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(AP) — Schoolchildren returned to classes Monday in parts of Europe, while the British government pledged to rush ventilation units and enough COVID-19 test kits to schools to ensure they, too, can reopen later this week despite soaring infection rates in the UK. Secondary school students in England also will be required to wear face masks when they return to classes after the Christmas holidays and they could also face merged classes amid staffing shortages. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the mask guidance is intended to rein in transmission of the virus. “We don’t want to keep them. I don’t like the idea of having face masks in [the] classroom any more than anybody else does, but we won’t keep them on a day more than is necessary,” he said. British Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi told Sky News: “The priority is to keep schools open.” He said testing, ventilation and other measures being put in place would “make a big difference to schools this year.” The highly … [Read more...] about UK Govt Rushes Tests, Ventilation Units to Schools So They Can Reopen

A firm majority of the British public oppose paying higher taxes in order to fulfil Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s leftist green agenda of transforming the UK into a net-zero carbon emitter by the year 2050. Some sixty per cent of Britons said they rejected the idea of paying more taxes to fund the Build Back Better green agenda of the supposedly Conservative government. The same number of respondents said that they did not believe that the green subsidies would benefit them personally. A further 70 per cent revealed that they were concerned with the rising cost of energy during the Christmas holiday period, according to the poll commissioned by campaign group Net Zero Watch, reported by The Telegraph . Commenting on the poll, Conservative MP and chairman of the Net Zero Scrutiny Group in the House of Commons, Craig Mackinlay told the broadsheet: “As I’ve been saying for some time, I didn’t become a Conservative to make my constituents colder and poorer. It’s clear, looking … [Read more...] about 60 Per Cent of Britons Reject Higher Taxes to Fulfil BoJo’s Green Agenda

Britain may lead the world in learning to “deal with” the Chinese coronavirus, Education minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Sunday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly drafting plans to return to normality. While Britain faced some of the most stringent lockdown restrictions in the Western World at the outset of the Wuhan virus pandemic, England has of late become one of the freest nations in Europe in terms of lockdowns. Appearing to shrug off early omicron-variant panic, government and healthcare leaders have signalled that there is room for optimism in terms of returning to normal. In an interview with Sky News’ Trevor Phillips on Sunday, Education minister Nadhim Zahawi said : “I hope we will be one of the first major economies to demonstrate to the world how you transition from pandemic to endemic, and then deal with this however long it remains with us, whether that’s five, six, seven, 10 years.” Strikingly, top officials at the National Health Service (NHS) have … [Read more...] about Britain Will Lead the World in Learning to Live with COVID, Says Minister

Over seven in ten Britons back Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to end the automatic early release of convicted terrorists. In the wake of the terrorist attack in Streatham, London, the government is set to end the automatic release of terrorists from prison, replacing the current system with a law that would require terrorists to serve at least two-thirds of their sentence and be subject to a review by a parole board before being released. A poll conducted by YouGov of 3,175 Britons found that 73 per cent — almost three quarters in all — of those surveyed supported the measure, compared to just 12 per cent who opposed it and 15 per cent who said that they were undecided. Sudesh Amman , the Islamist terrorist who stabbed two people in Streatham, London, and the London Bridge attacker, Usman Khan , who killed two people in November, were both released early from prison without review by a parole board. Amman launched his attack just days after going free. The new law … [Read more...] about Over 70% Back BoJo’s Plan to End Early Release of Terrorists

The Independent Security Committee has said that it “saw no evidence” of Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum. The crux of the report, however, criticised the government for failing to task intelligence agencies to look into the possibility, advising the Boris Johnson administration to undertake a review — a claim the government has rejected. On Tuesday, the ISC , the body responsible for the oversight of the UK’s intelligence community, released its report on Russian interference in Britain’s democratic processes. In the case study on the EU referendum, the authors criticised the “narrow coverage” given to the possibility of Russian interference, saying “HMG [Her Majesty’s Government] had not seen or sought evidence of successful interference in UK democratic processes or any activity that has had a material impact on an election, for example influencing results.” In a published response to the committee’s report, the Boris Johnson’s UK government rejected … [Read more...] about Russia Report Finds no Brexit Interference, Tells Govt to Look Harder

The Guardian’s Polly Toynbee is a (not that bright or imaginative, very expensively stabled) one trick pony. That’s why in times of tragedy like the murder of Jo Cox MP, she knows exactly what to write… …It’s the same thing dull, predictable left-liberal columnists always write on those rare occasions when there’s a shooting incident they can plausibly ascribe to “right-wing” ideology. They wrote it after the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson in 2011. They wrote it after the massacre carried out in Norway in the same year by Anders Breivik. Now they’re dusting it off and sprucing it up for use once again. It’s that old favourite — right-wing “tone”. Here’s Polly, showing how it’s done: I believe they bear responsibility, not for the attack itself, but for the current mood: for the inflammatory language, for the finger-jabbing, the dogwhistling and the overt racism. This is the same thing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is on about when he talks … [Read more...] about Tone: The Liberal-Left’s Codeword For ‘I Hate Free Speech’