News Round-Up
- “Poison Control Centers Warn About Toxic Chemical in At-home COVID-19 Test Kits” – Some at-home rapid COVID-19 tests contain a toxic chemical that may be harmful to both children and adults, according to the Epoch Times.
- “NHS trust tells gender-critical boss not to apply for senior role” – The NHS Trust that runs a controversial gender identity clinic for the young is facing accusations of discrimination after a feminist candidate was told not to apply for a top position.
- “Covid in Scotland: Vaccine passports and classroom masks rules end” – The end of more restrictions comes almost two years after the first confirmed case of Covid in Scotland. Better late than never.
- “Commuters urged to work from home as Tube strikes threaten to derail return to office” – Transport bosses say services will be seriously disrupted from Tuesday after talks break down.
- “Germany prepared to keep nuclear plants open to reduce reliance on Russian gas” – No ‘ideological’ opposition to extending power stations’ service, senior Green politician says. Every cloud…
- “Matt Hancock tells all on new podcast: ‘I haven’t had casual sex with anybody. I fell in love with somebody’” – Speaking on The Diary of a CEO podcast, the former Health Secretary was also asked about his weepy TV appearance about the Covid vaccines.
- “‘Butt out’ of Downing Street parties investigation, Boris Johnson ally tells police” – Inquiry “extremely ill-judged” as Covid regulations were never intended to be used as a “retrospective” way of punishing people, says Lord Moylan.
- “Meanwhile, the U.K. grabs new anti-protest powers” – Last week, Justin Trudeau ended his use of Canada’s Emergencies Act, but is the British Government about to grant itself the same powers to end democratic protests, asks Mark Johnson in UnHerd.
- “Vaccine watchdog locks out top paediatrician” – The vaccine watchdog has locked out a top paediatrician, says the Conservative Woman.
- “Britain’s steel industry hammered by climate change taxes” – Not only do carbon prices push up electricity prices, they are also extremely detrimental to energy intensive industry, such as steel.
- “Joanne Lumley voices concerns over plans for Suffolk wind farms” – The actress was one of 17 signatories to a letter that accuses the National Grid of “threatening fragile ecosystems”, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Covid toes’ may be nothing more than chilblains” – A study found the new phenomenon was probably down to cold feet from people walking barefoot at home during lockdown, says the Telegraph.
- “Her Majesty spends time with William and Kate and Princess Beatrice” – The Queen, 95, who tested positive for the virus just over a week ago, went to Frogmore on her Windsor Estate on Sunday, where younger members of her family had gathered to meet her.
- “U.K. logs average of just 27,500 Covid cases in last three days” – the Government’s coronavirus dashboard show there was an average of 27,500 Covid cases over the last three days in first weekend where daily virus data on cases hospitalisations and deaths have been pooled. That’s 25% lower than a week ago.
- “Covid Dinner Party” – Saturday Night Live‘s take on how ultra-liberal mask and vaccine fanatics are trying to cope with the realisation that they may have been wrong.
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Well I’ll be blessed.
Morning all.
And to you, hp.’
Enjoy the twitter clip? Like some family conversations, but with better facial expressions.
Very good actually. 👍
Feel safe today because Matt Hancock doesn’t make love, he only falls in love.
What a guy. The first man in history to fall in love with somebody. That excuses everything. The rest of us can only wonder it must feel like. It must have been our total inability to reach Hancock’s level of sensitivity and affection that caused us to become such selfish granny-killers.
I believe Hancock thought it was a good idea to say he “fell in love” because he is an actual psychopath that doesn’t understand what falling in love actually is. Psychopaths learn to mimic emotions like empathy by observing ordinary people that display sadness or grief, but psychos never truly understand what it feels like to be sad or to grieve. Just like you could never explain the difference between yellow and green to a life-long blind person, a psycho will never be able to understand what feeling emotions actually feels like. Likewise, with love, psychos never grow to love or even like another person, everyone they interact with is just a tool to satisfy whatever immediate needs they may have. Watch Hancock in this video, he’s disgusting. He’s tries to feign emotional upset and sadness, but he can’t keep from smirking whilst doing so. He’s sitting there thinking he’s getting one over on people, and he’s getting an enormous thrill out of it. I think he’s displaying traits associated with psychopathic murderers that revisit the graves of their victims again and again in order to gloat and feel good about the power they held over… Read more »
This is how they catch murderers. The murderer is so pleased that they have got away with it they can’t help but smile even when describing the must horrifying act.
I’d always attributed it to most of us being more savvy about ceiling-mounted security cameras.
Yep: the real thing, 2 seconds after he first saw himself in a mirror!
Morning to you huxleypiggles.
Roundup 1.
While it comes as no surprise “Toxic Chemicals in At- Home Covid test kits . . .”
there are too many ‘some’, ‘can’, ‘may’, ‘possibly’, ‘according to “a blog” ‘ for comfort.
