- “It’s irrational to ruin our lives to save the NHS” – It’s time to question the sacred cow of modern Britain: that controlling Covid to protect the health service trumps everything else, writes Jonathan Sumption in the Telegraph.
- “The Price is right” – “The 2022 World Darts Championship will be degraded by the forced absence of Dave Chisnall, Michael van Gerwen and Vincent van der Voort,” says Collingwood, who examines the damage caused by the sport’s unnecessary Covid testing regime in Bullseyes and Booze.
- “‘Time to party’: roving revellers cross Welsh border to escape Covid rules” – Fun-seekers criticise Welsh restrictions on New Year’s Eve celebrations but say they’ll be careful, reports the Guardian.
- “We need a national effort to keep schools open” – Remote learning failed our children, but there is a risk omicron staffing shortages will shut classrooms again, writes Alicia Kearns in the Telegraph.
- “Scottish Government urges Scots to avoid large New Year’s Eve parties” – “Nicola Sturgeon has banned large Hogmanay celebrations and advised people to limit socialising as much as possible,” reports MailOnline.
- “How to manipulate a research study” – “There are ways to ensure any trial will give you the results you want. Here are the top six methods used to manipulate Covid research results,” writes Hart.
- “Pro-lockdowners manipulate language to scare us all into compliance” – The recent push to rebrand Covid restrictions as ‘protections’ is just the latest in a long line of linguistic ‘nudges’, argues Robert Taylor in the Telegraph.
- “No need for more Covid curbs, say NHS chiefs” – “A lower proportion of Covid inpatients are now being treated primarily for the disease itself, rather than another health condition, new figures show,” reports the Times.
- “Mayor of London Sadiq Khan urges New Year’s Eve Covid caution” – “The Mayor of London has called for people to ‘exercise caution’ if they are celebrating New Year’s Eve,” reports BBC News.
- “Fears that patients are staying away from NHS as A&E attendance falls” – Visits to emergency departments are at 80% of usual levels at one of busiest periods of the year, reports the Telegraph.
- “Republicans ask Supreme Court to reject Biden’s vaccine mandate” – Congressional Republicans asked the Supreme Court to block Biden’s vaccine mandate for companies with 100 or more staff, arguing that his administration is exceeding its authority, reports the Mail.
- “Why this doctor is in the 30% (are you?)” – Consultant in Emergency Medicine Stephen Hartley, who resigned in protest against mandatory interventions, talks all about the censorship flourishing in hospitals throughout the pandemic.
- “U.S. Marine Corps has kicked out 206 troops for refusing to get vaccinated” – The U.S. Marine Corps announced it has kicked out a total of 206 troops for refusing the vaccine, up from 169 last week, reports the Mail.
- “Omicron-fuelled fourth Covid wave has passed, says South Africa, as it eases restrictions” – “South Africa has lifted a night-time curfew on people’s movement with immediate effect, believing the country has passed the peak of its fourth Covid wave driven by the Omicron variant,” reports the Guardian.
- “Cries for help and food in quarantined Chinese city” – Officials say there are adequate supplies, but some in Xi’an say they do not have enough to eat, reports BBC News.
- “Top physician criticises Biden for ‘mixed messaging’ on masks” – “A top medical expert is going after President Joe Biden for his ‘mixed messaging’ on masks nearly two years into the Covid pandemic,” reports the Mail.
- “Australia’s Covid lockdown mania hits the rocks of financial reality over ‘sacred’ Sydney Ashes Test” – Cricket Australia stands to lose an estimated £11 million if the two remaining Tests at the SCG and Hobart’s Blundstone Arena are cancelled, reports the Telegraph.
- “The heretics will not be silenced” – Dissident artists will never bow down to trans activists, writes Jess de Wahls in UnHerd.
- “Where is the outrage over the killing of Baltimore police officer Keona Holley?” – The liberal media’s silence on the assassination of Baltimore cop Keona Holley shows their narrative on villainising police-involved shootings on African Americans, writes Heather MacDonald in the New York Post.
