News Round-Up
- “Rebel MPs plot to oust Boris Johnson, as Covid ‘Plan B’ restrictions to be scrapped” – Details of ‘pork pie plot’ among Tories first elected in 2019 emerge as PM prepares to drop work from home guidance and Covid passports, reports the Telegraph.
- “The curse of Covid: can any leader survive the pandemic?” – The political future may well belong to those who can restore the liberties that lockdown measures tore away, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Hospitals Should Hire, Not Fire, Nurses with Natural Immunity” – Hospitals are firing nurses and other staff with superior natural immunity while retaining those with weaker vaccine-induced immunity, writes Professor Martin Kulldorff on the Brownstone Institute.
- “My life as an outcast under Macron’s vaccine passport scheme” – “When the vaccine pass comes into effect later this week, I will not be able to enter a bar or a restaurant”, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator, after choosing not to get a third dose.
- “Boris Johnson must set out a sensible post-pandemic strategy” – An opportunity has arisen for a completely new approach to Covid. The Prime Minister should seize it, says the Telegraph in its leading article.
- “Overdue for Sanity: Covid Confessions” – It has been a fascinating ten days for confessions, writes Omar Khan, with CDC Director Walensky announcing “the overwhelming number of deaths, over 75%, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities”.
- “Austria Will Mandate Covid Vaccinations and Impose Fines. The Rest of Europe May Follow” – In two weeks’ time, Austria is set to become the first European country to make vaccines mandatory, reports TrialSite News.
- “Covid could still save Boris” – England can lead the world out of pandemic, writes Freddie Sayers, optimistically, in UnHerd.
- “Covid: what the hell happened and why?” – Gabrielle Bauer in Bournbrook says that in her search for answers, she has found Moral Foundations Theory very helpful.
- “Navy bosses warn sailors they face the sack if they decline jab” – In a significant hardening of Royal Navy policy, personnel who continue to decline the jab have been told it could cost them their careers, reports the Daily Mail.
- “Shapiro wins big in Supreme Court vaccine battle” – Laura Perrins in TCW on the U.S. Supreme Court’s cancellation of Biden’s vaccine mandate.
- “Scanned: Why Vaccine Passports, Mandates, and Digital IDs Will Mean the End of Privacy and Personal Freedom” – New book by Nick Corbishley commended by Dr. Peter McCullough as “an emergency read”.
- “Official mortality data for England suggest systematic miscategorisation of vaccine status and uncertain effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination” – The latest pre-print from Professor Norman Fenton, Dr. Clare Craig and other leading pandemic analysts that digs into anomalies in the data to ask if all is as it seems.
- “Two thirds of Covid vaccine side effects are imagined, study suggests” – Scientists found people who were given a dummy injection became ill because they anticipated a negative effect, reports the Telegraph. Presumably this doesn’t include ‘imaginary’ myocarditis and blood clots.
- “Former Bay Area Lockdown Guru: ‘OK Everybody Please Stop Locking Down Now’” – “It’s time to start living again,” says Zero Covid thinkfluencer Tomas Pueyo, according to Eugyppius on his latest Substack update.
- “Novak Djokovic: thoughtcriminal” – Australia deported him over his personal beliefs. What a dreadful precedent to set, writes Tom Slater on Spiked.
- “Unvaccinated Italian Priests Banned from Distributing Holy Communion” – Two Italian bishops have banned any unvaccinated priests from distributing Holy Communion at Mass in their respective dioceses, reports Breitbart.
- “Petition: Revoke compulsory wearing of facemasks on public transport and in shops” – Sign the petition on the Parliament website which argues: “The recent mandating of masks should be overturned forthwith and we should return to making it a matter of personal choice whether or not to wear one.”
- “Hong Kong to cull 2,000 hamsters and small mammals over Covid case” – A Delta outbreak in ‘Zero Covid’ Hong Kong will result in the culling of 2,000 small mammals after one was suspected of infecting a pet shop employee, reports the BBC. Not the hamsters!
- “Discordant SARS-CoV-2 PCR and Rapid Antigen Test Results When Infectious: A December 2021 Occupational Case Series” – Pre-print study which casts doubt on the effectiveness of LFTs against Omicron, concluding: “Most Omicron cases were infectious for several days before being detectable by rapid antigen tests.”
- “Thousands of children have fallen off the radar during lockdown, warns Dame Rachel De Souza” – Children’s Commissioner launches inquiry to track down youngsters who may be at risk because they are not in the classroom, the Telegraph reports.
