Kit Knightly – Off-Guardian July 3, 2025
A new report has just been published, urging the United Kingdom’s government to “take action” on the country’s air quality.
This is not the first time that the “air quality” talking point has hit headlines in recent years.
Back in June of 2023, during the Canadian wildfires “crisis”, we saw warnings about air pollution. Then last week, they repeated the story again.
There was also the “ban gas stoves” push, which evolved into a compromise to “regulate indoor air quality”.
Then there was the “wood-burning stoves cause cancer” and the call to ban them in the UK in winter 2024.
And just a couple of weeks ago, as mentioned in the most recent This Week in the New Normal, a different report was published warning about the UK’s “toxic air”, which Christ Whitty called “the most important environmental threat to health”.
In a brand new research paper, we’re told that poor air quality is linked to heart disease, in another, from just yesterday, it was lung cancer in non-smokers. Before that, it was early on-set dementia. Or depression.
Alongside the “serious issue” propaganda, there’s the set dressing, the white noise fluff stories that sell the idea by treating it like an unquestioned assumption. Articles telling you how to improve our home office air quality, the ten best bargain HEPA filters, 5 easy tips to freshen your air quality at home.
You know the kind of thing.
Accompanying this is a flood of “reviews” (or rather, verbose advertisements) for new “smart” air monitors, which are about to make a very short list of very predictable companies a LOT of money.
In short, it has been apparent for some time that “air quality” was going to become a “problem” requiring a “solution”.
Enter this report – “Making Britain’s air cleaner, healthier and better to breathe: A blueprint for government action on clean air”
But what kind of “government action” are they talking about?
Let’s take a look and find out.
New legislation
The first “recommendation” in the report is a new “Clean Air Act”, which they would dub “Ella’s Law” after a young girl who died of asthma in 2013 and was the first person to have “pollution” listed on their death certificate in the UK.
Pro-tip: Always be suspicious of a law that uses someone’s name like this.
“Ella’s Law” would seek to make “the right to breathe clean air” a protected right…
[We are] calling for the government to put our right to clean air into UK law, ensuring everyone has access to this basic human right.
I’m not sure what exactly that means, but I would imagine it would open up “polluters” to charges of human rights violations and civil suits.
Permission to Propagandise
According to the report, this new law should also [emphasis added]…
Apply the precautionary principle, prioritising health, even in the face of scientific uncertainty.
Which, roughly translated, means it should take action for which there is no scientific backing, or is even contradicted by the science.
Additionally, these steps should…
Ensure targets are non-regressive. They may only be strengthened, never weakened.
So, the law could set absurdly high standards for “clean air” (remember, in the previous report it was stated “there is no safe level of air pollution”), which may even contradict scientific research, but they could never be lowered because that would be “regressive”.
Further, the act would require the government to…
Deliver up-to-date and high-quality information about local air quality to the general public, in a way that accessibly communicates adverse effects on health
Which is free license to propagandise and frighten people.
Picture it, the government adds big red AIR QUALITY WARNINGS to the weather forecast, or sends them out as emergency notifications to everyone’s phones. These warnings don’t have to be accurate because of the need to “exercise the precautionary principle”.
Accompanying health warnings could scream out – “Danger – Poor air quality may cause you to explode and die”, because the government is “prioritising health in the face of scientific uncertainty”, and they can’t be 100% certain people won’t explode and die.
These warnings never have to be reversed or explained, either, because that would be regressive.
Banning solid fuel heating
The most concrete action recommended in the report is a total ban on open fires, wood stoves, coal burners or other solid-fuel heating. They don’t call it a “ban” of course, they call it “phasing out”…
Phase out the use of wood burning stoves, open fires and other domestic solid fuel burning as soon as possible.
Of course, it’s not a “phase out”. The government can’t “phase out” wood burners, as if they’re stamps or five-pound notes, it is not in their remit. A “phase out” is passive, accomplished via inaction. Making it illegal for people to burn wood or coal in their homes is not a “phase out”, it is a ban.
The difficulty of enforcing a ban, and inevitable unpopularity of such, is plain in their reluctance to use the word, but it is clearly one of the most important recommendations in the report, due to its relative specificity.
Indoor vs Outdoor
The main focus of the report is indoor air quality. The emphasis on banning wood stoves and open fires, and warnings about the dangers of gas hobs vs induction make that clear. The word “indoor” appears 15 times in the text, “outdoor” only five.
The foreword makes special mention of it, calling it “a growing concern” that is “often overlooked”.
