If, like me, you’ve found this year’s New Year Honours list depressing reading, cheer yourself up by looking at our readers’ alternative suggestions.
We had some excellent one-off nominations, such as this one for Peter Hitchens:
I’m nominating Peter Hitchens for services to journalism. For the last 50 years he has had buckets of slime poured over him for questioning the prevailing orthodoxies and group think of the establishment on issues of war, freedom, liberty, the rule of law and the response to COVID-19 to name but a few. I think it would be a fitting tribute for Toby Young to touch Peter gently on each shoulder with his knighting sword live on YouTube.
And this one:
I would like to nominate all the good men and women who work at Exxon Mobil’s Fawley oil refinery near my home.
Fawley represents 20% of the UK’s refining capacity and supplies much of the diesel, petrol and aviation fuel used in the southeast.
Remember folks, 85% of UK energy use is not in the form of electricity but heavy distillates of crude oil (mostly diesel).
These heroic people literally keep the economy moving.
And this one:
To the wonderful lady who maintains our park, has done for many years. It’s in Littleborough, Lancashire and her ministrations result in so much joy for so many local people. Cath she’s called. On OBE at least I feel.
Plenty for Substack newsletters and blogs, such as this one for El Gato Malo:
- One of the first commentators to recognise the insidious evil of lockdowns and the blatant lies and government propaganda disastrously used to enforce them on people.
- Truly being probably one of the first people in the world to recognise the horror of what was coming down the line with the disastrous oncoming train wreck of the covid vaccines.
- Critically – carrying out incredibly complex data analysis documenting the unfolding disaster.
- One of the first to recognise and provide critical analysis to support the terrible (and to be expected) harms of original antigenic sin, antigenic imprinting etc.
- Continuing this important role today, and covering other essential topics with the same cracking humour and grace that makes me and many others look forward to his wonderful long format reads.
- Kicked off twitter for nearly 3 years (finally restored on Christmas Day), but still managed to build a large and supportive community of people on substack.
- Simply, alongside the Daily Sceptic, the wonderful El Gato Malo provides hope (backed up with critical and very detailed analysis) to us in these terrible dark times.
- You can find his Substack newsletter here and his twitter account here.
Other journalists and bloggers also got one-off nominations:
I would like to nominate Gary Sidley founder of Smile Free, Lionel Shriver and Charles Eisenstein, especially for his book The Coronation and all his Covid writings.
Also, Beverley Turner:
Please give a Damehood to Beverley Turner – she was one of the first ‘celebrity journalists’ to speak out publicly against vaccine passports and especially campaigning for young people and against the bribes our Government tried to use to pressure them into having the Covid shots. She was vilified on TV by the likes of Jeremy Vine…
And Nick Dixon, host of the Weekly Sceptic:
Best podcast of the year.
GB News got a nomination for being funny (which Nick Dixon also deserves some credit for):
I would also like to nominate GB News for a comedy award. This could be misinterpreted! I don’t mean GB News is a joke! I mean GB News is consistently full of good humour which makes me laugh more than any current comedy programmes anywhere on BBC television.
These three got a nomination for going the extra mile to make people aware of ‘Focused Protection’ as an alternative to lockdown:
Simon Platt, Andrew Watt and Mark Kingsley – all brave souls who raised money to buy some leaflets about the Great Barrington Declaration for delivery in Preston. They were afraid of being physically attacked while delivering the leaflets… but pressed on regardless.
Several people nominated those who’ve been harmed by the mRNA vaccines:
I nominate all who were killed by the mRNA vaccine to be awarded the posthumous title ‘Hero of Soviet Britain’ and their relatives (maximum of two) to receive a small pasteboard medal which enables them to move to the front of any food or energy queue.
We also got some negative nominations, such as this one for King Charles:
For his appalling treatment of Lady Hussey, who I think should sell her story to Netflix for at least $10 million and blow the gaff on the entire artifice and on all the inter-palace rivalries.
As well as these four (the last is particularly good):
Meghan Markle for services to altruism.
Ngozi Fulani – Stealth Recording.
The geezer who dresses as a woman and nicks people’s luggage.
Fred West, a posthumous Baronetcy for not killing as many people as those awarded covid knighthoods.
And on to the most popular nominees…
These are all people who received more than one nomination. Where appropriate, I’ve included a comment from one of the people who nominated them:
Ian Rons x 2
IT nerd of the year.
