- “The man who changed British politics returns to the fray” – Nigel Farage has declared himself up for another scrap – and Sunak is the big loser, say Henry Bodkin and Robert Mendick in the Telegraph.
- “This is Nigel Farage’s finest hour: it will make the man” – Nigel Farage knows the Tories must not be allowed to continue in their current form and he is the only person who can force them to change, writes Matthew Goodwin in the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage’s election U-turn could be deadly for the Tories” – If Sunak thought he was out-manoeuvring Farage by calling an early election, it looks as if he failed, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Nigel Farage is a threat to Labour, too” – Keir Starmer risks underestimating the strength of feeling among many voters towards immigration, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Reform will dent Tory vote – but writing was already on the wall” – As Farage announces his return, Reform’s consistent polling lends credibility to YouGov’s estimates of disastrous losses for the Conservatives, says John Curtice in the Times.
- “Farage’s return could be the lift Reform needs to top Tories in polls” – Farage’s decision to stand as an MP could help Reform overtake the Tories in polls, writes Daniel Martin in the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak’s comeback plan just got a whole lot harder” – Labour is on course for a victory that will eclipse Tony Blair’s landslide in 1997, writes Steven Swinford in the Times.
- “‘Zero tolerance’ policing and tackling ‘woke madness’: Reform’s pledges at a glance” – From immigration to policing, Reform wants to make “tough decisions” about the future of the country, says Dominic Penna in the Telegraph.
- “Labour refuses to back Tory pledge to protect single-sex spaces” – Labour has refused to back the Conservatives’ election pledge to protect single-sex spaces by changing the Equality Act, reports the Telegraph.
- “Badenoch accuses BBC presenter of asking ‘trivial’ questions” – Kemi Badenoch has accused a BBC presenter of asking “trivial” and “unserious” questions during her first broadcast round of the General Election campaign, according to the Redditch Advertiser.
- “The problem with Kemi Badenoch’s transgender reforms” – In the Spectator, Iain Macwhirter has some questions regarding Kemi Badenoch’s Equality Act reforms.
- “Rishi could have protected women from trans madness. He chose not to” – The Conservatives had years to clarify the Equality Act and did nothing. They can’t pose as the party of common sense on gender now, says Kathleen Stock in the Telegraph.
- “Keir Starmer: an ungrateful beneficiary of Brexit” – Labour has profited from the U.K.’s departure from the EU, writes Richard Tuck in UnHerd. Starmer should be more grateful.
- “BBC pundit accused of antisemitism over ‘kids killers’ Gaza tweets” – A BBC cricket pundit has been accused of fanning antisemitism on social media after sharing antisemitic posts, including an image of Rishi Sunak sporting a Hitler moustache, reports the Times.
- “‘Is it fair? No. Is it morally right? Yes.’: parents on private school fee VAT plans” – In an unintentionally hilarious piece, Guardian readers belly ache about Labour’s plans to charge VAT on school fees.
- “WHO International Health Regulations” – In a frantic last minute rush, modified IHR were illegally approved by the World Health Assembly, says Dr. Robert W. Malone on his Substack.
- “Five questions for Fauci’s upcoming testimony” – In the Weekly lab leaker, Jim Haslam discusses Dr. Fauci’s testimony before a Congressional committee and poses five questions that should be put to him.
- “Pfizer/BioNTech C4591001 Trial – Audit Report” – The OpenVAET Substack team presents a reanalysis of the data and anomalies that have surfaced from the examination of the data from the Pfizer/BioNTech C4591001 trial.
- “The great taboo: Covid vaccination failings echo Infected Blood Scandal” – Parallels between the contaminated blood scandal and the Covid mass vaccination programme are too obvious to ignore, says Molly Kingsley on the UsForThem Substack.
- “Gain-of-function may explain bird flu jump to cows and humans” – Certain types of flu viruses that typically spread among birds are now causing infections in cows and humans, write Drs. Yuhong Dong and Xiaoxu Sean Lin in the Epoch Times.
- “The real winners” – Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson discuss GlaxoSmithKline’s legal woes.
- “Who is correct about content moderation in public heath?” – On Substack, Vinay Prasad covers the recent public spat between Elon Musk and AI researcher Yann LeCun.
- “There’s a very good reason Dominic Cummings didn’t last long in Whitehall” – The Civil Service preference for ‘generalists’ has led to a dearth of the technical skills needed to run the country, says Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “David Martin Jones, political theorist who argued that Islamic State, Hizbollah and Hamas are ‘death cults’ – obituary” – The Telegraph pays tribute to David Martin Jones, who has died aged 73, describing him as a maverick, conservative author and lecturer on political theory, militant Islamic movements, geopolitics and ‘culture wars’.
- “It feels like the social order is crumbling in Germany” – What Germany needs right now isn’t moral outrage but level-headed pragmatism, says Katja Hoyer in the Spectator.
- “Slovenia: the consequences of the double standards in Brussels” – In the European Conservative, Álvaro Peñas highlights the EU’s conspicuous silence as Slovenia’s leftist Government shuts down conservative media.
- “Global depopulation” – The depopulation crisis may be worse than people think, says the Naked Emperor on Substack.
- “J.K. Rowling accuses Labour of ‘complacency and indifference’ towards women” – J.K. Rowling has accused Alastair Campbell of revealing that Labour is “indifferent” towards women after he accused the Tories of attempting to “weaponise trans rights”, according to the Express.
