The Daily Sceptic has More Readers than the New Statesman, Novara Media and the Morning Star Combined
There’s a good little story on Guido Fawkes that caught my eye. Apparently, the Daily Sceptic is doing rather well.
An article in this week’s New Statesman (“In the Post-Corbyn World, What Next for Alternative Left Media?“) spurred Guido to do some research into their traffic and how they are performing generally. The short answer is not very well in terms of raw audience size. In comparison to right-of-centre political news and opinion sites they are well behind. Like for like The Spectator has double the New Statesman’s readership. To give you an idea how much worse they are faring after the Corbyn-era glory days, consider this, Toby Young’s Daily Sceptic last month alone had more online readers than the New Statesman, Novara Media and Morning Star combined!
Worth reading in full.
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Yep, congrats all round.
As for why the difference for leftist “alternative” media, Guido Fawkes gets it pretty much correct:
“Perhaps the answer is simply that the likes of the Guardian, Daily Mirror, Buzzfeed News, Huffington Post and the BBC provide most left-of-centre news consumers with satisfactory confirmation of their prejudices such that they just don’t have to venture out to the alt-left for content that appeals. Is it just that in the wider media context it is harder for the alt-left to appeal beyond an ideological core readership?”
Basically, the leftist online sites that purport to be “alternative”, aren’t particularly.
Plus also, leftist media have no sense of humour.
Just remove the last two words: perfecto!
By definition; leftist are stupid.
I’d like to think that there’s no left and right in this whole thing. There’s just what is deemed proper and right and humane . . . I don’t give a shit personally for left or right – two wings of the same bird and both sides (if you want to believe there’s sides and division) can have valid viewpoints.
Everybody is somebody’s arsehole – and equally, everybody is somebody’s hero – left, right or whatever.
Agreed, in this age of deranged politics Left & Right division is working as a divide & conquer strategy for the elite controllers.
For me, it’s just too easy to declare “there’s no such thing as left and right” or “left and right don’t matter any more”, and abdicate responsibility for taking sides. Obviously it depends on what your paricular definition of left/right is. For me, it’s radical versus conservative, and that division has always been part of civic society, since there were cities to have politics in, and probably always will be. Left/right is a crucial part of human nature. It will never just disappear, and it will always be central. And the issues that are causing the most harm: covid panic, woke pc nonsense, climate alarmism, the attack on free speech by way of the “hate speech” and “offence” pretexts, are all coming from the political left – the radicals who believe in throwing away everything we have settled on in the past and embarking on great projects to make things better. That’s why it’s conservative dissenting sites, opinions and people that are being harassed, not leftist ones. Now if you are saying the mainstream parties, supposedly of left and right, are now near irrelevant, that’s much more plausible, because they are all now parties of the left or centre-left, more… Read more »
Vinod Kothari: There are two sides on a balance sheet — the left side and the right side. On the left side, there is nothing right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
Check out “The Political Compass”.
The really important dimension is not left-right, it’s libertarian-authoritarian. Currently authoritarian left and right are hand-in-hand unleashing their crazy policies on humanity.
I agree, I can’t decide whether the policies adopted by our own government are more communist or fascist. I suppose on balance more fascist in that the government is inextricably meshed with elements of big business to the detriment of the individual.
The lefty media haven’t really moved on from the old pre-internet ‘we produce, you consume’ mentality. News is not a one way street any more.
LeftLockdownSceptics is a good website
Thanks, that’s new to me. I’ll have a look.
I started reading Lockdown Sceptics last April, or whenever it was set up. It’s helped keep me sane, and made me realise there are others who think like me. Let’s hope some of our esteemed MP’s also read it, and realise there are millions of people not buying the narrative.
Agree 100%.
My sentiments entirely. This site has been a real light in the darkness for me over the last crazy 19 months…..
Is Unherd really “right”, politically? Not noticed anything particularly conservative about it, though I only visit it when it’s linked here. I’d have placed them as more centrist/liberal, if fairly eclectic.
I suppose when the mainstream is so lockstep leftist, anything remotely independent-minded seeming appears “right-wing”.
