News Round-Up
- “U.K. Health Department plan for return to office working put on hold” – The Department of Health and Social Care is not exactly leading by example when it comes to ending work from home rules, having scrapped its timetable requiring civil servants to be in offices for up to eight days a month from September.
- “Minister wants to slash wages of civil servants not in office” – A Cabinet minister has suggested that civil servants who refuse to return to the office should be paid less than those back at their desks, reports the Mail.
- “Covid PCR costs can be excessive and exploitative, says Javid” – The Health Secretary calls on a watchdog to investigate “exploitative” firms overcharging holidaymakers for Covid tests, reports BBC News.
- “Will Covid turn into the common cold?” – “There are reasonable grounds to believe that the Delta variant may be the virus’s end point,” writes Paul Hunter in the Spectator.
- “Workers ignore Sunak’s ‘back to the office’ call” – Staff are embracing the ‘remote working revolution’, but economists warn that a slow return to city centres will hurt our economic recovery, reports the Telegraph.
- “Companies Thought They Had Plans for Fall. Now They Are Scrapping Them” – The return to the office isn’t just being slowed in the U.K. Fears over the Delta variant has U.S. managers revamping schedules, with bosses delaying office reopenings and canceling events, reports the Wall Street Journal.
- “Ditch the travel traffic light system, says former head of vaccine taskforce” – Current border arrangements are too complicated given the high proportion of the U.K. adult population that is vaccinated, says Clive Dix, as reported in the Telegraph.
- “Macron grapples with new ‘gilets jaunes’ protests against vaccine passports” – President Emmanuel Macron faces increasing backlash over France’s controversial health pass brought in to boost a lagging pace of vaccinations, reports the Telegraph.
- “Holiday chaos for Britons heading to France” – Brits hoping for a peaceful holiday in France will have to prove they are fully vaccinated for everything – from a trip up the Eiffel Tower to a glass of wine on an outdoor terrace, reports the Mail.
- “CDC Study on 12 to 17 Year-Olds Who Got Pfizer Vaccine: 397 Reports of Heart Inflammation, 14 Deaths” – A study released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed 9,246 adverse events reported among adolescents aged 12 to 17, including 863 serious events, 14 deaths and 397 reports of myocarditis, reports the Defender.
- “Brisbane man ‘suffers heart attack’ after being arrested for not wearing a mask” – A video of a man apparently having a seizure after being arrested for not wearing a mask has caused outrage on social media, reports Sky News Australia.
- “NHS still not recognising British citizens’ overseas Covid jabs, says peer” – Lord Paddick accuses the Government of “broken promises” after Pfizer jabs received in Norway go unrecognised by the NHS, reports the Guardian.
- “Covid variants could be named after constellations once Greek alphabet is used up, WHO official says” – The World Health Organisation is looking to name new Covid variants after constellations because “we will possibly run out of the Greek alphabet”, reports Sky News.
- “QPR 1-1 Millwall” – “I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many police vans in Shepherd’s Bush before, even when QPR have been playing Millwall. Was it because it was the first time most fans had been able to attend a game since March 2020? Were the police expecting a post-lockdown release of pent up energy,” asks Toby in his latest Pride of West London substack entry.
- “Boris and Rishi at war over green agenda” – Chancellor Rishi Sunak is thought to be leading the push-back against Boris Johnson’s commitment to go net-zero by 2050, fearing it will spark a cost-of-living crisis with energy bills already on the rise, reports MailOnline.
- “Olympics TV ratings plummet by 49% compared to 2016 games” – There has been a significant decline in Olympic viewership this year compared to previous games thanks, of course, to lockdowns but also to woke protests, reports MailOnline.
- “Woke Barbie dolls” – “What sort of political fruit will our current cradle to grave woke indoctrination produce,” asks Collingwood in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “The America I grew up in is disappearing into a vortex of identity politics” – At this rate the future generation of doctors may well be better equipped to offer a politics lecture than save one’s life, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Sunday Telegraph.
- “Food blogger says it’s time to cancel ‘British colonial’ term curry” – “We’re still using this umbrella term popularised by white people who couldn’t be bothered to learn the actual names of our dishes. But we can still unlearn,” says a food blogger who calls on people to “cancel the word curry” in a video viewed millions of times online.
- “My fight for free speech” – “I was fired for supporting Brexit – justice has finally been served,” writes former Fire Bridge Union Leader Paul Embery in UnHerd.
- “These dusty well-paid professors have used the pandemic to scale back their service” – Talking on GB News, Mark Dolan takes aim at university chiefs using Covid as an excuse to continue online ‘learning’.
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“The World Health Organisation is looking to name new Covid variants after constellations because “we will possibly run out of the Greek alphabet”, reports Sky News.“
Simply use decimal places of pi, surely?
