- “Jacob Rees-Mogg declares war on ‘three-day week’ for the Civil Service” – Working from home is being used as an excuse for long weekends, says Cabinet minister in charge of efficiency, according to the Telegraph.
- “Rees-Mogg defends brutal cull of Civil Service jobs to save £3.5bn” – The Prime Minister announced plans to axe up to 91,000 jobs over the next three years to save £3.5billion and give his Government space for a pre-election tax cut, the Mail reports.
- “Disaster in the Rye” – The cost of living crisis has only just started, and is nowhere near its peak; any political forecast that does not take this into account is worthless, argues Colingwood in Bournbrook.
- “Baby drowned in bath when mother fainted a day after taking Covid jab” – Lawyer Louise Atkinson blacked out as she bathed nine-month-old Eleanor, nicknamed Ellie at her home in Christchurch, Dorset, the day after receiving the first dose of the jab, the Mail reports.
- “North Korea ‘treats’ 187,000 people for fever after first Covid cases” – North Korean state media reports that the country has treated 187,000 people for fever after the country reported its first Covid cases, the Mail reports.
- “No.10’s Covid inquiry will probe impact of lockdowns on mental health and young people” – The long-awaited inquiry will examine the impact of lockdowns on the nation’s mental health and children, the Mail reports.
- “CDC: No Documents Supporting Claim Vaccines Don’t Cause Variants” – The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says it does not have documents backing its claim that Covid vaccines do not cause variants of the virus that causes COVID-19.
- “The Left always wanted to pay people to do nothing and now we are seeing the results” – Far from being harmless, the ‘progressive’ economic theories trialled during the pandemic have been tested to destruction, writes Juliet Samuel in the Telegraph.
- “Lockdown and vaccine fanatics – we shall remember them” – How can we trust journalists who failed to challenge the Covid narrative to hold those in power to account over other issues, asks Romy Cerratti in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Working from home doesn’t work, says PM” – In an interview with the Daily Mail, the Prime Minister says full workplaces will lift productivity and revive town and city centres.
- “How some elite universities are still teaching online” – Universities that are still giving lectures online have been challenged to justify fees of £28,000 for three years’ tuition, the Mail reports.
- “The soul of a people” – Omar Khan with an update on the situation in Sri Lanka, where violence has been prompted in part by the ruinous and authoritarian response to Covid.
- “Natural gas to be classed as ‘green’ investment to boost North Sea” – Proposals to bolster U.K. energy security by drilling for the fossil fuel risk angering climate change activists, the Telegraph reports.
- “Net Zero? India Plans to double Coal Use by 2040” – As the USA and Europe retreat from prosperity, India seems determined to overtake China, with a 400 million ton boost to coal production in the next two years, and a massive relaxation of environmental rules and other incentives to boost coal mining and industry, writes Eric Worrall in WUWT.
- “Finland and Sweden should not be allowed to join NATO, says Turkey” – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses Nordic countries of being a “guest house for terrorists” – a reference to their support for the PKK – as he refuses to back their membership bids, the Telegraph reports.
- “Elon Musk and the battle for control of the internet” – The globalist elites are determined to crush Musk’s dream of a freer social media, says Brendon O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Share slump wipes billions off Twitter as Elon Musk halts takeover” – Elon Musk has put his £36bn takeover of Twitter “on hold” amid concerns over fake accounts in a move that wiped billions of dollars off the social media company’s share price, the Telegraph reports.
- “J.K. Rowling praises three women standing up for ‘women’s rights and freedom of speech’ in face of ‘gender identity ideology’ and says history will remember them as heroines” – The Harry Potter author took to Twitter to heap praise on Allison Bailey and Sonia Appleby, as well Keira Bell, reports the Mail.
- “Trans activists have wrecked all the good work of Stonewall” – “I poured all my energy into making the organisation a formidable force for gay and lesbian rights. All that work is now in danger of being wrecked,” writes Stonewall co-founder Simon Fanshawe in the Mail.
- “QC: Govt’s Online Safety Bill ‘incompatible with human rights legislation’” – A top lawyer has warned the Government that its Online Safety Bill will breach citizens’ human rights by unlawfully restricting their free speech, reports the Christian Institute.
- “The Daily Signal Podcast: Doctor Reveals How Woke Activists Have Infiltrated Medicine” – Dr. Stanley Goldfarb joins the show to discuss the consequences of woke ideology in medicine and how to bring health care back from the cliff.
- “More front than fantasy” – Laura Dodsworth says the new Calvin Klein underpants ad stirs controversy by putting a pregnant trans man (i.e., biological woman) at its centre.
- “Why a free Press is a vital part of our democracy” – Daily Mail proprietor Lord Rothermere delivers a passionate defence of free speech and family values in an address to celebrate the newspaper’s 125th anniversary.
- “Netflix tells ‘woke’ staff to tolerate diverse opinions or find new jobs” – Some staff walked out in protest last year over comedian Dave Chappelle’s comments on gender, but bosses are trying to regain control, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘The trans lobby tried to cancel my book – they don’t want people asking questions’” – When Holly Lawford-Smith’s work on gender incurred the wrath of activists, it put the New Zealand academic in the eye of a publishing storm, the Telegraph reports.
- “‘Woke’ is more than an insult, it’s a threat to our freedom” – It’s tempting to use the word flippantly, but we must never forget the destructive onslaught against liberal society that it represents, writes Inaya Folarin Iman in the Telegraph.
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