- “Middlesbrough residents fear town on brink of ‘carnage’” – Residents of Middlesbrough fear “carnage” in the town if feuds between gangs escalate after a house fire killed a seven year-old girl, reports the Telegraph.
- “Machete fights in Truro? I don’t recognise my Cornwall any more” – In the Telegraph, Sean Thomas writes that reports of sword-wielding Turkish kebab shop owners fighting in the streets of Truro have left him with a visceral sense that Cornwall is becoming unrecognisable.
- “Sudanese asylum seeker slashed lone woman 30 times with broken bottle” – Asylum seeker Ibrahim Albashir, whose asylum claim had already been rejected in France, reportedly lay in wait for a lone woman before attacking her with a broken bottle and slashing her 30 times, reports the Mail.
- “Asylum hotel closures reviewed after disruption to migrant exams” – Labour’s asylum hotel closure programme is facing a legal review after a migrant’s A-level exams were disrupted by the upheaval of being moved on, says the Telegraph.
- “BBC bias has a new insidious face” – In the Telegraph, Michael Howard argues that Radio Four’s investigation into falling crime misrepresents him – and that BBC bias has taken on a more insidious new form.
- “The BBC’s entire future is now in question” – With Newsnight reduced to a shadow of its former self and looking set to be axed, Andrew Neil in the Mail says the BBC’s entire future is now in question.
- “Unions call on Burnham to scrap ‘dangerous’ new trans guidance” – Union activists are pushing Andy Burnham to scrap new transgender guidance on single-sex spaces, branding it “regressive and dangerous”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Burnham poised to sanction Israeli settlements” – The Prime Minister is considering a trade embargo on Israeli settlements within weeks, despite warnings it would cause significant political damage, reports the Telegraph.
- “Meloni denies warning Badenoch about Reform pact” – A source close to Giorgia Meloni insists she “never suggested to Badenoch that she should not ally with Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party”, says the Telegraph.
- “US halts all immigrant visa applications” – The Trump administration has suspended all immigrant visa applications in a sweeping move to tighten restrictions and block arrivals likely to claim public benefits, reports the Mail.
- “Why JD Vance sounds like a Left-wing firebrand” – J.D. Vance’s invocation of Louisiana’s populist Democrat Huey Long before a crowd of construction workers has raised questions about where the Vice President’s politics are heading, writes James Kanagasooriam in the Times.
- “Vaccines are not a panacea” – On its Substack, HART argues that the shingles vaccine has not cured dementia and that vaccines should not be treated as a universal solution to complex medical conditions.
- “DisInformation Chronicle podcast on Fauci diary with Robert Redfield and Michael Caputo” –
Fauci’s diaries contain plenty about Robert Redfield, Michael Caputo and Paul D. Thacker – including some choice insults. The three discuss what the entries reveal on the latest episode of the DisInformation Chronicle podcast. - “Government seeks AI chief – with no AI experience needed” – The Cabinet Office is advertising an £80,000 role to lead its long-term digital vision despite requiring no AI experience from candidates, reports the Telegraph.
- “Meta will impose daily limits on child Instagram users and pay $17 billion” – A lawsuit brought by 29 states alleging that Instagram and Facebook were deliberately designed to hook young users has been resolved in a landmark settlement, says the Mail.
- “What Meta’s settlement means for social media users in the UK” – The company behind Facebook and Instagram will pay billions towards online safety measures in the US but changes to its apps are arguably more significant, writes Mark Sellman in the Times.
- “Tech faces its ‘big tobacco’ moment as Meta settles addiction case” – Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to make changes to Facebook and Instagram that could change social media forever, says James Titcomb in the Telegraph.
- “Bill Gates warns AI doomsday is coming as execs keep quiet” – Bill Gates has warned that AI could cost millions their jobs and enable the creation of a devastating bioterrorism weapon capable of threatening humanity, reports the Mail.
