- “Sweden Ditches Barbaric ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care for Kids” – The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare recently published new treatment guidelines which completely abandon recommendations that children with gender identity issues undergo so-called ‘gender-affirming care’, according to PJ Media.
- “The NHS waiting lists hit hardest by Covid” – The NHS England backlog hit a 7.2 million in October, the highest figure since records began 15 years ago. MailOnline identifies the hospital departments with the longest waiting lists.
- “Australia and Canada impose Covid tests on Chinese travellers” – The imposition of Covid Tests on Chinese travellers is growing around the world, according to MailOnline.
- “‘Veganuary’ can make you depressed, experts warn” – The Mail on Sunday reports that turning vegan comes with a higher risk of broken bones, mental illness and miscarriages.
- “Don’t let eco-zealots cancel the convenience of flying” – Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph makes a heartfelt case for not cancelling air travel.
- “Labour pledges to toughen ‘weakened and gutted’ online safety bill” – Shadow Culture Secretary Lucy Powell says she’s going to strengthen the Online Safety Bill if Labour win power, as reported in the Observer.
- “I’m an expert in public health. Which is why, aged 38, I’ve qualified as a personal trainer” – Devi Sridhar has got a new quiver to her bow. Does a new career in personal fitness beckon?
- “Police Scotland denies labelling paedophiles ‘minor-attracted people’” – Police Scotland tell MailOnline that when it referred to paedophiles as ‘minor-attracted people’ it was quoting from another report, not intentionally using a euphemism designed to downplay sexual offences involving children.
- “The raw truth about legal crowdfunding” – Tony Dowson demonstrates pretty conclusively in the Critic that Dr. Louise Raw’s efforts to crowdfund so Jeremy Clarkson can be prosecuted for being rude about Meghan Markle are doomed to failure.
- “It’s time to give the diversitycrats their marching orders” – Yours truly in Spiked asks whether we’ve finally reached peak woke and can expect the movement to lose momentum in 2023.
- “I understand ‘The Most Important Thing’ for our rulers” – Bill Rice Jr. looks at the year ahead.
- “Final thoughts on 2022” – Daily Sceptic contributor Russell David looks back at 2022.
- “The right to access cash will soon be enshrined in law” – Treasury Minister Andrew Griffith writes in the Telegraph about how the right to access cash will be enshrined in the Financial Services and Markets Act.
- “Lockdown madness has ended four decades of economic stability” – Liam Halligan identifies some disturbing economic trends in the Telegraph that he traces to the disastrous lockdown policy.
- “China’s zero-Covid policy has put the country into turmoil” – Ian Birrell documents the chaos in China resulting from the sudden abandonment of the zero-Covid policy.
- “NHS ‘seriously compromised’ over ‘gender ideology’, report claims” – In a foreword to a new report by Policy Exchange, Nimco Ali says the health service is ‘seriously compromised’ by ‘diminishing the rights of women and girls’.
- “Extinction Rebellion to halt disruptive protests as ‘nothing has changed’” – Extinction Rebellion has announced it will no longer be engaging in disruptive protests as they’ve made little difference, according to the Times. How could they, when the Government in Westminster is doing more or less everything XR wants?
- “Climate-related deaths: 2020-22” – Bjørn Lomborg has posted a graph on his Facebook page showing that 98% fewer people died in 2022 than a hundred years ago from climate-related natural disasters like floods, droughts, storms, wildfires, and extreme temperatures.
- “Durham University’s most generous benefactor has decided to donate to the Free Speech Union instead” – Watch me talking to Andrew Doyle on Free Speech Nation about how the FSU is tackling the free speech crisis in Britain’s universities.
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Will they ever have the guts to produce the report that shows that there is no evidence jabs and vax passports did anything?
“For much of 2021, official messaging was dominated by two rival discourses that I nicknamed Team Lockdown and Team Vaccine.”
Both “teams” clearly won and got their wish, but Team Vaccine is the 900-pound gorilla ruling the world.
All the world’s “Public Health” agencies are now Vaccine Promotion Agencies. Nor is this going to change.
Of course it would change in one day if some big mainstream media expose proved that the vaccines are “dangerous and ineffective.” But such an expose will never come.
