Intelligence of German Children May Have Fallen During Lockdown
20 March 2023
by Noah Carl
Net Zero targets must be brought forward by a decade to stop the “climate time bomb", the UN has said at the launch of a major new report. "Humanity is on thin ice – and that ice is melting fast." Good grief.
Every time one pupil tested positive in a class, the whole class was sent home for two weeks. Now we know Matt Hancock rejected advice to cut the isolation period to five days just to save face. Did he not care?
Police forces are failing to train officers on the importance of free speech while teaching them obscure pronouns, according to a report from the Free Speech Union into the "free speech crisis" in British policing.
Many studies have documented ‘learning loss’ under lockdown. But what about intelligence itself – did that decline too? Yes, a new study finds that German children's intelligence test scores fell considerably.
Christian street preacher David McConnell was arrested, held in a cell for 14 hours, charged with 80 hours community service and a £700 fine, and reported to Prevent. His crime? ‘Misgendering’ someone.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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