- “Tory anger as Boris Johnson to extend ‘draconian’ coronavirus laws for six months” – Dozens of Tory backbenchers are set to rebel against the extension of coronavirus legislation, according to the Telegraph
- “Why are lockdown restrictions still tough, even though we have a Covid vaccine?” – Steve Baker MP explains for the Sun why he’s not supporting the extension of the Coronavirus Act
- “We need a new roadmap to freedom that is based on data, not dates” – Mark Harper MP in the Telegraph says that he will not be supporting the extension of the Act either
- “Ballot papers will be quarantined to stop spread of Covid at local elections” – Quarantining ballot papers will delay the counting in the local elections, according to the Telegraph. Someone evidently still thinks that fomite transmission is a thing
- “Sunetra Gupta is right about lockdown – ministers should hang their heads in shame” – Kathy Gyngell at the Conservative Woman highlights Professor Sunetra Gupta’s recent interview on How Are You Sweden? and wonders how Boris et al. still prefer the advice of SAGE
- “How to deal with the Little Hitlers of Covid” – Rebecca D’Amoto in the Conservative Woman has some advice for handling the yellow-jacketed Covid functionaries
- “COVID-19: Stronger warnings are needed to curb socialising after vaccination, say doctors” – The BMJ reports that some experts are calling for “stronger health warnings for people being vaccinated against COVID-19 after observing a rise in infections shortly after vaccination”
- “A novel dystopia” – Left and Right are marching us towards tyranny and dystopia, writes Tom Hodgkinson in Perspective
- “Informed consent: Are we being given the full facts about the vaccine” – An anonymous piece in VoxPost, questioning whether people are really giving full consent before getting jabbed
- “Priest tells heart-breaking story to support Katie’s Appeal” – Adam Watkinson recounts his final farewell to his wife Sue last year and urges people to give money to the hospice that cared for her
- “Time for Recovery Essential T-Shirt” – The Time For Recovery group has launched a merch store. Let’s hope it’s more successful than ours!
- “Travel, Quarantine and Human Rights with Francis Hoar” – The lockdown sceptic lawyer comes to the Pandemic podcast with Dan Gregory to talk about the border quarantine rules
- “The Power Grab: Police, Vaccines and Kids on Phones” – In the latest episode of the Week in Review by Bournbrook Magazine, Michael Curzon, S.D Wickett and Luke Perry discuss the police, Covid ‘certificates’ and possible delays in the vaccine rollout
- “Churches still restricted after June 21st; AstraZeneca Vaccine Debacle” – In this week’s episode of Irreverend, the Reverends Daniel, Tom and Jamie discuss the news that social distancing and mask usage in churches will still be required beyond June 21st, and the recent suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine in many countries around the world
- “Merkel and Macron are set to back illegal EU plan to BLOCK exports of Astrazeneca vaccine to Britain that could hit 20% of supply” – The Mail on Sunday reports that Commission President Ursula Van der Leyen, together with the French and German governments, are threatening to ban the export of 19 million jabs to the UK
- “Pfizer warns EU to back down on threats to block vaccine exports to UK as essential ingredients are made in Yorkshire” – The Sun says that Pfizer has warned the EU that export embargoes could bring production to a halt
- “Algerian passengers ‘stuck’ for three weeks at Paris airport due to COVID-19 border closure” – EuroNews reports that 25 Algerians were stuck in the main airport in Paris for three weeks thanks to lockdown restrictions
- “Norway Prime Minister Erna Solberg apologises for breaking her own Government’s COVID rules” – The Norwegian PM is facing some embarrassment over her 60th birthday party, according to EuroNews
- “The 2020 Recession: Blame lockdowns, not the virus” – “The data is clear,” says Jack Nicastro and Ethan Yang at AIER. “Lockdowns have caused an unprecedented level of economic damage that has far exceeded any event in modern history be it another pandemic or a financial crisis”
- “No, The pandemic didn’t heal nature” – Lockdown has not solved our environmental problems, writes Christopher Barnard at AIER. “More specifically, it didn’t even do so much as nudge us in the right direction”
- “Why are we vaccinating children against COVID-19?” – Medical researchers point out that there is no scientific basis for vaccinating children in AIER
- “Imran Khan: Pakistan’s prime minister tests positive for Covid” – Imran khan probably became infected during official engagements last week, shortly before being vaccinated, according to the Guardian
- “China’s first local Covid case since February had been vaccinated – state media” – According to Chinese state media, the first local case in the country since February was a hospital staff worker who had received two shots of an unspecified vaccine, the Guardian reports
- “How the coronavirus pandemic almost didn’t happen” – MailOnline highlights a new study which suggests that COVID-19 only spread across the world thanks to a “perfect storm of conditions” and almost didn’t happen
- “A Discussion with Geert Vanden Bossche, DVM, PHD and Peter McCullough, MD, MPH” – A discussion on vaccination and early treatment, part of a webinar hosted by Covexit.com
- “Irish Expat DESTROYS Lockdown Policy In Ireland” – Caller to Irish radio phone-in sets out the case against lockdowns with eloquence and passion
- “HUGE Protests in many countries today, 14 in this video” – A collection of footage from yesterday’s anti-lockdown protests around the world
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First Comment!
Nicely done guys!
And about time too! What took you so long?
APRIL FOOLS!
I was just remarking to my wife this morning that the humourless woke brigade have shut down April Fools Day.
Thank you DS!
Interesting the thumbs down for celebrating an April Fools Day joke.
