- “Campaign to boycott Tesco after supermarket promotes vaccine passports in Christmas advert” – Campaigners are urging Britons to boycott Tesco because the supermarket appears to promote vaccine passports in its Christmas advert, reports the Express.
- “Government-approved Covid testing firm faces watchdog probe” – The Information Commissioner’s Office said it would analyse information gathered about Cignpost Diagnostics over its plans to sell customers’ swabs for medical research, reports MailOnline.
- “Vaccine exemptions that care workers need to be aware of” – “It will at least buy them time and keep them in work and pay until April. There is nothing illegal about this,” says Kathy Gyngell, who explains how unvaccinated care workers can dodge the vaccine mandate for the time being in TCW.
- “Prem Group suffers €13.5m Covid losses” – “Prem Group, which operates hotels across Ireland, U.K., Netherlands and Belgium, suffered heavy losses after being forced to close during the Covid pandemic,” reports the Sunday Times.
- “Elderly being blocked from Covid vaccine booster jabs because of NHS blunders” – People wanting top-up jab are being turned away because medical staff wrongly recorded date of their second dose, reports the Telegraph.
- “CDC: no record of naturally immune transmitting Covid” – “The Centers for Disease Control says it has no record of people who are naturally immune transmitting the virus that causes Covid,” reports the Epoch Times.
- “Vaccines make free” – “Remember when I got in trouble for saying that? Remember when all the bright boys on Twitter told me I was trivializing the Holocaust? Can you hear me now?” writes Alex Berenson, who points to Austria’s unvaccinated lockdown in his latest Substack update.
- “Low-cost antiviral fails phase three – bleak prospects for economical repurposed Covid treatments in North America” – “The antiviral drug originally from Japan called favipiravir (Avigan) failed to demonstrate statistical significance on the primary endpoint objective of time to sustained clinical recovery,” reports Trialsite.
- “It’s the people’s war on Covid, but President Xi is the biggest winner” – The Chinese leader is tightening his grip on power with a hard-line zero-Covid policy and a never-ending cycle of lockdowns, writes Philip Sherwell in the Sunday Times.
- “Protest erupts in Dutch city on first night of new lockdown” – Riot police were deployed as hundreds set off fireworks and bars and restaurants were forced to close early, reports the Telegraph.
- “Children as young as five to begin getting Covid jabs by January” – Australia’s vaccine rollout boss Lieutenant-General John Frewen has revealed children aged five to 11 years-old could begin getting Covid jabs by early next year, reports the Mail Australia.
- “China and India are right to keep coal” – “There has been no comparable look at the millions of families in India and China who depend on coal to provide them with life-saving electricity,” says Samir Shah, who writes on the West’s ignorance about the situation facing these two nations in the Spectator.
- “Bank of England tried to appease Extinction Rebellion protesters, emails reveal” – Officials defended stance on allowing banks to lend to heavy polluters in emails to climate activists who caused chaos in London, reports the Telegraph.
- “The end of truth is nigh” – “Freedom of speech, thought and action has morphed into a freedom to agree and do as you are told or you will be excommunicated in your own land,” writes Brother Antony, who argues that the concept of objective and verifiable truth is facing a targeted attack from society’s dominant institutions in TCW.
- “How anti-racism became a religion” – John McWhorter’s Woke Racism is an elegant, essential demolition of today’s ugly racial politics, argues Tom Slater, who reviews McWhorter’s new book Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America in Spiked.
- “Trans activists fuming as BBC executive tells staff that journalism can hurt their feelings” – “A BBC meeting on LGBT rights reportedly left many activists in emotional distress, after leadership told them that in the profession of journalism, they will hear opinions they ‘don’t personally like’,” reports RT.
- “North Dakota bans Critical Race Theory in public schools, requires ‘factual, objective’ curriculum” – “North Dakota has become the latest state to ban critical race theory (CRT) from being taught in public school classrooms,” reports the Epoch Times.
- “Woke cannot survive being exposed as a bad joke” – Risible over-reach has turned a once-dominant ideology into a target of widespread mockery, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “You know who else didn’t like people making fun of Hitler? Hitler, of course” – “Mockery of wickedness is without question a good thing. It is, I would suggest, vital,” argues Rod Liddle, who explains the necessity of humour and opening ideas to ridicule in the Sunday Times.
- “Where did Covid begin?” – Author Matt Ridley talks to GB News about the potential origins of Covid: “We haven’t concluded that it definitely came from a laboratory… but we both ended up thinking that is a very strong possibility.”
— GB News (@GBNEWS) November 13, 2021
‘We haven’t concluded that it definitely came from a laboratory… but we both ended up thinking that is a very strong possibility’
Matt Ridley, co-author of a book on the origins of covid, says further investigation is required to locate the source of the virus. pic.twitter.com/nAvvmRIeIQ
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550 mile range in my diesel Audi.
5 mins to fill it.
Heater on, fast as a like.
Plants get free CO2 to eat too.
Plus 12 year black kid in the Congo didn’t have to go down a mine to get the stuff that makes the silly EV work
850 on a tankful in my Renault Trafic. Heater or a/c full on
450+ in my little Hyundai i10 .. with heater, lights and radio on. £30 pa road tax; cheap to insure.
EVs are simply not a practical idea for long-distance driving. But perhaps that’s the whole point. They want us either not to travel far, or to use public transport and ditch private vehicles altogether. Remember the old prediction that people will own nothing, and be happy.
And the most galling thing is that all this inconvenience isn’t going to have the slightest beneficial effect on the climate.
Just like the attacks on Farmers harvest (pun intended) very little. This seems to be part of the Agenda 2030 push to Build Back better.