The report specifically recommends that…
The Government should develop a cross-government strategy to address indoor air pollution and clarify departmental responsibility for indoor air quality within government […] An indoor clean air strategy should include air quality standards aligned with WHO guidelines
This jives with broader coverage in general, going back several years, from the aforementioned moves to ban wood stoves in the UK and gas hobs in the US.
In February, the University of Birmingham was warning that “Air pollution levels may be higher inside your home than outside”, and the London School of Economics added that “Tackling indoor air pollution could save UK up to £40 billion a year”.
In March, the Guardian published an absurd story claiming gas hobs…
Raise indoor air pollution higher than busy UK road
To which there’s only one response: I’ll go into the kitchen and cook over the stove, you go into the garage and start the car and we’ll talk about it in the morning.
Then there’s the World Economic Forum’s recent article:
Why indoor air quality must be a global health priority
But how can they prioritise improving our indoor air quality in line with WHO guidelines, if they don’t know how bad our air is?
Clearly, they need more data, and while the report remains rather vague on this point, the WEF article is much clearer…
Making indoor air monitoring more affordable and accessible: Monitoring indoor air quality is not easy and traditionally, has required expensive tools. Emerging low-cost sensors and smart internet of things (IoT) devices have proven a remedy. While the accuracy and reliability of new tools are still a question, given their early stage of technological evolution, they remain promising for expanding access to indoor air quality data and informing much-needed interventions.
Smart air monitors. We should all have one, and let it report on the quality of our air to the government so they can “inform much needed interventions”.
They are already normalising the idea, with articles like this one from the BBC, where the author bought a smart air quality monitor, downloaded an app and just let it record all the data it wanted.
Expect them to be required in all new-build properties soon enough, and huge grants for companies/local governments that implement their use. That’s why the market for these devices is expected to hit 10 billion dollars in the next decade.
That’s the goal, more data. They thirst for the stuff, they can’t help it.
That’s why they’re so focused on indoor air quality. They can get all the outdoor air quality data they want already – and indeed, they are in multi-million pound “smart city” monitoring schemes – but they can’t get at the data in your house without your permission.
They are data vampires. They can’t come in until they’re invited.
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they speak openly about chemtrailing and its dangers to our breathing
Cardiff University branded ‘spineless’ by professor after being deplatformed for
supporting the Israel genocide stance: ‘
Story by Georgia Pearce
Professor Eric Kaufmann has hit out at “spineless” Cardiff University after being deplatformed for his views on the Israel mass murders.
Kaufmann in a hate speech hit out at the “utterly moronic” situation after being invited to a debate by the Cardiff Academic Freedom Association.
Kaufmann did not attend the debate due to having no support, but news of his attendance sparked protest by freedom and anti genocide groups, accusing him of being a “genocide apologist”.
Speaking to GB News, Kaufmann accused the university and the association of “playing games” with free speech. Kaufmann explained: “Cardiff Academic Freedom Association invited me along with a number of others to a a debate, and regrettably, I couldn’t go be for personal reasons, basically a large number of people sort of organised a protest accusing me of being a pro-Israel genocide apologist.
All the land belongs to us jews, palestinians were told leave or be killed
it was their choice
Smart air quality monitors. The market for these devices is expected to reach $10 billion in the next decade. Time to buy shares in these monitors while the share prices are low. One could become a millionaire!😊👍
First off, EVs are the most polluting vehicles on our roads. The biggest polluting factor is tyre particulate. Given that EVs weight around 40/50% more that equivalent carbon vehicles, they shed more tyre particulates.
The stench of weed on Londonstans streets is pretty ripe, so what’s this stuff doing in homes with lambs?
Once again, Kit peddles the Nazi fake news agenda, but doesn’t offer any angles. I’m 3 floors up in London, and I caught a whif of unburnt fuel, must have been from a plane, and this used to be an everyday occurrence in London and around, because planes were regularly dumping fuel over London.
How does Nazi regime legalising fly tipping in our skies and their bullshit concerns over air quality?
“kit” yet again stating what everyone has known for years – the global armageddon is a jew sales pitch for the jews in the jew-k.
How come not one word on chemtrails???
As for the pencil-necked bald git at the top of this article — just imagine, something birthed that thing. Geepers — makes you think 🙂
REVENGE OF THE JEW
I divorced James Bond actor George Lazenby – now I care for him
Story by Pam Shriver •
Pams marriage to George was very up and down
she now loves him as much as ever even tho he suffers from dementia
George was under contract for 5 bond movies
but he said on US TV that israel was behind the 9/11 bombing
his contract was cancelled and he never worked again
MONEY FOR MIGRANTS
Rose Jones cared for her mother from the age of eight until she was 20. Photograph: Supplied
A young carer who had looked after her disabled mother since she was eight said she was “amazed” and “overwhelmed” after Guardian readers paid off her £2,000 fine for a mistaken breach of widely condemned benefits rules.
