- “Young people at risk of disease as concerning numbers miss out on life-saving vaccines” – Uptake of adolescent vaccines offered to young people in school year nine are yet to return to pre-pandemic levels, according to the U.K. Health Security Agency.
- “Chicago must rehire, pay back wages to workers punished over COVID-19 vaccination mandate: Judge” – Then Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot implemented a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for city employees in October of 2021, reports Fox News.
- “The disturbing truth about ‘safe’ vaccines for mothers-to-be” – In TCW, Alex Kriel and Dr. David Bell analyse Pfizer data published under an FOI request and uncover red flags relating to fertility and safety in pregnancy.
- “Chinese censorship is quietly rewriting the COVID-19 story” – Under Government pressure, Chinese scientists have retracted studies and withheld or deleted data. The censorship has stymied efforts to understand the virus, write Mara Hvistendahl and Benjamin Mueller in the New York Times.
- “New JCVI advice for high risk 0-4s” – HART Group responds to the latest vaccine advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation: “This product should under no circumstances be recommended for children.”
- “How does Cochrane normally handle wide confidence intervals?” – Prof. Vinay Prasad reckons the Cochrane Review Editor-in-Chief has caved to pressure from mask zealots. He elaborates with a Substack post that explains a recent pre-print he co-authored.
- “Arcturus already makes up one in 40 new Covid cases” – The variant, thought to be the most infectious yet, is spreading rapidly in India. Health chiefs have now detected 135 cases in the U.K., according to MailOnline.
- “Climate protesters gather in Parliament Square as fossil fuel deadline passes” – Four days of activism led by Extinction Rebellion fail to elicit pledge from Government to ban new oil and gas projects, reports the Guardian.
- “‘Be afraid Australia’: Climate change the ‘holy writ’” – Australian Sky News host Chris Kenny highlights parts of the Defence Strategic Review that should be “deeply worrying”.
- “Why are we allowing solar panels to swallow up our farmland?” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark challenges the wisdom of covering the countryside in solar panels.
- “The inhumanity of the green agenda” – The ‘sustainability’ regime is impoverishing the world, argues Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
- “Vandals spray ‘gas-guzzling’ vehicles with ‘this machine kills kids’ slogan” – Protesters daub SUVs in wealthy part of Bristol with phrases to shame “climate criminal” owners, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak pledges to protect women’s rights” – The Prime Minister pledges his support for MPs Miriam Cates and Rosie Duffield, who joined forces across the political divide in the battle to defend single-sex spaces, reports the Express.
- “Oxford students call for feminist Kathleen Stock to be no-platformed at Union over trans views” – University’s LGBTQ+ society says it’s “appalled” the “transphobic” academic has been invited to share her views on gender identity theory, reports the Telegraph.
- “Tucker Carlson out at Fox News” – Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News, after reigning over the network as one of its most beloved hosts for nearly a decade, reports DailyMail.com.
- “Was Tucker Carlson getting too big for his boots?” – Gossip Columnist Steerpike explores the reasons for Tucker Carlson’s abrupt Fox News departure in the Spectator.
- “CNN anchor furious after being fired” – Don Lemon has hit out at the network after his firing, which came after accusations of misogyny and misbehaviour, reports the BBC.
- “Media Contagion” – Latter-day journalism is helping to realise its own false narratives, says Steve Salerno in Quillette.
- “The media needs urgent and drastic reform” – Whatever the reason, it is abundantly clear that the media has failed its mission. It must be reformed, immediately and from the ground up, says Thorsteinn Siglaugsson via Substack.
- “Why is Netflix treating the Boston bombers as victims?” – The woke elites’ pity for radical Islamists is just nauseating now, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Nigel Farage warns ‘the Remainers are back in charge’ after Raab resignation debacle” – Dominic Raab’s resignation and cabinet reshuffle means there are almost equal numbers of 2016 Remainers as Brexiteers, according to the Express.
- “Keir Starmer signals end of Diane Abbott’s Labour career over ‘anti-Semitic’ comments” – Former Shadow Home Secretary faces calls to resign over “appalling” remarks as Labour figures insist there can be no “hierarchy of racism”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bud Light suffers ‘staggering’ 17% sales plunge amid boycott” – The beer brand has experienced a major decline in business following a marketing tie-up with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, reports the New York Post.
