- “Fury at BBC as Nigel Farage fans savage Question Time ‘audience bias’” – The BBC has been savaged by viewers about ‘audience bias’ after Nigel Farage endured a bruising Question Time grilling, reports the Express.
- “Nigel Farage boycotts BBC over Question Time blow-up” – Nigel Farage says he is boycotting the BBC until he receives an apology from the broadcaster over accusations of bias in a special episode of Question Time, according to Politico.
- “Reform surges ahead of Tories in bombshell new poll despite Ukraine row” – Nigel Farage’s party could be on course for swathes of seats according to a new poll for the Daily Express.
- “Labour vote share falls to lowest in more than two years” – A new Telegraph poll reveals the gap between Keir Starmer’s party and the Conservatives now stands at 17 percentage points.
- “Reform withdraws support from three election candidates” – Nigel Farage’s party has withdrawn support from three of its candidates over offensive comments they have made, reports the Mail.
- “Kemi Badenoch supporters discuss plan to ‘delay leadership contest’” – Supporters of Kemi Badenoch have hatched a plan to delay a Conservative leadership contest if the Tories lose the election because they believe it will improve her chances of victory, says the Telegraph.
- “Tory members could lose final say over new party leader” – Conservative Party members could lose their final say over who becomes Tory leader as senior figures weigh up whether to change the rules if they suffer an election defeat, according to the Telegraph.
- “The Conservatives are paying the terrible price for Britain’s lockdown amnesia” – Lockdown sits like a poisonous toad in the middle of every policy discussion, but we pretend not to see it, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Labour candidate says arms sales to Israel will stop after party takes power” – A Labour candidate has broken ranks by claiming arms sales to Israel and Saudi Arabia will stop if the party takes power, reports the Telegraph.
- “Jewish LGBT charity pulls out of Pride in London” – Britain’s largest Jewish LGBT charity has pulled out of London’s Pride parade over safety concerns, according to the Telegraph.
- “New York Times calls on Biden to quit race after disastrous debate” – A defiant Joe Biden has attacked Donald Trump at a rally a day after the his “shocking” performance in a head-to-head debate, reports Sky News. Meanwhile, even the NYT is calling for Biden to quit.
- “Joe Biden given one week to stand down” – Joe Biden has been told he has a week to win over Democrats or the party high-ups will move to oust him, says LBC.
- “U.S. debate trainwreck: Trump could be in real trouble now” – Almost any alternative to Biden would be harder for Trump to beat, writes Isaac Schorr in the Telegraph.
- “England fans could lose their job if they sing ‘10 German Bombers’” – A leading employment law firm has warned that England fans filmed singing offensive songs such as ’10 German Bombers’ face losing their jobs, reports the Mail.
- “Gary Lineker’s podcast ‘earns him £125,000’ since start of Euros” – England may have had a gloomy start to Euro 2024 but the tournament has been anything but disappointing for Gary Lineker, says the Times.
- “Sadiq Khan: flying the flag against Britain” – Sadiq Khan has once again sparked fury after imposing a rule which bans taxi, Uber and private hire drivers in London from flying England flags, writes Jack Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Le Pen victory could spark wave of violence say Left-wingers” – All eyes are on France as the new Left-wing bloc ‘boss’ Jean-Luc Mélenchon threatens civil unrest if his side loses the forthcoming parliamentary election, says Henry Samuel in the Telegraph.
- “U.K. households pay more for electricity than all of the EU” – For the first time, U.K. households are facing higher electricity prices than those anywhere in the EU, reports the Times.
- “Why Labour’s Net Zero plan will cost taxpayers the earth” – Labour says its £8.3 billion bet on a state-owned energy company will cut costs for British taxpayers, but the numbers don’t add up, says Ruby Hinchliffe in the Telegraph.
- “Prevent investigates boy, 12, for saying there ‘are only two genders’” – A 12 year-old schoolboy has been investigated by counter-extremism officers after he declared there “are only two genders” and “there’s no such thing as non-binary”, reports the Mail.
