- “Next pandemic could be even deadlier than Covid, Government adviser warns” – Professor Mark Woolhouse tells the Covid Inquiry that the outbreak was nowhere near as bad as it could have been, says the Mail.
- “How Hancock and the ‘fiercely independent’ MHRA recklessly rolled out a vaccine tested on only 500 people” – The public were told the COVID-19 vaccine had been tested on tens of thousands of people but only 500 doses were tested on volunteers, says Paula Jardine inTCW.
- “Mark Drakeford blames Brexit and lack of funding for Covid failures” – The Welsh First Minister tells the Covid Inquiry that Westminster did not help him fund eight new posts he set up to tackle the pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
- “Let patients pay to skip NHS queue, says Tony Blair” – Ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair says that Brits should have the option of receiving private treatment, funded by both the NHS and themselves, in order to avoid long waits, reports the Mail.
- “Censored by the academic preprint servers” – Where are the Numbers? sounds the alarm on health science preprint servers, medRxiv and arXiv, systematically rejecting academic papers that do not fit the Covid narrative.
- “Bernard Jenkin’s wife’s lockdown birthday party to be investigated by police” – Scotland Yard is opening an investigation into allegations that Covid regulations were breached at a gathering attended by Sir Bernard Jenkin in December 2020, says the Telegraph.
- “Will the upcoming presidential race serve as a litmus test for Covid politics?” – Ramesh Thakur discusses the peculiar political relationship between Covid and U.S. politics on Spectator TV Australia.
- “Ben Wallace’s hopes of being NATO chief ended by row over Ukraine” – Joe Biden dashed Defence Secretary Ben Wallace’s dream of becoming NATO chief after the U.K. trained F-16 pilots without U.S. approval, says the Telegraph.
- “Ursula von der Leyen is failing upwards – again” – According to Fraser Myers at Spiked, Ursula von der Leyen, who was a terrible EU President, is now being lined up for a plum role at NATO.
- “Is French police brutality a myth?” – Commentators claim French police are uniquely brutal, but according to Noah Carl in UnHerd, data show that France has the second lowest rate of fatal shootings among Western countries.
- “Just Stop Oil protesters strike at Wimbledon” – Wimbledon became the latest high-profile sporting event to be disrupted by eco-zealots when JSO protestors invaded Court 18, reports the Mail.
- “Furious motorists blast Just Stop Oil as it stages another slow march” – The JSO eco-mob have launched their 11th week of road protests, says the Mail.
- “Labour war over Ulez as Boris seat candidate calls for expansion delay” – Danny Beales, Labour’s candidate in Boris’s old seat, has attacked Sadiq Khan’s decision to expand Ulez to outer boroughs, saying it would hammer families, reports the Mail.
- “Good riddance to the Tory greens” – £12 billion on climate aid is money the U.K. can ill-afford to spend. If that upsets the Conservative party’s green wing, so much the better, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Has the mainstream press lost all desire to investigate climate alarmist claims?” – A serious debate is needed on Net Zero and how best to tackle climate change. Unfortunately, the mainstream media have no interest in doing so, says Alex Starling in Reaction.
- “Climate change by flawed numbers” – Norman Fenton exposes the ‘at least 95% certainty of man-made warming’ scam.
- “Don’t be afraid of AI, says Government’s new Chief Scientific Advisor” – Professor Dame Angela McLean, the Government’s new Chief Scientific Advisor, says she is an “AI optimist”, despite warnings the new technology could destroy humanity, reports the Mail.
- “AI chatbot encouraged man to kill Queen in Star Wars-inspired plot” – A crossbow-wielding loner was ‘encouraged’ by an AI chatbot to carry out a ‘Star Wars-inspired’ assassination of the Queen, says the Mail.
- “Trans paedophile avoids jail because of delay over which prison she would go to” – Tanya Howes, a convicted transgender paedophile, has escaped prison due to delays and debate over whether he should go to a male or female prison, reports the Telegraph.
- “TfL bosses ban advert for new West End play because it features cake” – Transport for London has banned a poster for the Broadway show Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding, which features a Victoria sponge wedding cake, saying it promotes ‘consumption of fat, salt and sugar’, reports the Mail.
