- “Matt Hancock says ’Boris Johnson’s dithering sparked winter lockdown’” – The Daily Mail highlights another claim from Hancock’s pandemic diaries. If only Boris had got on with the tier system sooner like the health secretary Matt Hancock wanted, we could have avoided the winter lockdowns
- “Hancock diaries show Nicola Sturgeon was leaking Cobra decisions” – In a second extract from his pandemic diaries, Hancock accuses Nicola Sturgeon of leaking Cobra decisions and playing “political games” to further the separatist cause, the Scottish Daily Express reports
- “Matt Hancock’s Covid care home explanation sparks industry outrage” – “Matt Hancock’s memory of events bears no resemblance to the facts,” says Nadra Ahmed, Chairwoman of the National Care Association, quoted in MailOnline
- “Britain’s children are still suffering post-lockdown – these five things could help” – “There is a sense that we have moved on from the pandemic,” writes the Telegraph’s Bryony Gordon, “yet again and again we are reminded that for our children, this is just not true”
- “Keep Covid military vaccine mandate, defence chief says” – U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin wants to keep the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate to protect the health of the troops, the Associated Press reports
- “Proximal orchestrations” – “The scientists who assured the world that the COVID-19 virus could not have been engineered in a laboratory based their pivotal decision on a single piece of flawed evidence,” says Nicholas Wade in City Journal
- “China reports two new Covid deaths as some restrictions eased” – China reported two additional deaths from COVID-19 on Sunday according to the Associated Press, as cities slowly ease anti-pandemic restrictions
- “Gospel truth that passes the lockdown lovers by” – In the Conservative Woman, Julian Mann suggests a spiritual reason for the Western democracies’ embrace of Chinese-style totalitarianism (i.e., lockdowns) – the decline of personal Bible reading
- “A critique of mass formation theory – Part 1: Are they hypnotised?” – Writing for Left Lockdown Sceptics, Amy Willows and Rusere Shoniwa lay out what may the the psychological mechanisms responsible for the hysteria, strange behaviour and cruelty exhibited in an attempt to control the coronavirus. You can read part 2 here
- “The World Health Organisation and its holy days of obligation” – At the Brownstone Institute, David Livermore laments the fact that, unlike the calendar of the late medieval peasant, the secular calendar of public health has no space for fun or feasts
- “Prince William’s Earthshot prize won’t save the planet” – Ross Clark hates “to pour cold water on the Prince of Wales’s big night out in Boston”, he says in the Spectator, “but all the Earthshot prize is doing is reminding the world how laughably far we are from achieving net Zero carbon emissions by 2050”
- “France ban on short-haul domestic flights with a rail alternative approved by Brussels” – France is banning short haul domestic flights where there is a rail alternative that takes less than two and a half hours, the Telegraph reports
- “BBC chairman admits broadcaster is ‘fighting against its liberal bias’” – BBC Chairman Richard Sharp has said the broadcaster “does have a liberal bias” but he’s “fighting against it”, MailOnline reports
- “Why the Rosetta Stone shouldn’t be returned to Egypt” – “The British Museum needs to hold on to this discarded piece of ancient rubbish,” argues Professor David Abulafia in the Spectator
- “Scotland is not a British colony – and it never has been” – “The SNP’s victimhood act is not only undignified,” writes Mick Hume in Spiked. “It’s also historically illiterate”
- “A culture of fear has taken over academia and the arts” – “The transition from professional organisations defending all members to only defending right-thinking ones is already underway,” warns Nick Cohen in the Spectator. “And I expect it to accelerate as the cultural revolution gains momentum”
- “The rise of Archaeologists Anonymous” – “Censorship is driving dissident researchers underground,” says Stone Age Herbalist, an anonymous archaeologist, in UnHerd
- “The unbearable whiteness of being an academic” – “Why,” asks Ed West, “are so many white people claiming to be black or indigenous?”
- “The Tories are too weak towards union militants” – The Government’s desperate plea for “altruism” from the RMT, is “a far cry from Thatcher’s pragmatic response to miners”, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph
- “The Frank Report XLVII” – Frank Haviland’s take on the week gone by in the New Conservative. “If you were thinking of going on-strike don’t bother,” he writes, “there’s hardly anyone left in Britain who actually works for a living”
- “The public storm that was taking down my name far and wide” – Professor Jo Phoenix, who was driven out of her job at the Open University after she was attacked by trans right activists, tells Andrew Doyle why it’s important that the new Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill grants aggrieved students and academics the right to sue universities if they breach their free speech rights.
