- “Covid’s cancelling Christmas… again! Top experts predict at least 1.5 million will be infected on Xmas day as health bosses ‘urge the ill to celebrate alone’ – and frustrated Brits are already ditching their festive plans” – U.K. Health Security Agency bosses urged anyone ‘feeling unwell’ to avoid loved ones this weekend, with frustrated people venting their fury after testing positive in the days before festivities, the Mail reports.
- “NHS bosses come under fire for spending millions on ‘woke non-jobs’ as frontline workers strike for better pay’” – More than £1 million worth of ‘equality, diversity and inclusion’ related positions are on offer in hospitals and trusts across England and Wales, with most salaries dwarfing that of the average nurse, the Mail reports.
- “NHS thinks £115,000 Director of Lived Experience is worth three nurses” – Leo McKinstry writes in the Mail that “in effect, the ‘equality, diversity and inclusion’ managers form a new priesthood, spreading a perverse gospel”.
- “250 million people in China infected in 20 days, officials estimate” – The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention believes 18% of the population have been infected, including half of Beijing, after the Government U-turned on its controversial Zero Covid policy last month, reports the Mail.
- “How SAGE almost stole Christmas” – This time last year, scientific experts were baying to put us in lockdown, Christopher Snowdon reminds us in Spiked.
- “Dr. Byram Bridle vs University of Guelph” – Read the vaccinologist’s lawsuit against his employer.
- “False Profits” – “Adopting multiple alternative ways to trade will ensure that by the time governments bring in CBDCs, not only will we have choices, they will already be up and running,” writes Suzie Halewood in OffGuardian.
- “New Zealand Documentary Memorial Day (Silent No More NZ)” – Watch the new New Zealand documentary telling the stories of the vaccine injured and bereaved.
- “The Media Very Rarely Lies” – Scott Alexander in Astral Codex Ten makes the case against ‘fact checkers’ and censorship of ‘misinformation’.
- “Japan Embraces Nuclear Power, Cancels Phase Out Plans” – Japan has adopted a new policy promoting greater use of nuclear energy to ensure a stable power supply, in a major reversal of its phase-out plan following the Fukushima crisis, WUWT reports.
- “The woman who could cancel Net Zero” – Iain Hunter in TCW on Professor Valentina Zharkova of the University of Northumbria, who is predicting a cooling climate in the coming years owing to the changing influence of the Sun.
- “Teacher jailed in row over use of pronouns for transgender student is released” – The judge accused Enoch Burke of “exploiting his imprisonment for his own ends” after it turned him into a “household name”, according to the Telegraph – which is a bit rich, given it was the Irish state which chose to jail him for using biologically correct pronouns.
- “The Sun newspaper ‘sincerely sorry’ over Jeremy Clarkson’s Duchess of Sussex column” – The Sun has capitulated and said it regrets the publication of the column and is “sincerely sorry”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Christianity’s retreat has left the West vulnerable to harmful new beliefs” – Our societies are in a severe muddle, which makes for fertile ground for woke zealotry, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Student who lost court fight against university that investigated her for saying ‘women have vaginas’ in trans seminar launches crowdfunder to pay for appeal” – Lisa Keogh took Abertay University to court after she was investigated for saying “women have vaginas” during an online seminar on transgender issues and is now crowdfunding for her appeal, reports the Mail.
- “Joe Lycett and the trouble with wokescreening” – Julie Burchill in the Spectator highlights the numerous misdemeanours and hypocrisies of the self-righteous woke set.
- “Keir Starmer: Pro-trans laws are needed across U.K.” – Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to change the law to allow trans people to self-declare their gender, according to the Telegraph, in the wake of anger over similar moves in Scotland.
- “Are Holyrood and Westminster heading for another Supreme Court showdown?” – Stephen Daisley in the Spectator argues that politically it would be astute to veto Scotland’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill.
- “Why has the Church of England embraced the woke cult? Is there a god-shaped hole now in the Church of England?” – Watch Toby join GB News‘s Andrew Pierce to discuss the Christmas carol God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen being rewritten to be more ‘inclusive’.
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“By the time you read this, the $110 billion behemoth may be a smoking ruin – the biggest casualty yet of ‘Go woke, go broke’.”
Now that would put a smile on my face.
Anyway, congratulations on all you have done Toby. Even if you haven’t helped to kill them they are certainly severely wounded. Let this be a warning to others.
Well done and thank you.
I’ve taken steps to remove paypal from my financial life.
They were already stepping on civil liberties, but their threat to steal customers’ cash because they offended paypal in some unspecified manner is just too much.
