PCR Covid tests for travel will be scrapped from October 22nd, despite previous reports suggesting they could stay in place at least until the back end of the half-term week. The Telegraph has the story.
Fully vaccinated holidaymakers will instead be allowed to book and use cheaper lateral flow tests when they return to Britain from half-term breaks.
This should reduce the costs from an average of around £60 to £70 for a PCR test to between £20 and £35 for a lateral flow test from an approved provider on the Government’s official website.
As previously with PCR tests, double-vaccinated travellers will be expected to book lateral flow tests in advance, register them on their passenger locator forms and then take them on or before day two of their return to the U.K.
The Department of Health and Social Care has accepted that the test can be done by holidaymakers at home, but the result will have to be verified with the test firm by providing a photograph of the kit with its registration number. [Not by providing a video recording of the testing process, as ministers have at one time considered.] …
Only unvaccinated travellers now have to take a pre-departure test and then quarantine for 10 days on their return and pay for PCR tests on days two and eight of their return. The pre-departure test for double jabbed travellers was ditched on October 4th.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Isabel Oakeshott asks why travellers are being forced to pay for lateral flow tests “when we all have boxes of the damn things at home”?
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Well done to Sallust and the DS for featuring this horrific news story.
This £50 million is going to the ARIA project founded by LLAN GUR, who also founded the US “Activate” company, and his Globalist plan to DIM THE SUN, the SOURCE OF ALL LIFE ON EARTH, is a SATANIC ATTACK ON LIFE ITSELF.
Just like his fellow lunatic Bill Gates wanted to spray chalk dust into the sky to DIM THE SUN is a SATANIC ATTACK ON LIFE ITSELF, trying to cut humanity and all life forms off from God’s Own Light, to trap and enslave souls in a darkened Hell on Earth.
Here are some more examples of the UK government lavishing Taxpayers’ Money on insane projects:
UK wastes BILLIONS on crazy foreign projects like Kenyan gender lectures while dithering on defence spending | The Sun
The one I like best is £133k for studying the health of shrimps in Bangladesh.
What’s wrong with you? Don’t you care about Bangladeshi Shrimps? Racist!
If you want to make God laugh, just tell Him your plans.
The Matrix. 1999. ‘We don’t know who started it, but we do know that it was us who blotted out the sky’…. Telling you the agenda. See Neo’s passport for its expiry date – an interesting expiry date.
Wow— Nice find! Talk about “Predictive Programming”!
Please tell us the expiry date, so we don’t have to trawl through the entire movie to find it!
September 11, 2001
What!!?? Jaw-dropping information— thanks for that.
These people and agencies are completely out of control and must be stopped by any and all possible means.
Extreme prejudice should be employed,if only to discourage any more such insanity.
I can see a surge in building more walls to stand these people against being good for economic growth. And BAE are building a new plant for making propellant and explosives which under a Labour government in 2005 was stopped in the UK so we can make our own bullets again.
But I thought plans to block out the sun were crazy far-right conspiracy theories!
I’m sure you know that conspiracy theorists are always ahead of the game by anywhere between 2 weeks and 10 years.
But when you say “You mean something like Trump calling a halt on waste”, you get branded a lunatic.
This is potentially very dangerous. They must be stopped.
How will the solar panels they are pushing work?
This country is getting madder by the day !
I’m just checking the date… No, not April 1st.
These hare-brained schemes fit nicely with the idea that humankind has the power to control the planet, if we wish so to do. Have none of these scientists considered what will happen to plant life if sunlight is reduced, and what the knock-on effects could be for the rest of the ecosystem. But then, perhaps they feel that life forms are a problem in themselves, and should be eradicated altogether…
Not just sunlight but CO2, particularly in the UK because the new arrivals must surely feel the cold and we need more CO2 in order to boost food production with which to feed them.
I think April 1st will soon be inverted to become the only day you can announce something that is true and importantly sensible.
Are they really hard-brained though? – let’s reposition their actual strategy – ‘how can we extract oodles of cash from ‘the government’ for doing bugger all?’ … as far as grifting goes, I do strangely admire the cheek of these people
It’s about time Kneel established an new agency :
The Office for Alchemy and Realism in Magic.
Office for Reacting Idiotically and Foisting an Imaginary Climate Emergency
(Or Orifice for short, whichever you prefer)
He’s got one of those already, Millibrain is running it…
There is a lot of alchemy and astrology in standard science.
There is no science in the Netard Zero, or the anti-Plant Food-anti-Sunlight cult.
I have to confess i’s becoming harder and harder for me to interact with the rest of the world.
The language used in what society considers respectable media like the Telegraph (and they’re supposed to be better than most) is so stupid, so devoid of any real meaning, it leaves me only wondering whether the people behind it are just all in a trance or clever and evil.