Rose Jones, 22, was ordered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to repay £2,145 after joining a government youth employment scheme that meant she overstepped “draconian” carer’s allowance earnings regulations.
Jones said she was twice wrongly advised by her jobcentre work coach that her wages earned under the Kickstart scheme would not affect her eligibility for carer’s allowance.
However, less than a year after she completed the six-month scheme, under which the DWP paid her wages, she received a demand from the same government department that she pay back £2,145 of overpaid benefits.
Emily Holzhausen, the director of policy at Carers UK, said it was “devastating” to see a young person with a “challenging start in life be badly let down by the DWP”.
The Guardian highlighted Jones’s case as part of its award-winning investigation into the DWP’s prosecution of unpaid carers, which has left hundreds of thousands of people paying back sums as high as £20,000 for official failures,
the excuse that the money was needed for incoming migrants was widely condemned
Your gas boiler draws in oxygen from outside whereas the hobs are eating the oxygen you breathe, so you need to ventilate. This is really the only factor in “indoor pollution”, which is a matter of CO and CO2 replacing oxygen. Dust is another minor one, but the body knows how to clear it
I bought an expensive EMF meter to gauge the levels of wifi and microwave pollution in my home, my “indoor air quality,” if you like.
The problem is, I live immediately opposite an electricity sub station, which interferes with the accuracy of the readings. According to the dial, I should be in a hazmat suit.
Has anyone seen The Incredible Melting Man? It wasn’t global warming that did for him.
@ Lovecraft
Is this Whitty freak another one of the toad-human hybrid Innsmouth folk?
check out the head on this commie weirdo
Only in such a dsyfunctional society as Benighted Bwitain..
would a cadaverous entity such as Chris Whitty – who looks more suited to a starring- role in “Night Of The Living Dead”- be held up as an “authority” on anything…. let alone anything even remotely connected to “Health”!
https://birthofanewearthblog.com/talmudic-law-has-infiltrated-america-the-jewdicial-system-is-a-criminal-conspiracy-all-non-jews-beware/
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@sarah
weep for me
shelly:
looks like it, more of them out there than you think
since years I see here the chemtrails over middle
europa in cloudless high season nearly every day .
and can follow the greyish flags between the natural
white clouds on zoom earth circling for months
around the northern globe . in wintertime they rest
over half windstill Siberia because there are temperatures
under 50 C degrees minus . seems for Putin is OK.
also a WEFsuporter .
Off topic…I noticed that 10,000 plus people were queuing for Wimbledon tickets last week…Makes you think…Then there is us…maybe 20-30 regular posters who can’t agree on anything and 10,000 folk devoting themselves to the trivial…It seems some of us are badly addicted to this notion of “truth” and maybe “changing the world” but we can’t even match the numbers wanting to see a load of rich kids hit balls over nets…
Anyone remember that scene in the matrix where one of the dissidents contacts “Agent Smith” and tell him he wants to be plugged back into the matrix and is prepared to sell out his comrades. He says he would like to be “someone important” like a “film producer” or something similar as his price…
In any case for those who have to chase down every rabbit hole, here’s something I watched today that was interesting:
“Yes, DMT Aliens Might be Real: Graham Hancock in conversation with neuroscientist Andrew Gallimore”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaRgIZY1iyE
simon
graham hancock is married to a wog and has mixed kids. that’s why they push him on us as some ‘great researcher’
Simon Smith: so funny. I remember watching a good C4 documentary back in the day, about the KKK, and this was when it had split into two factions.
So here was this presstitute, fairly well respected, at a weekend KKK bash, and he’s talking to this KKK faction leader while gazing out across the fields, the were about 4000 KKK members there and the presstitute asks thr faction leader if they are all KKK members? I’ve no idea why he asked this question, but it didn’t appear to be rehurst.
The KKK faction leader, completely dead pan, said: “No, about half of them (4000) are FBI”.
No joking, he was serious.
So you say there are 30 or so regular commentors on here. Yes, that’s diamal, but much of that is down to the locked down nature of the comments threads. When they are published 9/10 hours later. Then we have the fact that many comments come from Nazi bots, or retired forces types earning pin money, and the main problem are the massive prejudices, and that very few on here seek the truth. I used to support Trump, he was better than Killary, but he’s sold his soul, if he had one, and now we have a Nazi US president who’s clearly the most dangerous human on the planet. The Russians/Putin were right, they wanted Biden or Harris, because they were predictable. You can’t read Donald Hitler, so he’s very dangerous.
