- “Sixty Tories turn on Sunak over Rwanda bill” – Rishi Sunak suffered the biggest rebellion of his premiership as 60 Tory MPs voted for amendments to toughen up his Rwanda bill, according to the Telegraph.
- “Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith resign over Rwanda bill” – Two Conservative Party deputy chairmen have resigned after being told their positions were untenable, having joined a Tory rebellion against Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda bill, reports the Times.
- “The only thing shocking about a 1997-style wipeout is that Sunak might keep 169 seats” – In the Telegraph, Allison Pearson, who’s been nominated for Broadsheet Columnist of the Year, says it’s not surprising the Tories are losing support, given this Government’s contempt for its natural supporters.
- “Why Tory talk is turning – again – to a change of leadership” – Also in the Telegraph, Camilla Tominey says apocalyptic YouGov polling and Rishi Sunak’s nose-diving approval ratings mean the question of leadership has once again reared its ugly head
- “Study discovers biggest cause of ‘alarming surge’ of excess deaths in U.K.” – A new study reveals that heart failure is the biggest driver of an alarming surge in excess deaths in the U.K., says the Express.
- “Saint Nicola is set for her greatest humiliation yet” – Sturgeon’s pandemic narrative could be completely destroyed as the Covid Inquiry heads north of the border, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Was COVID-19 a pandemic caused by a novel pathogen or was it created solely by harmful policies and fear propaganda?” – On Substack, Dr. Pierre Kory summarises the main arguments surrounding the nature of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- “Smokescreen – Part 12” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan examine the problems of waste, fraud and profiteering that beset the Government’s Covid response.
- “Three big Covid whoppers Fauci confessed to Congress this week” – Fauci has confirmed many of the worst fears of those who spoke out during his reign of terror, says Dr. Pierre Kory in the Federalist.
- “Rochdale grooming report exposes police Islamophilia” – Just when you thought you had heard the most horrendous stories of the terror unleashed on thousands of girls by Rochdale grooming gangs, more horrors emerge, writes Julie Burchill in the Mail.
- “How Sadiq Khan has ‘wasted’ £123 million of taxpayer cash” – In a new report, Sadiq Khan has been accused of wasting £123 million of taxpayers’ cash on “misplaced priorities”, reports the Mail.
- “Avanti tells train managers to ‘roll up’ for free taxpayer money” – Managers at Avanti West Coast joked about being able to “roll up, roll up” for “free” taxpayers’ money in an internal presentation, according to the Times.
- “Headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh taken to High Court over Muslim prayer ban” – Britain’s most effective headteacher is in a row with Muslim pupils over her decision to impose a prayer ban at the school, reports the Telegraph.
- “The collapse of our universities is the best thing that could happen to Britain” – We need to rethink the purpose of higher education. Sadly, we aren’t going to do that until the current system falls apart, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Humza Yousaf’s brother-in-law arrested again after man ‘falls from flat window’” – According to the Sun, Humza Yousaf’s brother-in-law has been nicked by the cops again, this time in connection with an incident where a man plunged from a flat window.
- “‘Climate change’ and ‘war’ top Oxford Children’s Words of the Year” – According to Oxford University Press, the Children’s Word of the Year is “climate change”, followed by “war”, reports the Times. Er, “climate change” isn’t a word.
- “How the leaders of the German farmers’ protest are committed to neutralising their own movement, and what the farmers must do if they want change” – On Substack, Eugyppius files his latest report on the farmers’ demonstration in Berlin.
- “Third of U.K. teenagers believe climate change exaggerated, report shows” –YouTube videos are being blamed for a rise in climate scepticism amongst young people in the U.K., reports the Guardian.
- “Are kids starting to see through the climate cult?” – It restores faith in the current generation of teenagers to realise that a third of them can see through this climate guff, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Finnish prosecutor takes MP to Supreme Court for tweeting Bible verses” – Despite having been acquitted of hate speech twice, Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen may still have to face another day in court on the same charges, according to the European Conservative.
- “Ursula von der Leyen: misinformation is world’s gravest problem” – Forget conquest, war, famine, and death. Ursula von der Leyen tells Davos that the world’s most serious problem is ‘misinformation’, according to UnHerd.
- “Elon Musk among the international figures voicing dismay over Leo Varadkar’s hate crime bill as pressure group Free Speech Ireland redoubles efforts to get it scrapped” – Elon Musk has voiced his disquiet at Leo Varadkar’s planned new hate crime law, reports the Belfast News Letter.
- “Little evidence that hate speech causes real world harm” – At Environmental Progress, John Morrison examines the evidence that hate speech serves as a precursor to violent actions and concludes it does not.
- “The Lost Boys: Searching for Manhood” – On Claire Fox’s Substack, the co-writer of a powerful new film on the dangers of gender ideology explains why people need to see it.
- “A jarring opera on jarring themes” – City Journal’s Heather Mac Donald reviews the Metropolitan Opera’s recent revival of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.