WTF us runaway climate change
However, scientists are increasingly concerned that carbon dioxide levels are not falling fast enough
Which scientists?
Catastrophic in what way?
Is anything in media not a psyop, or unwittingly reinforcing a psyop?
If the Telegraph and all the rest of them are capable of putting out blige like that, then honestly anything else they produce is likely to be devoid of any value. It’s just rubbish put out to drive the dumb herd in one direction or another.
I fear it was always the sane. The difference is we can see whereas in the past we believed just-about everything.
I fear you’re right. Makes me feel like a complete sucker, but it is what it is.
Some examples:
Allied Atrocities and Controversial Actions During and After World War II
1. Strategic Bombing of Civilians
2. Soviet Atrocities in Eastern Europe
3. Mistreatment of German POWs
4. Forced Repatriations (Operation Keelhaul)
5. Mass Expulsions of Ethnic Germans
6. Internment of Ethnic Japanese
I don’t think anyone ever apologized or paid reparations for the historical atrocities numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5.
Nor has Russia ever apologized or paid reparations for kidnapping tens of thousands of British & American Prisoners of War after “liberating” them from Nazi concentration camps, then dragging them off to Siberian gulags as hostages to force Churchill to hand over the White Russians, as detailed in researcher Nigel Cawthorne’s devastating book:
James Bacque
Other Losses: An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans after World War II
Other Losses caused an international scandal when first published in 1989 by revealing that Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower’s policies caused the death of some 1,000,000 German captives in American and French internment camps through disease, starvation and exposure from 1944 to 1949, as a direct result of the policies of the western Allies, who, with the Soviets, ruled as the Military Occupation Government over partitioned Germany from May 1945 until 1949.
An attempted book-length disputation of Other Losses, was published in 1992, featuring essays by British, American and German revisionist historians (Eisenhower and the German POWs: Facts Against Falsehood, edited by Ambrose & Günter). However, that same year Bacque flew to Moscow to examine the newly-opened KGB archives, where he found meticulously and exhaustively documented new proof that almost one million German POWs had indeed died in those Western camps.
One of the historians who supports Bacque’s work is Colonel Ernest F. Fisher, 101st Airborne Division, who in 1945 took part in investigations into allegations of misconduct by U.S. troops in Germany and later became a senior historian with the United States Army. In the foreword to the book he states: “Starting in April 1945, the United States Army and the French Army casually annihilated about one million [German] men, most of them in American camps … Eisenhower’s hatred, passed through the lens of a compliant military bureaucracy, produced the horror of death camps unequalled by anything in American military history … How did this enormous war crime come to light? The first clues were uncovered in 1986 by the author James Bacque and his assistant.”
Thanks for that book information. All I knew about was Thomas Goodrich’s 2014 book “Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany 1944-47”, detailing the mass torture and gang rapes of millions of German and East European women and children by Muslim Mongols and Tatars dressed in Russian Army uniforms, because the ethnic Russians refused to participate. All of these were WAR CRIMES committed AFTER PEACE WAS DECLARED!
The same thing happened elsewhere in Europe, where Allied troops such as the French were blamed for horrific gang rapes, when it was actually Muslim Algerians and other Muslims in French uniform.
People forget that Gang Rape was virtually UNKNOWN in the West before Muslim immigration.
And the shocking treatment of German troops AFTER PEACE WAS DECLARED led to the assassination of General Patton, who vehemently protested against it.
His harrowing but important book can be read for free on the Internet Archive here:
Hellstorm Thomas Goodrich : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Possibly some truth to that little list, but then you shouldn’ have fucking started it should you?
Of course the allies weren’t saints. SOE was set up as the department of ungentlemanly warfare.
But of all possible outcomes, the allies winning and Germany losing was probably the least bad.
My point is not to ‘rub noses in dirt’ but to illustrate how in the past these failings were very rarely found. Most of ‘us’ accepted the state narrative we saw reported because we broadly trusted that authority. Now, in these modern times, with events such as 9/11, WMD, CV19, Ukraine, etc. it has been possible to interrogate history far more deeply than ever before. We have quickly found out that the given/received narrative should not be so readily trusted. You don’t have to scratch away too much to discover very robust counter-views.
By extrapolation, this newly found easy access to counter information, the questioning of almost every event in history is possible and we can see we have likely been feed bunk endlessly throughout history. It’s nothing new.
That’s certainly true enough.
I was brought up in a decent Christian household, broadly small c conservative respect the police, MPs the queen etc
Oh dear oh dear whilst still mildly royalist (for purely pragmatic reasons I think chuckles is an idiot, but it’s still better than president bliar as head if state) I haven’t seen too many rabbit holes not to dive down, and the mental thing is, I think I ve been proven right pretty well every time.
