- “U.K. Covid cases may have peaked for this year, study suggests” – Data from Zoe study shows fall in under 18s but cases still rising in older people, reports the Guardian.
- “When fear leads to tyranny” – Democracy is being quietly redefined, says Jonathan Sumption in UnHerd.
- “Covid and the malaise of human rights” – Human rights advocates have been silent about state restrictions on fundamental freedoms during the pandemic, writes David McGrogan in Law & Liberty.
- “Doctor banned from social media in ‘masks do nothing’ row takes his case to High Court” – Freedom of expression battle after GP appeals against conditions imposed on him following video in which he complained about Covid restrictions, reports the Telegraph.
- “Costly PCR tests no longer needed, says top scientist” – “Britain’s mass PCR testing programme has become a ‘money-making exercise’ for private laboratories and has outlived its usefulness, a leading scientist has said,” reports the Times.
- “Pfizer’s Covid pill cuts deaths and hospitalisations by 89%” – Experts said the drug could mark a ‘new era’ in preventing serious Covid infection, reports the Telegraph.
- “U.K. approval of molnupiravir may create new and more dangerous Covid variants” – The potential mutagenic effects of molnupiravir on Covid itself are a danger to population health, and a glaring blindspot for the review committees involved, argues William A. Haseltine in Forbes.
- “Covid cases & deaths skyrocket in Germany as breakthrough infections on the rise” – “Although Germany is nearly 70% fully vaccinated and the overwhelming majority of people 18 and up are immunized, the number of Covid cases now skyrockets as a fourth wave sweeps through Germany,” reports Trialsite.
- “U.S. condemns 28 million children to needless Covid jab” – 28 million U.S. children are now eligible to be vaccinated even when the facts say they shouldn’t be, argues Kathy Gyngell in TCW.
- “Are the ‘vaccines’ safe and effective?” – The editor of the BMJ, Dr. Peter Doshi, gives evidence to an expert panel on Covid vaccine mandates and injuries.
- “Covid: how long does vaccine based immunity last?” – Here I discuss a fascinating Swedish study that shows how good the Covid vaccines are in the real world, how long their effect lasts, and whether or not boosting makes sense, writes Sebastian Rushworth.
- “UKHSA efficacy stats death watch: week 44” – Slow-motion meltdown at the U.K. Health Security Agency as the numbers they’ve locked themselves into publishing just continue to be bad, writes Eugyppius in his latest Substack update.
- “A review and autopsy of two Covid immunity studies” – “I have never before seen such a large discrepancy between studies that are supposed to answer the same question. In this article, I carefully dissect both studies, describe how the analyses differ, and explain why the Israeli study is more reliable,” writes Martin Kulldorff for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Man vs the elite” – S.D. Wickett, Michael Curzon and Luke Perry discuss COP26 and the latest Covid stories in Bournbrook Magazine’s regular podcast.
- “Climate change to be taught to schoolchildren as young as five in major shake-up” – Children as young as five will be taught about climate change during science lessons for the first time under changes being made to the curriculum, reports the Express.
- “We’ll all pay for turning big oil into a pariah” – Nobody is standing up to the hysteria of green activists and admitting: we still need hydrocarbons, writes Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “COP26 was riddled with hypocrisy” – “It’s the stinking hypocrisy that sticks in my craw, the ‘do as I say, not as I do’ arrogance of all this,” writes Richard Littlejohn in the Mail.
- “Coal keeps lights on at COP26 as low wind strikes again” – On November 3rd 2021, a lack of wind power led to skyrocketing costs on the GB Balancing Mechanism. Only fossil fuels saved the day, reports John Constable in Net Zero Watch.
- “Stop calling climate change a ‘war’ – it is the opposite” – Governments and activists are using martial language to bully us into accepting policies without scrutiny, argues Ryan Bourne in the Telegraph.
- “The climate scaremongers: a weekly round-up” – Paul Homewood exposes some of the falsehoods and hysterical predictions peddled by the climate alarmist lobby in TCW.
