- “Silent school lunches: Govt claims it was never their rule” – The Japanese Government has graciously decided to tell schools that they can stop treating kids like inmates of a maximum security prison and instead treat them like inmates of a medium security prison
- “Matt Hancock points finger at NHS chief for Covid care home scandal” – Former health secretary claims Sir Simon Stevens insisted residents be discharged from hospital without being tested, not him. Honest, guv!
- “The British monarchy depends on loyalty, and Lady Susan Hussey’s has been repaid poorly” – By acting unfairly towards a long-standing and capable servant of the Crown, courtiers are storing up trouble for the future, says Charles Moore
- “WHO estimates 90% of world have some resistance to Covid” – WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledges that nine in 10 people have some resistance to SARS-CoV-2, but says the emergency isn’t over nevertheless
- “How Twitter suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story” – For weeks now, Elon Musk has been promising to reveal what really happened behind the scenes at the social media platform in the run up to the 2020 presidential election. Well, yesterday, he did – through the journalist Matt Taibbi
- “The woke Left has declared war on our history – and Britain is surrendering” – Our culture is being attacked by ideologues who pretend that it’s Right-wingers who are provoking conflict, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph
- “A rising tide of anti-Britishness is turning our national virtues into unforgivable sins” – The fact that we exported freedom to the world is now deemed to make us the baddies, says Dan Hannan
- “Cambridge academic who sparked student protests appointed to Government’s equality board” – Professor Arif Ahmed, Cambridge University’s preeminent defender of free speech, has been appointed to the Equality and Human Rights Commission
- “Backlash as Citizens Advice tells staff to wear gender pronoun badges” – Charity faces revolt after telling staff they have to declare their gender pronouns in the workplace
- “How much should Matt Hancock be blamed for Covid deaths?” – Matt Hancock wants forgiveness, according to the Times. “We all make mistakes,” he told campmates on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! “I made a pretty big one.” But he meant canoodling with his girlfriend, not discharging infected patients from hospital into care homes which WASN’T HIS FAULT
- “Ending Discrimination by Twitter” – Gender critical feminists are among those who have been excluded from Twitter for years, writes Holly Lawford-Smith. It’s time they were forgiven
- “The Woke Chokehold” – Increasingly, there is a tendency for the guardians of cultural treasures to hate what they are supposed to preserve, writes Theodore Dalrymple for Taki’s Magazine
- “George Osborne in talks to return Elgin Marbles from British Museum” – The former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Chairman of the British Museum is planning to return the Elgin Marbles. Remind me why he described himself as a “conservative”?
- “Bristol slavery consultation” – Respond to this consultation on the renaming of seven Bristol University buildings because they’re named after people with connections to the slave trade
- “Neil Oliver: How long before they cancel Chrismas?” – Won’t be long now, surely?
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