- “There’s no case for the remaining Covid restrictions” – Ministers should stop ignoring the inhumane treatment of the elderly, whom the remaining impositions unfairly target, says the Telegraph in its leading article.
- “We all broke lockdown, and we should have broken it more” – Time to admit it: the rules were always silly, and often cruel, writes Alys Denby in the Critic.
- “‘We were fools to follow the rules’? No, you were monsters” – Laura Perrins in TCW says people need to wake up to how inhumane they were in what they did and required of others during lockdown.
- “Don’t just do something, stand there!” – Dr. Malcolm Kendrick returns to the subject of Covid with a commendation of the importance of considering doing nothing when all the other options cause harm.
- “Democrats Still Support Draconian Covid Measures” – Shocking poll from Heartland/Rasmussen that finds 59% of Democrats support Government forcing Americans to remain confined in their homes if they refuse the Covid vaccine.
- “If Governments Cannot Forecast, They Should Let Markets Try” – There are structural reasons government bodies cannot reliably forecast for themselves, relating to groupthink, flawed incentives and explicit agendas, writes the Brainfart Policy thinktank in its latest report.
- “The flaw in the NHS app that could still ruin your holiday” – An illogical loophole means you could be banned from boarding a flight – but there is a workaround if you’re savvy, writes Greg Dickinson in the Telegraph.
- “Care homes to allow unlimited visitors from Monday as England ends Plan B rules” – Self-isolation periods for care home residents who test positive will be reduced from 14 days to 10, Sajid Javid announced, reports the Telegraph.
- “Life after Plan B: are we ready for the ‘new normal’?” – Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Spectator makes a reasoned plea for returning to something as close to the old normal as possible.
- “Omicron has bounced back ‘sooner than expected’” – The Mail reports on the ZOE app findings that symptomatic Covid is up 10.4% in a week, driven by primary school children.
- “Forced return to offices is making staff consider switching jobs as Plan B restrictions end” – Workers across the U.K. are considering changing jobs as employers force staff back into the office, reports the i.
- “Free bacon sandwiches and coffee to lure commuters back on the railways” – Commuter rewards website also offering free audiobooks and discounted theatre tickets as part of Government charm offensive, reports the Telegraph.
- “In Fortress New Zealand, faith in Saint Jacinda is starting to fade” – As the toothy tyrant backtracks on reopening and reverts to Zero Covid in the face of Omicron – imposing some of the most extreme isolation rules and travel restrictions among Western nations – her poll ratings are sliding, writes David Cohen in the Spectator.
- “How lockdown-loving lefties turn New Zealand into a hermit kingdom” – While the rest of the world moves forward, it feels like we in New Zealand are moving backwards, reduced to look on enviously as you go about your business, writes David Seymour in the Mail.
- “Corrie’s Sean Ward homeless after sharing anti-vaxxer views” – Coronation Street star Sean Ward has revealed he is homeless after speaking out against the coronavirus vaccine, reports the Mail.
- “Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla Speaks with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Today” – Read the revealing CNBC interview with the Pfizer boss, in which he candidly admits the “vaccinations seem to produce not very durable immune protection” and they “don’t have the safety profile that we hope we can achieve with this technology”.
- “Menstruation and COVID-19 vaccination” – Dr. Victoria Male in the BMJ summarises a new study that finds the vaccines do affect menstruation, but gives us no answers as to why or what it might mean for fertility.
- “The Covid evidence dismissed by the BBC as ‘conspiracy-laden’” – Sally Beck in TCW Defending Freedom summarises the current consideration of alleged criminal wrongdoing in relation to the Covid vaccines by the Met and its misrepresentation by the BBC.
- “NHS workers launch legal challenge against Government over vaccine mandate” – The workers are being backed by campaign groups Together and NHS100K with solicitor firm Jackson Osborne representing them, reports GB News.
- “Neil Young never stood a chance against Joe Rogan” – Many people have tried podcasting, but the comic didn’t become the world’s number one by accident, writes Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
- “NHS officials took £70,000 drug company bribes, then ‘switched’ patients’ medication, court told” – Paul Jerram and Dr David Turner are accused of breaching their positions and acting as ‘paid influencers’ for pharmaceutical companies, the Telegraph reports.
- “GPs told to resume face-to-face appointments as focus shifts from rollout of Covid booster vaccines” – Health chiefs want ‘routine service’ restored as fears are raised about the difficulty to see a doctor – particularly for the elderly, reports the Telegraph. They’re worrying about this now?
- “Hong Kong is on its knees and China must decide whether it lives or dies” – China is gambling the territory’s status as an international hub by pursuing a hopeless Zero-Covid strategy, writes Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
- “Pfizer anti-COVID pill’s dangerous interaction with common drugs will narrow its benefit, experts say” – A component of Paxlovid can interact dangerously with a slew medications, pumping up the potency of blood thinners, heart-arrhythmia therapies, epilepsy drugs and others, reports the National Post.
