News Round-Up
- “Sweden’s WHO figures must radically change the terms of the Covid inquiry” – Unlike the U.K. where elites told people what was good for them, Sweden explained its public health thinking and invited people to cooperate, says Professor Robert Dingwall in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer ‘tells colleagues he will have to quit if he gets Covid fine’” – Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has reportedly told his colleagues he will have to quit if he is fined over the Beergate investigation currently being carried out by Durham Constabulary, according to the Mail.
- “‘Please don’t do a hit job’: An interview with Devi Sridhar” – Ross Clark in the Spectator interviews the (in)famous
epidemiologistanthropologist and finds her unrepentant for her Zero Covid zeal. - “Woman, 75, barred from VA hospital due to Covid rules dies in hot car” – Lear Litt died while sitting in a car outside a North Las Vegas hospital in 110-degree weather. Her husband, David, was receiving treatment at the facility, but due to Covid rules she wasn’t allowed to join him, the Mail reports.
- “‘The Vindication of The Great Barrington Three’ Panel Transcript” – Read the transcript from the February Left Lockdown Sceptics meeting where Dr. Sunetra Gupta, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Martin Kuldorff discuss their famous declaration.
- “FDA’s John Farley Puts Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla in his Place” – Recently, Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla told those for whom the company’s antiviral Covid treatment Paxlovid wasn’t working to “just take another course of the drug” – but the FDA disagreed, reports TrialSite News.
- “New U.K. Government data shows the Covid vaccines kill more people than they save” – Steve Kirsch analyses ONS data and finds the vaccines don’t come off well – though be aware he is only looking at those who are double-dosed but unboosted six months post-jab.
- “Yelling demonstrators disrupt Priti Patel speech local Tory dinner” – The Mail reports that a video shared by campaign group Green New Deal Rising shows several protestors suddenly stand up one at a time to deliver a message to the Home Secretary.
- “Trump: Disbanding Biden’s ‘chilling’ disinformation board is priority” – Trump said at a rally Friday one of the highest priorities in getting Republicans elected to Congress is now to dissolve Joe Biden’s new Disinformation Governance Board, the Mail reports.
- “Book sent to 800 primary schools teaches children sex is ‘assigned’” – Copies of What Does LGBT+ Mean? which teaches children that a person’s sex is “assigned” to them at birth by a doctor has been sent to 814 primary schools across Britain, the Mail reports.
- “The Week in Review – A New Current Thing” – One the latest Bournbrook podcast, S.D. Wickett and Luke Perry discuss the U.S. Supreme Court’s supposed decision to repeal the Roe v Wade decision.
- “Why the woke Left should stop banging on about ‘white privilege’” – Droning on about privilege is a pastime of the privileged; the unprivileged tend to have more pressing things to worry about, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Cambridge should be a bastion of excellence – not social engineering” – Stephen Toope’s early departure from Cambridge is a blessing; we must hope no more damage is done, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Councils hire ‘Maoist’ consultants to ‘decolonise minds’ of nursery school children” – Several local authorities call on the services of the “Black Nursery Manager” to deliver diversity training sessions, the Telegraph reports.
- “NHS staff get microaggression training through £90k VR simulation” – The pilot scheme for mental health staff aims to help workers learn to build ‘hard to teach’ skills such as empathy and inclusion, according to the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk warns woke Twitter staff they face ‘extreme’ workload” – Elon Musk has warned Twitter staff they face “extreme” workloads when he takes over – but insists he’ll still graft even harder than them to make the firm a success, the Mail reports.
- “The Government wants to control what you say and think, by assuming the sole authority to define ‘disinformation’ – the same Government that cannot acknowledge basic facts or admit they’ve lied when it’s proven over and over” – Watch Senator Rand Paul nail it in Congress.
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Dear God. How low can society stoop.
There are innumerable stories of this kind. The book of the consequences of “Covid rules” would be the longest book in the world, and the saddest.
Along with the deaths would be all the stories of distress and despair: a great increase in human misery.
So – exactly what was desired, then, by these ”ELITES”?
I think they just don’t care what happens to anybody except themselves.
At the very high end of the category, I think some saw the Covid rules as a means to an end:
For starters.
Low enough, I would say: The Macmillan Cancer Centre (part of University College London Hospitals (UCLH) has ‘Security‘ on the front doors, and if you aren’t “on the list”, you aren’t getting in the building. Imagine going along to the first follow-up appointment (after you’ve gone for all the tests) to find out if you have Cancer, and getting to the door the ‘doorman’ tells you your husband/wife/partner/son/daughter, etc. aren’t getting to accompany you because you never told UCLH in advance they were coming with you. ———— Off topic (a bit): The administration office complex for UCLH is on the other side of the road from the hospital, on the Euston Road. Very few staff are back at work 5 days a week yet; most work 2 or 3 days in the office, at most – most staff still work half their week at home. While in the office, you don’t need a mask while sat at your desk, but you must still wear a mask if you need to stand up to move about the office, even if it’s only to get a print from the printer 5 feet away. As of this Friday (6th May 2022) both these… Read more »
Before it was ‘the latest thing’ I used to try hard to be empathetic and inclusive.
