- “Why so little MSM outrage about this vile paedophile” – Liz Hodgkinson puzzles over why the conviction of Peter Welby for possession of indecent images of children hasn’t got more coverage in the mainstream media.
- “Warnings of stroke risk should be ‘considered with caution’” – Dietiticans say the term ultra-processed is being ‘overused’ and causing confusion. Birmingham-based dietitian says U.K. health chiefs should work with the Government to develop a food strategy.
- “Testimony, or Evidence?” – The New York Times’s coverage of the St. Louis gender-medicine scandal puts a too-friendly gloss on damning facts.
- “Conductor sacked over student pronouns row sues for discrimination” – Mark Shanahan was accused of “intimidating, bullying and possibly discriminatory” behaviour towards young musicians at the National Opera Studio, i.e., he called them by the correct pronouns.
- “Natural immunity wins” – Dr. John Campbell says natural immunity is 27 times more effecitve than vaccine-induced immunity.
- “Promotion of Claire Coutinho hints at more conservative approach to Net Zero” – Close ally of Rishi Sunak believes in green agenda but wants to shield people from the huge financial costs, reports the Telegraph.
- “Families will be paid cash again to cut electricity use this winter” – The National Grid launched its Demand Flexibility Service (DFS) in January, which rewarded people for cutting power between 5pm and 6pm on one of the coldest days of the year, says the Mail.
- “The Left’s tactics of the Inquisition are stifling free speech at our universities” – Timothy Luckhurst says in the Evening Standard the indoctrination of staff on race and gender in universities serves only to silence debate.
- “No human remains found two years after claims of ‘mass graves’ in Canada” – In spite of claims of mass graves of indigenous children at residential schools across Canada, nothing has turned up, says the New York Times.
- “A scam long Covid study – Long Covid poised to be an evidence based fiasco!” – Vinay Prasad says there’s no evidence that ‘long Covid’ is a real disease.
- “I fear for the future of Britain, a country in danger of just giving up” – Schools are crumbling, the NHS is failing, and taxes are excessive, says Lord Frost in the Telegraph. But don’t give up yet.
- “Children must not change gender at school, Tavistock whistleblowers tell Rishi Sunak” – Leading clinicians warn the Prime Minister he risks being ‘complicit’ in explosion of teenagers wanting puberty blockers and sex-change hormones, reports the Telegraph.
- “Suella Braverman: Woke police are damaging public trust” – The Home Secretary orders an investigation into officers “pandering to politically correct causes” such as taking the knee at BLM protests, says the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk reveals Twitter takeover driven by ‘woke mind virus’ that infected his trans daughter” – Tech tycoon opens up about his concerns regarding the “full communist” family member, i.e., his daughter.
- “Secretive Covid disinformation unit worked with security services” – Documents submitted to the official Covid inquiry reveal the “U.K. intelligence community” has been involved in the CDU since it was founded in 2019.
- “Only 13% of Church of England priests back the Tories” – A Times’ survey puts Conservatives in fourth place among vicars, behind Labour, the Lib Dems and “don’t know”.
- “Oxford dropped my book for challenging gender, says author” – A British author has said that the ‘radioactive’ issue of transgender identity issue is threatening to stifle debate after Oxford University Press dropped him, according to the Times.
- “Guy Adams investigates the RSPB’s hostility towards the Government” – Guy Adams burrows into the RSPB to discover why it’s gone from being pro-wildlife to anti-Tory.
- “Quentin Letts: Sir Keir’s a steaming bore” – Last weekend, Nadine Dorries became the latest Tory MP to try to scuttle the boat, causing another tricky by-election, says Quentin Letts in the Mail.
- “The panelists on Headliners on GB News are horrified by the Digital Services Act” – Nick Dixon, Josh Howie and Nico DeSanto try to get their heads around the full horror of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
— GB News (@GBNEWS) September 1, 2023
EU is accused of 'taking a page out of Orwell's 1984' with the creation of 'ministries of truth' that will ensure 'wrong thoughts are not allowed' in a bid to tackle 'disinformation' online
If you have any tips for inclusion in the round-up, email us here.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
excellent idea. The basis should be the return of formal debating in which people have to propose motions with which they may disagree and the result judged dispassionately, not by a vote on the floor but by teachers marking the structure of the arguments. Not easy I know but it’s a great challenge.
Teachers marking? I assume you haven’t met many teachers!
Are teachers the ‘professionals’ for whom the Education Secretary is seeking a 9% pay rise? Those lily livered pond life who were happily complicit in denying a proper education to our children, driven by their unions who are now threatening to strike?
They need to have their salaries reduced, not enhanced and their right to strike withdrawn.
Unprincipled bastards
It’s going to be a bit of an effort when you get the full idea of what TEACHERS think the kids should be taught.
Appalling must watch video from an Irish teaching union
https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1542463974117183488
With thanks to Ivor Cummins
I hesitated to click on this because I knew it would infuriate me, but I did. Unbelievable.