Am I . . . Spartacus?!?
Looks like paypal are running scared….
https://summit.news/2022/10/13/paypal-appears-to-be-desperately-offering-bribes-of-15-to-stop-droves-of-people-cancelling-accounts/
Expose have just released the same news.
Wonderful.
Turned out I hadn’t used Paypal for ages anyway. Should have cancelled it years ago.
“Dan Schulman, the president and CEO of PayPal, gave an interview earlier this year entitled: ‘The thing that separates good companies from great ones: trust.’”
No it isn’t, it’s reputation – ask Jeremy Ratner. Reputation keeps existing customers, attracts others by recommendation, and keeps and attracts investors.
Getting a reputation for not being a reliable provider of a service which can be withdrawn instantly for spurious and subjective reasons will neither keep nor attract customers.
Spending shareholders’ money on ideology that loses customers, reduces shareholder value will neither keep nor attract investors as the pompous Mr Schulman has now found out.
This also shows the best company/market regulator is not Government nor bureaucracies, but the consumer.
I love the title of this article, I certainly don’t think it’s ‘too vainglorious’, and at the same time all of us who closed our PayPal accounts in protest can share in taking the credit. (I had to get a password reminder before I could close my account, which I had rarely ever used.)
In the Spectator article Toby Young said: “On the one hand, PayPal’s demise would send a message to the financial services sector that trying to police your customers’ speech is a terrible idea. But on the other, lots of small depositors would lose their money.”
I think small depositors should withdraw their money from their PayPal accounts before they lose it. It’s not Toby Young’s fault that PayPal cannot be trusted.
Not a penny left in mine.
It was amazing to me, when in the process of shutting down my PayPal account at just how many standing payments I’d set up went via PayPal! Even The Spectator…
I look forward to seeing Paypal’s scalp dangling from your belt, Toby.
I have a grand total of 50p in my PayPal account, and rarely use it.
Am I more of an embuggerance to them if I keep this account open?
I don’t think PayPal would notice that you have only 50p in your account, but they have definitely noticed how many people have closed their accounts since Paypal started to attack people’s freedom in the last few weeks.
Count me sceptical. They are far too entrenched now in the online shopping world and without real competition there- merchants and customers just love its ease of use and reach.
MasterCard folded its competitive effort because of that, not that they’d been more trustworthy.
I love your line on whether they’ll now fine themselves for that misinformation…
You may well be correct JB but they will have had a good kicking.
Cancelled my 25 year old PayPal account after they cancelled Toby and others. Hope they go under if they don’t learn their lesson.
I find it really upsetting that I can only cancel my PayPal account once …. and I’ve done it.
I’m consoling myself by googling “boycott PayPal” several times a day
Surely the AUP breaches human rights and in the EU/UK would be illegal and hence null and void. Making themselves judge, jury and executioner even for goings most of us disagree with and are criminal, e.g. money laundering or fraud means that they are subjecting people to arbitrary justice. Actually just looked article 12 UNDOHR. no one shall be subject to arbitrary interference…?
The Daily Sceptic isn’t the only journalism and “skeptic” site that’s been de-platformed or demonetized by PayPal. The conservative investigative journalism site UncoverDC.com also had this happen to them …. almost three years ago! PayPal or Twitter have never un-suspended this site and its founder, Tracy Beanz.
Apparently I’m the only journalist who thought to do a story on this. In my recent Substack dispatch, I interview Tracy Beanz, who talks about some of the ‘workarounds” she employed to get around this brazen censorship.
Her site is also called a “Covid conspiracy” site. This piece of disinformation is of interest to me as I have written many of the Covid stories UncoverDC.com published. Nobody else would publish many of these stories. And I can’t think of a sentence I would change in any of them.
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/shes-still-standing
Hats off to you and Tracy Bill. Not many of your type remaining.
I sent 2 mails to PayPal’s CEO & to corporate affairs asking clear questions about their policies & impact for me as an account holder. Response? NOTHING. The arrogance of these Bit Tech companies is breathtaking.
So I closed my account directly. In the process I applied another Daily Sceptic commenter’s advice to “..select the option to have them delete all your data too then you can leave a comment.”
My departing comment was this:
“I’m thoroughly disgusted by PayPal’s anti-free speech policy. Why would you use a financial service provider which can block your account at any time without providing any reasons, and then steal $2500- from you as a “fine” for your supposed transgression. My decision has been confirmed by ZERO response to my several emails to PayPal asking them if there was a reasonable explanation for recent actions. So much for customer service. Not to mention transparency. From now on, I shall be telling everyone I know to close their PayPal account.“