Another statement that translates as, “this ain’t going to end.”
You won’t run out of those, but the name could get very long…
Of course, you could always name them after curry houses. Be more fun than those daft storm names the Met office has adopted…
I do hope you’re aware Hugh that ‘curry’ is the latest word to be declared ‘racist’ by the usual suspects..
haha dont tempt them.
racist Browser techniques
https://javascript.info/currying-partials#:~:text=Currying%20is%20an%20advanced%20technique,It%20just%20transforms%20it.
that is a point, no more currying favour, to go with accident black spots. I wonder what they’ll say…
yes, I was being slightly mischievous! 🙂
Couldn’t resist it though after all that business about the Indian variant of the Chinese virus.
Or actual curries? Because its now waycist apparently, to say something sweeping like “curry.” I thought they’d actually started with the Lambda, then I realised I was thinking of Pasanda.
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Naming variants? Reminds me of ‘A rose by any other name…’ It’s all still c**p, the stench is unbelievable and it’s still a worldwide scam, whatever name they choose.
“Sajid Jab-it calls for Covid test firms investigation”.
Could he instead possibly think about ending the obsessive Covid testing? After all, his government told us that “vaccines” (and drugs) are the way out of this. All those adults who want those injections have had the chance now. Or alternatively, perhaps he could confirm that he never intends to end this nonsense, and that we’ll have to remove his government (and most of the “opposition”) if the ruination of this country is to be stopped? (Or maybe go the French route).
“CDC study on 12-17 year old Pfizer victims – 8.7m “vaccinated”, 9,246 adverse reactions reported to VAERS, of which 397 serious, plus 14 deaths, allegedly including a previously healthy 13 year old, under-reporting and bias an issue with VAERS”..
Is that what you call “100% safe” Devi Sridhar, you deluded clown? Make sure this info is included in your sodding “invites”.
“Brisbane man’s heart attack after mask arrest”.
More “hero” policemen…
Yes, some of the best work of our finest men and women in blue(shirts), along with the handcuffing of a pyjama-clad pregnant mother in her own kitchen for linking on Facebook to a notice of an anti-lockdown protest; mounted police tackling protestors to the ground; grandmothers arrested for sharing a cup of tea in a park during lockdown. In Western Australia, police can strap electronic ankle bracelets to citizens whom they suspect will leave home more than once during lockkdown, and so on and so on and so on. To the lockdown authoritarians, such people are dangerous spreaders of disease and death, political dissidents, so they must be made an example of – pour encourager les autres, the principle so beloved of tyrants the world over. I have always respected the police – when they keep out of politics and do their thankless job of keeping ordinary Australians and their property safe from sometimes violent criminals but the relish with which they have taken to jackbooted enforcement of draconian laws, regulations and rules (with some, very few, rank-and-file exceptions) has seen my trust in them evaporate (along with the medical profession, the political class and the media (the latter two, admittedly, already… Read more »
“I have always respected the police – when they keep out of politics and do their thankless job of keeping ordinary Australians and their property safe from sometimes violent criminals but the relish with which they have taken to jackbooted enforcement of draconian laws, regulations and rules (with some, very few, rank-and-file exceptions) has seen my trust in them evaporate“ Peter Hitchens makes a good case for it being no coincidence that the interest of the police in dealing with real crime has waned, in the UK, as their interest in policing political and regulatory “offences” has taken over. And this has been a process ongoing for several decades now – I would say it has started accelerating rapidly, recently. I suspect more or less the same is true for all the societies of the US sphere, which have evolved along similar lines in terms of elite ideology. What Has Gone Wrong With Our Police? “The paradox is that we have these grim jawed enforcers ( predicted rather accurately in Constantine Fitz Gibbon’s amusing future fantasy thriller ‘When the Kissing Had to Stop’ back in the early Sixties) but that the criminal classes have never had such an easy time. How can… Read more »
i’d no longer call them Police i.e. Peelers, They follow none of peel’s Principles. Most “police” couldn’t even name ONE of them.
“Group 4” (or whatever they’re called these days)?
I seem to remember a story a few years back about some British policemen taking jobs in New Zealand to get back to proper policing. With the New Zealand government rivalling Australia in the insanity of its response, I suppose the last 16 months must have been a bit of a shock.
Sadly there’s few institutions, in Australia and elsewhere, who have come out of this with much credit
“Cost of living crisis fears over Peking Piffle’s 2050 net zero target”.
Never mind, he can always plant a forest of Magic Money Trees…
“Olympics TV ratings plummet”.
Of course it might be just me, but I tend to think the abolition of women’s sport devalues it a bit. (I hope the BBC aren’t reading this…).
I watched loads. It was crap. No atmosphere as the statdia we’re empty. Worst games ever.
