News Round-Up
- “These days no one cares if you’ve got Covid” – Everyone has had it and is now so over Covid that no one gives a flying fig about how thick the line on your lateral flow test is or what your symptoms are, says Aasmah Mir in the Times.
- “Hospitals are still clinging on to cruel Covid rules” – By denying patients the ability to see family, the public will conclude the NHS is merely using Covid as an excuse to avoid normality, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Children’s early development at risk as Covid still hampers vital NHS services” – Many speech and language drop-in centres remain closed, severely pared back or moved substantially online, reports the Telegraph.
- “Shanghai supermarkets looted by locals as Zero Covid lockdown goes on” – Looting and protests have broken out in locked down Shanghai after more than three weeks of the world’s harshest restrictions; food supplies are sparse, with many of the city’s 26 million people going hungry, reports the Mail.
- “B1.7bn for adverse jab effects” – The National Health Security Office in Thailand has provided more than 1.7 billion baht (£39 million) in financial compensation to more than 14,000 people who developed adverse effects from COVID-19 vaccinations, according to the Bangkok Post.
- “Boosters associated with higher death rates” – The English data show some worrying signs, says El Gato Malo.
- “Lockdowns, Not the Pandemic, Created Havoc” – Listen to Chris Calton on Mises Wire say those responsible for locking down much of the U.S. during Covid blame the pandemic for the economic and social havoc that followed, but they should look at the lockdowns themselves.
- “We used to have hangovers but it’s all Covid now” – It seems that the bureaucratic centralists of the NHS live in a world completely detached from the lives of the ordinary people of Britain, writes Roger Watson in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Deadly Daftodils” –Roger Watson in Country Squire wonders whether daffodils are the new Covid.
- “Climate anxiety is driving the West into dangerous mass hysteria” – Janet Daley in the Telegraph makes an appeal for calm rationality.
- “Pay more for power at peak hour under surge pricing plans” – The Business Secretary backs an energy billing shake-up that aims to reduce spikes in demand, the Telegraph reports.
- “Matt Le Tissier admits he was ‘wrong’ for tweet about Bucha massacre” – Le Tissier was heavily criticised this week after appearing to suggest that the media have lied about the unfolding horrors in eastern Europe, which have seen thousands of people killed, reports the Mail.
- “Full-scale NATO military force to defend borders” – Jens Stoltenberg, the chief of the alliance, reveals plans to deploy a permanent military presence sufficient to repel a Russian invasion, the Telegraph reports.
- “Equality chief: Trans activists will not sway rules on women-only spaces in their favour” – Writing in the Telegraph, Baroness Falkner says that the Equality and Human Rights Commission has a duty to uphold the law.
- “‘Decolonise’ maths by subtracting white male viewpoint, urges Durham University” – A new
anti-racist guide says professors must question themselves if they are citing work from “mostly white or male” mathematicians, the Telegraph reports. - “How Black Lives Matter became big business” – BLM has raised a lot of money, and done a lot of damage, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
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Good old Neil Oliver!
I told you GB News was a positive development…
Even if some people on here may prefer other sources, it is finally bringing to a wider audience some ideas that have been discussed on here over the last two years.
PS LS/TDS second anniversary coming up on Friday. Are we having a party? I see btl comments for 15/4/2020 are up to five now!
Good morning, Hugh.
I’ve just finished listening to him. Enormously important points made with the quiet conviction of an honest man.
And moving. Every word he said about what has been done to children condemns those who must be held responsible. I’m afraid that includes a good many parents, who have questions to ask of themselves.
Top of the morning.
The treatment of children through this shambles frankly shames our society (to say nothing of the many children in third world countries who will starve as a direct result of UK lockdowns and those influenced in a similar direction by them).
And I will always be angry about how his fiscal incontinence is inflating away my savings, robbing me and millions of others. I have said before that without an apology and promises I can trust never to repeat this shambles, his party cannot expect my vote in the coming elections. Sadly this does not look likely now.
(I suppose I ought to down-tick you for saying good morning! 🙂 )
Sin upon sin has been heaped upon children, in the name of saving the elderly – who were also abused and immiserated.
I’ve been lucky. Two years where many joys were lost and others suspended indefinitely, and immense rage and frustration; but still employed, despite being unjabbed and unmasked.
And I’ve been compensated. I discovered that I was stronger than I thought. That’s good to know.
