- “Dan Hodges: My sources tell me Keir has decided to stand down, but he’ll do it on his terms” – Keir Starmer has discussed an orderly exit from office with allies, according to Dan Hodges in the Mail.
- “Keir Starmer is fighting on so his rivals don’t win” – The highly competitive Prime Minister is not going to go quietly, especially not to Andy Burnham or Wes Streeting, says Josh Glancy in the Times.
- “Seven PMs in 10 years? How British politics got into this mess” – Constant crises and impossible public expectations are destabilising British politics, says Robert Colvile in the Times.
- “Tommy Robinson protesters call for Keir Starmer’s resignation” – Tens of thousands of demonstrators chanted “Starmer out” as they marched behind anti-immigration activist Tommy Robinson in London on Saturday, the Telegraph reports.
- “We marched through London against mass migration. We’re no racists” – The vast majority of protesters at the Unite the Kingdom march bore no resemblance to the racist troublemakers Keir Starmer warned about, says Judith Woods in the Telegraph.
- “Why doesn’t Starmer make a video warning about far-Left hate marches?” – How dare our leaders fixate on the threat from the far-Right descending on London but overlook the antisemitism connected to Nakba 78, thunders Nicole Lampert in the Telegraph.
- “I’m suing the pants off Keir Starmer for blocking my entry to the UK – here’s how you can help” – In TCW, journalist Ezra Levant says he is launching legal action after he and more than a dozen people, including elected Members of the European Parliament, were denied access to the UK to attend the Unite the Kingdom rally without any legal process.
- “Terror attack survivors warn charities are ‘breeding Islamic extremism’” – Terror attack survivors say regulators are failing to confront extremist links within major charities, reports the Telegraph.
- “The London exhibition that October 7th families want you to see” – Recreating the aftermath of the Nova festival massacre with real wreckage from Israel has brought in 600,000 people around the world, and now it’s coming to Britain, reports the Times.
- “Why I can no longer call myself a feminist” – The denial of the horrific sexual violence of October 7th even by self-styled advocates of women shows how lost the cause has become, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Burnham and Streeting want to rejoin the EU” – Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting would both seek a mandate to rejoin the European Union if they were elected Labour Party leader, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s Brexit betrayal” – Wes Streeting’s comments on rejoining the EU show Labour still rejects the referendum result, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Mahmood will struggle to push through her migration reforms” – The Home Secretary will have her work cut out trying to turn her (relatively) hardline migration policy into reality, says Alexander Horne in the Spectator.
- “Albanian triple killer was granted asylum in Britain while on the run” – A fugitive murderer obtained asylum and citizenship despite being wanted in Albania, reports the Telegraph.
- “Labour: enemies of the people” – Labour is paying the political price for opposing populist sentiment on migration and sovereignty, writes Tim Black in Spiked.
- “Tower Hamlets offers a grim vision of future Britain” – Tower Hamlets has become a glimpse of a future Britain many politicians still refuse to discuss honestly, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “The sectarian nightmare predicted by Enoch Powell is here” – Britain is becoming dangerously divided along ethnic and religious lines, warns Simon Heffer in the Telegraph.
- “The posh are heading to Reform – and dinner parties have become a minefield” – As the political landscape becomes even more fraught, even a chat while walking the dog feels dicey, says Sophia Money-Coutts in the Telegraph.
- “No 10 refuses to release Mandelson vetting files” – Downing Street is blocking disclosure of Peter Mandelson’s security paperwork to MPs, reports the Telegraph.
- “Top civil servant held nuclear talks with ‘front’ for Chinese spy agency” – The Foreign Office’s defence chief secretly discussed Britain’s nuclear deterrent with a think tank that has ties to China’s spy agency, the Telegraph reveals.
- “Covid Inquiry ‘endorses’ monitoring of lockdown critics” – The Covid Inquiry has been accused by lockdown critics of “endorsing” state-sponsored surveillance after they were covertly monitored during the pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
- “BBC News boss: I was driven out by trans activism” – Former BBC News boss Fran Unsworth has said she was driven out of the top job by trans activists, according to the Telegraph.
- “Inside the capture of the BBC: How transgenderism killed impartiality” – In UnHerd, former BBC senior editor Rob Burley lays out the disturbing findings of his investigation into the capture of the BBC by intolerant woke fanatics.
