News Round-Up
- “Comparing risks: the right and wrong way” – The pandemic has faded away. What’s still high, however, is the number of reports to the pharmaceutical authorities regarding serious symptoms and injuries after Covid vaccination, says Anette Stahel in Brownstone.
- “Cash-strapped Novavax urges governments to honour Covid jab deals” – The U.S. biotech group is among the Covid vaccine makers struggling with reduced demand post-pandemic, reports the FT.
- “Officials neglect Covid vaccines’ side effects” – Brianne Dressen was an energetic mom, an avid hiker and a pre-school teacher – until she got a Covid vaccine, says Allysia Finley in the Wall Street Journal.
- “A failure to disclose competing interests” – In Brownstone, Paul Bourdon tackles the publication of academic work endorsing Covid vaccines without proper disclosure of interests.
- “National populism is here to stay – what the latest data tell us about a key trend in Western politics” – Just look at what’s been unfolding around us since the Covid pandemic, says Matt Goodwin.
- “Mothers, electrified” – Electricity emancipates women and girls from the pump, the stove and the washtub, says Robert Bryce.
- “More on the green climate cabal that is currently at war with German industry and society” – Corporate lobbyists aren’t the only organised force in politics, and profits are not the only or even the most important motivation, says Eugyppius.
- “Wales accused of spoiling countryside with wind farms to spite the English” – Campaigners say Cardiff is pressing ahead with onshore turbines to thwart Crown Estate, according to the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s costly ‘green dream’ budget only has two winners – and neither of them is the Australian taxpayer” – This budget is not about jobs. It is about paying bureaucrats, gambling our money on unproven green power, increasing company taxes and ultimately hurting taxpayers by stealth, writes Nicolle Flint for Sky News Australia.
- “The green movement is a jobs killer. Are unions finally figuring this out?” – President Joe Biden’s all-in embrace of far-Left green policies is wreaking havoc on rank-and-file union jobs, says Stephen Moore in the Washington Examiner.
- “There is no moral case for Britain paying slavery reparations” – The U.K.’s role in the trade in human bondage was not unique, but its role in ending it was, writes Nigel Biggar in the Telegraph.
- “Gavin Newsom’s reparations experiment backfires as 2024 speculation swirls, critics say” – California lawmaker says the “futile reparations exercise exposes the non-serious nature of Governor Newsom‘s leadership”, reports Fox News.
- “Progressives ruined San Francisco, now New York could be next” – Micro-regulated businesses and rising crime are having a profound impact on the U.S. economy, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “‘Bizarre climbdown’ after Coronation arrests left Met in a muddle” – Scotland Yard expressed “regret” over the officers’ actions arresting six demonstrators, according to Nick Ferarri in the Express.
- “Associated Press does the full monty for transgender ideology” – In the Washington Examiner, Quin Hillyer says the Associated Press has abandoned all pretence of objectivity in its reporting on transgenderism.
- “Roald Dahl’s Charlie is now a girl in ‘woke’ Chocolate Factory makeover” – Confusion over new theatre version comes after author’s books were rewritten with redactions and additional passages, reports the Telegraph.
- “Parliamentary staff urged to police pronouns and ‘identify transphobia’” – Authorities have drawn up gender identity guidance for hundreds of civil servants working in administrative roles, according to the Telegraph.
- “Homophobia in drag” – Transgender ideology has breathed new life into a dark, old prejudice, writes Ben Appel in Spiked.
- “The gender war in one American county” – In City Journal, Michael Torres explains how progressives manufactured hysteria at public schools in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
- “The dark side of Bud Light” – Executives across the corporate landscape are starting to realise that picking controversial, fringe activist partnerships could have a very real and prolonged negative impact on their brand image, according to Flat White in the Spectator Australia.
- “‘Wage a war on woke’: DeSantis touts culture war battles in key primary state ahead of anticipated White House run” – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis touted his culture war battles during a speech at an Iowa fundraiser ahead of a possible bid for President in 2024.
- “Canadian judges use race as a reason to reduce criminal sentences – though a defendant claims he used it to exploit the system” – Race-based ideology is increasingly contaminating Canada’s justice system, reports the Post Millennial.