- “Climate Alarmists Conceal Global Temperature Anomaly Measurement Declines Despite Increasing Atmospheric CO2” – The failure of COP26 may be fortuitous given the latest global temperature measurement results, which show a multi-year decline, reports Watts Up With That?
- “When are we going to take radical Islam seriously?” – The terror in Texas confirms that British Islamism has become a global menace, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Inside the Tory trans civil war” – MPs vilify their colleagues for criticising Stonewall, while Conservative MP Crispin Blunt complains to Surrey Police and Crime Panel about tweets by Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner Lisa Townsend which dared to question whether men who think they’re women are actually women.
- “The snakes and ladders game of statues” – Timothy Bradshaw in TCW on the question of how we keep our connection with the past without always condoning it.
- “Boris can’t fix the migrant crisis” – The missing ingredient is political will, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator, as “moving to an offshore processing model would require Britain to withdraw from a thicket of outdated international agreements, such as the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees”.
- “The Press arrived believing a plot was under way so everyone left by the backdoor” – Christopher Hope tweets about the febrile atmosphere currently surrounding the Prime Minister.
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Okay. We know that Hammersmith Plod are ostensibly on the case. Now we have this:
https://youtu.be/y_b1BsviIgU
2021 had the fewest global hurricanes in the satellite era
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/
Good spot from Bjorn Lomborg: By Paul Homewood
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Off topic (but as good a place as any to post it) I’m aware that there was an article on this topic yesterday, but it’s now disappearing down the page. This is what a colleague has been told re. the mandatory vaccines for NHS staff by their HR dept: On 6 January, the amendments to the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 came into effect; it is now the law that staff, workers, contractors, volunteers, apprentices and students over 18 who have direct or indirect contact with patients must be double vaccinated for COVID-19 as a condition of deployment, from Friday 1 April.Due to the eight-week gap between doses, to achieve this, staff who have not had their vaccination must have received their first dose of the vaccine by 3 February 2022.You can find that information and answers to any questions you may have here. (link removed by me)Line managers are now arranging to meet informally with staff who are covered by the regulations but whose vaccination status we don’t know. This meeting will be an opportunity for staff to talk to their managers about any concerns they have and what will happen if unvaccinated staff choose not to get vaccinated;… Read more »
Oops, typo! Should read ex-colleague. I no longer work in the NHS; looks like I got out in time.
I’ve got a genuine question. In the above piece, reference is made to staff “whose vaccination status we don’t know”. If staff members choose not to reveal it, what can management do about it? What’s to stop people from refusing to tell them? Presumably they cannot access staff medical records without consent because of data protection and GDPR? Or are they telling staff they’ll be sacked anyway if they don’t reveal it?
Apart from the immorality of sacking people over a medical “treatment”, something is very off here. Well, the coercion is off the scale to begin with. And where on earth are the unions in all this – presumably they agree with it, as they’ve been very quiet?
My friend tells me he has been told he will be sacked if he does not provide proof he has been ‘stabbed’ with the gunk. He also tells me the “staff will be redeployed to other jobs” is a red herring. Given the definition given to him by his line-manager, even staff working outside the patient area of the hospital (in his case, a separate office block not connected in any way to the main hospital) have to be jabbed.
First question I asked. It appears they don’t want to know. Disgusting!
Thank you for clarifying. I was genuinely puzzled. Staff are clearly being coerced and threatened, I don’t know how that sits with the concept of informed consent.
Horrifying whichever way you look at it.
Quick question to all, especially those who track the legislation of this farce.
I can only find this SI referring to the Law quoted in the post above: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/15/made
Johnson pushed this through on the same day ‘the 100’ voted against vax passes.
It only mentions care homes. Does anyone know when the amendment was made for hospitals, and where I can find it?
Hi Cerian,
I am not qualified in any way to understand legal documents, but if you look at the original Act 2008, to which the document you refer is an amendment, it is clear to me that this Act covers both the provision of health care and social care. So I suppose the amendment automatically covers hospital care as well as social care.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/14/notes/division/2/2
My best guess.
Thanks, Kate; I’ll pass that on. 🙂
Western governments and the globalist institutions that control them murdered millions of men, women and children to destroy the Anglo-Saxon concept of privacy and impose a new centralised financial system. That’s what happened. It was a holocaust.
I gather that ‘moral foundation theory’ abolishes the difference between good and evil by viewing them as neutral choices, like preferring tea over coffee.
Hearty applause from Satan.
I agree that the author is belittling the importance and huge negative consequences of the choices, but the idea and concept itself is quite illuminating.
If you read The 4th Turning as well, you also have the answer why the amount of people on each side of the spectrums and as such the agenda driving majorities change back and forth over time.