- “MPs demand AI ‘kill switch’ to defend against ‘catastrophe’” – MPs want emergency powers allowing ministers to disable advanced AI systems, says the Telegraph.
- “Choir members sue charity after row over founder’s ‘gender–critical views’” – Choristers who were dropped from the London Marathon in a transgender row are taking legal action over discrimination, reports the Telegraph.
- “Antiracism is poisoning British policing” – Ideological policing practices are undermining public trust and operational priorities, says Dominic Adler in UnHerd.
- “Benefit claimants buy half a million discounted tickets to tourist attractions” – Benefit claimants bought more than half a million discounted tickets to tourist attractions priced from as little as £1 in 2025, according to the Telegraph.
- “Homes with bigger gardens to be penalised with higher water bills” – Water companies are planning higher charges for households using larger amounts of water, reveals the Telegraph.
- “More head–burying in the sand from the Covid jab ostriches” – Scientists are continuing to look the other way when it comes to evidence of Covid vaccine harms, says Professor Roger Watson in TCW.
- “‘Climate change fixation is putting animal welfare at risk’” – An independent report says that the drive to reduce carbon emissions is being used to justify controversial practices, reports Ben Spencer in the Times.
- “The truly staggering cost of ‘cheap’ renewable energy” – Renewable subsidies funded through consumer bills have exceeded £100 billion, writes Paul Homewood in TCW.
- “The death of RCP8.5 with Roger Pielke Jr.” – On the Global Warming Policy Foundation podcast, Roger Pielke Jr. says the once dominant worst-case climate scenario RCP8.5 has been ruled scientifically implausible.
- “Climate pseudoscience debunked: livestock methane fears are baseless” – Claims about livestock methane and climate catastrophe are unsupported by evidence, says Gregory Wrightstone in WUWT.
- “Burnham told scrapped clean-air scheme could lose him by-election” – Andy Burnham’s abandoned clean-air zone has become a political liability, says the Telegraph.
- “Unite The Kingdom!” – MEP Dominik Tarczyński posts footage on X of the crowd in London on Saturday for the Unite the Kingdom rally.
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May I add this to the Round-Up, in the hope that these terrible vaccine turbo-cancers will soon be a thing of the past:
Scottish rugby legend Scott Hastings dies aged 61 after cancer struggles as tributes pour in
“Hastings had disclosed in 2022 that he was receiving treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a form of cancer that could not be cured.”
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Developed Shortly after mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination: Report of a Case and Review of the Literature
Frontiers | Rapid progression of marginal zone B-cell lymphoma after COVID-19 vaccination (BNT162b2): A case report
https://x.com/d_tarczynski/status/2055636019106476091
And here’s a video at 10 x speed. Fifty thousand?
It looks like MSM are taking the P once again.
https://x.com/i/status/2055934090033983970
Reports say Starmer wants to leave “on his own terms”. Wouldn’t we all.
in his case I guess he wants a Peerage. He has never earned an honest living and he can’t start now. His extra special pension probably doesn’t kick in for another 10 years so £400 a day would do nicely. Plus £100k for extra ex-PM costs (sic).
Reports say Starmer wants to leave “on his own terms”. Wouldn’t we all.
in his case I guess he wants a Peerage. He has never earned an honest living and he can’t start now. His extra special pension probably doesn’t kick in for another 10 years so £400 a day would do nicely. Plus £100k for extra ex-PM costs (sic).
There is clearly no one will willingly pay him for speeches or political advice. Only tax payer and billionaire lefties might offer gigs.
“Covid Inquiry ‘endorses’ monitoring of lockdown critics”
From the article – of course the Gubmint gets the final say:
“A Government spokesman said: “The counter-disinformation unit played an important role during the pandemic helping identify false information that could pose a dangerous risk to UK public health.
As acknowledged by the inquiry, the decision to label or otherwise act on online content was only ever taken by the social media platforms, not the government.””
How can they get away with saying this with a straight face? Without a hole immediately opening up for them to fall straight down to Hell, where they belong?
Ah, so it’s all the social media platforms’ fault, is it? And those companies did this completely independently, with no pressure or instruction from the vile Government?
They’re pulling exactly the same trick on us again, with all this Online Safety bollox. And imaginge we’re stupid enough not to see through it.