Taking place in the middle of the night didn’t help!
Drove me nuts watching all those athletes pushing their bodies to the limit and then having to put a mask back on. Putting your own medal around your neck too? Not forgiven them either for sending athletes homes for dodgy positive tests and then claiming they’d “withdrawn” for having covid.
Yeah it was awful to see.
For the first time since I was 9-years-old, I didn’t watch 1 minute of the Olympics. And as long as they continue to allow men compete in women’s events, that will continue.
Yeah that was a low point for sure. Luckily he failed miserably.
He threw it on purpose. It was obvious to the commentators too as he or his coach didn’t even bother to challenge the 2-1 judges vote.
I think it was also obvious that he’d been doing no training either as he looked even more like a really out of shape middle aged man next to the women.
Such a crying shame that he took a woman’s place from participating. Same with the Canadian archer and the American BMX rider too though.
You mean you think men winning all the women’s events is too sexist for you?
I boycotted it primarily because of its constant celebration of the holy rag.
“There are reasonable grounds to believe that the Delta variant may be the virus’s end point”
That is indeed the fear of the statists: They may miss their opportunity. Hence the rush to bring in vaccine passports.
Will covid turn into the common cold? ‘…this is actually not as severe a disease as is being suggested. The fatality rate is probably only 0.8%-1%. There’s a vast underreporting of cases in China. Compared to Sars and Mers we are talking about a coronavirus that has a mortality rate of 8 to 10 times less deadly to Sars to Mers. So a correct comparison is not Sars or Mers but a severe cold. Basically this is a severe form of the cold.’ ‘Prof John Nicholls, Hong Kong University Coronavirus expert in China’ 06 Feb 2020 ‘….vaccine for RSV, one of the virus families responsible for colds, failed in a late-stage clinical trial. While it is less common than rhinovirus, RSV can cause great harm and even death in those with weakened immunity, including infants and the elderly.’ ‘The Guardian’ 06 Oct 2017 ‘Along with HCoV-229E, -NL63 and -HKU1, HCoV-OC43 is responsible for up to 30% of all common colds in adults……patients with HCoV-OC43 in this French study also experienced several lower respiratory tract symptoms, of which included bronchitis, bronchiolitis, and pneumonia in 17%, 1-%, and 6.7% of all patients.’ ‘Clinical Infectious Diseases’ 2003 ‘Unexpectedly Higher Morbidity and Mortality of… Read more »
Correct. And with ref to the Grauniad of 6 Oct 2017, many of us may well have a degree of cross-immunity to SARS CoV 2 having dealt with one or two of those coronaviruses.
If we tested during previous peaks as much as we did in the last 2 years of jab junta insanity I strongly suspect we’d find the much the same or greater than we do now…
Thanks for this summery!
Would like to add this paper (from 2006) that showed that HCoV-OC43 (common cold coronavirus) can infect and make sick half of patients and staff in long-term care facilities, and then within patient population cause pneumonia followed by death in 10% of them (IFR ~10%). Staff was just fine, a common cold for them.
The paper also shows cross reaction of immune system between this common cold coronavirus and SARS1 coronavirus. So, some forms of cross-immunity between coronaviruses were known since 2006.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2095096/
The only reason they tested them was because they were worried about SARS1 (this was in 2003 SARS1 scare).
Now, imagine if deaths were being attributed to HCoV-OC43 on the basis of 28 days since the positive oversensitive PCR test while administrating mass testing all the time. Millions of deaths would be attributed to this common cold coronavirus. This would of course be wrong, just like it’s wrong to attribute 4 million deaths to coronavirus19 in the past year and a half.
c19 deaths are enormously overcounted.
The Beeb tell us how thy heroically combat sceptics who destroy lives. omit bucket needed:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09qmmkk?xtor=CS8-1000-%5BPromo_Box%5D-%5BNews_Promo%5D-%5BNews_Promo%5D-%5BPS_SOUNDS~N~p09qmmkk~P_5MinutesOnAntiVaxLies%5D
Not that vax Fascism ever damaged anybody’s life, of course.
Please stop pushing your stupid QPR website. No one cares. Get a diary ffs
Robert Elms is also a fan of QPR. If the team is good enough for those two it is good enough for me.
I think there is some residual concern following TY’s article of a couple of days ago in which he contemplates getting jabbed so he can have a vaxx passport if that is what is required to watch QPR.
It’s TY’s site and he’s entitled to cover anything he feels like, but I think a lot of sceptics would see someone considering supporting the vaxx passport system in order to watch football as a complete betrayal of what we stand for. I think they would be right. If we cannot even rely on solid sceptics like TY to resist, we will lose this war and be in the grip of medical fascism for generations.
Yes and also, it’s a “news round-up”, and he is shoehorning his silly football diary in there.