Now I go out my way to offend people just to stimulate the debate I can ridicule the snowflakes with.
GOMS (Grumpy Old Man Syndrome). Now I know how my old man felt!
What they all seem to miss is that you can have a perfectly good working relationship with people who you would never think of socialising with, even people you really don’t like. You don’t have to be empathetic, just civil, reasonable and focussed on goals not personalities.
I have suffered several team-building exercises in my career. Each one has left me with a deep hatred of at least some of my colleagues. You can stand Brian or Sheila when they are processing orders for you or writing manuals, but when you are neck deep in cold water because they can’t tie a fricking knot properly, believe me, harmony in the workplace has gone forever.
“Team building exercises”: surely one of the most soul destroying phrases in the English language.
FFS! You can either do the bloody job or you can’t!!
I remember going on numerous team building events. What an absolute dreary waste of time. Even then I realised that they were lessons in groupthink. And the bitching recommenced when we returned to the office!
Luckily for me, Helena, I’ve always been a manual worker (started at the bottom and worked my way down) but even so was not exempt from such drivel ie: being put in a room with loads of mixed up newspapers of all ages and publications and being asked to put them all back together correctly.
On another subject entirely, the firm that I worked for, which had been in existence for over 200 years decided that we weren’t modern enough so engaged a “focus team” to make us more efficient.
This team was led by an hyper -ventilating individual who pasted sheets of brown and white paper on all the walls of her office and spent hours writing in a big marker pen anything that came into her head until she finally “lost it” and her husband (a psychiatrist) had to be called to calm her down and take her back home.
God knows how much this all cost?
It achieved absolutely nothing and this 200 year plus company went out of business not long after.
I am sure that this was not an isolated case and happened all over the country.
I am sure that this was not an isolated case and happened all over the country.
And other countries! The patronising preaching to the pissed-off.
As my ode mon ( father) use to discribe them (the patronising): “non producers”
You mean it actually stopped for a while?
Please buy our Civil Service Elon.
And whilst your at it, can you ask Donald Trump if he want’s a temporary job in the UK until 2024, seeing as he’s unemployed at the moment.
“Yelling demonstrators disrupt Priti Patel speech local Tory dinner” aka “Yelling People Trafficker Supporters disrupt Priti Patel speech”
So they are complaining that the person disrupting people trafficking is a people trafficker. Much membership crossover with XR, by chance..?
If you think Pretty Pathetic is trying to disrupt people trafficking, I have a great bridge for sale.
If the neckbeard and his harem want open borders, let them pay for the consequences out of their trust funds.
Seen the title of her book? Preventable: how a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One
They are all writing books on how to stop the next inevitable ‘pandemic’. No doubt it will be yet another load of pish from yet another totally unqualified ‘expert’, just like Gates!
She writes on a disagreement with Mark Woodhouse, ‘What does bother me is that his evidence is seen as more valuable because he’s older and he’s a man,’ she adds.
She isn’t grown up enough to realise it’s because he is a professor of infectious disease epidemiology, who may know a bit about what he’s talking about, while she is an anthropologist, who doesn’t!
Hey, Eugyppius; any chance you can read and review this one for us, too, so we don’t have to; looks like it could be just as big a pile of crap as Gates’s.
Sridhar isn’t there to be factually correct. She is there to add to the narrative. Everything is about the narrative. The narrative is simple, the world is dangerous, you cannot survive alone, we will protect you.
It is the antithesis of the traditional British approach that emphasized resilience and independence. That’s how you erode a society and weaken it. You make the people beg for more government.
Sridhar is useful because she understands this and is rewarded for it. Actual professors of epidemiology are too dangerous because they want to use facts. That’s why a non-expert like Bill Gates gets headlines and book deals and Prof. John Nobody who has studied pandemics for 40 years is ignored.
The same phenomenon is witnessed with green energy; no one ever interviews engineers because they are numerate. They can demolish the arguments for wind and solar in their head using arithmetic.
Appleyard reviews Gates’s steaming pile of ordure in the Sunday Times today. It’s a trivial, pretty uncritical review, with no serious analysis, for example, of the ogre’s proposals for NPI’s at the drop of a hat. The only sensible bit of Appleyard’s screed is that he reckons, to paraphrase, getting everyone in the world to work from the Gates playbook is unlikely.