- “Rice University unveils ‘Afrochemistry’ class” – Rice University in Houston is offering an ‘Afrochemistry’ class entitled ‘Black-Life Matter’ that promises to analyse science through a “contemporary African-American lens”, reports the Mail.
- “Elite psychopathology driving Democrats’ ‘soft coup’ attempt” – To stop Donald Trump from becoming President, journalists, activists and Government officials are undermining democracy in the name of saving it, writes Alex Gutentag on the Public Substack.
- “The Bidenomics experiment is headed towards disaster” – The President’s scheme to reboot the American economy is proving unpopular with the American public, observes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “The Traitors US viewers brutally slam ‘bully’ John Bercow” – John Bercow has managed to make a terrible impression in just one episode of The Traitors US, says the Express.
- “Westminster Hall excess deaths debate” – On YouTube, Dr. John Campbell presents Andrew Bridgen’s Westminster Hall speech yesterday on excess deaths.
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.
Is it too late for Toby’s favourite, Kemi Badenoch? My sense – from afar – is that she represents the only leadership change that is not just rearranging the deckchairs and that could actually snatch the Tories (and the country) from the jaws of defeat.
Didn’t she support lockdowns and mass “vaxxing”?
Hasn’t she gone along with the steady removal of our freedoms?
If anyone’s got any sense then it’s too late for anybody. The biggest statement the people can make, the most powerful and passively threatening action the people can take, is to not vote. To state, in no uncertain terms, WE SEE YOU, AND WE ARE NOT PLAYING YOUR GAME ANY LONGER. ENOUGH.
That strategy will not calm them down. They will not care so long as Uniparty remains in office.
The only way is to get a new party to emerge and that requires the destruction of one of the others. The Tories had the chance to bury socialism but instead decided to follow it so they are the ones to eliminate.
Unless there really is not a decent candidate from a party other than Uniparty please do vote. I understand Reform candiates will range from OK to quite good and the complete rubbish will be filtered out.
With all due respect I don’t want to “calm them down” and my belief is that you misunderstand the problem. “The Tories had the chance to bury socialism but instead decided to follow it so they are the ones to eliminate.” No, the system is what needs to be eliminated.
We don’t have to agree though.
Defy Global Tyrants Use Cash
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Interesting feedback from ‘TDS Moderators’ to my email query about being censored. I won’t copy it word for word but here’s the gist;
”…in recent weeks we have had to delete or edit a number of your comments because we deemed them to be abusive. E.g;
Hamassholes, the total scum that the UK lets in, Nazi boy, resident Gestapo agent, not a day goes by without the DS mafia removing bits of my comments…
Please moderate your language in future comments to avoid problems and the requirement for us to proofread everything you write. We will continue to remove or edit any comments that we consider contrary to our commenting policy. We would like to avoid imposing a ban and hope it will not be necessary.”
Nice veiled threat there, and I was right, I am being watched. So people calling fellow posters names and harassing them is fine but me calling a massive, disruptive collective of Jew/West-hating yobs ”Hamassholes” or ”scum” is forbidden? Got it. Totally digging these new, modified ‘standards’ that none of us were informed about prior..< max sarc >
Edit: One thing I will point out too is that Hardliner removed my words, ”black racist” and a vid of white people kissing black people’s shoes. So ”black racist” is not allowed but presumably we’re all OK with ”white racist”, because there is no other kind, right?? Jeez
Well my view is that more or less anything should be allowed to stand, other than obvious spam and perhaps posts over a certain size or repeated posts from the same poster that make the site tiresome to use. If people don’t like something, scroll past it. I don’t know what the objectives are of DS moderating things of the type you describe above. Perhaps they feel that it will frighten readers or posters off – that’s a point of view I guess though not one I would personally set much store by. I’d like them to be more transparent, though I appreciate it’s their site and they can do whatever they want. I think you bring interesting content and views to the site.
Thanks, tof. And I think you hit the nail on the head; transparency. If we don’t find out that something is not allowed ( and not for a second would I personally deem the words/terms above as ”abusive”, so I guess me and DS have differing definitions there ), until after we post the actual words how are we supposed to ”moderate” our language? Like I said the other day to somebody else, we need to know what the boundaries are, especially if they’ve changed, because all the while I thought I was posting in accordance with the ”profanity and abuse” warning above. Especially when you see what other comments from posters are allowed to stand. That’s why I started effing and blinding, because where’s the cut-off point? We’re not bloody mind-readers! And I guess blacks cannot ever be deemed ”racist” because ‘reparations’ and ‘white supremacy’ FFS!