- “Natural immunity over artificial restrictions” – Professor Sunetra Gupta, one of the architects of the Great Barrington Declaration, speaks to Talkradio about why herd immunity should be favoured over top-down, draconian (and useless) lockdown restrictions.
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Big Pharma cashes in the New Year by creating immune disorders like thyroid disease, Graves disease, IgA vasculitis, autoimmune hepatitis, Epstein Bar virus and autoimmune disease – and then buying companies that treat those conditions.
Turning us into a nation of hyperchondiacs but perhaps their plot will be foiled when they ask us to pay for the privilege.
Happy New Year one and all.
Well, the last two Tests are, strictly speaking, not necessary….;-)
If they were rebranded as booster tests there wouldn’t be a problem!
Thank you Cricket Australia, just put the cheque in the mail.
Well, now, let’s see. Sport is a secular religion Downunder (“The SCG Test is sacred,” said Brad Hazzard, the New South Wales health minister). The politician who has no interest in, or feigns no interest in, footy or cricket is dead meat. Covid (the super-duper killer disease as well as the restrictions – sorry, ‘protections’!) has been a state religion now for two years, as well. Any politician who is not seen to be doing the utmost to ‘keep people safe’ is likewise dead meat.
Now that seven members of the England camp followers have tested positive, and Australian batsman, Travis Head (which would make all his Aussie teammates ‘close contacts’ and due for isolation), which religion will win out? This could be a bigger religious schism than Catholic v Protestant.
My money’s on sport winning out with a workaround being found that allows the game to go on, just as the needlessly quarantined Aussie captain, Pat Cummins, was granted special privileges to escape his hotel isolation in Adelaide in time for the Melbourne, Ashes-deciding Test. It will probably involve lots of Rapid Antigen Tests until one comes up negative (and as the testing regime is a complete crapshoot, the odds are good), bubbles, bubbles and more bubbles. Probably not a batsman checking that he has bat, pads, helmet, box, mask….
On one thing, their own self-preservation, politicians aren’t stupid. Dumb as fence-posts on the behaviour of viruses and anything else, they know how to look after No. 1.
Phil
Adelaide
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/31/irrational-ruin-lives-save-nhs/
What’s so annoying is that this kind of article, that is just taking about the blindingly obvious is somehow now being seen as edgy. It has all been fake since day 1.
The blindingly obvious being presented as ‘edgy’ or ‘pushing the envelope’ has always been there but is becoming more and more frequent recently. Even Douglas Murray was at it the other day.
The Telegraph being a prime example, I might have to subscribe for the first time in two years (mind you I’ve said that before).
FLORONA Covid.
Right on cue for New Years Day along comes scary variant Florona Covid as first seen on Alex Belfield YouTube a mere hour ago
Originating in Quad Jabbed Israel the not very scary sounding Florona is said to be a Double Infection of both Covid and Pneumonia.
Reports are scarce to date with most comming, oddly enough, from India and South Asia.
Sorry if this has been posted about already but I have been somewhat distracted this evening.
Happy New Year one and all especially to Toby who originally expected this site to last a few weeks or months back in the day of lockdown being to Flatten The Curve.
Maybe The Knack can be persuaded to release it as a 7-inch single –
‘My Florona‘
The follow up to ‘My Corona?’
It was posted in another article but I think it was flu rather than pneumonia. As I said there, both influenza and rhinovirus supress coronavirus, even according to Pravda:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56483445
What happened to flu? Nothing reported on teh deaths for the past few years. Told to get jabbed around October time. I never have taken it. Nothing heard about it since.
Please, it’s New Year’s Eve, not April Fool’s Day. Away wi’ yer jokes and pranks.
Wait and see methinks.
Tony Be-Liar has been honoured in the NYH. What the F?
A communist politician in Spain who can be said anti Royals has also accepted an honour bestowed on him by the Spanish Royal family.
