- “Huw Edwards hit by fresh allegations from BBC staff” – The Times has the latest on the Huw Edwards sex scandal, including the Met Police ruling out an investigation, the Sun saying that it “will not publish further allegations”, and the BBC Director-General promising a “duty of care to all involved”.
- “The four young people’s allegations about the BBC presenter” – Four young people have made allegations against Huw Edwards, the BBC presenter at the centre of a sex scandal.
- “Huw Edwards hit with fresh claims of ‘inappropriate behaviour’” – Huw Edwards faces fresh allegations of inappropriate behaviour from his own BBC colleagues, reports the Mail.
- “The Sun has every right to ‘dig for dirt’” – The BBC presenter scandal has exposed just how much the woke elites hate the Sun and press freedom, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “The BBC presenter scandal reveals the narcissism of the media” – Journalists love nothing more than gossiping about other journalists, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “The Great Covid Laundering Scheme” – The U.S. CDC has systematically misclassified Covid on death certificates, which clearly list different conditions as the underlying cause of death, reports the Brownstone Institute.
- “Deer passed mutated Covid back to people” – A new study suggests animals could cause viral variants that are no longer widespread among human populations to persist, reports the Telegraph.
- “The trillion-dollar grift: Inside the greatest scam of all time” – The pandemic relief was the biggest bailout in history, and it opened the door to wide-scale fraud the likes of which no one had ever seen, says Sean Woods in Rolling Stone.
- “Dengue could become endemic in U.K. from ‘risky’ study, experts fear” – Londoners could be injected with the infectious tropical virus, dengue, as part of a proposed study that experts say carries an “inevitable” risk of onward community infections, reports the Mail.
- “Getting tough on asylum seekers” – The whitewashing of Disney murals is about the extent of our Mickey Mouse Government’s efforts in deterring asylum seekers and reducing the migrant population, says Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Laws designed to stop eco-zealots could be torn up by Labour” – According to leaked proposals, laws designed to stop eco-zealots from causing chaos could be torn up by Labour, reports the Mail.
- “Elon Musk is the tonic anti-ambition Britain needs – but refuses to take” – Britain should celebrate that Tesla is displaying an interest in the British electricity market. So why is Elon Musk’s latest intervention being met with such scepticism, asks Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Just Stop Oil launches ‘mum’s march’ in Hamleys” – Just Stop Oil has targeted Hamleys toy shop as part of a ‘mum’s march’ protest, as the group continues to cause disruption in central London, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain should place a big bet on the petrol engine” – While the world goes electric, Renault-Geely’s €7 billion joint venture in the U.K. bets on petrol engines, says the Spectator.
- “Ten climate lies on 35th anniversary of global warming warning” – Several groups questioning the claims of global warming doomsayers have recently released their list of the latest media lies on the issue to the Washington Examiner.
- “Why NATO shouldn’t let Ukraine in just yet” – There are good reasons to favour Ukraine’s inclusion in NATO, says Charles Lipson in the Spectator, but not while the war is ongoing.
- “The EU’s Orwellian crackdown on the media” – The European Media Freedom Act is another thinly veiled crusade against Poland and Hungary, says Norman Lewis in Spiked.
- “Social media shutdowns might be happening in the EU with new law” – Techradar examines the implications for free speech under the new EU Digital Services Act.
- “EU Commissioner says social media ‘didn’t do enough’ to censor French riot posts” – European Commissioner Thierry Breton’s criticism of social media platforms’ content control during the French riots has sparked concerns among free speech advocates, reports Reclaim The Net.
- “Amazon makes first Big Tech challenge to EU online content rules” – Amazon is challenging its inclusion in a group of companies subject to tough European Union online content rules, in a move that may prompt other tech giants to follow suit, reports Reuters.
- “MEP Christine Anderson to sue YouTube for censoring her videos” – German Member of the European Parliament Christine Anderson has decided to sue YouTube after two of her videos were blocked in September of last year for being critical of Big Pharma, says Reclaim The Net.
- “‘The culture wars are one battle Rishi could win’” – “A culture war is raging,” says Stephen Glover in the Mail, “but the Tories haven’t yet launched so much as a plastic battleship.”
- “Speech we loathe is speech we must defend” – Government cannot deputise the private sector to act as a censor, says Bret Stephens in the New York Times.
- “The Archbishop of political correctness” – Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has stuck his nose into the campus-censorship debate, says Frank Furedi in Spiked.
- “Joe Biden’s Ministry of Truth” – The Biden administration’s censorship regime could be the greatest threat to free speech in American history, warns Sean Collins in Spiked.
- “In defence of ‘Anons’” – Jordan Peterson is wrong to call for restrictions on anonymity, says Mark Granza in IM–1776.