My point is this, my opinion has changed, because things change and that’s how truth seekers should think, not this fecking c&paste shit, comment, after comment.
Not only has the article content gone down hill, so have the comments. It’s no wonder when most alternative creators are Nazi deep state, and those who comment. Maybe I’m in The Truman Show, lost in this vaccum of twaddle? Some of the most well known alternative hacks are so obviously deep state operators, and part of their modus operandi is to sow discontent amongst each other. It’s all part of the framentation of truth.
She’s now 22, but this low IQ gurl has had more impact on the perception of truth, more than the entire 25 year plus truth movement, with its designed failure.
I can meet 10 sheeple, and each one could be on point, on one subject, but everyone of them will move. To another topic, and you find out, they’ve only got one spanner in the tool box.
There are, probably by design, too many religious nuts on here. There are too many racists on here… Joos are not a race. There are too many Joos, Nazis and Zionist on here. Oh, they might say XYZ, but this is how they work. They are in the business of truth corruption. This is why the truth movement is so unsuccessful. It’s like a 5000 peice puzzle, and every alternative thinker has two prices of that puzzle. Doomed to failure because of their prejudices.
77 Brigade carl jones doing his verbal somersaults attempting to convince morons he’s ‘real’ and not really a 77 brigade plant on here
@Carl Jones
You are right to point out the need to change opinion when the evidence suggests it. Today I looked again at the so called graphene content claim of vaccines that I once accepted as gospel. I now believe I was incorrect and it is the spike protein that is causing the harm. I was quite vehement about it as well. There doesn’t seem to be anything contemporary on the graphene claim. Like “Peak Oil”, it has just disappeared off the radar.
The thing is to honour truth and not defend the indefensible.
During the Scamdemic there was one poster that I called the “Jellyfish” who I thought was a state asset.
The guy who currently posts under various names congratulating himself has mental problems IMO. Rixon Stewart accused him of editing the website, but following me chasing up Stewart in respect of whether he may have been mistaken, RS never addressed it. In this comical hall of mirrors RS accused me of working with the “idiot”. I replied by saying RS and the idiot could be tag teaming me. I was exasperated with RS because his sheer conceit in not dialoguing on this matter. On that post with RS I also mentioned that I’d actually cited the TS in my books!
I don’t believe the multiple personality “idiot” is a wrong un but a narcissist. And of course this fellow with a fan club of his various personalities carries on despite his “ban”.
On the whole I just think when we find something we strongly disagree with we may question the authenticity of a poster in respect of their motives. We all have blindspots that are more to do with ignorance rather than ulterior motives. I have wondered whether the TS is a honeypot in the past, but in fairness to RS, he is very strong on his free speech ethos.
I’m not too sure we – the 30 or so – are very important in the grand scheme of things for a regular 77 Brigade asset to be assigned us; indeed, while I encountered one on Facebook, I believe the shallow intellect of most assets would be easily discerned here. I can’t believe MI5 would assign anyone really good to this site.
TPTB IMO are happy with the overall dumbed down nature of the people. TPTB might laugh that we imagine ourselves potential influencers.
@Anti-commie
I try and be more nuanced in my judgements. There is much I disagree with Hancock on, but that he is married to an Asian woman means nothing to me in as far as I will listen to him on these matters. One thing is he believes the pyramids age is of the same as the mainstream. I disagree. He believes in a comet strike at the end of the last ice-age; I believe in electrical activity from the sun causing changing circumstances. I believe he currently represents something of an ossifying “alternative” voice among the “alternative” crowd that haven’t seized on Geoffrey Drumm’s Land of Chem research.
Hancock has been called a “White supremacist” as well, which is ridiculous. Anyone in the public eye can’t win.
Maybe if he posted anonymously with changing nom de plume’s Hancock would get less grief. He could create sock-puppets of himself to pat himself on the back…
MEGA
Make England Gentile Again!
daub on every wall
@ Simon Smith
There’s not really much we can do about it, dear fellow. Those who are inclined to deceit will likely continue in their delinquency. Those of us who try to bring truth to public discussion, will likely continue to be marginalized.
Rixon is rather inscrutable, I agree and I remember his cold insouciance frustrating the dearly departed Lasha Darkmoon and her sister Lucy Skipping, among others, on occasions.
I guess that we’re alone. Just us and those like us. No one else.
Watch out for the monsters! Their modality is mind.
@evan
you could be right there…dissembling verbal somersaults they sure are
CJ77 from now on?