Spotlight on Lord Toby's site

As I'm currently preparing a longish piece with many screenshots on Iran across the way, plus a lesser look at Farage's Zahawi, thought it might be worth looking at a typical Toby Young daily newsletter.

Lord Toby:

... is bossman at The Daily Sceptic and in yesterday's:

... it opened with the food pyramid:

Dietary goals for Americans were first set in 1977, following the work of Senator George McGovern’s select committee. The first Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) were set in 1980 and it is now ingrained in US law that these will be published every five years.

The two key guidelines that have most impacted American food policy (and public health) for nearly 50 years were to limit total fat to no more than 30% and saturated fat to no more than 10% of calorie intake.

There are three macronutrients: fat, protein and carbs. Protein tends to stay remarkably constant at around 15% of energy intake. The imposition of a fat restriction of 30% meant that the remainder must come from carbohydrate – 55%.

(Read more over there.)

An award-winning police officer, sacked after arresting a knife-wielding teenager, could now be blocked from working with children. The Telegraph has the story.

Lorne Castle was dismissed for gross misconduct after tackling the masked 15 year-old suspect to the ground and holding him down while telling him to “stop screaming like a b—-”.

More than £113,000 was raised by the public to support him after his sacking.

(Again read more over there.)

New official figures suggest Ed Miliband’s Net Zero push could cost an eye-popping £4.5 trillion – more than the UK’s entire GDP – with households left to foot the bill. The Mail has more.

Critics said the extraordinary mounting costs for measures such as wind farms, solar panels, green heating systems and upgrades to roads and railways are significantly higher than previous forecasts and could “bankrupt” the economy.

The figures, quietly published last month by the National Energy System Operator (NESO) – a Government quango responsible for Britain’s energy systems – includes an estimated £585 billion to be forked out by ordinary households to pay for the move away from energy-guzzling boilers towards eco-friendly heat pumps.

(And yes ... again read more over there.)

Point of this post on Lord Toby's baby?  Might have gone with Kathy Gyngell or Dan Wootton.  All net journalism derives, quotes, comments on and it's a case of which is most comfortable to you? Telegraph, Wail, Grauniad?

And if comfortable, is its ferreting actually enough? How would we know? For example, there are two distinct views coming through on Iran ... one considering it's a US Israel operation, the other the Russian view showing the playbook is the same each and every time, always results in bombing in the end and before that ... thousands of ordinary people have been slaughtered.

Planned that way?  Sheer incompetence? Trolls in high places?  And what's their overall endgame?  For example, the Net Zero scam?

As for our blogs and vlogs ... are they to build webmasters' journalistic coffers and empires, or are they to go forensic, stepping on toes all the way?