The Daily Sceptic is hiring!

Monetise your cognitive fragility with one of the UK's fastest growing online news sites!

Dear all,

In my capacity as the Free Speech Union’s (FSU’s) Communications Officer, I have been asked to circulate details of a number of openings for aspiring Sensitivity Readers at The Daily Sceptic. If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to pursue a career in the fascinating and well-remunerated sector of “grievance archaeology”, then please take a few minutes to consider this fantastic opportunity to monetise your cognitive fragility with one of the UK’s fastest growing online news sites.

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FSU General Secretary Toby Young’s eco-activist, left-of-centre online daily news site, The Daily Sceptic, has announced that it will be hiring sensitivity readers to help the editorial team avoid triggering readers, and contribute to the creation of a genuinely safe online space from which those with distasteful and/or offensive views can be excluded. The Daily Sceptic’s Editor-in-chief and World Economic Forum 'Young Global Leader 2023' Will Jones has more:

"Here at The Daily Sceptic, we consider ourselves at the leading edge of progressive mainstream writing and are keen to maintain our position in the field by bringing sensitivity readers into our growing team. Sensitivity readers would work alongside the editors to provide an independent RSoH (or 'Right Side of History') audit of all copy that we intend to publish.

"Working under the Senior Sensitivity Reader (to be appointed from among the pool of applicants) the remaining appointees will join the newly formed ‘Psychological Protection Team’ and be responsible for developing untapped issues in the field of sensitivity (e.g., 'Are verbs racist?', 'Is proper grammar fascism by other means?', 'Do linear narratives perpetuate colonial thought structures?', etc) and bringing these to the attention of the editors.

"We are particularly keen to speak to sensitivity readers with a minimum of 3 years' worth of 'lived experience' of taking offence and/or suffering cognitive trauma whenever someone they don't happen to agree with politically exercises their lawful right to free speech.

"Candidates must be fully vaccinated and will be required to produce proof of vaccination on request (by order of the publication's founder, Toby Young). Mask wearing — minimum FFP3 level protection — in the office is mandatory (by order of the publication's founder, Toby Young), and random PCR COVID-19 tests are also carried out several times an hour (by order of the publication's founder, Toby Young).

"Some previous experience of providing UK publishers with clunky, badly written revisions to novels by heteronormative, white supremacist authors (e.g., William Shakespeare, PG Wodehouse, JK Rowling, Roald Dahl, etc) is also desirable."

If you think you’ve got the trauma skillset The Daily Sceptic is looking for, then please click here to download an application form.

But hurry — the call closes at midnight on April Fools' Day, the 1st April.