- “The real Covid conspiracy” – Supine scientists such as Jeremy Farrar are being let off the hook, writes Ian Birrell in UnHerd.
- “The five times Hancock didn’t follow the science” – Ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock repeated the ‘following the science’ mantra as early as March 5 2020, but the Telegraph’s Lockdown Files reveal they did not always adopt this approach, the Mail reports.
- “Jackie Bird accuses mass media of ‘stifling’ Covid policy debates” – Scotland’s best-known TV presenter has hit out at the broadcasting watchdog and a “compliant” media which refused to question the government’s lockdown policies, the Times reports.
- “The Covid Response Museum” – The idea that people’s fundamental birthrights can be taken away forcibly, in an ostensible attempt to ‘protect’ them, belongs only in a museum, writes Bhaskaran Raman in Brownstone.
- “Here’s the truth about Britain’s net zero target – it’s wholly unrealistic” – Net zero by 2050 may be fantasy, but we fail to participate in the industrial revolution of the coming energy transition at our peril, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “Sadiq Khan blames Boris Johnson for Ulez extension” – Sadiq Khan has blamed his predecessor Boris Johnson for his controversial Ultra-low emission zone plans to expand car charging zone across all of Greater London, the Mail reports.
- “The Lineker row isn’t about free speech – it’s a moral coup” – So the cancel-culture set believes in free speech now? What a turnaround, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Lineker’s tweets aren’t grounds to cancel him – but they do make the case for scrapping the BBC” – The pundit’s remarks were crass, but have nothing to do with how he performs his job, says Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Gary Lineker isn’t brave – he’s an arrogant player who thinks he can defy the ref” – Social media tricks people into believing free speech trumps their duties to friends, colleagues, neighbours – and most especially employers, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “When will the Left learn that not everyone who disagrees with them is a Nazi?” – Calling your opponents ‘fascists’ is not just crass. It’s stupendously lazy and boring, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Harry and Meghan are learning that Hollywood only respects real royalty” – The Sussexes could do worse than attending the Coronation, if only to show Tinseltown that they still have a part to play in British history, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Feminists giving anti-Andrew Tate lessons in schools claim gender is not binary” – Activists who are running anti-Andrew Tate lessons for schools have vowed to “dismantle” the idea of binary gender, according to the Telegraph.
- “How the Left-wing elite used Britain’s museums to distort history” – From ‘racist’ plants at Kew Gardens to ‘sexist’ medical exhibits, venues are deliberately reshaping how we view the past, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Is it now ‘far right’ to be a feminist?” – According to Hope Not Hate, standing up for women’s rights makes you a dangerous extremist, writes Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “Sorry, Suella, we do have blasphemy laws” – There is now a clear and consistent threat to free speech and religion in the U.K., writes Jeremiah Igunnubole in the Critic.
- “Statues of ‘old white men’ may need to be destroyed, Welsh government advises” – Historical figures praised in their day may now be perceived as ‘aggressors’ out ‘to expand the British Empire’, warns new guidance, according to the Telegraph.
- “Migration makes the world grow rich, but can it build stable nations?” – The United States has prospered as the archetypal melting pot. But it is now facing the problems of a society without deep roots, writes Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “Don’t call girls ‘princess’ or say they’re pretty, nursery says” – Parents have been told to stop telling their daughters they ‘look pretty’ or calling them ‘princess’ or ‘a tomboy’ by one of Britain’s largest nursery school groups, the Mail reports.
- “Watch: Brazilian congressman mocks gender ideology” – It seems Brazil is as sick of woke gender nonsense as everyone else.
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True, but it’s not the sort of lecturing statement one expects to hear from someone who has just been found guilty of the exact opposite.
“It’s important that we all learn to respect women,” said the convicted rapist as he was led away to serve his 10 year sentence. You, mate, not us, you.
I get it was a joint statement, so I suppose it was very christian of Christian Concern to include the sinner in their preachy statement.
My daughter’s old college.
These institutions full of ‘clever’ people don’t seem to have learned the lessons from history that appeasement doesn’t work.
Well done Toby and the FSU.
I despair of places like Worcester College. The world would be a better place if the cowardly idiots running these institutions were evicted en masse.
The only admit they were wrong when they are caught.
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