“people might . . . ” wtf?
Morning KV. I hope all is well in hospital.
I was close to commenting on Round up 1, thus:
No shit Sherlock. 😒
Not too bad thanks, yes Roundup 1 report is very sloppy and deserving of your proposed comment.
Roundup 2.
No thanks, not another one.
Indeed. MSM pay walls. Why do they bother?
I can get round The Telegraph but nowadays I can’t be bothered even for the likes of Janet Daley and Alison Pearson.
Roundup 5
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Ukraine crisis.
“Germany . . . forced to keep nuclear powet stations open.”
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Yes, this is funny.
Methinks European nations could cop a cold – pun intended – when the new fuel prices are reflected in bills. This might just put people on the streets.
A windmill company in Germany has lost contact with more remote installations due to a breakdown of satellites, coinciding with Ukraine invasion.
Yes, wind energy, the future. Oh, and another rotor broke off another one. This is quite common this year.
Since when did the US have the authority to throw out diplomats accredited to the United Nations in New York? Is the General Assembly going to uphold this unlawful act? I hope the diplomats refuse to leave.
Does it matter?
To all intents and purposes the rule of law has broken down.
Might is right.
They have done it before on a larger scale, just to have their diplomats thrown out of Moscow which they will have have anticipated.
Roundup 6.
Who cares about Matt Wancocks love life ?
He’s gone is sufficient
This reminds me of Bill Clinton:
“I did NOT have sexual relations with that woman.”
He (Handicock) didn’t have “casual sex.” He went at it like a good ‘un. 😀
Roundup number 4.
Sadiq to the transport union bosses:
Early Mayday presents for you chaps (brown envelopes) – a strike would be appreciated. Many thanks.
TfL God rid of guards some while ago, time for drivers to follow.
“Got rid . . ” 🙄
Why brown envelopes? #whiteenvelopesmatter
Sorry.
No punishment for him for breaking the social distancing rules, then? This is weak, just saying “He’s gone.”
He’s still in Government raking in a decent salary + perks, and this is why Government ministers laugh at the plebs because they know they can get away with it, as long as they stay cosy with their Party.
As I’ve said before, all those people who died in care homes and hospitals alone, prevented from seeing their relations/loved ones/children… where is the anger over that? Looks like Matt’s forgiven. Don’t forget those silly old bags on the train who described him as ‘a hunk’.
Anyone off to Tesco’s today? You know, to support the Vaxx Passes…
I think it’s more a case that people just don’t give a toss about Hancock any more – he was just the front-man put in place at the time to implement the dystopia and if it hadn’t been him it would have been someone else. It’s those pulling the strings of people like Hancock who we need to be concerned about.
Agreed, Hancock was just an Aunt Salie l.
Agreed, severe punishment would be appropriate for Hancock but it is for others to decide.
Roundup 7.
Been away for 3 weeks but they are still going on about ‘partygate’.
WTF is a “recidivist” acid house party ?
A repeat of a previous offending party?
Or one to which only previous offenders are invited.
LOl, especially this early morning.
Somewhat relieved to see SNL remains something I’d ‘must watch’ rank below running nails down a chalk board.
The vaccines are lethal, masks are worse than useless, and now beware the test-kits.
When does this torrent of good news come to an end?
Staying indoors with windows and doors closed gives you Covid and every other disease you ever heard of.
Sending schoolchildren home to solitary confinement leads to suicide and death.
Denying the formerly adventurous self-employed any income leads to suicide and death.
As I have commented repeatedly on here, not one single NPI was intended to protect health. It was always the aim that NPI’s would cause physical and mental harm.
Another success then.
The last item the “Covid Dinner Party” is perfectly timed. Just received an email from old friend, who is totally and utterly invested and entrenched in the covid narrative, who is coming to the UK for the first time in two years, and wants to meet up for dinner. I haven’t really stayed in contact much with her because of our strongly differing views, and even though she knows we’re not on the same page I don’t think she really knows the depth to which I’m opposed to the whole Covid narrative. Two other old friends of her same Covid mindset are also joining us. Its been easy to keep a distance because we live far apart but I would love to see them as old friends because I’ve missed them. But, of course, everything’s changed now…By the way she speaks, she seems utterly clueless about any pushback, scepticism, protests etc, despite living in Australia. I don’t NOT want to see them. I think it’s time they understood our views a bit better even if we strongly disagree but I would like the experience to be as stress free as possible. It’s going to be one of the biggest trials,… Read more »
Time people grew up: you should be capable of remaining friends despite having widely different opinions on all manner of things. It’s not as though you are being asked to shoot each other.
Members of my social circles have ranged from Socialist, faux Communists, middle of the road liberals to ‘right wing ‘ libertarians like myself. Most were more concerned with how much income they could generate, one way or another.
