News Round-Up
- “The diversity trap” – “If anyone reading this ever bought shares in the diversity racket, then I would suggest you start dumping them now,” writes Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “SVG: Japan meets its sustainable vaccination goal” – Before Covid was finally downgraded in early May, Japan had managed to achieve the dubious distinction of being the most boosted country on earth. Since the lifting of all formal Covid restrictions, the Government has been conducting a fourth booster campaign aimed mainly at Japan’s 36 million over-65s.
- “How lockdown broke a generation (and no one seems to care)” – New research has shown that lockdowns fuelled a staggering rise in teenage eating disorders – and this was not the only damage done, says the Telegraph.
- “Wuhan clan: we finally know the identity of the scientists in the lab linked to Covid” – Matt Ridley writes in the Spectator about the first scientists to get infected in Wuhan in 2020.
- “The U.K. still needs fossil fuels, whether activists like it or not” – Justices will decide whether to reverse approval for oil extraction at Horse Hill based on downstream emissions from the use of the oil, writes Andy Meyer in the Spectator.
- “My 10 policies to save Rishi Sunak from oblivion” – David Frost sets out his 10-point manifesto for the Tory Party in his Telegraph column.
- “Facebook and Instagram block news over payment to publishers law” – Canada’s new law forces social media and search giants to pay for using content, says the Telegraph.
- “School denies allowing pupils to identify as ‘furries’” – Rye College, East Sussex, said on Thursday “no children” at the school “identify as a cat or any other animal“. It comes as Kemi Badenoch ordered a snap Ofsted inspection into the school.
- “Households will be spared £120 net zero levy, says Grant Shapps” – Measures to fund hydrogen industry will not be tacked on to energy bills, vows minister in the Telegraph.
- “How will the heart of our democracy look if elected leaders can be cancelled?” – There are legitimate reasons to criticise the former PM, but the Privileges Committee report was an absurd act of self-justification, writes Charles Moore.
- “Notre-Dame shelves ‘politically correct’ restoration after backlash” – Cathedral drops plans for ‘discovery trail’ taking in five continents – as well as multilingual projections – in favour of ‘noble simplicity’.
- “The Whitehall Blob is hampering our relationship with India” – While the U.S.is forging a closer partnership with this vital ally, recognising its role in countering China, we risk falling behind, reports the Telegraph .
- “Is she really a cat?” – Listen to Nick Dixon and others discuss ‘Cat-gate’ on GB News.
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Lord Frost seems like one of the less terrible politicians but the Tory Party cannot and must not be saved. Hitchens was right all those years ago- it should have been destroyed.
13 wasted years. It’s like New Labour never went away they simply rebranded.
Depends what you mean by destroyed. To me it’s like an asylum or graveyard. Somewhere deranged or dead people end up. Rather than try and obliterate it we should learn lessons from it’s demise. Peter Hitchens is a rare and (almost) fearless journalist. I wish we had more like him.
Destroyed as the default political party “of the.right” that people vote for “because it would be worse under Labour”.
Surely the problem is that people vote by default and end up with what they deserve because they are unwilling to think for themselves or take risks anymore.
Yes, and they have unrealistic expectations and are too trusting
And few of us want to contemplate what it will take to wake them up. Most seem totally brainwashed or afraid to accept the reality of what’s going on.
Don’t understand the business about first scientists with Covid in Wuhan in 2020. Isn’t it generally accepted the virus was circulating in 2019?
It’s the consequence of badly retrofitted logic.
In most people’s minds, COVID was an exceptionally dangerous disease. Not because it actually was, but because so much mayhem was created around it with lockdowns, masks, vaccines and the rest of it, that it must have been really dangerous, it’s just too much to accept for most people that all of that disruption could have been caused for no good reason.
And once you get in your mind that it was an exceptionally dangerous disease, then you have to come up with an explanation as to how it came about. The Wuhan lab leak theory is a nice tidy explanation. And there can be no shortage of suspicious looking things going on at a virus research laboratory.
Like you, I don’t see any evidence of a pandemic and whenever someone mentions it, I systematically, almost reflexively, ask “what pandemic?”. If you don’t think there was a pandemic, you don’t need a lab leak. You just need incompetent and malicious people in positions of power.
Yup I think you’re spot on.
I’m open minded about the origin but in many ways it doesn’t matter other than that we may have been lied to
What matters is that so much of modern science is built on assumptions that are unproven. Most practising scientists are technicians, paid to research within a restricted paradigm. Modern virology is a house of cards. Yes. There are nasty disease-causing pathogens out there but much of what they do and claim to know is based on computer modelling rather than real evidence.
That assumes that Sunak’s main goal is to remain in elected office.
I don’t think that getting elected to high office is the ultimate goal for politicians. It’s more of a waypoint towards the highly paid lucrative positions that come afterwards.
And to get there that they need to make sure that their policies are agreeable to those who will remunerate them afterwards. Keeping the electorate pacified is not so much a goal then as a constraint,
I doubt Sunak fears political oblivion if he’s earned enough brownie points with the oligarchy by the time it comes,
Spot on as always
Why can’t people see this? It seems so obvious
Policy is like a train and the PM the driver. Changing the driver or giving them a new uniform isn’t going to change the destination. The driver isn’t at the pay grade to select the destination but they may be closer to it after their stint in the cab.
I agree, Stewart. Party politics is the illusion. It is all one big game of revolving doors and a firm commitment to Agenda 2030. The politicians are just the enablers of policy that is being written elsewhere so it doesn’t particularly matter about which party is supposed to be in power. Net Zero, open door immigration policy, CBDCs, Digital ID etc are all being pushed by unelected but powerful think-tanks and supranational bodies who seem to hold sway over Westminster. It is the grossest, most overt display of treasonous behaviour ever: the betrayal of the British people.