I find it interesting that “lockdownsceptics” is considered right. While I realize that Toby is generally right of center, the primary focus of this site is combating the mainstream medias narrative about the benefits of lockdowns along with a smattering of arguing against identity politics and climate change hysteria. I still have a hard time accepting those are conservative ideals.
No, sorry, lockdown skeptic. Report to the Gulag for reprogramming at once,
“the primary focus of this site is combating the mainstream medias narrative about the benefits of lockdowns along with a smattering of arguing against identity politics and climate change hysteria. I still have a hard time accepting those are conservative ideals.”
Not difficult for me, since I see lockdown as just another bit of radicalism, to be resisted on conservative grounds along with other radical (ie leftist) stuff like identitarian and climate alarmist bullshit.
If you want to make radical changes to society based on some elite or technocratic theories about building a better world, society, or humanity, or about saving the world from some fantasy threat, that’s the very definition of leftist, as far as I’m concerned.
(It should go without saying that conservative has little or nothing to do with the “Conservative” Party these days. A major priority for conservatives imo is replacing the current “Conservative” Party with something that will actually represent conservatives, or thoroughly gutting it and rebuilding it back better. As it were.)
This site is Right as in Correct whereas those other sites mentioned are Left as in Sinister.
I started following UnHerd after the interview with Ferguson in early April 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cYjjEB3Ev8&t=206s where Ferguson predicts (about 3:30) that Sweden’s day-on-day fatality rate will increase like New York. In fact, the interview was broadcast about three (IIRC) days after the Swedish mortality rate peaked,
They’ve had two or three interviews with Anders Tegnell, also others who did not swallow the OMG we gunna die narrative.
I have enjoyed some of their independent minded pieces, without getting any real impression of their overall stance being particularly right of centre ( which would be a good thing in the current left-driven social and cultural mess we in the modern US sphere find ourselves in, obviously).
Well, out of curiosity I went for a quick look at what’s current on Unherd and found this entertaining piece by one of their associate editors, which I was drawn to because I read both Lord of the Rings and Dune in my youth and enjoyed them both: Lord of the Rings is better than Dune I agree with the conclusion expressed in the title, but amusingly the text suggests the author reaches that conclusion despite the basically conservative nature of LotR and basically progressive nature of Dune, and praises the Dune film makers for pandering to “progressive” identitarian bullshit: “Then there’s the rest of the cast — which in the case of Dune meets the multi-ethnic criteria of contemporary film making. The Rings trilogy, almost 20 years older, does not. This is hardly Jackson’s fault — nor Tolkien’s for that matter. … As for gender balance, it must be admitted that Tolkien’s tale is a bit of a Boy’s Own adventure. Nevertheless, Jackson did his best to push female characters to the forefront. It hasn’t been so difficult for Villeneuve. For a start, the source material provides more to work with — for instance the “Bene Gesserit”, an order of terrifying space-nuns. Also Villeneuve was… Read more »
Come now, we live in an age where anyone to the right of Stalin is denounced as far right.
……there is the possibility that as many as 22 million people, in week 26, were unvaccinated rather than the 9.5 million reported.
http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~norman/papers/inconsistencies_vaccine.pdf
More evidence that the number of unvaccinated will be a problem for government control.
And this does not include those who have only one vax….or those with two who will not take the booster. We can take heart we are not alone.
I did some sums from official government data and reached the same conclusion- at least 20 million are unvaccinated. More will join them as they refuse future boosters. It did cheer me up!
Why should we believe government numbers on vaxxed/unvaxxed when they have been so wrong about so much since the covid freakout began?
have “been so wrong”.. corrected, “lied”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7gO1byQozk&ab_channel=CristianTerhes
MEPs Supporting the rights of workers against the mandatory Digital Certificate – press conference
PLEASE WATCH from minute 15 to 15.45.
https://youtu.be/t7gO1byQozk
Those brave MEPs finally forced the Commission’s hand & with the agreement of the vaccine makers, there the contracts signed off by Von der Leyen are now revealed to you, you who paid for the vaccines.
I think this is THE most shocking demonstration of how far off course our “democracies” have become (we’ve not even seen a redacted contract).
Some MEPs sound outraged enough to join with the people & take your democracy back.
