- “I respect Le Pen’s ideologies, says Barnier as he calls French borders ‘sieves’” – France’s new Prime Minister admits he doesn’t have “much in common” with the “ideologies” of National Rally but he “respects it” as he vows a crackdown on immigration, the Telegraph reports.
- “BBC ‘breached guidelines 1,500 times’ over Israel-Hamas war” – The BBC breached its own editorial guidelines more than 1,500 times during the height of the Israel-Hamas war due to its anti-Israel and pro-Hamas bias, a damning report has found, reports the Telegraph.
- “BBC’s bias lain bare will be sickening to British Jews” – The wide-ranging new report shows the extent of the corporation’s failure to provide balanced journalism, says Danny Cohen in the Telegraph.
- “The Labour Party does not understand the most basic rules of economics” – In the Telegraph, Daniel Hannan blasts Labour for its sheer economic illiteracy.
- “Starmer and Reeves’s recklessness is about to unleash an inflationary storm” – Everything Labour is doing is going to push up prices, unleashing an inflationary storm that will plunge the new administration into crisis, argues Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Pimlico Plumbers founder to sell £12m penthouse as he flees Britain ahead of tax raid” – Britain’s richest plumber Charlie Mullins has put his £12m London penthouse up for sale as he prepares to flee the U.K. to avoid a Labour tax raid, according to the Telegraph.
- “This wicked tax on private education is going to backfire badly” – Ministers haven’t got a clue how many people will be affected, and it’s highly unlikely to raise money either, says Michael Forsyth in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s winter fuel raid faces ‘fatal motion’ in House of Lords” – Labour’s winter fuel raid could be blocked by a motion in the House of Lords next week tabled by Ros Altmann, according to the Telegraph.
- “Labour drops plans to teach ‘nuanced’ history of British Empire” – The Conservatives started a review of the modern history curriculum to cut the risk of schools coming under pressure to ‘decolonise’ the subject, but to the surprise of no one Labour has dropped it, reports the Times.
- “How the unions took control of your child’s classrooms” – When overhauls to the education system prioritise teachers over pupils, it’s clear who is telling the Government what to do, say Gordon Rayner and Natasha Leake in the Telegraph.
- “Wales ‘haemorrhaging’ money as holiday let tax backfires” – Tourist hotspots in Wales are “haemorrhaging” money after a 200% council tax rise forced holiday homeowners to sell up, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why the Ruling Class Fears Democracy” – Less than half the people in developed countries trust their government, media and NGOs, says Ramesh Thakur in Brownstone.
- “People Are Still Being Punished For Refusing To Take Covid Vaccines” – Covid vaccine mandates are still being enforced in the U.S., says Ian Miller on Substack, showing it’s all about control.
- “Ed Miliband’s plan to ban North Sea oil licences ‘could cost thousands of jobs’” – Ed Miliband’s plan to ban new North Sea oil and gas licences could see thousands of energy workers losing their jobs and becoming the “miners of Net Zero”, a major union has claimed, the Telegraph reports.
- “Climate change is already forcing millions of people to migrate – Bill Gates’s Telegraph Says” – In WUWT, Paul Homewood skewers more Bill Gates funded propaganda.
- “Net Zero is gifting our future to an increasingly dominant China” – Kemi Badenoch flashes her Net Zero-sceptic and China hawk credentials in the Telegraph.
- “Eco-protesters halt construction of telescope designed to spot meteors that could wipe out humanity” – A last-ditch appeal to delay the start of the project by environmental groups was accepted by a local court in Sicily, the Telegraph reports.
- “Free speech is under threat as never before” – Free speech is in retreat across the democratic world, as governments, politicians, judges and powerful lobbies increasingly seek to curtail or censor what we can say, see or hear, writes Andrew Neil in the Mail.
- “The public sector pensions ‘Ponzi’ scheme will soon be obsolete” – In the Telegraph, Neil Record sets out the eye-watering scale of unfunded, gold-plated public sector pensions and what the Government could do about it.