- “Relax: The children will save us from ourselves” – In a world where teachers have lost the plot, we can rely on the naïve bigotry of children and their old-fashioned notions that there are only two genders, says Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
- “Is Pearl Davis the female Andrew Tate?” – Meet Pearl Davis, a.k.a. JustPearlyThings, the anti-feminist firebrand who is building a massive online following with controversial opinions. But, asks UnHerd, is she sincere?
- Biden’s ‘Orwellian’ social media crackdown” – According to a U.S. District Court Judge, Biden officials likely conspired with social media to suppress free speech. He can no longer be trusted to protect the First Amendment, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “The unravelling of the censorship hegemon” – A landmark injunction against U.S. Government officials marks a turning point in the battle for free speech, says the Brownstone Institute.
- “Should we apologise for the past?” – Douglas Murray, on TalkTV’s Piers Morgan Uncensored, argues that it is time to move on from events that occurred centuries ago and to stop demanding reparations for slavery.
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.
Why would it blow up in the Government’s face? If opposition exists at all, it is in disarray.
That’s a really good question because when Tories simply adopt everything Labour would want to implement as well, voting becomes an obvious farce. “Don’t want to be buried alive? Sorry, that’s not on the ballot paper. But you may chose your own undertaker!”
Is there something except mask mandates, covaxx coercion and Christmas lockdowns Rishi hasn’t yet back-pedalled on? If not, when can we expect these last three crowning achievements of his career as Mr Open Hands, “Want to see policies implemented? Remember to include the cheque in the envelope, otherwise, they won’t be considered!”
Kid:
Mum, Dad ‘Surrogate Parents – I want to talk to you, I don’t know if I’m a boy or a girl’SP – Sorry, person, it would be illegal for us to advise you. Just note that currently, caucasian boys are accused of inherent white privilege and all boys are emblematic of patriarchal control, while the whole concept of girls is being systematically erased from the English language. Unless they’re 4th gen Disney-esque girlbosses who don’t need love, children or a sense of community to get them through the day, that is. In the meantime, the concept of transgender is based on biologyphobic ideology and primary colour hair dye, combined with sterilising drugs and mutiliating surgery. Take your pick.’
“the whole concept of girls is being systematically erased from the English language”
Also very confusing. Isn’t that misgendering 99.9% of girls?
Is that going to be a crime too?
Or not?
Likewise, isn’t affirmative genitital mutilation an attempt to change someone’s sex and gender? And what about Stonewall adepts proselytizing in schools?
I saw this on a BTL somewhere a while ago –
i find the logic confusing. if gender is a social construct, how is transgender in and of itself not also a social construct? what I mean is, would I have to be trans to be trans? how can trans be any more legitimate than either the male and female that they’re grown from? can you claim to have a gender when gender isn’t real? if woman has no definition how can you even know you’re trans? aren’t you really just a topographically redesigned person?
Topographically redesigned. Love it.
Topography
Definition 1 of three for this word.
“daddy, I know I’m your eldest son and I know you insisted I’m not supposed to, but I *really* like my friend”
“You bigot! She’s female and you’re male. I guess you didn’t ask “insert-ideological-term-of-compliance-here” (her/him/they/fk-off-not-your-business) for consent before you enjoyed your lurid dreams and your thought-crimes.
Yes, I’m told she has a bonus hole and perhaps a few other interesting contours, but I reject your obsession, but now I have to spew.
Igor, heat-up the irons to red-hot, this supposed (soon-to-be-ex) son of mine needs an object lesson in humility and agony.
No – it doesn’t count because the DEI score says so…
I have no idea what that means.
All I do know is that denying childrens’ gender identity is misgendering and Great Ormond Street Hospital has in effect banned the use of words like ‘boy’ and ‘girl’ and issued guidance threatening staff with disciplinary action.
But that is still misgendering 99.9% of the patients.
So it is OK to misgender children who are boys and girls but it is not OK to misgender children who are boys and girls who don’t want to be boys and girls.
I am really very confused by all of this.
