- “The possibility Covid is man-made is not a ‘divisive’ issue – the world needs to know” – If COVID-19 was engineered in a Chinese lab, failure to act stops us preparing for a devastating outbreak in the future, warns Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph.
- “FDA shuts down enquiries about DNA contamination in Covid vaccines” – The recent findings of DNA fragments in the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines has led many to question why the FDA has failed to sound the alarm, writes Dr. Maryanne Demasi on Substack.
- “The Hallett Inquiry – Eminence-based medicine Part Four” – On Substack, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan present the fourth in a series of posts focussing on the evidence given to the Covid Inquiry by the Chief Scientific Advisor Prof. Dame Angela McLean.
- “Proving evil” – In the Critic, Laura Dodsworth gives her reaction to a screening of Bearing Witness, a compilation by the IDF of raw footage from the October 7th Hamas attacks on Israel. It was very different from Owen Jones’s.
- “The problem with Tommy Robinson’s arrest” – The police have far too much power to clamp down on protest and assembly, says Mark Birbeck in Spiked.
- “Israel-Premier Tech cyclists to be issued with blank training kit due to safety concerns after Israel-Hamas war” – Chris Froome’s Israel-Premier Tech is set to introduce new ‘safety measures’ in light of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, including a blank training kit for riders, according to Cycling Weekly.
- “Gigi Hadid posts grovelling apology after deleting Instagram post” – According to the Mail, American model Gigi Hadid has backtracked after sharing claims on Instagram that Israel is “the only country in the world that keeps children as prisoners of war”, a post she illustrated with a boy who went on a stabbing rampage in Jerusalem.
- “Sunak doesn’t realise the trouble he’s in on immigration” – Among 2019 Tories, immigration and asylum is currently the number one issue by 11 clear points, ahead of the economy, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “France could be on the brink of civil war” – For decades, French governments have avoided confronting migrant crime and disorder. It is now reaching a tipping point, says Anne-Elisabeth Moutet in the Telegraph.
- “Europe in open revolt” – Geert Wilders’s landslide victory in the Netherlands has shocked the chattering class. It shouldn’t have, writes Oliver Wiseman in the Free Press.
- “‘Bedlam’ erupts in London as thousands of Albanians block cars to ‘celebrate independence day’” – Thousands of Albanians have descended on the streets of London, launching fireworks and throwing bottles as they celebrated their independence day, according to GB News.
- “Barclays closes branch – and tells customers to use van in graveyard” – Barclays customers in Hove will have to do their in-person banking from a van in a local graveyard, as the bank closes its last branch in the area, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak to cut down on council tree fellings ahead of COP28” – Residents must be consulted before authorities chop down trees in their areas as part of a new pro-environment drive unveiled by Rishi Sunak, says the Telegraph.
- “What you could earn for switching off appliances as households get cash rebates for first time this winter” – The Government will pay households to cut electricity use by turning off washing machines, dishwashers, ovens, TVs and even lights during the evening peak, says the Mail.
- “Cooking oil won’t help the aviation industry reach Net Zero” – Using waste plant material to generate energy makes sense from a waste disposal perspective, but how much is actually available, asks Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Pensioners are owed a lockdown thank you. It’s time to scrap Net Zero” – The money saved from scrapping Net Zero could be used to fund the triple lock, giving our elderly the support they deserve, argues Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Volkswagen to reduce headcount at ‘no longer competitive’ VW brand” – Volkswagen’s brand chief Thomas Schaefer has warned that high costs and low productivity are making its cars uncompetitive, according to Reuters.
- “Two men and a baby” – In the New Conservative, schoolboy Jack Watson is disturbed by a new children’s book that claims men can get pregnant.
- “BBC accused of escalating Elgin Marbles crisis by referring to them by their Greek name” – The BBC have begun referring to the Elgin Marbles as the ‘Parthenon Marbles’ during coverage of the ongoing diplomatic feud between the U.K. and Greece, according to GB News.
- “Dylan Mulvaney named in Forbes’s ‘30 Under 30’ list – despite Bud Light fiasco” – Trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney has been named on Forbes’s list of ‘30 Under 30’, despite his disastrous advertising partnership with Bud Light, reports the Mail.
- “Why is Doctor Who lecturing us about pronouns?” – In Doctor Who, the muddy, physical human reality of two sexes is increasingly presented as some sort of oppressive trap, writes Malcolm Clark in Spiked.
- “Is the mainstream press beginning to turn on Bill Gates? ” – Bill Gates, who once could do no wrong, has had numerous disparaging articles written about him in recent weeks, observes the Naked Emperor on Substack.
- “In continued defence of ‘effective altruism’” – On Substack, Dr. Scott Alexander has compiled a list of reasons to be grateful for ‘effective altruism’.
- “Why the managers are not great” – On Substack, Eugyppius explores the primary pathologies of managerial society.
- “Hotel bans mince pies from Christmas menu after saying customers don’t want them anymore” – A Scottish hotel has banned mince pies to reduce the amount of food that is thrown away every year, says the Scottish Daily Express.
- “‘During [Ireland’s] oppression, we still maintained our invisibility cloak of white privilege’” – Gript has posted a video on X featuring Irish politicians discussing “white privilege” and the necessity of racial quotas, with one recalling the “very dull, white, pasty Ireland” that he grew up in before mass migration.
