- “Cancer is now a public health emergency” – Restoring face to face appointments with GPs is only the start of what needs to be done to tackle it, says Consultant Surgeon J. Meirion Thomas in the Telegraph.
- “Universities face Ofsted-style inspections as they refuse to pull plug on online learning” – The watchdog is to review the quality of digital lectures amid fears that poor virtual teaching continues after taking root during the pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
- “Xi Jinping dare not climb off the Zero Covid tiger” – The Chinese dictator cannot abandon his policy of brutal lockdowns, whatever the cost, lest it undermine his quest for ultimate power, says Matthew Henderson in the Telegraph.
- “Meet Australia’s answer to Donald Trump, the unvaccinated billionaire hoping to stop Labor from winning” – The vote will be held on May 21st, and Clive Palmer could upend the predicted two-horse race, reports the Telegraph.
- “Seamless Continuity Editing in the Emergency Capitalism Movie” – A discussion of the interplay between war, lockdowns, the financial system and capitalism’s need for a constant state of crisis by Rusere Shoniwa in Left Lockdown Sceptics.
- “Eco mob block three more oil terminals as pumps run dry” – Causing more havoc for motorists, climate change activists Just Stop Oil started blocking three oil terminals in Hertfordshire, Essex and Warwickshire today, the Mail reports.
- “XR activists block two major bridges on second day of mayhem in London” – Mail report that the climate demonstrators are holding a sit-in protest on Lambeth and Vauxhall Bridges and have promised to bring more carnage to the capital over the next couple of weeks.
- “Plan to replace boilers with heat pumps could cost £115 billion” – Installing a new air source heat pump costs an average of £4,975 after a Government grant and a cut in VAT is factored in, meaning few households will be able to afford the new technology, reports the Mail.
- “Martin Lewis warns ‘civil unrest isn’t far away’ due to cost of living” – Martin Lewis, who built a loyal following for his financial advice, said lower earners have nothing left to cut back on and that rising levels of inflation have left people unable to pay for food and heating, reports the Mail.
- “Ep 47. Inside Ukraine – The changing phases of war – The Real Normal” – The podcast is back with Tanya Shelepko as she navigates life in Kyiv, Ukraine. They talk about her struggle to create art and retain her humanity, her work documenting war crimes in Bucha and Irpin, plus her thoughts about Russia and its people.
- “Trans killer says she [sic] identifies as baby, demanding dummy in her [sic] cell” – Trans killer Sophie Eastwood now identifies as a baby and demands prison guards hold ‘her’ hand, provide baby food and allow ‘her’ to wear nappies; ‘she’ has also been given a dummy, reports the Mail.
- “The week the trans spell was broken” – It’s finally okay to say that gender extremism wears no clothes, writes Hadley Freeman in UnHerd.
- “‘Grossly offensive’ Scottish minister compares women’s rights activists to racists and anti-Semites” – The Scottish Greens’ Lorna Slater also claimed feminists who fear the self-ID laws are secretly funded by “certain right-wing American groups”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Ministry of Justice employs transgender support officer after cutting ties with Stonewall” – The Ministry of Justice has appointed a “transgender employee support officer” in “defiance” of a decision by ministers to cut links with Stonewall, the Telegraph reports.
- “Stonewall accused of ‘holding No 10 to ransom’ over axed LGBT summit” – The “Safe To Be Me” summit was left in tatters last week when more than 100 LGBT groups pulled out of the three-day event – wasting £650,000 of taxpayers’ money, reports the Mail.
- “Transgender police officers who were born male are permitted to strip-search female suspects” – Women are an “afterthought” in the new guidance, claims a former officer, who says it will deal a devastating blow to trust in the police, the Telegraph reports.
- “‘Woke’ street name changes will have to be approved by local referenda” – Changing street names will no longer be possible without first holding small-scale referenda under Government plans to stop local heritage being wiped out by woke campaign groups, the Mail reports.
- “People screaming out of their windows after a week of total lockdown, no leaving your apartment for any reason” – Watch the chilling video taken this week in Shanghai, China.
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