News Round-Up
- “Toby won the 2021 Contrarian Prize!” – Well done to Toby for winning the 2021 Contrarian Prize award, set up “to recognise individuals in British public life who demonstrate independence, courage and sacrifice”. Well deserved, I’m sure you’ll agree.
- “Covid cases fall 18% in biggest weekly drop of 2021” – King’s College London scientists estimated 72,546 Britons were catching the virus every day, down 18%. This is the biggest drop since ‘Freedom Day’ in England, reports MailOnline.
- “Vaccine mandates cannot become the norm” – Where will all this state control over our lives lead? Just how far might it go? We shouldn’t have to ask these questions, writes Robert Taylor in the Telegraph.
- “Darts must ditch the heart-breaking Covid dismissals” – “Darts – and all sports for that matter – must stop this needless testing, and ditch the heart-breaking Covid disqualification before others are unfairly caught in its web,” writes Luke Perry in Bullseyes and Booze.
- “Women who work remotely could damage their careers, says Bank of England’s Catherine Mann” – Women who stay away from the office risk their careers suffering as more male staff return to the workplace after the pandemic, reports the Times.
- “One in 10 people in England are now on an NHS waiting list, new figures show” – In case that isn’t enough, patients’ lives are also “at risk” from record ambulance delays, paramedics have warned.
- “The Unfortunate Consequences of Biden’s Vaccine Mandate” – “The conflict over covid vaccines is coming to a climax,” writes Gilbert Berdine in Mises Wire.
- “Covid could be a concern for next five Christmases, scientist warns” – Cases and deaths appear to be trending downwards in the U.K. since a peak last month, however the situation remains precarious, reports Sky News.
- “Senior NIH Doctor Pushes Back on Covid Vaccine Mandates” – A top infectious disease doctor has raised alarm about Covid vaccine mandates despite top federal officials recommending them for businesses, schools, and other institutions, reports the Epoch Times.
- “FDA recalls millions of Covid test kits over false results” – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued “the most serious type of recall” for popular home testing kits that show if one is infected with coronavirus. At least 2.2 million products may have been showing false positives, reports RT.
- “This feckless Tory Government has charted a course to absolute failure” – Time is running out to end the drift, and prove to Conservatives there is a point to this administration, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “I can’t escape my eco-anxiety” – As a gardener, I see portents of doom everywhere, writes Henry Wismayer in UnHerd.
- “The cynical brilliance of Boris Johnson’s green conversion” – When did Boris swap Piers Corbyn for Greta, asks Damian Reilly in the Spectator.
- “The dangerous pleasure of hating men” – “I accused my husband of mansplaining – and as the word came out of my mouth, it felt round and satisfying,” writes Mary Wakefield in the Spectator.
- “How trans ideology took over Scottish schools” – The Scottish Government says that even young children must have their chosen gender identity affirmed, writes Stuart Waiton in Spiked.
- “Do these twits really belong in jail?” – “In no other area of criminal law but the suppression of free speech is a pure intention or likelihood to cause harm the subject of a charge or conviction,” writes ‘Bridget Jones 2021’ in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Bisexual pride is just plain silly” – If bisexuals are a persecuted minority, then I’m a rainbow-coloured cupcake, writes Julie Burchill in Spiked.
- “The British policeman’s greatest fear: a bare bottom” – “We have a highly partisan and politicised police force, who will brook no insult and who selectively applies the increasingly misled law of the land,” writes Frederick Edward in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “Racism, cricket and the problem with ancient allegations” – “Scarcely a week passes without someone being cancelled for historical social media posts, and we need to rein in this moral Inquisition,” writes Toby in the Spectator.
- “Yet more clown news” – The death of man in New Zealand with serious gunshot wounds has been registered as a “Covid death”.
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Oh, this game again.
He won’t be the last.