- “Elon Musk tells advertisers to “go f**k” themselves” – Elon Musk has made plain his view of the widespread advertiser boycott of X during an interview at the New York Times DealBook Summit.
BREAKING: Elon Musk tells advertisers to “go f**k” themselves if they are going to try and blackmail him on his own platform.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 29, 2023
And this is exactly why Elon was the perfect person to buy Twitter
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“By the time you read this, the $110 billion behemoth may be a smoking ruin – the biggest casualty yet of ‘Go woke, go broke’.”
Now that would put a smile on my face.
Anyway, congratulations on all you have done Toby. Even if you haven’t helped to kill them they are certainly severely wounded. Let this be a warning to others.
Well done and thank you.
I’ve taken steps to remove paypal from my financial life.
They were already stepping on civil liberties, but their threat to steal customers’ cash because they offended paypal in some unspecified manner is just too much.
Am I . . . Spartacus?!?
Looks like paypal are running scared….
https://summit.news/2022/10/13/paypal-appears-to-be-desperately-offering-bribes-of-15-to-stop-droves-of-people-cancelling-accounts/
Expose have just released the same news.
Wonderful.
Turned out I hadn’t used Paypal for ages anyway. Should have cancelled it years ago.
“Dan Schulman, the president and CEO of PayPal, gave an interview earlier this year entitled: ‘The thing that separates good companies from great ones: trust.’”
No it isn’t, it’s reputation – ask Jeremy Ratner. Reputation keeps existing customers, attracts others by recommendation, and keeps and attracts investors.
Getting a reputation for not being a reliable provider of a service which can be withdrawn instantly for spurious and subjective reasons will neither keep nor attract customers.
Spending shareholders’ money on ideology that loses customers, reduces shareholder value will neither keep nor attract investors as the pompous Mr Schulman has now found out.
This also shows the best company/market regulator is not Government nor bureaucracies, but the consumer.
I love the title of this article, I certainly don’t think it’s ‘too vainglorious’, and at the same time all of us who closed our PayPal accounts in protest can share in taking the credit. (I had to get a password reminder before I could close my account, which I had rarely ever used.)
In the Spectator article Toby Young said: “On the one hand, PayPal’s demise would send a message to the financial services sector that trying to police your customers’ speech is a terrible idea. But on the other, lots of small depositors would lose their money.”
I think small depositors should withdraw their money from their PayPal accounts before they lose it. It’s not Toby Young’s fault that PayPal cannot be trusted.
Not a penny left in mine.
It was amazing to me, when in the process of shutting down my PayPal account at just how many standing payments I’d set up went via PayPal! Even The Spectator…
I look forward to seeing Paypal’s scalp dangling from your belt, Toby.
I have a grand total of 50p in my PayPal account, and rarely use it.
Am I more of an embuggerance to them if I keep this account open?
I don’t think PayPal would notice that you have only 50p in your account, but they have definitely noticed how many people have closed their accounts since Paypal started to attack people’s freedom in the last few weeks.
Count me sceptical. They are far too entrenched now in the online shopping world and without real competition there- merchants and customers just love its ease of use and reach.
MasterCard folded its competitive effort because of that, not that they’d been more trustworthy.
I love your line on whether they’ll now fine themselves for that misinformation…
You may well be correct JB but they will have had a good kicking.
Cancelled my 25 year old PayPal account after they cancelled Toby and others. Hope they go under if they don’t learn their lesson.
I find it really upsetting that I can only cancel my PayPal account once …. and I’ve done it.
I’m consoling myself by googling “boycott PayPal” several times a day
Surely the AUP breaches human rights and in the EU/UK would be illegal and hence null and void. Making themselves judge, jury and executioner even for goings most of us disagree with and are criminal, e.g. money laundering or fraud means that they are subjecting people to arbitrary justice. Actually just looked article 12 UNDOHR. no one shall be subject to arbitrary interference…?
The Daily Sceptic isn’t the only journalism and “skeptic” site that’s been de-platformed or demonetized by PayPal. The conservative investigative journalism site UncoverDC.com also had this happen to them …. almost three years ago! PayPal or Twitter have never un-suspended this site and its founder, Tracy Beanz.
Apparently I’m the only journalist who thought to do a story on this. In my recent Substack dispatch, I interview Tracy Beanz, who talks about some of the ‘workarounds” she employed to get around this brazen censorship.
Her site is also called a “Covid conspiracy” site. This piece of disinformation is of interest to me as I have written many of the Covid stories UncoverDC.com published. Nobody else would publish many of these stories. And I can’t think of a sentence I would change in any of them.
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/shes-still-standing
Hats off to you and Tracy Bill. Not many of your type remaining.
I sent 2 mails to PayPal’s CEO & to corporate affairs asking clear questions about their policies & impact for me as an account holder. Response? NOTHING. The arrogance of these Bit Tech companies is breathtaking.
So I closed my account directly. In the process I applied another Daily Sceptic commenter’s advice to “..select the option to have them delete all your data too then you can leave a comment.”
My departing comment was this:
“I’m thoroughly disgusted by PayPal’s anti-free speech policy. Why would you use a financial service provider which can block your account at any time without providing any reasons, and then steal $2500- from you as a “fine” for your supposed transgression. My decision has been confirmed by ZERO response to my several emails to PayPal asking them if there was a reasonable explanation for recent actions. So much for customer service. Not to mention transparency. From now on, I shall be telling everyone I know to close their PayPal account.“