So, I can take down-ticks!
“inflating away my savings, robbing me and millions of others.”
There are plenty of discarded face masks to eat!
No money for food or housing the homeless, nor for giving NHS nurses free parking at their places of work – but plenty of money to hand over to Serco’s Test & Trace, for PCR testing, free LFTs, all the vaccines, and all the Covid marshalls and the Covid poster/propaganda campaigns.
And people still think that voting in the elections is ‘going to show them’? The Labour Party has done nothing to stop the Great Covid Scam, and the Green Party just wants the plebs to stop buying petrol so they can have more for their Range Rovers.
I doubt anyone who posts here will be voting for any mainstream party any time soon, save perhaps for those who have prominent sceptic MPs. There will be minor parties who better represent our positions, and we should I believe support and vote for them. That’s how UKIP started, and whatever your views on Brexit they achieved their objective.
Indeed. We have local elections in a few weeks – I won’t be voting.
It’s not just Covidiansm, or even political parties. The whole left/right axis has become pretty meaningless now, in this country at least, with the allegedly ‘liberal’ left having become increasingly authoritarian and intolerant of any views which they don’t agree with. Instead of concentrating on genuine social justice issues, they now spend their time worrying about statues and whether a person with male genitalia is in fact a woman. I’ve always voted for left-wing parties, but am completely alienated from those in the mainstream now.
Not only inflating away savings, I just had letters saying that trading is suspended in funds for two of my ISAs, due to the Ukraine Russia fiasco. I guess that will knacker many pension investments for a lot of people. That hasn’t been on the news either.
News Round up inexplicably(?) omits PM Johnson’s little jolly on Saturday to Ukraine, just a day after 4th Reich Empress Ursula. Clearly he doesn’t wish the UK to fall too far behind the EU in the do-as-Saint-Zelensky-decrees credulity stakes. Maybe Johnson can offer Ukraine honorary membership of the UK (after all the first two letters are the same) before this model democracy (that has banned its opposition parties btw) is snatched up by the EU fast tracking its membership in the summer? RT reports the Downing St announcement: Britain will supply Zelensky’s forces with 120 armored vehicles and new anti-ship missile systems. This tranche of military equipment is in addition to a £100 million ($130 million) military aid package announced on Friday, which includes Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles, 800 NLAW anti-tank missiles, and “high-tech loitering munitions,” commonly known as ‘suicide drones.’Johnson has stood out as one of the most eager pro-Ukrainian leaders in the West since Russia launched its military offensive in February. London has already sent more than 4,000 NLAW missiles to Ukraine and has convened a gathering of donors to convince its allies to step up their arms supplies. The UK has also sanctioned Russia extensively and cut off its own supply of… Read more »
By the way, is it possible to watch RT live anywhere, now they have been banned on Freeview? And has anyone considered how a nuclear confrontation might play out – or whether such a confrontation is likely?
” PM Johnson is already using the disputed Railway Station attack”
Surely almost everything is disputed in war?
Yes. You might have to use a VPN or proxy VPN like Tor Browser (and be patient until the various barriers are bypassed via refreshing). Alternatively Ruptly or Odysee support the platform.
Not everything. But the increasing use of false flag attacks (the White Helmets who engineered the fake chemical attacks in Syria are now working in Ukraine according to independent journalist Vanessa Beeley) is a cause for concern if these are justification enough to pour more weapons into a conflict. This makes it especially important to seek independent verification (which Zelensky takes exception to) or commission independent investigation (which the UK is openly blocking in the UN). Independent journalists on the ground in Ukraine are already filing reports that question the NATO/EU authorised MSM narrative, but they are simply not being heard.
The truth will out, but how many more unnecessary deaths will be caused by UK forces and weaponry in the meantime? But then again, this government cared not a jot about testing experimental gene therapy on its own people, so why should Ukrainians and Russians matter?
I watch RT from the UK without a VPN, it’s not a problem, you just need the right browser (rather not say which in case it’s shut down but it’s easily obtained. Yeah, I know not helpful but the UK authorities are not your friend). TASS is also available but Sputnik News is not, for that you probably do need a VPN or Tor.
We hear all the time on this site that the ‘mainstream media’ is not to be trusted… but news from Russian media sites is to be believed?