- “Inconvenient truths behind climate change hysteria” – The roots of today’s green movement are profoundly anti-human, argues Melanie Phillips in her latest Substack update.
- “‘You are looking at the American dream’: ex-Marine Winsome Sears’ Virginia victory speech” – Winsome Sears gave this speech in full Tuesday night after becoming the first female African-American to be elected Virginia Lieutenant Governor.
- “Be wary of comparing Covid rates in England with other countries” – Professor Carl Henegan speaks to TalkRadio: “two weeks ago everyone was looking at how well Europe was doing but yesterday Germany reported its highest case load ever.”
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Plod are having a bad night up town:
https://youtu.be/U4jE_2H-qfw
Good, that’s more of their overtime budget used up.
Midnight here in my small provincial city, not heard a single firework yet this tonight despite being a light sleeper and unlike last year when, I think, we were in Tier 3.
Second viewing. They might be wearing riot helmets but are not behaving like riot squad at all, just milling about in an uncoordinated fashion then retreating from a not particularly hostile crowd. Something not quite right there.
Could not remember the acronym for riot squad but tried TCG (remembered TSG a bit later) and just see what came up, attached
Battle tactics from the Police College.
There’s loads of it, goes on and on and on without tapping the chapter links; even SAGE gets a paragraph or two
Bet you didn’t know battling hobbies have a crib sheet on Shared Situational Awareness?
Or M.E.T.H.A.N.E. fascinating stuff worth a read if you have an hour or so but I would not want to fight under their rules of engagement.
Are vaccines driving excess deaths in Scotland? By Will Jones
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/are-vaccines-driving-excess-deaths-in-scotland-a-professor-of-biology-asks/
May we suggest readers pay particular attention to the analysis Professor Richard Ennos presents in his response letter to the Scottish government, which he describes as follows:‘Analysis of the timing of this rise in excess death shows that it started in the oldest age group and is initiated sequentially in ever younger age groups . . . This strongly suggests that there is some cause for these excess deaths at home that operates first in the elderly and works its way sequentially down the age groups in Scotland.’
As yet it appears that this increase shows no sign of slowing down, and may even be accelerating, only now really getting started in the younger groups.
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Awesome article and analysis ( of likely role of vaccines in excess deaths ) at the Conservative Women link. Thank you very much.
It’s as awesome as when posted here at DS as a lead article two days ago.
Not my downtick btw.
I love seeing riot police running away, it gives such a profound sense of satisfaction.
Lost a lot of sympathy in the past two years, between choosing to follow the panickers in their violent repression and coercion of their betters, and contrasting that with their shamelessly politically biased kowtowing to the radical greens and anti-white racists.
Lot of decent folk very angry and bitter towards the police, and justifiably so.
According to BBC they were fighting “anti-establishment activists” .
No PROPER explanation of what the protest attended by 1million people was about. In fact no explanation at all [journalism???]
Now, if it had been a climate crisis march, spearheaded by Greta…..would have made the 10 o clock news bulletin fairly near the top of the programme.
Covid and the malaise of Human Rights, from the Roundup.
About time too DS; Covid/lockdown has been used to ride roughshod over all manner of Human Rights throughout the Western World, indeed the more Western any State is the worse the abuse of Human Rights has been.
Despite HR being largely formulated by British lawyers post WW2 there has been no sound from Cherie Blair or others of her ‘progressive’ crowd despite her natural constituency being those with the the most to lose
Buried among the psychobabble in the annual funding appeal of their international trade body (OHCHR) we find that they are overly concerned to Build Back Better.
Means they’ve been bought off or were part of the problem in the first place.
The roundup article is still worth reading in full even if just to ‘know thine enemy’
Are you on the pop KV?
Cherie Bliar?
Get a grip.
Well it’s late, what’s the problem? She’s a HR lawyer isn’t she?
