News Round-Up
- “Birthday party was held for Boris Johnson at Downing Street during Covid lockdown” – Anger over gathering, after PM had written praising a girl called Josephine for cancelling her birthday party due to coronavirus guidance, reports the Telegraph.
- “Dr. Steve James talks to Julia Hartley Brewer on why mandates should be stopped” – Watch the brave unvaccinated doctor on talkRADIO.
- “The Emergency Must Be Ended, Now” – The time has come to terminate the pandemic state of emergency and end the controls, write Jay Bhattacharya, Harvey Risch and Paul E. Alexander on the Epoch Times.
- “It is vital that civil servants return to the office ” – There is no longer any public health justification for civil servants working from home, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “COVID-19: A Second Opinion” – Watch U.S. Senator Ron Johnson moderate a panel discussion where a group of renowned doctors and medical experts provide a different perspective on the global pandemic response (starts at 40:20).
- “The dubious ethics of ‘nudging’: We urgently need an independent inquiry” – Dr. Gary Sidley on Coronababble criticises the Government’s deployment of covert psychological strategies (‘nudges’) throughout the COVID-19 crisis to stoke fear-inflation, shaming and scapegoating as a way of increasing compliance with restrictions and the vaccine rollout.
- “Inside the surreal Dutch lockdown” – You can visit a brothel but not a bar, writes Senay Boztas in UnHerd.
- “Integrity. Dignity. Community.” – Dr. Robert W. Malone writes on his Substack page that where there is risk there must be choice.
- “Shield badges for Scots to distance from Covid” – Badges and lanyards have been made available to signal that the wearer would like others to give them extra space in public, reports the BBC.
- “The False God of Central Planning: The Mysterious Reappearance of the Flu, Natural vs Vaccine-Induced Immunity, the Inability of the Vaccines to Control the Virus, and Other Extraordinary Lessons About the End of the Pandemic (Investigative Report)” – Why did the flu disappear during Covid? Why is it back now despite ongoing Covid cases? And what does it signal about the end of the pandemic? New in-depth report from Julius Ruechel.
- “Half term holiday chaos: Children who had Covid but no PCR may be unable to use vaccine passports” – Countries including France and Italy require all over-12s to prove their vaccination or recovered status to access official Covid passes, but children whose diagnosis relied solely on LFT may not be able to, reports the Telegraph.
- “More than 1.5m people were wrongly told to shield from Covid-19, expert suggests” – Dr. Tony Williams estimates that 1.5 million people were wrongly asked to shield under the original English guidelines, while about 1.5 million who should have been shielding were never warned, reports the Telegraph.
- “Nervous system disorders after the jab – a case study” – Sally Beck in TCW on the disturbing story of Georgia-Rose Segal, who developed a serious neurological disorder following Covid vaccination.
- “The WFH bubble has burst” – During lockdown, a whole series of companies were wildly over-hyped, with business models that assumed the world had changed forever, when it was only a temporary crisis, writes Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “I was right about everything” – Well, almost everything, writes Russell David on Mad World in a post which he says he hopes will be his last on the madness we have endured.
- “‘Irresponsible’ BBC face furious backlash over Question Time anti-vaxxer appeal” – The BBC is facing “furious backlash” over calls for “anti-vaxxers” to appear on Question Time, reports Herald Scotland, with bias on full display.
- “The influential UK face mask reviews” – Hector Drummond reviews the four key Government reports on face masks and their inconsistent messages.
- “Destroy the One Ring, Frodo” – An engaging Lord of the Rings metaphor for the pandemic on the Automatic Earth.
- “I watched and felt like my entire life was falling apart because of what this Government did to young people” – Watch school pupil Sophie Corcoran break down as she recalls her experience of wearing a mask in the classroom on GB News.
- “Latest case rates by vaccination status show that double dosed have rates per 100,000 three times higher than unvaccinated” – Dr. Clare Craig has crunched the numbers.
- “It was reported by various media outlets that “a few hundred people” attended the NHS100K protest march in London on Saturday. This is what actually happened” – Watch the mythbusting video of the London march from James Melville.