Just what the public want and need – more laws telling them new things they can’t do.
My life still feels too free, there are still areas of my day to day existence that I get to decide for myself. Can parliament please step it up a bit and hurry up making some more laws. I want every little nook and cranny of my life to be legislated and regulated. So I don’t have to think at all.
Or, actually, better still, just shoot me in the back of the head now and get the same result quicker.
Why do they always look like they stink of fish and old meat?
This is unbelievably confusing and precisely because all of the woke trans ideology has turned our world upsides down.
What exactly is the controversy about?
Is it to be criminal to help a child decide to transition or not to transition? Which is it? Or is it both or none of the above.
The answer is this is another crap feelgood law with no intelligible meaning which lawyers and judges can interpret in whichever way they want to interpret it.
So, you’re liable for up to a 7 year prison sentence for counselling in support of FGM under the 2003 FGM Act.
But, you’ll be liable for a prison sentence if you counsel someone to not move towards genital mutilation if it’s for trans reasons?
Mmmm, someone smarter than me needs to explain that one to me.
(not aimed at NickR, healthy sarcasm involved)
Comrade, you nailed the double-think, you must either have MANY extra vodka rations (as your only salary) or be punished for your precocity because, while your your vote-for-me is absolutely mandatory, your positive-opinion of me is also mandatory, whether expressed in public or private..
Did I just hear a peep of dissent from you? I’m told Siberia is lovely in June, but I couldn’t care less as my Dacha is in Odessa. It’s only my winter-house. Saying that, there’s a wonderful job opportunity coming-up but it’s far, far, far to the east of us.
Comrade Orwell tried to warn us before, but it was only in a novel and so very easily disregarded (what a-wheezy-‘karen’ non-entity he turned out to be, lol)
I get that you’re just holding-up the hypocrisy for scrutiny, I’d truly wonder if you really believed this stuff. Mr Orwell would be proud of you.
The ambiguity will get me caught soon – just one unguarded opinion and I’ll be on the trains…
</sarc>
We are being taken into Hell.
Dark untold truth of transgenderism
Once again our enemies have hijacked the language and sadly even the headline here sort of falls for it. “Conversion therapy” is actually the opposite of what it appears to mean. The people who are attempting to “convert” the confused are the “trans” activists. You are either conceived as a man or a woman, and that’s it. You cannot be “converted” to what you already are – that is nonsense.
Perhaps one-day gassing will be referred to as a ‘zyklon-b-hug’
They are utterly insane and EVIL.
Guy Fawkes had a very good point me thinks.
But sadly he was betrayed by the conscience of a still unidentified supporter who wrote an anonymous letter in late October 1605 to Lord Monteagle, a Catholic.
Monteagle intended to attend the opening of Parliament a few days later, on November 5.
The unsigned letter stated: “My lord, out of the love I bear to some of your friends, I have a care of your preservation, therefore I would advise you as you tender your life to devise some excuse to shift of your attendance at this parliament . . . for though there be no appearance of any stir, yet I say they shall receive a terrible blow.”
Monteagle he forwarded the letter to Robert Cecil, chief minister of King James I and the rest, as they say, is history.
I write ‘sadly’ but do not condone the purpose of the plotters who would have succeeded in an act of terrorism with terrible consequences had it not been for the conscience of the writer of that anonymous letter.
It was a remarkable plan which anticipated and predates modern terrorism by four centuries.
Notice these words from that letter “out of the love I bear to some of your friends“.
So the writer was known not to Monteagle but to ‘some of his friends’. And of course must have been known to Fawkes or someone close to him or his plotters.
That means potentially Cecil could have identified the writer but presumably Cecil got the information he wanted of the identities of Fawkes’ co-conspirators from torture inflicted on Fawkes.
Of course, Monteagle was given little choice but to pass on the letter.
Had he not done so and excused himself from attending Parliament on 5th November that would cast suspicion upon him.
And so we can also see how this 400 year old precursor to modern counter-terrorism worked then but based on luck and intelligence from an unwitting informant instead of by design.
Sadly, those who love freedom in the UK these days are very few. And virtually non-existent in Parliament.