- “Lockdown’s lasting impact on the nation is plain to see now that the fog of war is gone” – From soaring debt to spiralling inflation, Jeremy Warner documents some of the vast and enduring economic costs of Covid lockdowns in the Telegraph.
- “Japanese take smiling lessons after Covid restrictions are lifted” – Business is booming for local authority and private classes that teach a country how to use facial expressions once more, according to the Telegraph.
- “Covid vaccines and mortality: the RCT review” – Swiss Policy Research analyses a recent Danish study and asks: did Covid vaccines really reduce all-cause mortality?
- “Biden’s sham compassion for his Covid persecution victims” – Joe Biden’s COVID-19 policy continues to ignore a torrent of evidence undercutting its mandates, writes James Bovard in Brownstone.
- “The wind and solar power myth has finally been exposed” – Net Zero plans all have a single, fatal flaw: they are reliant on the pipe dream that there is some affordable way to store surplus electricity at scale, says Bryan Leyland in the Telegraph.
- “Joe Biden targets dishwashers in climate crackdown – and Britain could be next” – Plans are already underway to force manufacturers to highlight the efficiency of white goods, according to the Telegraph.
- “London’s ULEZ expansion will punish women, Sadiq Khan warned” – London Mayor’s review finds road charge will cause “disproportionate impact”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Head of the Metropolitan Police Sir Mark Rowley under attack again” – Rowley’s force was castigated for arresting six anti-royal protesters at the Coronation, says Quentin Letts in the Times.
- “The classist war on the car” – The unique freedom of car-driving is being pummelled by bourgeois anti-modernists, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “BBC editor ‘ordered colleague not to investigate’ £350 million Brexit claim” – Sir Robbie Gibb, a BBC board member, ordered a news chief not to interrogate Vote Leave’s £350 million Brexit bus campaign after the referendum, claims former BBC editor Rob Burley in new book, reports the Times.
- “Our two greatest universities are no longer seats of learning but of indoctrination and woke fanaticism” – As Oxford University students again make a mockery of free speech, a recent Cambridge graduate despairs, writes Oliver Riley in MailOnline.
- “Trans activists are crushing feminism on the university campus” – Students should be testing their worldview. Instead they’re discovering that free speech has become a one-way street, says Julie Bindel in the Telegraph.
- “Mob rule and cancel culture have had their day” – It’s now clear Twitter always was a chimps’ tea party and online denunciation a minority sport, says James Marriott in the Times.
- “Has colour-blind casting made us see TV in black and white?” – Adjoa Andoh’s comment proves the power of TV to distort perceptions, says Laura Dodsworth.
- “‘Terribly white’ Coronation balcony comment from Bridgerton star tops Ofcom complaints of the year” – Adjoa Andoh’s remarks spark more than 4,000 complaints from ITV viewers, reports the Telegraph.
- “Bud Light parent company’s stock downgraded by HSBC as sales continue to fall” – HSBC has downgraded Anheuser-Busch InBev stock to “hold” status amid a crisis following Bud Light’s marketing campaign featuring transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney, reports Fox News.
- “Missouri becomes latest state to ban child sex changes, biological men competing in women’s sport” – The state of Missouri passed two bills on Wednesday which ban child sex changes and biological men competing in women’s sports, making it the 16th state to enact such laws, according to the PostMillennial.
- “Mainstream media quietly correcting articles claiming puberty blockers are safe” – The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has been forced to issue a correction regarding its reporting on the safety of puberty blockers, reports the Publica.
- “AP shocks by reporting trans kids are ‘protected from parents’ with new ‘gender-affirming care’ law” – The Associated Press raised eyebrows by framing a report on a new Washington law allowing minors seeking so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ to proceed without parental consent as transgender kids being “protected from parents”, according to Fox News.
- “Trans Starbucks barista investigated by police over alleged assault on customer” – The employee, who has since been sacked, ranted at the woman over “misgendering” before lunging at her partner who was filming the incident, reports the Telegraph.
- “A major free speech victory” – Toby comments on news that the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill has got over the final hurdle in the Lords and is now heading for the statute books, following more than three years of campaigning by the Free Speech Union.
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