73 booking cancellations in 8 hours as everyone cleared their diaries and went home. We did get a few bob from Rishi, and through sound management etc, we survived quite well. When Omicron came round there was no official lockdown, yet still 80% of the recovering order-book disappeared for five months, due to people reverting to Zoom and other ways of not meeting in large groups. What reserves we had were swallowed up, all except the coins in the ashtray of my car, with which we have eeked out a meagre living since.
Of course with nothing ‘official’ just the careless advice of people who ought to have known better to ‘work from home’, I don’t believe we have any recourse, even if we had the money to pursue it. As we are, we are hanging on, recovering slowly, paying off the Bounce Back loan (yes we are…), but one more careless statement will do us in. Its not good to have this hanging over us, and I’m certainly not investing further with that risk on our heads. I just wish some of the talking heads in the media would shut their cake holes, rather than hypothesizing and scaring people into more unnecessary safety-ism over a mild upper respiratory infection.
My business was down to its last £1,500 at one point and I was about to liquidate. I had been exempted from support, because I was a limited company director, which struck me as deliberate, given the plan to implement IR35 (got rid of that Liz!)
By pure chance, someone I had worked with in the past had her email hacked and I got a load of dross sent from her account. I sent her a message on her work email to warn her and ended up being offered some work that carried on in dribs and drabs for 18 months. I accepted being paid two thirds of my usual amount and was grateful to have anything at all. It saved my business. I will never forgive the Government for almost destroying my business and my livelihood.
Morning fellow travellers…some good stuff in the Conservative Woman..including this update about vaccine injuries..
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/as-vaccine-toll-rises-twitter-has-banned-me-but-the-fightback-is-under-way/
And it’s worth emphasising that Mark Steyn’s output on GBN that is mentioned via your link is on the ball at present. It’s amazing that GBN’s output on YouTube actually works, as well; perhaps the advertising revenue to YT is worthwhile?
Silly season news … Nick Cohen’s Observer column was suspended because he allegedly had a less-than-contructive professional conversation with a female colleague 17 years ago.
There’s really nothing more to that. IMHO, that would be a good reason to get rid of the lady. Still being vengeful 17 years after a non-event is a sign of someone being a really nasty piece of work. Her present colleagues would probably appreciate that. Even if they don’t dare to speak out.
…a brilliant Russel Brand…….talking about the CDC’s decision to give vax/boosters to children…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEqOUxiPJBc
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-murky-road-to-lockdown-part-two-the-deeply-sinister-way-ahead/
Part 2. Excellent piece from Paula Jardine at TCW.
The conclusion is frankly terrifying.
Last night’s Dan Wootton’s view on GBN: https://www.gbnews.uk/gb-views/locking-the-british-public-in-their-homes-by-law-should-not-be-viewed-as-a-solution-to-anything-says-dan-wootton/347462
Japan’s mask compliance is still at historic highs–and now its virus cases are at historic highs as well. If that’s “success”, I’d really hate to see what failure looks like.
I always thought that the “something must be done” bureaucrats copied the idea from Japan – it seems to be common practice on crush-loaded public transport over there, e.g. Whether it ever worked is a different issue, but it looked like a copycat job to me.
Michie said that she saw them there first and claimed to be very impressed with the social courtesy of the Japanese who’d protect others from their oral effluent as a matter of course.
This is truly scary what has been voted through in New Zealand regarding abortion.
We can never forget or forgive this level of depravity.
In a couple of states in the US there was legislation proposed to allow abortion after birth!
OMFG what is the source please? I cannot believe what I’m reading! Is this for real?? I’m pro-choice but with strict time limitations, and I do not support the current ones which state you can have an abortion up until 24 weeks, whereby the foetus is considered ‘viable’ after that. But are they really saying that now you can abort a fully-formed baby if you are 8 or 9 months pregnant?? Why isn’t this horror show all over the flipping press? Abortion based on the gender of the foetus?? I’m off to hurl, this is despicable.
I must confess my stomach churned as I read this.
Christ!
I don’t have the original source but this came from a trusted truth warrior.
I know of & treated individuals who were 23 weeks gestation at birth who lived to adulthood. Yes they had huge problems but there are limits to what is moral.
In my book, the post birth treatment of a live & viable new born is infanticide.
God Almighty!
The evil, firkin heathens. How low are we going to go?