Makes you wonder how many Russians are using a VPN so they can get the BBC News for ‘the truth’!
Who said here that they trusted RT? I think a starting point is to see what the “other side” of the debate is saying, and evaluate it. Only one side is being represented in the UK.
It’s a difficult one – when side A provides propaganda, and side B provides propaganda, just what can you believe?
As for the people wearing blue and yellow ribbons on their clothes “in support of Ukraine”, open an Atlas and ask them to show you where that country is and see how many can.
One believes neither, as this is not a binary issue. There are hundreds of independent sources (including those on the ground in Ukraine) whose reports provide much needed nuance, fact and detail.
Neverthess, imho a sensible starting point is not to believe the BBC on anything outside the sports results.
Correct.
Yes. if we’re genuinely interested (and have the time and resources), we need to examine as many perspectives as possible.
We know that motivations have to be considered, so far as we can ascertain and understand them.
Track records can be a problem. They should be studied, but they’re not necessarily a reliable guide: inveterate liars are capable of honesty if it suits them in a particular situation.
Detecting internal contradictions is useful, but they might be the result of simple mistakes rather than an intention to deceive.
And although we all appreciate that getting hold of objective data is vital, we know that it can be extremely difficult (and not just in war situations).
It’s also interesting to look at what is ignored (like the last eight years in the Donbass or the Minsk agreements); at the questions that are not answered, even when they’re raised. It’s not a dead give-away, but it’s interesting.
RT adopts a cautious approach, often cautious to the point of giving the West the benefit of the doubt.
This used to be the case for me until I recently changed ISP. This made life tricky regardless of the supposed settings or the browser, hence the workarounds. Once the Online Safety Bill becomes law we will all have to become more adept at sourcing alternative narratives.
Their website is still accessible from UK without any “tricks”
How does a nuclear confrontation play out?
We are all fecking dead!
Use Yandex search engine to overcome cabal-led censorship and find RT news.
Outstanding post. Thank you for that.
“This tranche of military equipment is in addition to a £100 million ($130 million) military aid package”
Shouldn’t this money from British taxpayers be used to look after the people of Britain? How long are the queues for council housing?
£100 million could build many homes for the homeless.
Funnily enough I have just written to my MP saying more or less exactly this.
If the UK ends up in a war with Russia, there will be a case for the UK to rejoin the EU. We’ve no military capability of our own thanks to govt cutbacks over the last 25 years, so no chance of defending ourselves. On the plus side, It would be the ideal opportunity to level parts of the country, making plenty of space for new net zero rabbit hutches and writing off those pesky privately owned vehicles while BJ ums and ahs over the terms and conditions of rejoining.
Surely war with Russia is a conspiracy theory?
Aye, and given what we are living through it has as much merit as all the conspiracy theories now coming to fruition.
The EU has even less military capability.
The smart thing would be to get out of NATO, stop sanctions against Russia and start buying its oil, gas, petrol, cereals and fertilisers – again.
Just think what the so-called United States would do to us then!
Thanks for that.
There is no question Bozo is a cowardly, murderous psychopath. I agree if he is sending arms to Ukraine then this country belongs undoubtedly and understandably in Russia’s firing line.
Absolute thick as pig-shit, certifiable madness.
The best kind of US puppet. Nuclear war would also effectively paper over (so to speak) his disastrous COVID lockdown and vaxx policy.
Obviously this is a war of who is the biggest ‘nazi’.
Cough, US Military spending tracker website with ties to the deepstate DEAGEL predicts UK population to reduce by more than half by 2025, cough.
Deagel Makes Mysterious Changes To 2025 Population Forecast For America As Bill Gates Launches ‘Grand Challenge’: The ‘Holy Grail Of Influenza Research’ And ‘Bridging The Valley Of Death’
https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2020/04/10/deagel-makes-mysterious-changes-to-2025-population-forecast-for-america-as-bill-gates-launches-gran-d-challenge-the-holy-grail-of-influenza-research-and-b
DEAGEL Forecasts Massive Depopulation by 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY4Wahyo5n0
I was also wandering whether they are vetting Ukranian refugees to check if they are NAZIS or not. Just imagine that, you sign up to help and Adolf Hitlers biggest fan sets up shop in your spare room. Trust the science and the traitors who provide it.