Presenting the other team, Team What Exactly Is The Problem We’re Trying To Solve, got nowhere. The still, small voice of calm, eh…
A step in the right direction – better than nothing.
Good to see a variety of original pieces by different authors here.
Some have complained about the £5 charge to post (and some may be justified e.g. Swedenborg as he put in a lot more than he got out) but I look upon it as a contribution to the education of the waverers and those late to the sceptic side.
The site has to have some decent revenue streams to keep producing excellent and important content. Hopefully, the more revenue that comes in, we’ll get even more excellent content. I thought this was a good compromise/solution. People can still read the articles and the Comments for free. For a small donation, they can get the “added value” of posting.
I’ll also be interested to see who advertises here in the future. I’m going to try to support the companies that support a truth-seeking, free-speech-supporting company.
Hear, hear.
That’s a great idea BillRiceJr, regarding supporting the advertisers. I hadn’t thought about that but any company should deserve a certain amount of respect for having the courage to go against the grain. I like to think that in the long run, as the harms of Covid policy are more obviously demonstrated to the public, the courage of these advertisers will be rewarded. As sceptics, we have a huge battle on our hands but we can win eventually through taking lots of small, progressive steps – this being one small example perhaps.
Alienating a lot of regular contributors, as evidenced by the fact that the comment section is now basically dead, isn’t going to bring in much revenue.
Fair comment.
Re SW – clearly he put in a lot of effort and I respect that and his knowledge however, as I have posted before, I gave up reading the posts because graphs and charts and reams of statistics bore me. We won the evidence battle very early, arguably with the Diamond Princess.
SW might well believe that in view of his contributions he was entitled to a free subscription. The editors thought otherwise and they are right. I did not join in order to pour over statistics and if that was all that DS offered I would not have joined in the first place.
Fighting the Scamdemic has never really been about numbers, I agree. The numbers of the whole affair are pretty simple, imho. As I have said before, too many times, it was obvious to anyone with an ounce of scepticism that “something was up” in February and March 2020 when governments, global media, experts everywhere were making such a big deal – and almost entirely uniformly! – of decidedly unremarkable daily mortalities.
From then on, it was a battle for hearts, which people like us have been losing by trying to use reason in the face of an incredibly well-funded Hype Machine…
I don’t think we’ll ever win it. Humans stumble on, from one essentially self-inflicted and entirely unnecessary catastrophe to the next.
Anything by Eugyppius is well worth the read (also, nearly every article on DS despite some of the comments).
I will read this article later, after posting a raspberry to any on here who have been chunterinf at those of us who have supposedly vanished when a donation was requested. (I’m looking at YOU, hp and Cg….)
It’s taken me about a week to get access to comments a mere fortnight after donating considerably more than 5 quid (thank you for your help and patience, Will!)
Turns out it was an email mismatch problem, sorted after much anguish and many emails to and from mods. Others may have similar issues, so can we cut each other a bit of slack? Ta.
Good morning Jane!
I thought it might be something of the sort. I’m glad you got it sorted. I’m planning a post on the matter on the News Round-up section for today and hope to do some good on that front. I must admit I was guilty of intemperate posts on the matter once or twice. Still, by the same token, there are reasons why others didn’t have problems and didn’t realise the problems others were having. Speaking for myself, I always sign in again anyway and have long since memorised my password, so it was just a question of making sure I had made the required donation to comment. However, I understand that it is not the same for other people who, apparently, stay signed in permanently (among other things) and I apologise if one or two of my posts have been unfair to people.
Thanks, Hugh and good morning back at you.
Back to business….
This is important because the WHO etc are in the process of modifying their recommendations to include lockdowns as a valid pandemic response.
China’s WHO are a lot of vile scum. We need a campaign to break free of these types of rotters, same as we had with the Brussels (and Strassburg and Letzebuerg) regime. I supported this campaign (in 2015 among other times) but the late, great Christopher Booker had us well briefed that the EU simply enacted a lot of rules passed onto them by other international organisations (over which Norway had more influence than us as an independent member rather than just one small part of the EU).
“Ich schuetze dich”? More like “Ich bin nicht schuld”…