- “Israel prepares to evacuate one million Palestinians before Rafah offensive” – Israel is preparing to evacuate more than one million Palestinians from Rafah ahead of a planned ground invasion to uproot Hamas from the city, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pro-Palestinian protesters say walk by Jewish campaigners should face restrictions” – Pro-Palestinian protesters demand that a walk organised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism in London this weekend should be subject to strict police restrictions, says the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s Jews fear for their lives because Sir Mark Rowley is a weak coward” – While other nations show strength and resolve in the face of the Islamist menace, our police have shamed themselves, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage accuses NatWest lawyers of cover-up in debanking row” – Nigel Farage claims that “the cover-up continues” about his debanking scandal as he accused lawyers acting for NatWest of a lack of transparency, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sunak unveils biggest military spending increase in a generation” – Rishi Sunak has pledged to increase Britain’s defence budget to 2.5% of GDP by 2030, reports the Telegraph.
- “Ukraine has only six months left” – It looks like, as in previous wars, Russia will have begun badly but finished well through sheer determination, writes Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
- “French navy lets packed migrant boat reach England despite five deaths on board” – The French Navy allowed a dinghy packed with migrants to continue across the Channel despite the deaths of five people on board, including a seven year-old girl, according to the Telegraph.
- “A constitutional crisis over Rwanda may be Sunak’s last hope of avoiding wipeout” – The PM’s Rwanda Bill, which was passed on Monday night, could test parliamentary sovereignty to destruction, says Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
- “Clashes at St. George’s Day rally in Central London” – Police in Central London dealt with disorder ahead of a St. George’s Day rally after a group of people forced their way through a cordon and shouted “England til’ I die”, reports the Telegraph.
- “The British State is using an old Stasi strategy against its own” – The acquittal of Tommy Robinson is the latest in a 25-year-long persecution by the state. Zersetzung, a strategy developed by the Stasi, is now part of our Government’s playbook, writes C.J. Strachan on Substack.
- “Boris Johnson told me he wished he was black, claims journalist” – Boris Johnson’s former wife says she “blocked out” awkward memories of her ex-husband after a journalist told her he once said he “wished he was black”, reports the Telegraph.
- “BBC ‘sweeps report under carpet’ after Huw Edwards quits” – BBC insiders have voiced dismay at the corporation, which has been accused of sweeping its internal report about Huw Edwards’s conduct under the carpet after his resignation, according to the Times.
- “Does Channel Four think this counts as balanced?” – Channel Four’s General Election night line-up is a genuinely comical conception of what counts as a diverse range of views, says Niall Gooch in the Spectator.
- “Labour, ‘patriotic’? Pull the other one, Sir Keir” – Does anyone believe that Starmer and his colleagues “will celebrate St. George’s Day with enthusiasm”? asks Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Fauci’s lab in Montana was part of DARPA Defuse” – Jim Haslam’s latest post on the multitude of claims and connections surrounding the origins of SARS-CoV-2.
- “Have people died from Long Covid?” – HART questions the Covid virus’s role in excess deaths, citing a CDC study that found few fatalities due to Long Covid.
- “The censorship never ends” – On Substack, Prof. Norman Fenton rails against YouTube for removing his interviews critical of the WHO and Covid vaccines from a Rome conference that aired on Italian TV.
- “One million children to receive disability benefits amid surge in autism and ADHD” – Official figures show that taxpayers will face a £100 billion-a-year bill for health and disability claims in 2029, reports the Telegraph.
- “GP who attended Just Stop Oil protest suspended” – A doctor, arrested and jailed for her involvement in Just Stop Oil protests, has had her medical licence suspended for five months, reports the BBC.
- “The West’s electric car giants now risk destroying themselves” – As demand stalls, the EV revolution looks more like a battle for survival, says Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk plots new direction after Tesla’s electric car crisis” – The Telegraph’s James Titcomb on Elon Musk’s ambition to turn cars into self-driving robotaxis.
- “World’s biggest floating wind farm to be built off Scottish coast” – The world’s biggest floating offshore wind farm is to be built off the coast of Scotland to power North Sea oil and gas platforms, according to Energy Voice.
