News Round-Up
- “Brits should continue wearing masks on ‘crowded’ public transport, Javid says” – The Government doesn’t want people to stop being scared just yet, and is urging that masks are continued to be worn on public transport into the winter.
- “Scottish Covid vaccine passport app hit by problems after launch” – The NHS app is needed to enter nightclubs, large events and for overseas travel, but users complain it does not work, reports the Guardian.
- “Students push back against ‘YouTube’ learning as campuses reopen” – At Warwick university, more than 1,800 undergraduates have signed a petition against online classes, reports the Financial Times.
- “Schools demand £6 billion catch-up fund to help pupils held back by Covid” – More than 100 heads of academy trusts have written a letter demanding a large sum to help students who have fallen behind over the past year of lockdowns.
- “Fewer than one in 10 children suffer from ‘long Covid’ symptoms” – A new study from Harvard Medical School found that 14.8% of children had symptoms between 14 and 30 days after testing positive, which fell to 7.2% having symptoms three months or later.
- “British military to help with fuel deliveries from Monday” – Britain will deploy almost 200 military tanker personnel, 100 of which are drivers, from Monday to assist with fuel deliveries to gas stations and help address a shortage of heavy goods vehicle drivers, reports Reuters.
- “NHS test sites to open in shopping centres and stadiums in England” – 40 ‘one-stop shop’ centres will carry out a wide range of health checks after GP referrals, reports the Guardian.
- “E.U. drug regulator finds possible link between J&J Covid vaccine and rare deep-vein blood clotting cases” – The European Medicines Agency has announced a possible link between the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine and rare cases of blood clotting in deep veins, recommending it be listed as a potential side effect to the jab, reports Russia Today.
- “The wording matters – Issue XXIII” – “‘Reporting’ on the vaccination of healthy teenagers has been riddled with the addition of certain (totally unnecessary) words that are very likely to have shifted the views of their readers,” writes Michael Curzon in the latest print issue of Bournbrook Magazine.
- “Covid Vaccine Adverse Event Stories in Israel Covered by ‘The Testimonies Project’ Documentary” – A documentary produced by the Israel’s People’s Committee chronicles the suffering of the victims of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.
- “California to Require Covid Vaccine for Students to Attend Schools” – California students will be required to receive the Covid vaccine to attend school once the vaccines have received full approval by the FDA, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Boris Johnson and the Tory identity crisis” – “Voters will only think the Government is succeeding if it looks like it has a grip, which is why the forecourt chaos is so perilous for Number 10,” writes James Forsyth in the Spectator.
- “The climate scaremongers: A weekly round-up” – “Parliament should pluck up the courage to put a halt to the whole Net Zero programme and wind up the Committee on Climate Change,” writes Paul Homewood in his latest climate round-up for TCW Defending Freedom.
- “The history of appeasement is a warning to those who want to cosy up to China” – The diaries of Chips Channon, the 1930s Tory MP, illustrate how making friends with dictators can be such a dangerous mistake, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Podcast: In discussion with, Historian Andrew Roberts – History Reclaimed” – Andrew Roberts talks on the History Reclaimed podcast about Churchill revisionism – and historical revisionism more broadly.
- “Prince Harry may name royal ‘racist’ in new £15 million book leaving Palace terrified” – The Royal Family is braced for another devastating attack from Prince Harry – as he personally researches his mother’s life for a new book, reports the Sun.
- “Voters can smell Starmer’s insincerity over James Bond a mile off” – We can tell when a politician is seeking to suck up to us, especially when they try to do so by using blatantly cynical language, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “St Andrews University students have been told they must pass diversity and consent modules” – Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill tells talkRADIO: “Universities have become factories of wokeness. They take students in and spit them out as nodding dogs of political correctness.”
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A bit of the kind of balance that the BBC (and most of the rest of the mainstream media) long ago gave up on.
Providing this kind of stuff is the whole raison d’etre of GB News.