- “Brazil’s CBDC pilot contains code that can freeze or reduce funds, developer claims” – Pedro Magalhães, a blockchain developer who claims to have reverse-engineered Brazil’s pilot central bank digital currency, says he has found code that would allow accounts to be frozen or drained at will, reports Cointelegraph.
- “Don’t kill cash” – Post Office Banking Director Martin Kearsley on why he is supporting GB News’s Don’t Kill Cash campaign.
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They could run into trouble with local authorities re planning permission if it goes on too long. It’s a grey area, but browse though things like this: https://www.britishdwelling.co.uk/posts/do-i-need-planning-permission-for-creating-a-home-business-in-a-residential-area It may be that if they only work online, with no physical visitors, that they will get away with it. Then again, property insurance could be affected as well, perhaps even their energy supply deal.
Entitled petulant tw*ts. The union is in the wrong here. Two days a week working from home is pretty good, especially if you can choose which days.
Instruct them once, then dismiss any who refuse. Then sack any who go on strike. Our state is bloated and should be trimmed. They’re far too comfortable and have little idea what working in the private sector is like. They’d be out on their ears if they made similar ‘demands’.
I go into the office every day and my tax pays their wages. I am in effect one of their employers and if they are not going to work for the benefit of this country and me then they must find another job.
“Dear boss, I won’t be coming into work today as I have a bad back”
The return of the trade unions, next gripe will be “All out brothers, the toilet paper isn’t soft enough “
And once the unions have secured this increase in holiday rights they will be demanding tax free allowances for “work from home costs” such as bed depreciation – spending too much time therein – extra heating, lighting and brewing up, nanny services because they cannot manage children and work etc.
In short this will become a bloody free for all as the country collapses around this parasite class.
Any sensible person couldn’t really argue with anything you’ve just stated!
Thanks Dinger
“The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian one is……a matter of time” Ayn Rand. ———-Are we turning into Rome? Is western civilisation collapsing in a sea of welfare and entitlement? —–Yep—–We are drowning in Wokery, Political Correctness, Equality, Diversity, Race, Gender and Climate Tyranny. ——–But the sad thing is as we saw the other day in Switzerland with those silly ladies seeking “protection” from the climate that people are clamouring for this tyranny.
Three days in the office is a good deal.
Nevertheless, the government does not help its case by having done little to improve national infrastructure.
Getting to work in large cities is difficult, time consuming and expensive.
Furthermore, open plan offices are, frankly, unpleasant and distracting places in which to work.
The DEI madness means that employees are treading on eggshells at every meeting; speaking out, discussion, constructive criticism are difficult.
And working within conurbations is unhealthy; commute times make exercising difficult during the working week.
I do not believe that employers or Human Remains departments prioritise the best interests of the workforce.
Consequently, I have some sympathy with the PCS position.
Productivity could be improved dramatically if the civil service was a great deal smaller and better motivated through improved working conditions.
Your third sentence reads like a reason why they relocated many Departments outside London over the years. Another fly on the wall could be if the Health & Safety evangelists come round to inspect the houses of those working at home; no shortage of paperwork for them, you’d have thought.
20% in London, the rest in Bristol, Swansea, Newcastle, Leeds and so on.
“3 days in the office is a good deal” —–No it isn’t. ——Employment is a good deal.
**Off-topic incoming** ( If the professional whingers can handle it. )
Today this terrible tragedy occurred in Australia. What makes it even more horrendous is that the psycho even stabbed a little baby. They haven’t released his identity and I’m not going to jump to any conclusions because going by his picture you can’t say confidently he’s Muslim, but in a way it doesn’t matter because it’s the same outcome. People have tragically died at the hands of some warped sicko, who fortunately was exterminated by a policewoman;
”The knifeman who killed five women and one man during a rampage in Sydney today was ‘known to police’.
Six people were killed and three more stabbed during the horrific attack in that left multiple people critically injured including a mother and her baby on the start of the Australian school holidays.
Four women and one man died at the scene and another woman died in hospital. Other victims critically injured in the attack at Bondi Junction Westfield mall at around 3.30pm local time included a mother and her nine-month-old baby.
The attacker was in the mall at 3pm but left and returned at 3.20pm with a knife. He attacked the mother and child at 3.30pm before police arrived at 3.45pm and the mall was placed under lockdown at 4pm.
The baby is undergoing surgery in hospital. The motive was not immediately clear and police have not ruled out terrorism.
He was shot and killed by a hero female police officer, who apprehended the knifeman alone after being on patrol nearby.
The Sydney knifeman was a 40-year-old and his attack is not thought to be terror-related, New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb said.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13303971/Knifeman-goes-rampage-Sydney-Four-feared-dead-shopping-centre-stabbing-spree-attacker-shot-killed-police.html
Iran has now launched drones and cruise missiles at Israel. Reports say they’re being launched from Yemen also, so who knows what news we’ll wake up to tomorrow? But don’t they just shoot these things down? How big of a threat is this? I really have no clue..