- “Global Coal Consumption Reaches New Record High In 2021…China, India Consuming Two Thirds” – Reduction in fossil fuel use not yet happening, writes Pierre Gosselin on the No Tricks Zone.
- “The Church of England’s diversity mission has gone too far” – From now on, at least ten bishops on General Synod must be from an ethnic minority, writes Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator, which according to the Archbishop of York will help create a “church that truly embraces people of global majority heritage”. You what? Whose heritage is in a global majority?
- “Christian nurse to sue Portman Clinic as course said Bible was racist” – Amy Gallagher is preparing legal action against the Portman Clinic in North London after being told to watch lectures saying that white people are unconsciously racist, that Christianity is a racist religion, and that the Bible can be blamed for racism because it contrasts ‘darkness’ and ‘light’, reports the Mail. Donate to Amy’s crowdfunder here.
- “How quoting the Bible became a crime” – Vaguely worded hate-speech laws can turn widely held beliefs into criminal speech, writes Lois McLatchie in Spiked.
- “Building the Alt-Academy” – A guest essay on Glenn Loury’s Substack page by Albert Eisenberg calls for the creation of an ‘alt-academy’, a new kind of institution that will support the kind of serious research and teaching that is increasingly difficult to do in traditional universities.
- “Your report on the human rights situation in the EU is fabricated and untrue, end insane divisions and discrimination against citizens” – Watch MEP Mislav Kolakusic address Ursula von der Leyen in the European Parliament.
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Roundup. Anger over Boris Birthday Party. Telegraph.
Just can’t get hot and bothered about yet another flouting of his own lockdown rules by bozo the clown.
If he’d come clean about it when Partygate first surfaced or even at the start of Sue Wotsernames enquiry nobody would even have noticed this one, even with the tacking on of the little girls Birthday Party Sacrifice to add some negative “human interest” to this banal episode.
Does demonstrate a cavalier attitude towards his own supporters but that’s hardly a surprise either.
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The key point of course is that this all shows that No 10 knew all along that there was negligible danger to reasonably healthy adults.
Oh yes, I quite understand that, though I’m not sure it has sunk into the infantile mind of the Great British public. This episode is just one more by way of confirmation which bozo doesn’t give a toss about.
The press are only interested in how “unfair” it all was and so how righteously angry we are allowed to feel.
Just another distraction from the main issue that you point out.
I get annoyed by the imposition of the rules in the first place.
Getting annoyed about his rule-breaking implies the rules weren’t domestic abuse masquerading as science.
We were all annoyed about the imposition of the rules especially as it became clear to growing numbers of Sceptics that they were entirely uncalled for, if not positively harmful (note the creatures now crawling out of the woodwork crying about “why did they close the gyms and kiddies playgrounds?”)
That bozo refused to he bound by them simply comes as no surprise and he will probably survive politically but each and everyone else who attended or knew about those “illegal” functions is guilty of Conspiracy at least and should be hunted down and punished accordingly.
Happily I believe a Conviction for Conspiracy can carry an indeterminate sentence, no matter how petty the conspiracy itself.
Kim Jong Johnson is as amoral as it is possible to be, the most elementary thought is completely beyond him, he’s driven by whim.
Roundup. Dr. Steve Jones, Talk Radio Julia Hartley Brewer.
There will no doubt be consequences for Dr.Jones’s own career because of his views on compulsory vaxxing for health workers, which is essentially a political discussion.
But that film of him stepping in to tell Javid what’s what after the Health Secretary had bullied a group of (on duty, uniformed) nurses into embarrassed silence will become the defining footage of the whole Covid nonsense in the decades to come.
In response to the Doctors calm and professional yet clearly highly knowledgable assessment of the situation which Drs. of his calibre use all the time with possibly distressed patients, Javid was reduced to a parting dismissive sidelong jibe
“We take advice from real experts . . ”
The clear implication being that Steve Jones was unfit to comment but which exposed Javid as the sly fool that he is, made himself look like a put-upon Mr. Bean.