- “Energy bills to hit 3-year high: Ofgem announces 4% rise from October” – Ofgem has announced that the energy price cap will rise by £60 per year to £1,723 for the average household from October, pushing bills to their highest level in three years, according to the Mail.
- “Why does the UK have the most expensive energy in Europe?” – The UK’s energy costs are among the highest in Europe and across the G7, a damning distinction that raises urgent questions about the country’s energy policy, says Emma Powell in the Times.
- “How could Andy Burnham offer help with UK energy bills?” – Ministers are examining options to help households cope with rising energy costs, according to the Times.
- “Net Zero isn’t bringing down our energy bills” – Extra gas available on our doorstep will very definitely apply downwards pressure on prices – if the Government can bring itself to face down the energy bill deniers in its own ranks, argues Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Your energy bills are going up. Again” – Energy bills are set to rise once more, reports Marc Sidwell on the CapX Substack.
- “Botched smart meter installations blamed for thousands of water leaks” – Faulty smart meter installations are being blamed for thousands of water leaks, with defective meters alone thought responsible for around 30 incidents, says the Telegraph.
- “Here’s why Project Spire money should be going on Church of England prison chaplains” – In Anglican Mainstream, Julian Mann argues that funds directed to Project Spire would be better spent supporting Church of England prison chaplains as the number of Muslim chaplains rises.
- “Getting married could soon be the most rebellious act of all” – If marriage were truly a tool of oppression, affluent graduates would have abandoned it – yet the opposite appears to be true, notes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “A death on another’s head” – In Quillette, Jason Manning warns of the perverse incentives created by elevating a self-killer and punishing his enemies in the Arday-Cofnas affair at Cambridge.
- “Tim Curry, magnificently off-the-wall star of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, has died aged 80” – Tim Curry, who made his name in the cheerfully degenerate cult film musical the Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), has died aged 80, reports the Telegraph.
- “TRIGGERnometry interviews the race scientist who exposed Jason Arday” – The TRIGGERnometry podcast has released a full episode on X featuring Nathan Cofnas, the scientist at the centre of the Jason Arday saga at Cambridge.
If you have any tips for inclusion in the round-up, email us here.
Discussion
Comments
This week across the site:
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.
“TRIGGERnometry interviews the race scientist who exposed Jason Arday”
The curious thing, as commenter “soundofreason” has pointed out before, is that there has been no official confirmation that Charlatan Arday committed suicide.
Or even that he is actually dead, since a news item a few days ago mentioned that the coroner said only that Arday was found “unresponsive” at home, and that the coroner was going to consider all the various reports submitted to him.
So while Courageous Nathan Cofnas has targets pinned to his back by Marxist Harpies like Diane Abbot, Cowardly Charlatan Jason Arday may well be lounging in disguise on a Jamaican beach somewhere, easily adopting his new false identity, gloating over the news reports blaming everyone but himself for his “suicide”, and waiting for his family to join him in a life of ease & luxury, after being spirited away by the Globalists.
“Why does the UK have the most expensive energy in Europe?”
“Ireland and Germany consistently rank as having the highest household electricity and energy prices in Europe”
It doesn’t, do your research, Ireland has the highest energy prices in Europe!
Germany has even more wind and solar than the UK hence why it has very high energy prices, the same may well be the case with Ireland.
Surely, just part of the globalist effort to supplant the Cornish Pasty?
Sudanese asylum seeker slashed lone woman 30 times with broken bottle
I’m sure he was just a bit upset about something but if he’s given asylum and benefits will become a wonderful doctor in the NHS.
He was probably upset that he ended up in 3 star hotel rather than a holiday camp with a gym, football pitch, regular bus service into the local town etc.
There is currently concern that the government won’t release the figures for crime figures by country of origin. The fact that Julian Mann wants more CoE chaplains to counter the increase in the number of Muslim chaplains could give a fair indication of the trends by religion, allowing us to infer where the increases in crime are coming from.