Ive heard that: “Wikipedia Stops Listing Athletes Who Died While Playing Soccer As The Number Explodes”
Perhaps DS should have an article on this & consider having a permalink page listing the numbers as well
https://sarahwestall.com/wikipedia-stops-listing-athletes-who-died-while-playing-soccer-as-the-number-explodes/
Inevitable that Wikipedia would end up as part of the Sovinformburo.
I have contributed to Wikipedia, both articles and a couple of modest donations. The last time they approached me for money I told them that I would no longer support something which was now a propaganda organ, written by shills and PR people. I also told them that it is now as rotten as social media e.g. articles with lying ad hominem attacks on the Great Barrington authors.
My stuff is strictly factual articles on some English cities, towns and villages.
Been that way for years
Here’s a recent German article about the unusually high number of soccer players collapsing, includes a list of players (google translate it).
Just visited the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_footballers_who_died_while_playing), there is no block on editing and no comments on its talk page suggesting there ever has been. Clicked on ‘edit source’ and it opened ready to edit (as a WP registered editor). So it is simply not true.
Interesting the differences between Wokipedio on the one hand and
1) The German data posted by mishmash above.
2) https://www.notonthebeeb.co.uk/post/surge-of-sports-people-worldwide-suffering-unexpected-ill-health
Wonder why Woki isn’t up to date?
Video:
https://rumble.com/embed/vmb661/?pub=4
https://t.me/robinmg/11316
I know some of you Brits think Australia and New Zealand are pretty much the same country, but it was a New Zealand man who died of gunshot wounds, not an Aussie!
Gunshot wounds is the same as covvie.
NZ is the same as Aussie.
What does truth matter in Antipodean Hell?
Well I’m confident that if a bloke got eaten by a croc in Australia but his leftover head tested positive he’d be a ‘Covid death’.
So long as the croc was fully vaccinated…
Clown World article? Says New Zealand from here petedude.
They were doing that ‘everyone died from Covid’ crap here in UK until last summer until journalists pressed the point that if ‘Covid-Recovered’ bozo Johnson got run over by a bus in ten years time he would still he recorded as Covid death.
Despite much resistance from hancock &co. this was changed (with an immediate drop in fatalities to date from 60k to 40k) but still today applies to anyone found dead within 28 days of having ‘had Covid’. I don’t know if that means actually being ill or just testing positive.
So in terms of the 28 day rule its very much the same as NZ. If you are 99, with terminal cancer and get knocked over by a car but test positive for Covid on your entry to hospital and then die its a Covid death
“Covid cases fall 18%” in a week.
Does anybody have any idea how many “cases” we have had these last 20 months?
Since the Scamdemic started that is?
Alex Belfield on YouTube recently has often used the figures 320 million tests resulted in 8 million ‘positives’.
Dunno if that helps
The figure reported on the Gov/NHS dashboard is 9,448,402.
They can offer up such precise numbers yet claim not to know how many people live in the country as a whole?
So presumably all these people will have recovered from Covid, put on top of that the number who have had the so called vaccination and it probably adds up to most people in the country.
So there’s the open admission that Christmas will be killed off by the year 2025. Funny [like laughing at a corpse funny] they chose a year that matched the Christmas calander date of 25th.
The Masonic cultists love to play around with dates and numbers.
There are currently 6861 so called covid patients in English NHS hospitals, it shows how far we have left rational thought behind in that, despite that figure, we can report someone saying that the situation is precarious. Just for comparison, in 1950 the UK had about 28,000 TB patients in TB sanatoriums, but in those days you just shrugged and carried on regardless.
I recently spent 24 hours in our major regional hospital; most if it being wheelchaired around from one department to another for this test and that scan.
Apart from staff wearing masks, which now just looks like normal medic gear, there was no sign of Covid whatever.
They should have used the Nightingales and other local standalone buildings as Isolation Hospitals from as soon as possible, country hotels would have been ideal but all collective memory of infection control failed to make it into the computer data bases or the Who’s algorithms.