I agree, that deagel thing is curious. I stumbled across it a few weeks back via 21st Century Wire (I think) and even then it seems the original population forecast was even more bizarre, but was subsequently rounded up. I’ll see if I can dig back this evening.
There is an overall problem with the MSM image of Ukraine that misleadingly portrays it as a liberal democratic state, where that is far from the truth. From being the European centre of modern slavery to banning opposition parties to its open tolerance of fascism (see Zelensky’s disastrous address to to the Greek parliament) to the bombing of its own civilians from 2014 onward to heavy US military involvement, this is a problematic country.
One podcaster from Ukraine suggested at the outset the vast majority of refugees were those under 60 dodging enforced conscription, and being used as cannon fodder by Azov. Either way there should be thorough screening but (as with the Manchester bombing) there won’t be.
Have the Times muppets let Oliver Wright (who previusly wrote on the subject for the Independent) write the right sort of article on big pharma corruption over the last two years yet, I wonder?
As long as there are restrictions for international travel ‘due to Covid’ then ‘Covid’ is not over.
Of course it’s not over – the 4th and 5th jabs are being rolled out this year (2022) – and there are still people wearing face masks, 99-100% here in Finland.
And then there’s the new contract for Serco to run Test & Trace until 2025… and the European Union Vaccine Pass is being kept.
No one here believes it’s “over” in the way you mean it. We’re stupid. What may be over in England at least are lockdowns, though one cannot be certain.
“Hospitals are still clinging on to cruel Covid rules”
It was supposed to be three weeks to flatten the curbs, and then until the “vaccines” came. Seriously, are these people ever going to let us get back to normal? “Covid” mortality is already below that of flu, all cause mortality is unexceptional, data from other countries and states suggest that restrictions make little difference. What is their problem?
As soon as the NHS acknowledges Covid is over, so it their excuse for the absenteeism, and its appalling sloth and waste will be in the sunlight for all to see. They will cling on to ‘because Covid’ until it is wrenched from their hands.
Correct. But who will do the wrenching? I doubt that Boris has the backbone to stand up to the sainted NHS. He can only throw money at it, not demand good service.
“Shanghai supermarkets looted by locals as Zero Covid lockdown goes on”
China has a no limits alliance with Russia. Belarus is Russia’s best friend. You really would think that news might filter through to the CPR that these restrictions are pointless. Unless of course it’s not about a virus…
Communism and other totalitarian ideologies have a history of fake science, the Chinese Communist party can’t admit it was for nothing, just as Kim Jong-Johnson, for example, cannot admit lockdown was for show.
“Boosters associated with higher death rates”.
“This relationship is one we’re seen all through the US as well. the extremely high vaxx rate states have had more covid hospitalization than in the prior year despite a less virulent variant and given that we saw such rises in the over 70 demographic that was 95%+ double vaxxed in such places, the idea that it was some sort of much higher rate in the non-vaxxed is pretty much mathematically impossible.”
“Folks like Pfizer are among the best in the world at trial design” (El Gato Malo)
No doubt if Oliver Wright (now working for Times muppets) was still at the Independent of 8 years ago, he could have written an interesting piece about why “boosters” are not being abandoned…
anti-racist guide says professors must question themselves if they are citing work from “mostly white or male” mathematicians, the Telegraph reports.Oh goody! No more Pythagoras theorem! Let’s all whitewash history…
Seriously, how many stupid things are coming out of Durham these days? St. Bede would be turning in his grave (not to mention St. Cuthbert, famed for his insight).
The anti-white racist communists behind this need to be sacked en masse, no appeal, no pension. And following their despicable abuse of our institutions, there now needs to be legislation ensuring only 10 per cent of university staff are Lefties.
There have been many non-white scholars, and female scholars who have made important contributions to our understanding of the mathematical and scientific world. But in the main it is white, male, European. First the Renaissance, then the Industrial Revolution drove the need to understand the complexities of the new world we were creating. Who really gives a damn what colour and sex Alexander Fleming was, or Newton, or Einstein. It was their mind, their discoveries and their thinking that have advanced us. These cnuts are trying to drag us back to the 12th century.
