News Round-Up
- “Will the end of zero Covid be the real legacy of the World Cup?” – “The spectacle of humans being human, free of restrictions, with no more serious purpose than having a great time, could be far more consequential than anything that happens on the pitch,” says Philip Patrick in the Spectator
- “Chris Whitty warned pre-lockdown 820k people could die from Covid” – Two months before lockdown, Chris Whitty told Matt Hancock that there was a 50-50 chance that the virus would escape China and cause mass deaths in Britain, the Daily Mail reports, highlighting its serialisation of Hancock’s pandemic diaries
- “Even now, nobody wants to confront the awful truth about Britain’s pandemic lockdowns” – As the Chinese people protest against zero Covid, Douglas Murray calls for a reckoning with Britain’s own lockdown experiences in the Telegraph
- “When will Covid fraud catch up with Rishi Sunak?” – “For all his supposed competence as a technocratic administrator, in reality, Sunak presided over fraud on an unprecedented scale” says Matthew Lynn in the Spectator. “It may be just a matter of time before this massive scandal catches up with him”
- “Covid hero-worship has left Britain at the mercy of trade union barons” – “What rankles most are the cynical attempts to justify unreasonable double-digit pay rises for their members on the basis that many of them worked through the pandemic,” says the Telegraph’s Ben Marlow
- “The brass neck of the Western lockdown zealots” – “Justin Trudeau’s condemnations of the CCP’s Covid authoritarianism are a sick joke,” writes Spiked’s Fraser Myers
- “Trudeau Liberals discussed sending in army to quash Freedom Convoy” – It never got past the planning stage, but many question why the idea of sending the Canadian military to quash the Freedom Convoy was discussed at all, the Post Millennial reports
- “Victoria and China: a tragic tale of two tyrannies” – “The contrast could not be greater,” writes Bill Muehlenberg in Spectator Australia. “Freedom is willingly being thrown away in Victoria and the West while being passionately fought for in Communist China”
- “China signals ease in Covid policy after mass protests” – China has signalled a shift in its Covid stance, the BBC reports, as districts in Shanghai and Guangzhou where daily case numbers have been rising, are released from lockdown measures
- “The real reason behind China’s ‘zero Covid’ policy” – China’s brutal ‘zero-Covid’ approach allows Western governments to claim the ‘moderate’ label simply by virtue of not being so cartoonishly ‘evil’ as China, writes Kit Knightly in Off-Guardian
- “Survival of SARS-CoV-2 on food surfaces” – A Food Standards Agency study investigating how long SARS-CoV-2 survives on food and packaging
- “How to save your skin, according to Bankman-Fried and Fauci” – An entertaining parody of Anthony Fauci and Sam Bankman-Fried and their responses under questioning for bad actions that no one denies except them, penned by Jeffrey A. Tucker of the Brownstone Institute
- The Government is killing its own academic freedom bill” – Julius Grower, Professor of Law at the University of Oxford, warns readers of the Telegraph that the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill is in danger of being watered down
- “Oxford students are going back to the dark ages” – In UnHerd, Louise Perry tells of the latest student to be burnt at the stake for wrong think
- “U.K. regulator appoints former Google exec as ‘Online Safety’ head after online censorship bill is reintroduced” – Gill Whitehead, formally a member of Google’s U.K. management group, has been appointed Group Director of Online Safety at Ofcom, Reclaim the Net reports
- “Regulator announces statutory inquiry into Mermaids” – The Charity Commission announces a statutory inquiry into transgender charity Mermaids, after identifying concerns about its governance and management
- “Diversity actually” – Writing for Spiked, Laurie Wastell mourns the passing of an era in which a Christmas romcom “could be judged on whether it was heart-warming and funny – not for the diversity of its cast”
- “The palace has treated Lady Hussey cruelly” – “We all know Charles and William want to modernise the Firm,” writes Brendan O’Neil of the Palace race row in the Spectator, “but if they do so by embracing such modern cruelties as cancel culture, they’ll regret it”
- “In defence of Lady Susan Hussey” – Lady Susan Hussey “has never knowingly offended anyone in her life,” writes her friend, Petronella Wyatt, in the Spectator. “She possesses the milk of human kindness by the quart”
- “The sacking of Lady Susan Hussey is ritual humiliation masquerading as social justice” – By casting Ngozi Fulani as a victim, “many in the media and on the Left are revealing their own ingrained prejudices”, says Sebastian Milbank in the Telegraph
- “Lady Susan Hussey doesn’t deserve this vitriol” – “Two worlds collided at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday night: a Lady in Waiting encountered a Lady in Wokeing,” writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph
- “America’s woke establishment has been triggered by Musk’s Twitter campaign for free speech” – Steve Hilton says the reason the blue tick liberals are freaking out over Musk‘s plans for Twitter is because they want to control America’s public conversation
- “It’s not the place of the university to restrict speech more than the law already does” – Professor Arif Ahmed joins Patrick Christys on GB News to discuss the calls from peers and university leaders to water down the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
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Good morning comrades.
Blimey, a downtick for a salutation within minutes of posting.
Either 77 Brigade and if so many thanks or some lone nutter in which case never mind.