Staff convenience and false moral smugness are the main concern of NHS, not the annoying patients.
To be fair I couldn’t fault the staff in any way from reception to cleaners, porters, caterers, health care assistants, Nurses, clinical specialists, Doctors to Consultants.
All were highly professional, pleasant, informative and, not least, patient.
I have to say, my brother, a fellow covid sceptic, had to spend a week or so earlier this year in hospital. He too was pleasantly surprised that the care he had was very good, all the staff professional and friendly, and apart from the usual theatre to get into the hospital, mask wearing wasn’t required on his ward!
Who and why downticked this?
They couldn’t because there were so few “pure” Covid patients. They almost all needed consultants for their three or five underlying conditions.
The Gov was once more copying China without thought.
Exa…f…tly! I just heard from a friend, totally immersed in the “narrative”, crapping her pants because her work colleague is “positive” and sick, out of work. Of course they are all at least double vaxxed (public institution jobs). They didn’t see each other for a while, they couldn’t catch it from each other and yet the healthy one is all panicking. Never seen that before with a cold or flu season, even though with those people normally were getting sick every year in MILLIONS. Where is any proportion in that?.…
No doubt the pantcrappers are reincarnated bedwetters whose name we try to avoid.
Hopefully to scurry back indoors leaving room for the rest of us to get on with life as we see fit.
I read somewhere – saw something in fact – that World Bank had authorised funding for pandemic until 2025. Funny that the 2 should coincide – but not a conspiracy I am sure.
Get a positive covid result and 27 days later a grand piano falls on your head and you’re a covid death. Die 24 hours after the injection of a blood clot, and it’s not connected to the injection. It’s not funny, what they are doing. The regime is abusing and manipulating people, destroying science, wrecking democracy and breaking the social contract. We want payback.
Agreed. Total bloody sham and piss-take!
It’s evil beyond words and utterly corrupt, especially when you scratch under the surface and see all the usual suspects interconnected, all with their snouts in the trough.
“How trans ideology took over Scottish schools”
Nothing new here. The main two priorities of all communist regimes is to destroy the church and then wreck the family. The church is long gone, but wheedling their way in between parents and their children is constantly on their agenda.
Third but equal target being education which they are still hacking away at from within and without.
When I was growing up in my small market town (early-mid 1960s) family, church and education all overlapped like a venn diagram Home, Church, C.of E. school, cubs, vicarage garden tea party, Sunday School, Saturday morning matinee, brass band on park bandstand. All very Just William but without the car or maid. That arrangement may not have been perfect but it was never threatening even when I drifted away from religious belief quite early. Some people were ‘different’ but if we noticed we pretended not to which worked very well. ‘They’ have nothing better to offer. A favourite YouTube channel is the Ushanka show hosted by a youngish Ukrainian man who puts up videos depicting life growing up there in the 70s, ‘ and 80’s. These are not Documentaries and have no political slant: how shopping worked, why families used bomb shelters to store apples, being a member of Komsomol, inside a local school, the set-up in a typical apartment, weddings, visits to rural relatives. To describe Ushanka as working class would be wrong since everyone in the Soviet Union was ‘working class’, suffice to say not a party member. After all the kerfuffle of the Russian Revolutions Ushanka ended… Read more »
Landlady at my pub caught it recently. She and four other friends/family. All double jabbed. I commented that the jab can’t be that effective and her reply – “Oh but it would have been much worse if I hadn’t had it”
I didn’t even bother arguing the usual points; I knew it was futile. It’s a self-reinforcing narrative for the logically challenged.
Yes, they always say that, don’t they? In future, I might start asking a key question: “How do you know?”
I haven’t bothered before because I don’t want to try to engage with these people. You can’t fix stupid.
I unjabbed “donated” it to my jabbed S.O, after it was donated to me buy a colleague who was double jabbed.
They were much worse and ill for longer.