Come on, Toby, Will, et al. Get on here and cover this:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/covid19deathsandautopsiesfeb2020todec2021
Number of deaths where COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate, 1 February 2020 to 31 December 2021, by sex and age group, England and Wales
Total: 6,183
Otherwise known as OF Covid!
One in every 24,000 people in the UK have died per annum of Covid. I think all the sacrifice was well worth it.
Biggest con in human history.
There’s also this FOI to consider, too:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/deathsfromcovid19withnootherunderlyingcauses
Dan Wooton called this out in his GBNews programme a couple of nights ago.
If you went to any A&E department pre-plandemic you’d find the waiting room full of people. You would find “patients” there waiting to see a doctor with such serious emergencies as the nail varnish they had painted on their right big toe being a different tone than the varnish they put on their left big toe.
Social taxpayer funded health care in the UK simply made emergency waiting rooms points of social contact. I wonder how all these hypochondriacs managed during the lockdown when they couldn’t while away their days by decamping to the A&E day-care centres?
Russian troops massing not just in Russia but in Belarus. Some units have been transported from the east coast of Russia – a distance of 9,000 km.
Russian embassy staff are being reduced in Kiev and it seems that almost every ship has been moved out of ports in Norfolk, Virginia; San Diego, Pearl Harbor and Guam. and Faslane also.
Britain doing its best to stir the pot by sending weapons to Ukraine on a large scale.
But every day on BBC/ITV/Sky is a slow news day unless it concerns Covid., vax and wokeness. There’ll be no woke and very little vaxing if our decadent society dissolves into ashes.
The appeasing liberal wild West will do nothing to defend doughty Ukraine.
They should never have left the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
You cannot trust the Tsar!
On the climate alarmism thing all I can do is ask Anthony Watts and all his disciples about disappearing Arctic sea ice.
Twenty years ago both the North West Passage and the Northern Sea Route around Russia were largely closed to sea traffic for most of the year. Now there’s panic about ice in November during the six months of northern darkness! I did some research about sea traffic via the NSR and discovered that the main reason for a plateau in traffic since 2014 is western sanctions.
You are so wrong; just look at how the ice has been rebuilding over the last 6 or 7 years ( https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/ Click on the last few years, on the right, to see this). Totally consistent with the falling of global temperatures over the last few years – despite ever rising CO2 levels. Use you brain; read around; and don’t believe every word from the BBC/Sky/etc – actually don’t believe ANY word from the BBC etc!
The chart deals with sea ice extent and not thickness – hence volume. Sea ice can basically mean everything from thick multi-year ice (which hardly exists at all in the Arctic) to slush.
Volume is what is key – that is why shipping through the NWP and NSR is now possible.
PS I don’t get anything from Sky – I read books and look at various sources for my information.
https://www.uncommonwisdom.online/post/overdue-for-sanity-covid-confessions
This is the best article – by far – that I’ve read on Covid.
I would send it to everyone I know but everyone I know has been vaccinated. And, apparently, lobotomized.
Good link cheers
Yes, I thought so too, and have already sent it to someone vaxxed, hoping it stirs some thought. 🙂
from the article
“You have to exult when in contrast, Japan, in more spiriting breaking news has annulled all “vaccine passports” and has put a myocarditis warning on the “vaccines” inviting people’s informed choice. That and not rear view mirror outrage is what we need to be affirming and rallying for.”
Roundup “thousands of (at risk) children have fallen off the radar during lockdown. Childrens Commissioner.”
Telegraph. 18/1/22.
Can’t read because paywall.
Without wishing to make light of such a serious issue the Childrens Commissioner, Dame Rachel se Souza, is falling well behind.
It was being reported as early as Spring 2020 that Social Services were only placing 10% of children identified as “at risk” in the school places provided for them and for the children of Key Workers.
Presumably pre-identified as being at risk because of chaotic domestic circumstances, that risk being enhanced by being cooped-up with unstable household members as a result of lockdown restrictions.
This failure by Social Services was never explained but Working From Home probably didn’t help.
Sadly I have been told that in some schools children created barriers between themselves
“I’m here because my dad’s a Fireman but they only let you in because your mum’s a junkie”.
I fear this is not so much about them wanting to protect (something they failed to do from the start and sadly I suspect there are many children who have gone permanently ‘missing’ during the last 2 years) as wanting to stop people electively home educating their children. Numbers have gone up about 70% including my grandson. He is happier, his behaviour is much improved and his learning is far superior to what was being achieved in school and he’s not being indoctrinated. They will want to put a stop to it.
