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News Round-Up

by Nick Dixon
19 February 2023 12:06 AM

  • “If masks are pointless, will I get an apology?” – The research is in. Wearing bits of cloth over your mouth and nose is almost certainly pointless, unless you are a bank robber trying to hide his identity, writes Peter Hitchens in the Mail on Sunday.
  • “Partygate inquiry homes in on Abba evening at Boris Johnson’s flat” – Witnesses tell of a lockdown gathering with alcohol, food and loud music at a private apartment above 11 Downing Street, the Guardian reports.
  • “Welt report uncovers evidence of serious irregularities in the Pfizer phase 3 Comirnaty trial” – Welt have published a report shedding further light on what appear to be systematic efforts to cover up or reclassify adverse events among trial participants, writes eugyppius.
  • “Why Totalitarianism Can Never Be Total” – There are millions of people who have chosen to do battle against the technocrats who believe that they are invincible, writes Bert Oliver for Brownstone.
  • “Extinction Rebellion activist is behind protests to disrupt Coronation” – Eleanor Bujak has started a new role as the protest organiser at anti-Royal pressure group Republic, which interrupted King Charles’s visit to Milton Keynes with placards reading “Not My King”, the Mail reports.
  • “Sadiq Khan’s Ulez expansion could be blocked by Downing Street” – Whitehall officials and legal advisors are weighing up whether the London Mayor has exceeded his powers under the Greater London Authority (GLA) Act of 1999, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Take control and scrap Ulez to revive Tory fortunes” – Anti-car measures are regressive stealth taxes imposed by Left-wing councils. Central Government should intervene. It will prove popular, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
  • “Author who signed NYT trans letter tweets death threat to J.K. Rowling” – Gretchen Felker-Martin, well-known transgender horror author and journalist, tweeted that she wanted to slit the throats of J.K. Rowling and several other authors, the Mail reports.
  • “Trans teacher with Z-cup prosthetic breasts dresses as MAN” – The transgender high school teacher in Canada, who went viral for ‘her’ prosthetic Z-cup breasts, was allegedly seen by a neighbour dressing as a man outside school grounds, the Mail reports.
  • “Don’t call Taliban terrorists, author was told by ‘sensitivity reader’” – Author Kate Clanchy has warned that ‘sensitivity readers’ are destroying the art of writing, the Times reports.
  • “Why Gen Z is turning against woke culture” – Millennials were able to popularise and profit from woke. Gen Z, on the other hand, turned it into a cultural revolution and traumatised themselves, writes Panda La Terriere in the Spectator.
  • “‘My son was never trans – instead he had severe OCD’, a mother reveals” – A mother has revealed she was “let down” by those who were meant to help during her son’s harrowing experience with the Tavistock clinic, the Mail reports.
  • “The woke failed to seize Scotland. They won’t inherit the earth” – Today’s activists employ methods straight out of the Marxist playbook. But they just represent themselves, not the teeming masses, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
  • “Favourite to replace Nicola Sturgeon must ‘defeat the wokerati’ to lead SNP” – Party insiders warn that leadership front-runner Kate Forbes will face attacks from “the woke crowd, because of her religious beliefs”, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Unconscious bias training is ‘nonsense’, says outgoing race relations chair” – Civil rights stalwart Colin Prescod says the term ‘unconscious bias’ risks avoiding real conversation about racism and systemic behaviour, the Guardian reports.
  • “Oxford students should resist these medieval trigger warnings” – The enthusiasm for content warnings amongst today’s academics seems, like the medieval church, to be aimed at cracking down on texts that challenge today’s prevailing orthodoxies, writes William Atkinson in the Spectator.
  • “JK Rowling is no transphobe – and I should know” – After creating the fantasy of Hogwarts, J.K. Rowling did something even greater: she stood up for reality in a world where many do not seem to understand the difference between fact and fiction, writes Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
  • “It’s not ‘far right’ to question Drag Queen Story Hour” – Parents’ legitimate safeguarding concerns are being dismissed as fascistic, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
  • “Nicola Sturgeon is rewriting history” – Nicola Sturgeon purged reason from the gender debate, writes Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
  • “Could your child soon be reading ‘Bye Bye, Binary’ or ‘She’s My Dad’?” – Publishing experts say there are now scores of titles aimed at under-11s introducing concepts such as men being mothers and children changing gender, the Mail on Sunday reports.
  • “Sturgeon’s leadership will be defined by her failures” – The further we get from Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation statement, the more it looks like surrender and the death of the SNP, version one, writes Alex Bell in the Telegraph.
  • “Dylan, you cannot escape what you are and what you will always be” – Watch Matt Walsh’s viral video on Dylan Mulvaney that is dividing anti-woke Twitter. Too harsh or exactly what we need?

A heartfelt message to Dylan Mulvaney pic.twitter.com/2C6jL54Q7Q

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) February 14, 2023

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