- “John Redwood calls for ‘simple’ new law to override ECHR judges: ‘Got to solve problem now!’” – Sir John Redwood says the Tories should not be waiting for the next election to take action on the European Convention on Human Rights, reports the Express.
- “Scientists call for full retraction of Nature’s ‘Proximal Origin’ paper, as fraud accusations mount” – Prominent scientists are calling for a full retraction of a high-profile study published in the scientific journal Nature, which explored the origins of SARS-CoV-2, according to the American Institute for Economic Research.
- “Science fiction: the crisis in research” – Matt Ridley in the Spectator maps out the current crisis besetting science, including the nose dive the reputation of journals like Nature took during the Pandemic for publishing misinformation about the virus and then refusing to retract it.
- “Who will debunk the ‘fake news’ that trapped Britain in lockdown?” – Misinformation is at its most lethal when believed and acted upon by governments, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph. When will BBC Verify investigate the fake news used to justify the lockdown policy?
- “NIH trials fail to test meaningful Long Covid treatments, after 2.5 years and $1 billion” – The National Institutes of Health says it has used up most of its $1.15 billion of Long Covid funding and no more money appears to be on the horizon, according to STAT.
- “NYU Population Health Professor suggests we keep panicking forever” – According to Anna Bershteyn, a Population Health Professor at New York University, we should keep panicking forever because it would be “really scary” if Covid “was as deadly as the MERS coronavirus”, says Eugyppius.
- “Four in 10 patients face potentially deadly wait for NHS cancer treatment” – Nearly 40,000 cancer patients have suffered potentially deadly delays to NHS treatment this year, reports the Times.
- “Global WHO digital health certification” – Countries around the world are sleepwalking into totalitarianism, warns Dr. John Campbell.
- “Immunologist, hounded for the tweets he ‘liked’, resigns” – The President of Thomas Jefferson University has resigned following pressure from student activists, according to Reclaim The Net. Will Elon Must fund a lawsuit?
- “Housebuilding or immigration?” – A scarcity of homes not only leaves renters and mortgage-holders with less disposable income, but contributes to a host of social ills, writes Noah Carl in Aporia.
- “More than a quarter of secondary pupils ‘persistently absent’” – New figures show that more than a quarter of secondary school pupils are regularly missing school, says the Times, with the numbers rising to almost half for those on free school meals.
- “Autistic girl arrested for saying officer ‘looked like lesbian nana’” – Police have been accused of heavy handedness after an autistic teenage girl was arrested by seven officers because she said a female officer looked like her ‘lesbian nana’, reports the Mail.
- “Joanna Cherry supports ousting ‘anti-free speech, anti-gay, totalitarian’ Greens” – SNP MP Joanna Cherry branded the Scottish Green Party “totalitarian” and suggested their alliance with the SNP should be “terminated”, says the Scottish Daily Express.
- “Magistrates are banned from using the terms ‘policeman’ and ‘chairman’” – The Magistrates Association has ordered its 28,000 members to avoid umbrella terms like “black, Asian or minority ethnic groups”, which can be “unintentionally divisive”, report the Mail.
- “Our academics are attacking the whole concept of knowledge” – The main objection to ‘decolonisation’ is not that it is false but that it is narrow-minded, obsessive and intolerant, writes Jonathan Sumption in the Spectator.
- “West London hospital under fire for describing women as ‘patients of childbearing potential’” – A London hospital has been accused of “erasing the concept of women”, reports MyLondon.
- “‘Woke’ Kellogg’s accused of ‘sexualising’ products” – Kellogg’s has been accused of sexualising breakfast with cereal boxes celebrating Pride Month, according to GB News.
- “The trans movement will only become more Orwellian” – War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. And now, it is feminists who apparently pose a threat to trans extremists, writes Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
- “Why ‘affirmative action’ doesn’t work” – The Spectator’s Rod Liddle says all top-down attempts at Leftie social engineering end up causing more misery than the misery they’re designed to alleviate.
- “Our great art institutions have reduced British history to a scrapheap of shame” – New displays at Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery are pious distortions of history, says Calvin Po in the Spectator.
- “Judge orders Southwest Airlines lawyers to attend ‘religious liberty training’” – Three Southwest Airlines lawyers must attend “religious liberty training” for defying a judge in a religious discrimination case, according to the BBC.
- “Newsom funded Chinese Covid lab known to Biden’s FDA” – The discovery of a Chinese Covid biolab in California shocked the nation, but likely came as no surprise to the state’s Democrat Governor, Gavin Newsom. He helped fund it, says Mark Pellin in Headline USA.
- “Major censorship case on Government collusion with Big Tech heads to federal appeals court” – A major First Amendment case on Government collusion with Big Tech is scheduled to go before a federal appeals court for oral arguments, reports the Daily Caller.
- “Diversity group in Nigel Farage-Coutts bank row wants law change” – The Free Speech Union says B Lab U.K. is trying to pass a law to cement social justice ideology in all British companies, reports the Times.
