News Round-Up
- “Daily Covid cases fall 23% to 41,270 while deaths drop by 30% to 52” – Department of Health figures show that the number of new reported cases week on week has fallen from 54,095 last Sunday to 41,270 today while deaths have also dropped from 75 to 52, reports the Mail.
- “Will Trudeau’s clampdown on the Freedom Convoy backfire?” – The next few days could end up being some of the most important in Canadian history, writes Michael Taube in the Spectator.
- “The propaganda war on the Canadian truckers” – The U.S. media are shamefully smearing the ‘Freedom Convoy’ as a far-right menace, writes Sean Collins in Spiked.
- “Anxiety Grips Canberra’s Freedom Camp” – John Stapleton in a Sense of Place with an update on the Canberra Freedom Convoy protest in Australia, which is facing some challenges.
- “To isolate or not to isolate: how to navigate the new etiquette of COVID-19” – Without legal restrictions or the Prime Minister to guide us, we will have to fall back on our manners and our morals, writes the Gates-funded Global Health Security team at the Telegraph, and without hysterics – a further sign of how ‘the Science’ is shifting.
- “Was Sweden right about Covid all along?” – The land of commonsense seems to be thriving while Britain is counting the cost of harsh lockdown restrictions, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Today’s pandemic response is eerily similar to the smallpox pandemic response” – Steve Kirsch tells the story of the 19th century smallpox vaccine mandates that were removed after a public backlash following suspicion they were making things worse.
- “Humza Yousaf: Scotland should not be forced into Covid easing” – Scotland Health Secretary Humza Yousaf says Scotland should be free to continue restrictions, reports BBC News.
- “Stillbirths, Miscarriages and Abortions in Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated Women” – Josh Guetzkow on Jackanapes Junction looks at worrying data from Rambam hospital in Israel, which reveal a stillbirth, miscarriage and abortion (SBMA) rate of 6% among women who never received a COVID-19 vaccine, compared to 8% among women who were vaccinated with at least one dose.
- “The day Boris tried to bribe me” – Toby in the Spectator says the reason the public is angry is because Boris abandoned his usual schtick when the pandemic struck and for the first time in his life asked people to take what he was saying at face value, even though he didn’t believe it himself, as his subsequent behaviour made clear.
- “Next Covid strain could kill many more, warn scientists ahead of England restrictions ending” – Demands grow for Government science chiefs to reveal evidence backing move to lift last protective measures, according to the latest alarmist article in the Guardian.
- “How the NHS fritters away your taxes” – Diversity has become a whole industry within the health service, with its practitioners earning half as much again as the average nurse, writes Ross Clark in the Mail.
- “Open Letter with Notice of Legal Obligations and Potential Liabilities to anyone Advocating or Administering COVID-19 Vaccines to Children” – Read the latest open letter from the U.K. Medical Freedom Alliance.
- “New Study: ‘On the Basis of Observational Data, the Climate Crisis…is Not Evident Yet’” – Watts Up With That reports on a new non-alarmist study in the European Physical Journal Plus.
- “‘Net Zero’ may become as divisive as Brexit” – When April utility bills hit the nation’s collective doormat, we could see not only mass protests, but widespread non-payment, writes Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
- “How Britain’s fracking industry was regulated into irrelevance” – The problem, writes Andrew Mountford in the Spectator, is that the Oil and Gas Authority’s remit contains nothing about making sure energy companies deliver for consumers nor about national energy security, but revolves entirely around delivering Net Zero.
- “Fracking ban must stay because ‘U.K. is not Utah’, insists minister” – Lord Goldsmith says Tory ministers would pay a high political price if the current moratorium on fracking is overturned owing to fracking’s deep unpopularity with the public, reports the Telegraph.
- “The woke Left is destroying the Anglosphere” – Cultural relativism is shattering faith in our nations and weakening the ties bind us with our global allies, writes Douglas Carswell in the Telegraph.
