- “The NHS vaccine mandate was bound to fail” – When you are trying to persuade the general population to get vaccinated, the fact that many thousands of NHS staff have chosen not to be vaccinated – and are prepared to lose their jobs over it – is highly inconvenient, but the strategy of compulsory vaccination has merely served to draw attention to this group, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Mandatory Covid vaccine U-turn came too late for us, say care homes” – Providers hit out at the policy’s impact on their services as Sajid Javid confirms plans to scrap jab mandate for NHS staff in England, reports the Telegraph.
- “Freedom Alliance demands reparations for sacked care home workers” – Care home workers sacked due to vaccine mandates should receive reparations, funded by a windfall tax on the pharmaceutical industry, according to the Freedom Alliance, writes Michael Curzon in Bournbrook.
- “Justin Trudeau tests positive for Covid as anti-vaccine truckers bring chaos to Ottawa” – The Canadian Prime Minister says he is “feeling fine” and isolating after being exposed to coronavirus, reports the Telegraph.
- “Canadian truckers stay in Ottawa; thousands pledging to create chaos” – The Ottawa truckers say there is no “end date” in sight and plan to stay in the capital “for as long as it takes” and until the Canadian government flips and withdraws its policy on vaccine mandates, reports the Mail.
- “Elites Vs. Blue collar, or Maybe Canada’s Yellow Vest Day: Here’s What the Media Won’t Say About the Truckers Convoy” – The more the media and cultural elites try to disparage the convoy on whatever flimsy grounds they find, the stronger support gets, writes Terry Etam in Watts Up With That?
- “Five unanswered questions from Sue Gray’s report” – The Spectator on what the ‘update’ didn’t tell us.
- “The rules themselves were worse than the rule-breaking” – While we continue to lambast one individual for breaking his own rules, we fail to question whether the rules themselves were ever humane, dignified or evidence-based, writes Julien Yvon in Bournbrook.
- “The Government’s Covid response could soon register as the biggest public policy disaster in Britain’s history” – Downing Street parties highlight the nascent scepticism about the Government’s pandemic response which, unless honestly confronted, will inflict long-term damage on the Conservative Party, writes Dr. Sarah Ingham on ConservativeHome.
- “Curfews have a dark history: no wonder people are resisting them in the pandemic” – Curfews are associated with a long history of racism and prejudice, write LSHTM’s Agnes Arnold-Forster and KCL’s Caitjan Gainty in the Conversation, in a rare deployment of wokery against Covid measures.
- “Scientific tyranny has captured America” – Political disagreements have become opportunities for public shame, writes Jacob Howland in UnHerd.
- “Mexican Institute of Social Security Large Observational Study: Home Treatment Kit with Ivermectin Reduces Hospitalisations and Death” – COVID-19 patients receiving the home treatment kit that included ivermectin and aspirin had a hospitalisation rate of 6.1% as compared to the cohort not receiving the home treatment kit at 11.7%, reports TrialSite News.
- “Japan’s Kowa says ivermectin effective against Omicron in phase III trial” – Japanese trading and pharmaceutical company Kowa Co Ltd said on Monday anti-parasite drug ivermectin has been found effective for treating the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in a Phase III trial, Reuters reports. Well, it did – that was the original headline and excerpt. Now corrected to clarify the drug showed an “antiviral effect” against Omicron and other variants in non-clinical research.
- “Israeli SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Cases Surge, as Do Deaths While Study Reveals a Fourth Booster Raises Antibodies Yet Doesn’t Appear to Stop Omicron” – Israel, one of the more heavily vaccinated nations, goes through its worst surge yet with record infections driven by both the Delta and Omicron variants, reports TrialSite News.
- “Lost but not forgotten” – The reality of severe absence in schools post-lockdown, a new report by the Centre for Social Justice.
- “Covid is a Battle Between World Views – Pro-Restrictions Lobby are Trying to Remove Johnson” – Peter Hitchens returns to the So What You’re Sayin Is sofa for a wide-ranging discussion covering Covid, partygate and the trials and tribulations of Boris Johnson.
- “Joe Rogan row triggers a blaze of publicity for Spotify’s podcast dreams” – Streaming giant’s refusal to capitulate to musicians’ complaints shows where its priorities lie, writes Ben Woods in a thorough analysis in the Telegraph.
- “Liz Truss and Nadhim Zahawi test positive for COVID-19 just hours apart” – The Foreign Secretary and Education Secretary are now self-isolating, reports the Telegraph. Perhaps this will bring home to them how ridiculous it is to be legally required to quarantine over a cold.
- “Immunocompromised children and young people are at no increased risk of severe COVID-19” – Welcome findings in a new U.K. study that immunocompromised children are at no higher risk of serious Covid and none died.
- “How Covid stole our privacy” – We have outsourced morality to machines, writes Timandra Harkness in UnHerd.
- “UnSAGE Covid Jeremiahs” – The repeated failures of the modellers suggests something more than mere incompetence, writes Christopher Snowdon in the Critic. “It suggests a systematic bias towards pessimism and a hankering for restrictions… There can be no way back for the modellers after this.”