In a perfect world Sridhar would be getting a “hit job” alright, albeit one with a different meaning
”“Book sent to 800 primary schools teaches children sex is ‘assigned’” This book reportedly contains the quotes ‘This book explores identity, assigned sex, gender, love, sexuality, discrimination, privilege, allyship, pride and more,’ the website says.” ”The terms ‘male’ and ‘female’ which are referred to in the Pop’n’Olly book, co-written by the company’s director, Olly Pike, have in recent years been understood to be about the traits of masculinity and femininity rather than sex.” Clearly I have not seen the book, just the reports but the implication is that it makes no mention of parenthood and being a mother or a father. Inconveniently for the proponents of this approach, all of mammalian life splits into 2 camps mothers and fathers, you are biologically equipped to be one or the other and can never change, you can be neutered so that you can never achieve your potential mother or father role but you can never change from being a mother to a father or vice versa. These sort of guides seem to fall into the trap of failing to define their terms, most of society assumes it knows what masculinity and femininity mean but when these terms are used as key factors… Read more »
Most young people today have no experience of the natural world at all.
“The terms ‘male’ and ‘female’ which are referred to in the Pop’n’Olly book, co-written by the company’s director, Olly Pike, have in recent years been understood to be about the traits of masculinity and femininity rather than sex.”
Oh really. Understood by whom? There’s an enormous literature (and yes, it’s still being produced) suggesting that many “traits of masculinity and femininity” are culturally determined (should men cry, for instance), but that sex (as in being male or female) is a biological fact, with very rare exceptions. All of this is highly contentious and a reasonable topic of discussion – between adults.
Pre-pubescent children should be free to explore the world, dress up, play, act, experiment and look at the natural world (I have never seen a trans hedgehog), we should not be imposing our adult sexuality hang-ups on our children.
Yes, yes, yes. Today’s children are injected against illnesses which represent very little danger to them; and injected with ideas that are much more likely to confuse than enlighten them. That confusion can be dangerous.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/uk-government-data-shows-nobody-should?s=r
Much too heavy reading for a Sunday morning after just waking up, but is this article really saying that for every kid between the ages of 10-14 receiving the jabs, 1 is ‘saved’ from covid and 1600 die from the jabs? If I am interpreting it correctly, we certainly don’t hear about it and I’m not meaning via MSM as they won’t tell us, but surely with a number that high we’d be hearing about it at the school playgrounds, social media, work and pub?
Note to British politicians: watch Rand Paul and learn.
This is how Governments should be held to account.
Why would they hold themselves to account? They are there to promote a narrative. They are literally handpicked, with a few anomalies slipping through. Like Rand Paul.
Politics won’t fix this. Only noncompliance stops it.
That word again: ”Elites”.
Surely we can find another one that more accurately describes what these evil beings are?
Yes – “those who deem themselves elite” is probably accurate, but too long.
The rules of this site prevent me from making further suggestions.
Nikki wanted some personal training off Devi, during the shutdown period. I expect she got plenty. These masters of shutdown Bunter, Sir Kier, Ferguscum, Dom, were not that keen on restricting themselves. Nikki probably had a great time.
Can we have a picture of Selina Scott heading the News Round-up please? (Just a suggestion) Any upticks?
This is from Pulse, a trade magazine for non-specialist local medics (“general practitioners”). (Such magazines are important in controlling opinion in many fields.) “GPs receive ‘menacing’ anti-child Covid vaccination letters claiming to be from solicitors” An anti-vaccination letter seen by Pulse said it put GPs ‘on notice’ of their ‘potential liability’ if a child registered with the practice was ‘injured, in some way damaged, or killed’ by the ‘experimental’ Pfizer Covid jab.The letter, sent to a number of Scottish GP practices, said it was from a ‘group of scientists, doctors, lawyers and other professionals who are closely documenting the management of the Covid pandemic in your area’.The anonymous senders claimed to be concerned ‘with any failure to apply the precautionary principle, to elicit informed consent and most importantly, to do no harm’.The letter added: ‘We recommend that you obtain legal advice in respect of how these matters concern yourself.’Fife GP Dr Angela Dixon said they had forwarded the letter to the police but was told there was nothing they could do as the letter was anonymous and not threatening violence.She told Pulse: ‘I can understand some people feel there is insufficient evidence of personal benefit to vaccinate children against Covid-19,… Read more »
“FDA’s John Farley Puts Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla in his Place”
Bourla’s place is in the criminal dock and a prison cell.
“Copies of What Does LGBT+ Mean? which teaches children that a person’s sex is “assigned” to them at birth by a doctor has been sent to 814 primary schools across Britain, the Mail reports.” That disgraceful book contains gems such as this: “Some people are born with bodies that are different from what a doctor would consider as a typical male or female body.” As if you have to be a “professional” (with or without a clipboard and a white coat like the one in the cartoon printed together with the above words) to observe whether a newborn baby has a penis or not. I am aware that some are born with unusual bodies. That is not my point. My point is that what makes a typical body of one sex or the other when a baby is born does not require a medic to tell us. It is typicality that the quoted words are about. Penis ~ typical boy baby; no penis ~ typical girl baby. Trust me on this. For all the “you are what you feel” and “gender is a spectrum” rubbish, the fanatical belief that what is true equals what is deemed by state officials often… Read more »