- “The shameful Nazi apologism of the Very Online right” – Tucker Carlson’s chat with Darryl Cooper was a new low for the crank right, says Spiked‘s Brendan O’Neill.
- “Calls to free Lucy Letby fuelled by ‘lies and misinformation’, say parents” – Victims’ families tell the Sunday Times that the campaign to free the convicted killer nurse has made them question humanity, as she appoints top human rights barrister Mark McDonald to argue her case.
- “I never wanted my children to go private. But the state school chaos became too much” – In the Times, Camilla Long admits defeat as she takes her three children out of the state sector. Not exactly an option for most people.
- “Woke Weather” – In the New Conservative, Jack Watson has some non-PC suggestions for what the Met Office might name this season’s storms.
- “Kamala says she believes in freedom, but I was put on a secret terror watch list after I publicly criticised her” – No one will be safe from political retaliation under a Harris administration, says Tulsi Gabbard. “I put my life on the line for this country. Now the Government calls me a terror threat.”
Kamala says she believes in freedom, but I was put on a secret terror watch list after I publicly criticized her. No one will be safe from political retaliation under a Harris administration. I put my life on the line for this country. Now the government calls me a terror threat. pic.twitter.com/3xjgjmrLhD
— Tulsi Gabbard(@TulsiGabbard) September 4, 2024
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Just to say the Ramesh Thakur article is superb. Well worth a read. Packed with excellent examples and references. He proves his case very well.
“Why the Ruling Class Fears Democracy” – Less than half the people in developed countries trust their government, media and NGOs, says Ramesh Thakur in Brownstone.
This is tin pot dictator level politics. Together with the fact what is happening in Brazil has been instigated by the Biden administration‘s State Department, my goodness how far The West has fallen.
Kamala says she believes in freedom, but I was put on a secret terror watch list after I publicly criticised her” – No one will be safe from political retaliation under a Harris administration, says Tulsi Gabbard. “I put my life on the line for this country. Now the Government calls me a terror threat.”
The shameful Nazi apologism of the Very Online right
‘Depicting the Nazis’ industrialised slaughter of the Jews of Europe as an accident, just a sad, regrettable byproduct of their being too busy, is sick. It’s a species of Holocaust denial.’
‘More and more members of the batshit right are tumbling down the toilet of historical revisionism.’
‘For the true measure of Cooper, consider what he said in a recent post on X, since deleted. Paris under the Nazis, he tweeted, was ‘infinitely preferable in virtually every way’ to the Paris of the Olympics opening ceremony.’
This point of view has its adherents within European legislatures already
‘After a closed-door hearing, the court on November 30 said it had approved a Justice Ministry request to label the “international LGBT social movement” as extremist, which bans its activities in the country.’
https://www.currenttime.tv/a/lgbt/32707868.html
What do real historians make of these ‘batshit (online) right ‘historians’?
‘According to Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper is “the most important popular historian working in the United States today.” I had never heard of Cooper until this week and was none the wiser when I went to look for his books. There are none.’
‘True history proceeds from an accumulation of evidence, some in the form of written records, some in other forms, to a reconstitution of past thought, in R.G. Collingwood’s phrase, and from there to a rendition of Leopold von Ranke’s was eigentlich gewesen: what essentially happened.’
‘Darryl Cooper offers a series of wild assertions that are almost entirely divorced from historical evidence and can be of interest only to those so ignorant of the past that they mistake them for daring revisionism, as opposed to base neo-Nazism.
Podcasts are not reviving history, as is often claimed these days. They are mostly drowning it in a tidal wave of blather, at best sloppy, at worst mendacious.’
Niall Ferguson 05 Sept 2024
So as well as being Far Right Thugs we are now Batshit Right online ! Nothing is off the table given the relentless Left propaganda ! O,Neil could pick plenty of Lefty wokeisms to unpick !