Perhaps a bit of a first to hear a reference to vaccine side effects in the nearly mainstream media
That remark probably got past an unsuspecting editor who was more interested in recording a row in public.
Dr Steve Jones stands out as an absolute hero in this. Not only did he step in and express exactly what we were all thinking, when Jabbit cornered those nurses, but his calm measured response blew Jabbit’s wobbly jellyfish reply out of the water!
Absolutely, his reassuring professionalism stood out a mile compared to the sadly cowed nursing staff and the revolting arrogance of Javid.
When/if the great NHS cull happens in April, Dr Steve could have a media career replacing useless Hillary Wotsisname; except the BBC (or whoever parades him) probably prefer to have a WHO disciple on the staff.
There are plenty more small to medium media outlets able to give Steve Jones an audience and income should he opt to go along that route (I’d rather have his expertise as my medical consultant).
Roundup “Dubious ethics if Nudging”.
‘Dubious’ reads as though there is some room for manoeuvre over the morality of using psychological warfare by a government against their own population. There is no such room, it is a strategy worthy only of the most totalitarian forms of government and was always bound to result in bad things happening.
It isn’t even new, governments of all types have been doing it for decades but the most obvious example of late was them spending 20 years ‘nudging’ drivers into buying diesel cars simply because it suited one particular aspect of Greenery as opposed to another. After 20 years a different view became fashionable and so diesel owners were castigated as selfish skinflints who didn’t care about giving kiddies cancer with their carcinogenic particulants.
That ‘science’s was not new being widely discussed on TV and radio current affairs programmes at the time.
Roundup. “You can visit a brothel but not a bar” (Netherlands). UnHerd.
Clickbait: the word ‘brothel’ appears only once in the entire article and then just to repeat the clickbait subheader.
I expect they mean that punters can visit a single hooker in a one room establishment (scantily dressed young
ladyperson under garish lights so beloved of movie makers but which are solely there for the benefit of tourists).Dutch bothels are run exactly the same as ordinary but with one night ‘members only’ entrance fees and so would face the same closure restrictions.
The absurdity is not dissimilar to the way that it is legal to smoke cannabis in regulated establishments but not if your joint includes tobacco.
“exactly the same as ordinary bars but . . .”
🍾 😉
Roundup; Shielding Distance Badges for Scots. BBC.
Resurrected from an original 1940s design for shoulder flashes to be worn by putative members of the Scottish Volunteer Waffen SS, Glasgow Brigade.
One can only imagine the kind of puffed-up, self-important, look-at-me-I’m-such-a-nice-person useless eater designing and promoting this inconsequential garbage instead of doing something truly useful.
I know exactly the sort of people you mean who will eagerly by hunting down what few badges and tacky lanyards are left over from the press release/PR stunt which itself will use up the £55k ‘invested’ by the Scottish government for this worthless scheme.
Having failed to find any originals let’s hope they try out a few ‘cut out and keep’ amateur versions of their own thus making themselves look even more ridiculous.
I believe the Scots Neds community have more direct ways of advising unwelcome people to
“keep the f*ck out of my space”.
Yup 🙁
They may as well wear a hat which declares, “I’m a science-denying, anti-social, BBC-loving, miserable b’stard!” Then everyone knows where they stand! LOL
“I’m a quad vaxxed believer in my personal wellbeing as promoted by the saintly Nicola Surgeon and if you come any closer I’ll post your picture on my Facebook and demonstrate your lack of care for my health on Tick Tock !”
The solution is to laugh and point at them.
As early male teens we would do that to random single people walking down the street (20s only, not the elderly or infirm). The idea was to see how much they looked about themselves, usually expecting to discover dog mess on their shoes.
I get the same effect wearing my shirt with this on it. People run a mile…..
Leeds United?🤔
“will never be defeated”
correct KV.
As a 1970s Chelsea fan, LUFC was always a needle match for reasons I never really understood.
It’s hilarious. Haven’t they sussed yet, that if you’re still wearing a nap nap we avoid you anyway! Mind you, I know people that would wear them like a badge of bloody honour. Like a family member who screamed at my husband to stand away from her…even though she’d proudly just announced she was double jabbed!!!🙄
Who was the German film star who line was
“sometimes I vant to be alone”
as she idly toyed with her silky cigarello?