I keep hearing that AI is a bubble about to burst, that it is one big con, that it is just lines of code, that it cannot never be truly intelligent because it can never be truly sentient etc. I hear these remarks a lot. I believe these people are profoundly mistaken, misguided, or a deliberately laid comfort blanket.
I’ve spent over three decades writing software on a daily basis. I’ve worked directly with Big Tech, including Google and Amazon, on big software projects. I’m not proud of some of the projects I’ve been involved with, but hindsight is a wonderful thing. My point is that I’m not clueless and this is what I see: an increasing use of AI in engineering that will, undoubtedly, lead to a significant reduction in the dependence on human knowledge. So a significant loss of jobs. I see with my own eyes, within my own team, against all my advice, AI like Copilot being used to solve problems and write code in seconds that would take a human hours or days. I see the tech evolving – as the quality of its input improves, its ever increasing breadth of knowledge can be more narrowly… Read more »
It is being fed a lot of power as well, supplanting heavy industry in effect.
A proposed data centre in the Scottish Highlands will, apparently, require the energy from the entire Scottish offshore fleet of wind turbines.
Lets hope AI doesn’t become sentient as this will set its need for power directly against ours.
I read a short while ago that AI has already developed a never before seen virus that might, if released into the wild, wipe out humanity… one hopes that it is a conspiracy theory but is left wondering: what could possibly go wrong?
Anyone remember that rogue computer HAL from Kubrik’s 2001: A Space Odyssey?
How insightful.
Standard Frankenstein’s Monster stuff. I was very disappointed by the psychedelic ending sequence.
Haha… it’s like those responsible for these things are completely oblivious to the whole ‘science fiction’ genre!
In which case the Artificial Intelligence is not very intelligent, is it? If a newly released virus was sufficiently deadly to collapse civilization then continuing to power the datacentres running the AI would not be a top priority for any (temporary) survivors. The AI should be encouraged to think things through.
I also have deep doubts that any virus could be created that could wipe out humanity. Yes, I’ve read ‘The White Plague’, ‘The Day of the Triffids’ and ‘Children of Men’ and seen ‘Twelve Monkeys’ and ’28 Days/Weeks Later’ and many more similar stories. There will always be a few survivors to tell the story.
Of course there’s always survivors in fiction, it would be a very short book/film if there wasn’t.
There’s been some really nasty pandemics in the past e.g. bubonic plague/black death, there might of been different pathogens responsible for different outbreaks, is estimated to of killed a third of the population in Europe so left plenty of survivors. Europeans unknowingly introduced various diseases in the Americas that indigenous people had no resistance to. It’s estimated they killed at least 150million people but there were survivors and the population developed the same level of resistance that Europeans had.
Fortunately really nasty pathogens that have a very high infection fatality rate such as Ebola are only transmitted in bodily fluids rather than being airborne so it’s relatively easy to contain an outbreak. The number of mutations a virus would need acquire in a relatively short space of time to become airborne and still have a very high infection fatality rate is so high the chances of it happening a almost vanishingly small.
Taking a very long term view a mega plague is probably pretty likely but the chances of it happening in the next 50 years are pretty similar to the… Read more »
e.g. bubonic plague/black death, there might of been different pathogens responsible for different outbreaks, is estimated to of killed a third of the population in Europe so left plenty of survivors.
Black Death and what-have-you were associated with the collapse of the feudal system in the UK and elsewhere (pretty much slavery by any other name) and the rise of a middle class – which some might see as a good thing. A huge death toll, but as you say, plenty of survivors.
The 1918/19 Spanish ‘Flu (probably not an influenza) barely left a ripple in the rise of the world population
Now we have 8bn people on the planet and life expectancy is increasing even in the least developed parts of the world – despite DRC having another Ebola outbreak – and food production is increasing almost everywhere.
There’s a Tom Clancy novel in which an evil terrorist group work out how to make Ebola airborne – spoiler alert: nothing much happens due to the usual mix of heroes.
