- “Inept Government decisions are the real root cause of our problems” – On Covid and the climate, our mitigation policies are more damaging than the issues they purport to solve, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “Covid has made America more divided than ever” – My home country grows angrier and angrier, writes Kate Andrews in the Spectator.
- “Masks in schools: how convincing is the Government’s evidence?” – A searing take-down by Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson in the Spectator.
- “Novak Djokovic had Covid a month ago and received clearance to enter Australia, lawyers say in court filing” – Djokovic is challenging his visa cancellation in Australia’s federal court in hopes of winning his 21st Grand Slam at the Australian Open, the Telegraph reports. There’s also some controversy over him apparently not isolating after his positive test.
- “The sports Covid chaos brewing from the athletes who refuse to get vaccinated” – Government drawing up plans for dramatic crackdown on unvaccinated athletes, excluding them from any ‘elite-sport quarantine exemptions’, reports the Telegraph.
- “Is this NHS crisis really worse than ones before?” – Winter is always the most difficult time of year. How alarming are the current problems, asks Nick Triggle on the BBC website.
- “Call to all democratic governments: don’t leave Italians alone” – Watch Francesca Donato report on the escalating authoritarian madness in Italy.
- “New dodgy data row as UKHSA warned over ‘implausible’ Covid statistics” – Public trust ‘at risk’ after officials took days to justify controversial figures quoted by Sajid Javid over the spread of Omicron variant, reports the Telegraph.
- “Life in Zero-Covid Antarctica” – If an enterprise mostly created and funded by the National Science Foundation cannot utilise scientific reasoning and accept normalcy where there is no Covid, how can we trust our scientific institutions to seek to in the rest of the world, where Covid is here to stay, asks Willy Forsyth on the Brownstone Institute site.
- “Britain faces surgeon shortage, as cancelled operations leave graduates under-qualified” – More than one million elective operations in which trainees would have gained vital experience have been ‘lost’ to the Covid pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Workers of England Union: defending NHS staff against mandatory vaccination” – Only one trade union fought for care home workers, writes Niall McCrae on the Bruges Group website, and the Workers of England Union is “determined to support any member against unethical, unscientific and frankly unBritish vaccine coercion”.
- “Monaco offers free blood tests to check residents’ Covid immunity” – The results can be used to decide whether a citizen or resident should receive a third vaccine dose straightaway, or whether they can afford to wait, reports the Connexion.
- “South Africa offers clues to life after Omicron” – Decoupling of community transmission and hospital cases gives lessons for the future as fourth wave peaks, reports the Financial Times.
- “South African Researchers Say Omicron Might Mark The End Of COVID Pandemic” – Tyler Durden on ZeroHedge reports on an encouraging study from Pretoria.
- “Swabbing throat and nose ‘boosts Covid detection in lateral flow tests’” – New data is being examined by ministers which could lead to advice on the use of LFTs being updated for tens of millions of users, reports the Telegraph, making the whole thing even more unpleasant.
- “We cannot afford to postpone a return to normality” – While the Omicron wave appears to be slowing, the devastating economic consequences of Covid restrictions are accumulating fast, says the Telegraph in this leader article.
- “Mom allegedly stuffed son in trunk because he had Covid, needed to be quarantined” – Sarah Beam faces child endangerment charges after she allegedly packed up her son and took him to a drive-thru coronavirus testing center in Houston on Jan. 3rd, the New York Post reports.
- “The Global Disinformation Campaign Against Ivermectin in COVID-19 (Part I)” – The tactics deployed by the pharmaceutical industry in their decades-long war on generic drugs reached a zenith during COVID-19, writes Dr. Pierre Kory on his Substack page.
- “‘There is no Control of the Omicron Wave’ as Heavily Pfizer-Boosted Nation Shatters Infection Record” – The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 rages now through the eastern Mediterranean nation of Israel as the reported number of cases hit a COVID-19 pandemic record, reports TrialSite News.
- “Deprogramming Covidian mass psychosis (Part III)” – The task is therefore to detach others from mass psychosis, writes Alexander Adams in Bournbrook.