Ed. Oh, I see what you did there.
Someone had a pop at me here at DS in the wee small hours the other day referring to my use of the phrase “goal seeker”.
What I’d actually written was “gaol seeker” so he’d rather missed the point.
One more snifter
, oh dear, all gone; back to bed.
No, no please don’t go.
From the Sumption article above: “They fail because people spontaneously turn to more authoritarian forms of government.”
Yeah, or are helped along a little bit by totalitarian monsters.
Helped along even more by the antics of their servants like the Police as in the topical video posted by Moderate Radical above though this time the filth seem to have gotten the worst of it.
Whatever happened to Covid Marshals? Got a better minimum wage job elsewhere probably.
From the Roundup, Daily Express Headline
“Children to be
taughtindoctrinated about climate change for the first time”Don’t bother to wade through adverts to read the Express report, their headline says it all.
“Anyone who can think for themselves can see through our bullshit” “Quick let’s get them young enough, we can teach them what to think”.
Telegraph, from the roundup
“Dr. banned from social media takes case to High Court”.
Can’t read the article because paywall but it’s about time some of the bollox got taken to Court even if the defendant is just a social media platform rather than bozo or HMG.
Mind you, it’s their social media platform, should be their rules (that’s my libertarian streak again).
Straight to the High Court? Reads like sloppy journalism so typical of the Telegraph these days.
There is a workaround for the Telegraph pay wall. When I remember it I will post for you.
Something about an X in the address bar? They don’t do those on Android but thanks.
Or just stick the link into https://archive.md
If the link has already been archived it will tell you, and you can see the page. If not, it’ll spend a few minutes archiving the page, and then you can see it.
Thanks OliveT. I don’t know how to do copy and paste on Android, the ‘blued out’ text appears sometimes when I’m touching the screen but I can’t figure out how to create it. Too old and doddery probably.
Could try and type the link into archive.md if it’s not too long perhaps.
Hold down your finger on the text and wait, it should select all and then pop up options “copy” “paste” etc when you release. If pressing does nothing, try holding, if holding does nothing try swiping, beyond that what else can a single digit do?
On iDevices one might experiment with Settings/Safari/Advanced/JavaScript on/off
(caution this might break some ‘essential’ functions of some websites)
Roundup “Costly PCR tests no longer needed says top scientist” The Times.
“Britain’s mass PCR programme has become a ‘money making exercise’ for private laboratories . .”
Really Top Scientist, finally caught up have you?
Toward the end of the 2020 University summer term I was chatting to a remnant student trying to get home to Syria (as if he didn’t have enough problems already).
He was required to travel to a laboratory some miles away in a town much smaller than our city to take such a test with a charge of some hundreds of pounds, no waiting room to take test provided because Lockdown, and then return hours later for the result and a late train return.
I suggested that he passed the time in the nearby McDonald’s and use their bogs to administer the test.
Oh dear me, two succeeding articles in the roundup
“UK approval of molnupiravir may create new and more more dangerous Covid variants”
Oh no, not MUTAGENIC effects! !
“Covid cases & deaths skyrocket in Germany as breakthrough infections on the rise”
FOURTH WAVE.
Let’s hope Roundup author Luke Perry has been suborned by the Fear Porn Brigade.
Ed. “Has not”
“We’ll all pay for turning the oil industry into a pariah” Jeremy Warner, DT. Roundup.
Repeat post because germaine.
Yesterdays Roundup concluded with a video in which Zarah Sultana MP made a fool of herself in an interview with Julia Hartley Brewer.
Mahyar Tousi has more of that interview on his YouTube channel in which Ms. Sultana seems to think that the world will be saved by replacing the fossil fuel industry with more renewable low carbon activities like healthcare and teaching.
Poor Julia could hardly keep herself from laughing at this level of idiocy.
Zarah Sultana?! At least it’s fun to say.
