- “Social services worked from home while children they supervised were murdered” – A review finds “fragmented” oversight of individual cases, such as Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson, who were abused throughout lockdown, the Telegraph reports.
- “A leaving do is ‘work’ but a birthday party isn’t: Met chief explains how Boris Johnson wriggled off the hook” – Sir Stephen House tries to clarify reasoning behind partygate fines that were issued – and those that weren’t – for Downing Street gatherings, the Telegraph reports.
- “We’ll all pay the price for Rishi Sunak’s handouts” – Matthew Lynn nails the problem in the Spectator: “The harsh reality about the current bout of inflation is this: we locked down much of the global economy for a year, and printed money to pay for it. On top of that the Ukraine war has taken out a huge chunk of productive capacity as well. The result? We are poorer than we were.”
- “Is this what ‘success’ looks like?” – Could it be that Australia’s Covid story has morphed into a pandemic of the vaccinated, asks Ramesh Thakur in Spectator Australia.
- “Never mind the rest – ‘Partygate’ report shows No.10 didn’t see Covid as a risk” – As one official put it at the time, “we seem to have got away with” it. “You know what, I think the bugger might just be right,” says Michael Curzon in Bournbrook.
- “Schools Are Reinstating Mask Mandates as COVID-19 Cases Rise” – School districts in Philadelphia, Providence, R.I., and Brookline, Mass., are requiring students and staff to wear masks again – though they are the exception, rather than the rule, says Time.
- “The natural Cavalier Boris Johnson forgot Covid cast him in the role of a Roundhead – and I fear he’ll never recover” – Stephen Glover in the Mail has Boris pegged: “Boris was neither offended by the partying in No. 10, nor likely to be upset by the mess. The natural Cavalier forgot that the pandemic had cast him in the role of a Roundhead, solemnly announcing coercive rules on television which – to put it mildly – he didn’t zealously enforce on his home patch.”
- “Sue Gray report finds ‘no evidence’ Cummings voiced Partygate fears” – Boris Johnson’s former senior adviser claimed in January that he had warned in an email about a party being against the Covid rules – but the report could not find the email, according to the Mail.
- “Scientists say lockdowns make public get ‘pandemic fatigue’ quicker” – Italian scientists have used mobile phone data gathered from 20 of Italy’s regions in the pandemic to show pandemic fatigue grew faster during the harshest lockdowns, according to the Mail.
- “Long Covid risk falls only slightly after vaccination, huge study shows” – Results suggest that vaccines offer less protection against lingering symptoms than expected, Nature reports.
- “The Mystery of Monkeypox’s Global Spread” – Initial genomic sequencing suggests the virus hasn’t mutated to become more transmissible. So what explains its unprecedented rise across the world, asks David Cox in Wired.
- “Pet hamsters belonging to monkeypox patients should be isolated or killed, say health chiefs” – Fears grow that the virus could become endemic across Europe if it makes the jump to animals, according to the Telegraph, as the hysteria builds.
- “2,200 prominent Spanish personalities investigated for false COVID-19 vaccination” – The ‘Jenner Operation’ has uncovered at least 2,200 famous people with false COVID-19 vaccination certificates after these were bought from a nurse, reports EuroWeekly News.
- “Are sanctions making Russia richer?” – Putin may be struggling in the military war, but he doesn’t seem to be losing the economic one, says Wolfgang Münchau in the Spectator.
- “Ukraine war: World Bank boss warns over global recession” – David Malpass also said coronavirus lockdowns in China are contributing to a global slowdown, reports BBC News.
- “How will the war in Ukraine end? It won’t” – Neither side can afford to take any off-ramp offered to them now, argues Gabriel Gavin in UnHerd.
- “BP to review all North Sea investment in light of windfall tax” – BP is the first major energy company to declare it would review investments in light of the Government’s new windfall tax, reports the Telegraph.
- “Cowardly corporations have been captured by a form of group-think” – Suspending an HSBC executive for comments about climate change is an unjust response to pressure group criticism, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Are babies racist now?” – Not even infants are safe from accusations of ‘unconscious bias’, says Frank Furedi in Spiked.
- “Which black lives matter?” – We’ve learned nothing since George Floyd’s death, says Peter Van Buren in the Spectator.
- “Britain’s Online Safety Bill could change the face of the internet” – Tech firms will be incentivised to censor their users en masse, says the Economist.
- “Companies Flunk Free Speech” – Although respecting diverse viewpoints is good for business, companies register a dismal performance on a gauge of their tolerance of ideological diversity, write Jeremy Tedesco and Robert Netzly in the Wall St. Journal.