- “Antifa members arrested after allegedly attacking protestors outside of ‘family-friendly’ drag show” – On Sunday, three members of Antifa were arrested outside of a Fort Worth, Texas family-friendly drag show after allegedly attacking protestors of the event, reports the PostMillennial.
- “Senior official at Arts Council England taking the organisation to an employment tribunal” – Watch Denise Fahmy explain to Andrew Doyle on GB News how she was “harassed and victimised” due to gender-critical beliefs.
'He felt it was an anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ organisation.'@DeniseFahmy explains how she was 'harassed and victimised' due to gender-critical beliefs.
— GB News (@GBNEWS) April 23, 2023
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Great Mysteries of the World No. 428:
Yet still they come
A brilliant analysis of where we are.
“a country where the regime loathes its people and labors quietly to end them.”
And still the majority of the people who do vote cast a vote for the regime – what fools!
The British way has been to turn a blind eye to the various minorities knowing that they will in the end turn on themselves.
This is happening in the gender world where trans folk are fighting with the gay folk.
The Companies who hire by diversity not competence are experiencing practical problems causing them to lose large sums of money.
The save the newts, bats, nettles etc Green groups will fight each other to prevent the building of new homes or infrastructure.
The costs for the non medical staff will soon cause problems for the costs of the medical staff.
The Muslim vote will split into sectarian sides and sectarian cities.
So a new Lebanon by the Atlantic.
The Met Police’s recruitment advertisement the author refers to follows the Home Office’s 2020 recruiting campaign (under a Tory government) which featured adverts on commercial radio stations inviting people to join to ‘make a difference in the community’ in respect of a variety of stated inequalities. The police as social worker. That is, until required as Praetorian Guard.
Pimlico has observed, as does the author, that at the same time the police are friends of criminals, the state aggregates to them ever more powers. The Roman Empire had no police force, only a Praetorian Guard.
It is easy to forget that England did not spring fully formed out of the German Sea. The tribes and clans who arrived by boat in the 4th and 5th centuries did not know what would grow from themselves. To 6th century Northumbrian monks, Sussex was like the ‘darkest Africa’ referred to by Victorian explorers. Just how alien this was can be grasped from works such as Thomas Williams’s Lost Realms.
The state of the Church of England today, its congregations and clergy, is worthy of deeper examination. A personal familiarity with these individuals reveals that they believe that Jesus of Nazareth really promoted modern liberal progressivism. He would certainly have stood on the white cliffs at Dover, welcoming migrants (despite various Gospel passages that would certainly not supply any evidence of that).
Not only that, but that a person must be converted to this ideology before they can become a follower of Jesus. And that without it, they cannot be saved. This is, of course, never stated openly, for it is not so much a belief consciously formulated, as an air breathed from somewhere else. Yet speak to any of these individuals and they reveal all this either by their superior attitude or by a contemptuous remark.
One pair of Christians known to me, both middle-aged professionals of the educated class, deliberately put it to me (a person from London) that there are more non-white than white Londoners. This was said to wound since they believe I might be uncomfortable with this state of affairs.
The sense of their moral superiority in obviously approving such conditions of demography coupled with their palpable distain of the ‘Little (white) Londoner’ curiously at odds with the Apostle Paul’s exhortation to his converts that, as followers of Christ, they be charitable and respectful in their dealings with others, even with those with whom they disagree, and certainly with fellow Christians. As Paul said, Whoever despises, despises not man but God.
British history is still occasionally useful to the regime. The print and online media regularly regale readers with stories of Russian bombers being intercepted ‘heading for Britain’. Shades of the Battle of Britain.
Churchill is quoted by a foreign president whose country is at war with an invader and who is canvassing the UK’s support.
Britain’s long (really, intermittent) history of being ‘generous’ in hosting refugees is trotted out to put the country into an emotional headlock. Such managing the message has been deployed before. In December 1938 the Dundee Evening Standard printed a piece called ‘The Foreign Bits of Britain’ at the moment when Czech refugees from Sudetenland were about to be settled on the west coast of Scotland.
The 1934 film, The Scarlet Pimpernel, made much of Shakespeare’s sceptred isle at the moment when an anti-Christian regime, and one potentially hostile to Britain, had come to power in Germany as one had in Revolutionary France. But what happened in 2024? A peasants revolt in the sceptic isle?
Thanks to the Daily Sceptic for this powerful essay by Joshua Trevino.
Beautiful.
The final sentence has brought tears to my eyes.