Good morning, HP! My word you get up early! Or go to bed late…
Yes, your downticker shadow has a small group of mates assigned now to downtick your morning greetings. How rich and full their lives must be. The Downticker’s Christmas Party – or more likely ‘Festive Season’ party – will be a feast of joylessness as they downtick themselves into despair and a gnashing of toothless gums, unable to comment (‘cos orders is orders, sah!), forever the wallflowers…oh well…
😂 Yes indeed, it does give a feel for certain people doesn’t it? It’s like a battle of good vs evil over here, blimey!😯 Some right petty buggers around. As you say, evidently the life and soul of the party-type people.🤭
Thanks Aethelred. 👍
Good morning HP. You’re obviously too happy at this time of day.
The haters evidently need their weetabix
Thanks GDA.
Staying at the abstract level, it should be possible to submit coursework for the same course, with views diametrically opposed to eachother, but with each viewpoint argued thoroughly ‘ad-nauseam’ to the ‘nth’ degree.
If these viewpoints are each presented as logically coherent arguments, and neither opponent presents this as “an objective, self-evident view” (thereby allowing weak arguments) there should be no reason to fail either viewpoint. That’s for follow-up research by other people to assess the veracity of their claims and the repeatability of research findings.
Acknowledging self-evident complications/barriers to my idealism)
I’m not clear it’s democracy that’s under attack (it’s too corrupted already), but the concept of democracy is not what it’s held up to be. Joe Biden doesn’t understand the word, but equally nobody in the UK halls-of-power seems to either.
They really are determined to get this mRNA crap into us come hell or high water aren’t they? Their ingenuity in ways to poison and kill us knows no bounds. I don’t know whether to laugh out loud or be horrified that this would even occur to scientists to explore as a concept. Vaccination via eating your green leafies anyone? 😮 Here’s Byram Bridle’s latest;
“For some reason, a group of scientists and the National Science Foundation, which is funding their research, feel it would be wise to make lettuce and spinach express proteins from pathogens by giving these plants the mRNA blueprints to work with. The idea is that people will eat these plants and this will induce an immune response that will protect them from a targeted disease. A report about this research from the University of California can be viewed at this link.”
https://viralimmunologist.substack.com/
Fascinating read, thanks for the link. MRNA really is the new black, isn’t it – lets just get it into everything, everywhere, just because we can. Wonder what such Frankenplants would do to general ecosystems and nibbling besties have their fill: turn them into sterile wastelands or fill them with mutant killer bugs, perhaps?
I’m highly doubtful that this concept could be applied practically, and for the reasons you state, also Dr Bridle states some obvious ones within the article, it would surely be enormously damaging to the environment and wildlife. What would happen to those wild bunnies and creepy crawlies? Or is the idea that Bill Gates builds a shed-load of green houses on his significant amount of farm land and so we have the beginning of a new era in edible vaccines? I feel that no ridiculous sounding idea is off the table anymore. All is possible. But I still don’t think this thing has legs. It just sounds too mental with too many problems to consider it ever being feasible.
The benign ‘scientists’, gawd love ‘em, are trying to protect us all from being covered in greenfly – a serious consequence of eating veg…
Vaccine shedding!
“We’re all dooomed!”
Here we go. Figures pulled out of a hat. “I was warned 820k would die from covid, and the only reason this didn’t happen was because of lockdown.” All setting the scene for the conclusion of the inquiry, which was written ages ago.
Now tell us again about those non-covid deaths since your beloved lockdowns, which keep
coming and coming.
There’s no need to do anything to justify your actions anymore. Show your decision was between the stupid thing you did, and the stupid thing you didn’t do, which your un-corroborated, unsubstantiated forecast suggested would have been worse. Home and dry.
“The palace has treated Lady Hussey cruelly”
A disgrace. Action taken not because of the event, but the reaction by all the whinging race baiters. Weak, weak, weak. Prince Phillip will be rotating in his casket.
That woman’s real name is Marlene Headley. I’d be willing to bet a small sum she sounds West Indian when she speaks, rather than African, which is what you’d expect from someone with a name like Ngozi Fulani.
It is known that she is of Caribbean origins. Lady Hussey, if she travelled with HM The Queen, would have come into contact with lots of authentic African dress in her time. She was probably thinking ‘wtf..? She looks like her outfit was designed at a jumble sale.’.
Indeed. The accents are completely different, even with people who grew up in the UK. Even I can tell the difference.
This is what the Woke religion’s commandment “Be kind” looks like: “Be kind” by publicly shaming and smearing a well-intentioned elderly lady who is no doubt still suffering the grief of her very close friend dying in September. For what?
I see The Telegraph are still backtracking without actually owning up to their own spineless reporting. Liars and cowards. I can still read their articles, but cannot comment as they shadow banned me ages ago; someone has weirdly commented with this load of BS…
“Some of us saw through the lies and disinformation at the time. Some of us wore masks briefly to placate others, until we realised just how pointless that was, and some of us refused point blank to change our daily lives.
I would have loved the chance to argue with anyone foolish enough to condemn me for it, but I never got the chance. Apart from the first few weeks, everyone else I met seemed to be doing the same, with only lip-service to the mask thing.