They were v surprised, but I did tell them it don’t stop the spread, don’t stop you catching it and the claimed drop in symptoms is also bollocks, but MSM says…
The notion that ‘it would have been much worse if we hadn’t had it’ is game winner for the government as it can’t be proved one way or another.
It also absolves the believer from wrenching their brains around the fact that they did get it despite being double or triple vaxxed means these vaccines are a waste of time and that they have been suckered into a scam, taken for a fool, fallen for a con trick.
You should offer to sell them your patented tiger repellent.
A letdown to see a link to another doomster prediction from the malleable Spector, published by the mendacious Sky “News”.
It’s so annoying when that 🤔happens.
probably using a “model” as the raw data is not telling them what they want to hear.
Re the gunshot death
How can someone be charged with murder if the cause of death is covid
Release the New Zealand Three
Apropos the clownworld closer, surely the just-common-sense response is to start coating bullets with experimental mRNA treatments.
If it saves one life…
Toby is spot on in his Spectator piece. I know Vaughan as well and won’t have made the alleged comments in the context given.
Great piece by the lad Heath in the Telegraph. Bunter has dug himself a terrible hole for sure with his transformation into the Social Democrat pm. Economically he can possibly kick the can down the road to an election in late Spring 2023. People close to him have hinted he is against the medical apartheid insanity of other countries, so he might try going back to trying to sell himself as a liberatarian again.
A man with such a huge ego will be desperate to be the first in decades to leave no 10 on his own terms. His one big asset is the dismal Sir Keir Starmer. To lose against Starmer is probably the ending Bunter deserves. That would certainly dry up future income streams, losing against Starmer, imagine that.
I have never previously been in favour of proportional representation but that is the only way that sceptic/doubter point of view could get significant representation in the next Parliament.
As it stands bozo is likely to get back with a reduced majority following a very low turnout and a substantial number of spoiled ballot papers, equally humiliating for both main parties.
The Libdems might make something of a showing if they came out guns blazing against all the lockdown nonsense or even an attack on the supposed severity of Covid itself, but I doubt it.
The SDP are growing and are anti lockdown. https://sdp.org.uk/
I’m a member, I’ve never thought myself suitable to stand for election but I will if possible/necessary next election if only to get the party name on the ballot. The more people who realise there are alternatives the better.
I don’t wish to be rude but are the SDP the same as Libdems these days? Genuine question as I don’t know.
The Libdems had a bit of a shout about it a year or so ago but then went quiet. If they want to be the anti-lockdown party they need to shout louder.
Lots of people confuse the two, but the SDP is the remnants of the original party that did not merge with the Liberals (who also still exist) in the LibDems. One would almost think the LibDems took the worst of both to become useless.
Time they all got back together then and stop playing ‘I’m the king of the castle’.
SDP are absolutely not the same as the lib dems. If they were i wouldn’t be a member. Check out their website for info on what they stand for. They pretty much disappeared for years but are back and are growing again.
Roundup ‘The British Policeman’s greatest fear: a bare bottom’.
Describes the police overeaction to a man mooning a speed camera.
This is the same principle that caused Ronnie Biggs and the Great Train Robbers to get gaol terms of up to 40 years when murderers and sadistic torturers get less than that. ( yes a man died but that was not premeditated).
Their main offence was to humiliate the British State by robbing the Post Office (then a Crown Office).
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speed cameraPolice Community Safety Initiative likewise represents the State mockery of which will not be tolerated.“One in ten people in England are now on an NHS waiting list”
My 26yo niece (whom I’ve mentioned before) is on a waiting list to go on a waiting list to see a hospital consultant about her vaccine-causing problems. The Pfizer jab gave her a blood clot leading to a brain bleed. She’s had headaches for 12 weeks and a trip to the opticians revealed “granules” behind one of her eyes. The GP said this is linked to the blood clot, hence the need to see a consultant.
I’ve offered to pay for her to go private (because I am so concerned) but they are being given the runaround at the moment.