The most frustrating aspect of this condescending idiocy is that there are excellent reasons for the proportion of outstanding contributions made by an impressive number of white, male Europeans. Nobody I know, with any sort of a brain, suggests that white male Europeans are automatically and intrinsically superior to other beings. We’re talking about who had access to the necessary kind of education. That education was one which cared about and sought the truth, not displays of whatever was the contemporary version of respectability. It built upon the learning which had preceded the present, and it took place (as NP has pointed out) in a particular historical context. This used to be understood. Schoolchildren were taught about great men like Fleming, Newton, Einstein, Copernicus and Galileo: learning along the way that Jews, Greeks, Poles and Italians could be frightfully clever (teachers didn’t say this – we just noticed). We were also taught about Marie Curie. I don’t recall anyone saying, “So you see, children – girls could be smart, too!” We got it. White males don’t have “a viewpoint”. They have millions of viewpoints. So do non-whites and females: all of whom need educations which explore and address facts, rather… Read more »
I think civilisations have to have enough slack in food production and societal support in child raising to allow the luxury of scholarship. So ancient Arab, Greek, Roman etc civilisations, supported by slavery, were able to develop number systems, writings, geometry etc etc. There were false starts – Roman numerals are no good for powers of 10. By the second millenium AD food production, trade and farming, allowed at least a strata of people to engage in education of some form. And trade allowed ideas and knowledge to spread.
Sadly, the current power structures seem to care stuff all about education and enlightenment, being solely focussed on power and profit.
Agree.
An additional point: it was understood, not so long ago historically speaking, that education and enlightenment could enhance power and profit.
In my gloomy moments, I fear that we are living in a period of extreme decadence; with an elite that is interested only in excess.
So, we abandon the teachings of previous generations, the adoption of which has greatly benefited humanity, because the lessons of earlier, great minds had white skin?
Hmm?
Good morning, hp! Personally, I don’t think those Durham educators have gone far enough – and they are seriously behind trend. Where are the trans scientists and mathematicians? Why have they been deliberately excluded? As for the white skins, I believe that some of the ancient Greeks might have had less than pearly white skins; but they should probably be excluded too. They may have enjoyed white privilege, and they certainly profited from slavery. On a darker note (it is actually night over here now), I wonder at the decline and fall of knowledge and the spirit of learning. I don’t like many things Nietzsche said, but I read what he has to say. Galileo was probably very annoying, but thank God for him (with no apologies to the priests who persecuted him). That was the old normal. We did not pick and choose on the basis of agreeability. Were women and non-whites perhaps unfairly excluded from “the canon”? Yes. But when they were pointed out (as was the case with Rosalind Franklin and George Washington Carver), they were included. There were also white men who were unfairly excluded or denied a place they might have deserved in history. What… Read more »
Imagine what would have been lost if the Arab cultures that preserved so much of ancient writings had taken a similar attitude (I’m thinking of the Moors).
St Cuthbert, being white, will no doubt soon be turned out of his grave.
Unbelievable. Are these people on drugs?
2 + 2 now = T.
It’s racist to say otherwise.
Should be 2 + 2 now = 5.
It’s now official – Australia goes to the polls on May 21 to elect a new federal government. One without the proclivity for intruding into the lives of its citizens.
Voting for either of the major parties will just give us more of what we’ve had for the last two years. Labor and Liberal, state or federal, both have done us over with equal enthusiasm for intruding into our lives.
The best result will be a minority government, Lab or Lib, which has to negotiate everything with freedom friendly minority parties.
I’ll be voting in no more elections at any level until those behind covid mandates are tried and sentenced for crimes against humanity. No more participation from me. No endorsing tyranny.
Fine, but the tyrants in power won’t leave you in peace just because you didn’t vote against them.
Australians can deal with their tyrannical politicians any day they choose – they don’t have to wait for ‘elections’.
I guess that, because they haven’t, things can’t be that bad in Australia.
‘News’ of the Aborigines carted off to the ‘concentration Well Being camp’ in the Northern Territory seems to have dried up. ‘Centre for National Resilience’? What happened there – are they still there ‘positive with Covid’, did they get exterminated, or were they released?