- “Tony Blair: ‘Voters don’t want a situation where women can’t talk about being women’” – Labour should disarm the Tories by grasping the transgender issue in a way that makes it absolutely clear the party is on the side of facts, says the former PM in the Times. Plus: University “no-platforming” is “ridiculous”, he says.
- “House of Lords is latest to say no to Stonewall after mother of all rows” – The House of Lords has abandoned a workplace inclusivity programme run by Stonewall following a row about the use of gender-neutral language in legislation, reports the Times.
- “Can Edinburgh really blame Henry Dundas for the evils of slavery?” – The current text on the plaque beside the statue of Henry Dundas can be considered patently absurd, erroneous, and ‘bad history’, and Edinburgh City Council has a moral duty to amend or remove it as soon as possible, writes Scottish Historian Professor Angela McCarthy in the Spectator.
- “New trans laws in Scotland could open up ‘loophole’ for rest of UK” – Fair Play for Women said the SNP plans would allow people from England, Wales and Northern Ireland to obtain a legal change in gender, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘There were some good things about colonialism’: Woke war erupts” – The Mail reports on an Anglican PR chief who has had to defend himself after telling a shocked General Synod there were “some good things about colonialism”, and that a former bishop in Borneo had told him “he wished the Church of England would stop apologising for colonialism” as “if it wasn’t for colonialism, we’d still be headhunters”.
- “Nadhim Zahawi tells schools to root out activist teachers” – Nadhim Zahawi will this week issue guidance for schools to ensure teachers make a “balanced presentation of opposing views” when discussing political issues with their students, reports the Mail.
- “Freedom Convoy – Speech by Canadian Army Major Stephen Chledowski” – Watch the army officer’s speech on the tyrannical suppression of basic rights and freedoms during the pandemic, particularly now of the unvaccinated.
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Well, for once there are some encouraging poll numbers. If only Canadians had seen through Turdeau before the recent election! Then again, their “Conservatives” seem to have been as useless as ours through this pandemic panic.
“A new Maru Public Opinion poll shows a possible career-ending backlash against Justin Trudeau’s handling of the freedom protesters.
In a National Post interview, 32-year industry veteran John Wright, executive vice president of Maru Public Opinion said, “The last time I’ve seen numbers even close to this was in the final days of Brian Mulroney.”
The Maru poll, which was conducted from Feb. 9 to 10, found that only 16 percent of Canadians would vote for Trudeau based on his actions of the last two weeks. This is echoed in a new Abacus poll, which currently finds Trudeau to have his worst favorability rating in over a year.”
Freedom protesters may spell the end of Trudeau’s career: Poll
Mind you, with similar regime problems across the US sphere and Biden’s poll numbers spectacularly bad (though in fairness, not too bad for a senile corrupt old hair-sniffer who could only ever win a Presidential election by cheating), the possibility of a “wag the dog” war seems disturbingly real. Perhaps therein lies the reason for the seemingly determined push to provoke the Russians into war in the Ukraine, and the sudden reappearance of wall to wall anti-Russian demonisation propaganda in the regime propaganda outlets? “According to a CNN poll, the majority of voters are unhappy with President Joe Biden’s job performance during his first two years in office. The poll also revealed just 37% approve of Biden’s handling of the economy, while 62% disapprove. Another 58% disapprove of the president’s job overall, with only 41% approving. “That’s a tough number,” CNN anchor John King said. “We’re only in a midterm election year.” “We asked people, ‘What has President Biden done for you that you approve of?'” King said. “Fifty-six percent of Americans, nearly 6 in 10 Americans — that means a decent amount of Democrats — said ‘Nothing.'” “They disapprove of everything that has happened,” he added. “Fifteen percent say… Read more »
Trudeau called an early election, bringing it forward from 2023 when, under the current circumstances he would almost certainly have lost. The Liberals came second anyway but were still able to form a minority government… perhaps he knew what was coming?