Goes back to the division between lockdown sceptics and vaccine sceptics. Toby, like Peter Hitchens, was always the former but not the latter.
Personally I was always somewhere in between, although I’ve moved significantly towards the latter position in the light of the way the coronapanic has developed, and would probably count myself as one of them now. But regardless, I think the two groups really need to stand together if we are to have any chance of resisting the drive to medico-totalitarianism. And actually I’d say Toby and the team atl have been very good in allowing the concerns of the vaccine sceptics to be represented here as well.
Myself, I’d be pretty tolerant of Toby using this site to help get his other personal projects launched – I think he’s earned the right and it’s not really a huge issue for us here unless we choose to make it so.
I’m sure Toby had the vaccine long ago, but if he’s loyal to freedom he’ll refuse to show proof of it to busybodies and barge them aside instead, quoting magna carta.
Found this via a travel forum.
EU Most Likely to Reintroduce Entry Ban on US Next Weekhttps://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/eu-most-likely-to-reintroduce-entry-ban-on-us-next-week-sources-claim/
The EU has been scheming the vaccine passport thing for years, and is very much a part of the so called NWO. Just another huge clusterf*ck for corporate interests..
Sorry to prick Toby’s bubble here but QPR will be around mid-table, with my team Forest. We have had Warburton the bread man as manager and while he talks a good game the delivery rarely is so good. Great to see the fans back at football though, after the ridiculous psy-op of empty stadiums.
Fulham or West Brom will win division 2, as I still call it.
Oh god please can we not start this here. I’m sure Toby’s new site has a comments section.
Please take this football talk elsewhere, otherwise this site will just become full of this stuff and dilute the message.
Sorry.
It is division 2 though, calling the 4th division league 2 is just another part of the corporate truth bending we’ve seen all too much of these past 16 months.
Obviously. That should always have been the null presumption – that it would evolve towards the established equilibrium for such respiratory viruses in the human population, in terms of infectiousness and virulence.
But of course that idea didn’t fit the panic narrative so many were, and are, trying to push….
BUT IT’S THE MOST LETHAL AND CONTAGIOUS VIRUS EVVAH!
Interesting to look back at what people thought in the first place. I liked the one who pointed out based on Italian numbers that it acted like an amplifier – if you were going to die soon it made you die sooner, if you were already ill it made you more ill, otherwise it just made you cough a bit, or not even that.
Took my car for its service and MOT, the garage was like the Marie Celeste. I asked if it was the pingdemic, no it was just people on holiday, except for one who genuinely appeared to have covid. They blamed Latitude.
And the vaccine does the opposite: you get less ill and die later.
No curry!? I’m going out for an ‘English’… https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6perng
Go for something really bland. I dare you!
What’s the most important?
All freedoms taken away and the economy totally trashed or a mangy old alpaca?
Don’t ask the great British public.
Tyranny being engineered in the UK by these terrorists and criminals running this scam. That’s how these people do their business – THEY ARE SCAMMERS!
Army could be drafted in to stock supermarket shelves amid HGV driver shortage
The Government is expected to make a formal request to the military
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/army-could-drafted-stock-supermarket-5758126
Don’t soldiers get pinged, then?
I want to know how drivers in a cab get pinged…
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BBC getting some stick today in London:
#LIVE Protest at BBC Television Centre in Shepherds Bush, London
Where is that video where Wankook said in the commons that children will not need to be vaccinated? Or where it was said that health passports will not be issued. These protesters are not anti vax persay.
They like the rest of us are fed up with the constant nagging, constant changing of policy(s) etc etc.
“These protesters are not anti vax persay.”
Of course. Antivax is a manipulative smear term, like “racism”, “homophobe” and all the rest.
The way they work is that the term is established in the public perception as profoundly evil or harmful by reference to the very worst extremists (people who want to beat up people for being a different colour, or people who have been demonised as opposing all vaccines for some kind of luddite reasons and thereby supposedly causing the deaths of children from measles etc). Then the term is extended out to apply to anything the users hate that can be even vaguely associated with the concept – people opposing immigration, or even just Brexiters, for instance, in the case of “racism”, or people with concerns about mass use of an experimental gene therapy, in the case of covid vaccine resistance.
The latter are smeared with the crimes (real or supposed) of the former.
If the smearer is challenged, then they withdraw to their safe ground of the evil extremes: “what, you’re defending racism/antivax now? You support skinheads/anti-MMR campaigners (or whatever)?
It’s a political version of a “motte and bailey fallacy”.
Daily Mail getting up to their tricks again. Listing so called Anti-vaxxers who have died. Once again comments are being censored.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9875841/Covid-wipes-anti-vaxxer-family-Son-loses-father-73-mother-65-brother-40-virus.html
Can we do a list with Piers Morgan on it?