- “Sweden did exceptionally well during the COVID-19 pandemic with its open society” – No wonder the news media are totally silent about the data that show Sweden’s open society policy was what the rest of the world should have done, writes Peter C Gøtzsche in the Institute for Scientific Freedom.
- “Eco-cultist lawyers are undermining the rule of law” – A group of 120 ‘top lawyers’ have signed a ‘declaration of conscience‘ stating they will not prosecute ‘peaceful climate change protestors’. These misguided lawyers seem to consider the rule of law as just another impediment on the path to their utopia, writes Matthew Scott in the Spectator.
- “Word-Policing Away the Biggest Threat to Public Health” – The deeply disturbing silence surrounding the damning conclusions of the World Obesity Federation is one aspect of the assault on the freedom of speech, says Thorsteinn Siglaugsson.
- “U.K. trans critic Kellie-Jay Keen stopped by Auckland protestors” – Kelly-Jay Keen was doused with tomato juice at her Auckland rally on Saturday, part of an appalling attack that has only further damaged the credibility of the radical trans movement, the Mail reports.
- “JK Rowling blasts ‘mob’ at trans critic Kellie-Jay Keen rally” – JK Rowling has slammed trans rights activists in New Zealand, calling the scenes in Auckland “repellant”, the Mail reports.
- “Why did it take Seb Coe so long to see sense over transgender athletes?” – World Athletics has decided to protect women’s sport by restricting it to females. This decision should be welcomed by everyone, but why did it take them so long? asks Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “Farewell, Nicola Sturgeon. Nobody is going to miss you” – Spare me the eulogies. The outgoing first minister was a dreadful leader, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “JK Rowling brought down Sturgeon… and she’ll bring down Humza Yousaf too” – The SNP front-runner urgently needs to realise that gender self-ID is political Kryptonite – and drop the whole idea, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “I don’t want to live in a country where some politicians get to disqualify others” – Whatever you think of Boris Johnson, the process being used to investigate him is a travesty, writes Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Is it bonkers to see Charles as first republican King?” – The most progressive monarch Britain has ever seen is ironically being cancelled by a Leftist mob, writes Sarah Vine in the Mail on Sunday.
- “Andrew Bailey has nobody to blame for this inflation mess but himself” – Explaining the crisis as ‘greedflation’ is an embarrassment to the Bank of England, writes Michael Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “How necessary is Ofsted?” – The result of the latest Ofsted brouhaha is likely to be a typical English fudge, writes Toby Young in the Spectator.
- “Lessons rulers learned from Iraq? Make a better job of deceiving us” – Just as there were in 2003, there really are now people, high in American politics, who think that the USA is itself so good that it is entitled to make war on countries it disapproves of, directly or indirectly, writes Peter Hitchens in the Mail on Sunday.
- “America is being consumed by a terrifying new madness” – With Trump potentially facing arrest, the only question now is whether America is about to drive itself off a cliff, says Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
- “Woke extremists are taking over America’s colleges” – Even I, someone who some may assume would be on the side of so-called ‘social justice warriors,’ was bullied out of my dream job, writes Dr Tabia Lee in the Mail.
- “Three weeks to flatten the curve became three years to flatten the society” – Watch this montage of some of the most deranged moments from the Covid era.
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Good luck. I find that talking to demented fascist cult members is not an edifying experience. It simply confirms what the Rona scamdemic (and all the other scamdemics) confirmed about human gullibility, stupidity or criminality.
How can You have “Free Speech” on the issue of energy and climate when an army of brainwashed dreamers will likely storm the place and disrupt the whole thing? When it comes to issues like this speaking freely is not tolerated. Proponents of the “climate emergency” base their world view on faith and emotion and abandon facts and reason. It has become a secular religious cult and the cult members see themselves as climate missionaries going after all the heretic unbelievers.
I saw this superb self filmed little vid from an Ulster Farmer explaining in simple terms why the whole Methane from cows thing is another huge lie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmtW9ckRqt0
I thought a debate meant a motion and speakers for and against the motion. Aren’t all the advertised speakers on the same side?