- “Potholes are now a conspiracy against drivers” – Councils that will happily spend a fortune on blocking the roads with bollards start pleading poverty when it comes to resurfacing roads, remarks Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Mad-dgalen College” – Why Magdalen College has changed its Saint George’s Day tradition for one that is neither Christian nor English is a question which really deserves a more honest answer, writes Jack Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Census data on number of trans people in Britain is ‘deeply flawed’” – Michael Biggs, an Oxford sociologist, claims that the first official data on the size of the transgender population in England and Wales is “seriously flawed”, reports the Times.
- “People are in denial following the Cass report – it’s like deprogramming cult members” – The reactions of gender zealots to their folly being exposed range from notably silent to dangerously delusional, says Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Labour MP ‘may have misled’ Parliament with response to Cass Review” – Labour MP Dawn Butler admits she “may have misled” the House of Commons by quoting a briefing issued by Stonewall in response to the Cass Review, according to the Telegraph.
- “The truth about Stonewall is finally being exposed” – Stonewall sought to shut down debate and pose as the real ‘experts’. Now its credibility has crumbled, says Kathleen Stock in the Telegraph.
- “Shadow Justice Secretary agrees with J.K. Rowling over gender critical views” – Shabana Mahmood says J.K. Rowling should not be stigmatised for standing up for what she rightly believes in, reports the Telegraph.
- “Will the trans activists who cancelled me ever apologise?” – Now that the Cass Review and has revealed the horrors of ‘gender-affirming care’, will the trans lobby now apologise for all the lives they’ve ruined? asks Gillian Philip in Spiked.
- “Addressing misogyny must include addressing trans activism” – Laws that should exist to protect women and children are used to cater to the marginalisation fantasies of volunteers, says Victoria Smith in the Critic.
- “Using phrase ‘back in your day’ to older colleague could be considered age harassment” – An Employment Tribunal has ruled that using the phrase ‘back in your day’ to an older colleague at work could be considered age harassment, reports the Mail.
- “How Wikipedia became Wokepedia” – The world’s most popular encyclopaedia has become a fundraising tool for social-justice propaganda, writes Andrew Orlowski in Spiked.
- “Cheers! London Marathon runner completes wine tasting at every mile” – One runner took a very different approach to the London Marathon by blind tasting a different glass of wine after every mile, reports the Mail.
- “‘Stay out of news. You’re just trouble’” – Andrew Neil provides some blunt advice on what the Government should do with the media.
When @afneil schools someone it’s always spot on.
— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) April 23, 2024
pic.twitter.com/Dmq7I2ARvN
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.
More powerful voices for sanity, but ‘Nett Zero’ is a runaway steamroller. It has its own momentum and the lies are stronger than the truth. The only way to stop it is to convince one person at a time. The more people who realise the narrative and the facts don’t join up, will eventually topple this. How much damage will have been done to our society and economies by then though.?
While I completely agree “the more people who realise the narrative and the facts don’t join up” and I do occasionally find the opportunity to speak with people who “believe” the narrative, I find when I point out the disconnect with the facts/data/reality most people get very angry. Carrying the conversation further, when I try to get a discussion about comparing the risk of what the computer says vs. the risk of what we seem to be doing to mitigate what the computers say about “climate change”, the concept of comparing risk mitigation alternatives goes way over their heads (even though I never use those words).
I fear that depending on convincing one person at a time is not quick enough. I of course am probably wrong.
The issues are unnecessarily, probably deliberately so, conflated. Relies on “I believe” and “Don’t you believe?”.
Don’t family ties make it worse as well….whether it’s Covid or Climate?…
I never agree with my niece on these two things, she’s a total believer in both, and as much as I love her, she is a fine example of a ‘sheeple’……
I do say what I think, but quietly, and then leave it alone, because I love my sister (her mum) and couldn’t bear a fall-out.
I imagine this scenario is played out all over the country….