- “UAH’s Earth System Science Center Records Considered Unreliable and Harmful By Google” – Dr. Roy Spencer’s website DrRoySpencer.com has been demonetised by Google for “unreliable and harmful claims” – by which it mainly means the data he publishes on global temperature trends, one of the world’s foremost temperature data sets, according to Watts Up With That.
- “What vegan propaganda ignores” – Cutting out animal products will kill us, not save us, writes John Lewis-Stempel in UnHerd as he sets out the case against veganism.
- “Germany’s meltdown over nuclear power risks a costly winter” – Move to phase out nuclear risks leaving country reliant on Russian gas, the Telegraph reports.
- “How the West stopped having babies” – Lois Rogers in the Telegraph discovers how ‘climate anxiety’ is contributing to a generation who think it’s better not to reproduce.
- “Welcome to the end of democracy” – A rising tide of money and administrative power defines the rising autocracy, many driven by an extreme green messianic agenda dubbed the ‘Great Reset’ by the World Economic Forum, writes Joel Kotkin in the Spectator.
- “The ‘gay cake’ battle wasn’t worth fighting” – With the case now standing as a victory against compelled speech, “what a shame political discourse has come to this sad polarised place”, writes Janice Turner in the Times, “where everyone who disagrees with you is a foe, and instead of building something worthwhile you battle through a court for seven years to force Christians to bake a cake”.
- “George Osborne told: You’d better hope protesters don’t come for Elgin Marbles, after he backs ‘Colston four’” – The comments by the new British Museum Chairman are described as bizarre after he praises the jury that cleared activists who toppled the Bristol monument, reports the Telegraph.
- “Flippin ‘eck Tucker! Schools are much better thanks to you” – Toby in the Daily Mail suspects the forthcoming Grange Hill film will rubbish the education reforms that he knows from first hand experience with the West London Free School have done much to improve schooling in the U.K.
- “World leaders think the unvaccinated are ‘next door to idiots, racists and misogynists’” – Watch Neil Oliver on GB News on the demonisation of the unvaxxed.
Neil Oliver: World leaders think the unvaccinated are 'next door to idiots, racists and misogynists.'
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“dramatic crackdown on unvaccinated athletes”. Must eliminate the control group!
Jordan Peterson says he was “stupid” to get injected
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Is that tongue-in-cheek or are they actually serious? Why would it be a shock if someone with a scientific background recognised how dodgy the clotshots are?
no, they’re entirely serious. repeat the “progressives” mantra after me
Only a complete idiot denies climate change
only a complete idiot would vote for brexit
only a complete idiot would vote for trump
only a complete idiot would be against lockdowns
only a complete idiot would be not want an experimental medical procedure for a disease with a 99.99% survival rate
starting to see a trend here?
Neil Oliver: World leaders think the unvaccinated are ‘next door to idiots, racists and misogynists.’
True, but I think it’s nice that they’re thinking of anyone besides themselves.
It must feel so strange.
Turns out, they’re not. They are describing themselves, as always.
I happen to have a eulogy about someone whose life was blighted as a child after being inoculated in the 1960’s against whooping cough (suffering a series of terrible seizures and in care for the rest of his shortened life).. Today, with the risks of “covid” to healthy children minimal and some risks from the gene therapy drugs well known, what excuse do they have?
Brilliant from Neil Oliver, surely one of the only Scotsmen alive today who can truly say they are actively engaged in the freedom cause.
Agreed. As someone from south of the border, I find a deep contradiction between the “Braveheart” image and the weird desire to keep a Marxist Nanny state government permanently in power. I’m guessing the Left’s favourite tool, gerrymandering maybe.
Here up North the problem is simple. The separatist cause is a single party entity. Whilst the opposition is split between three unionist ideals.
That party is far from Marxist, it is National Socialist to the core, employing many political and social tactics seen in the 20’s and 30’s. Sadly this once great country is in ruins both economically due to the virus response and the perpetual social division caused by continual threats of union referendum. Of course the separatist cult blame England/Torieeeeeees/Westminster, for every failure, much like 30’s Germany blamed France, Poland, Jewish folk etc.
