- “Riot police storm Columbia campus and drag pro-Palestine protesters from barricade” – Police in New York City arrest dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators holed-up in an academic building on Columbia University’s campus, reports GB News.
- “Columbia University calls upon NYPD to clear pro-Palestinian activists from an occupied building, as adversarial leftist protests return to American campuses” – The events at Columbia University reflect the decaying alliance between activists and university administrators, and portend an important shift in leftist dynamics both on and off campus, argues Eugyppius on Substack.
- “They aren’t revolutionaries. They’re bigoted brats” – The Columbia cranks rant about killing Zionists one minute and demand hot meals the next, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “We have a freedom problem” – At Columbia University and elsewhere, a generation of students, who take their liberties for granted, behave shamefully, writes Hannah E. Meyers in City Journal.
- “Is anti-white prejudice fuelling anti-Zionist protests?” – For Left-activists, Israel-Palestine is an allegory telling a story about the horrors of white supremacy and settler colonialism, says Eric Kaufmann in UnHerd.
- “Illegal migrants set to be deported to Rwanda handcuffed at home” – The first migrants set to be deported to Rwanda have been detained, reports the Mail.
- “Dublin’s tent city is destroyed and all 200 asylum seekers taken away” – Irish authorities launch an operation to move asylum seekers who created a ‘tent city’ in Central Dublin amid an ongoing row with the British Government over immigration, says the Mail.
- “The Republic’s migrant crisis threatens Northern Ireland” – Dublin now seems to be calling for a hard border on immigration, remarks Owen Polley in CapX.
- “The French are now channelling migrants to Ireland” – In the Telegraph, Michael Murphy reports from Dublin’s migrant camp, where he witnessed the chaos engulfing the Republic.
- “Ireland has made its bed with the EU. It must lie in it” – On one level, the migrant row is a mutually-helpful farce. But has something changed in U.K.-Irish ties? wonders Ruth Dudley Edwards in the Telegraph.
- “Labour would give 50,000 in limbo asylum seekers chance to stay in U.K.” – Labour would allow more than 50,000 asylum-seekers currently in limbo to make claims to stay in the U.K. if it wins the General Election, according to the Telegraph.
- “Why Sweden got it right on Covid” – We were told during Covid that Sweden would suffer mass fatalities. Instead, it had one of the lowest excess death rates in Europe. Does that suggest our response was wrong? asks Dan Hannan in the Mail.
- “The two sides of AstraZeneca’s vaccine ‘miracle’” – Jamie Scott was fit and healthy before the jab, but it nearly killed him – now he and others like him are suing the firm behind the drug, writes Jamie Scott in the Telegraph.
- “The true tragedy of the COVID-19 vaccines” – The jabs undoubtedly saved lives, but overblown claims damaged the reputation of vaccines in general, says Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
- “Scientists tried to give people Covid – and failed” – Researchers deliberately infect participants with SARS-CoV-2 in ‘challenge’ trials — but high levels of immunity complicate efforts to test vaccines and treatments, reports Ewen Callaway in Nature magazine.
- “U.S. states move to oppose WHO’s ‘pandemic treaty’, assert states’ rights” – Utah and Florida pass laws to prevent the WHO from overriding states’ authority on matters of public health policy – and Louisiana and Oklahoma are set to follow suit, reports the World Council for Health.
- “Perimenopausal women ‘40% more likely to have depression’, study shows” – Researchers from University College London found women were more vulnerable to depression and anxiety in the months and years leading up to the menopause, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pensioners at risk of snooping by officials under new law” – David Davis warns that a newly proposed law will allow the Government to access pensioners’ bank accounts without them knowing, according to the Express.
- “The SNP hasn’t realised that ‘socially conservative’ is actually normal” – With ‘progressive’ leaders like Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf, the Scottish National Party has become the farthest Left in the U.K., argues Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Sadiq Khan and the tyranny of high-status opinion” – Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill explains how Sadiq Khan turned London into a cultural playpen for the woke.
- “Sadiq Khan is holding London back” – Khan has been Mayor for eight years and has patently failed to deliver, says Harry Phibbs in CapX.
- “The dead hand of the state would kill our railways” – Under renationalisation, the railways would be pitted against a dozen other petitioners bidding for state hand-outs, warns William Yarwood in CapX.
- “The Net Zero leviathan is crushing the economy” – Britain has shot itself in the foot by leading the fight against climate change, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “BBC weather map row heats up over confusing colours” – The BBC is under fire for the colour scale it uses to represent temperatures, with lows of 11°C shown as yellow while 41°C is depicted as dark red, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why climate change isn’t going to end the world” – Cambridge professor Mike Hulme argues that climatism is an ideology that places too much importance on stopping climate change, when there are other more pressing issues that face humanity, according to the Mail.