Having had recent experience within many areas of the NHS I can report that you get much quicker access to different departments if you are already under the care of a hospital Consultant, because, I am loathe to say this, they have the success of their treatment of you to think about only when you are under their care and not before.
Yet another recent example. I was briefly occupying an acute ward bed, having been tested and scanned the previous evening my diagnosis was given to me by the Consultant at midday
A further scan was needed to asses the likelihood of reoccurring problems which was booked for 11.30 the following day.
After asking to go home overnight the Consultant told me that if I presented as an outpatient for that second scan I would go to the back of thr waiting list. He came back later saying I’d got the best of both worlds, went home but kept the appointment slot.
All clear btw so his record safe & sound.
My niece is under the care of a consultant due to health problems that she has had for 3/4 years which they think are gall bladder related.
I’m sorry to hear about the delay that your niece is experiencing but the overnight stay outlined above was expedited within hours of contacting the department that has been looking after me since March despite my symptoms having nothing whatever to do with their speciality.
V sorry. She should get on social media and tell everyone she knows…
A friend of mine who has had to be double jabbed to work in a classical orchestra has been struck down with Covid.
He is OK (as one can be, at the moment, and not hospitalised
Being tested positive is not the same as being ‘struck down with Covid’ but I wish your friend well nevertheless.
Mind you, according to the Daily Mail report ‘Covid cases fall 18% . . .’ Doctors are ‘now finding it increasingly difficult to distinguish between Covid and the common cold because of the vaccine programme’.
Are they having a laugh?
Roundup ‘Covid cases fall 18% . . . ‘
Dail Mail.
The headline starts ‘Symptomatic cases . . .’
ie showing signs of illness but the rest of the report simply refers to ‘cases’ ie those testing positive.
Are they being sloppy or disingenuous?
The SNP! And as with all things wrong in Britain today, the root of blame is Thatcher, the Scots never forgave the Tories for the poll-tax.
The control force, will throw you on the ground & punch you repeatedly in the face for your own safety, tazer you (to kill you gently) for a dirty look & arrest you for the wrong word! Putting your arms out to stop your fall is considered resisting arrest & will be met with a choke hold! And it’s not the grunts to blame, but the neoliberal leaders who train them.
Your reference to Thatcher jogged my memory over something that has been niggling since the introduction last year of the silly Lockdown ‘Rule of 6’.
Where had we heard it before?
Secondary picketing, which she tried to outlaw using out of control paramilitary police to do so.
Current police guidelines allow up to 6 pickets only to gather outside a place of work; guidance that goes back to Mrs. T.s time in office and was the original ‘Rule Of 6’.
Never do anything original the Tories of they can help it.
I’m not sure how you blame the SNP, “at root” on Thatcher; my impression is that their success was largely a reaction by Scottish voters to decades of being ignored by Labour who arrogantly thought Scotland theirs by right simply because of the Scots hatred of the post Thatcher Tories.
Perhaps in that way she is blame?
Sadly the English working classes who rejected Labour but who have been let down by the Tories, not least over lockdown have no similar alternative to turn to as the SNP.
Not my downtick btw, as always.
No correlation between SNP, trans ideology & THATCHER, just that people won’t vote tory in Scotland since the poll tax, they vote SNP a) because they want autonomy from English conservative governance & b) there’s no one else to vote for in Scotland. eg labour are history, because they literally snubbed their voter base, the working class, but labour have always been led by the liberal middle-class, labour found a new fad to support, identity politics & threw fighting poverty into the dustbin.
The SNP are charlatans, they don’t give a toss about trans or anything leftist, its just a scam to curry favour with liberal voters. It’s hard to tell if the SNP advocate independence for power or seek power to advocate independence, but whatever, Scotland is a totalitarian state now.
It’s difficult to justify posting this here, but it is relevant to the manner we are subjected to government propaganda & social engineering! War is abhorrent & I find these stories reprehensible.