Not because I’m particularly smart but because the ruling class (sorry, I can’t call them elites, that implies genuine merit) ate such penalty, and fundamentally stupid next Tuesdays.
Yup. One can almost pick an event/topic at random and with stunning predictability blow the whole thing wide open. But getting people to stop trusting authority is still a challenge. Hence why ‘democracy’ is a handy system for the predatory ruling class: they just tell the muppets what to think and pow! Election of uniparty candidate delivered.
Possibly some truth to that little list, but then you shouldn’ have fucking started it should you?
For the sake of example, let’s assume your neighbour clubs your son to death because he found him stealing apples¹. If you now lie in hiding until you catch is daughter and kill in a particularly unpleasant way, you’re not both murderers and not exactly one villain and exactly one hero.
¹ Not that ending persecution of ethnic Germans by Poles you made their master for this very purpose was ever any of your business — you started the war in the west to rescue Poland for Stalin. Or rather, the half of Poland he hadn’t already occupied during the joint German – Russian invasion of it in 1939.
Of all possible outcomes, your side getting to write the history books was certainly best for it. Considering that the present outcomes of your laudable goal to improve all of the world very much, no matter if it ever wanted to needed to be improved, are COVID and climate change, your legacy is not as great as you like others to believe.
The green happy clappers do not think ‘critically’. This is very like a religion. They take the doctrine eat it up and swallow it all. It makes them feel a little righteous, sanctimonious even, whilst also wicked, guilty and sinful all at the same time.
They beg for crushing CO2 taxation and spitefully want it brought about to punish all – make all kneel, pay homage and sacrifice at the alter of St.AlGore.
It is earth worship in the most negative way – they think people are the problem and believe population reduction the solution. It is fundamentalist anti-humanity-ism. It is a death cult.
They are so often the same bunch who once would have said a great big NO to nuclear power but now shrug and say well it is better than ‘global warming’. At least Fukushima Daiichi stuffed the truth of that notion in their face – if they care to pay attention to the under-the-carpet facts.
Yet the money and opportunity is stolen away from the oil-bearing nations. They are ruined instead, by favoured despots or war, precluded from being free to capitalise on their period of wealth; for fear they could become today and tomorrow’s masters.
Instead; the opportunity is handed to India and China, amongst others too, to be lifted to economic parity – a parity that includes draining the wealth out of the western nations – us lot. All with help from the sleight of hand of the carbon credits sham.
This is an interesting aspect of ‘green happy clapper’ syndrome. They feel like they are the modern thinkers and the people who deride their ‘pre-packaged hip save-the-world, life-style-choice, ready-to-wear pulp’ are just dumb old fashioned stick-in-muds. Antiquated ‘flat-earthers’- give me a break!.
But what the ‘green happy clappers’ do not get is they have been sold one giant pup. They love it so much, it is so much a part of what they are, it is their ‘big-eyed life-style brand-of-choice’ that they fail to open their minds to the fact that they have been duped. They are the product of mass media indoctrination, subliminal brainwashing, propaganda – call it what you like.
Instead, like the green evangelists they are, they want to convert all, they want to live their life in the green way, they want to make sacrifices. They are lost in a false paradigm and any hint they have been fooled makes them just hunker down deeper into denial.
Why is ‘thinking for yourself’ antiquated? Because part of the ‘ready-made’ conclusion they have absorbed is this CO2 idea is fresh, young, feisty, its edgy to be green. Suckers!
By the time people awake, to really see what is happening and why, we risk being too weak and too controlled, by authoritarianism and propaganda, to save our nations and our hides.
In the 1980s, catalytic converters became mandatory because of the so-called acid rain supposedly caused by SO₂ emissions of cars with internal combustion engines. 2025, a professor of the university of Exeter plans large-scale “injection” of SO₂ (sulphur dioxide) into the atmosphere to “save the planet”.
We’ve always been at war with Eurasia.
Wow! Good find!
If memory serves right (and backed up by a quick internet search), catalytic converters remove carbon monoxide (a genuine toxin) and nitrogen oxides associated with urban smog.
Acid rain was primarily due to formation of sulphuric acid in the atmosphere, from oxidation of sulphur dioxide produced by burning coal high in sulphur content – avoided by scrubbing out the sulphur dioxide at source (e.g. power station chimney) or using coal lower in sulphur content.
You point still stands about madcap science now proposing to mimic the effect of atmospheric sulphur dioxide.
Yeah, blot out the sun that gives us life. These people are anti-human.
And of course, anti-life-in-general.
Why do these fools need to tinker around with something they don’t understand.
This planet has coped admirably for hundreds of millions of years, leave it be.
Because they’re smelling government money.
Jesus wept.
Plse make it stop.