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There may be very few things more objectionable than a Matthew Hancock.
The irony being that dithering or not dithering didn’t have a material effect on ‘our safety’. He’s positioning himself as the kind of guy who would ‘do something’, go faster and harder, like Starmer, missing the point completely that we needed someone in charge who could think first, not do.
Wankcock is the army officer in the old cartoon screaming at his gunners “Fire, Aim, Aim, Aim”
The two part article arguing for an alternative version of the mass formation theory, ( ditching the hypnosis element and replacing it with addiction ), is interesting, and may perhaps meet with CJ Hopkins’ approval
as it locates responsibility firmly in the masses/the individuals, whereas the hypnosis version relieved them of responsibility for their actions.
Also interesting because this version, based on addiction, addiction to crisis drama/dynamics, would also explain why I, and a fair number of other sceptics, have almost “enjoyed” the last 3 years, felt curiously exhilarated by it all, because there is a “crisis” to be addicted to in seeing through the official narrative.
How many of us are waiting with something rather uncomfortably like eagerness/impatience for the govt/WHO/authorities’ “next move”?
“How many of us are waiting … for the govt/WHO/authorities’ “next move”?”
I am not “waiting for the next move,” my first thoughts every morning are of dread. What terror is coming next? Today has provided a perfect example of unfolding horrors with the news that Oxford is to be turned literally, in to a prison city. First Oxford, which town / city afterwards?
Unless some civil disruption occurs we are screwed. Too many people are both lazy and ignorant, too many simply want to bend over and take it.
Our poor bloody children.
I didn’t read the Oxford proposal as limiting people’s right to leave the city, but rather their right to enter different parts of the city in their cars.
What a peculiar post. Why would any sane person enjoy or feel “exhilarated” by the last three years? Slightly warped way of thinking, to my mind anyways, well, unless you’re a self-confessed ‘drama-llama’ or something. Speak for yourself if you’re addicted to drama but personally I’d give anything to be without said ”drama” and go back to how life was in 2019. Anybody who gets off on the abuse that societies the world over have suffered, many with catastrophic consequences, and the uncertainties that we now all live under, needs their flipping head read. But the response to your post suggests that there are more half-baked people on here ( inc lurkers ) than I previously thought. What with certain other hostile posters and their merry band of pitchfork-wielding hangers-on, I’m feeling more and more that this site is alienating a decent % of people and there’s not much I identify with any more. This place has gone decidedly downhill both in terms of quality of articles and posters. It’s now just a place to whine about the same old shite and for people with an axe to grind to air their inadequacies and insecurities because they need somebody to blame for their psychotic imaginings of persecution, and there is clearly plenty of people ready to enable these fantasists. I used to enjoy visiting this site daily and feel a sense of camaraderie and solidarity, but now I just feel like I don’t belong. Same shit, different day.
I share your sentiments Mogs but I think we have to hang on. There is a hard-core of us realists and we must not fold.
I appreciate that change is inevitable but that doesn’t mean we have to always go along with it and accept it. I get that Lockdown Sceptics morphed to Daily Sceptics, so their content and aim has somewhat changed, but I’m personally not interested in climate or woke BS. It doesn’t get my juices flowing but each to their own I guess. The thing that made me keep coming back to this site, and supporting it financially, was the community. But I feel that community aspect has been diluted and now almost disappeared. We used to have such a good craic in our ‘spit and sawdust’ section, remember?
Now it’s all limp-dicked so-called “men” moaning about how threatened they feel by the opposite sex and projecting their hostility and abuse onto other posters, or boring AF talk about climate crap that’s been debunked a million times over or tired old woke shite or the gazillionth article from the Telegraph about how devastating lockdowns have been on kids. Just nothing new unless we find and share it ourselves. I think I’ve ran out of motivation to share articles I’ve read or videos I’ve watched, thinking others may find them also interesting. This place is mostly inhabited by people I can’t identify with. DS no longer offers me what it did and it’s just become tedious. It’s a place for trouble-makers looking for spats and to make nasty little comments because Free Speech. I won’t be re-subbing next month’s money in order to comment ( all cheers from The Haters! lol ) as I’m evidently more adept at sourcing relevant articles and videos of interest than the DS team and I no longer have any incentive to share here. Too many bad apples and not enough of the original, decent folk that made this a true community and it’s changed the vibe. Too bad.