Time to remove all honorary awards
Effing hell. This (dis)honours list is the biggest joke yet, they are taking the piss with us. Sir Witty and Sir Van Tam? Knighting a war criminal? Even further down the list almost everything is going to useless slebs. Kate Garroway for services to propaganda? Mel B for work with vulnerable women (which probably means she spends an hour on a Zoom call every month). Disgraceful. Nothing given for real people.
Fuckin Bliar?
Bliar has had a word with Billy and requested he have a word with Bozo.
Whatever Bliar has “achieved” it was sufficient to qualify for a Billy Bonus.
More evidence if ever it was needed that Blair has an ulterior motive. He does not do anything for nothing. Of course, the people pulling the strings cannot be that clever because even the most stupid of Brits now knows that history tells us that if Tony Blair says you should do something, then the best thing to do is the exact opposite.
Several of the prominent Covidian agitators who have done so much to fuck the country have got knighthoods / damehoods.
Disgusting.
Why should these people have knighthoods just for doing their jobs, which they are paid handsomely to do. If there was a crisis at my work I would stay late, work weekends and give it my all till it was resolved. I would not expect a knighthood though as it’s my job and I am paid to do it.
Well, it appears the our country has now reached the pinnacle of Blairs legacy. Heaven help us all!
Sir Joseph Stalin.
Sir Pol Pot.
Sir Joseph Mengele.
Sir Adolf Hitler.
I feel sick.
Witless Whitty (the tortoise in need of a shell) was already a knight. This is a laughablepromotion to the order of the bath…
cue wittier wags with jokes about not trusting the murdering bastard to run a bath (unless it was a bloodbath)
The plus to giving Bliar his erm, award is that it seriously undermines and demeans what is already a seriously cruddy “honours” system.
Seriously, who T F would want to be in the company of that murderous criminal.
As with Fauci getting the Presidential Medal of Honòr for his lies about AIDS but so has Whoopi Goldberg which diminishes Anericas highest civilian award even more.
As I understand it Americans are not allowed to accept foreign honors otherwise we might have the
Honorary Sir William Gates.
Gates IS a Knight. Only reason he doesn’t have the full KBE honour is because he’s not a British subject.
But the K-club is nothing but a club full of parasitic globalist scumbags. Many of them are paedophiles, too
In 1965 all 4 Beatles were each awarded the MBE for services to the balance of payments. That’s before they reached their highest overseas earnings.
Paul Mcartney returned his the following year in protest at HMGs stance on Biafra and Vietnam. That may or may not have affected future policy but it was nevertheless a principled stand and enhanced public awareness.
The likes of Bowie, Brian Eno and Paul Weller have rejected honours outright for whatever reason but who remembers that?
Far more effective to accept such a bauble and then throw it back with all the attendant publicity
One of the Beatles tried to reject his MBE believing that he deserved a full knighthood, prick.
These guys sum up the hypocrisy very well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0FHEEuMvuI
Makes the point.most excellently.
“Its a big club and you’re ain’t in it!” George Carlin.
Thanks KV.
Tony Bliar – the most evil man ever to hold a British passport.
If the queen had any sense she would refuse to give Blair, Whit less and Unbalanced knighthoods
But doesn’t it make it all the more obvious how this “club” laid out?
I’ve noticed in the last hour or so the comments have slowed down, hopefully the younger sceptics are all out on the p×ss.
Happy and hopefully a more sane new year to all my friends on the Daily Sceptic.
I was in bed by midnight, and grateful to all the neighbours who were out of town.
Happy New Year to all!
Having just been discharged from hospital after 10 days I continue to give my liver a rest (not the subject of my stay) so find myself experiencing my first sober New Years Eve for about 50 years, at this moment possibly the only contributor to DS.
I learned the hard way many years ago “never ever post when pissed”. It not only leads to embarrassment, it never goes away, unlike an unguarded remark down the pub; hopefully our younger Sceptics already know this hence the lack of activity that you remark on.