Since the requirement for isolation is 14 days, I would expect that the indigenous inmates are now all at home. That would explain why the news has dried up, I dare say. Bug Eyes Gunner has been very quiet on the subject since December. Learnt the hard way that it wasn’t a vote winner, perhaps. ‘Centres for National Resilience’ are under construction in WA and Qld but the Victorian facility has been put on hold. They are designed to hold about 1000 inmates each. But they were initiated in the middle of last year when governments thought they would be reduced to just a few hundred vax resisters. Now, these locations won’t even house all the near-dead vaccinated. One more thing. Australians can deal with their tyrannical politicians any day they choose – they don’t have to wait for ‘elections’. I guess that, because they haven’t, things can’t be that bad in Australia. Are you American? You sound like one of those Americans who dismissed us last year with ‘Shouldn’t have given up your guns.’ I could never get a straight answer as to why they, who hadn’t given up their guns, still had a drooling incontinent vegetable residing in… Read more »
Australian elections, what a joke. Tweedledum and Tweedledummer. Two near identical crowds of clueless dolts jockeying for the spoils. A race to the bottom.
Oh dear! Matt le Tissier cowed into confessing his sin, his anti-revolutionary “crime” of daring to suggesting that the Lying media lied.
Did you note how the Mail described the “massacre”?
Grisly images of what are claimed to be civilian massacres allegedly carried out by Russian forces in Bucha
That looks to me like the paper knows the NATO version of the story is a lie but still wants to give the impression it is true.
In the current climate, I’d rate the use of “allegedly” a step forward!
Now for the reports of the civilian massacres allegedly carried out by Ukrainians on fellow Ukrainians believed to hold the wrong views or ethnicity.
Oh no. That’s very sad.
Censorship of any reasonable comment is always sad: sad and wrong, however it’s imposed and by whoever’s bidding it is imposed. Shame on them.
I’m afraid, Londo, that there are lots of Stalinists and little Stalinists about. They ruin sleep by relentless attacks; in order to lead their victims into denouncing themselves.
or maybe he has realised that he could have done some good persuading the undecided on the dangers of vaccination (especially for children and young adults eg footballers) and he would have been better sticking to that and that he has destroyed his credibility by parrotting for no special reason a rather one sided partisan view in effect saying the Russian press is completely truthful. only those apologists and appeasers for Putin posting here may really believe that
Very disappointed to see le Tissier buckle to the cancel crowd. If you cant walk the walk then dont talk the talk.
Western elites are now men in tights and eye shadow devoting time to how they can get more perverts into women’s toilets while Russian elites are working out how they can divide Ukraine and Chinese elites are devising ways they can win Battle of the Coral Sea II (see Solomon Islands developments, unfolding right now). The West has been infiltrated and run into the ground by evil psychopaths dedicated to its destruction and it’s time to address it.
All right. We get the pendulum theory. We know the further the elite push us to the Left, the further the counter-revolution will be to the Right. We get it. And now, no more of this “decolonisation” drivel. Don’t use their language. All they want to do is make your children less intelligent, which is what they will expedite even further now they’re done trashing English and history and they’re moving on to maths and science. The people behind this are evil and sick and hate you and want you gone.
I wouldn’t mind so much if they were also teaching about Sir Cloudesley Shovell freeing the English slaves from Africa. But unfortunately they seem to think that discrimination is actually positive. First rule of history – teach both sides of the story.
“The people behind this are evil and sick and hate you and want you gone.”
“P&O Ferries sackings: Replacing workers with £1.80-an-hour agency staff”
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You’re a special person, EF
Special alright 😄
Like Special degrees from Cambridge?
Compensation claims WILL follow adverse effects from Covid-19 vaccinations, as sure as night follows day.
Government Non Think. Working hard for you………No Cock-Ups Too Large
Just like the PPI compensation. People employed to award the payouts were often the very same people who had “sold” it in the first place.
Hey Bozzer, here’s an idea, how about taking all motor vehicles off the road?
It might save a life.
Oh please be careful, Fingerache Philip!
They’ll remove all motor vehicles from the roads, except those vehicles which have been designated for VIP use.
They’ll be superdeluxe and guaranteed to improve the environment and prevent deaths. As such, they will be exempt from any future lockdown restrictions.
“Pay more for power at peak hour under surge pricing plans” There seems to be an insidious move to get us us all to go ‘smart’ this time differentiated electricity pricing can only work via a smart meter. They may not make smart meters compulsory but I rather expect that it will soon become the case that non smart meter users will only be offered high priced electric deals. It also seems that electric cars require you to go smart. If you want to install a specific electric car charger in your home you need permission from your electric distribution company and they are bringing in rules that mean that this permission will be subject to you having a smart meter. In order to charge an electric car away from your home you increasingly need an ‘app’ on your smart phone in order to operate a charging point. Soon you will not be allowed out of your home unless you have the right smart device to do all the things you need to do to live. It is insidious, it is bringing in digital I.D. by the back door and it is highly discriminatory for all the people who cannot… Read more »
Am I being unduly suspicious to believe that these meters will have pricing mechanisms which cannot be challenged in court, but which will in some way or other make everything more expensive?