Marlene Dietrich?
Think you are right.
Masks.
Vernon Coleman dubs them “training bras for slaves”
https://www.juliusruechel.com/2022/01/the-false-god-of-central-planning.html
If you’ve been wondering where the flu went this article is excellent reading. Essentially viruses “take turns” in which is going to be dominant every winter season, but due to its novel character Covid pushed out the flu for 2 years. Also explains how the statistics are wrong.
Agreed excellent read.
Yes I was just about to post how excellent this article is. Very clear and lucid.
It goes a lot further than just explaining about flu, it puts the whole various international experiences with covid into perspective.
It demonstrates why ‘covid’ itself is a ‘nothingburger’ , the problem lies with man, or rather a very few men/women.
Roundup. Half term chaos, LFT v PCR. Telegraph (paywall). It’s not just the continental types that go on for this sort of nonsense. Following a Covid+ test taken routinely during a scheduled hospital visit I duly did my 10 days isolation thus delaying treatment but not difficult for me since my medical condition requires me to be more or less isolated in any case. I could spend time outlining two very lengthy, somewhat amusing but utterly pointless phone conversations with the dreadful Track’n’Trace crowd but life’s too short. Following the 10, asymptomatic, days I was Iegaly unisolated so able to catch the bus, go shopping or to the pub. The one place that required extra proof of my non positive status was the very hospital unit that I would need to attend for further treatment of said medical condition. I reminded them that I had been sent an LFT kit so should I send it into them? “No” they said, “we need it to be a PCR test . . . ” Fine, send me one of those then. “we don’t do PCR tests from the hospital, you’ll need to go to (mass vaccination centre 7 miles out of town,… Read more »
Roundup. 1.5 million mis-shielded, further 1.5 million not warned who should have been. Telegraph (paywall).
Yup: despite having lifelong asthma and later onset COPD while knowing other people who had similar pre-existing comorbidities that had received shielding letters they didn’t get around to warning me to shield (in the most draconian ways) until well into Tiers (Autumn 2020).
Discarded their letter since spending the intervening months ignoring lockdown, out and about as a key worker coming up close and personal with a few thousand random strangers before masks, gloop, social distancing and the rest without coming to any harm.
Roundup. Former schoolgirl Sophie Corcoran tells it like it was, wearing masks in class. GB News.
I’m not usually moved by sobby schoolkids and their tales of woe but Sophie is different and well worth watching in full (2 min).
Roundup. “I was right about everything” Russell David. Mad World. Blimey, he Was tight too. I could spend a week responding positively to every part of this brilliant piece. Let us not forget that for all those now coming out as saying “yeah, that’s what I thought all along . . .” Lying bastards. It’s what We saw, We thought and what We often wrote were at lockdownsceptics, as was. Let’s hope Toby has got it all securely archived in case they try to cancel it. One very small example on the subject of mental health. Our local NHS has a large Victorian Gothic mental health unit (state of the art in its day).It caters for all sorts from casual drop-in chit chats to heavily secured Sectioned patients. That unit spent the first week of Lockdown One clearing out as many patients as it possibly could, sending them home in mini buses, taxis, ambulances with no regard to their clinical needs or domestic arrangements once home; such arrangements themselves under new forms of stress due to lockdown. It was done solely to avoid the embarrassment of having an on site Covid outbreak. I don’t suppose the mental health of any… Read more »
Couldn’t agree more!
At first I thought the headline said ‘Shielding badges for Scouts.’
Still makes sense to me. You persons should master the skills of craven cowardice and totalitarian gullibility as early as possible.
Next up: jabbing badges.
Snap, Scouts! Especially when alongside ‘lanyards’* which I still associate with Scouts rather than mask exemption.
*lanyard being the stringey rope thing worn around the neck on a proper Scout uniform from which to hang trusty ACME Metropolitan whistle and perhaps compass, if modern Scouts still have use for such outdoor adventure items.
