- “Labour councillor who called for far-Right rioters’ throats to be cut is arrested” – A Labour councillor who was filmed saying far-Right rioters are “disgusting” and should have their throats cut has been arrested, reports Poitico.
- “Woman who shared false information on Southport attack is ‘mortified’” – A British businesswoman, accused of being the first to falsely claim that the Southport stabbings suspect was an asylum seeker, says she is ‘mortified’ by the incident, according to the Mail.
- “Starmer’s prison overcrowding plan could mean some rioters will be released early” – Far-Right rioters jailed over recent disorder could be released from prison early under the Government’s scheme to tackle overcrowding, reveals the Telegraph.
- “I’m not safe as a Muslim politician, says Sadiq Khan” – Sadiq Khan says he is not safe as an openly Muslim politician in the wake of the riots, according to the Telegraph.
- “Two-Tier Keir showed his true colours years ago. We should have seen the warning signs” – Far-Right rioters are worthy of condemnation, but accusations of two-tier policing are becoming harder to deny, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Why Britain riots” – Starmer has played into the hands of those who claim the white working classes are discriminated against, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “The British migrant dream is thriving. It’s poor white boys who are in trouble” – If Starmer wants to pick an agenda from the wreckage of the last few days, he needs look no further then the problem of left-behind whites, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Britain set for ‘sustained inter-ethnic conflict’ as David Starkey wades in on chaos” – Dr. David Starkey warns that Britain’s current unrest signals the onset of “sustained inter-ethnic conflict”, reports GB News.
- “The riots and the social media blame game” – Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings, writes Fred Skulthorp in the Critic.
- “Blaming Andrew Tate for a rise in violence against women is a cop-out” – Police chiefs are scapegoating online influencers for their own failure to tackle misogynistic crimes, says Paul Chapel in Spiked.
- “In defence of Elon Musk” – Without Elon Musk, we would likely have seen only one side of the violence of this past week, writes James Price in the Critic.
- “Tommy Robinson is copying the progressive playbook” – The Right has minimised the rioters’ agency, says Simon Cottee in UnHerd.
- “Labour warned over attempt to define Islamophobia” – Labour is considering enforcing a controversial definition of Islamophobia – despite warnings it could harm free speech, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Poked by the bear” – If the Russians are throwing a few lighted matches in our direction, then we probably ought first to establish why it is that our societies are full of such dry kindling, says Dr. David McGrogan on his Substack.
- “Taylor Swift terror suspect plotted to drive into crowd and launch machete attack” – The suspect arrested for plotting a terror attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna has confessed to planning to drive a car into a crowd of fans outside the arena and attack them with machetes, reports the Mail.
- “Noah Lyles tested positive for Covid but kept it secret from his 200m rivals” – Noah Lyles revealed that he tested positive for Covid but kept it secret from his competitors following his failed attempt to emulate Usain Bolt’s 100m-200m Olympic sprint double, says USA Today.
- “Multiple counties in blue state recommend N-95 masks for Covid” – Multiple counties in California have started recommending masks indoors, amid a four-fold Covid spike in some areas, reports the Mail.
- “Emails show Zeynep Tufekci is a master at flimflam” – On Substack, Paul D. Thacker uncovers how social media influencer Zeynep Tufekci’s mask crusade had Cochrane flip-flopping on its own review.
- “Give couples £5k tax break to have more children, says think tank” – A report by Onward suggests that parents should be given a £5,000 tax break to encourage them to have more children, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour donor bags plum U.K. Treasury job” – A banker who donated over £20,000 to prominent Labour figures and worked for the party in the months leading up to the election has been given a top civil service job in Britain’s finance ministry, says Politico.
- “Cambridge doubles down on freedom of speech rules” – Cambridge University has implemented its new freedom of speech code, in spite of the legislation it was based on being suspended by the new Labour Government, according to Varsity.
- “Lord Saatchi’s bid for Telegraph is rejected” – Advertising tycoon Lord Saatchi’s bid for the Telegraph has been rejected after the Abu Dhabi fund selling the newspaper said it was not a serious offer, reports Sky News.
- “Mining giant abandons plan to ditch coal as boss admits ‘cash is king’” – Glencore will keep its coal operations after investors reversed their decision to ditch coal, says Axios.
- “Why driving an electric car isn’t green at all” – It takes seven years for an electric car to hit net zero CO2. With batteries lasting only 10 years, you only see a carbon reduction for the final three – before losing all those gains when it’s time for a replacement, explains Mark Keenan in TCW.
- “Food is freedom” – Modern “sustainability” efforts risk imposing food scarcity and limiting individual liberty, warns Thomas Buckley on his Point Substack.
- “NHS to launch first service for trans patients wanting to return to birth gender” – The NHS is to launch its first ever service for transgender patients wanting to return to the gender of their birth, reports the Mail.
- “Should the NHS really be spending money on child gender clinics?” – The correct number of NHS paediatric gender clinics is not one, nor two and certainly not eight; it is zero, says Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “Olympic meddling” – The whole point of the Games is not to be inclusive, but exclusive, says Theodore Dalrymple in Taki’s Mag.
- “Together 3rd Anniversary Event – with Neil Oliver, Zuby, Allison Pearson, Baroness Claire Fox, Bev Turner, Dominic Frisby plus more” – Together’s 3rd Anniversary Event is set to attract around 2,000 people to London on Friday, 20th September, with speakers including Neil Oliver, podcaster Zuby, the Telegraph’s Allison Pearson, Baroness Claire Fox, broadcaster Bev Turner and more announced soon. Daily Sceptic readers can get £5 off early bird tickets for a limited time by using coupon code SCEPTIC at checkout.