Represented in a useless parliament by a wrinkled, dried-up ex-grape imported from a foreign country. What’s the betting it was selected fromm a non-white female-only shortlist? Ah, the wonders of democracy.
Someone posted yesterday that as the Labour candidate she managed to change a whopping 8,000 vote majority to a feeble 500.
Germany has a covviwave. The protected vaxxed are getting covvie. Blame the unprotected
Jews(sorry, force of habit) unvaxxed. Boycott their businesses, herd thrm into ghettos, exterminate them. Then there will be no more covvie, right?Or as when the Bolsheviks murdered the 5% of the peasant population which had by, dint of hard work and innovation, dragged themselves out of the muddy Russian Steppe to become relatively prosperous.
Because the destruction of the Kulaks meant no more rural poverty.
found out the other day that a neighbour who was double jabbed and doing daily LFT tests and couldn’t understand why anyone “wouldn’t have the vaccine – it’s just common sense” had had covid which also ripped through her other double jabbed family members.
wonder if she has got the message yet about those jabs
Well I recognise at least 50% of those Covid-related links on the Round-up from the comments section yesterday.
If anybody happens to come across the German info on another site which isn’t behind a stupid paywall, we’d be most grateful if you could share it here. 
They are our neighbour, here in the Netherlands, and we have 84% of the population vaccinated and “cases” are skyrocketing, cue the shrill and intensified fear-porn BS being spewed forth by government and media. They actually admitted the tests were not always accurate 2 days ago then yesterday announced that not enough people are being tested so that’s why the numbers are increasing! We could have 99.9% of people vaxxed and they would still blame those of us who declined. The logic of Clown World! :-/
Having visited both urban and rural areas of the Netherlands several times I regard the population as well educated, sensible, independently minded, well-balanced and not overly in awe of authority* yet they seem to have fallen for the nonsense like everybody else.
*except for the dark green doors.
Haha..that is so funny because I have a dark green door but not my choice, it’s a job I’ve been meaning to do for ages, paint the damn door a nice shade of blue. The previous owners obviously favoured the colour of something you’d dredge from a canal. Hate it! lol
Dark green doors and window frames seem to be ubiquitous from the seedier parts of Amsterdam to the rural idylls around Snits in Friesland.
I had assumed this to be mandatory but perhaps it reveals a dark underbelly of conformism within the Nederlander population
American Dream, ex-Marine Winsome Sears’ Virginia Victory. Roundup.
The State of Virginia has a population that is 70% White and 20% Black yet we are repeatedly told that white Americans are mostly racist rednecks especially those living in rural areas. How can this be?
My assumption that Virginia is mostly rural was incorrect, further research reveals it to be 85% urban.
American cities, we are told, are lived in by lefty liberal luvvies and blue collar Democrats (Bruce Springsteen et al) what could bring them to vote Republican?
I posted links about this subject in yesterdays NewsRoundUp.
With statements like used to save the most vulnerable or fight the virus alongside our vaccines and other treatments. If the elderly, vulnerable have been vaccinated and maybe even boosted then I feel it again raises the question on just how effective is any of the vaccines presently being used?
What?
You’ve just posted an article about fake scientific research, you’ve posted numerous articles on negative vaccine hesitancy. DS was one of the very first to report the “vaccines” didn’t prevent transmission, infection or offer any sterilizing effect.
How the *u*k can this be described as a vaccine, STOP perpetuating the myth these are vaccines. At the very best they are ineffective prophylactics & at worse dangerous placebos. It’s a well established fact these prophylactics don’t immunize anything but the people pushing them from any accountability from any side effects.
Stop calling them vaccines, you’re the ones who claim to follow science, so start doing that & stop spreading misinformation by posting this shit.
DS does seem to be highlighting pro vaccine pieces recently.
A condition imposed to stay open…?!
Precisely my point about the Daily Mail, see comments in next article above.
Who’s editing my posts? LOL it should say ‘efficacy’ not hesitancy, you mongrels.