How did he get in at all? I remember watching the election and realizing the Anglosphere countries really do seem to be in the grips of some kind of Stockholm Syndrome. Have we really all become so soft and fearful that an obvious global puppet like Trudeau can have any chance of success? Virtually nothing the guy says is pro-Canada; even a cursory jaunt through his public statements reveal a man who hates Canada and wants to destroy it.
That is a rhetorical question of course. For us in the UK this all really kicked in with Tony Blair. But why are we voting in people destroying our amazing nations? Why do we allow any kind of pro-country movement to be written off as some kind of hard-right white supremacy movement?
Future historians will have a field day.
I think it’s because politics today is more of a beauty contest than judging who has the best policies.
It’s all about appearances and sound bites and looking and sounding “good”, in a manner approved by the left wing, journalists, and people living in Islington. Then they can dig up things from the past and shriek about them. “Politician X had a goldfish that died! ” leading to Politician Y promising better standards of goldfish welfare if he was elected, and a general chorus of disapproval against Politician X’s neglect of the goldfish community.
Also, most people are ignorant, and most want free stuff, so the party that promises most free stuff will win.
1.How do the people of Islington get to vote for Trudeau? Call an enquiry for fraud now
2.if it’s a beauty contest how come we got Johnson
3.if it’s all left wing how do some countries get right wing leaders such as Macron?
“There’s probably an Islington in Canada” Duh! Presumably concrete68 knew full well how fatuously spurious that response was. “He’s cuddly and engaging. I can’t stand the man, and he’s been a disaster, but he’s got a posh matiness that seems to work.” That’s one reason Johnson succeeded. The more important reasons, probably, are Brexit, which is the great exception to the leftist dominance of the past few decades and which Johnson opportunistically rode into office, and the fact that the “Conservative” Party is objectively leftist, and is of the Blairite leftist faction which has predominated in our elites since at least 1997. The Blairite and old leftist factions hate each other even more than they hate traditionalists and conservatives, as evidenced by the sheer venom and dishonesty with which Corbyn, as a representative for the old leftist faction, was savaged by our media. When faced with a choice between a safe Blairite albeit in “Conservative” costume and their old leftist factional rivals, it was a no brainer for the Blairite media types. Note that, Brexit aside, the “Conservatives” have made not a single substantive change to the established Blairite misrule in this country, despite more than a decade in office… Read more »
Here’s what 12 years of “Conservative” rule has gotten us: PUBLIC SECTOR’S HIGHEST-PAID DIVERSITY OFFICER EARNS MORE THAN PM “New government transparency data has revealed the highest-paid diversity officer in the public sector is making just as much money as the Prime Minister. Raking in £160,000-£164,000 a year at the taxpayers’ expense, Network Rail’s Director of Diversity & Inclusion, Loraine Martins, is responsible for ensuring the railway is more “open, diverse and inclusive“. In fact if she does a good job, she can actually earn more than the PM, whose salary is capped at £161,866. When she’s not making sure your commute is open, diverse and inclusive, she’s also found time to share tweets accusing the government of corruption and Boris Johnson of ‘white privilege‘.” This is a corrupt political sinecure, using tax funding to push Blairite leftism, as are all and every single “diversity and inclusion” position in the country. That’s just one individual raking in £160k in money stolen from taxpayers and abused to manipulate them. Think of the vast sums going to support Blairite dominance nationally, both through such directly tax-funded state positions and through all the similar positions created by Blairites, or directors desperate to pander… Read more »
The big money is of course in “private business” – provided it’s on a grand scale.
As it was in the orders from Davis…under “How to deal harshly with protest” of course he did,
Police sabotage heavy equipment at Coutts
RCMP sabotaged three excavators to prevent their usage at the blockade in Coutts, Alberta
LOL! Canadian police ask protesters to move their excavators out of sight of the highway, then once they are out of sight, vandalise them to render them inoperable.
Is there anyone, other than the regime apparatchiks and extreme covid cowards themselves, who still hasn’t recognised which side is the side of truth and decency here?
Stirring speech by Major Chledowski.
Was Sweden right all along?
Yes. We said so all along.