- “A monumental failure” – Not only are woke warriors deciding which statues stay intact, they are now dictating which statues can be put up, says Peter Harris in the New Conservative.
- “BBC under fire over D-Day mapping blunder on Antiques Roadshow” – The Antiques Roadshow has come under fire for confusing Weymouth, where more than 100,000 men gathered ahead of the D-Day Normandy invasion, with Poole, according to the Telegraph.
- “‘Israel… which is still an Islam country, right?’” – On X, Lady Maga questions whether Queers for Palestine really understand what they’re supporting. Spoiler alert: No, they don’t.
Do queers for Palestine understand what they’re supporting? pic.twitter.com/j4vglLfOCO
— Lady Maga USA(@LadyMagaUSA) June 3, 2024
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Will they ever have the guts to produce the report that shows that there is no evidence jabs and vax passports did anything?
“For much of 2021, official messaging was dominated by two rival discourses that I nicknamed Team Lockdown and Team Vaccine.”
Both “teams” clearly won and got their wish, but Team Vaccine is the 900-pound gorilla ruling the world.
All the world’s “Public Health” agencies are now Vaccine Promotion Agencies. Nor is this going to change.
Of course it would change in one day if some big mainstream media expose proved that the vaccines are “dangerous and ineffective.” But such an expose will never come.
Presenting the other team, Team What Exactly Is The Problem We’re Trying To Solve, got nowhere. The still, small voice of calm, eh…
A step in the right direction – better than nothing.
Good to see a variety of original pieces by different authors here.
Some have complained about the £5 charge to post (and some may be justified e.g. Swedenborg as he put in a lot more than he got out) but I look upon it as a contribution to the education of the waverers and those late to the sceptic side.
The site has to have some decent revenue streams to keep producing excellent and important content. Hopefully, the more revenue that comes in, we’ll get even more excellent content. I thought this was a good compromise/solution. People can still read the articles and the Comments for free. For a small donation, they can get the “added value” of posting.
I’ll also be interested to see who advertises here in the future. I’m going to try to support the companies that support a truth-seeking, free-speech-supporting company.
Hear, hear.
That’s a great idea BillRiceJr, regarding supporting the advertisers. I hadn’t thought about that but any company should deserve a certain amount of respect for having the courage to go against the grain. I like to think that in the long run, as the harms of Covid policy are more obviously demonstrated to the public, the courage of these advertisers will be rewarded. As sceptics, we have a huge battle on our hands but we can win eventually through taking lots of small, progressive steps – this being one small example perhaps.
Alienating a lot of regular contributors, as evidenced by the fact that the comment section is now basically dead, isn’t going to bring in much revenue.
Fair comment.
Re SW – clearly he put in a lot of effort and I respect that and his knowledge however, as I have posted before, I gave up reading the posts because graphs and charts and reams of statistics bore me. We won the evidence battle very early, arguably with the Diamond Princess.
SW might well believe that in view of his contributions he was entitled to a free subscription. The editors thought otherwise and they are right. I did not join in order to pour over statistics and if that was all that DS offered I would not have joined in the first place.
Fighting the Scamdemic has never really been about numbers, I agree. The numbers of the whole affair are pretty simple, imho. As I have said before, too many times, it was obvious to anyone with an ounce of scepticism that “something was up” in February and March 2020 when governments, global media, experts everywhere were making such a big deal – and almost entirely uniformly! – of decidedly unremarkable daily mortalities.
From then on, it was a battle for hearts, which people like us have been losing by trying to use reason in the face of an incredibly well-funded Hype Machine…
I don’t think we’ll ever win it. Humans stumble on, from one essentially self-inflicted and entirely unnecessary catastrophe to the next.
Anything by Eugyppius is well worth the read (also, nearly every article on DS despite some of the comments).
I will read this article later, after posting a raspberry to any on here who have been chunterinf at those of us who have supposedly vanished when a donation was requested. (I’m looking at YOU, hp and Cg….)
It’s taken me about a week to get access to comments a mere fortnight after donating considerably more than 5 quid (thank you for your help and patience, Will!)
Turns out it was an email mismatch problem, sorted after much anguish and many emails to and from mods. Others may have similar issues, so can we cut each other a bit of slack? Ta.
Good morning Jane!
I thought it might be something of the sort. I’m glad you got it sorted. I’m planning a post on the matter on the News Round-up section for today and hope to do some good on that front. I must admit I was guilty of intemperate posts on the matter once or twice. Still, by the same token, there are reasons why others didn’t have problems and didn’t realise the problems others were having. Speaking for myself, I always sign in again anyway and have long since memorised my password, so it was just a question of making sure I had made the required donation to comment. However, I understand that it is not the same for other people who, apparently, stay signed in permanently (among other things) and I apologise if one or two of my posts have been unfair to people.
Thanks, Hugh and good morning back at you.
Back to business….
This is important because the WHO etc are in the process of modifying their recommendations to include lockdowns as a valid pandemic response.
China’s WHO are a lot of vile scum. We need a campaign to break free of these types of rotters, same as we had with the Brussels (and Strassburg and Letzebuerg) regime. I supported this campaign (in 2015 among other times) but the late, great Christopher Booker had us well briefed that the EU simply enacted a lot of rules passed onto them by other international organisations (over which Norway had more influence than us as an independent member rather than just one small part of the EU).
“Ich schuetze dich”? More like “Ich bin nicht schuld”…