- “Besieged Boris Johnson suggests he may refuse to accept partygate verdict” – The former Prime Minister is defiant as he dismisses allegations he misled Commons as “complete nonsense”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ex-Tony Blair spinner Alastair Campbell branded ‘sick’ and ‘beyond help’ by Tories after he questions how ill Boris Johnson really was when he caught Covid in 2020 and spent three days in intensive care” – The ex-Labour PR chief, famed for his potty mouth and angry outbursts, responded to a follower who asked “does anyone actually believe that Johnson nearly died of Covid?” by saying “no”, reports the Mail.
- “Nobody wants to confront the truth about lockdown” – Three years on from the original decision, we’ve learnt almost nothing, says Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “Still Open Season on Scientists” – Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan on the unsatisfactory response of the New York Times to their complaint.
- “The U.K. Government’s attempt to frighten people into Covid protective behaviours was at odds with its scientific advice” – Susan Michie and other pro-lockdown psychologists claim in the BMJ that the fear porn was all the Government and ran contrary to the scientific advice it was being given.
- “Inside the PPE waste scandal – and the top civil servants who still think it was money well spent” – Bought during the pandemic, a huge stockpile of protective equipment now lies unwanted, and half of it is set to be burned, reports the Telegraph.
- “Excess deaths, correlation study” – Watch Dr. John Campbell discuss a new study that finds a link between the 2021 COVID-19 vaccination uptake in Europe and 2022 excess all-cause mortality.
- “Tucker: This new footage of Dr. Fauci is amazing” – Watch on Fox News recently unearthed footage of Dr. Fauci in 2021 speaking with D.C. residents about the Covid vaccines.
- “World Energy Data Confirm Fossil Fuels Will Dominate Future Global Energy Use” – “The OECD nations cannot stop this from happening and, despite their nefarious efforts otherwise, cannot conceal this global energy growth and fuel use (as well as emissions growth) reality,” writes Larry Hamlin in WUWT.
- “How Elon Musk’s tweets unleashed a wave of hate” – The BBC’s Disinformation Correspondent Marianna Spring writes about herself again as she claims Musk’s response to her investigation “highlights how abuse is thriving on the platform”.
- “Nobody mention crime fighting – Casey Report marks policing’s total capitulation to the Left” – Robert James in TCW says the “equality and diversity monomaniacs” have grabbed their opportunity to “complete their takeover of the capital’s policing”. He highlights one nugget worthy of special mention: “London’s communities of colour are both over-policed and under-protected.” Right.
- “Guilt by association” – Petra Bueskens in Spectator Australia writes that when Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and progressive party leaders such as the Greens’ Adam Bandt define gender critical feminists as associating with ‘neo-Nazis’, “we have a gross misrepresentation at play and one that anyone participating in this charade should be ashamed of”. Petra also writes on the subject in UnHerd.
- “Humza Yousaf claims U.K. Government is ‘foreign’ in final SNP leadership debate” – The frontrunner to succeed Nicola Sturgeon also says he will go to court to protect her gender reforms, reports the Telegraph. I guess he missed the bit where those reforms brought down his predecessor.
- “Detransitioned Teen Girl Sues Kaiser Permanente Over Gender Transition Gone Wrong” – A detransitioned teen is suing Kaiser Permanente hospital because doctors removed her breasts during her transgender procedure when she was 13, the Epoch Times reports.
- “Barbie Kardashian and Ireland’s trans madness” – Why are politicians so incapable of answering basic questions about biology, asks Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “The chilling truth about my cancellation” – Claire Fox in the Telegraph says she wasn’t the victim when a university vetoed her talk: “It was the young people failed by snowflake adults.” Claire is also interviewed in Spiked.
- “‘It’s hardly an abuse of someone’s rights.’ ‘It’s a breach of free speech!’” – James Schneider and Toby clash on GB News over whether it was right for a university debating society to ‘no-platform’ Baroness Claire Fox because she re-tweeted a transgender joke.
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”Look, Beth, for us accepting donations is not corruption, it’s an act of self sacrifice. The difference between us and the Tories is that we are righteous. We are on the right side of history. We fight for good causes. We are nice people.”
It’s all just theatre. Just like during “covid” when the Tories were found to have been partying, the general reaction wasn’t “hmm, perhaps they are lying to us about the big stuff too” it was “tut tut they should be following their own rules”. There’s no hope.
A Next Tuesday is still a Next Tuesday and Kneel is the definition of a Next Tuesday.l
I was actually having a visceral reaction to the announcement that Gove was going to be editor of the Spectator.
A man without integrity and a lockdown fanatic.
I cancelled my subscription.
Lionel Shriver will soon be cancelling her membership too, I don’t doubt.
Mr Scotch Egg. Despicable man.
The Spectator and the former editor were vaguely sceptical of lockdowns – I remember they broke a story where they had asked SAGE why they always gave the worst case scenario wrt “Covid” and they said “well the government never asked for realistic guesstimates”, around the time of the moronic variant.
I’ve been struggling with it for quite a while, but after subscribing for 34 years I think that’s me done.
Sorry, but the Sky interview looks to me like a big nothing sandwich.
The whole freebies thing is a stupid, ridiculous distraction from stuff that actually matters.
Asking “Do you get the optics?” half a dozen times is not hard hitting journalism.
Hard hitting journalism would be getting into mRNA vaccine damage and how pharma companies attack and intimidate anyone who raises the issue. It would be questioning what the point of Net Zero policies in the UK when it clearly makes no difference to the thing they claim changes the climate. It would be finding out how many new immigrants the government plans to let in next year and then holding them to account over it. It would mean defending free speech against a government determined to take it away. It would mean standing up for ordinary people rather than for the establishment and authority.
This silly exchange is indeed about optics but not regarding Starmer. It’s Sky trying to give the impression they hold power to account by going after trivialities rather than actual established power. (Which they can’t obviously because they are corrupt and completely owned by established corporate and state power.)
Yes, and just asking “Do you get the optics” is like saying, “we forgive you, next time don’t be so obvious about it, we have advisors who can make sure you don’t get caught, speak to me after to get a few telephone numbers, wink wink”
100% and baffled as to how anyone who reads DS would take issue with what you have written
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/25/letby-hospital-baby-delivery-out-of-horror-film-thirlwall/
Not for a minute do I minimise the absolute tragedy of losing a child, let alone two under any circumstances. It seems though after going through the utter horror show of the birth, which is incomprehensible in today’s day and age in a supposedly ‘civilised’ country they still blame Letby. I suppose that it was necessary to focus blame on one person despite relating the disgusting surroundings and the utter incompetence of the staff that were googling what to do!
I’ve always said that I’ve experienced the best and the worst of the NHS and again in the past couple of weeks I’ve seen the best and mediocre sides of it with Mr B. The NHS needs dismantling and starting again, something that will never happen if it continues being treated as a sacred cow.
Unbelievable. A Prime Minister earning £167,000 pa with ALL bills paid, every single one, cannot afford to buy his own knickers. What an utter, utter disgrace.