My daughter is much happier too. How long do you think we have til they force us to put them in
prisonschool?Good morning everyone. As I rose this morning, a thought came into my head regarding today’s expected troubles (to put it mildly) for Boris Johnson. This was the sheer EXTENT to which “The Emperor Has No Clothes” is a feature of current Britain. It’s not only the huge lies relating to respiratory virus infection. It’s not only the huge lie of anthropogenic climate change. Yesterday I remarked here that the possibility that Sue Gray had interviewed or would interview Dominic Cummings was an OBVIOUS point to raise, and that the fact that nobody in the MSM had asked it was a fine illustration of how centralised the control over the MSM actually is. Well here are two other illustrations of the same point, and they both relate to the same guy, Dominic Cummings: 1) If you think the “2019 intake” of Tory MPs, also known as the “Redwall Tory MPs”, or in other words the MPs who gained seats for the Tories in Northern England, will want RISHI SUNAK as prime minister, then you seriously MUST BE JOKING – you can’t have been following much that’s been happening in British politics since 2016. 2) It was flaming OBVIOUS that the… Read more »
Don’t be too hard on Cummings. Due to ongoing problems with his eyesight he thought he was in his own back garden.
Yep – and how creative he proved to be with the invention of his new, possibly trade-marked, eyesight test!
I am personally livid with Johnson and the lying media – plan B restrictions are not being scrapped with facemasks, the master tool of oppression – to remain.
He is moving at the pace of a slug.
Leadership challenge NOW please, he’s a dead man walking and every day he’s in place will lose more and more votes. (And I’m a Tory member!) The feeling in my constituency is not one active member will ever support him again.
Great collection of articles/links! Thank you very much. Particularly for the one from Uncommon Wisdom. 🙂
The Telegraph article starting “two thirds of vaccine side effects…” is not worth reading, though it does state “Experts said that people should be warned they could experience nocebo symptoms in order to lessen fears” [of the jab].
Perhaps they should also consider the effect of the promotion of the fear of covid to which we have all been subject over the last couple of years and ponder how many of those who have had a hard time with covid and indeed those with long covid have experienced nocebo symptoms.
I said this back in March 20, because it seemed to me that many of the oldest and most frail were being literally frightened to death by all the Covid propaganda and hysteria, because of how powerful the Nocebo effect is.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60037173.amp
At least these folk are still alive!
I believe these threats againt Russia are the next phase of the other side’s programme, especially now that it seems they realise they cannot push the CV hysteria much further.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ePI12Lg_qdA/
It is astounding how little coverage of foreign affairs there is on the MSM nowadays. Mercouris says that sanctions against Russia will rebound onto the EU, and further raise energy costs.
Disconnection of Rissia from SWIFT will further undermine the global financial system.
Doctors are disappearing in rural Western Australia. They’re being eaten by purple squid monsters!
Wait… you think there might be another explanation?
The German Government’s PEI did a test of antigen tests recently.
Out of 245 only 2 had a 100% sensitivity and 14 one of over 90%.
The rest was objectively useless, 45 were extremely so/fraudulent.
Only those 45 were pulled.
You might as well roll a dice.
Analysis can be found at sciencefiles.org
The ‘Overdue for Sanity’ article deserves the widest possible distribution
Since this year the news about the violent protest in The Netherlands reached the British headlines.
I said here, at the time that these protests, which we meant to be peaceful, were high-jacked by extremist. These extremist have other motives. One example I gave of the way the Dutch peacefully protest about Covid restrictions was to hold firework events which were banned for the second year running.
I am pleased to write about more peaceful protest about the stupidity of some of the restrictions brought in by Rutte.
Some of the latest were to draw attention to the unequal treatment of the cultural sector with other sectors. Hairdresser were allowed to open, but cultural sector not. What did they do. Use a concert hall for a hair dressing saloon.
News in Dutch
Same here. Again in Dutch.
The Dutch Street organ museum, in Utrecht. Opened because you can exercise using the wheel to turn the barrels of the street organs. Gyms can open on a limited capacity and cultural locations have to remain closed.
Shame that peaceful protest never make the news.
Another good analysis – thought provoking from Rancourt
https://www.bitchute.com/video/CvSFYAM4pMP1/
He seems to think the geopolitical war between the west and Russia and china includes the extreme control on domestic populations imposed by the Vax pass covid measures.
A CIA coordinated campaign to impose these measures prior to an upregulated hot/cold war with Russia China. All countries want maximised control internally as part of the war measures.
The west has found a way to remove the nuisance of democracy prior to increased aggression directed externally.
So Klaus Schwab the NEF etc etc are just hoaxes to divert attention from the next phase of the global struggle between great powers.