Bob Moran x 2
Lord Sumption x 2
Make him Head of the Supreme Court.
Prof. Martin Kulldorff x 2
Dr. Noah Carl x 2
Kept the wheel of intelligent and essential debate persistently turning.
Dan Wootton x 2
Julia Hartley-Brewer x 2
Anders Tegnell x 2
Maybe not the most original nomination, but I’m writing this from Sweden as I sit in my in-laws kitchen drinking tea and feeling just how different Sweden is to Britain when it comes to the pandemic.
I’ve visited a few time since it all started and every time it has struck me how much more sane it is here. Last year I asked my father in law what it was like at work, he said “you don’t go to work if you are sick”. And that was that. He grumbled good naturedly that he only got vaccinated so he could visit us in England, and then laughed when he got covid anyway.
You don’t see masks here. The only time I saw a significant number was when visiting the test center to get our papers to fly back to England last summer.
Sweden has its own share of problems, but covid was never one of them. Throughout the madness I found it heartening to hear back from Swedes about how so many Germans were coming to Sweden to get a haircut or a manicure and being charged double.
Allison Pearson x 3
For services to journalism and to the community.
Dr. Tess Lawrie x 3
Russell Brand x 3
The Duck and Weave Award for having somehow outfoxed the algorithm and become a master of the soft power of information and persuasion.
Laura Dodsworth x 3
For highlighting the propaganda and lies.
Chris Morrison x 3
A Dukedom for services to the truth about the debacle of Net Zero.
Dr. Will Jones x 3
He has displayed sheer bravery, unflagging persistence and the ability to write much needed info, despite no doubt attacks from various quarters. I have not heard Will speak much so don’t know how good humoured he is, but do know he is a flipping good bloke.
James Delingpole x 4
Knight of the Realm (although I’d expect him to reject it for obvious reasons!)
Kathy Gyngel x 4
A Damehood for keeping the faith with her website and plea for children not to be vaccinated.
Prof. Norman Fenton x 5
Dr. Ros Jones x 5
For unstinting effort over the last 2/3 years to encourage an open debate about how best to respond to the Covid pandemic and particularly for her efforts to protect children against damage from COVID-19 vaccines.
Sir Christopher Chope x 5
For bravery and honesty and persistence.
Alan Miller x 5
Neil Oliver x 5
For speaking truth to power. His weekly monologues are inspirational and form an important reminder for everyone that there are a few journalists on the fringes of mainstream media who still possess a backbone and have moral integrity.
Dr. Clare Craig x 6
Jay Bhattacharya x 6
Dr Steve James x 7
For being one of the first NHS doctors to courageously speak out about the Covid vaccines when he confronted the Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, visiting a hospital about a year ago in front of TV cameras.
Prof Carl Heneghan x 7
For speaking reason, in measured tones, from the very beginning.
John Campbell x 8
Vlogging on You Tube, discussing facts, but always decorated with a You Tube “Covid misinformation” tag. Over the past two years his videos have documented how the scales fell from his eyes as he realised it wasn’t appropriate to take on trust communication from the government and national health bodies on SARS-CoV2.
Dr Aseem Malhotra x 8
For being big enough to say, “I know more now, so I’m changing my mind.”
Prof Sunetra Gupta x 9
For being one of the original signatories of the very reasonable Great Barrington Declaration and then taking the ensuing flack.
Andrew Bridgen x 10
For services to the cause of properly researched public health information.
Mike Yeadon x 12
A brave, honourable and determined soul who has had his good name and reputation deliberately trashed by the powers that be in what will in time be exposed as the biggest health and economic scandal to befall not only this country but worldwide.
The team at the Daily Sceptic x 20
For services to my mental health, for keeping me, and no doubt many others, sane during crazy times.
And the person who got the most nominations was…
Mark Steyn x 22
I nominate Mark Steyn to receive the Order of Merit, for his fearless contribution to public service broadcasting in furtherance of enlightening the public’s consciousness.
Happy New Year everybody!
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Toby, was it false modesty that kept you off the list? I don’t know the readership figures but whatever they are the Sceptic definitely punches above its weight becoming the go-to resource for an alternative view on covid, net zero & wokeism.
I’m sure many readers, like me, have been helped enormously to retain our sanity due to your efforts & those of the team at The Sceptic.
Thanks for all you’ve done.