- “A black Queen Cleopatra? This is why I can’t trust history on Netflix” – The giant streamer heaves with sloppy, corrosive, pretend-history shows, says Camilla Long in the Sunday Times.
- “You are the unvaccinated. You are the problem” – A video cataloguing powerful voices in science, politics and media shaming people for not taking a Covid vaccine went viral on Twitter yesterday.
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“You are the unvaccinated. You are the problem”
Chilling stuff. One smug b’stard incapable of joined up thinking, after another. Few apologies since I notice…
For my entire life I could never really understand how Germans did what they did to the Jews in the 1930s and 40s.
Until COVID and those monstrous jabs.
Years ago, I saw the documentary The Third Wave, about how quickly a college lecturer in the US was able to get his class into a segregated and totalitarian group. Two weeks… from normal kids to Nazi’s. It was quite unsettling. I hoped never to see it play out for real, but as you say, grown up educated people were actually suggesting loading the non-vaxxed on trucks and taking them to concentration camps.
If it was this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICng-KRxXJ8 (“The Wave”, 1981) I found it very disappointing and psychologically implausible; the actual transformational steps were missing, the pupils were normal one day and weird the next for no obvious reason and with no prompting that made sense. I don’t think it tells us anything about how dictatorships come about.
I watched the first ten seconds and its not the film I saw. It ran for more than 90 minutes and had several of the students commentating, but as their older selves 30’s I guess.
Yes, and we all found out what sort of 1930s German we would have been and perhaps more importantly what sort our relatives, friends and neighbours would have been – some surprises there.
My South African Jewish female friend living in NY was and probably still is totally on board with the “its all the anti-vaxxers’ fault” and that we were piggybacking on the efforts of the vaccinated. I still don’t have the heart to mention how the implementation of health laws in 1930s led to….
I suppose the vaccinated are really frightened to consider what they have permitted to be done to themselves in the form of injections.
The White Rose sort I hope…
I agree – very chilling indeed. People revealing their inner fascism. And no doubt many of us experienced something similar in our personal lives.
What I could never understand is if all these people had their magic vaccinations why would it matter if others were unvaccinated? Unless the vaccines didn’t work, of course…
Nick Ferarri had some unpleasant things to say about those people who chose not to be injected with experimental gene therapy. He comes across as an ignoramus: –
https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1466012605278044165?lang=en-GB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFK_4kqz6rg
Nick Ferrari, Iain Dale, Edwina Curry, Karen Brady, Amanda Platell…
“A black Queen Cleopatra? This is why I can’t trust history on Netflix”
Like it or not, people get a better sense of history from literature and films than they do from history books. What the young are learning from series such as the BBC’s Bridgerton, for example, is that there were lots of black people in England in the18th century. They were successful and accepted in every echelon of society, and we all got on famously well together, ergo, any disadvantage they may have, or any racism they may endure just has to be a modern phenomena.
Indeed. However I think the business of a black Cleopatra goes beyond the systematic overinclusion of non-white people in TV, films, commercials. I think it’s related to attempts to claim that Ancient Egyptian civilization was “black” in some way.
I understand racism got a lot worse after Darwinism became popular. I’d be interested to know how people change across the generations, and how long it took for the people of St. Kilda to become so well adapted to climbing cliffs.
I think many individual humans can adapt extremely quickly to changing situations, others not so much. But the general tendencies of whole species or races, which seem to determine what kind of societies and civilisations get formed, probably change much more slowly – thousands of years or longer. Of course there are people who like to believe in Magic Dirt theory, but IMO it’s caused by wishful thinking.
Sorry I don’t know anything about St. Kilda and cliffs so your reference is lost on me.
https://mattgoodwin.substack.com/p/national-populism-is-going-nowhere
In the UK populism seems very fragmented and in electoral terms does seem like it is very much going nowhere. What have we got
Reclaim
Reform
Heritage
Britain First
Is it our stranglehold electoral system that locks us into a virtually one party system? Do you want Tweedle Dee Starmer or Tweedle Dumb Sunak, who cares? does it matter? Not surprisingly Britain First can garner a few votes in areas where immigration and asylum seekers are a major problem. In the Netherlands it took an incredibly draconian anti-farming policy to galvanise people into voting for the farmers party. And maybe that gives the clue as regards any alternatives in UK politics; in the UK we have had it too easy going for too long, apathy and complacency and an easy going welfare system has kept us supine. But for how much longer? As net-zero policies start to bite, as people lose their cars and their boilers will that galvanise some action in UK politics?