Edit: Actually, tof, I think I’m just too ”Ultra-right” for the DS mods, that’s what it is! haha……
“Sold out” to whom? I am something of a free speech absolutist so as per my post above would prefer a more or less anything goes approach, but I don’t think it follows that just because DS has a different policy they have “sold out”, just that they may have objectives they feel are met by adopting the policy they have adopted, and a different view of how free speech should operate – a view I would like to see explained in more detail, as I have said above. But I don’t think you can accuse them of not acting in good faith without more evidence. Apart from anything else, certainly on the Israel/Gaza issue, Mogwai’s views are in line with DS management as far as I can see.
tof was talking about the DS specifically. I agree with him that there is no evidence that they have sold out.
I’m not sure what “sold out” means exactly.
Does it include self-censorship to avoid being shut down or losing sponsors?
I’m pretty sure that’s how most censorship works these days. Self imposed out of fear.
I am arguing, as I believe tof is arguing, that there is no evidence the DS has sold out.
I strongly doubt TY makes much if any money from this site, which I am sure has very few subscribers and no advertisers and I suspect is subsidised by Luke Johnson – though I am speculating. Running a “lockdown sceptic” website isn’t exactly a big money spinner.
I suppose you could argue that he keeps this site “moderate” in order to keep his day job writing for The Spectator and perhaps you regard that as “selling out”. I don’t think we can know without being able to look into his soul, but my guess is that his views are what they are and that’s that/
I spoke to Toby Young at the DS Christmas ‘do’ about the issue of censorship and I found his position reasonable. He was clear that if we become too boisterous, shall we say, then the mods have to intervene. The problem lies with Offcom and he does not want DS to be shut down.
As above, his position seems perfectly reasonable. I would rather keep DS than lose it.
That makes sense. A sad indictment of the state of this country. Thanks for the info.
I hope I’m not stupid. I can only speculate. The site is funded by subscribers and I suspect by at least one rich donor, Luke Johnson, who is also a director. Mr Johnson and Toby Young have generally mainstream right wing conservative views, and as far as I know they always have had. People have argued that Mr Young doesn’t want to upset the wrong people too much because he’s hoping for a knighthood or something – that seems plain silly to me. Perhaps he wants to moderate the views expressed here in order to remain just on the right side of the mainstream to preserve his access to people he would like access to – a tactical decision. I don’t see anything sinister.
That’s it exactly tof.
I didn’t downtick your post btw – not my style. I prefer to debate!
I don’t see Toby Young’s name on the list, and I don’t think DS is funded by any billionaires.
How come they let you use the phrases that triggered them in your riposte
Well who doesn’t like some revolting farmers? I know I’m partial, and there’s been some awesome footage posted online too. A lot of solidarity and support being shown, which is what we like to see;
”In Germany, alongside demonstrating farmers, truck drivers and factory workers also drove their vehicles to the site of Monday’s demonstration in Berlin to voice their anger at the country’s ruling government. Berlin police estimate that well over 5,000 tractors and trucks along with tens of thousands of people arrived in the city center
“We want to ensure that road tolls and diesel prices are not increased. In addition, we are fighting to maintain our existing subsidies,” said one farmer, Hubertus Krupp, when asked why he was in attendance.
Severe economic problems, collapsing budgets, runaway migration and energy prices, and ongoing coalition disputes — this is the best way to sum up the current state of Germany’s left-wing government so far. Many of these mounting pressures have fueled more than a week of farmers’ demonstrations, and even once these protests are over, these issues are not going away.
In fact, in many ways, the farmers’ protests and their continuing demands, may mark the beginning of the end for the German government.
Public support for the SPD-Greens-Free Democrats coalition cobbled together by the Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz has virtually collapsed in the past two years, with the biggest winner being the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has more than doubled its support. The left-wing government is, of course, doing very well on gender propaganda, but when it comes to more serious issues such as industrial and energy policy, they are running out of ideas. Scholz’s troubles were compounded by the complete collapse of the German budget following a Constitutional Court ruling in November.
Even as the government asks farmers to make sacrifices, the chancellor and his ministers are pushing for three new luxury helicopters that will cost a total of €200 million.”
https://rmx.news/economy/farmer-protests-bring-german-government-closer-to-collapse/
The Andrew Bridgen speech is an absolute must watch. Very calm and measured while at the same time getting across the full scale of what has gone wrong.
Haven’t seen it yet, I will later. Did anyone actually attend?
Fascinating that in spite of all the lies, smears and cancellations he has been subjected to, he finds himself on the right side of two major scandals. They should burn down the Palace of Westminster, it’s terminally corrupt and infecting the rest of the nation with its toxic poison.
Not very many attended as you can see from the video. But at least it took place.
He does mention the similarities between what happened when he tried to raise the issue of what was going on at the Post Office, with what is happening now as he tries to raise the issue of the experimental vaccine harms (at 15 minutes)
“Are kids starting to see through the climate cult?”
I sincerely hope so, and it would not surprise me to learn there’s an urban/rural divide here too, between the ones living it and the ones hermetically sheltered from it. It also occurred to me that perhaps one reason TPTB seem so determined to break up the family is that kids with grandparents who are able to refer back to hotter/colder/wetter/drier periods in the past have a distinct advantage over those who don’t.