- “Can population density really tell us anything about Covid?” – Felix O’Mahony in the Critic clears up some misunderstandings about population density and COVID-19.
- “Thousands of homes will need electricity boost for heat pumps to work” – One in three homes could need a costly electricity upgrade to make the green technology work, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why we should still invest in fossil fuels” – The widespread view that starving the world of the fossil fuels is ethical, will, in the absence of cheap and reliable alternatives, lead to lower economic growth, de-industrialisation, cold and hunger amongst the world’s poor, writes Barry Norris on Argonautica.
- “Hydrogen vs electric – which car is the better investment?” – Does the future of motoring really lie in electric cars or is hydrogen a more promising alternative, asks Martin Gurdon in the Spectator.
- “Majority of voters oppose Biden pledge to limit choice of new Supreme Court judge to a black woman” – More than three-quarters of respondents say the President should consider all potential candidates to succeed Stephen Breyer, reports the Telegraph.
- “The woke police are a menace to freedom” – They seem more interested in clamping down on gender-critical views than violent crime, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “What’s so controversial about ‘woman – adult human female’?” – Natalie Bird, the former Lib Dem kicked out the party for a decade for wearing a t-shirt with this slogan on it, writes in the Critic about why respecting the biology of womanhood is important.
- “Racial guilt lesson for seven year-olds in Brighton schools” – Watch Andrew Lawrence on the skewed priorities and unlawful indoctrination of the woke comrades who run Brighton’s schools.
— Andrew Lawrence (@andrewlawrence) January 30, 2022
RACIAL GUILT LESSONS FOR SEVEN YEAR OLDS IN BRIGHTON SCHOOLS.
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A friend of mine suffered from this. He wanted to ask his wife to pass the salt. But instead he said “I wish you were dead you fat pig”. ——–He has been divorced for over 12 years now.
A lot of thumbs down for me then and my little joke. So called Free Speech fans are not fond of me having the same free speech it would seem, and have no sense of humour into the bargain.
Haha, no the resident Miserable Git Association don’t do humour. Careful how you go or you too will be labelled ”unhinged”.
Just try being up before the larks and wishing fellow posters a ”Good morning” and see where it gets you…Cheeriness is massively frowned upon around these parts…which just makes us do it all the more, obv. 
Bonus points for not being one of these ‘mono-emotion’ type posters though. Dreary AF, imo.
Cheers me old mate———–“What did the man say when he fell off the train? ———HARD LINES. ——–ha ha ha aha jeez. ———The old ones are the best what?
Being a ‘Free Speech fan’ doesn’t mean you can’t disapprove of what someone says, that would be ridiculous.
And If someone doesn’t think a joke is funny, it doesn’t mean they don’t have a sense of humour. Everyone has different tastes in humour, just as in music, theatre, films, food, etc.
Then do what the rest of us do; Scroll on by!
I thought it was very funny and laughed out loud when I read it causing my wife to ask what was laughing at. I read it to her and she didn’t laugh
That is exactly the point. ———Some people think something is funny (like the Marx Brothers) and others think it isn’t funny at all. But if you don’t think something is funny then don’t laugh but please don’t try to say I should not be making the joke. ————-It is a JOKE for gods sake.
Who said you shouldn’t be making the joke?
I think it’s because you misgendered the wife – should have been ‘fat sow’.
The Holy Community of Perpetual Offence have all had a sense of humour bypass – it’s a membership requirement.
I shall make sure I put a “Trigger Warning” on any future jokes.
A few years ago my neighbourhood had to deal with a woman who had episodes of “spurting things out before she lost her train of thought”. After each episode she was amnesic about it and embarrassed by what she learnt she had said during the episode. The trouble was that these episodes lasted months, often involved hospitalisation, and the “things”, rather than being odd offensive words, were wild false allegations of a serious nature against her neighbours, family and employers. Fortunately the police understood more of the background and dismissed her multiple accusations, and those of her circle of friends, as being caused by the ramblings of a known habitual delusional fantasist. Unfortunately, various victimhood support groups and vigilantes became involved and got ensnared in her fantasies, including at times criticizing the police for not bringing charges against her alleged attackers. Dozens of people became involved. The whole thing got bogged down in a swamp of medical complaints, cover-ups, psychiatric modelling and wokery. The scandal eventually fizzled out, with considerable egg on the face of those people who eventually realised they had participated in a psychotic delirium and tried to hide their involvement. However, there was a hard core of die-hards who steadfastly refused to face up to reality. I have gradually come to believe that any instant there are countless such “Salem” situations like this being acted out across the country.
Sounds like what happened with Covid.
Well done Toby and the FSU. God Bless. Keep fighting the good fight. Great win.
I am ofcourse assuming that Daily Sceptic readers have a healthy sense of humour.
I have a great sense of humour thanks. It just doesn’t extend to laughing at unfunny, irrelevant comments based on a completely false analogy.
Oh dear————-Yet all who comment here are fans of the Free Speech Union and Daily Sceptic because they like the idea of people being able to say what they think in a free society. They also probably don’t like the idea of comedians having their act shutdown by the wokery that pervades all of society these days. ——–Yet you are doing exactly that to my joke. You disapprove of it. You would shut it down. It seems to me you are exactly the same as the wokerati that you probably scoff at on all other occasions.
