News Round-Up
6 October 2024
by Will Jones
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by Ben Pile
The RSPCA faces being burned by the charity watchdog after its President, Chris Packham, sparked a firestorm by suggesting Barclays customers should "stick your head in a bucket of fuel and set fire to it".
Police have said no offence was committed when Chris Packham urged Barclays customers to set themselves on fire in a speech last weekend. Meanwhile, a man who chanted "Who the f*** is Allah?" has been jailed for 18 months.
Chris Packham has been spotted wearing a £520 Prada bucket hat. Seems the Devil does wear Prada after all, says Sallust.
By the final programme of his five-part BBC Earth series, Chris Packham had perfected the art of using pseudoscience to push climate collapse "terror", says Chris Morrison.
Chris Packham's five-part series last year on the BBC called Earth, which warned of a coming CO2-driven "mass extinction", was propaganda not science, says Chris Morrison.
In the latest episode of the Weekly Sceptic, the talking points are Humza's brief reign as Scotland's Witchfinder General, the turmoil in the Conservative Party (as per usual) and Ireland's migrant hypocrisy.
We shouldn’t be too quick to dismiss Chris Packham's rechristening of the Daily Sceptic as the Daily Septic, says politics professor Dr James Alexander. After all, we deal with ideological sewage every day.
The BBC has removed the most recent episode of Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg from iPlayer after it received numerous complaints that Chris Packham's smear about the Daily Sceptic was false and defamatory. 👊
Last Sunday, Chris Packham made a false and defamatory allegation on the BBC about the team behind the Daily Sceptic, claiming they had "close affiliations to the fossil fuel industry". The BBC then signal-boosted it. 😡
On BBC Politics Chris Packham claimed "something called science" is evidence that the recent Dubai flooding was caused by climate change. But there's nothing scientific about the models that 'prove' that, says Paul Sutton.
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