I am really sad that you are leaving Mogs because I always appreciate your thoughtful comments. Thankfully you think for yourself. I couldn’t care less about the occasional idiots and incessant downtickers.
Anyway, you have my email and I will always be glad to hear from you.
Best wishes.
Thanks hux. I’ve just thoroughly lost my mojo i think. I feel that the site has taken on quite an unfriendly vibe these days. I used to enjoy a lively exchange as much as anybody but when it crosses over into insults and abuse and I read posts from people wishing me ill then it does create rather an unpleasant vibe to be honest. And the lack of support from others just screams silent complicity as far as I’m concerned. People are allowed to disagree or feel passionate about something but when it morphs into bullying behaviour, and nobody challenges these individuals, so they remain regulars on here, the dynamics of the place changes. I just get the general impression that there are countless men with strong animosity towards women on here and they far outnumber the opposite sex. I can see which way the land lies by reading various posts and seeing the responses. That and the above reasons I’ve stated make for DS to no longer be a very welcoming, interesting or friendly place to frequent.
As a relatively recent subscriber (and daily visitor) to this site, I am sorry to see you go. Your comments have been insightful and straight-talking, but always respectful. You also regularly posted links to a lot of interesting stuff. So thanks and best wishes.
Well thank you, that’s very kind.
But I’ve not long paid my latest sub so I’ve a few weeks still to go of getting up the haters’ noses by my mere presence.
There’s a school of thought that a lot of people embraced the covid madness because it made them feel like they were living through momentous times and that their lives were given weightier meaning as a result – they were part of a historic event. No-one can say to what extent this influenced behaviour, but it seems plausible. So it’s not unreasonable to at least posit that some sceptics also crave the same kind of frisson. I don’t think I do, and I am not accusing anyone in particular here of doing so, but it’s not implausible IMO.
As for belonging, I would think it’s safer to look at this site as source of information, and views, some of which are of interest and some of which are not. Dangerous to invest too much more than that, though obviously we were all feeling isolated and still are to an extent and it’s helpful to think there are others who think along similar lines.
If you want a sense of community I would recommend the Reddit group: LockdownSceptics (reddit.com) Daily thread for general comments, friendly and interesting bunch in the main.
I think the quality and variety of the articles has actually improved – a lot more original material from insiders and experts in their field. Shame the comments are so sparse, but quality seems reasonable to me – back in the day there were many more, some of which were brilliant but there was also a lot of bickering and what seemed like rubbish to me.
Just somewhere where people are not hostile, rude and abusive would be an improvement. Thank you. I’ll give them a visit.
Easy for me to say but I would try not to take it personally. We’re just strangers on the internet. Connect with people you feel an affinity with; ignore the others (or argue the toss with them if you feel so inclined).
I was never much interested in climate change stuff before covid but now it seems clear that the two agendas are parallel/one and the same.
“Wokeism” seems to me the extreme manifestation of a strand of leftism that has been gathering steam for decades, and I think there are many connections to what happened with covid – suppression of free speech, smearing your enemies. I think covid stuff is a manifestation of a much deeper malaise – not an aberration at all, but an extreme example of how far we have drifted or been driven in the wrong direction.
“I was never much interested in climate change stuff before covid but now it seems clear that the two agendas are parallel/one and the same.”
There is no question whatsoever that the climate nonsense is an extension of the C1984 programme and to believe otherwise is naiive.
If I find stories, articles, whatever that I think are relevant I am happy to share them here. I can hardly expect DS to do ALL the research so some is up to me.
Climate nonsense and C1984 are just manifestations of some evil combination of collectivism, technocracy, elites wanting to divide and rule, all of which have been growing for a while now.
So agree with this!
I’ve seen a lot of outcry against nazis after remarks made by Kanye West. He said something about liking Hitler I believe.
Many if not most people showed they would have been nazis or sympathisers by their actions or inactions the last few years. They may claim that wanting anti makers and vaxxers to die is not the same as actually killing Jews. Or they may say they didn’t want them to die, but I think they would have thought it was deserved and stood by and let it happen. Many even openly suggested they not be allowed medical care. Just remove them from society so nobody has to think about them.
I find it hard to see the difference in mindset.
