- “Lockdown’s destructive impact on children’s confidence laid bare” – Boris Johnson has been warned lockdown must never happen again because of its impact on children, writes Michael Curzon in the Express.
- “How Dangerous Are Masks for Children?” – We may be faced with catastrophic consequences for what we did to our children over the last two years of unsound Covid restrictive policies, writes Dr. Paul Alexander at the Brownstone Institute.
- “Online child sex abuse up by 27% in two years” – The NSPCC calls for tougher laws to combat “digital breadcrumbing” that signposts paedophiles to illegal content, the Telegraph reports. Oddly, lockdown isn’t blamed for any of the rise, despite it greatly increasing children’s time spent online.
- “World’s first COVID-19 breathalyser approved in the U.S.” – The machine can return results in three minutes and is more than 90% accurate, according to the Telegraph.
- “Proposal to Sanction Countries Disobeying WHO Pandemic Response Rules Concerning: Author” – Failure to cooperate with the World Health Organisation during a pandemic should prompt sanctions on a country, some officials and experts are proposing, prompting concern, the Epoch Times reports.
- “U.S. Covid test positivity rates by vaccination status” – Yet another set of evidence that vaccines are not working to stop Covid spread and that boosters wind up making you more likely to contract Covid in the long run, says El Gato Malo.
- “They Walk Among Us” – Niall McCrae in Country Squire tells the disturbing story of how he was kicked out of a pub in Brighton for being an “anti-vaxxer”.
- “Devices to stop drivers speeding could be mandatory in all new cars” – Measures, which would be introduced for safety reasons and to fall in line with a controversial European Union ruling, would be likely to be backed by environmental campaigners, reports the Telegraph.
- “The climate scaremongers: An open letter to the Daily Telegraph” – The Daily Telegraph regularly publishes articles by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, its International Business Editor, which eulogise renewable energy and claim that fossil fuels will soon be a thing of the past. But they never seem to tell the other side of the story – here is that other side, says Paul Homewood on TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Sorry, Nature, Associated Press, etc., Climate Change Is Not Making Hurricanes ‘Wetter’” – With the current limited state of knowledge, attribution studies are sideshow carnival crystal ball gazing, tea leaf reading stuff, not serious scientific research, says H. Sterling Burnett in Watts Up With That?
- “The Government has set an eco trap for homeowners – and it’s going to cost us £330bn” – A bodged plan to make Britain’s homes more eco friendly will cost us billions and ministers are refusing to fix it, says Isabelle Fraser in the Telegraph.
- “‘We’ll be here as long as we can’! Eco-chaos at three oil plants could last entire Easter break as Just Stop Oil activist vows to stay on top of Birmingham plant with six others until he’s removed – as dozens are arrested after dawn raids on terminals” – Eco-zealots from Just Stop Oil managed to climb on top of a loading bay at Kingsbury Terminal in Warwickshire after gaining access to the facility this morning, the Mail reports.
- “The war on the West: How Western civilisation and all its astonishing achievements in culture, science, medicine and free thinking are being erased from history as the product of ‘dead white males’” – They talk of “equality” but do not care about equal rights. They talk of “anti-racism” but sound deeply racist. They speak of “justice” but seem to mean ‘revenge’, says Douglas Murray in the Mail.
- “Twitter CEO tells employees they are the ones ‘in control’” – Parag Agrawal took questions from staff on Thursday that were posted on the company’s Slack messaging service during an all-hands meeting, the Mail reports. Employees in control? Sounds like producer capture to me.
- “Twitter launches ‘poison pill’ tactic to wreck Elon Musk takeover” – The social media company seeks to scupper the billionaire’s $43bn hostile bid by flooding the market with cheap new shares if Musk attempts to buy up its stock, reports the Telegraph. Which is in the best interests of shareholders because…?
- “Why Elon Musk has rattled them” – His attempted takeover of Twitter has revealed just how terrified the ‘liberal’ elites are of freedom of speech, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Did a sex offender really expose ‘her penis’?” – The media and the justice system are totally lost to trans ideology, writes Charlie Peters in Spiked.
- “How the Guardian enables Owen Jones” – Trans people are pawns in his narcissistic war, says Suzanne Moore in UnHerd.
- “Sorry, but women don’t want changing rooms open to all… Public spaces where women and girls are undressing should be sacrosanct” – Following a complaint by one ‘non‑binary’ teenager this week, Monsoon, whose entire range is designed for women and children only, has opened changing rooms to “all customers”. Jan Moir in the Mail is not impressed.
- “Justin Welby backs removal of slave trader memorial in Cambridge college” – Guardian report that the Archbishop of Canterbury has decided to keep digging as he voices dismay with the judgment of the church court that the memorial must stay, saying: “If we are content with a situation where people of colour are excluded from places of worship because of the pain caused by such memorials, then clearly we have a lot further to go in our journey towards racial justice.”
- “The police are hitting us!” – Watch police in Shanghai arrest people who break the lockdown barricades.
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