A country that wants people to show Vaxx Passes upon entry, or ‘proof’ of a negative result from a test, is “right”?
Sweden is a rather dull and boring country, and has adopted the same ‘Covid narrative/agenda’ as other European countries.
This is just a ‘grass is greener somewhere else’ thing.
The Swedes are no knight in shining armour coming to rescue anyone.
You know very well neither Annie nor anyone else here approves of vaxx passes or test for entry, neither do we think Sweden is perfect in every respect with regard to covid or anything else. We’re not idiots. I’ve always said they thought covid was more important than it was, but crucially their reaction was in general one of persuasion rather than coercion. Stockhold October 2020 was quiet and had some very limited restrictions in place but was light years away from the situation in the UK. Sweden represented the counterfactual to confound the lockdown zealots – we know very well it was not their mission to rescue us, but it was very important to have that example.
I think the only place to be completely restriction free was South Dakota, and maybe Belarus, but neither of those places were suitable as a counterfactual, for different reasons.
Yes, Belarus had the best approach of all (do absolutely nothing) and demonstrably disproved the whole lockdown fable. However, like you say, it’s simply not an example that would have been accepted or even publicised in the Western media.
I’ve been to Sweden and I found it a beautiful, friendly, sane and peaceful country where I could happily live.
Sweden was right to not lock down, end of story.
Vaccine passports were brought by another Prime Minister.
Sweden wants people entering to show Vaxx Passes or ‘proof’ of being ‘negative’ from a ‘test’.
That’s all there is to it, from my angle.
Just another country promoting the Great Covid Scam.
The big question now is how are Vaxx Passes to be kept valid? I think it unlikely that they are going to be swept away. 4th ‘vaccine’?
Face masks everywhere here in Helsinki… 99% (I’ve seen a few without them).
Since 2020, Anders Tegnell has retired and the Swedish Prime Minister has been changed, hence the policy changes.
You conveniently ignore relevant facts.
No vaxx passes for now in England other than favourable treatment for the vaxxed on return for abroad
That could of course change
Sweden bought into the scam, yes, but their reaction was much more sensible and less unpleasant than most other countries, which has been helpful to us, sadly not as helpful as we had hoped
There are very few people on this planet who believe that the correct reaction to covid was to do very little, and very few governments that chose to not intervene. One notable place that took a very principled stance was South Dakota, where the Governor declared that the state did not have the power to force businesses to close or keep people in their homes
And Belarus. I was going to say even if they are a tyranny, but I wonder if I’d be better off there in the Belarus of 2020 than certain Western countries.
Covid cases fall 23%…
‘And if all our days are numbered, why do I keep counting?’ – The Killers
“the pandemic”
There’s never been a pandemic, by June 2020 all cause mortality was at normal levels, and went 10 from 13 weeks below expected average
Covid was 24th on the list of reasons you might die in August 2020 all without a jab
There has been a pandemic of lies, madness, and of making money if you have been ‘approved’ by the Government.
Anyway, what happened with the British truckers’ protest? Seems to have dropped from the radar. Not even mentioned on this site.
Where is it?
Aren’t most truckers in the UK Polish, Romanian or Hungarian anyway?
I haven’t looked for the British truck drivers’ Convoy Protest, but I guess nothing actually happened, else there’d have been mention of it on here.
The Finnish truck protest seems to have also vaporised.
70% of passengers on the Helsinki Metro seem to be ‘foreigners’ these days, another country that has imported heaps of cheap labour from third world countries.
Even January 2021 wasn’t particularly remarkable. Certainly in line with the flu outbreak of January 2018 (in fact in Scotland and Northern Ireland 2018 was worse).
Only the 2nd week of January was notable
If you believe there was/is a pandemic then by default you must believe the ‘vaccine’ narrative, at least to some extent.
This is where DS’s position is so fragile. It’s important to dismiss a pandemic ever happened.