We might have lengthy disagreements about socio-economic stuff or politics ‘down the pub’ but we would still go to live music events or football together as friends.
Have you been able to remain friends with people who actively (or passively) supported lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine passports, vaccine bullying, vaxxing kids? I must admit I struggle a bit – like you I’ve always been pretty tolerant of others’ views (at least I like to think so) but the covid business has been something of a red line for me.
I left those tolerant circles when departing London 30 years ago.
Since then my social activity has been much limited. I do come across pror lockdown/SD,/vax people by way of work and it arouses hostility within me but I remain polite as is required by my employment.
The problem is that for this to work you have to agree to differ – and that’s where the problem lies. Extreme Covidians will rarely do this and expect everyone to agree with them and conform to their rituals (face nappies, clotshots, etc), and anyone who doesn’t is an evil granny-killer.
Entirely agree; perhaps I was lucky with my early friends, and so were they.
We were all agreed that there is nothing so boring as a bunch of people forever agreeing with other.
It was the arguments we enjoyed, not necessarily the conclusion (if any).
“I don’t NOT want to see them.”
So what’s the problem? Don’t meet up for dinner.
Good luck with the dinner. A couple of friends came to stay recently and their views were abhorrent, far worse than I expected and they were obsessed with ‘antivaxxers’.
I decided that, to keep the peace, my only option was to become an observer, and let them rant as opposition would lead to too much rancour in my own home, although I did step in occasionally to correct a few glaring inaccuracies.
This is totally out of character for me but it worked. It’s a shame that the last 2 years have led to such intolerance that I couldn’t air my beliefs in my own home but there was some power in deciding simply to observe the worst and enjoy the rest of their company (as there was still a friendship after all).
Not ideal but it worked for me 😉
Thsnks, myrtle, and everyone else for your views/ideas. It’s going to be a hard one. Other family and friends know where we sit so we just avoid the subject like the elephant in the room, and just try and get on as normal. A bit tricky sometimes but it works. With these friends, they made their views known right at the start, and expected that I would have the same and fall in line. As a result we’ve not really had much contact over the last two years because of that so I’m either going to have to sit it out and restrain myself, whatever way it goes, or bail out, for the sake of the friendship, if truths ever unfurl.
Put Joe Rogan/Robert Malone podcast on loudly in the kitchen, while you get on with stuff.
Or maybe too obvious. Try the Stephanie Senef/Mercola podcast, and if anyone asks, just say you’re interested in biology. Then watch them crap their pants as they learn about the prion diseases and Parkinson’s they are about to develop.
What you suffered might be the first recorded instance of ‘Buyer’s Remorse by Proxy’.
If they all turn up masked, how will you know it’s them? Don’t offer to pay the bill before you’ve made sure.
Says Matt Hancock: ‘I haven’t had casual sex with anybody. I fell in love with somebody.’ I doubt if Hancock has the emotional ability to fall in love in a way that ordinary people would understand it. Matt Hancock is arrogant and probably rates highly on the sociopathic spectrum. Consider this YouTube video of him acting very much like a very unintelligent psychopath attempting to feign tearful emotions. I say “unintelligent psychopath” because Hancock doesn’t just make a mess of his attempt to appear tearful, he actually can’t stop himself smirking whilst trying to pretend that he’s emotionally upset. Perhaps, he was trying to impress Good Morning Britain’s Piers Morgan – and they had a sneer and laugh about it later in the canteen? Psychopaths are well known to be able to perfectly fake emotions, but seemingly the UK Health Secretary couldn’t stretch this far as he mouthed platitudes about COVID-19 and the “vaccines”. Here is Hancock on Twitter telling how “horrified” he is by the situation in Ukraine. After watching his smirking arrogance in the above video, not many would believe Hancock has the emotional attributes to actually feel horrified. With politicians like… Read more »
Surprised the following wasn’t included in this morning’s Round-Up – the implications are genuinely terrifying:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/28/online_safety_bill_dorries/
I agree, very worrying. I am surprised there has been less comment here.
God that twitter clip is painful – this is comedy?!
Good question! Mind you it was laughable (at least until I could bear to listen to no more).
I didn’t even do the little extra forceful breath out of one’s nose.
Regarding that SNL clip – for two years now I’ve wondered when or if a comedian or comedy show would lampoon all of the ridiculous mandates and hypocrisies. This really – until maybe now? – never happened.
Not only are the public health agencies and all the bureaucracies, companies and “watchdog” press fully “captured” … so too (sadly) are our comedians.
What would, say, George Carlin, have said about all of this madness? Somehow I don’t think he would have held his tongue … but even this comedic genius would have been quickly cancelled.
Where are the mainstream media cartoonists who show with a simple drawing and caption the madness of our world? A few apparently still exist as The Daily Skeptic has run some great cartoons …. but these cartoonists certainly don’t work for The New York Times or Washington Post.
The good ones who wouldn’t compromise got fired.