I haven’t had terrestrial telly at home for over 15 years but what I saw of 40+ channels of Freeview during my hospital stay leads me to believe I’m not missing anything tonight, NYE or not.
1970s BBC 1 put on the first of their Telethons with 6 hours of Andy Stewart hosting a dozen or so Beeb personalities with Scottish names dressed up in a kilt or a gingham frock doing their party piece to camera before an embarrassing Auld Lang Syne singalong and so to bed. I have a feeling that might have been more entertaining than todays over-produced studio shite.
Always watch Jool’s hootenanny to please Mrs FP and younger son and usually it’s quite entertaining but this year it was that full of virtue signalling and Covid precaution guff it “turned ma bally over” and the music was rubbish.
I used to like Jools until he turned into a parody of himself.
The woke content you describe of last nights offering comes as no surprise.
Agreed. Very poor programme.
This is good:
https://twitter.com/mikeVcella/status/1475924319150612485
the CDC says it’s not omicron unless it comes from the Omicrônne region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling covid
Sadiq Kahn is a wanker! Knife crime is a huge problem in London. The deadliest on record for teenage deaths. Sort that out you prick!
What’s that? Sadiq Kahn actually doing his job? Perish the thought! He’d rather pick fights with Donald Trump and promote the globalist agenda
Made my contribution to Londons problems notably pollution, traffic, violence, sclerosis, societal collapse & etc.in 1990.
By leaving and never going back.
I agree. What the hell happened with the Big Ben bongs at midnight, that didn’t happen? Apparently the BBC cobbled together a load of old
cobblersfootage from the past and tried to pass it off as live fireworks. First they said it was all cancelled in London, then last minute it wasn’t…only it was. But hey, Diwali was allowed to go ahead!Back in the day I and a group of a dozen or so former London schoolfiends (all boys) kept in touch each year by spending three days and nights around NYE in ever more elaborate rural hotels accompanied by latest girlfriends, a couple of younger brothers, then wives and latter babies. It was a very closed group.
At first (early 80s) it was difficult to find a hotel that was big enough and open with a public NYE function. 15 years later bookings had to be made earlier and earlier each year as it suddenly became fashionable.We were always the biggest show in town, apart from being a large group most other guests only stayed for NYE itself.
When we first tried this it was just a bunch of lads in the 2☆ Talbot Hotel in Leominster which happened to host the Conservative Association New Years Ball which we crashed.
Hi tech communication then amounted to pagers and chequebooks so whoever was detailed to make the arrangements had quite a job on their hands.
I stopped taking part when I left London quite determined to cut all links with the past but, if it’s still going, last year would have been a last minute cancellation while this year they will probably get together for an evening with however has the largest house.
Small inconvenience compared to what many have had to put up with but at least we put a few thousand pounds into a local economy each year.
Regarding the unvaxxed unwanted Marines:
200 personnel trained in the ways of warfare are no longer bound in allegiance to their government.
I don’t know why the papers don’t use that phrasing. It paints a much more interesting picture.
Roundup: The Price is Right. (Professional Darts).
The Darts regional championships are held at the slightly out of town County Showground.
Every Hotel and Airbnb for miles around is fully booked months in advance, with some visitors choosing to stay on for a few days by way of a break.
Darts fans like a bit of a drink so numerous private coaches and extra buses are laid on.
It is the taxi trades biggest event of the year, far surpassing Xmas and New Year combined.
The tournament kicks off at 7pm so day shift private hire taxis stay out until calls to take out there run dry while night drivers come out in the middle of the afternoon and for those few hours the taxi fleet has more than double capacity, not to mention the Hackney Black Cabs picking up casual from the station.
Even if it is scheduled early next year I’m not sure that I would take time off work, arrange to travel say 100 miles to a pre booked hotel. Pay goodness knows what for a ticket just to have it all called off at the last minute because a car park attendant developes a bit of a shuffle.