“…in a world where England is finished and dead,
I do not wish to live.”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/democracy-in-decay-the-system-is-no-longer-believed-in-by-the-people/
John Wycliffe at TCW with his appraisal of the state of Britain today.
“the main takeaway from recent events is that very large numbers of people – well beyond an idiotic, violent fringe – now realise we do not live in a democracy in any meaningful sense. There will be a reckoning that the current system will not survive. Let us hope and pray it will be a peaceful one.”
“… the civil unrest in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland across the past two weeks.”
AND Republic of Ireland.
Materialism always has to run its course. Because of course the moment you surrender to materialism is the moment when all material comfort stops. And then you are reminded of other realms. If you are wise then at that point you take guidance from beauty. If you don’t then the beautiful will still prevail.
Great article Joshua – Even though we are time poor in this modern world, I look forward to the Daily Sceptic email and always find the time to read some of the articles in depth, such great work. Thank you – we must support such balanced and intellectual output! Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more as they say – we must all put in that effort to maintain what we have and what has been passed down by our heroic, hard working ancestors.
The Secret People – GK Chesterton
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget;
For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet.
There is many a fat farmer that drinks less cheerfully,
There is many a free French peasant who is richer and sadder than we.
There are no folk in the whole world so helpless or so wise.
There is hunger in our bellies, there is laughter in our eyes;
You laugh at us and love us, both mugs and eyes are wet:
Only you do not know us. For we have not spoken yet.
The fine French kings came over in a flutter of flags and dames.
We liked their smiles and battles, but we never could say their names.
The blood ran red to Bosworth and the high French lords went down;
There was naught but a naked people under a naked crown.
And the eyes of the King’s Servants turned terribly every way,
And the gold of the King’s Servants rose higher every day.
They burnt the homes of the shaven men, that had been quaint and kind,
Till there was no bed in a monk’s house, nor food that man could find.
The inns of God where no man paid, that were the wall of the weak.
The King’s Servants ate them all. And still we did not speak.
And the face of the King’s Servants grew greater than the King:
He tricked them, and they trapped him, and stood round him in a ring.
The new grave lords closed round him, that had eaten the abbey’s fruits,
And the men of the new religion, with their bibles in their boots,
We saw their shoulders moving, to menace or discuss,
And some were pure and some were vile; but none took heed of us.
We saw the King as they killed him, and his face was proud and pale;
And a few men talked of freedom, while England talked of ale.
A war that we understood not came over the world and woke
Americans, Frenchmen, Irish; but we knew not the things they spoke.
They talked about rights and nature and peace and the people’s reign:
And the squires, our masters, bade us fight; and scorned us never again.
Weak if we be for ever, could none condemn us then;
Men called us serfs and drudges; men knew that we were men.
In foam and flame at Trafalgar, on Albuera plains,
We did and died like lions, to keep ourselves in chains,
We lay in living ruins; firing and fearing not
The strange fierce face of the Frenchmen who knew for what they fought,
And the man who seemed to be more than a man we strained against and broke;
And we broke our own rights with him. And still we never spoke.
Our patch of glory ended; we never heard guns again.
But the squire seemed struck in the saddle; he was foolish, as if in pain,
He leaned on a staggering lawyer, he clutched a cringing Jew,
He was stricken; it may be, after all, he was stricken at Waterloo.
Or perhaps the shades of the shaven men, whose spoil is in his house,
Come back in shining shapes at last to spoil his last carouse:
We only know the last sad squires rode slowly towards the sea,
And a new people takes the land: and still it is not we.
They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords,
Lords without anger or honour, who dare not carry their swords.
They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes;
They look at our labour and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
And the load of their loveless pity is worse than the ancient wrongs,
Their doors are shut in the evening; and they know no songs.
We hear men speaking for us of new laws strong and sweet,
Yet is there no man speaketh as we speak in the street.
It may be we shall rise the last as Frenchmen rose the first,
Our wrath come after Russia’s wrath and our wrath be the worst.
It may be we are meant to mark with our riot and our rest
God’s scorn for all men governing. It may be beer is best.
But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet.
Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.
A very powerful essay and a good read, in the sense of it hits the spot. But depressing and anger-inducing at the same time. I despair for our country but will resist the pygmies who have brought us to this state in every way I can.
The seed was British.
The seed is British, because a seed has no form and no time.
The seed is original, and originality holds the pattern that form must act out.