There was no pandemic. The test kit is fraud. The ‘vaccine’ is a bioweapon who’s full effect/purpose is yet to be seen. The ‘passport’ is the communist social credit system. The financial crash was deliberate to usher in the social credit system.
Well said. The fraud of virology continues to be exposed. The virologists are nowhere to be seen refuting the allegations. The argument has essentially been won, its now a painful process of waiting for people to catch up. Ive been waiting for 20 years for people to catch up with 911. No sign of it. If this fraud doesnt get exposed for what it is, in a big way, these scumbags will keep rinsing and repeating these scams. Theyre already telling us they are going to do that. CONVID is nothing but a scam. The notion that with all this knowledge we have accumulated that they can still keep getting away with further scams makes me feel sick. Its like when 77 hit after 911. Same scammers, same scam, same script, same bunch of good for nothing bought and paid for shills in the fakestream media taking money to keep the scam alive, plus a whle load of backslapper groupthink where they all agree on the lie so its safety in numbers. Those people are going to hell. They have responsibility for the rampage of murder and destruction in the Middle East because they didnt speak the truth, they lied… Read more »
“Fraud”- indeed – one little word saves an awful lot of pointless, unnecessary speculation!
Sort of interesting to see what will happen, but I fear it looks like things will just continue as they are, with just the arrival of the 4th & 5th ‘vaccines’ in 2022.
There’s no revolution coming, no lawyers coming to take the Government to Nuremburg 2 trials, doesn’t even seem to be another protest in London coming up… and even if there was another ‘peaceful protest’ I think we all know by now what the result will be. A day out in London meeting friends and home in time for tea.
Dear God the Guardian just can’t give up on project fear
Even with the understanding the ultra-Left Guardian has to make money, despite their disgust of capitalism, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion they have some affinity with living in a fearful state. It goes far beyond headline-grabbing click bait.
Does it give them a sense of meaning? Some of the comments from their loyal serfs are borderline psychotic and certainly delusional. Despite their own obsession with what they imagine as the rise of white supremacy and transphobic murder squads, it is surely obvious the sphere of influence coalescing around the Guardian and the BBC is absolutely crazy as well as dangerous. Obviously more dangerous than normal people questioning climate change, mass immigration and the 57 genders.
What a world we live in 🥸
I don’t it’s so much wanting to live in fear (I doubt they do, want to or actually live in fear), it’s more the priceless chance to tell other people what to do and be listened to.
Yes, you could be right. Their little moment of power.
Life is so dull and miserable on Planet Guardian, it must be down to all those lentils.
Just think of the methane they must be breathing in every day!
And note that they never seme to demand any evidence that these claimed “protective measures” actually do anything with regard to spread of an airborne virus anyway – probably because all the evidence says that they don’t make any difference (although causing massive problems in society).
The soft-brained readers just need to give up on the ‘Guardian’ – problem solved! Close it down by ignoring it!
Not be forced into Covid easing?
Gibbering totalitarian bag of sh***.
“Scotland Health Secretary Humza Yousaf says Scotland should be free to continue restrictions, reports BBC News.” What a lovely piece of doublespeak!
That noble Scotsman, Hamish McUseless.
Are there any health-related government posts anywhere in the UK that aren’t occupied by Muslim immigrants?
Sweden will soon be a Muslim country… by the year 2040? You said Sweden was a ‘peaceful’ country… you weren’t wrong!
Good old Scottish names – Yousaf and Sridhar. To add to the Patels, Zahawis, Khans, Sunaks and Javids of Engerlandland. Without this wonderful ‘diversity’ it could have been so much worse!
Well thank you to You Tube for censoring parts of the presentation by the Major. It really underlines the points that he is making. How stupid of them.
I agree. Uncensored version on bitchute and various other places. 7min 10secs.
Brave man – they need 10,000 like him!
Why has blairs bullshit been given a platform here, nobody cares x is that profanity
Young Russian skater will not be banned dispite failing a drug test because, wait for it!!!!
“It might affect her mental health!!!”