There is also a little known party called Freedom Alliance who seem pretty sound.
The Centre Right needs a leader to bring these parties together. Its not Tice or Farage, or Foxy.
I think they all have some merit. Fox is most ideologically sound, but least politically savvy (probably there’s a strong correlation there). I don’t know much about Tice though don’t think they were sound on lockdowns at the start.
David Kurten would get my vote.
There are a handful of MPs that are not completely beyond hope – Swayne and one or two others, and Bridgen of course, but in general no-one who sat in Parliament and stayed silent in March 2020 can be trusted.
It doesn’t look promising.
Aren’t Britain First a racist party?
Incidentally, I know someone who stood for them. He was also keen on the British National Party.
I think this author illustrates perfectly the cancer that is spreading throughout our societies in the West and how we all have a duty to be intolerant to it. ”Currently, the US is experiencing full blown 4th Generation warfare. In the span of less than a decade we have seen the imposition of Critical Race Theory, trans ideology, Marxism and a spectrum of progressive concepts invade public schools. American children are being indoctrinated into the leftist fold in a dizzying propaganda blitzkrieg. Now, the libertarian mindset would suggest that we simply pull our kids out of public schools and remove our participation. That might work for some people, but the vast majority of parents are going to continue placing their kids in schools because they feel they have no other choice. We don’t have the time needed to create new educational systems and alternatives. School vouchers are a start, but even then it would take well over a decade for parents to adjust. The only answer is to shut down the indoctrination, by force if necessary. Leftist teachers that promote their ideology in class need to be removed from publicly funded schools. CRT, gender fluid propaganda, and one sided socialist concepts… Read more »
“Roald Dahl’s Charlie is now a girl in ‘woke’ Chocolate Factory makeover”
Simple, don’t patronise it!
I like the part where they/them Charley forces Wonka to pay the Oompa Loompas reparations and change the product to insects ‘to save the planet’….
Ewh!
Good grief. Dr Ladapo over in Florida did get a response to his excellent letter from Califf and Walensky, and predictably it amounts to pure horsesh*t! Utter denialism and they are obviously either suffering from some sort of psychotic delusion or they actually expect people to swallow this 100% work of fiction. A taster; ”Additionally, not only is there no evidence of increased risk of death following mRNA vaccines, but available data have shown quite the opposite: that being up to date on vaccinations saves lives compared to individuals who did not get vaccinated. Multiple well conducted, peer-reviewed, published studies here and here demonstrate that the risk of death, serious illness and hospitalization is higher for unvaccinated individuals for every age group. Because we are not the only country in the world using COVID-19 vaccines, we also benefit from the experience of other countries. More than 13 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been given around the world, including hundreds of millions of doses of mRNA vaccines and hundreds of millions of doses to children. Consistent with our data, these multiple international partners have robust monitoring for both safety and effectiveness. They find little evidence of widespread adverse events, also… Read more »
Hello Mogs, looking at the date of the article (11th March 2023) it looks as though it was referring to a reply to an earlier letter from Dr Ladapo. His more recent letter is dated 10th May 2023.
“Mothers electrified” – we can’t assume that the future is nuclear famnilies with the women (or the men, come to that) as skivvies.
What electricity did was to free a large proportion of the population from being low-paid domestic servants, and on the grander scale to make economic prosperity without slavery possible for the first time, on the world scale.
That is the real reversal offered by net zero.
Still awaiting the counter-balance to Ian Rons and the apparent pro-Ukrainian stance of the DS…. I’d like to know how popular this is with readers. Russia is one of the few fundamentally Christian countries vigorously opposing what we all regard as the multiple threats to our culture posed by woke ideologies.
Noah Carl has written a few that can hardly be described as “pro Ukranian”.
They and people like them should be left dangling from the nearest tree. And I would whistle a happy tune as their legs kicked uselessly and their faces turned black.
ps. There are plenty of those people on this side of the Atlantic. They deserve the same fate. As for the downvoters, good luck with the myocarditis or other debilitating side effects of the injectable bio toxins. And if you are relying on the NHS, well you had better put your affairs in order.