News Round-Up
- “Lockdown’s lasting impact on the nation is plain to see now that the fog of war is gone” – From soaring debt to spiralling inflation, Jeremy Warner documents some of the vast and enduring economic costs of Covid lockdowns in the Telegraph.
- “Japanese take smiling lessons after Covid restrictions are lifted” – Business is booming for local authority and private classes that teach a country how to use facial expressions once more, according to the Telegraph.
- “Covid vaccines and mortality: the RCT review” – Swiss Policy Research analyses a recent Danish study and asks: did Covid vaccines really reduce all-cause mortality?
- “Biden’s sham compassion for his Covid persecution victims” – Joe Biden’s COVID-19 policy continues to ignore a torrent of evidence undercutting its mandates, writes James Bovard in Brownstone.
- “The wind and solar power myth has finally been exposed” – Net Zero plans all have a single, fatal flaw: they are reliant on the pipe dream that there is some affordable way to store surplus electricity at scale, says Bryan Leyland in the Telegraph.
- “Joe Biden targets dishwashers in climate crackdown – and Britain could be next” – Plans are already underway to force manufacturers to highlight the efficiency of white goods, according to the Telegraph.
- “London’s ULEZ expansion will punish women, Sadiq Khan warned” – London Mayor’s review finds road charge will cause “disproportionate impact”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Head of the Metropolitan Police Sir Mark Rowley under attack again” – Rowley’s force was castigated for arresting six anti-royal protesters at the Coronation, says Quentin Letts in the Times.
- “The classist war on the car” – The unique freedom of car-driving is being pummelled by bourgeois anti-modernists, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “BBC editor ‘ordered colleague not to investigate’ £350 million Brexit claim” – Sir Robbie Gibb, a BBC board member, ordered a news chief not to interrogate Vote Leave’s £350 million Brexit bus campaign after the referendum, claims former BBC editor Rob Burley in new book, reports the Times.
- “Our two greatest universities are no longer seats of learning but of indoctrination and woke fanaticism” – As Oxford University students again make a mockery of free speech, a recent Cambridge graduate despairs, writes Oliver Riley in MailOnline.
- “Trans activists are crushing feminism on the university campus” – Students should be testing their worldview. Instead they’re discovering that free speech has become a one-way street, says Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
- “Mob rule and cancel culture have had their day” – It’s now clear Twitter always was a chimps’ tea party and online denunciation a minority sport, says James Marriott in the Times.
- “Has colour-blind casting made us see TV in black and white?” – Adjoa Andoh’s comment proves the power of TV to distort perceptions, says Laura Dodsworth.
- “‘Terribly white’ Coronation balcony comment from Bridgerton star tops Ofcom complaints of the year” – Adjoa Andoh’s remarks spark more than 4,000 complaints from ITV viewers, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bud Light parent company’s stock downgraded by HSBC as sales continue to fall” – HSBC has downgraded Anheuser-Busch InBev stock to “hold” status amid a crisis following Bud Light’s marketing campaign featuring transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney, reports Fox News.
- “Missouri becomes latest state to ban child sex changes, biological men competing in women’s sport” – The state of Missouri passed two bills on Wednesday which ban child sex changes and biological men competing in women’s sports, making it the 16th state to enact such laws, according to the PostMillennial.
- “Mainstream media quietly correcting articles claiming puberty blockers are safe” – The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has been forced to issue a correction regarding its reporting on the safety of puberty blockers, reports the Publica.
- “AP shocks by reporting trans kids are ‘protected from parents’ with new ‘gender-affirming care’ law” – The Associated Press raised eyebrows by framing a report on a new Washington law allowing minors seeking so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ to proceed without parental consent as transgender kids being “protected from parents”, according to Fox News.
- “Trans Starbucks barista investigated by police over alleged assault on customer” – The employee, who has since been sacked, ranted at the woman over “misgendering” before lunging at her partner who was filming the incident, reports the Telegraph.
- “A major free speech victory” – Toby comments on news that the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill has got over the final hurdle in the Lords and is now heading for the statute books, following more than three years of campaigning by the Free Speech Union.
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“The wind and solar power myth has finally been exposed”
Finally?? I’ve known since being a kid at school that batteries don’t last long! Why do they suddenly think they are the future?
Australia’s mega battery:
Total cost over 11 years is $84 million!
It can power 1 million homes for 30 mins!
Divided up per household, that’s $8.40 for half an hour worth of electricity! Then, times that by all the homes in the country and times again by how long it will have to provide power if the wind stops,God save us, for any longer than 30 mins! Oh my!
