Toby Young

Director of FSU ( Editor-in-Chief of Daily Sceptic ( Associate Editor of the Spectator. Conservative Peer.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

In Episode 85 of the Sceptic: Alka Sehgal Cuthbert on how the Equality Act has morphed into a vast tool of social engineering, and Chris Morrison on whether the recent temperature records really are the 'hottest evah'.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

The Health Secretary stripped responsibility for a puberty blocker trial from a junior minister who had raised safeguarding concerns. https://t.co/XNabA8cYCA

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Today's Daily Sceptic update is here. Steven Tucker on how the mindless censorship of 'Janet and John' shows the past is now banned; Eugyppius on the latest insane story from a collapsing Germany; and Ed Miliband has turned Net Zero toxic, says Dale Vince. https://t.co/P8mKXn4RM2

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The bill for cutting UK greenhouse gas emissions already stands at over £100 billion. And for what? New Government figures show real carbon emissions have fallen just 15% since 1996, says Paul Homewood. https://t.co/TD8eSOBPmh

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the 'climate emergency', public health 'crises' and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation. https://t.co/PiljcmQgUL

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

In my latest @Spectator column, I ridicule the Government's Media Green Paper and its proposal that social media platforms should be forced to boost 'trusted' media sources, like the BBC.

"Isn't it a bit of a misnomer to describe the media content the government wants people to consume as ‘trustworthy’? After all, if people trusted it, they wouldn’t have to be made to watch it. The reason the BBC now attracts fewer viewers than YouTube is precisely because people don’t trust it – and with good reason, given the misinformation it pumps out about the Israel-Gaza conflict, its fake-news Panorama documentary about Trump and its one-sided coverage of the ‘climate crisis’. Forcing social media platforms to label it ‘trustworthy’ is unlikely to restore its authority. More like the final nail." https://t.co/23UtuuhL33

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Wimbledon has ruled that a watermelon symbol widely associated with Palestine does not breach its rules on political messaging, despite tournament rules prohibiting political messaging from players on court. https://t.co/VG4ETHHRb6

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The bill for cutting UK emissions of greenhouse gases already stands at well over £100 billion, but what difference has it actually made? asks Paul Homewood in the Climate Skeptic. https://t.co/AZvKYslmfj

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Bob Vylan has announced it is taking legal action against the BBC following the controversy surrounding its Glastonbury show last summer, where the punk duo led the crowds in chants of "death, death to the IDF". https://t.co/rJMSJ8ueU4

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇬🇧 UK Government to legally take over the YouTube algorithm.

They will force the platform to promote “approved” content and hide critics of the regime.

Pure dictatorship in disguise.

This is an attack on free speech.

Stop it before it’s too late.

Source: @BasilTheGreat / Writer: Samuel

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Andy Burnham’s new Chancellor is expected to split his or her time between 11 Downing Street and northern England as part of the PM-in-waiting's devolution push. https://t.co/Fvq6GVlvRG

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Green energy tycoon Dale Vince has blamed Ed Miliband for the "toxification of Net Zero" and branded him unfit to become Chancellor, questioning whether he has a grasp of "even the basic notion of value for money". https://t.co/zLUtQRPX0s

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Some stories are so insane you don’t know where to start, says Eugyppius, as he tells how a suspected child abuser escaped jail in Turkey, entered Germany and committed a mass shooting with an NGO-employed getaway driver. https://t.co/LRJ2FvgTCR

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Today's Daily Sceptic update is here. Police pull man out of pub to 'advise' him he's upset Green councillor; the death of climate alarmism has been greatly exaggerated, says Tilak Doshi; and Miliband's favourite green think tank is funded by foreign cash. https://t.co/8Z7oS63NFx

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The mindless censorship of innocent 1950s children's books Janet and John shows that the past is now banned, says Steven Tucker. We are no longer permitted to see Britain as it actually was. https://t.co/TIM7eQl1Vh

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation. https://t.co/DaL6xKZjes

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West Midlands Police have been accused of two-tier policing after a white man was arrested after being assaulted by several black men in footage widely shared on social media. https://t.co/TdkqlYqb8s

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On the Climate Skeptic this week, guest host @elliehodges62 speaks to @CMorrisonEsq, the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor, on the latest so-called record-breaking heatwave and whether the Met Office's temperature records are really the 'hottest evah'. https://t.co/9pzQ2xuuun

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The supporters of Labour's ban on 'conversion practices' pretend abuse isn't already illegal – talk about harmful disinformation! It's even worse than the Dangerous Dogs Act – it should be called the Dangerous Speech Bill. https://t.co/5EYfCxJZOe

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

This is deeply concerning.

Photographer Alastair Hilton was enjoying a pint with a friend when two Metropolitan Police officers tracked him down and warned him about his posts on social media.

Mr Hilton was asked to step outside the pub, where the officers read out the section of the Crime and Policing Act 2026 under which they threatened to arrest him should he cross the line.

This was all because Mr Hilton had shared a post protesting the actions of a local Green councillor, who had successfully campaigned to remove the outdoor seating from three pubs on the Thames riverside near his home.

While we do not approve of intimidating public office holders at their homes, gathering at a pub in the vicinity of a councillor’s house and standing up for your right to sit outside and enjoy a beer is not a crime.

We can already see how this legislation — with this provision having come into force only on 29th June — can be manipulated to silence dissent.

The Met Police again appear more interested in dealing with free speech disputes online rather than tackling real crime.

@London_W4, the FSU will write to you today.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Two Met police officers have tracked down to a pub a man who had criticised a local Green councillor over an outdoor drinking ban, sparking concerns that Britain is becoming a police state. https://t.co/5JyL080XwD