- “Actor Martin Freeman eats pork pies again after 38 years” – Martin Freeman has quit vegetarianism after nearly four decades because meat replacement is “very, very processed”, reports the Mail.
- “Badenoch asks people to report public bodies which fail to offer single-sex spaces” – Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch is urging members of the public to give examples of state bodies failing to provide single-sex toilets, says the Telegraph.
- “Girls developed urinary infections because school had gender-neutral toilets, says Badenoch” – Kemi Badenoch claims that girls at a school developed urinary tract infections because they did not want to use gender-neutral toilets, according to the Express.
- “Keir Starmer put trans extremists ahead of women. Now he wants to pretend it never happened” – In deciding to edge himself back to reality from the most extreme transgender ideology, Starmer appears to be deluding himself that none of us will notice the shift, writes Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer is as slippery as ever on the trans debate” – Keir Starmer may have finally admitted that only women have cervixes, but that doesn’t mean he cares about women’s rights, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Daniel Radcliffe promises not to back down on LGBT rights after J.K. Rowling rebuke” – Daniel Radcliffe has reignited a row with J.K. Rowling by saying his beliefs don’t have to align with the author’s just because she made him a star, according to the Mail.
- “Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism” – People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances, says Victoria Smith in the Critic.
- “DEI was never about profitability” – DEI advocates from business giants like McKinsey and Mark Cuban have been proven wrong – and in the process reveal their real agenda, writes Christopher Brunet in the American Conservative.
- “Don’t knock feminism – having children is about personal priorities” – To ‘have it all’ meant we had to behave like men… but it can be hard to give up the new-found freedom that came with it, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Americans don’t want Kamala to be their ‘Momala’” – Drew Barrymore’s interview with the U.S Vice-President was a toe-curling display of sycophancy, writes Jenny Holland in Spiked.
- “Pizza with no bread” – Many memes have been produced about the pro-Palestinian protestors at Columbia asking for food, but this is one of the better ones.
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Dear Daily Sceptic,
Request: Please tell people to stop posting photos of themselves every single day on your respected news website, instead of using their own social media page.
It’s narcissistic and creepy.
Thank you.
Wait! I just looked more closely at the photo, and it seems to be a bloke, not a woman at all. I really am sorry for my mistake. I’m all for males growing their hair as long as they want, because God gave the gift of long head hair to everyone, and it’s very useful for keeping your head warm in winter, and protecting from the midday sun in summer. It’s just that there are so many chemicals and hormones from contraceptive pills in the drinking water these days, that it makes most men go bald even in their 20s, so I haven’t seen men with long hair since the 1960s- 70s, and a few in the 80s.
Anyway, I think I’ve given you lot a hard time for long enough, so I’ll leave off now, and let you get on with it in peace. Your group’s message may just be reaching a lot more passing motorists than we commenters on here are reaching wokesters, who won’t read them or visit this website anyway. So carry on, and I’ll just skip over the annoying photos every day, which everybody else seems to like.
Dear Toby and the DS team. I just went to the trouble of typing a comment on the “Historical Significance of Humza Yousef” article, only to find out when I tried to post it a message came up saying “comments are now closed”. This is ofcourse disappointing. But I accept you may have good reasons for doing this, but can you not indicate comments are closed at the top of the article so we don’t waste our time writing a comment?
The article doesn’t look closed. Could it be you needed to login again as a comments closed message also shows if you try and comment when your session has expired?
Incorrect error messages are very annoying. They occur on many platforms and online services.
are those oh-so-clever programmers not capable of better.
“are those oh-so-clever programmers not capable of better”
Fixing messages like these can be quite straightforward but a non-programmer may have decided there’s higher-priority tasks even although informative messages can be an easy-win to reduce the workload of having to respond to questions on why a particular message is appearing.
As DHJ says above, this can happen if you need to log in again but your browser window has not been updated. Your browser lets you type the comment but the web server won’t let you submit it.
It’s frustrating and annoying that there’s not an ‘error’ message which points to the actual problem. Also, it would be better if the web server offered a chance to login without losing something you may have spent some valuable time composing.
Personally, having been stung a couple of times like this, if I get that message the first thing I do is copy my comment into a text file on my computer so I can try to resubmit it later. I guess this would be more difficult if you’re using a phone browser rather than a laptop computer.
To repeat myself: it’s frustrating.
To add to the list of quirks:
A style such as italic or blockquote cannot be removed by pressing the style button again, it has to be edited in code or start again by copying and pasting as plain text into a new comment.
If you hold down delete, the cursor position can jump to a different position while deleting and start deleting from another part of the text (this might be related to a background update of the comments).
We can create bullet points in comments but when they’re submitted the bullet icons disappear. If you edit the comment, they reappear – frustrating.
Had this loads of times – copy the message before logging back in.
https://telegra.ph/Oficery-12-29
What’s really going on?