“Family ties” can be a curse when there is a difference between deeply held opinions. It becomes problematic whether or not a family member suffers from mental illness or simply has an eccentric worldview: indeed the difference can sometimes be unascertainable and a matter of convention, religion, or climatism. In these situations I am reminded of Dinsdale Piranha, who, though a really nice guy (deep down) was episodically convinced he was being stalked by a ten-foot long hedgehog called Spiny Norman. Now imagine the problem facing Dinsdale’s wife. So long as Dinsdale’s position was that he “knows”[1,2] that the hedgehog was imaginary and that he was seeking help, he was merely neurotic, and she could probably cope with Dinsdale, and would be quietly be confident that there is no hedgehog. However, if Dinsdale’s position is that he “knows” that the hedgehog is real, he is psychotic and will believe that he is correct and his wife is either mistaken, stupid or psychotic. His wife now has a dilemma. If she openly denies his reality she will provoke a divorce. If she openly agrees with his reality while privately rejecting it she is colluding in his delusion and will make it worse but will remain sane herself, though at risk of cognitive dissonance. If she herself comes to sincerely believe in the reality of the hedgehog she preserves the relationship but at the expense of becoming brainwashed and will wind up in a happy folie à deux in which both are psychotic and will never recover without external assistance[2]. This process can be extended to groupthink, mass formation and psychotic delirium[3], and applies as much to climate and corona as it does to giant hedgehogs.
There is no happy and healthy relationship between a non-psychotic person and a psychotic person. “It is difficult to get a person to believe something if their marriage depends on not believing it”, as Upton Sinclair nearly said.
[1] Eric Berne: Games People Play
[2] Thomas Anthony Harris: I’m OK – You’re OK
[3] Michael Cook: French philosopher decries corona ‘madness’
Jonathan Swift: you can’t reason someone out of something they haven’t reasoned themselves into.
Same problem with CoVidians.
Covid madness also felt like an unstoppable runaway train at one point.
I trust chipping away at the Net Zero stupidity will work. We have the fact that it is insane and will cause a lot of damage on our side. Like with Covid.
I agree Stewart..those boosters are not flying off the shelf are they? We just have to keep chipping away, as you say…
I hear you. I was at a corporate Town Hall this week and they were pushing it ridiculously hard. There were so many blatently absurd statistics quoted that I had to leave the room and pretend I needed the loo otherwise I think I might have exploded. And everyone seemed to lap it up. God help us.
An example of the problems faced by the “enlightened”.
Good friends of ours, decent people, have purchased an EV.
Do we point out the child labour, Uyghur slave labour, “climate change” garbage to them and destroy the friendship, or allow them to feel they are “saving the planet” and keep on happy terms.
I’m yet to figure that one out.
The steam roller is about to run out of road particularly when the lights go out.
Maybe. I think there is a good chance that when the lights go off the mainstream media, especially BBC, will focus on “victims and their hardships”, recollections of the 1970’s from “old” people who now sort of fondly remember when this happened before, etc. If any connection to “cause” they’ll mention without elaboration “climate change” a few times without touching the true cause(s) of failure to delivery power. They will jump to “solutions” which means more “renewables” and ask why is the government holding back fixing this, looking for those to blame, etc.?
It would be a surprise if climate model forecasts were any better than weather forecasts when it come to accuracy versus time. https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/forecast-accuracy-time.html might be of interest, but it’s well known that forecasts are guess work after a week or so.
Yes, easily debunked by the fact that if mathematical models had ANY predictive powers then someone would have applied them to the stock market and become the richest man (or woman) on planet earth.
That’s not occurred yet for a very good reason, they don’t work.
It might be rather unkind, but I really hope we have a particularly nasty winter with plenty of power cuts, because I think that would have some good outcomes, even if it seems like hell at the time. Three that come to mind are;
It will make people question the ideas of net zero and AGW. Especially if MSM starts printing stories of people freezing to death.
It gives people a new focus to take their minds off covid.
It will show the severe limitations of EV’s when people can’t charge them up.
We need people to wake up and get angry, very angry. Mind you, we could all be nuked or broadsided by a massive solar storm as well. I think the world will be a very different place by next spring, assuming we are all still here.
The great majority of us will survive even a harsh winter. The most damaging effects are on the poor in developing countries who are denied affordable energy. Botswana is selling coal to Europe at the moment ironically.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/europe-seeks-million-tonnes-per-year-botswana-coal-says-president-2022-05-10/
Monckton has published a paper (with distinguished colleagues) pointing out that the ECS is miscalculated because the feedback is only applied to the difference between a theoretical earth without an atmosphere and current measurements. His team’s contention (which seems correct) is that the feedback calculation should be based on the whole temperature rise from absolute zero. His flat line calculation (currently no warming for eight years by least squares linear regression) has some value but is partly to have a bit of fun at the expense of the eco-loons.
https://phys.org/news/2015-01-peer-reviewed-pocket-calculator-climate-exposes-errors.html
On Earth Day 2017 weekend seven shots were fired at the NSSTC building at UAH. The eco-loons don’t plan to give up their scam without a fight.