”For the first time in the State of Israel’s history, Iran has begun a direct attack on Israel, launching dozens of UAVs towards the Jewish state, US reports said.
A UAV launched from Iran would reach Israel in approximately nine minutes, while a cruise missile would take two hours to reach Israel, and a ballistic missile would take nine minutes.
At around 11:20p.m., a second round of UAVs was launched from Iranian territory towards Israel. Later reports said cruise missiles were also launched towards Israel.
A security source has reported that UAVs are being launched at Israel not only from Iran, but from other countries as well.
Security sources estimate that the UAVs will arrive in Israel between 2:00a.m. and 4:00a.m. on Sunday morning.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/388424
Why do you think you need to tell us this news, Mogwai? Do you think we are all cut off from all sources of news apart somehow from the Daily Sceptic?
Perhaps you can answer me this: whenever our huxley posts anything off-topic nobody seems to have an issue but whenever I do people seem to have a problem with it and take exception. As predicted, here you are, having a whinge. Why is that?
Also, as predicted, the news about Iran is in the Round-up this morning. So will you be making the same complaint to the DS team, that you are capable of getting the same news elsewhere?
I would never dream of challenging a fellow poster on what they choose to post, it’s downright rude, but it would seem that I’m foolish for holding other people to my standards. Haters gonna hate, just like whingers gonna whinge. Can’t win.
I am with you Mogs. My view about Off-T posts is that if I come across articles that I consider may be of interest to the DS readership then I post them and I tend to post on the current thread otherwise I know they will be missed. I have on some days the time to trawl the other sites I subscribe to and if my researches turn up interesting info I post it here.
Surely the least we should do is support each other and DS in particular.
Agreed, Huxtable. I was just intrigued as to why you seem to get a free pass but the ‘miserable git collective’ appear to single me out for doing the exact same thing, and I seldom do my off-territory dumps any more. I taught you well. ;-o LOL
I think, seasoned posters that we are by now, it’s rather self-evident on this site that there are plenty of little ‘Blue Meanies’ who get off on either moaning for the sake of moaning or following us around, like an unmerry band of obsessive haters, just to write goady, spiteful and generally unnecessary remarks, purely because they’ve taken a personal dislike to us and are triggered whenever they see our names. I laugh at somebody with such messed up psychology! Where to begin…
Whenever I see any of my haters’ names I just scroll past ( and I guess I have yet another addition now, lol ) because why would I waste my time? It’s telling that they’re incapable of doing the same. Last time I looked nobody is obliged to read anyone else’s posts, let alone react in a rude or disrespectful manner. Go figure!
“I taught you well. ;-o LOL.”
Indeed.
And I agree – if people don’t want to read Off-T posts then they should ignore them. Personally I follow up the majority of Off-T posts because we all largely have similar outlooks – don’t we – and so information found by other DS members is probably of interest.
Mogwai, it’s not true to say that “whenever our huxley posts anything off-topic nobody seems to have an issue”, here is what ‘Bellacovidonia’ said directly underneath huxley’s off-topic post 8 days ago:
“Incidentally, I think it’s rude of people to post about unrelated issues buts it’s all too common on here. You know who you are. If you really feel the need to post about the pandemic there are plenty of open threads to use.“
9 upvotes, 2 downvotes – perhaps you and huxley.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/05/some-animals-are-more-equal-than-others-review-of-animal-farm-at-hull-new-truck-theatre/
Yet more divide and conquer.
The problem is not where the person is.
The problem is if the person is doing anything useful.
In the case of many state functions, the person could be here, there, or anywhere – it wouldn’t matter – they are paid by other people spending other people’s money to do something on the basis of what other people tell them are other people’s problems.
The real problem is that the state is too big and there are too many laws and too many people – civil servants or otherwise – are employed to do nothing of any value, whether they are in their homes, offices, or anywhere in between.
Come on, folks. Let’s not lose sight of the main problem: which is that there is too much state.
What a novel concept. —–Being at your place of work to undertake your duties. Who would ever have thought of that?
I don’t care where people work as long as they are as, or more, productive than working in the office.
Home workers must be able to have their work monitored remotely and if they are failing to meet their targets, or are unavailable when they should be, sack them, and have their replacement office based.
Yes but this article is about workers trying to dictate where they will do their work. That is not their call.
I wonder if the Unions are aware of the recent study in America that showed that those who work from home are more likely to get passed over for promotion (as they are not visible to their bosses) and that overall they got lower pay rises.
If they went on strike, would anyone notice? Surely their employment contract has the place of work in it? If so, not going into work would be breach of contract.