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News Round-Up

by Jonathan Barr
24 April 2022 1:31 AM

  • “Brexit Minister tours Whitehall to nudge WFH civil servants” – Jacob Rees-Mogg has been patrolling Government departments, the Daily Mail says, leaving polite but very clear notes on empty desks
  • “Civil Service advertises £100k work-from-home jobs despite return to office push” – There are some well-paid jobs going in the civil service, reports the Telegraph, and successful applicants will only need to be in the office 40% of the time
  • “Ousting the Prime Minister for being in the vicinity of a cake? That’s just nuts” – “When the PM said there had been ‘no parties’, and that ‘rules were followed at all times’, he was telling the truth as he knew it,” says Dan Hannan in the Sunday Telegraph
  • “Steve Baker MP: ‘I’m sick of the Cabinet sitting there fat, dumb and happy’” – The Telegraph interviews former Brexit Minister Steve Baker, who this week called on Boris to realise that “the Gig’s up”
  • “MEPs sue E.U. commission for Covid contract transparency” – Five European lawmakers from the Green Party are suing the European Commission for not fully disclosing its Covid vaccine contracts, the EU Observer reports
  • “Have People Been Given the Wrong Vaccine?” – At the Brownstone Institute, Dr. Martin Kulldorff delves into a new study which concludes that “randomised controlled trials show all-cause mortality reduction from the Covid adenovirus-vector vaccines but not from the mRNA vaccines”
  • “Math Proficiency Rates Show Impact of Prolonged School Closures” – “The people who did this have to face the music and come to grips with what Covid maximalist school policies have wrought,” Josh Stevenson writes for the Brownstone Institute. “Outright failure”
  • “This Canadian zoo is vaccinating its animals against COVID-19, but only if the animals ‘voluntarily’ consent to the jab” – Notthebee picks up on a report about the vaccination programme at a Toronto zoo. The animals get jabbed ‘voluntarily’ and are rewarded with a treat
  • “Are China’s censors losing control of Shanghai?” – “As health workers battle Omicron, China’s infamous censors have their own fight,” says Cindy Yu in the Spectator. “And it’s not one that they are winning”
  • “COVID-19 group size limit to be removed in Singapore” – Singapore is to remove its group size limits on April 26th, according to Channel News Asia, and allow all workers back to the office
  • “The cult of crisis” – “It is clear that a section of society needs to be in a cult of ‘the current thing’,” writes Romy Cerratti in the Conservative Woman. “Emergencies give one immediate purpose and justification of one’s existence”
  • “The 49 hours that killed my faith in the NHS” – The Telegraph’s Judith Wood tells the story of the two days her brother-in-law’s spent lying in agony on a hospital trolley
  • “Sajid Javid inquiry into gender treatment for children” – Sajid Javid expresses his support for those raising the alarm about adolescents being given irreversible medical procedures because they think they’re trans, according to the Times
  • “If Putin wins this war, he will have beaten the West – and everything that it stands for” – “The consequence,” says Charles Moore in the Telegraph, “will be a massive shift of global power towards autocrats and dictators, led by Russia and China”
  • “Did you ever need an arts graduate in a hurry?” – “Sir Anthony Blair’s call for 70% of young people to go to university,” writes Peter Hitchens in the Mail On Sunday, “is sheer foaming madness, and actively wicked into the bargain”
  • “What book fantasising about Rowling’s death tells us about publishers” – Writing in the Daily Mail, Julie Bindel calls out the publishers who sell books by everyone from drug dealers to murderers, but draw a line at female authors who speak out in support of women’s sex- based rights
  • “Vegan vandal ‘secretly flogs leather handbags on eBay’” – Militant vegan Rafal Mysakowski, 41, who spends his time littering the Highlands with stickers telling people to be nice to animals, has a nice little business selling leather handbags by Gucci and Burberry on eBay, the Daily Mail reports
  • “How could this sex show for children get £40,000 of public cash?” – The Daily Mail wonders how The Family Sex Show, which is marketed as an “alternative to porn” could get subsidised by the public to the tune of  nearly £40,000
  • “Heaven help the blasphemers against the sacred cow of the BBC” – “What is it about establishments like the BBC and the NHS that renders them above reproach?” Janet Daley asks in the Sunday Telegraph
  • “Libs of Tiktok: Twitter provocateur gives Republicans new weapon in war on liberals” – The Times reports how Libs of TikTok was catapulted into “conservative superstardom”
  • “Apple’s Chinese and Russian takedowns come under scrutiny” – Index on Censorship unveils a new report by GreatFire and whistleblower Ashley Gjovik which reveals that Apple responds positively to virtually every takedown request it receives from the Chinese and Russian Governments
  • “The Joe Rogan Experience #1807 – Douglas Murray” – Free Speech Union Director Douglas Murray visits the Joe Rogan Experience to talk about his latest book The War on the West and much more
  • “The Week in Review (s02, e15)  – A Stroll Through the Ashes” – In the latest episode of the Week in Review, Michael Curzon, S.D. Wickett, and a returning Luke Perry discuss familiar topics of censorship, the French Election, and the Conservative Party
  • “It’s like man’s best friend is the planet’s worst enemy” – On a panel for GB News, Benjamin Loughnane and Laura Dodsworth react to calls for pets to go vegan.

'It's barking mad!'

'It's like man's best friend is the planet's worst enemy'

Benjamin Loughnane and Laura Dodsworth react to calls for pets to go vegan.

🖥 GB News on YouTube https://t.co/Wa58gYGZwF pic.twitter.com/GVzGIB3KYn

— GB News (@GBNEWS) April 23, 2022

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