- “Victory as GARM is dead!” – On X, Ben Shapiro celebrates the World Federation of Advertisers “discontinuing” the activities of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) following an antitrust lawsuit filed by Elon Musk.
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Damn, I was looking forward to this. Looks like I’ll be giving it the swerve.
First of all, what are you doing watching a show that clearly has an 18 rating?
I’ve seen the whole season (it isn’t finished – the next season is coming later this year), and thought it was ok. The woke story line (not really a story line) about the trans person came across as hamfisted and, dare I say it, retarded. It doesn’t dominate the show at all.
Obvs the novelty value isn’t there any more if you watched the first season, but I thought the games themselves were plenty thrilling. If you enjoyed the first one then you should enjoy the second one as long as you put your finger in your ears and go ‘la la la’ during the woke bits.
You never tried to sneak into an 18? Wierdo!
If you enjoyed the first one then you should enjoy the second one as long as you put your finger in your ears and go ‘la la la’ during the woke bits.
And that’s exactly what you shouldn’t be doing.
The creator explained that including a trans character was a bold effort to raise awareness about the challenges and prejudices faced by gender minorities in South Korea.
First, that’s probably a lie: The creator was almost certainly paid to including this walking (as I assume) propaganda vehicle and didn’t do this because he actually cared about it. Otherwise, the character hadn’t magically appeared once the show had proven to be successful enough to consider it for delivering propaganda camouflaged as entertainment.
Second, the message behind this is clear. The first season was an entertainment show with characters the audience wanted to identify with going through a challenging, suspenseful story. A conventional design for the entertainment industry, so to say. But this has now changed. Characters are now forced onto the supposedly already hooked audience because they ought to identify with them in order to lecture them about somebody’s preferred pseudo-medical treatment for something that’s – at best – a disturbing and somewhat disgusting mental health issue affecting a tiny minority of the population and – at worst – simply a scam to make $$$ by harming vulnerable children (eg, depressed or autistic).
If you don’t roundly reject that because “the special effects are still so cool!” (I made that one up) you’re proving to be exactly the kind of target person (in the opinions of the people behind this scheme) whose brain is to be put through the propaganda ironing machine in order to make interpret the world in the proper way, this to be done by programming memories into it.
This may be entirely harmless because it may not work. But I’m not convinced of this and I’d never consciously let these people install anything into my brain because I want it to remain mine.
You could be talking about Eastenders!
Steyn on the ten years anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks
“To be honest, it makes me vomit to see people holding these Princess Dianafied candlelit vigils, and using the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie – I am Charlie -and in effect appropriating these guys’ sacrifice for this bogus solidarity. It makes me sick to see all these ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’ cartoons that have appeared in newspapers all over the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Australia, everywhere, from other cartoonists, again expressing solidarity with these very brave men – but not doing what they did…
I’ve been on enough events in Europe with less famous cartoonists than these who live under death threats, live under armed guard, have had their family restaurant firebombed – it’s happened to a Norwegian comedienne I know – have come home and found their home burned, as a Swedish artist I know happened to. And all these people doing the phony hashtag solidarity, screw your phony hashtag solidarity. Let’s have some real solidarity – or if not, at least have the good taste to stay the hell out of it.”
Off-T
Two episodes of “Accused: The Fake Grooming Scandal” are showing on Channel 4 tonight. The second one features Tommy Robinson.
Very timely; suspiciously so.
My concerns:
Channel 4 – in total lockstep with tin eared, two tier Keir
We watched about 20 minutes then binned it. Anyone want me to spoil the new Day of the Jackal? That really boiled our piss to steam.
What a great expression!
Sorry mate, not a clue what this is about?
Please don’t try to explain, again sorry, squid game isn’t my greatest priority!
I don’t watch TV or any movies. For me, entertainment is music¹ and books and I make a conscious effort to stay away from anything I (for myself) refer to as activist’s prose. If I want to inform myself about a certain topic, I’ll buy a or some non-fiction books dealing with it. If not, then I don’t and I don’t want people who want to ‘inform’ me about stuff I don’t want to learn anything about sneak it into my brain through the back door. Should I discover something like this in a book I’m reading (happens sometimes), I’ll usually immediately stop and throw it away.
¹ In case someone cares about this. Here’s a track from a nice, current EP of a London-based death metal outfit (I have this on CD, obviously).
https://decrepid.bandcamp.com/track/vortex-of-chaos
I love music and books
Currently reading the new “Smiley” novel by Le Carre’s son. It’s reasonably well done but the son has introduced lots of females into the story – there were many fewer females in the Le Carre Smiley books, presumably because that was an accurate reflection of the reality of a world that the author knew well. A bit disappointing- back to Dostoyevsky after this.
Remember stumbling across a Mills & Boon book, quite raunchy!
Obituary is a well known death band. Here is a British thrash band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8-5Ya_OTMs
See also: John Tardy is a wuss!¹
Unfortunately, I think Xentrix is about as exciting as an old sock lost in some corner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgNqvxQD9RI
¹ Because he uses (or used to use) a harmonizer for his vocals.
Just started watching it, already into the 3rd or 4th episode of season 1, I am getting bored with the mellowdrama.
One dimensional, in-substantial, excessively violent. Perfect for the Tik-tokkers
Good young writer is Jack Watson, however, I suggest that one stops watching banal programmes like this and read a good book
My goodness you shouldn’t be watching things with people dressed up like that it isn’t right.