The cult continue to score cheap political points versus WM (much like Dungford) on virus policy, usually remaining far enough behind BJ to exploit any mistake for political gain. With healthcare fully devolved, and Sturgeon herself the former health minister under Salmond, the mismanagement of 15 years of power has been astounding. Despite being given billions by WM to fight the virus, there has been no investment in front line healthcare.
Of course the SNP heartlands, awash with benefits claimants and unemployed; yet record breaking vacancies. Ministers proffering to blame Brexit for critical vacancies rather than asking our own people to get off their backsides and help out.
This is a failed nation, suckling on the teat of Westminster but complaining about the quality of milk. Offering no rational economic plan for the independent alternative and not capable of governing even with limited powers. Very likely independence isn’t the objective of the SNP, more clinging to power by keeping the nation riding the clutch between the Union and the Braveheart fallacy.
Is Devi Sridhar still collecting her salary care of the Scottish taxpayers?
Braveheart is based on a tissue of lies and gross distortions of history. The present conduct of Scots is the truth about them: stark, repulsive and undeniable.
As opposed to 600+ years, of English servitude?
Which they brought on themselves after bankrupting the country with the Darien Scheme
The real reason, I think, is that the socially conservative but economically left wing traditional Labour supporters (who would have been quite happy to support John Smith) felt abandoned by Labour in the 1990’s – and the SNP assiduously cultivated the support of such people under Alex Salmond. That’s what happened with someone I knew anyway, who left the Labour party to help set up the Christian People’s Alliance (who always supported the lab leak theory) in Scotland.
Stop being a twat.
You’ll never take our freedom! Thousands of defiant protesters stage largest anti-lockdown rally in recent months as they march through Glasgow against Nicola Sturgeon’s draconian Covid restrictions
It was an Englishman that facilitated this shit.
“Shouted anti-government chants” – I bet that had them shaking in their wellies!
Well, that’s a different debate. But England is hardly revolutionary.
The only difference between scots & English are their political masters, they’re all slaves at the end of the day. Brits have bent over & surrendered to the coup without a whimper.
Speak for yourself fuckwit
Absolutely no need for personal insults, this is t BBC HYS, or the Mail Online.
But because of these comments, these leaders have shown a level of hubris and entitlement unseen in Western democratic politics, a level that is actually dangerous. For this reason, we must ask ourselves how these men and women can be removed from power and how our democracies can be restored. Many of these people are guilty of crimes against humanity anyway, including Trudeau, and must be arrested and put on trial.
“we must ask ourselves how these men and women can be removed from power”
Waving a placard about and shouting “Freedom!” should do it. And signing that on-line petition demanding Tony Blair return his knighthood will really show ’em!!
Unless someone has a better idea of course.
Has even Guadeloupe got anywhere yet?
Even if protests and petitions do is boost our morale and make us feel we’re not alone, they are still worth doing I think. Also people will be able to say in the future that they tried to do something. Wasn’t there a figure about 3% of people actively disagreeing with a tyranny making it unworkable? That might be achieavable. 2 million of us could make things very difficult for them if they acted together.
I find saying no to everything that makes no sense and living my life as I wish does it for me. I understand others have more to lose by not complying.
Protests and rallies put people on the street.
There are endless letters being written to the MSM newspapers saying that Boris and Danfuhrer and McClown are doing a great job. Those people may well outnumber those of us who oppose the covid freak show. But I’m not likely to be convinced of that until they get out on the streets too.
It only needs the politicians they idolise to say ‘Here’s the time, and here’s the place.’
Worldwide Bayesian Causal Impact Analysis ofVaccine Administration on Deaths and CasesAssociated with COVID-19: A BigData Analysis of145 Countries
HUGE paper (preprint) pretty damning for the vax narrative, it’ll take a few days (or weeks) to filter through, but it’s sure to cause a stir!