Hear hear!
Yes Tobes well done 👏
Seconded!
With you all the way. Many thanks to Toby and all the DS team. Heroes all of you.
Hear hear!!
I say, what!
Sorry don’t understand your banter old boy!
I say, what! Think of, tally hoe, choks away, what what! and ra…ther!
(Leslie Phillips)
Ho ,and spiffing!
Sorry being thick -as usual!!!
Thanks so much, Toby, DS has been one of my lifelines! Bless you Sir Tobes!
Malhotra – ‘”For being big enough to say, “I know more now, so I’m changing my mind.”’. But not being big enough to apologise for not doing his job in the first place, which would have saved countless thousands of lives. No vote from me for this fella.
He’s a friend of Hunt & Hancock. Something smells a bit off to me too.
The 100,000 NHS workers who refused to get vaxxed, under threat of the sack. They faced down the government and won.
With you on this tof.
..I wholeheartedly second this because my wonderful sister-in-law did get fired from the care home she worked at….(they were devastated to lose her, always kept in touch and she’s now back at work…)
but I admire both her and my brother enormously for their determination to stand by their principles…. (My brother would have been sacked as well if they hadn’t u-turned!)
Much respect to them both.
Yes sorry I should have included all the care home workers who refused to comply.
Good one.
All the above:
AND every Care Worker who refused to be bullied into taking an experimental jab and who lost their job as a result. They are all heroes.
And a Dunces cap for Sajid Javid who couldn’t join the dots on the consequences of firing 100k care workers at a time of heightened need for social care, for the crime of not having a ‘vaccine’ that neither stopped you catching or transmitting the virus. Cap on, and in the corner Saj…
Ah yes! Sajid “So What?” Javid.
A thousand down votes for that arrogant, incompetent prick!
But what happened to an honour for David Icke? I didn’t bother to respond about this but am amazed to not see his name anywhere. One may not agree with his New Agey type beliefs, but with regard to everything that’s happened he’s been spot on and has been foretelling all this (not because of prophetic powers but because he sees what the globalists are up to!!) for many years. Not only that but he is also telling us what is yet to come as sure as bees is bees (CBDCs and Digital Passes amongst others). He truly is a brave man. It was hearing him being interviewed by Brian Rose on 6/5/20 that woke me up to our direction of travel.
Good point. Also, what about that stalwart Vernon Coleman, another one with forward vision.
Yes, Happy new year all.—— But just think for a minute back to the days before GB news. We had to sit and watch BBC preach liberal progressivism on TV and Radio, and SKY NEWS run their vomit inducing “Daily Climate Show” with that little digital thermometer behind the presenter slowly ticking up in millionths of a degree, relentlessly up up up up up from all the alleged global warming. Now we actually have a channel that says “Hey wait a minute you’re not getting away with all of that phony climate modelling crap that doesn’t match what is happening in the real world and then try to call it science”— “Your not going to get away with trying to tell people that all they have to do is get rid of coal gas and oil and replace it with wind and sun and everything will tick along just as before” BECAUSE IT WILL NOT.————Infact it will destroy your standard of living and leave you hugging blankets and keeping curtains closed tight just to stop from shivering as our silly western governments remove affordable energy and replace it with WIND then make you pay for all the turbines ——But we now have the magnificent Mark Steyn whose book “A Disgrace to the Profession” about the phony save the planet people which was exposing this eco socialist nonsense masquerading as science long before GB News was a twinkle in an eye. We now have “The Free Speech Union”. The Daily Sceptic” “Watts up with that” “Marc Morano” “Spiked” “CO2 Science” etc etc etc etc.—- I know most of the general public still switch on the BBC and SKY 6 O’clock News and go “Oh look at all those floods, that must be the climate change right enough, isn’t it terrible, I suppose I better get a Smart Meter”,, but increasingly people are starting to realise that stuff that comes out of the mouths of politicians and bureaucrats is not to be trusted and start to question things. And if we don’t question it fast enough our silly government will have spent one and a half trillion on NET ZERO which will not affect the climate one jot as we are less than 1% of global emissions of the dreaded CO2.— 90% of the world’s energy comes from fossil fuels and that will continue as we self-flagellate in the UK and get rid of ours. ——–I could rant on about the Vaccines, the Lockdowns, the Wokery running amok in all our institutions, but I suppose I should give anyone reading this a break and let you get back to finish off your Christmas Cadbury’s Roses…….All the best in ’23
Excellent rant loved it – seriously!