Terror of the Trenches… never looked so REAL: New colourised images give a glimpse of the carnage and camaraderie during some of WWI’s bloodiest battles
It wasn’t bravery, courage, honour or patriotism, that sent these men to their deaths, they were shot if they didn’t!
Heroes in furry coats! Brave pets who helped during two world wars are brought to life in colourised photos – including a mine-detecting dog and a ship’s cat who survived injuries from a cannon shell
Animals have no place in human conflict zones, people that intentionally do so deserve to be shot!
Horses have until very recently always been completely essential to human warfare up to and increasingly so during WW2. it’s the reason they were bred into the various successful breeds that they became.
Since the domination of the internal combustion engine the total number of horses in existence (one way of measuring success as with 8billion humans) has plummeted with the few remaining specimens used as toys by the idle rich.
Is this a pro-war argument or justification for using animals as weapons? Because as a true contrarian, I disagree with police dogs, horse riding, pit ponies etc etc too.
Neither, simply a statement of fact similar to the fact that there is more Neanderthal DNA existing in this world now as a result of inbreeding before they died out.
The amount of genetic stuff can be a way of measuring species success.
I’m not seeing the connection, there’s no point of selfish genetic regeneration if you’re a slave & not what evolution intended.
Evolution does not care about status, it merely wants genetic reproduction.
Hmm disagree, the ecological function of a thing is to compete, or you go extinct, numbers don’t guarantee survival its just a survival strategy.
Wasn’t aware there were any pit ponies left.
Disagree with horse riding eh?
Suppose you’ll be one of the landed gentry who prefers damaging hilltop moorland with your range rover.
Don’t know why you’d disagree with horse riding, unless you think they’d be better off being eaten instead?
Nah, as a libertarian, I don’t agree with enslaving another sentient being to carry me around when I have legs of my own.
Hahahahahahaha get out of here.
I’m a big advocate for biologically appropriate diets.
99.9% of all sentient creatures born end up being torn apart and eaten, dead or alive, by others.
In the same way that 99.9% of all life forms that have evolved subsequently became extinct.
It’s what put me off God
‘What a shitty plan’ as someone says in an early Mad Max movie.
Tell you what put me of god & creationism, people being totally nude, a lot of people don’t look good naked!
Dunno what he was thinking, perhaps it was a joke.
So we can’t take any statistics seriously, as we don’t know what criteria is used to record Covid deaths, false positives a huge problem, and Covid hospitalizations being counted even if they had no Covid on admission…
Looks as though we might as well just get on with life!
Perhaps someone can advise. I have not and will not be having the C19 injection, however I understand as a tax payer the Government will have bought 3 phials of the product on my behalf. I would like to donate my allocation to someone in the third world.
How do I do this, and I wonder if there are more people out there who would also like to donate their product.
Doubtful there are 3 doses with your name on it as the Government has no real idea of the size of the population or the NHS the competence to order so precisely for its legitimate registered users.
What I continue to find abhorrent is the very notion of donating a potentially tocic drug to the third world as though this is anything other than condescension and potential poisoning by proxy.
Please DS users stop playing along to the agenda that there is an alternative use for these drugs.
I think that those donations of surplus vaccines would happen by default (as it makes sense to distribute them to the vulnerable population in whatever country rather than blanket-vaccinate the entire population of your own), if it were not the fact that Pfeizer had been bullying the governments of third-world nations into accepting their terms of trading. This included disallowing the acceptance of donations of surplus vaccines from any countries with some to spare, hence cornering the market on vaccine provisions globally. If this situation continues then no matter how many people individually would pledge their phials of product to those nations in greater need of vaccinations for their elderly and vulnerable, it’s been made impossible and those nations are left with little choice other than to buy from Pfeizzer under their terms. (It’s likely other manufacturers have either done the same or will do similar in the near future to keep up with the competition)
If the vaccines really were humanity saving miracle drugs such terms of trade would be disgusting; since they are not the developing countries should tell the manufacturers to sling their hook.