Small inconvenience compared to what some have had to put up with but a gigantic hit to the local economy at a quiet time when it needs a bonus the most.
Making an early start with the blatant self-promotion.
4 Essential Tips for Surviving 2022.
Loving the first one especially.
I was always my glasses they seemed really fond of.
Four decades ago I had friends in Leominster, Herefordshire. One of them lived in the large village of Kington which was closer to the Welsh border.
That part of Wales was still ‘dry’ on Sundays so you can guess which was the busiest day, by far, 3 ir 4 village pubs.
Leominster youngsters used to go there as well to experience something of a crowd, and perhaps broaden their social horizons.
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/12/24/leaked-files-syria-psyops-astroturfing-breadtube-covid/
“…Leaked documents https://ufile.io/fak5xdbu have revealed a state-sponsored influence operation designed to undermine critics of the British government’s coronavirus policies by astroturfing a prominent founder of the BreadTube clique of “anti-fascist” YouTube influencers. …
Countering Pseudoscience Project, “Abigail Thorn”, Philosophy Tube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2PA-AKmVpU6NKCGtZq_rKQ
No doubt they mean us harm but Influencers are grossly overrated by themselves and by their promoters.
Cult followers are already well set in their beliefs so one more Influencer is not going to make any difference and if it causes on of us to have second thoughts their understanding of the situation must be very shallow.
Splendid display from throughout my small provincial city, especially compared to last years damp squib.
Noisy and raucous from the city Cathedral grounds, public parks, pubs all over the place and many private households, even care homes in the past, out into the rurals. and along the tidal river.
To my surprise there was a big effort in the municipal gardens atthe end of my cul-de-sac. The City Council does not usually promote anything that smacks of tradition be that Royalty, Religion or plain history and anniversary.
Very tight 15 minute set and it was done, it’s now 01.30am and there have been no guerrilla incidents as yet.
Locally it might have surpassed the Millenium (which The Council ignored). At that midnig I was atop a rural ridgeway, able to see displays in full from nearby village squares and fireworks bursting over hilltops from perhaps 10 or 15 miles away, plus the hilltop City University which did make quite an effort in support of its NYE Ball.
Splendid display from throughout my small provincial city, especially compared to last years damp squib.
Noisy and raucous from the city Cathedral grounds, public parks, pubs all over the place and many private households, even care homes in the past and out into the rurals.
To my surprise there was a big effort in the municipal gardens atthe end of my cul-de-sac. The City Council does not usually promote anything that smacks of tradition be that Royalty, Religion or plain history and anniversary.
Very tight 15 minute set and it was done, it’s now 01.30am and there have been no guerrilla incidents as yet.
Locally it might have surpassed the Millenium (which The Council ignored). At that midnig I was atop a rural ridgeway, able to see displays in full from nearby village squares and fireworks bursting over hilltops from perhaps 10 or 15 miles away, plus the hilltop City University which did make quite an effort in support of its NYE Ball.
Can’t believe the 3 horsemen of the apocalypse – Blair, Van Tam and Whitty have been knighted. Liz needs a rope to go alongside the other 3. Absolutely disgusting.
Creeps, Crooks and Charlatans.
Bozo nails it.
Don’t know if this has been posted before, meant to post it days ago.
Tedros admitting vaccines kill children Dr Tedros on “Boosting Children” pay attention @26sec mark he says “some countries are using boosters to kill children”.
Local Live Online (Mirror Group News) helpfully leads us into 2022 by announcing the
“Grim total of 1,000 Covid deaths in County hospitals ”
The article does not mention the County population of 1.2million of whom less than 10 a day died over almost two years of/with covid and we all know the characteristics of those who died.
Neither does it mention that such was the low incidence of Covid in the county in 2020 and 2021 that they were shipping in patients from as far afield as London and Norfolk to balance capacity and that should those patients sadlydie they would go down as County deaths.
There were reports last year of student cases/(deaths?) being recorded both at their place of study and their parental home = ×2.