‘As Olga told Astra from the words of her son and his colleagues, in the last battle the battalion commander abandoned them, allegedly running away for help. After this, Levanov refused to lead his personnel into battle and wrote a report on his refusal to participate in hostilities.’
‘Another missing officer, Dmitry Volkov, found himself in a similar situation. “It was a tough fight, he had 7 fighters out of 30 left, and he was immediately sent back. He said that he had no one to fight with, they had no ammunition, and their equipment was faulty. They told me to go there anyway and sent me to certain death. “He decided to withdraw the fighters who were still alive and refuse to carry out this order,” says his mother.’
“(He) approached the commanders there and asked his fate. He was told: either to the front line in the thick of it, to an assault detachment, or to prison. I understood perfectly well, and he knew, that there was no article [under which he could be prosecuted],”
He told his mother:
“If I don’t get in touch, ring all the bells, go to the prosecutor’s office, wherever you can’
He was never heard from again
‘Russia is deploying the choking agent chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops and using riot control agents “as a method of warfare” in Ukraine. (Chloropicrin is listed as a banned choking agent by the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.) ‘The use of such chemicals is not an isolated incident…’
‘Missile debris recovered from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv revealed that Russia fired a North Korean Hwasong-11 series ballistic missile, United Nations sanctions monitors told a Security Council committee in a report seen by Reuters on Monday. Russia’s procurement of North Korean weaponry would violate the arms embargo imposed on North Korea in 2006. Last month, Russia vetoed the annual renewal of the U.N. sanctions monitors that have observed enforcement of U.N. sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs for the past 15 years.’
‘A private company connected to Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko is building a luxury residence in the mountains near Sochi, Russia. Around the time the LLC was set up, Lukashenko reportedly issued secret orders for the privatization of the land. Plans for the residency include a swimming pool, a movie theater, Russian and Turkish baths, a massage room, and a fitness center, among other amenities. The site will also include a restaurant and a hotel.
Lukashenko may have decided to establish a residence outside of Belarus after mass protests broke out following the falsified 2020 election results. The luxury complex may be his intended home after he leaves office, either voluntarily or forcibly…’
‘Since 2020, Belarusian society has articulated its values, learned the art of long-term resistance, and created a free media based abroad. And now, for perhaps the first time ever, Belarusian dissidents are getting their hands on weapons and joining the fight against Putin in Ukraine, where they are becoming renowned for their courage and battlefield successes. (It is worth remembering that in 2014, Ukraine also had mostly volunteer battalions.)
All political forces have come to an agreement and a Belarusian government-in-exile was formed, headed by Tsikhanouskaya.
A marked change is that the government-in-exile already has its own armed branch, ready to rise up against Lukashenko at the first opportunity – including by force.’
Relatives of hostages threatening to lay siege to the Knesset and IDF headquarters with a million people if the government fails to do a deal.
Why not report on these protests?
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-02/ty-article/.premium/families-of-hostages-threaten-to-lay-siege-to-israeli-leaders-if-deal-falls-through/0000018f-362f-d8fb-a1df-bf6ff5870000
“The true tragedy of the COVID-19 vaccines”: Without reading the T behind the wall, I’ve long since thought that the loss of reputation by the general public could be a long term problem for other types of vaccination, even if it’s true that any individual lives were saved that way.
https://www.thefp.com/p/american-marxists-funding-pro-palestinian-rage
This week’s ‘Any connection?’ competition
‘The next protest co-organized by the (peoples) forum, called “Shut It Down for Palestine,” is taking place November 17 in at least 18 locations across the world including Copenhagen, New York City, Idaho, and Iowa.’
‘The People’s Forum is one of several foreign-funded organizations whose goal is to create havoc in America and defend tyrannical regimes like China’s, Russia’s, Cuba’s and Venezuela’s,’ the Venezuela native said.
‘I saw it firsthand when they hosted employees and officials from the Venezuelan socialist regime in 2022 in New York City. They don’t care about human rights, not of Palestinians or Jews and certainly not of Venezuelans.’
The New York Times reported last year that the Chinese Community Party was indirectly funding the People’s Forum.
On its 2022 tax forms, the People’s Forum disclosed receiving roughly $4 million in contributions and grants, $331,000 in program service revenue, and $52,000 in investment income. The charity’s expenses were $3.8 million, and its assets reached $18.5 million, compared to the $13.6 million it had in assets at the start of the year.
Is there ‘Any connection?’
‘…..the (Peoples Republic of China) PRC is providing Russia with semiconductors, navigation equipment, jet parts, ball bearings, computer numerical controlled tools, and other dual-use equipment supporting Russian arms production. The Economist, citing data from the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS), reported that Russia often imports goods through a complex system of shell companies, many of which can be traced back to the PRC. The Economist noted that Russian imports of goods from the PRC appeared to surge following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with PRC President Xi Jinping in Moscow in March 2023.’