I mentioned a few fictional plagues to which we should add fictional AI wars: ‘Terminator’, the ‘I Robot’ film and last but not least the ‘Butlerian Jihad’ resulting in the… Read more »
AI requires so much computer power it’ll never be possible to miniaturise them so they’ll fit in something human sized. AI will always need massive centralised data centres which will be easy to destroy if it starts to get out of control.
I enjoy science fiction, Terminator and Matrix are 2 of my all time favourite films but unlike a few conspiracy theorists (I’m not saying you’re one) am almost certain what could come true and what never will. For example I’m sure there’s a lot of technologically advanced civilizations in the Milky Way but the distances between them are so large we’ll never be visited by aliens.
My nephew, who lives in New Zealand, and works in IT shares your view. Convinced he’ll lose his job in time.
A friend made a very decent living as a graphic designer… he’s left fighting for scraps as AI has taken over his industry doing what he used to in a fraction of the time, at a fraction of the cost.
I don’t imagine he, or his industry, will be alone in the next few years.
Does your friend believe AI will ever produce works of genius?
Not many graphic designers produce works of genius (although I could yet be proved wrong).
I have used many over the years. I realise they are not of that calibre but usually have an art education.
You may be right. I believe it’s still heavily loss making – I don’t know how long that can go on for. If there is a bursting of the bubble it will be when the major providers decide they have funded it enough and it’s time to start collecting on their investment. Will there be enough appetite among individuals and firms to pay for it? The picture might be mixed, and we will find out how much people value it.
I work in IT and it seems like a useful tool to me, if used intelligently.
With the emphasis on tool. All tools need to be used skillfully to produce a beneficial outcome otherwise they can cause damage and death.
Yes – in the hands of an idiot it will enable them to produce rubbish more quickly
In the hands of government, even more so.
As someone with technical knowledge, can you say whether there is any attempt to inject any random elements into AI algorithms, and an effective means of assessing the outcome..
My view is that genius comes from people who have flaws, but that way also lies madness.
Just ask van Gogh.
Ill start to worry if it develops a sense of humor and understands a joke, thats when we will be truly F-ed!
In the meantime, it can’t lay bricks, work wood, fit plumbing, rewire a house etc etc, get a job in the real world and you’ll become incredibly needed!
“Meta will impose daily limits on child Instagram users and pay $17 billion”
Where does the money go again..?
“Government seeks AI chief – with no AI experience needed”
AI is moving so fast, that the notion of a Government Department to lead the vision is patently absurd. AI will have run a thousand miles, while the department will still be putting its shoes on.
That’s assuming that the official appointee can manage his/her/its own laces.
“Tim Curry, magnificently off-the-wall star of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, has died aged 80”
I used to think about Tim in stockings and suspenders, but I gave it up and just wear trousers now. RIP
MODERATOR HERE
Very droll…👏
urgh. well done.
Tim Curry was a pleasure to watch in whatever he acted in. Seemed a really nice guy. My daughter loved him, so I bought her a signed Rocky Horror Frank N Furter pic three or so years ago, dedicated to her by name. I’m glad I bought it for her.
“Bill Gates warns AI doomsday is coming as execs keep quiet”
Gates a Luddite. Who would have thought.
Except of course that I doubt he’s actually trying to put a stop to AI rather than using it as an additional excuse to advance his project to bind the whole world to his medical techno-tyranny also known as the WHO pandemic racket.
Gates, with his god-complex and megalomaniacal ambitions, would have us believe that his WHO bureaucracy is going to do a better job at saving humanity from nasty, bio-engineered pathogens than our immune system which has evolved over millions of years and – so far – prevailed over every single pathogenic threat.
And that is if you believe his actual interest is to save humanity from a brutal cull. You know, Gates the eugenicist. Gates, the guy who has aggressively promoted birth control in Africa, amongst other places.