Depending how smart the smart meters are, they may have a provision to charge at different rates for different circuits in the house.
I am thinking about electric vehicles. At some point there will have to be a way to transfer motor fuel excise duty and full rate VAT onto electric charging of vehicles to compensate the Tax Revenue loss if/when motor fuel use decreases. Additionally, the enormous cost of grid infrastructure upgrade and expansion must be chargeable to electric vehicles.
This means a much higher kWh rate for recharging vehicles will be required than for general household appliances.
I think EV owners are in for a nasty shock (😊) when reality catches up, as they think running costs for EVs are so cheap because they compare current electricity tariffs with motor fuel costs and assume those tariffs will stay the same.
Also, whilst night time demand is currently low, once more and more people start plugging their EVs in overnight, nighttime will become peak hours… then what?
The thinking is one dimensional when it comes to energy supply, Net Zero and EVs. Few have thought it through.
Few have thought it through.
About anything much. I believe the “reasoning” goes like this:
All of the above are facts which nobody can challenge. Those who try to do so are extreme right-wingers and/or mad. The Science (ie, God) has decided.
They never told us about that on Tomorrow’s World. Who’d have thought the future would be such a nightmare!
See Rev Simon Sideways on YT, electric vehicles operating as an extension to the grid, at your expense.
Also… Surely the fact that there are peaks and troughs in demand means lots of people having to do similar things at the same time as others (such as, sleeping at night), so if our govt genuinely wanted to manage demand on supply they would consider a range of measures? No? All about separating you and your cash then, as usual.
Those of us old enough remember the power cuts of the early 1970s during oil crisis and miners’ strike.
We were on sector rotation of 4 hourly periods when we got power. I reckon we are heading for that. We shall get power for certain times during the day/night.
Candlelit meals …..Best get stocking up on candles and torch batteries….and those coal fires in many homes were handy for toasting bread on the end of a fork.
smart arse devices
Is that piece about compensation for vaccine adverse reactions in Thailand genuine? Have that really attributed nearly 4000 deaths to the vaccines?
14,000
Sorry, ignore my “correction”!
so it claims, and 14000 adverse reactions.
Bizarrely they claim this is “raise confidence” in the vaccines.
Here’s the official page:
https://eng.nhso.go.th/view/1/DescriptionNews/One-billion-baht-paid-to-COVID-19-vaccine-recipients-experiencing-side-effects-/409/EN-US
Sure you might die taking this crap but we’ll give your grieving relatives £10k if you do.
How can Thailand have such a different assessment of deaths attributed to the vaccines? Would love to know the details behind this. Would love to have something to shove in the face of anyone or any propaganda piece that claims they are safe and effective.
The compensation payable has been around for a long time. I think it started last year. There are many things wrong over here but I have to admit they are quick to pay out.
I live here and yes the compensation payable for death is correct. Bear in mind it is in baht which currently about 43.5 to the pound. Not too sure about the death toll from the jabs though
I’m probably a bit late with this. I’ve just noticed that Faecebook has changed the wording on its Vaccine post warning.
The Vaccines are no longer claimed to be ‘safe and effective’. Now they’re ‘extensively tested for safety and effectivity’. Still a lie of course but an interesting tactical retreat.
A lie by omission – it makes no claim that they passed the tests.
“Matt Le Tissier admits he was ‘wrong’ for tweet about Bucha massacre” I examined some of the grainy photographs circulating the internet and media. A few observations: Why do, suddenly, photographs of events turn grainy and difficult to analyse when even a rudimentary phone camera these days can generate shots with incredible clarity. What are they using, Box Brownies? I noticed from some of the shots the bodies littering the streets were zipped into body bags. Does this mean the Russians killed people, then put them into body bags before leaving them on the streets? Or does it mean that Ukrainians zipped them into body bags, and then left them in the street after the Russians had gone? It might be argued that Ukrainian’s zipped the corpses into body bags awaiting transportation. But human nature would suggest that once in body bags, it might be sensible to move them off the roads and group them together for collection. It’s not a nice thought having tanks tripping over bodies littering the roads. Forensic analysis? If, as is claimed, the bodies had been there for some day, or weeks, in the pouring rain by some accounts (this was an argument used when… Read more »
The whole narrative seems riddled with holes. Every alleged atrocity seems to be a false flag at best, or an internal war-crime at worst. Surely our governments either know this to be a murderous fraud that they are complicit with, or they are being misled by their experts (yet again), or they have their fingers in their ears.