In fact he does have a go at ‘Lefty wokeisms’ as well:
‘A descent into barbarian thought really is what we are witnessing. And not just on the right. The crank right – with its war on the past, its philistine assault on truth, its vile obsession with race – is a mirror image of the woke left. Both rage with curious ferocity against Churchill: the woke leftists of the BLM era were vandalising Churchill statues years before Tucker had a Churchill hater on his show.
Both relativise the Holocaust. The online right does it by suggesting the deaths of all those Jews was kind of unintentional; the crank left does it by calling everything it doesn’t like in the here and now, including Israel’s war on Hamas, ‘another Holocaust’. The former robs the Holocaust of its murderous intent, the latter robs it of its uniqueness: a right / left pincer movement of woke denialism that obscures the truth of what the Nazis did to the Jews.’
‘…now we have a nexus of a morally exhausted right and a de-enlightened left, both awash with cynicism and contempt for the modernity we are privileged to inhabit.’
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/06/the-shameful-nazi-apologism-of-the-very-online-right/
Both (fascists) are as bad as each other, untroubled, as they are, by any real scholarship, historical fact:
‘I had never heard of Cooper until this week and was none the wiser when I went to look for his books. There are none……..’
‘Podcasts are not reviving history, as is often claimed these days. They are mostly drowning it in a tidal wave of blather, at best sloppy, at worst mendacious.’
Niall Ferguson
Israel’s war on Hamas is a war against the Palestinian people. It is not ‘another Holocaust’ but it is another genocide or how else do you refer to depriving a population of food, water and medical aid, as well as bombing and killing them on a daily basis? USA ‘celebrated’ its 500th cargo flight of weapon deliveries to Israel just last week – 500 flights since 7th October last year! That is, of course, in addition to the weapons Israel itself has in stock. And Israel, or more precisely Netanyahu, desperately wants to drag USA into a war against Iran so that Israel can blast its guns in all directions. What a world.
Your comment gives no supporting evidence so I have no idea whether it represents the facts accurately or is complete nonsense.
Consequently, I dismiss it
Perhaps you should instead educate yourself.
I apologize! I should not react so aggressively. There are many sources of information on Palestine apart from BBC: try https://antiwar.com/, https://electronicintifada.net/, https://thegrayzone.com/, https://www.youtube.com/@judgingfreedom …
‘a tidal wave of blather, at best sloppy, at worst mendacious.’
An opinion, if it is not supported by anything in the way of credible evidence, can be dismissed.
So, complete nonsense……
And it is the current online world that allows complete nonentities like myself (and others!) to publicly voice their opinion on a daily basis.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion but, if it not supported by anything in the way of credible evidence, it can be dismissed
The cry of the NPC: “Source?! SOURCE??”
In fact it is Hitchens’s razor.
This guy expects footnotes and a full bibliography with every comment.
An assertion entirely unevidenced; I dismiss it
“historical revisionism”… The irony here is astonishing Monro..
This is exactly what the Zionists have done, and you, Monro have swallowed the forced narrative hook line and sinker.(again).
There’s more…. “‘True history proceeds from an accumulation of evidence,”… Precisely…. Would you care to show me the “evidence” of alledged figures???
An i mean evidence, not the fabricated “evidence” in the so called history books.
History is written by the Victors………
My ‘narrative’, above (in actual fact my point) is that both batshit right and batshit left are as bad as each other, neither having bothered with the research necessary to support an intelligent, balanced point of view.
History is written by the vicars.
“Eco-protesters halt construction of telescope designed to spot meteors that could wipe out humanity”
And…lets say that we spot said meteor that will wipe out humanity. What are we supposed to do then, duck.?
Certainly not launch a rocket to nuke it, since that might increase climate change.
Meteors travel at speeds up to 50,000 miles an hour, quick enough to destroy the Earth in half a second, I suggest we stop building the telescope, and spend the money on something else.
A party!