- “Free Speech Union briefing: Woke, Ltd.” – The Free Speech Union’s Thomas Harris has compiled a briefing on the troubling ‘B Corp’ phenomenon and how it is encroaching on the free speech of employees, as well as customers and suppliers.
- “‘There is clearly questions for Coutts and B Corp to answer here’” – GB News’s Charlie Peters explains to Nigel Farage how companies can get a certification from B Corp and how little value it attaches to protecting the confidentiality of customers. Not surprisingly, Coutts and Co is a B Corp company.
‘There is clearly questions for Coutts and B Corp to answer here.’
— GB News (@GBNEWS) August 10, 2023
GB News’ @CDP1882 explains how companies can get a certification from B Corp, an organisation which drives diversity targets throughout thousands of companies.GB News on YouTube https://t.co/Wa58gYGZwF pic.twitter.com/6BtrrrPkpG
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My assumption is the parliamentarians did not know. Twitter did though, and very quickly. I also suspect Trudeau did. But that’s probably based more on my dislike for the little tyrant than any actual intelligence data. There are some very strange things going on. This whole Zelenski appointment of Marina Abramovic as an ambassador is more than a little weird.
Spirit cooking
Ambassador.
If Rothschild is bothered about anti-semitic conspiracy theorist rumours that he is an evil puppeteer ruling the world – probably best not to get photographed in front of a painting titled “Satan Summoning his Legions” with a self proclaimed dark magic witch!!!
Marvellous. So well posed.
He appears to have managed to summon the first two!
I don’t normally lose it but the downtickers really are a bunch of Next Tuesday’s.
Yes I don’t get it. All I have done is post facts. I haven’t made any assertions about those facts. Seems odd so many Daily Sceptic readers would take issue with that.
I’m baffled
Why can’t these people say what it is they object to?
Dubious connections that make Jimmy Saville look like a saint.
“There are some very strange things going on.”
That is entirely the point. All that is happening is intended to be Orwellian.
Castreau knew.
Castreau
Canadian ‘values’
Full throated roaring for a Nazi
Their deputy PM Freeland comes from the same stock
What a bloody disgrace
A country in massive decline
Again with the massive downticking! What’s going on with DS readers today? Some sort of rent-a-mob thing? Weird.
Probably the government’s 77th Brigade, which should tell you something!
By our standards, huge down ticking for comments on this Ukraine-connected article. Perhaps it’s Ian Rons and his pro Ukraine mob? Fair to say though that there is a lot of establishment weight thrown into supporting this mad proxy war against Russia, and the ‘it’s a good idea for Nato to surround Russia and neutralise it before breaking it up and selling it to Blackrock’ brigade. Never forget – the alternative to this war would have been to stop shelling Luhansk and Donetsk provinces (ie civilians), grant them independence within Ukraine, and to enshrine Ukrainian neutrality, in military terms. That’s all Putin asked for in 2021.
There’s at least one Canadian who probably would not have applauded: (2) CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Pastor kicks out police without warrant from Passover service – YouTube
What a bloody insult to those Canadian lads who died in two World Wars.
Fair do’s, I understand that Adolf misgendered far fewer ppl than Winston, so what else is there to say?
…Don’t any of them have Google? It would have taken 2 minutes to find out who he is…..LOL!
They know they are supporting those people in Ukraine anyway..they all do…so we shouldn’t be very surprised…..don’t forget until the West’s apparent complete ‘amnesia’ about the Azov Battalion and the gnatzi far right elements in Ukraine…the USA Congress did not allow any weapons to go the Azov Battalion by law.
“This year, (2018) the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill signed into law last week stipulates that “none of the funds made available by this act may be used to provide arms, training or other assistance to the Azov Battalion.”
White supremacy and neo-Nazism are unacceptable and have no place in our world,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), an outspoken critic of providing lethal aid to Ukraine, said I am very pleased that the recently passed omnibus prevents the U.S. from providing arms and training assistance to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion fighting in Ukraine.”
Anyway the complaints are already coming in…
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/jewish-group-demands-apology-after-mps-honoured-man-who-fought-for-nazis-1.6575593
OTTAWA – Several Jewish advocacy organizations condemned members of Parliament on Sunday for giving a standing ovation to a man who fought for a Nazi unit during the Second World War.
The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies issued a statement
saying the division “was responsible for the mass murder of innocent civilians with a level of brutality and malice that is unimaginable.”
It’s highly unlikely that the 14th division ever harmed black people so what’s the problem, why keep raking over the past? (sarc)
The sooner folks realise that MPs are just a bunch of grifting dilettantes the better. As for the downticking, I’d say the site is being trolled by a bunch of goons.
It would be funny it it were not so tragic! The Canadian Parliament member claimed he didn’t know who he was honouring. Well this has opened up a lot of eyes and hopefully has brought many people to their senses.
This guy was a volunteer in the Galician Einsatzgruppe of the Waffen SS.
Amongst their other actions was Babi Yar, one of the worst atrocities of the Holocaust.