Push the Commission out of their oh too comfy seats.
Mike
https://www.roxytube.com/watch/nih-have-already-developed-the-next-bioweapon_UpmFJsb4WWAXf9q.html
Interesting discussion on scientific methods and the abuse of science
Blaming China is a false flag. The CV bioweapon was created with US taxpayers money, the work was funded by the NIH, and because gain-of-function research is illegal in US law, was outsourced to the Wuhan lab (also built with funding from multiple sources, including the US and France.)
There is a long paper trail of patent applications on SARS coronaviruses going back to the 1990’s. None of them jumped naturally into humans but were engineered to be able to use human cellular receptors. SARS-CoV-2 is just the latest in line.
Virologists are very keen to patent the methods they invent to insert new genetic features into viruses. There is a lot of money to be made, and because these patents must be filed to preserve your intellectual property (and financial returns) there is plenty of evidence over the years for how this was done.
BBC News is pushing the China- and bat-related line very strongly, including a report written partly I think by those involved in gain-of-function research.
Well they would say that, wouldn’t they?
Congratulations, Toby. I think ‘left’ and ‘right’ have to unite against dictatorship. This is no longer L versus R.
Yeah but… in what universe is gof research, justified as “US enemies might do this so we need to know wot they might do” carried out with the benefit of US knowledge and funding in Chinese labs, the country of its great rival openly aiming to crush it this century?
Those who arranged the funding and facilitation of this research are not working for the interests of the USA.
They are bought and captured agents of Chinese imperialism.
Clap clap to the regular below the line contributors as well!!
Frankly there are many amazing pundits here.
Yeah. Toby doesn’t realise that probably most readers are here for the below the line commentators like for me FreeCumbria, RickH, Julian and many many others whose expertise and intelligence outshine most of the regurgitated pieces from the captured media.
Morning Star!?! Blast from the past, how are they still going since Moscow stopped their subsidy?
Guess 1. Subscriptions from the BBC and University libraries.
Guess 2. Aging
communistsgreenies reliving their youth.Last time I read the MS, during the Brexit fight, I agreed with every word. Where is it on The “Vaccine” Conspiracy”?
Brilliant news.
Next goal is to beat The Spectator off top spot!
Congrats Toby and editorial team DS and the many contributors… keep it comin’
And Christine Anderson is a MEP you can believe in
https://twitter.com/matthewdmarsden/status/1454166759301435393?s=20
No thanks Kill Bill we will not comply!
Stopped visiting OrderOrder because I’m no longer able to read or write comments page. Must have said something critical of the Tories I guess.
https://going-postal.com/
Home for the Order-order unwanted
#RealEmotion in ultra HD
^this.
Just beware of the rude welcome you’ll get when you first arrive. They don’t mean it, really.
An honour.
Well, I think that deserves a pat on the back Toby. Thanks for the great job you and the team are doing.
Congratulations also to all the BTL commentators…..your wit and wisdom has kept a lot of us sane! While the site has been a Godsend, its the BTLiners who you can chat and compare notes with, who can cheer you up when things are getting you down, who truly make you feel you are not alone and who have become part of a little family..thank you all!
It’s also helped that many of us have gone on other ‘media’ and made an effort to post links to DS, so I think YAY us!
Yes, absolutely. We the readers should also give ourselves a pat on the back for supporting Toby through the early days with our humble donations and frequent messages of encouragement and gratitude. It really has felt like a home-grown publication / movement.. we can now sense that this is becoming a much bigger animal. The below-the-line commenters are are great bunch – people from all over the world, I like to think, with such interesting things to say. It really does help to keep us sane in an increasingly mad world that is tending to ‘shut us out’ and ‘shut us down’.
Congratulations and thank you to Toby and the team for giving us this platform to vent our frustrations throughout the plandemic.
That’s unless you’re a honeypot operation designed to identify dissidents for future persecution.
Lol! 🙂
Splendid, well done all!
Well done Team Daily Sceptic!
Guess you will be getting more interest from the Thought Police at The Ministry of Truth.
