- “Scottish prisons abandon Nicola Sturgeon’s trans self-ID policy” – Scotland’s prison service has abandoned Nicola Sturgeon’s self-identification policy for new prisoners, announcing that it will base decisions on where to send them entirely on their biological sex, reports the Telegraph.
- “Planet Normal: ‘People should be made aware of link between Covid jab and heart problems’” – Telegraph Science Editor Sarah Knapton tells Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan that people should be given all more information about the link between the mRNA vaccines and heart problems so they can make fully informed decisions about whether to get jabbed.
- “Political correctness is a gift for terrorists” – Allison Pearson praises Sir William Shawcross in the Telegraph for exposing the shortcomings of Prevent.
- “Opinion | We Still Don’t Know the Truth About Covid” – Congress should establish a bipartisan national commission of inquiry into the pandemic’s origins, argue Jamie Metzl and Matt Pottinger in the Wall St Journal.
- “Teenager machineguns family home near Stockholm as gun crime spirals” – A teenager in a suburb of Stockholm has machinegunned the home of a family with an assault rifle as armed violence among criminal drug gangs in Sweden continues to rise, reports the Mail.
- “Mother taken to court after failing to pay fine for rule-busting party” – Charlotte Evans, 20, was ordered to pay £2,021 for hosting a raucous house party during lockdown, says MailOnline.
- “Woke-ism Is Winding Down” – Musa al-Gharbi argues Woke-ism has peaked in Compact Magazine.
- “Remember when the Biden administration said I was a ‘terrorist threat’? True story.” – One year ago, the White House assault on free speech reached new heights, argues Alex Berenson. The White House designated him a ‘terrorist threat’.
- “Church of England Synod votes to offer blessings to gay couples” – Congregants wept and hugged each other as the Church of England voted in favour of a motion to offer blessings to same-sex couples in civil partnerships and marriages today, reports MailOnline.
- “Jeremy Clarkson’s column on Meghan investigated by Ipso” – Ipso has announced it is opening an investigation into Jeremy Clarkson’s Sun column on the Duchess of Sussex after it received 25,100 complaints, says the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk poised to reclaim title of world’s richest person” – Tesla billionaire is within touching distance of LVMH’s Bernauld Arnault thanks to a recovery in Tesla’s share price.
- “World Health Organisation says ‘we must prepare’ for next pandemic and is already preparing new vaccine” – The WHO says we may soon have to start wearing face masks to prevent us catching [checks notes] bird flu. GB News has more.
- “Covid booster? No thanks! Staggering 96% of NHS appointments for mRNA top-up jab still available with just days of latest vaccination campaign to go” – The public have rejected calls for them to have mRNA boosters, according to GB News.
- “I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle” – The Free Press has an exclusive interview with a whistleblower at a paediatric gender clinic.
- “Etiquette has taken a turn for the woke” – New rules of polite behaviour involve ostentatious displays of deference to the underprivileged, says James Marriott in his Times column.
- “Free speech: we should try it again” – Lincoln Allison in the Critic laments the decline of Britain’s universities into prissy, unfree, uptight institutions.
- “Low Life and High Style” – Terrific profile of Jeffrey Bernard, the Spectator’s Low Life columnist, by Robin Ashendon in Quillette.
- “What you all were doing is highly illegal, and I want you to know that you’ll be held accountable” – Anna Paulina Luna, a firebrand Congresswoman from Florida, skewers federal government employees and a former Twitter executives for breaching the First Amendment.
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