Scottish government investment of £55k will probably just about cover the fees of the design agency.
The badge doesn’t look very big, how close would a poorly sighted individual have to be to try and take in its meaning and how long for the wearer to explain it? Close enough and time enough to pass on virulently contagious Omnicon.
Yes, I thought that that. They’re a bit small and not very clear. People will loom in closer to take a better look and….boom! Listen out for the random eruptions of major hysterics, coming to a town near you (in Scotland first).
The sample seems to be modelled on a denim jacket in which case they are indeed tiny. Probably produced as a minimum production run of a few hundred.
The results are in from the world’s largest study of ivermectin for COVID-19. Large, Peer-Reviewed Research Study Proves Ivermectin Works Against COVID-19
So it was murder.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is not worthy to lick Thomas Beckett’s bloodstained boots.
The featured quote
” church that truly embraces people of a global majority heritage”
reminds me of US politicians who assemble a range of reasonable sounding words but when they conclude their message they have said nothing of substance at all. They could swap a few words around, add a couple in or take some out, emptiness would remain the same.
Sadly Mr Trump is as bad at this as any of them.
I’m still trying to get my head round this weird piece of racism – are they suggesting that, because non-white people make up a majority of the world population, they must be a certain percentage of bishops? I hope there are going to be sub-divisions for Chinese bishops and Bishops from the Indian subcontinent. And also, a significant proportion of the world population must be muslim/hindu, don’t forget the non-Christian bishops.
On the other hand, 27% of the cabinet office consists of non whites compared to 14% of the uk population. By this logic we should be replacing Javid , Zahawi and Patel with indigenous white people.
Are Johnson and Raab “indigenous white people”?
Shapps and Lewis definitely aren’t.
They are not people, any of them.
With approx 44 million Chinese Christians and another 24 million in India alone that’s the UK total population matched already although the number of practising CofE is probably less than a million.
Of course we mustn’t discriminate against oversears Christian’s just because they are not CofE so Welby would be lucky to retain a courtesy seat at the new Synod which he can use to apologise for past racism.
So whites have to give way to non-whites because non-whites are a global majority.
Which means that whites are a global minority.
What about the rights of minorities, Jellybaby?
Bat-shit effing crazy isn’t it?
Just a reminder, in it together.-
Ursula von der Leyen is a German politician and physician who has been President of the European Commission since 1 December 2019.
Married to- Heiko Echter von der Leyen a German physician and member of the noble family von der Leyen, he is the Medical Director of the US biotech company Orgenesis which specializes in cell and gene therapies.
Gosh, another one with ‘interests’.
Another mere trifle.
She is not going to listen to anyone.
https://twitter.com/mislavkolakusic/status/1485159946958385159
This is what she wants.
https://twitter.com/ThierryMoine2/status/1485356816242552834
Mislav Kolakusic, Croation MEP tidily shows how von der Leyen has single handedly usurped many of the so called basic principles and freedoms of the overrated EU that cannot even protect itself from the unelected offspring of long renounced German aristocracy.
Good for him but give me English Common Law any day.
She and Klaus Schwab (?) could do worse than spend the rest of their lives procreating together.
She couldn’t look him in the eye could she?
He completely socked it to her. But sadly, he will be dismissed as a conspiracy theorist or some such
Unlike Mislav who directed himself directly at her so far as the floorplan of the chamber allowed.
Tuckers in Canada protest about medical apartheid.
Twitter.
Surprised that a feeble twerp like Justin Trudeau can face down a demonstration of Canadian manhood and womanhood like that.
“Irresponsible’ BBC face furious backlash over Question Time anti-vaxxer appeal”
The BBC finally turn up at the fire to kick the remaining embers, or are they really just thinking about the licence fees there’ll be losing.
They should have Mike Yeadon on from his bunker in Central America. He can explain to the country why he has left the UK at the same time.
Come on Mislav! Come on Mislav!
The venerable Croatian MEP’s name means ‘my glory’: and he’s doing us all proud.
I love his literal truth to power speeches. Straight out of the Classical world: when truth still mattered to a few.