‘A total of seven shots were fired into our National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) building here at UAH over the weekend.
All bullets hit the 4th floor, which is where John Christy’s office is (my office is in another part of the building).’
https://www.drroyspencer.com/2017/04/shots-fired-into-the-christyspencer-building-at-uah/
Prof John Christie put together a chart of the results of running all the major climate model temperature ‘predictions’ starting from the same base at ~1970. All overstated the subsequent temperature record except for the one from Russia, which was pretty well spot on. The Russian computer model is based on zero influence (ECS=0) of CO2.
Anyone following this subject and getting their info from sources other than MSM and Government and Eco-Propaganda, as I have for the last 25 years, will recognise this as old ‘Fake News’.
All the climate models have consistently over-estimated warming compared to reality, the Urban Heat Island effect and the artificial warming bias in the surface record was researched and reported (published) years ago by Anthony Watts. The purported rate of global warming flat-lined after 1996, then about 15 years ago went into slight decline prompting ‘global warming’ (measurable) being abandoned as the war cry to be replaced by climate change (not measurable).
Years ago the Climate Sensitivity was put at around 1C per doubling of CO2, ignoring all other compensating factors which when taken into account meant the warming effect of C02 was approaching zero.
The parallels of the CoVid ‘Science’ and Climate ‘Science’ are irresistible, even now to the point that at last, the ‘not consensus’ are beginning to speak out and report the facts, the uncertainties and irrefutable data from observation which underline the non-evidence based claims.
May we expect grudgingly the MSM and other ‘experts’ to start claiming they knew all along it was a fake and they really never said Mankind was causing global warming/climate change just as so many are lining up to deny they ever said vaccinations were 100% effective, or that lockdowns and masks worked?
Dare we hope we are in the final days of the climate scam and Net Zero?
Dare we hope we are in the final days of the climate scam and Net Zero?
I fear we are in the mere beginning of it. Famine in the sub-Sahara, is coming now, and will produce a great northern march. If we dislike forcible illegal immigration we ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. Climate change, plus historic colonialism, will be blamed for the desperate emigration. The censorship and suppression of debate we have seen so far are a mere foretaste.
Net Zero is like a false god. Politicians say they believe in it despite all scientific evidence showing the Climate Change agenda is a pack of lies.
Grand ‘Renewables’ Delusion: Hard Reality Keeps Smashing Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Myth
https://stopthesethings.com/2022/10/08/grand-renewables-delusion-hard-reality-keeps-smashing-wind-solar-transition-myth/
by stopthesethings
Embrace humanity, Reject the cold anti-human agenda.
Yellow Boards By The Road
Monday 10th October 11am to 12pm
Yellow Boards
Junction A321 Sandhurst Rd &
B3016 Finchampstead Rd
Wokingham RG40 3JS
Wednesday 12th October 11am to 12pm
Yellow Boards
Junction A327 Observer Way &
Reading Rd Arborfield
Wokingham RG2 9HT
Thursday 13th October 11am to 12pm
Yellow Boards
Junction A3095 Warfield Road &
Harvest Ride Warfield
Bracknell RG42 2QH
Stand in the Park Sundays 10.30am to 11.30am – make friends & keep sane
Wokingham
Howard Palmer Gardens Sturges Rd RG40 2HD
Bracknell
South Hill Park, Rear Lawn, RG12 7PA
Telegram http://t.me/astandintheparkbracknell
The Climate Change scam is the UN’s Agenda 2030 in action. The intention is to transfer wealth from the developed, western first world to the undeveloped third world….. to pay for the “original sin” of colonialism.
The likes of China and India, who are ignoring the instruction to cut CO2 and are growing their fossil fuel energy production, are simply exploiting the opportunity it gives them.
The UN is controlling the Agenda. There is no evidence to support it, but (as we have learned from Covid) if any Opposition is silenced and the sheeple are bombarded with fear-based propaganda, they will act as the Praetorian Guard.