- “Princeton University disgraced itself by firing free speech hero Joshua Katz” – Regardless of the legal outcome, Professor Katz can take comfort in Princeton’s grotesque myopia, argues Paul du Quenoy in Newsweek.
- “Ricky Gervais has broken the spell of wokeness” – The trans ideology cannot survive mockery or scrutiny, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Young, gifted and not black enough for the C of E” – Harry Miller on the shoddy treatment of Calvin Robinson in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Worrying truth of what children are really learning in Sex Education: Many schools have handed over their classes to unregulated groups pushing a ‘woke’ agenda” – Many parents are sharing concerns about the content of lessons and the increasingly fevered environment in schools surrounding these topics, reports the Mail.
- “This bill is essentially handing a loaded gun to the enemies of every Conservative in the land” – Watch: Toby discusses the Online Safety Bill with Mark Steyn on GB News.
'This bill is essentially handing a loaded gun to the enemies of every Conservative in the land.'
— GB News (@GBNEWS) May 26, 2022
General Secretary of Free Speech Union Toby Young discusses the Online Safety Bill.GB News on YouTube https://t.co/KHMl3BS8eC pic.twitter.com/U6zxXNbqfj
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What happened to the rebuttal to Ian Rons ?
Dropped down the memory hole. We were always at war with Eurasia.
It’s been removed for your protection and the harm it may cause to Ian Rons’ feelings.
There were too many documented verifiable facts in the rebuttal, hence it was memory holed in a style we’ve become all too familiar with.
It’s almost as if the Grauniad fake fact checkers are censoring on the DS as well.
In Defence of Jacques Baud.
Who was the author ?
Suzie Halewood. Team Tobey: why was this piece killed?
Also where is Mark?
“The vote for the freedom friendly parties was about half what was anticipated. This can be explained to some degree by their messages being swamped by the majors’ well-funded advertising campaigns, but there was another factor at play too. I handed out how to vote cards for the Liberal Democrats on Saturday; I was the sole party representative at my booth. Labor, Greens, and the Liberals had teams – paid or unpaid, I don’t know, but they had a presence. The FFPs simply couldn’t match it. The major parties reinforced their ads with people at the front line on election day. This show of strength was seemingly enough to sway voters who were disgruntled with the majors but uncertain about the FFPs.”
https://gregoryno6.wordpress.com/2022/05/27/lockdownunder-update-election-fallout/
In some local authorities the votes weren’t even verified until the day after voting, meaning that ballot boxes were stored unsupervised overnight. Add to that the effect of postal votes, in which votes are opened and stored in a cupboard for more than a week before polling day. The voting system in the UK is wide open to fraud and corruption, and it surprises me that nobody is speaking up about this. I doubt we’ve had fair voting since Tony Blair’s reforms of the early 2000s.
Postal voting has become very popular here. A Labor vol told me that 40% of the local electorate voted in advance.
That’s a very accurate statistic Greg. Did the vol tell you before or after the election?
That was on the day itself, hp.
Londo, I can vouch for the suspected fraud. I have been an agent in the last three UK elections.
Nuland-Pyatt tape removed from Youtube after eight years.
This looks a little like George W Bush’s Freudian slip.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/05/25/nuland-pyatt-tape-removed-from-youtube-after-8-years/
Perhaps the person who uploaded the video removed it.
Perhaps YouTube removed it as they realised it was an extremely boring video and no-one ever watched it.
Perhaps you live and work in San Bruno, California, not Finland. Perhaps you are a YouTube functionary rather than a sceptic.
Finland ‘s most famous next Tuesday warrior.
Toby has decided the WHO power grab isn’t a variant of concern….
”As part of this plan, the WHO has contracted German-based Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems to develop a global vaccine passport system, with plans to link every person on the planet to a QR code digital ID.
This system will be universal, mandatory, trans-national, and operated by unelected bureaucrats in a captured NGO who already bungled the covid pandemic response.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/who-treaty-tied-global-digital-passport-and-id-system
“It can also be used as part of future vaccination campaigns and home-based records.”
We clearly didn’t need previous vaccination campaigns and unless there are future malicious releases of viruses we won’t need them in the future.
Do they? Trust from whom? I’m sure that most of us on here would regard such a system in the hands of government as being something definitely not to be trusted.
And as regards being ‘tamper-proof’, how many weeks or even days would it take for someone to work out a way of faking it? Not many, I would think.