Buried deep within the article is the following:
“Data released by NHS England confirmed that a total of 1,008 have died in County hospitals and have tested positive for Covid19” Mmmh?
On a lighter note the article includes a poorly resourced vid clip (pay for some more bandwidth please Mirror Group News).
‘Britons are being warned not to share pictures if each other Lateral Flow tests on social media (WTF?) as criminals are using the records to produce
Daily Sceptic site went ‘nonce is invalid’ before I completed this post, hence it is incomplete!
The 5th Doctor – Ep. 14: Professor Dolores Cahill – Kryptonite to the Globalists & Ovaries of Steel
Pages slow to load on DS this morning
Ah, so it’s not just me over here on the other west coast!
‘Nonce is invalid’ mesaage when it does load, not a reference to saville and other sex beasts, it’s an unfortunate techie phrase for some sort of site malfunction.
Appears to have been resolved
In the game of draughts you can convert your ordinary pieces into queens once you have them in the right position.
Something similar can be achieved in pan-dimensional COVID chess where you can convert some of your pawns into knights and even into dames.
This will of course increase their visibility and vulnerability and does not make it any more likely they will be able to mate.
Tony Bliar, Whitty and Van-Tam knighted, and Jenny Harries and June Raine given damehoods. This is just sick. Blair / Bliar is a war criminal, drug pusher and inveterate liar. The others are also drug dealers and mass murderers. They should be up for a Nuremberg 2.0 trial, not honoured.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/knighthood-adam-peaty-olympians-scientists-jenny-harries-b974502.html
It shows that the Queen is the most corrupt of all Royals, and in my estimation has sunk far lower than even Prince Andrew.
What an appalling kick in the teeth to deliver to the people of the UK. The current millenium has just continued in its rapid downhill path!
You forget that a majority of the people of the UK still hang on their every word in the belief that the restrictions demanded by these persons are all for our own benefit.
They all should be swinging from lamp posts including the old lizard and pedo bag of shite.
The Queen is not corrupt in this instance, she is a little old lady with no ability to refuse bozos ‘advice’.
Then what’s the point of her or any of the rest of them?
Of cause the old twat is corrupt I bet she made lots of dosh on September 11th shorting airline stock.
Very insightful and cogently expressed…..
Maybe they’re pretending that she’s still alive. Mind you, who’s the alternative later on?
True, if Phil were still alive there is no way in hell Blair would be getting an honour
Agree with para 1, but respectfully disagree with para 2; HM would not have appointed anyone to a position solely within her “gift” without the nomination from the flat in Number 10, Downing Street.
The purpose of the restrictions in Scotland is not to prevent the spread of the virus, it is to remind everyone that Nicola Sturgeon is boss.
Quite so, any footage of Scots and Welsh enjoying English hospitality last night?
No discussion on Dr Robert Malone’s appearance on the Joe Rogan Podcast? This is a great opportunity to get vitally important, scientifically grounded, countervailing views on the real medicine out to normies, please spread widely. Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3SCsueX2bZdbEzRtKOCEyT and a pirated version here https://odysee.com/@altmedia96:2/dr-robert-malone-joe-rogan-experience-1093:e
Presumably Van Tam and Harries are getting their gongs for services to state propaganda and to Big Corporates’ profits (what’s the betting that they both retire early [even for ‘civil’ servants] and take big-paying jobs in pharma or such n such?).
As a part of the lockdown in Holland, for the second year it was forbidden to have the normal fireworks in the streets.
However, the Dutch did not listen. Here is a video of what happened. All was “normal”.
https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/4017418/vuurwerkverkopers-balen-van-knallende-jaarwisseling-welk-vuurwerkverbod
The fireworks were purchased in Belgium or Germany. So the people who suffered were the Dutch sellers of firework. They normally have strict regulations like selling period amount of explosives inside one firework etc. Now they loose out even more.
The link is in Dutch, there is a video of the fireworks being set of.