‘Modernity was invented in Britain’ – David Starkey hits back at Greta Thunberg
Starkey as usual very sharp. The characterisation of Thunberg as basically filling the role of a medieval child saint – stark staring mad, but taking the dominant religious elite’s dogmas to absurd extremes and therefore politically and socially unchallengeable – is absolutely spot on.
And his mischievous dig at Scots Nats (you can see he knows he’s going to wind people up from his mannerisms when he says it) is also excellent (and aimed at people who eminently deserve to be poked):
“it all spreads to Scotland, but only after Union. The Great Enlightenment of Scotland is a pure product of the Union“.
A distinguished historian versus a hysterical brat.
Guess which one governments will listen to.
I’m sure superbrat would have loved the life of the average European woman in pre-modern times. Help tend sheep, help shear sheep, clean wool, card wool, spin wool, weave cloth, make clothes, hoe ground, spread muck, fight weeds and blight, grind corn, cook pottage in iron pot, gather firewood to cook with, well-nigh starve in winter (in Scandinavia, eat birch bark), get married at fourteen, bear ten children in undrugged agony, see all but two of them die before reaching adulthood of diseases which have no treatment before modern medicine, die of puerperal fever after your last pregnancy. Pure environmentalism, yeah.
A very good point, well made. I’m fine with giving rational, non-hysterical, balanced consideration to how we can coexist with nature in the best way possible for our long term future, but I find it tiresome listening to people bleat on about how terrible we are and at the same time benefit royally from the fruits of the industrial revolution, the technology revolution, organised agriculture etc, as if you could simply switch it all off but still have life saving drugs and the internet. Puerile.
The ecoloons forget that we live as we do because our ancestors did not like the way they had to live and devoted themselves to changing things for our benefit.
And life-saving “vaccines.”
Lol true. My boys ( 9 and 14 ) sometimes ask “What was it like living in the middle ages Dad” and I usually reply something like that “Miserable, Short, lucky to live past 5, riddled with parasites and disease, always hungry, likely to be worked to death or murdered”.
they don’t ask anymore
sounds like if things carry on the way they are at the moment – the way SHE wants them to – she will soon get to taste all of that way of living along with everyone else when we all get plunged into a mediaeval way of life
unfortunately he is very pro vaccine and very abusive to those who question the narrative. This might explain his recent rehabilitation
Yes, he can be intensely annoying, if you are his target or just don’t like his style.
He was quite good on the lockdown early on.
Oops. America thinks the unthinkable: More than half of Trump voters and 41% of Biden supporters want red and blue states to SECEDE from one another and form two new countries, shock new poll finds This is where the left’s refusal to tolerate anything but complete victory for their own ideologies and dogmas will always lead. When all political avenues of dissent are shut down, or rendered ineffective or impossible by massive elite manipulation, in the end you are left with capitulation or civil war as your only options. Wise old US commentator Victor Davis Hanson explained back in February how this worked in the specific case of the Trump insurgency in the US, talking about the way the elite globalist leftist (Blairite, in UK terms) Democratic Party abandoned their old indigenous working class constituency and instead of accepting the democratic verdict when they paid a price for that abandonment, instead chose to suppress democracy and dissent: “It’s tragic that this country is at this place right now, because it didn’t have to be this way. They could have said Donald Trump represented a lost constituency that … globalised culture had ignored in a very amoral fashion and that was… Read more »
Ah, the “Democratic” party did it too then, as well as New-Old-Whatever Labour, and Francois Hollande in France? Are there any major parties left I wonder in Western countries that support and respect the “indigenous working class”?
I know that there’s corruption in lots of elections, but how bad was it in the so-called United States in 2016? There’s a cleric at our anti-lockdown church who is furious about it. Always was a stupid idea of course to put elections in the hands of big tec…
“ Are there any major parties left I wonder in Western countries that support and respect the “indigenous working class”?” Depending on your definition of “major”, I doubt it. Probably those that get closest are considered far-right e.g. AFD or Le Pen’s party. Maybe some far left ones too in the ex-Warsaw Pact countries. None in government or close to it.