No, he (or she)’s just a sad git.
Hope with a payout like that a few bob is directed to DS.
Back in the early 60s my parents took on a (mostly black) dog from a rescue kennel. The kennel said his name was N____. We called him Trigger instead.
You had no guts
We once broke down in Versailles. The old guy who stopped to help us (and who did actually fix our van, thank goodness, it was the first Saturday in August, no mechanics anywhere) turned out to have once been a famous racing driver. Long story short, he invited us home to his enormous villa, just five minutes away, for Orangina and coffee. Meanwhile, he regailed us with tales, including one about his three cats, named Cannabis, Cocaine and Opium.
“My posh neighbours hate me,” he said with a cheeky grin.
“Every evening I wander the streets, softly calling their names!”
True story. This was during ThePandemic™, when all non-essential travel (hahahaha eff off) was apparently VERBOTEN. We could tell our friendly racing driver didn’t give a flying f*uck about it.
Nah. Just not stupid.
I’ve got a better story than naming the dog Trigger (IMO):
I went to our doctors’ when I was about 15 or so (1970 ish) to get a hayfever jab. The receptionist was calling out to the waiting room which patient should go through next.
‘You’re next Sambo.’: this to a young black chap.
The rest of us froze.
The receptionist picked up on the feeling: ‘No, no. That’s his name.’
deleted, not self-censored!
That’s the name of the dog in the film, The Dam Busters, which is now sometimes censored out when shown on television.
It’s crazy that people get so offended by the word regardless of context and intention, and The Daily Sceptic (and we commenters too) dare not print the word, yet people like Dave Chapelle can use the word with no problem, and it’s not even the most controversial thing he said!
https://youtu.be/kxUDd6rOS38?si=gACpg-tk0D7ejc_n
Not only the name of the dog in the film. It was Wing Co Guy Gibson’s dog’s name IRL.
Yes. It feels weird pussyfooting around the word. But too many people don’t get that the word means ‘black’ which is just descriptive – not racist.
If you really want to explore the use of the word I recommend the Adventures of Tom Sawyer and -Huckleberry Finn which are available un-Bowdlerised on the Gutenberg Project. The books are littered with the word and it’s quite clear from the context that the author (pen name Mark Twain) does not approve of the racism it represents – but you can’t tell those stories without it.
Woop woop!
Well done Toby and all the good people at the FSU.
There is however something seriously wrong when we have to celebrate the affirmation of common sense and simple, basic decency.
I do hope the female, nutjob trainer is out of work because a trainer lacking in social skills and empathy is working in the wrong industry. How long before she strikes again?
Mr Carl Borg-Neal – don’t look back, Lloyd’s bank don’t care and certainly don’t want you. Consider this a wonderful victory and forget this dreadful organisation.
Yes I’m well chuffed to hear about such a positive outcome for this chap so huge kudos for Toby and co. I too would like to know what happened to said cowbag and if she got her just desserts. Nobody should have the ability to put somebody through what she did to Carl and have zero accountability and punishment. I remember reading this story when DS first published it and I was disgusted then.
Her apoplectic reaction was way over the top; this was a course discussing the damn topic FFS.
It’s obviously wrong to throw the word out in public, especially when directed at someone specific. But if a black person says it, then it’s absolutely fine. They’re not short of insults for white people. Hypocrisy.
But even when you use the euphemism ‘the N word’, each listener quite likely says the word silently in their heads.
Don’t think of an elephant!
You lose.
A purple one.
His name’s Gerald.
Elephant’s Gerald.
Well done to all involved.
I believe the FSU is a force for good.
As far as I’m concerned, this isn’t the feel good story that everybody seems to think it is. This was won on the basis of a perceived disability i.e. dyslexia. It seems the only reason he wasn’t judged to be an evil, white, male supremacist is because he himself held a victim card. He used a word; using a word can only show intent or belief when used with context that frames intent or belief. Within the context he used the word ‘nigger’ there could not possibly be derived any racial meaning. The fact the guy was dyslexic is of zero relevance. Using the same belief system used to sack this guy, using any word that describes anything unsavoury is a sackable offense e.g. Nazi. I’m not clapping just yet.
Exactly right. It is beyond absurd that the diversity industry has claimed a particular classification of language for this one word. It is not magical. When you say it the Grand Wizard does not appear in a puff of smoke. If it was uniquely offensive then all of the rap recordings that use it so extensively would be banned and the comedians and actors that throw it into their speech would be cancelled. No, it is just a stick to beat white people with and this case should have been won on the basis of that, not because of the plaintiff’s dyslexia.
Note to self: get more sleep.
A week off work because someone upset you good heavens no wonder you can’t get anything done in this country anymore. What a whimp. Smelling salts anyone….?
The PC blob followed by it’s successor the Wokerati played the racist card for decades.
Now we have tribalism.
Progress!
“The trainer was left “badly distressed” and took almost a week off work.”
The poor wee lamb – clearly management failure in hiring someone not suited for the rôle and not ensuring adequate training and supervision.
Well played, FSU. Keep up the good fight.