Yes I noticed that too, he/she/they/them must have wandered onto the wrong site by mistake! Bless, ……”it’s tik tok you want my love”
Might I suggest looking up the “lockpicking lawyer” on youtube. His usual fare is exposing the flaws in commercial locks by picking them open in moments, but his April Fool videos are legendary, and based mostly on in depth innuendo. Based in the US, this years will be posted this afternoon.
Very disappointing that Section 2 of the application form only allows for Mr, Mrs, Ms, Miss, or Doctor. As a person proud of my fluid gender, pronouns, and intellect, I find it personally offensive that the form only allows me to select one pronoun at a time and fails to list any of the 1042.3 neo-pronouns that are in common usage in the offenderati community. I will however overlook this if you can give me a guarantee that should I be successful in this very senior and frankly obviously critical role you will provide me with a supply of full PPE including gloves and hazmat suits and that any staff members of the Daily Sceptic with whom I am required to interact will be wearing 3 masks (minimum) and will disinfect their keyboards immediately prior to any online calls and meetings at which I am present.
I identify as a fish. Some nasty people think this is odd.
And fishy?
// “Lockdowns were a disaster.”
“There is no climate emergency.”
“Men cannot have babies.”
If you can spot the problems with the above sentences, then you may be just the person we are looking for. //
I immediately spotted a host of problems with all three of these statements, but I am far too sensitive to point them out.
Love it!!!!
I have almost zero sensitivity, but my skill is to be able to diagnose a range of psychological afflictions purely by my sense of smell.
I am the only(*) practitioner in the UK who is able to detect Up-Yourself-Itus from fifty paces.
I really hope you find all the Little People and Fatties you require. However fyi, in my view Skinnies will require far fewer biscuits and their fingers are much slimmer, so much cheaper and way better for typing out weak April-fools gags.
Not too shabby though
* A spurious footnote, completely unrelated to the topic but obliquely referencing an opinion once published by someone who works for a big company who therefore sounds really convincing, despite their weak credentials
I’m happy to self declare that I meet all the criteria, and should therefore get the job. Otherwise you will be sued for self-self-discrimination.
To work at the Daily Sceptic – even though all employees work from home – you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19
That twigged it for me – clear April Fool’s wind up. I thought all DS employees were based in Toby’s West London garden shed and had to attend every QPR home match.
To tell the truth though, I posted April Fool’s in the comments here the last couple of years, but completely forgot about it this year. Maybe adversity brings out humour.
I got it as soon as I saw the headline!
If it was April 1st, 2020 however, there was stuff going on that appeared like April Fool’s pranks, but were in fact genuine!
Oh dear, it took you that long!?
April Fool! Nah, actually saw it at the start.
Nice try from the DS Team, but April Fool pieces do have to be just a little bit plausible.
Btw, QPR lost at Wigan today. Bottom-of-the table Wigan. On a bad run of form and getting a bit uncomfortable for them. But I expect Toby knows that …
I’m personally recommending this lady for the job. I think she ticks all the boxes;
https://twitter.com/TheEyes2022/status/1609561930791878657
I have a friend who is violent, bigoted, everything-phobic and white, but he identifies as woke. Can he apply?
Please let us know how many applicants there were…
I’ve just stubbed my big toe and I can confirm that I’m VERY sensitive.
Gie’us a job please. I can do that.
Oh, I’ve just realised I don’t tick any of the diversity and inclusion boxes…..you’ve left out freckled gingers. I’m SO sensitive I’m now going to hide under the duvet all day.
You’re SO anti-Gingers! I withdraw my application.
Harry?
Welcome to titanosaur world. Offer expires at midday.
Hilarious. ————But only because it is based what is really going on in Wokeland.
Well there’s an April fools foth thee sir!
Thal light nor fire in yonder grate coss chimleys all blocked up!
There’s a world crisis emergency death spiral happening! It’s actually happening Reg! …I’m off to slash up!
April fool!
…and I mistakenly thought the previous article on “The NHS is in Crisis – So Why is it Hiring Diversity Managers on £55,000 a Year?“ was the April 1st joke
Come on guys, April Fool’s jokes generally have some sort of believability about them! There is no way in the whole universe that the DS would consider anything other than employing an ‘Insensitivity Reader’
Excellent and very funny. A small gripe. For essential requirements you say this.
City and Guilds Grade 5 or above in Sensitivity Reading
A bit late but it would have been better to use Open University, as that is an academic institute while City and Guilds is for vocational and practical learning. Sensitivity Reading is not a practical subject! All our problems have come from elevating academic thinking so that it is generally perceived to be superior to vocational and practical thinking, and that perception has been driven by the academics. I could imagine Open University, or any University having a degree course in this and there wouldn’t be low grades as that would be non-inclusive.
My Ph.D in Sensitivity Studies and my Nobel Prize for Wokeness make me the ideal candidate. Which makes me much too sensitive for actual work, so I must regretfully decline your generous offer. But have a Happy April Fool’s Day!
You must be the new Hyper-Sensitivity Reader? A vegan equivalent because getting to the meat of a subject is cruel, causes the Climate Emergency, causes AnnaPhilArctic shocks and it’s cultural appropriation because all knowledge has been stolen from Indigenous Women.
Brilliant! Done just in time, at 12:00am as well!
Dam. I was going to apply. Then I woke up.
Happy and fun April Fools day everyone!
Is it true that Nicola Sturgeon has applied?
There is indeed a “Climate Emergency” —-I opened the back door this morning and the climate blew right in and scared the dog half to death. I used to think climate change was a load of old cobblers but now I know “it is real and happening now”. Why else would my dog run all the way upstairs? I would like to see some dog data to confirm my hypothesis.
I was starting to worry until I realised the date. I may have had to apply as the necessary fatty to even out the staff levels, until I realised I might not be the only one and may have balanced the scales too heavily on our side.