People of those countries that laboured longest first under Ottoman domination followed by the Soviets have a much greater understanding of liberty than those from lazy liberal central Europe.
True: I was born in Poland in ‘Communist times’. The Polish nobility’s main ideal was Golden Freedom (zlota wolnosc), as it battled invaders from around the compass. Freedom and justice, not science or conspiracy, is the basis for my resistance.
I was amused by the Dutch ‘brothel yes, bar no’ link.
So the Orangemen can get their rocks off, but not get one ‘on the rocks’.
The government that put the ‘twerp’ into ‘Antwerp’.
Except Antwerp is in Belgium. Still might apply though!
My only excuse is that I used ‘Double Geography’ lessons to catch up on my sleep.
Most of my remaining geographical grasp comes from things remembered from ‘Two-Way Family Favourites’ on the steam radio.
(And I also know how to spell Keynsham, thanks to Capital Radio. Or, was that Radio Luxembourg?)
LOL!
Cant they arrange a press conference with Bojo apologising to Josephine in real life, from the Covid briefing room which they spunked a few billion on, just for comedy value
They could also inform us as to whether it was a ruse to snaffle Josephine’s cake in time for Boris’s bash.
Where to start with this one…
Let’s assume the BBC are sincerely offering a fair platform to so-called antivaxxers, can they guarantee the safety of anyone crazy enough to go on their show?
Because after all, the BBC have played an integral part in stoking up hate and fear of anyone who opposes the jab. You only have to read the comments in the attached article to see the blind hate people foster for us, whether the quotes are legit or not, we see such opinion everyday now in everyday life.
And the article itself is yet another example of reckless hate speech which ordinarily would be recognised as criminal.
BBC should be ignored and permanently boycotted for it is years/decades past the point of forgiveness.
Time to put the Covid Fanatics where they belong. Thousands have died prematurely during 2 years of devotion to covid and all other health issues ignored. They should be ashamed to be part of this. How many of them would refuse emergency treatment for their child by an UNjabbed medic, yet they want to deny people treatment by sacking them. Disgraceful..
Well said.
Shield badges for Scots
And yet another mechanism by which a select group of people can regard/label others as their abusers (those failing, either unawares or otherwise, to observe the badge-wearer’s ‘status’)?
Aren’t shields called ‘targes’ north of t’Border?
Just a put up job for the local press.
How many badges and lanyards will the cowardly public get after press and expenses have snaffled the measly £55k ‘invested” by the stingey Scottish government?
Can we please have Mislav Kolakusic as UK Prime Minister?
He can be Foreign Minister in Steve Jones’ Premiership
NHS100k protest – “a few hundred people”
MSM are utter shits. Constantly appealing to and feeding the basest in human nature. All the while, acting as the bastion of truth and morality. Complete an utter bastards. They have so much (not just for the moment) to answer for. A church of psychopaths and perverts.
Important to look at Covid case rates but equally important to not take our eyes off the cardiac wards etc and their temporal proximity to the jab. In addition to measuring viral loads using appropriate CTs it would be just as useful, if not more useful, to measure D dimer levels and other markers of inflammation such as used in the Cardiac PULS test. I’m sure that would raise more than a few eyebrows. “In fact, if you take account of the fact that newly vaccinated people who die are likely being misclassified as unvaccinated, because that’s the most likely explanation for the strange things in the data, then you get to the conclusion that the vaccines don’t seem to be reducing all-cause mortality rather produce a genuine spike in all-cause mortality shortly after vaccination.” Professor Norman Fenton of Queen Mary’s University. The media reports the exact inversion of the truth The bigger the lie and all that …. “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the… Read more »
Just heard some quack on the Steve Wright show (the wife still likes R2) state that ‘we know masks cut transmission by 35%’. I immediately lodged a complaint with the Ministry of Truth. If anyone else heard it they should do the same. To my knowledge there has never been any evidence for such a claim.
I am enjoying following the Canada freedom convoy. Very inspiring
History is written by the winners so we must make sure that we do and the next battle starts at midnight with getting rid of the face nappies.