(Not to mention the kids in the Congo,shussh!)
As of now, wind is at 2.8%. We seem to buy at least 10% from evil nuclear France.
National Grid: Live (iamkate.com)
Excellent epic thread ( 20+ Tweets ) from Dr Simon Goddek. The real pandemic. Although I do disagree with no.16 as women taking birth control can hardly be seen as a negative thing. Maybe he’s strict Catholic or something…
https://twitter.com/goddeketal/status/1655993571562881029
‘Lockdowns lasting impact’ is, in fact, Blair’s Britain.
Blair reinvigorated the state/public sector and the similar ninnies that followed him enjoyed the power that the massive public sector now gave them.
I know this from talking to Conservative MPs.
Lockdown was a direct consequence of an overmighty state and statist mindset throughout Whitehall. The true size of the state today in Britain is revealed in today’s DT: 10.6m employees, 33% of all workers, up from 25% under Blair.
No wonder all roads have potholes, public transport is a shambles, the NHS, defence procurement, border force, the Met.
Blair’s Britain made even worse by the heirs to Blair.
And few on here believe that the covid shambles was due to incompetence.
Look around you. Not much works. Why would the incompetent statist response to covid be any better?
And another thing. Great article in the DT today by Allister Heath about the burgeoning foreign policy and success in foreign trade of China.
How do we really expect to succeed in all our historically lucrative overseas markets, hampered, as we are now by massive tranches of restrictive export regulation from the Blair era, passed to us by the EU, OECD etc. gold plated by our very own sclerotic trade ministry?
Global Britain? We don’t even have a Royal Yacht, previously responsible for the signature of billions in contracts across the world.
Re:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/10/trans-starbucks-barista-investigated-police-alleged-assault/
Another example of how certain males – who are
deludedpretend they are female but never will be – feel they are exonerated from their abuse of women, think they have a special status and therefore believe they are justified in the abuse.Senator Malcolm Roberts from Australia has been one of the sensible standout politicians in relation to the scamdemic..but in this article he is highlighting the WHO
“Standards for sexuality Education in Europe”….something I wasn’t really aware of, and it’s scary as hell..especially if countries are willing to sign over their sovereignty in relation to various matters..and we know they are..
Well worth a read….
“The World Health Organisation has orchestrated a ‘framework for policy makers, educational and health authorities and specialists’ titled, Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe.
Its purpose is to standardise (in other words override) the diverse teaching practices of each sovereign nation within Europe and the wider international community with regards to sexual education…
Having all-but forced European nations to comply, the United Nations is seeking to expand a similar framework to all UN member states – including Australia. This framework is called International Guidance on Sexuality Education, produced as part of UN Education 2030 and counter-signed by UNICEF. The WHO are now actively promoting the framework….
https://zephr.spectator.com.au/2023/05/children-targeted-by-who-standards-for-sexuality-education-in-europe/
Having just sped-read this WHO document, especially the Matrix (?!) in section 2 in reference to what children at various stages should be learning about, I must say that I am appalled. Personally, I came to know about sex in a natural way that wasn’t ‘taught’ in any classroom. I certainly wasn’t ‘given information about early childhood masturbation’ between the ages of 0-4 years! I didn’t need to talk about my gender identity or about pleasurable sensations in my body and I wasn’t helped to develop a ‘positive attitude to my body’ either. I was an infant just enjoying being alive and playing a lot. Between the ages of 4 to 6, I wasn’t ‘enabled to talk about sexual matters. I was a kid and played a lot. I could go on… This is wrong, wrong, wrong on every level. Who are these people who are pushing these agendas on our children? For what reason? The subject matter is totally inappropriate for children this young. They are playing ffs and this type of information will just confuse them. Who are The WHO to create such nefarious frameworks? Evil. Any teacher involved in such practice should,be ashamed of themselves and/or thrown… Read more »
The sexualisation of children is part of the primary, overriding policy that explains pretty much all of the other policies commonly described as mad or moronic, which is the destruction of European Christian civilisation.
Paedophiles, who are seriously overrepresented in the ranks of politicians, are used to push this sexualisation. They support it because they want to be able to legally rape children and the legalisation of child rape would remove one of the sticks their masters use to control them.