DS on my iPhone wants me to login again almost every day and sometimes more than once a day. It is very slow. Is there a problem at DS server farm or is my iPhone defective. I might take it to Apple to find out, but it is relatively new.
If you take it to Apple and ask why you are having trouble accessing Daily Sceptic they’ll probably confiscate it under para 9a subsection A of section 13 of the end-user agreement.
I’m not getting that, but this last week or so have been getting ‘site not available’ messages then after a refresh it works, sounds like something wrong with the load balancer or similar…?
https://spectator.com/article/the-unstoppable-rise-of-stupidity/
Brilliant article from Rod Liddle.
Schools do not appear to be teaching the scientific method.
I saw an interesting video clip a few days ago in which someone was giving evidence to a congressional hearing about education.
He claimed that the evidence from more than 60 countries suggested that the use of technology in schools was having a deleterious effect on the cognitive abilities of students and, the more you used, the worse it got.
It’s an interesting subject. Prof. Neil Selwyn appears to know what he is talking about:
‘Digital technology is not something that teachers have to adapt to in the best way they can. Instead, digital technology should be something that you engage with on your own terms, to achieve your own goals and to address your own needs. Used appropriately, digital technology can be a powerful addition to any teacher’s repertoire’.
The problem may be with the schools, not the technology…but probably more with national education policy militating towards one size fits all.
Pupils are astonishingly different in so many different ways. Educational provision should therefore encourage a variety of approaches so that parents/pupils can go with whatever works best for them. Michael Gove did a great job in that regard but I suspect we are going backwards again.
Democracy: the least worst system of government!
On the other hand, the Michaela School supports your point:
‘The decision to avoid visual aids is pretty unique and based on the assumption that pictures are confusing and showing English words aids general literacy. Reading is king!
Technology is avoided since the teachers believe it adds nothing to learning and leads to time-wasting.’
Despite the enthusiasm among the education staff for using tech in schools I understand from people I know well that school and university IT systems for routine admin are poor. Booking resources, recovering expenses and recording assessments are all weak.
A friend in NZ has told me they use an AI resource to check grading of papers. He says it helps QA and training in grade assessment. No such systems here. And there won’t be until Uniparty decides which outsource consultant will get a couple of billion and many years over which to NOT deliver a working model.
Teacher unions will claim pay rises and/or unfair treatment if AI ever shows the errors in grading.
Climate pseudoscience debunked: livestock methane fears are baseless
Well thank goodness the vast herds of American Bison were almost completely wiped out in the 19th century. What amazing foresight those earlier Americans had.
Yes – now they have hardly any bison – a reduction of 60 million and now have less than 30 million cows.
Yes, and I was surprised to learn that the “Noble Savages” also exterminated the entire horse population of North America, which was present in the Late Pleistocene! They then had to wait until the Dreaded White Man re-introduced horses to the Americas.
Mammoths and North American horses vanished later than previously thought: researchers | CBC News
Another pile of old tosh in the Telegraph.. why dinner parties and dog walks are a minefield… God forbid the vacuous upper middle classes have to think about the shit show YooKay when Tamara and Henry come over for dinner. I hope this article is meant as a satire but I am not sure it is..
The sobriquet ‘Money-Coutts’ suggest it must be… surely?
See above— it’s all real, apparently.
No, it must be real, judging by all the other books she’s written, including a memoir about her relationship with her dog:
The Year of the Dog: How One Tiny Terrier Ruined My Sofa but Saved My Life by Sophia Money-Coutts | Goodreads
My other books – Sophia Money-Coutts
“Seven PMs in 10 years? How British politics got into this mess”
Two things: first, the dilution of political talent that has resulted from 40+ years of being beholden to the EU, rendering domestic political ideology largely irrelevant and making politics a career choice for PPE grads, rather than a calling – which is why so many find it easy to switch sides.
And, second, the attempts of all parties to be all things to all men, which has led to them being nothing much to anyone as they try to hold together the various factions within the party.
Everything I read about the current manoeuvres going on puts one side of Labour against the others. Both the main parties are at least three parties under one umbrella, that can only hold together for as long as it takes to get a seat on the gravy train, then it all falls apart. Whoever takes over from Starmer must surely suffer the same fate?
The real question is not how we got here, but how we can get to a place where our politicians aren’t just treating their service as an opportunity to fill their pockets. Minimum age for MP’s 55 now.!