Yes. I heard that Japan had a serious demographic crisis o an ageing population and a booming trade in adult nappies. Now they couldn’t be, could they? A cost cutting exercise? Perish the thought…
Japan had excess deaths of up to 113,000 in 2022, more than double the figure of up to 50,000 the year before.
Caused by COVID or the cure?
Excess deaths doubled in Japan in 2022 — COVID-19 may be to blame | The Japan Times
(From yesterday’s roundup but never mind)
Reasonable worst case model for your life tomorrow suggests that you could die a slow and painful death after being mortally wounded by shrapnel from a meteorite – better plan some drastic measures for today just in case…
These people are anti-life. Life as I understand it, anyway. I want them to be on a different continent to me.
“I want them to be on a different continent to me.”
I would prefer if they were on a different planet.
Me too, though to be clear outer space doesn’t appeal to me. Perhaps it would appeal to Covidians – no germs?
As with the climate change ‘models’, yes there are different scenarios, (in Excel they are easy to do), but what there doesn’t appear to be is any work on probability of them actually coming to fruition. Humans are notoriously bad at estimating probability, which is why bookmakers live in big houses, but they should at least say what their data represents. A 1% chance of there being 500,000 deaths, or a 50% chance of 10,000 deaths.
An interesting find from Jikky. HRT prescriptions have tripled in the UK. An increased demand started in March 2021, despite it being low and steady years prior.
”This massive and unprecedented spike in HRT prescribing, most notable in the South East region, is due to something that happened to females aged 40-50 from March 2021 onwards that caused premature ovarian failure in unprecedented numbers.
But it’s another distraction and those individual women going to their GP having a sudden menopause a few years early will just be fobbed off that “it’s normal”.
Well, it isn’t… and almost certainly the bigger issue is in the next tweet.
Which is, that if a whole cohort of 40’s women are suddenly entering premature menopause…
What is happening to women under 40 who wanted to get pregnant?
Well, we know the answer don’t we?”
https://twitter.com/Jikkyleaks/status/1671836510348537856/photo/1
Really quite early in the “pandemic”, a radio programme interviewed a receptionist at a huge GP practice in the NE.
She said they had had a FLOOD of women in with menstrual problems, including many who had already menopaused.
Yes I can well believe it, and it looks like the data supports this anecdotal evidence. Unfortunately I can also well imagine doctors gaslighting women en masse and therefore they won’t be putting 2 + 2 together. The combo of wonky hormones, erratic periods and early menopause are bound to reflect in the number of births though aren’t they?
Just as me and thee have been warning Mogs.
”French company builds leaky Wuhan lab. NIH/Fauci/Hotez give it grant money.
French Co proceeds to profit from C19 testing.
Their former CEO becomes the CEO of Moderna.
NIH gets $400M in vax royalty from Moderna
The testing creates the illusion of emergency to feed Vax mandate”
https://twitter.com/Kevin_McKernan/status/1672231921772814336
Yes. It’s all about the testing. Create the illusion of a surge in cases based on background coronaviruses that have been circulating for years. Maybe distribute some infectious clones (lab created) of a “novel” virus in areas where vulnerable people are likely to die from it, especially if denied normal treatments for respiratory illness. Localised genomic sequencing detects distinct pathogen. Panic ensues, whipped up by the media, etc. Simple to engineer.
Great. It won’t appear on energy bills. So, it will be paid for through taxation. Even if they fund it though yet more borrowing, either way we and/or our children/grandchildren pay.
All money government spends is ours. Choose wisely at the next GE.
“Choose wisely at the next GE.”
Don’t bother. Why vote for the same party in different clothes?
What’s the alternative? What’s the point of not voting?
I don’t know what would happen if nobody voted but I’d love to see it happen and find out.
If nobody voted Conservative there’s a chance that a properly Conservative Party would emerge on the political right. Recent evidence shows that this will certainly not happen as long as people vote Tory. Mass desertion of the party by Tory voters caused Cameron to concede a Brexit referendum.
I will vote for a freedom loving anti-lockdown party if one is available where I live, otherwise it will be a spoiled ballot paper.
The damn bug does not ‘disproportionately targeted the elderly and clinically vulnerable‘ these are the people who are most likely to die from anything. It’s like saying Granny on her walking frame and a fat slob who never exercises and eats too much are both likely to be beaten by Mo Farah in a marathon.
Yes a respiratory virus that affects people who are at the end of their natural life span…just like every other respiratory virus. How completely novel.🤦♀️ What a shame the vax zealots and Big Pharma can’t promise their jabs ensure immortality, right? I mean, the globalist eugenicists would really be doing their nut about an overpopulated planet then!🤡
Agree. What they’ve done to young people is unforgiveable. Just watched Scott Atlas on this week’s Highwire talk about his experience in the Trump White House. The callous, self-preserving and incompetent mindset of the bureaucrats – in the US case Fauci, Birx and Redfield – is another reminder of how spineless/corrupt politicians and bureaucratic tyranny around the world is our problem. We tend to blame big business but it’s the lack of regulation that is really our problem.
I respect David Frost, but his thinking is naive.
The Sunak/Hunt insurgency’s sole purpose is the exact opposite of his 10 points. That’s why Truss was expunged.
This is a war.
An interesting opinion piece published by the New York Times in support of a debate between Robert F Kennedy Jr and Hotez.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/24/opinion/rfk-jr-joe-rogan-debate.html
Thanks. Pity about the pay wall.
Oh sorry. The pay wall is down for me for this one.