The far right parties are the only parties who really represent the indigenous working classes nowadays, because they are the only parties who dare to openly and genuinely oppose the primary short term threat to those classes, namely globalism and mass migration.
Of course, there are ulterior motives on the far right for seeking working class votes just as there always were on the left, so arguably you could predict the far right will abandon those people as thoroughly as the political left did, if and when they achieve the kind of complete dominance the woke left has in the late C20th/early C21st.
At the moment, though, the far right are the only alternative to the dominant elite, and they will continue to grow until moderate resistance reappears..
“I know that there’s corruption in lots of elections, but how bad was it in the so-called United States in 2016? There’s a cleric at our anti-lockdown church who is furious about it. Always was a stupid idea of course to put elections in the hands of big tec…”
I think there’s always a fair bit of corruption around in US Presidential elections. I think it only becomes an issue when it clearly changes the result, which is probably relatively rare. In this sense, I doubt 2016 was anything unusual. 2020 was a huge outlier, in its blatant manipulation of the result to elect a basically otherwise unelectable slate. The US (and therefore the world) will be paying the price of that (secession being one potential ultimate outcome) for years to come.
In 2016 big tech was still pretending to be officially neutral. That was the big shift in 2020, fuelled by the hysterical Trump obsession after 2016 of the elite left who dominate big tech.
The hysteria was due to the shock the chatterati felt at Trump’s win. They expected Clinton to romp home and she didn’t. Had they any doubt of her victory I have no doubt they would not have affected a position of disinterested neutrality.
Sorry, I meant 2020, not 2016! How time flies…
That makes more sense!
I’m agnostic about how much direct vote-rigging there was, but as I see it, the result was mainly rigged anyway by the massive, systematic media and big tech lying and manipulation of news and opinion.
This clip is still open for all to view on CNN’s youtube page. Funny to see how concerned they were about tampering with voting machines after Trump’s election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA2DWMHgLnc
Stars are polluting dressing rooms spouting Covid anti-vaxx theories about Bill Gates, infertility and using VITAMINS!
ROFL! The DM writes it like it’s a bad thing! People whose profession requires looking after their own health talking about vitamins! The horror!
This kind of story is excellent for reinforcing the current resistance amongst significant proportions of our younger people. Propagandists like the DM web news editors think that by spinning it as a negative story they can defuse any signal supporting resistance to their “vaccine” dogma, but the reality is that most resisters will read that and their takeaway will still be that significant numbers of the people in society they look up to, and who depend on their personal health for everything, don’t think taking the “vaccine” is wise.
Oh, and I’m shocked, shocked, at the disgraceful incident of Gareth Southgate getting abused for being vaxxed!
Obviously what he should be getting abused for first and foremost is for being an insipid, barely competent, establishment arse-licking, political correctness-worshipping, anti-British woke collaborator. As well as for falling for the covid panic nonsense.
Conspicuously absent from that long-winded diatribe of an article? Inclusion of an actual quoted opinion from a single vaccine-refusing ‘star.’
pure propaganda.
Ah, the “truth”, Mailicious style!
This is much better from the Brussels Times from 18th August (mentioned in news roundup, 4th September) and should be required reading for all those involved in sport.
https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/181660/doctors-advise-against-intensive-sport-after-covid-vaccination/
Sister paper of the Mail on Sunday who printed a trouble stirring incendiary piece by disgraced former minister Matt “stick at nought” Hancock demonising people who won’t take those “vaccines”? I’m not sure that I’ll buy that paper in the future.
Incendiary?It was hate speech.
You’re not sure that you’ll buy that paper in the future? The decision doesn’t seem a difficult one.