- “The real mystery about gender ideology: why do so many women support it?” – A female MP applauding a man for telling the Women’s Minister to ‘shut up’: welcome to Left-wing feminism in 2024, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Hundreds of rioters convicted over January 6th insurrection could be freed” – The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that prosecutors went too far in charging people with trying to obstruct Congress on January 6th, reports the Washington Post.
- “You couldn’t make this shit up” – A video taken at the heavily fenced and guarded Glastonbury compound, designed to prevent illegal entry, shows revellers celebrating migrants in dinghies breaking into the U.K. illegally by passing around an inflatable designed by Banksy.
GLASTONBURY – The heavily fenced & guarded compound of Glastonbury, surrounded by security, to ensure no one can illegally break in …
— Bernie (@Artemisfornow) June 29, 2024
Is celebrating illegal migrants in dinghies, illegally breaking into the UK.
You couldn’t make this shit up
pic.twitter.com/KSE8oDiQm0
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.
Wednesday Morning
Windsor Rd & Ascot Rd
Maidenhead
”Look, Beth, for us accepting donations is not corruption, it’s an act of self sacrifice. The difference between us and the Tories is that we are righteous. We are on the right side of history. We fight for good causes. We are nice people.”
It’s all just theatre. Just like during “covid” when the Tories were found to have been partying, the general reaction wasn’t “hmm, perhaps they are lying to us about the big stuff too” it was “tut tut they should be following their own rules”. There’s no hope.
A Next Tuesday is still a Next Tuesday and Kneel is the definition of a Next Tuesday.l
I was actually having a visceral reaction to the announcement that Gove was going to be editor of the Spectator.
A man without integrity and a lockdown fanatic.
I cancelled my subscription.
Lionel Shriver will soon be cancelling her membership too, I don’t doubt.
Mr Scotch Egg. Despicable man.
The Spectator and the former editor were vaguely sceptical of lockdowns – I remember they broke a story where they had asked SAGE why they always gave the worst case scenario wrt “Covid” and they said “well the government never asked for realistic guesstimates”, around the time of the moronic variant.
I’ve been struggling with it for quite a while, but after subscribing for 34 years I think that’s me done.
Sorry, but the Sky interview looks to me like a big nothing sandwich.
The whole freebies thing is a stupid, ridiculous distraction from stuff that actually matters.
Asking “Do you get the optics?” half a dozen times is not hard hitting journalism.
Hard hitting journalism would be getting into mRNA vaccine damage and how pharma companies attack and intimidate anyone who raises the issue. It would be questioning what the point of Net Zero policies in the UK when it clearly makes no difference to the thing they claim changes the climate. It would be finding out how many new immigrants the government plans to let in next year and then holding them to account over it. It would mean defending free speech against a government determined to take it away. It would mean standing up for ordinary people rather than for the establishment and authority.
This silly exchange is indeed about optics but not regarding Starmer. It’s Sky trying to give the impression they hold power to account by going after trivialities rather than actual established power. (Which they can’t obviously because they are corrupt and completely owned by established corporate and state power.)
Yes, and just asking “Do you get the optics” is like saying, “we forgive you, next time don’t be so obvious about it, we have advisors who can make sure you don’t get caught, speak to me after to get a few telephone numbers, wink wink”
100% and baffled as to how anyone who reads DS would take issue with what you have written
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/25/letby-hospital-baby-delivery-out-of-horror-film-thirlwall/
Not for a minute do I minimise the absolute tragedy of losing a child, let alone two under any circumstances. It seems though after going through the utter horror show of the birth, which is incomprehensible in today’s day and age in a supposedly ‘civilised’ country they still blame Letby. I suppose that it was necessary to focus blame on one person despite relating the disgusting surroundings and the utter incompetence of the staff that were googling what to do!
I’ve always said that I’ve experienced the best and the worst of the NHS and again in the past couple of weeks I’ve seen the best and mediocre sides of it with Mr B. The NHS needs dismantling and starting again, something that will never happen if it continues being treated as a sacred cow.
Unbelievable. A Prime Minister earning £167,000 pa with ALL bills paid, every single one, cannot afford to buy his own knickers. What an utter, utter disgrace.