- “Given I’ve had the infection and worked with patients with Covid for two years, I can hand-on-heart say I’m as immune as anyone else can claim to be” – Watch NHS consultant Dr. Simon Fox talking to Julia Hartley-Brewer on talkRADIO about how he could be sacked under Sajid Javid’s NHS vaccine mandate.
- “The argument there is it’s going to reduce transmission and infection rates it doesn’t do that” – Watch Dr. Steve James, who confronted Sajid Javid over the NHS vaccine mandate, speak to Nigel Farage on GB News.
- “Why Environmentalists Pose a Bigger Obstacle to Effective Climate Policy than Denialists” – “Precisely because they had the science on their side when it came to diagnosing the problem, environmentalists have been far too complacent about questioning their preferred solutions,” writes Maarten Boudry in Quillette.
- “Research: another casualty of woke” – UKRI distributes £8 billion of public money for research each year, and has just drafted a woke new DIE strategy which commits to “treating people equitably to achieve equality in outcomes”, making employees “inclusive in all that they do” and having a “representative and diverse workforce”, writes Andrew Tettenborn in Spiked.
- “The hypocrisy of the knee-takers” – Marcus Rashford has been photographed alongside a notorious racist – where’s the outrage, asks Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Looking back we have to ask ourselves were they right in regards to the lockdowns?” – Toby criticises SAGE’s modelling of the pandemic and how it informed Government policies on GB News.
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“59% of ‘Democrats’ support house arrest for ‘unvaxxed”.
Didn’t they hear tthe bit about covid “cases” being higher in states with higher “vaccine” uptake?
Oh wait, they probably believe that “covid” barely exists in “vaccinated” communities (like Gibraltar) and that 90% of people in hospitals are filthy “unvaxxed”
Whatever happened to “land of the free” or “mother of the free” for that matter). I fear this horror show of human rights abuses has some way to run. If it wasn’t for the new rules…
“Ten days self isolation for care home residents”.
Isn’t that the sort of punishment they gave to people in The Great Escape?
The abuse of the elderly needs to stop. Full stop.
Not just the elderly, Hugh.
My son is in care (autistic, plus various other mental issues); lives in a house with 3 other guys. All in their late 20s/early 30s; all as physically fit as butchers’ dogs.
A member of the care staff tested positive for Sars-CoV2 (not for Covid 😉 ); she wasn’t even at work; the boys all got locked in their house for 10 days.
Care home provider’s response? “We had no choice; we were only following orders!”
To paraphrase you: “The abuse of all care home residents needs to stop. Full stop.”
Indeed. I tend to refer particularly to the elderly after the “granny killers” business, but the abuse of the young has been just as bad, and something they will have to live with all their lives.
100% agreed! 🙂
There was once a place called Nuremberg where a lot of very wicked people were tried for hideous crimes. ‘I was only following orders!’ they bleated.
As a defence it was not accepted.
Correct, by the Allies legal team.
“Free bacon sandwiches to lure commuters”.
What, on holocaust memorial day? I hope that at least those schools are still not making “unvaccinated” pupils wear yellow badges.
“Faith in ‘saint’ Jacinda fading”.
I was watching that One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s nest. There is a resemblance with that woman isn’t there? Both looks and tyranny.
24 days for a “contact” – TWENTYFOUR DAYS??? Nutter. i hope she has a nice cake with lots of seeded raspberry jam.
(That ok?).
And here’s wishing her a very long marriage, just as she deserves. So long that it feels like being in a place where not-very-nice people are reputed to go for eternity.
“Corrie star homeless after sharing ‘anti-vaxxer views”.
Probably still not enough for “Democrats” or Kim Jong Dan though. Looks like he was right about “vaccinated” super spreaders, anyway.
” ‘Vaccines’ affect menstruation, but no answers on what it might mean for fertility”. (
Wouldn’t Billy boy be upset if they reduced fertility? (BMJ).
Check out this delightful piece of Government propaganda in the Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10447327/Setting-record-straight-covid-booster-jabs-asked-experts-answer-questions.html
Utterly disgusting collection of outright lies.
I bet the Mailicious are getting plenty of money from this though. I suppose they didn’t ask Dr. Mike Yeadon…
The tragedy is this sort of stuff is all some people will ever hear or believe.
But it’s addressed to the ‘vaccine hesitant’. By now, that can only mean ‘vaccine adamant’. They won’t believe a word of it. Waste of space, like all the other covid
sh..excrement.I spotted that and didn’t read it on the basis that it is worthless propaganda. Remember the dreaded phrase “I am from the government and I am here to help”.
“NHS officials took drug company bribed”.