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kyle-Beattie/publication/356248984_Worldwide_Bayesian_Causal_Impact_Analysis_of_Vaccine_Administration_on_Deaths_and_Cases_Associated_with_COVID-19_A_BigData_Analysis_of_145_Countries/links/61931b0507be5f31b78710a8/Worldwide-Bayesian-Causal-Impact-Analysis-of-Vaccine-Administration-on-Deaths-and-Cases-Associated-with-COVID-19-A-BigData-Analysis-of-145-Countries.pdf?origin=publication_detail
Interesting read, and extremely controversial for the average punter. Of course most here knew this based on various data analysis that has been published by people like Swedenborg Et Al.
What I found most concerning was the outlying percentages for countries where deaths and cases had increased. With increases of thousands of percent? I guess there are countries out there whereby they had barely been touched by C-19 until the ‘white settlers’ came along?
I think it’s easier to understand if we consider the differences in approaches to early treatment (or lack thereof) around the world, differences in policies regarding the use of euthenasia drugs in care homes, and suppression or promotion of prophylactics. Also consider the differences in demographics and health status of populations e.g. the US with a much higher incidence of obesity compared to say the African countries, or the aged population of Italy, combined with the policy differences above.
The hockey stick graph (image below) was used by the UN, among many others, to show that temperatures suddenly shot up in the late 20th century.
This graph, though, which was created by Michael E. Mann, has on numerous occasions been totally debunked by mathematicians and scientists as being based on flawed and disingenuous data.
One of the best examples of proof of Michael E. Mann’s fraud was when he (Mann) filed a libel claim against a critic of this graph. The critic was Dr. Tim Ball, who had publicly made allegations that Mann was guilty of criminal fraud in relation to this graph.
Dr. Tim Ball, though, turned the tables on Mann at the trial by demanding that he produce the raw data that he had modelled the graph on. Michael E. Mann would not produce this data, and this led to his case against Dr. Tim Ball being dismissed – with Mann being ordered to pay Ball’s legal fees.
If Michael E. Mann had produced the raw data, it would either prove he was highly incompetent or a criminal liar. Mann brings to mind professor Ferguson and his fraudulent COVID-19 predictions, who also refused to release the raw data his modelling was based on.
The hockey stick graph (like Ferguson’s modelling) is a piece of lying propaganda and billions of pounds, dollars and euros have been pumped into fatuous schemes on the strength of it.
Then there is Dr. Susan Crockford, one of the world’s foremost experts on polar bears. She debunked all the lies about these bears dying off. She proved that they were flourishing, high in numbers and breeding like proverbial rabbits, with no shortage of food.
For telling the truth, Dr. Susan Crockford lost her job.
The root cause of all our problems are politicians, particularly the liberal leftist variety.
Have we noticed Kazakhstan in the news lately, gasp, WTF has that got to do with anything, you wonder! Could it be the next neoliberal manufactured crisis? Is it another Clinton mafia operation or a fuel price crisis?
We’re supposed to believe, people are willing to have their livelihoods destroyed for wuhflu, but an increase in petrol prices is their red line, hmm.
For what it’s worth, there was a video posted by a British man who said he had friends in Kazakhstan – he also posted some videos and photos of buildings set on fire – he said they have ousted the Govt because of the restrictions including vax passports.
Of course, it is, same as French colonies & Australia, there has been uprising & violence against covid tyranny, but MSM refuse to report it in case some of us get ideas.
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/kazakhstan-will-putin-ignore-the
“Our friends at Katyusha.org have a very thought-provoking article which points out that Kazakhstan is ruled by a greedy, incompetent elite who were more than happy to impose forced injections and cattle tags on their people in order to maintain financially expedient relations with the IMF and other altruistic organizations.”
Reports, locally at least, that Manchester saw a small protest against the Clean Air Zone (CAZ) charges today.
We have been stripped of our freedoms but all of a sudden the threat of additional motoring charges gets people on the streets.
Hmm. Not convinced.
Another of mine & many others predictions come true. “Vaccines” can’t keep pace with virus evolution. Just like flu, wuh-flu is mutating faster than pfizer can count its billions in profits.
” ‘Gay’ cake battle’s victory against compelled speech” (Times muppets).