Spellchecker/predictive text probably
I do hate it when the nazi spilling worriers hit those keys and tell you that you have made a mistook. Thankfully they are not on this comment section.
‘coal keeps lights on at Cop26’….. As do the diesel generators powering the electric cars transporting the delegates, and powering the temporary lights in Kelvingrove park so the poor dears can walk safely in the Scottish gloom.
Are hospitals full of Covid patients OR vaccine Patients?
Why a 12-hour for an ambulance to respond to a ‘stroke’?
A little more delving into these figures would help.
That, as Shakespeare would say, is the question.
yes – a distinction SHOULD be made in the interests of strict accuracy and also so that those who are pro-choice and have decided not to have a jab do not get unfairly demonised
Police are ridiculed (quite properly) as veterans (real men) are cheered. The contrast between the two could not be more striking:
https://youtu.be/PXcb-Wu2Jn4
Reminds me of a video from early last summer, lockdown lite; a gang of London TSG plod waiting to use their common tactic of mob wrestling some elderly or vulnerable person to the tarmac.
Instead they came upon two early middle aged British Vets, Marines probably, who stood their ground before ambling away in their own time as the TSG followed at a safe distance from behind.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/want-the-truth-about-climate-change-ask-an-inuit/
This is interesting, very novel and extreme.
If eventually found out to be true, it’ll eradicate all trust in ‘the science’.
(I am already at that stage and trust the Inuits judgement more than ‘them’.)
Interesting as you say, it does not at first seem to help the sceptic position but if what the Inuit observed was what seems to have been a one off shift in the earth’s axis then you would indeed expect scientists all over the world to have noticed and it does after all support our arguments.
Documentary film makers obviously know that they will only get funded or rewarded if they find ways to ‘prove’ MMGB.
Failure to adapt to the ways of the Inuit was the main reason for the eventual failure of Viking attempts to colonise Greenland, so the archaeological record shows.
Polaris was still the pole star a few days ago.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/11/yuri-n-maltsev/the-sovietization-of-america/
Striking parallels between the USSR and tidat’s USA, UK&co and why.
Gorbachev might not have understood economics but he made himself aware of the situation on the street.
How people would join a queue just to see what might be for sale once they got inside the store. Sometimes left foot shoes only because the other factory that made right foot shoes had fallen behind its quota. The joys of Central Planning.
Gorbachev also permitted the operation of small private businesses provided they called themselves co-operatives. The first private importer of computers into Moscow did so with money obtained from prostitutes as they were among the few Russians with access to ready hard Western currency.
Andrei Sakharov disappointed the Americans who had pressured the Soviets to release him. He spent the rest of his life criticising the USA from within.
The overall direction of the interview seems sound although I believe Bidens puppet masters are executing their plans more rapidly than anticipated because of the supine acquiesce of Western populations to lockdown and the rest.
The human rights article gives a good explanation with regard to the reason why those rights were and are ignored, Dworkin’s interpretation versus utilitarianism reigning supreme wasn’t even discussed but the latter immediately adopted.
This one explains why ‘they’ are clamping down so harsh on those who resist: they are not benevolent, they want and must rule by fear, but those who won’t get vaccinated didn’t and don’t buy into that fear, which makes them ungovernable.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/11/no_author/resentment-of-the-authoritarian-class/
These two are absolutely correct, brilliant and most scathing descriptions and verdicts on the German policies and people with regard to Covid. They have indeed learned absolutely nothing from the most despicable era of their own history, least of all the professionals, intellectuals, scientists etc..
Very much worth translating and reading.
https://www.achgut.com/artikel/apartheid_fuer_ungeimpfte_rauchende_skifahrende
https://www.rubikon.news/artikel/die-entmenschlichungs-agenda
Resisting Tyranny Depends on the Courage to Not Conform – AIER
https://www.aier.org/article/resisting-tyranny-depends-on-the-courage-to-not-conform/
Another good one.