I think you’re going to have to go and bite their ankles Jack.
What the acronyms really stand for…
…ARIA = Advanced Rabid Insanity Agency
…SAI = State Approved Insanity
…MCB = Mad Cranky & Bonkers
But… the solar panels – must all those Chinese slaves labour in vain?!!
Yes, how are all the solar panels going to work when the Sun is Blotted Out?
Have any of the Green Imbeciles gluing themselves to stuff ever thought about that?
Get Government out of our lives! in my view this is Government taking action on matters in which it has no business and should have no business. We really need to shrink Government and make it focus on its core business e.g. defence and law and order. It should not in anyway be involved in funding these sort of crazy and dangerous ideas.
Please please can we have far less Government and reduce Government involvement, including in areas of health and welfare and most particularly with regard to ‘climate. change’.
Just who do these maniacs think they are? I mean it really is a stream of incoherent nonsense: Is all agriculture intended to be artificial and laboratory-based from now on? Oh I’ve got a great idea, let’s make our children’s and grandchildren’s future grey and miserable.
And another thing – it’s completely contradictory: You can either harness the power of the Sun by blanketing vast swathes of the countryside with solar farms, OR you blot out the Sun… You can’t have it both ways!
Cloud seeding has been going on for the best part of a century. I have no idea what effect it had on the weather, though I am old enough to recall the terrible winter of 1962-63, the worst for centuries, which paralysed the UK for months. Can we sue, and if so, whom?
What could go wrong?
Triggering WWIII springs to mind.
Seriously, if mankind develops this sort of capability, how soon before some (green or otherwise) loonie uses it and damages another country’s or region’s interests?
Anyone fancy blotting out the sun for China or Russia? I wonder how they would react?
How can ‘these scientists’ be so utterly dumb!! If you dim the sun so it’s cooler, the human reaction is to use more energy to warm up!! Renewables will never be able to meet that demand, so coal, oil & gas will be used. You just cannot make such total stupidity up!!
I hear you. You’ve also got the consequence a higher death rate in countries with seasonal latitude, since cooler in general necessarily means a greater prevalence of freezing temperatures, leading to more deaths from cold-related illnesses. This puts greater pressure of health services in these countries. A slightly warmer planet means human lives saved!
This is both dangerous and stupid.
If this sort of thing carries on some idiot scientists somewhere might try fiddling about with viruses in order to enhance their potency – all in the name of developing safe and effective vaccines of course.
I call this enemy…the sun
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L3LbxDZRgA4
I live in the North and during the winter suffer badly from a lack of Vitamin D. Not a whole lot better, some summers.
Where do these utter morons come from?
The record of the last four glaciations shows that the earth is icebound for 120,000 years, then very rapidly emerges into an interglacial where the climate peaks, then slowly slumps back into the next glaciation, but with ups and downs. We’ve had the peak. It happened about 8000 years ago. We are now into a secular decline – with ups and downs – into the next ice age. We just happily are living in a brief up.
Block the Sun Kill the Planet
There is a Climate Emergency ! Caused by these utter wanktoids !!! Just F – off & let nature roll !
OMG! How do we stop these lunatics? That’s a suicidal idea, to solve a non existent problem. Scary stuff.
This project is on a par with believing a man can be a woman
April Fools day has gone hasn’t it?
OFFICIAL CLIMATE POLICY—-Coerce everyone into buying solar panels, and cover the country in them and the BLOCK the SUN———–ha ha ha jeez. These people just get more and more absurd as each day goes by and they don’t even realise how utterly pathetic they are.
‘Net Zero Plan to Blot Out Sun…’
Surely sun-blotting is ‘instead of’ not ‘part of’ net zero. I mean, if we’re cooling the earth by stopping sunlight, why should we still need to cut CO2 emissions?
Oh look, another one of those pesky conspiracy theories coming true…again.
I can’t see any time in the foreseeable future when we in Britain would need to block the sun. Net-zero is becoming a joke to most intelligent people and most competent climate scientists, so we should not be finding more ways to waste our money on it, rather recovering our intelligence and reducing the crazy money being spent on it now.
More information on ARIA here – https://expose-news.com/2025/04/24/aria-the-uk-governments-secretive-agency/:
ARIA: The UK government’s secretive agency masquerading as a beacon of scientific progress.
he UK Advanced Research + Invention Agency’s (“ARIA’s”) £800 million budget, channelled through the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology represents a colossal drain on public resources, yet its spending remains a tightly guarded secret.
ARIA’s operations are so opaque that its secrecy is unparalleled, even among peers such as the US Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (“ARPA-H”) and the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (“DARPA”).
So, who are they and what are their aims?
In the following article, The Sentiment Inspector investigates what this government agency is concealing and the price the public and planet will pay for its unchecked experiments.