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Electricity rationing by price, smart meters – another conspiracy theory that no longer is.
Wind cannot provide a stable, continuous electricity supply. It’s been said enough times, the consequences have been explained enough time – and here we are.
Inconvenient Truths: Sunset & Calm Weather Mean Wind & Solar Can Never Power Us
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I agree with the message in that Telegraph piece condemning the cruel ban on hospital visits, but unfortunately the author has hardly any clue about how real live British people experience the NHS.
Even before 2020 the “normality” was often that they were kicked around, bullsh*tted, and treated like a f***ing nuisance, by medics, often by receptionists, and sometimes by nurses and paramedics.
So many MSM articles seem to be written by second-rate A-level students these days, or by undergraduates heading for a lower second.
•“How Black Lives Matter became big business”
It is well past time for this organisation to be barred as the racist organisation that it is.
Don’t you know? White lives matter is racist,; Black lives matter isn’t.
According to Martin Lewis of MoneySavingExpert fame, who is advising people how to stay warm without using their heating due to the exorbitant costs of it (hot water bottles in sleeping bags apparently), the UK is not far from civil unrest.
So, all going according to plan in UK then.
What about giving up the ambition of owning cars and instead (not too far into the future) call up an electric self driven car on your mobile phone. In the beginning you would have two choices, self drive, obviously slow or driven by you. Leave it at your destination and forget about, naturally for a hire fee. No journey too short, no road tax, no insurance, no maintenance, no liability, no need for millions of cars. Keep it nice and simple please!
So what pays for the roads?
Track record of self driving cars so far indicates that it is the human operated ones that are safer & the computer controlled ones should be resticted to 30mph.
Ever lived in the country?
Some bits still dont have a mobile phone signal.
Call up your electric car that has a range of 200 miles on a cold morning, for a 250 mile trip to somwhere, then wait 8 hours for it to recharge enough to get you back.
Roads costs factored in to the transport hire charge. Drive it yourself or let it drive you, your choice. Phone signals are bound to improve. Journey from say Lands End to John o’ Groats: Initially you would need to switch cars at least three times, technology bound to improve whether it’s battery or hydrogen. Why not just drive and pick up a flying taxi (coming soon) or a train and pick up a freshly charged car on arrival. Full breakdown support included.
Well, youll need the breakdown support with an e mobile, thats for sure.
Only one capable of getting to Edinburgh from London atm is a £100k merc innideal conditions.
So thats still a luxury only for the uber rich greenies.
Phone signals are bound to improve – really, its been the same for 20+ years in most areas.
Dont know why you want a system tying you in to govt rationing & control rather than having the freedom, technical excellence and much lower pollution of an internal combustion engine.
Ive never understood why battery advocates hate free markets doing away with child labour and prefer systems utterly dependant on child exploitation on the Congo.
Or own a diesel, petrol or electric car and remain captive to market forces and government rationing agendas.
If you haven’t seen it, THIS IS IMPORTANT! The WHO (World health Organisation) is moving to take control of the worlds pandemic planning. In other words, it gets to decide which country’s lock down, mask up, or impose vaccine mandates, irrespective of what your government decides is best for you. If you thought Bill Gates and the WEF (World Economic Forum) were going to rely on persuasion to have us all accept their vaccinations, you are very much mistaken. Working with the WHO, they will simply mandate it in every country of their choosing. The title of the proposal is: “The World Together”: the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body to draft and negotiate a WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response I believe the critical term here is “international instrument“. I don’t think such a thing exists, but it soon will as governments fall into line to ensure they are seen to be doing the best for you. Whatever you think of Trump, he warned us all of this, and thanks to the historically racist, sexist and witless Biden’s belief that woke virtue signalling will win him votes and make him wealthy, no government will resist… Read more »