So Oliver Wright (now of the Times) was right:
Revealed: Big Pharma’s hidden links to NHS policy, with senior MPs saying medical industry uses ‘wealth to influence government’ | The Independent | The Independent
The Times muppets had better cover this…
Toby on GBN.
Good God! Toby, put your hands down, man! That was like watching Tony Bliar!
At least he’s not stuttering like a bedwetter.
(If you can still say that 🙂 )
Toby is the only person I’ve seen who managed to avoid being timed out by Dan. It was the passion for the subject matter wot did it.
TRUDEAU Hides From 100,0000 Trucker Convoy #CANADA / Hugo Talks #lockdown
one point five million people coming into Ottawa? That should exceed the 3% actively dissenting threshold, even with some people from the “United” States in the number. It will be interesting to see what happens. Surely there’s bound to be real resistance somewhere sooner or later (apart from places like Guadeloupe), and this might just be it.
Trudeau is your typical vacuous narcissist – they put a lot of effort into convincing others that they are big tough guys but underneath they are weak pathetic cowards.
It starts with self-censorship, unapproved words & phrases made taboo, books & personal expression banned & before you know it the entire country is under house arrest!
It turns out some sceptics are very conformist after all!
“Life after Plan B: are we ready for the ‘new normal’?”
Is this supposed to be a humorous, or satirical, piece? I ask because I can’t believe he’s serious about some of the rubbish he writes in the article.
“Nine in ten Brits over the age of 12”.
Is that the one they calculated with 2011 population figures (and excluding an unknown number of “undocumented migrants” who pitched up undetected)?
I’d love to know what the real UK population is. At least 68.4 million according to Worldometer, quite a lot more than at the beginning of this worst ever disaster crisis black death thing.
I watched the Bourla interview quoted a little while ago & as far as I could see he did NOT make the remark about safety quoted in the transcript to which you have linked. I can’t get the transcript link to the video to work (so can only see the transcript you’ve linked to). But I really hope you have double checked – by watching it- that he did in fact make the safety remark quoted in the transcript. Otherwise linking to the transcript will cause reputational damage- to DS, not him.
It’s cnbc’s own website isn’t it? If he did say that, how on earth could any “journalist” not pick him up on it? It’s dynamite!
In order to go on holiday overseas, you need clearance from the NHS.
I’ll just let that sink in.
Starts by stating that “The Science(tm)” is 100% correct and we’re all going to burn. Why is this here?
Can a policy be both representative and diverse. The population around my rural area is 100% monochrome – any diversity on colour grounds is by definition not representative.
The new buzzword is “people of the global majority” by which is meant non-white people. So on that basis to be representative any random group needs to contain 20% Han Chinese etc etc. It’s like covid – doublethink is required and definitions will be twisted to suit the politics/aims and to allow people to exercise power over others and gain advantage.
But surely “whites” will be part of the global majority if it’s everyone apart from native Americans (who are not even American these days after a disaster related to lack of natural immunity).
There was a story a few years back wasn’t there, about a school in Market Rasen that lost funding or something (gleefully reported by RT) because there were not enough people from ethnic minorities at the school. Apparently there were just not enough (whatever word you’re supposed to use these days) people in the area to meet the quota.
Malcolm Kendrick’s blog reminded me of SWANT from Viz – ‘Special Weapons And No Tactics’
Just browsing through the headlines, I almost wish the sceptics were wrong on everything. Along with what we know and suspect, reading the (opening floodgates) increasing acknowledgement/suspicion of damage caused and the carnage yet to come … It is horrific. I close to tears sat here.
Yes, it all needs to come out but I take no absolutely no delight in the fact that the sceptics shall be vindicated – I almost wish we were wrong on everything and that it has all been worth it! 🙁
I do like the Don’t just do something, stand there! title. Yet to read the piece though.
It’s well worth reading.
Classic Ronald Reagan! They don’t make politicians like that any more.
SAGE et al should be required to take the Tom Woods Covid Quiz:
https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/
The Welcome Trust funded BMJ article on menstrual issues is a complete Whitewash, as is the US ‘study’. Completely dismisses over 30,000 UK women reporting post injection issues, and that is known to be under-reported by at least 10%.
300,000 UK women with menstrual issues…..move on, nothing to see here.
My cousin and friends daughter both had severe menstrual issues after the first injection, never got the second. Neither reported their difficulties, so I guess it never happened.
BMJ article comes with the usual “no evidence of fertlity issues” too.
They know the spike protein targets the ovaries.
How do they know what will happen to schoolgirls and young women in 5 or ten years time?
Criminals the lot of them.
Perhaps the BMJ article author(s) should read this:
CDC Scientists admit they did manipulate study data to show the Covid-19 Vaccines are safe for Pregnant Women as researchers discover 91% of pregnancies resulted in miscarriage following Covid-19 Vaccination – The Expose
Whatever you think of The Expose, their articles with unequivocal cited references such as these two NZ Doctors is very hard reading.