- “Sue Gray told she cannot publish full ‘partygate’ report until every fine handed out” – The civil servant’s findings may not be revealed until after the local elections, as detectives spend weeks issuing fixed penalty notices, reports the Telegraph.
- “Civil servants insisting on working from home are ruining this country” – It’s time for the Civil Service to go back into the office so it can serve the country more efficiently, writes Sir Graham Brady in the Mail.
- “Who Pushed for Lockdowns? 101 Leading Voice” – Who gave life to this deadly ideology which culminated in such catastrophe? Michael Senger at the Brownstone Institute offers a sample of 101 individuals and institutions with “significant, public-facing credentials who advocated for ‘real’ lockdowns – harder, longer, or earlier than those imposed across the world in March 2020 – to control Covid”.
- “Masks fail their latest test” – Steve Kirsch asked the senior author of the Bangladesh mask study to defend his study, but says he failed badly.
- “MIT’s Dean of Science responds to me: She’s not interested in looking at the vax safety data!” – Nergis Mavalvala has intellectual curiosity in all areas of science, except the vaccines, says Steve Kirsch. Steve’s also written a follow-up post calling on her to “step up or step down”.
- “Masks on planes are making me sick” – Is there a peer-reviewed study which supports the use of generic masks on planes, trains and (ride-share) automobiles? No? Is it ‘Following The Science’ to extend the mandate by another two weeks, asks Matt McDonald in Spectator World.
- “Covid amnesty for everyone but the politicians” – MPs made their bed, but that doesn’t mean we have to lie in it, says Ben Lewis in the Critic.
- “Did Covid kill budget holidays? British families face paying more than £1,000 to fly to popular European hotspots as airlines cash in on post-lockdown demand” – Flying from London Heathrow to Malaga on a direct economy return on May 28th and June 4th – when most schools break up for half term – will now set travellers back £1,208, or £4,112 for a family-of-four, the Mail reports.
- “Bodybuilders in shock after U.S. champion becomes third to die in months” – Cedric McMillan’s unexpected death from a suspected heart attack follows those of Shawn Rhoden, the 2018 Mr Olympia champion who suffered a heart attack last November, and George Peterson, who died from heart problems last October, reports the Telegraph.
- “New climate change GCSE on ‘how to conserve the planet’ to be launched” – The course, made available to students from 2025, will allow young people to gain a “deeper knowledge of the natural world around them”, the Telegraph reports.
- “The problem with onshore wind farms” – The low hum, their dominance of the landscape and potentially the danger of detached blades – the reality of on-shore wind is not going to be popular, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “The great hydrogen swindle – ‘green’ gas is not what it seems” – Hydrogen’s intrinsic physical properties create a whole range of unique problems, says Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “Extinction Rebellion protesters glue themselves to oil tanker near Hyde Park” – Two Olympic athletes campaigning for the environmental group stick themselves to Shell vehicle in “highly disruptive” demonstration, the Telegraph reports.
- “Proving the Point at Saint Vincent College” – A conference on elite cowardice is, ironically, denounced by the university that hosted it, writes Jacob Howland in City Journal.
- “Elon Musk is ‘talking to private equity investors to partner with him on a newly structured bid for Twitter’ after board adopted a dramatic ‘poison pill’ defense to thwart his $43bn hostile takeover” – Elon Musk is reportedly in talks with potential partners including Silicon Valley investor – and Twitter board member – Egon Durban, after the board poured cold water on his bid to buy the firm, reports the Mail.
- “Diversity is the new national religion. Woe betide any agnostics” – The unnatural hush around Sir David Amess’s murder proves that there are some issues we can simply no longer discuss, says Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
- “Park could be renamed after Diane Abbott in Labour council slavery review” – Schoolchildren, with complete independence of mind of course, suggested naming Gladstone Park in Brent – named after the great Liberal Prime Minister – after the numerically challenged Left-wing MP who has never served in Government, reports the Telegraph.
- “Backlash as Home Office staff are told to add pronouns to work emails” – The Mail reports that the Free Speech Union has warned ministers that the instruction, “which appears to be mandatory, is a form of compelled speech that violates the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion and the right to free speech and is a breach of the Equality Act 2010”.
- “No ladies or gentlemen at the Lords! Staff are told to say folks or colleagues instead in ‘inclusive’ language guide” – The Lords, which has almost 800 members and around 650 staff, has produced an “Inclusive Language Guide” listing words and phrases to be avoided by employees in the latest move from the woke language police, according to the Mail.
- “Sir or ma’am are out: Police told to use ‘gender-neutral’ forms of address in new guidance” – Training for LGBT+ support officers advises them to “avoid making assumptions about a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity” and to use terms such as ‘you’, ‘everyone’ and ‘all’, according to the Mail.
- “Why don’t the Left care that Karl Marx was a vicious racist when they love to cancel other dead white male philosophers. The answer is his writings are a key weapon in trying to tear down the West” – In public and in private, Marx comes over as anti-black, antisemitic, anti-Indian, pro-colonialist and racist, says Douglas Murray in the Mail. Yet no cries to cancel him are ever heard.
- “Stuff that is lawful to say offline, even on television, will become prohibited online” – Watch Toby on GB News analyse the elements of the new Online Safety Bill that make him very worried.
If you have any tips for inclusion in the round-up, email us here.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.