Trust. Government.
Nah, it’s very poor English to believe those two words could ever sit comfortably in the same sentence
People behind Online Harms Bill only want control, says Mark Steyn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPBGjf9gcGs
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Shrewd comment in Unherd:
“For 2 1/2 years it’s been drilled into us that every single life is precious – no matter how old or unhealthy – and notions like freedom and liberty or functioning democratic institutions like parliament can never justify the loss of life. Now the very same people have turned the equation on its head – the loss of freedom and democracy for Ukrainians must not be tolerated, no matter the cost in lives and destruction.”
They can’t lose what they didn’t have.
No it hasn’t. I understand that the unborn (who are alive) have been killed in even greater numbers than usual, that getting unborn children killed was exemptedfrom lockdowns, unlike churches. Shows us just where we stand…
Now let me try to understand this. The gubmint are contemplating a windfall tax on the obscene profits made by the big energy companies, so that our nice, clever Mr Sunak will be able to provide a big fat state cash handout to all of us impoverished householders. Which handout is specifically designed to enable us to pay our bloated gas and electricity bills, which will of course all go back into the pockets of…the big energy companies.
Am I missing something here?
You can do your own sums, but we are already paying a slice of extra tax via VAT – 5% VAT on domestic power, and 20% on road fuel (and EV charging away from home). E.g. yesterday’s petrol price was around 34% higher than a year ago, and the utility firm has jacked up it’s prices as well.’Merry go round’ taxation, in effect.
The £400 lump sum made the headlines, but not the increase in revenue to the Treasury.
You can do your own sums…
Childish, economic jibberish, designed to fool the masses while insulting people with any intelligence.
Sadly, there do not seem to be many people with intelligence left in this country.
The lunatic scheme has been comprehensively gutted for economic and historical illiteracy by El Gato;
” one of the oldest, longstanding plays in the fascist/socialist playbook:
and here we go again. again.”
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/how-to-perpetuate-an-energy-crisis?s=r
Or he could just permanently cancel the Green Levy charged via our fuel bills.
It would kill the fake renewables but at least the truth would be out and we would be saving our own money.
The disappearance of the article “In Defence of Jacques Baud” without explanation is a very worrying development from your organisation. I am considering the disappearance of my financial support pending a satisfactory clarification.
It’s a very odd business. Smacks a little too much of Team Tobey pulling editorial muscle to drown out Team Delingpole after his interview with Jacques Baud. At least it looks that way right now until there is an explanation. Are we seeing a purging of any content which goes against the government narrative of Ukraine good Russia bad? Anyone know how to get in touch with the Free Speech Union, perhaps they might be interested. And where’s Mark?
Welcome to the Daily Not Sceptical At All.
Still viewable via the wayback machine for those who didn’t see it –
https://web.archive.org/web/20220526134225/https://dailysceptic.org/2022/05/26/in-defence-of-jacques-baud/
That is not the point, though.
Maybe DS has received a D Notice? I remember reading on Peter Hitchens blog a few weeks ago the below and it shocked me at the time.
Source:
https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2022/05/peter-hitchens-coming-soon-the-day-i-stop-watching-the-bbc-which-is-more-narrow-minded-than-a-1950s-.html
Wow. Yes, that sounds right. Hitchens comment is fascinating: obviously with a D notice you can’t actually tell people that you’ve got the D notice, or why. But look what he does. Makes the statement, then segues straight into a piece about Ukraine. So, yep. That does slightly blow my mind, to think DS is monitored, and an article like that can be pinged. Does Delingpole read this? Someone needs to convey this to him. And where’s Mark? By far the most interesting, intelligent and incisive commenter here, now suddenly absent. Have his comments earned him the wrath of the D notice also? Mark, call home.
A corrupt “so called” government led by a proven compulsive,opportunist liar leading a bunch of incompetents comprising the 3 witches (Patel,Truss and Dorris), a later day Lord Snooty (Rees-Mogg) and a ragbag of ex “barra boys” and “Hooray Henries and Henriettas”
A collective opposition of Labour, Lib Dems, Greens and Nationalists who in the words of Rick from Casa Blanca:don’t amount to a hill of beans”
Cromwell (latter day), where are you?
Never mind Cromwell, where the hell is Guy Fawkes?
Does it really matter if Labour win the next election Toby? We really now have a US type Uniparty. The only real arguments are semantics, general policy is pretty much the same.
Would Labour have ignored SAGE advice to keep locking down after Christmas 2021/Jan 2022?