I note that at the time of the incident, the message the baker was (effectively) asked to print implied support of a perversion that was then illegal in Northern Ireland (so-called same-sex marriage).
What if someone was asked to print a message saying “abolish the age of consent” or “support jihadist war” (or bestiality or whatever it may be)? Would people be forced to print such messages? I maintain my long-standing position that it is a nonsense that Asher’s were ever charged over this. Of course, if it was a cake that was actually bright and gay, or if service was refused because of objections to someone’s political beliefs rather than a conscientious objection to printing a particular message, that might be a different matter…
Re. not leaving Italy alone: one complaint I remember about Sir (vomit) Tony Bliar was that he spent so much time and money meddling in other countries, while neglecting his own. But perhaps this is a time when we do need to stand up against the madness going on elsewhere. We can vote with our wallets and refuse to visit such places, but the effect would only be marginal.
Is anyone else at TDS watching Dopesick? While it’s not an exact parallel to current conditions – government agencies are the good guys, if only – it does say enough about corruption in the pharmaceutical industry that it might be helpful in giving borderline skeptics a nudge in the right direction.
And yes, it is fictionalised. But one of the most horrific aspects of the story is true. The Porter Jick ‘Study’, which was used to propel opioid prescription to stratospheric levels, really was just a letter.
” “Duke of Cambridge looking for ‘women-led solutions’ to save the planet as 2022 Earthshot Prize opens” – Prince William aims to find ‘wild card ideas’ to “repair and protect the environment”, with £1m prize offered, now apparently based on positive discrimination so the winner can really feel they didn’t deserve it.”
From yesterday’s news, but worth mentioning I think. A woman led solution to protect the environment would be to stop throwing harmful birth control chemicals down the toilet, which end up playing havoc by impacting the highly sensitive aquatic environment, You’ll never get that on radio 4 though.
At the age of 73, I think that I have the right along with my fellow sceptics to be highly suspicious, that if the free “Covid tests” are scraped, the “positive” cases will fall down from the ridiculous figures of 250,000 per day to hundreds a day.
Some people (Covidisters and maskateers) would want a gum boil if they were free.
I have a feeling that people are so addicted to free LFT testing there will be riots in the streets if they are withdrawn.
Don’t get me wrong as someone who has managed, so far, to never shove one of those swabs into their throat or nose throughout the whole of this farce, no one would love it more than me if they were withdrawn and the casedemic disappeared overnight.
Good morning, Milo.
As I’ve said before, the only test kits that I’ve ever seen were the (unused” ones that my neighbour when she was a carer used to dump in her dustbin.
I switched to GB News to catch a bit of Neil Oliver yesterday and thought I was hallucinating when I saw this: Neil Oliver interviews Mike Yeadon. They kept it pretty safe but it was still a shock to see. I hope more voices will break through to people.
Hopefully someone has backed this up elsewhere as well but there is a longer version here as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn9SEbXdLYs&t=1810s
I felt sorry for Mike Yeadon. I didn’t think his interview was that good and he allowed his frustration to show when that dreadful woman Scarlett interrupted him with her anecdote about the covid spread from the funeral she attended.
But I can really understand that it must be so difficult to wind back 18 months +, especially when he has a team of scientists working on the batch issue, which, for any who watched his 2.25 hr talk with Reiner Fuellmich et al on Friday, must be taking all his attention at the moment.
She was dreadful though. and he was right to point out that science isn’t built on anecdotal evidence.
Thank you Neil Oliver for putting into words and into the public arena everything I feel. It’s a very sinister world out there and I don’t know where it is leading
Good one by Matt Taibbi on Cheney, 6.1., Trump&co.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/taibbi-tale-two-authoritarians
https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/sars-cov-2-spike-protein-takes-the
Spike protein injections leading to inflammation.
Constant inflammation in case of regular boosters.
The real long term danger and main (side) effect of the gene therapies?!
https://therealslog.com/2022/01/09/when-the-rule-of-law-goes-awol-freedom-goes-to-jail/
Good one by John Ward.