Would it be better to be hit by a big bullet or a shotgun blast? Nuking a space rock won’t significantly change its trajectory but it might break it up. Mankind would need to calculate the orbit a few decades ahead and push the rock for many years to prevent a collision.
I know what I’m talking about; I’ve read loads of SciFi.
BTW if meteor/asteroid impact SciFi is your thing and you haven’t read it, may I recommend Lucifer’s Hammer by Niven and Pournelle. Pre- and post-impact dystopia stuff.
I think I’d rather not know tbh. Apparently the best place to be (assuming it is of some size) is right where it’s going to land, because you would be instantly vapourised before it actually made landfall, due to the heat it would produce. I can think of worse ways to go.
Given a few days Starmer’s government will enact a law making meteors illegal. Problem solved.
They are after all only manifestations of the far right.
Didn’t you see Armageddon? You send Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck to destroy it.
“The Labour Party does not understand the most basic rules of economics”
There is quite a long list of things that the Labour Party does not understand, or chooses to ignore.
When the elite propose stupid policies why assume it is out of ignorance. Why not instead assume they want to achieve the outcomes you forecast.
We are not dealing wioth a good faith political class but a highly ideological one that hates us so our problems and suffering are of no consequence. In any event, they are so remote from everyday life they have not got a clue about the outcomes.
Climate change is already forcing millions of people to migrate”
Slight spelling mistake. They wrote ‘people’, and they meant of course, ‘dollars’. Dollars from you to them.
The biggest theft ever conceived.
“Calls to free Lucy Letby fuelled by ‘lies and misinformation’, say parents”
I can understand the parents not wanting to let this go. But if there has been a miscarriage of justice with Letby, then it shames us all if we don’t revisit the case and ask more questions.
This case absolutely must be re-examined, owing to the flawed statistical analysis and the ‘diary-style’ notes written by Letby – so brilliantly re-interpreted here in the Daily Sceptic… and now we know that these notes were prompted by a counsellor who advised Letby to give vent to her emotions, something not told to the jury. It’s full of holes, and the woman has been all but crucified.
Seconded
“BBC ‘breached guidelines 1,500 times’ over Israel-Hamas war”
Its a disgrace, and everyone up to the Directors should be on the carpet to explain themselves.
Being sceptical is important, but not nearly as important as being sceptical about being sceptical. Sometimes there are two truths, and sometimes there is no truth at all.
All the very best to everyone.
Tucker Carlson gives the chance for everyone to express their point of veiw, like it or not, people have the right to their opinion its called freedom of speech and platforms that allow it are few and far between these days!
Never has the name of Hitler been praised as much since the 2nd ww ended as it has just recently , students in Londons street marches for Palistine have said that ‘Hitler was a good man’ when questioned by the press, THATS THE FAR LEFT!
Shame on you Brendan O’Neill
Well done Tucker!
Not sure why the down ticks?
I thought freedom of speech was the whole point of this site!
The full name of Hitlers party was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party
Socialist being the key word here
It would be like calling the Democrats far right
Top tip re removal of winter fuel allowance for pensioners – buy a one way ferry ticket to Calais or Dunkirk, taking with you in a backpack an inflatable rubber dinghy and a mobile phone. Launch yourself in said dinghy from a nearby beach. Having dialled 999 for rescue from the British side, throw your phone and passport in the sea. On rescue pretend you are either dumb or speak no English at all. Hey presto, a lovely warm winter in a hotel with all mod cons, three hot meals a day and full NHS services on demand. Don’t worry, your phone will be replaced to enable to to keep in touch covertly with any remaining family. With a bit of luck you will have your own place within a year.
A plan but the time is long since past when a claim to be under 18 would be believable in my case!!
It’s been a very hard 17 years?
An engineering view of wind turbines for the sceptics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LklUVkMPl8g&list=WL&index=1 Just short of 17 mins, or 15 mins if you ignore the advertising. Do delve into the commentary though; some of it appears to be out of date, and as ever, there is an element of controversy.
It’s essentially an Irish view of it all.