They’d have locked down undoubtedly – but Johnson only refused because of back-bench pressure.
Yes. Some of the Tory backbenches and a few Cabinet members made the difference. Some of them might be vaguely conservative.
”… according to the Telegraph, as hysteria builds….”
Now, I wonder who’s ”building the hysteria”. What a load of unmitigated tripe. No doubt the media are still fulfilling an extended contract with the government from Spring 2020:
http://www.newsmediauk.org/Latest/government-partners-with-newspaper-industry-on-covid-19-ad-campaign
And as they said in Ukcolumn at the time:
”So news media have a commercial interest in providing a propaganda service to the UK government. Indeed, it has been noticed that the government is becoming the UK media’s most important client.”
“We’ll all pay the price for Rishi Sunak’s handouts”
What’s come over The Speccie? Bozo yesterday and Sunni today?
Very strange.
Matthew Lynn nails the problem in the Spectator: “The harsh reality about the current bout of inflation is this: we locked down much of the global economy for a year, and printed money to pay for it. On top of that the Ukraine war has taken out a huge chunk of productive capacity as well. The result? We are poorer than we were.”
Well no shit Sherlock! It’s a shame that those of us who in March 2020 pointed out the lunacy of destroying our economy, liberty and children’s futures over a virus which 99.8% of people make a full recovery (and most of those who would die were not long for this world anyway) from were hysterically accused of been granny murdering b*****ds. The lunacy is now continuing with prolonging a pointless war in Ukraine (and risking nuclear annihilation in the process). We are living in a mad house!
More like a kiddy’s play house.Smithey. They are all playing their children’s games with toytown money whilst the grown-ups are out.
Sadly, it seems that all the grown-ups have left and don’t plan to come back.
And the war is not pointless to Russia and the non-western nations. They are busy establishing an alternative world order whilst the West disappears up its own green fundament, dragging us poor (and getting poorer) saps with it.
I was worried earlier in the year when my son announced he was planning to apply for residence in Russia, now I think I envy him. Especially given that Putin has just announced that, due to increased energy tax revenues and a stabilisation of Russian interest rates at last year’s level, he is increasing the state pension there.
DS has a choice to continue playing along with this fraud or start reporting the plethora of proof that this latest fictional ‘outbreak’ was once again planned to bring in mass public manipulation.
We’re right at the start of this thing, it must be confronted vociferously before it is allowed to manifest into a false reality, pathing way for WHO to come in with their crushing communist rules.
We BTL have shown the evidence – you can try to ignore that it exists but the truth will out.
How are the UK Government going to fine global companies like Facebook 10% of their total profits?
“We’ll all pay the price for Rishi Sunak’s handouts” – Matthew Lynn nails the problem in the Spectator: “The harsh reality about…
For the last two decades ‘Government’ (both Parties) has deliberately driven up the price of energy and deliberately made it more difficult for suppliers to supply it by removing sustainable supply fossil fuel generation from the mix.
This restriction of supply in itself pushes up prices, but on top of that carbon tax, other green levies, subsidies to the unsustainable supply companies (wind, solar) and a price cap which discourages investment to increase supply in an industry which has volatile input costs and therefore likely poor return on capital.
Successive Governments have successfully persuaded a gullible public (not difficult) that increased energy prices are the fault of ‘greedy’ companies taking ‘excess’ profits.
But it is policy to drive prices up to discourage use of energy. Initially to drive up the price of fossil fuel generated electricity to the level of and then above the more expensive wind/solar so the latter would in time seem cheaper.
But as it has now dawned on the half-wits, wind/solar can never provide sustainable, continuous supply nor can it be dispatched as needed, so a move to EV and all electric heating will mean it will be impossible to meet future demand over the next decade, or distribute the increased load, therefore the aim now is to substantially reduce electricity use irrespective of how it is generated… ‘green’ or not.
And consider. After 2030 the proposal is for the UK to have only a single energy source – electricity – for everything. And that electricity supply will be from generation dependent on the vagaries of the British weather during a period of alleged climate change.
But there is a more sinister element: it means Government can control us literally by the flick of a switch. We shall only be able to cook, light and heat our homes, use the Internet, charge our EVs and travel as the Government allows.
“So what explains its unprecedented rise across the world?”
Vaxx => spike protein damages your immune system => epidemics of viral poxes.
‘Pet hamsters belonging to monkeypox patients should be isolated or killed, say health chiefs‘
Edit:
‘Health chiefs should be isolated or killed, say hamsters‘
FIFY
#I Am A Hamster