Matt Ridley,telegraph:
“The jabs undoubtedly saved lives”
Bullsh!t, print the proof in your Wrag! Show us the evidence that is only to be seen by the pharmaceutical companies!
Matt Ridley is clearly not up to date. The absolute best that could be said of the
poisons“vaccines” is that they didn’t kill many people immediately. That they were designed to kill is beyond doubt as most of us see on a daily basis.An interesting extract from a statement made by a successful business that has recently gone into liquidation thanks to government policy.
“At no time did we think a government would shut us down, let alone keep us closed for 15 months…eventually two of the landlords doubled their fees, electricity tripled, Facebook took £15,000 fraudulently in 24 hours and didn’t give it us back, in fact didn’t even investigate…We had a thriving, growing business until we were forced to shut our doors for Covid.”
https://www.virtual-aerospace.com/
Oustanding interview by Sonia Elijah with Wouter Aukema, who scripted the download of the entire EMA pharmacovigilance database and built a front-end to query the data transparently. You won’t be surprised to learn that Covid vaccine harms are off the scale in comparison to the 6000 other pharmaceutical products in the database, but there are also signals of immune system compromise and cancers from other drug reports.
https://soniaelijah.substack.com/p/true-horrors-of-covid-vaccine-harm
This is hilarious.
In the third paragraph of the article we find
Wow. Valuable lesson learned: If you can’t get people infected, then you can’t test [vaccines, drugs and other theraputics]…
Later on we get complaints that the bug they tried to give the volunteers was not current; that it was so last year:
Good lord! You mean that if you’re trying to find a prophylactic or treatment you have to be testing it against the actual virus? That’s a novel idea.
Elsewhere in the article we find that the researchers repeatedly attempted to infect the volunteers until they were using a dose of the bug 10,000 times higher than what they started with. Did they conclude that it’s not that infectious? No. We must try harder.
Would not the more important lessons be:
No. The most important lesson for the researchers is:
Follow the money.
A superb post and thanks for the research.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/new-paper-on-czech-population-level-vaccination-data-disproves-claims-vaccines-are-safe-and-effective/
I am sure you will enjoy reading this excellent article from Martin Neill and Norman Fenton at TCW.
As we on here know “safe and effective” the vaccines definitely were not.
Conclusion
“Note that we strongly welcome and recommend the paper by Fürst et al. Whilst we might quibble about mechanisms and proof, as curious scientists and statisticians are apt to do, the policy implications of their analysis are profound and important.
No matter how you cut the data, they have demonstrated that the observed data on vaccination cannot and should not be used to support any claim that the Covid-19 vaccines are or were effective or safe.”
F*ck me. How do people as dumb as Dan even learn to walk, let alone hold down a job at one of the many major media outlets that peddle 24-7 propaganda? Ahhh, I may have just answered my own question.
I admit I’ve not read the article but…
“Why Sweden got it right on Covid” gives me a strong hint that the author, Lord (call me Dan) Hannan, is not asking the right question.
The reason why Sweden got it right is partly because of heroes like Anders Tegnell and partly because the Swedish constitution forbids the government taking powers to impose something like a lockdown.
I suspect the article actually focusses on the fact that lockdown was proved unnecessary by the Swedish example – but that’s not why Sweden got it right.
You’re assuming the person asking the question has the intelligence to understand the question he’s asking!
“Daniel Radcliffe promises not to back down on LGBT rights after J.K. Rowling rebuke” – Daniel Radcliffe has reignited a row with J.K. Rowling by saying his beliefs don’t have to align with the author’s just because she made him a star, according to the Mail.
No, his beliefs don’t have to align with JKR’s, but it would help if they aligned with biological reality.
“BBC weather map row heats up over confusing colours” – The BBC is under fire for the colour scale it uses to represent temperatures, with lows of 11°C shown as yellow while 41°C is depicted as dark red, reports the Telegraph.
Blimey – the Torygraph only just spotted this? All through winter, sites using Met Office data were ‘colourfaking’ the weather maps. Made me wonder how much it contributed to hypothermia deaths.
Latest Electoral Predictions from Electoral Calculus.
Con 85, Lab 472, Lib Dem 50, SNP 19, Lab Majority 294.
Courtesy of John Cruttwell at TCW.
“Americans don’t want Kamala to be their ‘Momala’
Drew Barrymore tearfully gushed to Kackling Kamala, “As a woman, who respects so much, and wants to share, and wants to be confident, and has no ounce of me that has competitiveness…”
No-ounce-of-competitiveness-Drew competitively destroyed Val Kilmer’s marriage to Joanna Whalley.
“Whalley and Kilmer were married in 1988 but split in 1995 when she made a surprise visit to see him on the set of Batman Forever and found him having an affair with Drew Barrymore.”