When I was 7 or 8 I identified as a boy. I worse boys clothes, had a boys hair cut, climbed trees and skinned my knees and even belonged to the local cub group because it was run by my mother and it was more convenient for her to take me with her. I despised brownies as sissies. Guess what? I was a tomboy, and like most other tomboys I grew out of it at puberty. God knows what would have happened to me these days! Come to think of it, tomboy is a word you don’t hear now either. (Probably deemed offensive or something)
Years ago, before I mistrusted the BBC, the author Val McDermid, (who I dislike due to her stance on Independence, masks, vaccines etc), made this point beautifully……basically, as a girl she was a tomboy, preferring football and traditional “boy” pursuits. She later found herself attracted to her own sex and has always been in lesbian rather than heterosexual relationships.
AT NO POINT EVER felt that those childhood traits or sexual preferences signified she was the “wrong” gender, simply it was appropriate for boys OR girls to participate in those activities and sexual choices.
In other words; if a female can do ANYTHING she wishes to do as a female, and a man can do the same, where is the validity in the argument “I was born the wrong gender”?
It’s too subtle for the Trans brigade, who would simply and wrongly see @the old bat or Val McDermid climbing their respective trees as children and say, “Oh, look at that poor boy born into a girl’s body, better get that sorted out for them”
One of the most egregious things I’ve recently seen is also in this video. That’s the picture of this amorphous creature whose text says
I was born with the body of a boy but the brain of a girl.
Math is hard, let’s go shopping! anyone? If that’s not sexist, I don’t know what is. I’ve been socialised in the 1980s, ie, well before all these all men/ all women cliches were reintroduced (early 2000s in Germany) and shit like this makes my blood boil. By that time, we decidedly didn’t think it was chic to regard the often cited 50% of mankind as of the lower orders because of the sex difference and I refuse to start doing so just because this would be politically convenient for some people.
There’s a great episode of Little House on the Prairie, where the father, Charles Ingolls, wants to take Laura, his middle daughter, on a hunting expedition. His wife objects, saying it isn’t right for girls to do such things. Charles rejects her idea, stating that he’s sure she’ll grow into a wonderful woman. They go, and Laura saves the day when Charles injures himself, miles from anywhere, with his own gun.
Obviously, these episodes were aired before the Woke Brigade got their teeth into everything.
These watermelon-shaped beings are very strange. What planet to they live on?
This is also very scary
wwwDOTyoutubeDOTcom/watch?v=XA07ta2tJpQ
Neither politicians nor large employers are interested in people able to and courageous enough to engage in sceptical thinking.
The whole point of children’s education now is to turn them into semi-skilled obedient sheep who know their place and keep their mouths shut.
“The whole point of children’s education now is to turn them into semi-skilled obedient sheep who know their place and keep their mouths shut.”
Bang on the nail but the people pushing this are the Davos Deviants. The politicians are just under orders.
The DD’s want a wholly compliant and sheep-like populace because they require SLAVES not sentient, questioning human beings.
I fear some people have yet to perceive the depth of evil being planned – depopulation and enslavement for the survivors. Some run of the mill civil servants and politicians might be given a small sincere, a kapo type position while they have a use, but after that they will be off to the knackers yard.
Apologies – bloody predictive- – ‘sincere’ was of course sinecure.
Take ’em out and teach them at home.
Education is now massively politicised
Health the same.
Best avoid schools. And the NHS.
The problem is certainly one of trusting in authority/the state. In 2003, unlike many sensible British people, I swallowed the WMD nonsense just because I did not believe a government would tell such blatant lies – truth was finally turned on its head in with the Hutton report. Obviously Gilligan told the truth and Blair lied over Dr Kelly and Hutton used technical technical arguments to twist the results – the Chairman and Director General resigned and the BBC was captured, and by degrees most of the mainstream have been swallowed up since. I guess by now the lies are so all enveloping and pervasive that it is simply easier to give up. I suppose it is the first circle of the metaverse.
Hallelujah! What a brilliant sensible idea. Some here may well have seen the attached feature extracted from The Light newspaper issue 21 p23. The kids are the future of the human race, god help us all if free / critical thinking gets completely wiped out.
They taught us some complete twaddle at school – things that turned out to just not be true at all.
The biggest whopper I can think of was this notion that we “the people” are governed by consent and that we have inalienable rights (granted to us by “God”).
It turns out we don’t and that these “rights” are granted to us by the government who can take them away from us whenever they feel like it (“for the greater good”) – even for the most stupidest reasons (like because someone decided to rebrand the flu for example)
It also turns out that the government basically owns our kids because we were stupid enough to “register” them with the government.
I’m dreading my daughters going to school. I suppose I’ll have to try and teach them that many of the pointless things they are learning are “just pretend” and that they should “just write the answers the teacher wants regardless of if they are actually true or not”. I’d encourage them to not believe anything school tells them unless they can prove it themselves. BUT they must never let on to the school that they are doing this.