So my feeling is that much of the country wasn’t hysterical at all but just carried on and kept calm. Not that you’d guess that from the truly hysterical media coverage.”
What’s going on there? Is this the start of a rewrite of the pathetic, Nazi-loving behaviour of the masses?
I gave up my subscriptions to the Torygraph and the Spectator in 2020 when it became clear that they were taking money from Gates and supporting the medical madness. And I won’t be going back to them.
Yup. I paid a yearly subscription in full in Jan 2021. More fool me. Obviously won’t be renewing, but it is interesting/useful to read the comments and get a sense of where the moronic masses are. There is, almost certainly, a shift in their thinking. Simon Says.
“Papers please”
21st century world!
I think there will be another sort of demand along the lines of ‘Chip check!’ with no please and spoken with a foreign accent..
“spoken with a foreign accent.”
Albanian perhaps?
Slow choking end of the human race!
“And the mad scientist screamed to himself, “YES, I have it”
(lighting flash,thunder)
vaccine shedding!!
Private Fraser was right then…we really are all doomed! Oh well, it was a good run while it lasted. The human race never really got going although it showed some early, and some late promise. The trouble was those big brains of theirs, which, while evidently useful, led them to believe that they could alter their own fates and become gods without really understanding the preciousness of all the life around them. “Those blasted Egos!” commented god or some sort of cosmic consciousness. “We really must do something about them because the problem is that just a few rotten apples can ruin the harvest.”
Morning all…
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/29/dr-jordan-peterson-stop-allowing-radicals-to-exploit-you-with-guilt/
Dr Jordan Peterson: ‘Stop allowing radicals to exploit you with guilt’
Short and sweet interview with Jordan Peterson..towards the end he makes a couple of good points about the scamdemic, which I think I might use in future argument/discussions….if I can remember them!!!
One of the things that struck me at the time of the panic in early 2020 was the lack of anyone in government who appeared to have any clear idea about viruses or bacterial infections and what they were, how they behaved generally and what that might mean. Wouldn’t you have thought they might at least have mugged up to ‘own’ some of the concepts? Surely a qualification to being a health secretary might suggest some science knowledge? It appears not. There’s a reform waiting to happen. The PM at the time clearly hadn’t done any science beyond GCSE – or whatever they do at Eton – and if you looked at his cabinet who else had solid factual science knowledge on their CVs? So they went to be advised by ‘the experts’ who appeared to be working, either for their funding masters, or to be generous, looked at the impact of an infectious respiratory virus theoretically in a very blinkered way at what such a virus might do in a dense population using patently wrong modelling software. These same people are now saying it wasn’t their responsibility as to how ‘the government’ used those predictions. Seriously??? And the 6… Read more »
I’ve got no science beyond O level but I could see it was nonsense. Whitty and Vallance are intelligent and have advanced knowledge in relevant fields. IMO it wasn’t lack of scientific literacy that caused the problem. It was some combination of cowardice, gullibility and evil. Same goes for everyone else who went along with this. It wasn’t a technical failure but a failure of character, of moral fibre.
You are applying cock-up theory to what has been the first phase of a coordinated attack on humanity. TPTB have declared war on us and it will carry on until total enslavement is visited on the world population – what’s left of it after their various “pandemic and injection” programmes.
The initial target date is 2030.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/multinational-agrichemical-corporations-great-food-transformation/5801078
A blistering look at the outright destruction the Pharma companies intend to wreck on the planet. All in the interest of saving it and us.
This is not a comfortable read. Holland is the trial run.
“The masses need to be made to realize that the social engineers of Agenda 2030 are “false prophets,” who are misguiding them to the point where they will be “haunted by the specter of death from starvation.”
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-12-02-hollywood-executives-feast-on-blood-of-kids.html
Very disturbing and easily dismissed but with grooming gangs rife in this country and totally ignored by the authorities I suspect there might be much truth in this article.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/who-and-other-covidocracy-agencies-working-toward-2024-world-pandemic-treaty-deadline
An excellent article outlining the shenanigans involved in inflicting the Pandemic Preparedness Treaty on the world in 2024. Which will be followed you can be certain by another “pandemic.”
Worth reading in full as we say round here.
Big story on Twitter today…Matt Taibbi the journalist, has started a thread regarding Twitters involvement in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story…
This has been done with Elon Musk’s blessing apparently…..
No doubt we should be hearing something about it in the next few days…so if you have access to Twitter you can read it, although I think he will put it on his substack at a later date..
https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/who-is-matt-taibbi-journalist-behind-hunter-biden-twitter-files/
The journalist and author behind the so-called “The Twitter Files” that revealed the social media giant’s extreme steps to censor The Post’s Hunter Boden Laptop scoop, hinted about the “explosive” thread Thursday night and told his followers the four days leading up to the series of tweets were a “whirlwind.”
You can access Twitter in a browser without an account. Just take the option to sign up then hit the X.
Main takeaway from part 1 is that they were desperate to suppress the story and searching for reasons to do so within their existing policies. Not surprising given that 98% of all political campaign contributions made by Twitter employees were to the Democrats