So that means if you fail your GCSE’S,A LEVELS, DRIVING TEST,JOB APPLICATIONS,AD INFINITUM, You will have to be awarded them because ( here we go AGAIN), it might blah, blah, blah,etc, etc.
In truth she’s doubtless been exploited by ambitious coaches, parents etc, but the real reason is probably more to do with Russia’s huge power in the world of Figure Skating and saving face at the Olympics. It’s a toxic world especially for the young girls, should really only allow over 18s in senior comps.
Absolutely agree, Julian.
I was actually having a go at what I call the “Moonpig” attitude of the “Woke brigade” where nobody is ever allowed to be disappointed or to fail and everything is “Unicorns and Roses”
The main culprits: The “Zero covid” fantasists.
Totally agree, it’s so patronising, unhelpful and usually fake.
Drug tests against Russians – regularly rigged against them perhaps?
Fits the CIA narrative.
I see Northern Ireland’s super de luxe vax roll out slashed the annual all cause death total there last year from a terrifying 17,641 in 2020 to, er, 17,556 in 2021.
The number of masked zombies I saw on my morning coffee run today continues its precipitous decline. Sunday Eucharist at my local Church of England was notable for the near- (but not total) absence of masks. I’d put the Mundschutzfrei at 95% for the congregation. Which generally trends (unsurprisingly) towards those 65+.
Waitrose and Boots employees seem to be the only ones sticking to their corporate overlords diktats about masks. Which makes me wonder how much longer big company management will keep up the charade? Boots is technically owned by US-based Walgreens, and as such is probably about a month or so behind the UK in getting over covid. As an aside, Walgreens, the US retail pharmacy chain, is in no way related to discount store Wal-Mart. Walgreens actually grew to dominance in the US during Prohibition, as pharmacies were the one place where one could legally purchase ethyl alcohol. For medical use only, naturally…..
I think we’ve won this war, fellow Sceptics. There will be skirmishes and the odd setbacks. But we’re not doing lockdown again.
Lockdown no longer needed as the drug pushers have got the obedient sheep hooked on their ‘vaccines’. No ‘vaccine’ = no Vaxx Pass.
As I have thought all along, the ‘Covid Scam’ is about people control, and making money out of it. All I have seen so far confirms, in my own mind, that this has indeed become true.
I’m not scared of travelling as some here would claim, but I do find the tyranny/fascism/brainwashing/deliberate spread of fear to be more than concerning.
I’ve never seen anyone here claim that you’re scared of travelling, and never seen any evidence to suggest that you are scared of travelling.
Powerful cancel culture story. https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/yesterday-i-was-levis-brand-president?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNTQ3NDkyOCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDg2MzExMjcsIl8iOiJjSUJneiIsImlhdCI6MTY0NDg0MzE5OSwiZXhwIjoxNjQ0ODQ2Nzk5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjYwMzQ3Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.QLoC-SpYGFwNVupkrrq4fh5QnwGHqF_S-6Q4hzPudLE
I would just to say thank you to not only DS, but all the contributors, commenting and sharing links and by doing so helping to preserve sanity for myself and many others in this lonely world we all share.
Next Covid strain could kill many more, warn scientists ahead of England restrictions ending. In theory, it could. The future hasn’t yet happened, hence, we don’t yet know how it’ll turn out to be. However, We don’t know what will happen in future, therefore healthy people must be forced into house-arrest now is not an argument. We already didn’t know what will happen in future in 2016. But nobody got arrested (essentially) just because of that. This would have been unlawful. And then, there’s more than this theory. We know that humans have been living on this planet for over a million years. In the course of that, they have encountered countless pathogens and equally countless epidemics and pandemics. And they all ended on their own. Eg, something really nasty, the bubonic plague, became a recurrent, low-level illness long before it could be treated instead of keeping to kill 80% of the population per outbreak. Common sense strongly suggests that – in absence of specific evidence to the contrary – we should assume that things will work out as they always did. Meaning, Sars-CoV2 will not suddenly turn around and come back as something akin to the black death of… Read more »