Just remember to be careful about the information you publish in your articles as you could end up in prison like former ambassador Craig Murray. Apparently, legally there are different rules that apply for main stream journalists to those that apply for independent journalists/bloggers.
Congrats and thanks for being a “safe space” for those who like to use their brains!
Very surprised and pleased re the numbers.
I don’t give a dam about Left/Right.. In their extreme forms they’re both sides of the same coin. Fully agree though that the Left lack humour – and irony.
I only care about following the correct science. The trick is though deciding who is more likely to be right. A good guide is that experts usually say whatever their payers, and not necessarily in money, want.
Add politics into the mix – controlling the “independent democratic media” Lol, and voila, it’s toxic – and that’s exactly what those in charge want.
But then again, most on here know that what’s going on ain’t anything to do with defeating a “virus”.
Congrats for providing an oasis of rational thought and an opportunity to challenge what in public health terms will no doubt go down in history as a catastrophe through governments, their advisors and the pharmaceutical industry’s malpractice and malfeasance.
Without this site the last 18 months would have been much harder to endure.
Thank you, Toby.
Use of the Onan Jones with his blow job cramp face is apt.
is he still trying to chase women off Twitter?
ps. This site would have a lot more traffic if Tony wasn’t such a bedwetter g fence sitter. #TeamJames at least he doesn’t do the uhming and ahing that Toby does.
FGS draw a line in the sand man.
What is more interesting is that the top site on the left wouldn’t even crack the top 3 on the right.
Well done Toby and team.
And nice to see you beating Guido. I was banned from his site, a victim of his increasingly draconian moderation. The moderation over here is invisible in comparison, a very good sign.
Really well done team, congratulations! Especially because I know you work very late hours every night. Finding your site kept me sane last April 2020.
Can I respectfully ask other LD sceptics to listen to & publicise Ben Irvine’s video of the utterly corrosive & dreadful role many unions played in driving the corona NPIs debacle over the last 19 months. Before I read the related article I was utterly furious with Boris & blamed him for everything. Reading it was transformative, and a lightbulb moment. The unions are STILL doing it & trying to put us back into lockdown & implement vaccine passports & stop seeing GP patients face to face.
Here is Ben’s video:
https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1454062230052425728?t=qrervqKMjXDXdUWC8Yb4Eg&s=19
Here is Ben’s essay:
https://twitter.com/BenIrvineAuthor/status/1429889081647972355?t=tHa3TPtIGxYBV5iym6jSkg&s=19
And the link on his website:
https://whistleblowerphilosopher.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-unions-and-u-turns.html?m=1
Irvine’s very good article was highlighted here back in August on the News Roundup, and discussed in the comments:
News Round-Up
As I commented at the time, it’s fine and correct to give the unions the blame they deserve but we shouldn’t allow it to distract us entirely from Johnson’s personal responsibility. There’s more than enough blame to go around, in the worst domestic policy disaster in modern history.
Thanks for the link, great discussion and points. I agree with you.
That’s a grossly offensive picture, you can change your name from lockdown to daily, but you’re up to your old habits of driving your readers away with horrendous TOSSER’S pictured in the headline.
I have my gripes at times but well done everyone. Great work. 🏅🏅🏅🏅
Congratulations to the DS team. Your willingness to swim against the tide does you credit.
Well you just have to read this to see the ‘quality’ of the journalism:
https://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2021/10/ai-weiwei-on-climate-loss-leaving-beijing-was-not-just-a-political-choice-i-was-a-climate-refugee
Apparently rich jet-setters are climate refugees now. There’s no analysis or nuance in there at all either. Apparently China’s woes are largely environmental, nothing to do with them having set up an inhuman materialistic system then? Was the cultural revolution because of climate change? And Tiananmen Square?
Good to see they’re still pushing dissenters against foreign regimes on the other side of the world upon us, since everything’s rosy over here and we have nothing really to dissent about in the US sphere, where we are ruled by noble philosopher kings and all live lives of liberal, prosperous ease.
Yeah but not because all of us believe everything you say; on the contrary, I disagree with more than 50% of what you guys write… like C19 doesn’t exist, the jab isn’t a vaccine, etc
Well Done Toby and the team. Maybe the MSM will start taking notice.