Or ‘Extract Money Faster’
“EVs are simply not a practical idea..”
You could have stopped there. If they were we would have been driving them for decades instead of ICEVs.
And you wouldn’t need to subsidise them with taxpayers cash or use taxpayers money to provide charging points.
Recall of MPs Act 2015:https://notonthebeeb.co.uk/so/c8PDZE4U1?languageTag=en&cid=426765f9-8b6f-43e7-9ca1-b318db924f5c
£1.12 per kWh is a rip off, if you convert the thermal content of petrol at roughly 9 kWh per litre & guesstimate the efficiency of your engine at around 30%. It’s like paying out £3.50 a litre.
Incidentally, at todays prices my petrol car averages about 9p per mille, with most fuel being bought from ASDA – and a lot of the total is longish M road trips.
The whole “Green Energy” thing is a rip-off. Pay more and get less. (If it’s available, that is. And with unreliables such as wind and solar, that’s not guaranteed.)
The huge question is will TPTB allow us to continue to nurse our ICE cars for as long as we can manage? Or will there be a huge bunch of taxes, ULEZ schemes and restrictions on spare parts so as to ‘drive’ us off the road?
If we are allowed to keep them going? I think there will be a big industry in keeping old ICE cars on the road. But if they force the issue and make it EVs or nothing then it is a dismal outlook. I suspect that new technologies will come along for transportation but the current generation of EVs will spell the end of happy family leisure motoring. At best us hoi-polloi may have a cheap low range Chinese EV for local utility travel.
I’m sure the easiest thing for TPTB would be to target fuel supplies. If they can find a way to stop us getting supplies of petrol and diesel, then it’s basically game over for the ICE vehicle.
And there was me thinking the Government are there to facilitate the will of the electorate!
Oh no, it’s there to shape the nation according to its own will. But first it has to hoodwink enough of the electorate into thinking that they both have the same interests.
What a quaint notion!
Let’s face it – if you remove personal transport then the leisure industry is dead. Unemployment, no tax income follows. Think of all the places that are not reachable by public transport. Think of all those who support motor vehicles who will now be unemployed. The hit to the government finances would make Rachel from Account’s imaginary black hole real by many times more.
Mileage with the heating off is not the proper mileage though. It is like saying my plate of steak and chips will fill me up but only if I eat 3 Kitkats first.
The British writer Patrick Hamiltion wrote about the horror of the motorcar. He is almost completely forgotten these days but his novels are well worth reading. Hangover Square, The Slaves of Solitude. He lives on though in one sense and that is through a play he wrote called Gas Light. There was a good Ingrid Bergman film of it. This term has found its way into modern political discourse, gaslighting, although its meaning has been distorted slightly.
One thing I like about the Brits, the common people, is that they never get all enthusiastic about a new technology like the Yanks do. They might adpot it eventually, usually out of laziness and vacantness but there isn’t any expectation that all of this crap could ever make life better. Although I have read horrible stories in educational supplements about how teachers are applauding the fact that every child in their class has an electronic tablet. Basically a zombie machine and you hear that parent give phones to children as young as ten. This is horrific just slightly less horrific than the demoniac smiles of the Yanks selling this crap.
The number of mobile phones per capita far outreached that in the USA in the 1990s.
The cost per unit of electricity obviously varies depending on which type of tariff you’re on but is at least 40p/kwh so charging the author’s Ford at home would work out as about the same cost per mile as his Honda Civic. Therefore it would be impossible to recoup the massive extra cost of the Ford. Proof that EVs are only for the well off.
It would be interesting to compare the cost per mile of an EV versus a petrol or diesel for urban driving and see if the costs work out about the same as motorway driving. Driving at speed means far more air resistance hence higher energy use per mile but urban driving is often stop start. Accelerating uses far more energy than driving at a constant speed and a lot of this energy is lost when braking so driving in traffic may result in roughly the same energy use per mile as motorway driving.
The nail in the coffin is the cost of battery replacement.
It astounds me that anyone chooses to buy an EV – apart from company car drivers who have to get one and gain some tax advantages.
“if you regularly cover high mileage in an EV, you need to travel when everyone else isn’t to avoid queuing at chargers.”
Au contraire, I see all the BEVVERS travelling in groups. It’s so they have fellow BEVVERS to socialise with while they wait together for two hours to charge their BEVs not too quickly to avoid damaging the batteries. They also get to share enlightening, heartwarming stories about how well they are saving the planet. And they MUST be friends, because fighting over chargers isn’t a very planet friendly look. Too much CO2 is emitted when you fight.
A bevvy of electric car drivers.
“Every cloud has a silver lining though. Your correspondent predicts an impending boomtime for old style garages and the market in spare parts for petrol cars for years to come.”
The Government will simply outlaw cars over a certain age, 12 years perhaps, and maybe make it illegal to sell spares apart from brake pads – all with no reference to Parliament of course.
Drugs are illegal but people get very rich selling them without too much problem.
”To eke out the range I travel everywhere with the heater off, which currently demands a substantial coat, hat and gloves.”
Yes prior to the 1970s cars required that, and many afterwards too for a number of years.
I do so love technological progress.
James May a few years back showed that the range of battery cars had barely increased since the 1890s. Yes, they are more comfortable. Yes, they go much faster….for a short while.
That’s the funniest bit for me – EV’s are not new tech. Sure lithium ion cells and 0-60 times in a few seconds is newish (and pointless day to day), however the electric BEV is over 100 years old… and we ditched them for petrol and diesel powered vehicles… until governments started bribing people with subsidies and tax breaks to start buying them again