Have good New Year my friend.
Good rant. The Net Zero policy has to be the next debacle that we must tackle and Toby has moved the Daily Scepticonto that subject more and more with the excellent Chris Morrison.
Toby must have been top of the list – the man has been selfless in setting up the Sceptic and the Free Speech Union and having a wife and 4 kids must be a nightmare for him personally.
Well done, varmint. Sock it to the “elite” Barstewards who fondly imagine that their shit doesn’t stink!
Hear, hear with bells and whistles! Spot on, Varmint!
Me thinks you are being incredibly modest (though typically English!) Mr Young. Don’t know about anyone else but I certainly voted for you (Lord Young of Acton) for to (mis) quote Monty Python “Shining out like a shaft of gold when all around was dark”. And literally stopping me and many many others going completely nuts during these depressing times and right from the get go. I’m sure lots of people here can’t thank you and indeed all at TDS enough. Come on, tell us how many votes you got or at least let Will let us know.
Can we drop the Empire s%#t? It just goads the leftys into rants.
There is no Empire!
Honor by all means, but please change the name!
But it always helps when lefties are goaded. It spoi,ls their day and it cheers us up no end. The libertarians will never win if the dpression inducd on us by the left is not regularly relieved.
Some worthy nominees.
In my opinion, neither Julia Hartley-Brewer and Allison Pearson should be anywhere near this list. The number of times they both mentioned being “tripple jabbed” before they went onto criticise any part of the measures. In what part of a democracy does one need to have a medical procedure before you can speak out against tyranny?
Anyway my nominees would be:
– The Tron Church (Glasgow): they accepted me unmasked, we sang our hearts out and they did not capitulate to fear.
– The Irreverent Pod cast team: collectively, they got me through many a long night listening to their wise words and easy banter
Eileen
Certainly agree with you Eileen about Alison Pearson. I stopped listening to Planet Normal when she said she was all for vaccine passports – unforgivable in my book.
Stopped listening before I heard her mentioning her supper of vax passports but thats even more reason so switch off from that podcast and section in Telegraph.
MP Lee Anderson of my old constituency, Ashfield , for being an honest public servant, one of a dwindling few I sumize!
Mark Steyn definitely and Neil Oliver and Mike Yeadon. John O’Looney should get a mention too.
A late nomination: Simon Dolan. He was the one who started the fightback, with his legal action against the first lockdown. He crowdfunded it, but even after raising hundreds of thousands of pounds spent hundreds of thousands more of his own money on it.
The legal action ultimately failed, but his legal team did get those SAGE minutes published. And he gave hope to many of us who otherwise would have had none, enabling us to support him and start to challenge the covid authoritarianism.
I will always be grateful to him for what he did.
So much I’ve forgotten or should I say,buried. Great call out.
The handful of brave GPs who standing true to their ethical & moral principles of ‘First do no harm’ refused to inject the bioweapon, questioned the merit of the NPIs & asked for evidence of safety of the measures being imposed who were then sanctioned by the GMC: Dr Sam White, Dr Dave Cartland, Dr Teck Khong & Dr Doctor McHonk Honk.
The tiny handful of lawyers who have spoken up about Human Rights abuses, defended the medics & are now threatened by the SRA for doing so: Anna de Buisseret, Phil Hyland, Francis Hoar KC, Lawyer of Light
The wonderful souls who got together to form the People’s Health Alliance as a naturopathic alternative to the NHS & big pharma & who are encouraging us to take personal responsibility for our health.
All those on the list made a big difference as a group and not just as individuals. My thanks to them all.
However I do feel that the Daily Sceptic has helped to tie it all together and, yes, Toby is the driving force behind much of what has been achieved- a big pat on the back at least!
all those organising the protests and marches and other things such as checking on hospitals and doing videos of the events (not that I necessarily agree with all their views apart from opposition to the jabs, passports etc.) including Piers Corbyn, Fiona Hine, Debbie Hicks, Louise Creffield Fifi (organiser of Stand in the Park) Will Coleshill, the late Jeff Wyatt. apologies to the many I have probably omitted
I forgot to mention that I think Sadiq Khan deserves a very negative nomination for all he’s doing to destroy the lives of London’s drivers (and other stuff too).