- “Study links coronavirus lockdowns to birth rate drop in Europe” – BBC News reports on research that shows January 2021 saw a 14% birth rate drop in Europe in comparison with previous years, which researchers have linked with the lockdowns.
- “Ebola outbreak reignites debate over international travel checks in U.K. and U.S.” – The U.S. has imposed checks on arrivals from Uganda, according to the Telegraph.
- “Tesco bars shopper from buying sandwich because he doesn’t have app” – The Telegraph reports on a customer who discovered he could only use the checkout-free store by downloading the app and registering for a loyalty card, in the latest cashless initiative.
- “Why are hospitals still using Covid rules to keep fathers out of maternity wards?” – With partners still unable to stay after visiting hours in many NHS facilities, a mother shares with the Telegraph the trauma of being alone after a c-section.
- “China has given up on the West” – President Xi’s inward turn, accelerated by lockdowns, is finally bearing fruit in greater isolation and independence from the West, writes Bill Hayton in UnHerd.
- “Why Your Mask Came from China” – One under-remarked consequence of the pandemic, notes Jeffrey Tucker in Brownstone, is the restoration of U.S.-China trade, which began with pandemic-related goods like PPE.
- “The Israeli Ministry of Health confirmed to Reuters that the leaked vax safety video is legit” – Steve Kirsch reports that the Epoch Times discovered that the MoH admitted the leaked video was genuine to a Reuters fact checker.
- “Rural North Carolina Judge Sends Potential Juror to Jail – With No Bond – For Refusing to Wear Mask” – RedState reports that Judge Charles ‘Winston’ Gilchrist, who was a criminal defence attorney until appointed to the bench, “attempted a power trip against a man who actually served his country”.
- “Fact Checking the BBC Fact Checkers” – The Naked Emperor fisks an Orwellian BBC ‘fact check’ which claims ‘get vaccinated for others’ never happened.
- “U.K. Über Conservative Jacob Rees-Mogg Outed as a Guardian Loving Big Government Green?” – Jacob Rees-Mogg, the “small Government Right wing hope of the U.K. Conservatives”, has been talking to the Guardian like a big Government Left wing green, says Eric Worrall in WUWT.
- “The anti-human vandalism of Just Stop Oil” – The assault on van Gogh’s Sunflowers is a repudiation of human civilisation, argues Andrew Doyle in Spiked.
- “Elon Musk ‘threatens to pull Starlink satellite service from Ukraine’” – Musk, who was recently told to f**k off by a Ukrainian Government minister, has said the internet service, which helps Ukraine’s troops communicate, will cost him more than $100 million by the year’s end, according to the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk is under federal investigations, Twitter says in court filing” – Elon Musk is being investigated by federal authorities over his conduct in his $44 billion takeover deal for Twitter Inc., the social media company said in a court filing released on Thursday, according to Reuters.
- “‘The National Trust has an agenda – skewing history so it’s anti-British’” – Simon Heffer in the Telegraph profiles Zewditu Gebreyohanes, who at just 23 has led a campaign against the charity and now shares her views on “wokery, conservation and dumbing down”.
- “Shakespeare festival in New Zealand under threat after playwright criticised as ‘imperialistic’” – The Telegraph reports that New Zealand’s arts body has cut funding to a Shakespeare festival that involves thousands of schoolchildren as board members explain that funds should be prioritised for Maori culture instead of European culture in a process they call “decolonisation”.
- “Anger as elite Bird College in London – once attended by Spice Girl Mel C – asks staff to declare their pronouns on email in solidarity with trans people” – Bird College in south London is also asking employees to display the transgender rainbow flag and Black Lives Matter (BLM) logo in written correspondence, the Mail reports.
- “Justin Welby, scrap the Church of England’s trans affirming guidance” – Sign the petition calling for the Church of England’s guidance for its 4,800 CofE primary schools, which says that children as young as five should be affirmed if they want to identify as the opposite sex, to be scrapped.
- “Information watchdog ‘sidelines’ parental rights over sex ed” – The Information Commissioner’s Office has ruled that parents do not have the right to view sex ed material delivered in schools by outside organisations under freedom of information legislation, despite the Government being clear that schools should be transparent with parents, reports the Christian Institute.
- “The coming war on press freedom” – Prince Harry’s legal action has already sparked calls for a crackdown on the tabloids, writes Hal Conte in Spiked.
- “She’s Still Standing …” – Bill Rice, Jr. tells the story of one victim of Big Tech censorship.
- “Mermaids gave ‘trans awareness training’ to police force that has failed to open probe into claims it sent ‘chest binders’ to children without parental knowledge” – The revelation, reported in the Mail, comes amid calls for West Yorkshire Police, which received the training in 2019, to investigate claims Mermaids sent transgender children ‘chest binders’.
- “Why won’t Graham Norton speak up for J.K. Rowling?” – “This week Graham Norton was asked about the deluge of hateful slurs and threats that are frequently fired at J.K. Rowling and he dodged the issue,” writes Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator. “Instead he rambled on about how celebs should not comment on difficult topics like transgenderism.”
- “Molly Russell coroner calls for separate social media platforms for adults and children” – The Telegraph explains that Andrew Walker’s concerns stem from the use of algorithms to feed children more and more similar material and the absence of age-verification.
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