We haven’t really come that far from the Coliseum days of feeding Christians and others to the lions to be honest. We’re still the same dumb and cruel humans.
I think one difference now is that people pretend to care about others more than they really do.
People showed their true nature when they were made to believe that getting infected from a virus meant certain death and that a mask would protect them. In a life or death situation (which it wasn’t really) they would choose themselves nomatter what.
Where is Will? Hopefully, he is working on something or just taking a break.
From the FT. Probably the same people who think immunity from infection is also a dangerous “concept” as people will be out there actively trying to get infected:
‘Immunity debt’ is a misguided and dangerous concept
https://www.ft.com/content/0640004d-cc15-481e-90ce-572328305798
Once you start totally avoiding something, in this case infections, the logical conclusion is that you have to keep avoiding it…forever. Once everyone becomes naive you make the effect of any exposure worse.
Hail the birth of Zero Infection (TM) and the death of the human race.
The City Journal article on the pangolin data provides a sofar missing important piece of the man-made puzzle.
This adds another one:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/wuhan-whistleblower-former-ecohealth-vp-says-covid-man-made-escaped-lab
A BBC News article reports:
“The first Oxford word of the year to be chosen by public vote has been announced.
The winning word, “goblin mode”, is a slang term describing “unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy” behaviour.
It was one of three potential choices selected by Oxford lexicographers.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63857329
Is it pedantic to point out that “goblin mode” should not be the “Oxford word of the year” because “goblin mode” is not a word, it’s two words, a term, a phrase – out of all the words the Oxford lexicographers had to choose from, could they not have actually chosen a word?!
Trashing the Bullshit Broadcasting Corporation along with esteemed Oxford lexicographers makes you guilty of ‘hate crime.’
How dare you.
JC’s “German photographs”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_DdSMn55cA Images of autopsy examinations of the heart re people found dead at home.
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/04/open-letter-an-overdue-apology-to-the-worlds-children/
An excellent letter to our youth from Lucy Davies over at Off-G.
A brief summary:
Believe in you.
So Lloyd Austin wants to keep the USA troops vaccinated…well if they are daft enough to do it, I agree. It’s not as if they are struggling already?
It appears that several hundred soldiers have left due to vaccine mandates..can’t find the exact number but it’s over 1000….plus every branch of the US military is struggling to make its 2022 recruiting goals. With a record low number of Americans eligible to serve, and few of those willing to do it, this “is the year we question the sustainability of the all-volunteer force,” The pool of those eligible to join the military continues to shrink, with more young men and women than ever disqualified for obesity, drug use or criminal records. Last month, Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville testified before Congress that only 23% of Americans ages 17-24 are qualified to serve without a waiver to join, down from 29% in recent years.
An internal Defense Department survey obtained by NBC News found that only 9% of those young Americans eligible to serve in the military had any inclination to do so, the lowest number since 2007.
let’s go Brandon!!???
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/every-branch-us-military-struggling-meet-2022-recruiting-goals-officia-rcna35078
“So Lloyd Austin wants to keep the USA troops vaccinated “
Which makes Lloyd Austin either stupid or a traitor.
I will go with traitor.
Is the the crack force Europe thinks is going to save them??
Is THIS the…!
“Strep A: school ‘devastated’ as officials say eighth child has died from infection in UK.”
Headline just appeared in my newsfeed. Looks as if they might be revving up the “strep” issue.
BONUS: REWRITTEN HISTORY OF THE WEEK
“CDC director Rochelle Walenksy made news this week when she marked the 50th anniversary of the Tuskegee Experiment by honoring the “sacrifice” of the men involved:
For those who don’t know, the Tuskegee Experiment involved the deliberate withholding of treatment from black men infected with syphilis, without their knowledge, in order to study the progression of the disease.
It was not “sacrifice”, it was pure evil.”
That was 623 African American men murdered for $cience.
Isn’t Rochelle an absolute star…so kind, so thoughtful and terrifically Orwellian. She has a bright future in front of her. Not sure about the American people though.
From Off-G.
A reason why African Americans are more ‘vaccine hesitant’. Have you seen this from September 21?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/dqUWftoHC2DO/
Why is this African-American woman with a PhD allowed to speak so much sense? Something needs to be done about it!
Thanks Chris. The lady spoke very well. Properly knew her subject unlike most of the muppets in this country.