Spot on – if you think of the influence that footballers have, sometimes for good, especially on young people, DM has effectively scored massive OG with this story. Way to go DM!!!
This is amazing, the adverts, wow!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAmDaQSDglA
Ron D should just reupload these ads to his own account lol.
Hilarious and terrifying (that people are actually allowed to publicise such nonsense) in equal measure.
“JCVI ‘failed’ to advise the government to ‘vaccinate’ 12-15 year olds against ‘Covid’ “!!! (Telegraph news article, quoted in Michael Curzon Bournbrook article). Words fail me! Another newspaper to avoid? As for said “vaccinations”, this is my understanding about them. If anyone with detailed medical knowledge would care to elaborate on this, I would be interesrted to read their views. In a four week period to September 19th, 73% of “Covid” deaths were in the “double vaxxed”. At the start of this period there were perhaps77% of the known adult population who had had two of these injections (I don’t know where to get the exact figures and did not note them at the time) and 81.7% at the end of this period. As people are not counted as “fully vaccinated” for two weeks after their second “vaccination”, I assume that the figure who would count as fully “vaccinated” at the start of this period would therefore be the number of people who had had both injections two weeks before the start of the 4 week period from 23rd August to 19th September, i.e. 9th August – perhaps about 74%? A further confounding factor is that the poor and ethnic… Read more »
Well, as an ‘experienced patient’ with older health issues, I’m more concerned about seeking “protection” from, not “of” with regard to the products on offer, and the associated bureaucracy. As time goes by, it seems to have been wise to say ‘no’ a few months ago.
Ditto.
Set against this is the fact that people in vulnerable groups are more likely to seek the “protection” of these “vaccinations”. However, that is less of an issue now with a large majority “fully vaccinated”. I would have considered that I fell within those groups and not only did I not succumb to the disease they are now calling Covid 19 in the period subsequent to 20 March 2020 until now, despite the fact that if anyone should have got it and suffered very badly from it, I should have done, but I have no intention whatsoever of seeking any ‘protection’ which a ‘vaccination’ might offer me for 2 reasons. 1. I can only conclude that the dreadful virus I had in the summer of 2019 [when it was circulating in Spain and Italy, as was known from waste water sampling, and I caught it in Paris whilst in transit] must have been covid or a very close relative and I must now have natural immunity having recovered from it. And 2. I take vitamin D3 and its cofactors every single day. That being the case why on earth would I want to have the vaccine they are coercing me… Read more »
Indeed, but the first step to creating a climate in which cowardly politicians might be prepared to stand up to the zealotry would be to temper the constant flow of unchallenged climate alarmist propaganda, and allow proper resistance to build.
When the BBC openly made it clear a few years back that it did not feel required to give balance on key dogmas such as climate alarmism, it should have been instantly ended as a state-subsidised “national broadcaster”.
There should be no place for using people’s own tax payments to fund their systematic indoctrination.
We have some way to go before those vulnerable to attack from the elite zealots will be prepared to resist these elite dogmas openly.
“More than 100 heads of academy trusts have written a letter demanding a large sum to help students who have fallen behind over the past year of lockdowns.”
It was always going to be just a matter of time until the academy chain money-grubbers started piling in on top of the next wave of nonsense.
In practical terms, you can’t simply make up lost time – learning isn’t a supply of beans.
Secondly, perhaps the failure of schools to keep running under government diktat warrants measures that can help, to be done at minimum cost.
Brazilian President Bolsonaro: “If you are accepting this vaccination passport, another requirement will come soon, and another and another… and you know where it will stop then… population control.”
Bolsonaro: “Guys, either we have freedom or we don’t”.
Good Lord, who’d have thought that Brazil could be a likely hideout for us refuseniks. I’d far rather stroll along a Brazilian beach in the sunshine to wait out the end of this nonsense than live in rainy old blighty periodically locked down, or eventually locked up for not having the jab if that is what it comes to.