Well these guys in Belgium have the right idea;
https://t.me/schildenvrienden/222
There are few points in the Jeremy Warner article (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/05/09/covid-officially-over-appalling-cost-response-become-clear/) in the Telegraph which I agree with: 1) Politically, it would have been virtually impossible for the UK to have stood alone in remaining open even as virtually the whole of the rest of Europe was closing down. The Government would have fallen within weeks if it had stood by and done nothing. I partially agree but only because the Government were already divided. Sweden was able to remain mostly ‘open even as virtually the whole of the rest of Europe was closing down’. The Government at the time was not so much doing U-turns as doing doughnuts. If half as much effort had gone into reassuring the public compared with that which went into ‘scaring the pants off’ them the Government might have been able to lead the people through not locking down. 2) Instinctively, Boris Johnson, then Prime Minister, was against lockdown, preferring instead the idea of “herd immunity”, but then he became seriously ill himself, and ended up fully embracing the made-in-China response. That’s revisionism. After his recovery from being seriously ill with Covid he was accused of saying ‘I don’t believe this bullshit!’. He was weak, not… Read more »
Excellent post! Thank you.
‘Politically impossible….’
It should have been politically impossible for a democratically elected government to lock the country down without proper parliamentary scrutiny or a detailed cost benefit analysis in defiance of accepted constitutional precedent.
It should have been impossible to spend over £400bn on trashing the economy.
That it was not impossible is a powerful argument for sweeping constitutional reform.
How many lives did the lockdowns save?
Look at the shambles of the NHS now.
Read ‘As If Expendable’, the Amnesty International report into the 2020 NHS hospital clearances and the number of lives lost as a direct consequence.
Lockdowns did not save any lives. On the contrary, they have killed tens, if not hundreds, of thousands before their time.
The great British public, in their hearts, know this and will have their say next year…….
Unfortunately, I think the great British public will not remember that many Labour and other opposition politicians were calling for more draconian and quicker lockdown than the government enforced.
Jeremy Corbyn (remember him?) asked for the government to work with him in preparing the lockdown legislation (see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51916076) and promised not to challenge it in Parliament. The Coronavirus act was passed in both houses without any Members or Lords of any party calling for a division (vote). The Scottish Parliament gave immediate formal Consent (as it impinged on devolved powers) again, without a vote.
So who can the great British public vote for at the next General Election in order to have their say? Reclaim?.
They will do exactly what they did to Callaghan, Major, Brown and, yes, that means they will vote in an even greater nincompoop.
Things are going to get a lot worse before they can get better.
The size of the labour majority is probably irrelevant.
Big majority: even bigger state (already at 33% of the workforce), tax increases to pay for it and less personal liberty.
Small majority: PR and even more lunatic net zero policies, tax increases
What a shambles. Well done Bunter….not.
“Politically, it would have been virtually impossible for the UK to have stood alone in remaining open even as virtually the whole of the rest of Europe was closing down.
The Government would have fallen within weeks if it had stood by and done nothing.”
We stood alone in 1939 / 40 but then we had a PM:
“We Will Never Surrender.”
A Tweet which is well reading in full: “A lot of people are getting upset having their conduct during covid compared to Germans supporting the rise of Nazism. Let’s recapitulate. A fifth of the population was legally classified as unclean. They were barred from most public spaces, including theatres, restaurants, movies, pubs, clubs, swimming pools, sporting events, concerts, conventions, etc. To access public facilities, people had to carry a digital mark with them so authorities could confirm they weren’t unclean. The unclean were fired and barred from most jobs: education, healthcare, courts – all public sector work, most major union jobs and a wide smattering of major private employers. When they were fired, the unclean were denied employment insurance, the reasoning being that they had been fired for cause on account of being unclean. The unclean were banned from travel on trains, planes, and chartered boats. They had no legal means of leaving the country. Even if they wanted to, they could not escape the country that obviously hated them so. It became illegal to socialize with the unclean. They weren’t allowed to attend weddings or funerals, or visit sick relatives or friends in hospital. Special laws were made for the unclean… Read more »
Absolutely spot on. Glad it has been put out.
Thanks for the find BB.
It’s a sober, unemotional response which hits the mark.
Now share the heck out of it!
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-wefs-agenda-for-britain-event/
A public event to be held in London to discuss the Reset.
May 24th. Tickets £20.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ex-pfizer-vp-covid-vax-push-a-supranational-operation-intended-to-maim-and-kill-deliberately/
Always essential reading. Dr Mike Yeadon.
The WHO have declared the Monkeypox global health emergency over. According to the CDC, the death toll was 129 or about 0.0000016% of the global population. Governments think it is alright to trust this organisation with powers over their people whenever the WHO decide there is a global health emergency?
https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/11/get-ready-for-pfizers-turbo-charged-guided-missile-cancer-drugs/
A first rate essay on how Big Pharma are willing, greedy accomplices in the depopulation agenda.
Karen Hunt at Off-G.