As spelled out in the text, the motion is Net Zero or Not Zero: Can we Debate Climate Change? and speakers will presumably be presenting different viewpoints on that.
Do you think there will be any speakers making the case that you can’t debate climate change?
Possibly, although such a The world is lost! Let’s all just roll over an die! would seem pretty pointess.
Nothing should surprise us any more.
You will presumably be happy there is NEVER any debate on the BBC, despite all TV license payers funding it and perhaps a large chunk of them do not fall for the “climate crisis” politics masquerading as science. —-Infact there is little debate on most mainstream news (except a little on GB News and a little more on Fox) So you hardly have anything to complain about.
That’s a formal debate, at least one possible format for a formal debate.
I don’t care if there are not speakers on both sides – they can use the time to better prepare their approach to defeating the evil collectivist plans to impoverish ordinary people and destroy Western civilisation.
Anyway no debate is needed – we know that it’s not a subject that can be freely debated in the mainstream, and as opposition to Nut Zero grows the desperation and the crackdown will intensify as the collectivists see the wheels coming off their wagon – a pattern that we are seeing repeated everywhere (but I am just a far-right, racist, climate denier, covid denier, granny-killer, anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist, Putin apologist etc. who is a threat to democracy).
Nice one.
Debating climate alarmists is like debating with Bolsheviks in Russia on the merits of liberty in 1917. These ppl are beyond reason, the only thing that would make them see it would be living in Siberia in winter without fossil fuel. I admire Toby’s eternal optimism which this site is a testimony to, but the left do not have better angels to appeal to.
Or like when two Jehovah’s witnesses arrive at your door with their little leaflet. There is no point in discussing anything with them. They have already decided what is true. Just as the climate cultists have.
I had a couple knock on the door, I answered and invited them in, offered them tea and biscuits, then sat down with them and said ‘Right, what is it you want to talk about’, and the older one said ‘We don’t know, we’ve never got this far before.’.
I like your style Neil – presumably you then got into an interesting discussion?
Not really, its just a joke. Actually I don’t feel bad about making it as my parents (rest their souls) were in the church, and that included me too until I reached the age of reasoning about 13, and saw through it all. 50 years a sceptic and a rebel..!
Jehovahs Witnesses seemed to be pretty benevolent in those days, but from what I hear they have gone full on cult since. I try not to get close to anyone who wants to peddle their flavour of religion now a days. Saves me the time for telling them to get lost.
We used to talk to a JW couple a couple of decades ago. They were quite sweet. I patronisingly felt sorry for them as they seemed more like lost souls than I was (and I was and am pretty lost myself). They were under a lot of pressure, and their marriage had caused problems in their families (I don’t think either of them came from JW families). I do admire their persistence and willingness to give up their time and as do-gooders go (I’m not keen on do-gooders) I think they are not that dangerous – far less dangerous than nut zero fanatics.
That’s because they have no actual power. But they’re still an eschatololigcal sect believing in imminent doom whose members (figuratively spoken) chained to the more than dubious operations of the Watchtower Society. I certainly wouldn’t want to be one. And I certainly also don’t want to find out what the Watchtower Society would be capable of if it could forcibly change society to its liking, like the official Christian churches could in the past.
Those are good points.
Yes your joke was a funny one, but like you I do not tolerate anyone peddling religion at my door (any religion). There is no point in discussing anything with people already indoctrinated who think their way is the only way and that the rest of us would be best advised to think the same. ——-But now we also have secular religions to contend with like radical environmentalism and climate change dogma, all based mostly on faith and emotion where anyone not subscribing to the cult is a heretic and a sinner.
There should be televised debates about all the current contested issues: climate change and net zero, vaccines, excess deaths, trans issues, immigration, etc.
The BBC mostly or completely avoids most of these issues, they want people to hear only one side, and yet claims to be unbiased.
Anyone who is opposed to debate should not be trusted.
You don’t have debates where you want truth exposed. ——That is exactly why Mann would not reveal his data and methodology so McIntyre could check his work. ——Political agenda’s masquerading as science do not tolerate debate. No tyranny does.