- “The false lesson of lockdown scepticism” – Increasing corporate power will end in disaster, according to Thomas Fazi and Toby Green in UnHerd.
- “Bad news: TV portrays Covid vaccine victims as Covid deaths” – News Watch 9 on NHK, the Japanese equivalent to the BBC, used “creatively deceptive editing”, says Guy Gin.
- “Wuhan lab leak ‘happened about the same time as Covid emerged’” – U.S. analysis says Chinese city’s Institute of Virology was an ‘accident waiting to happen’, according to the Telegraph.
- “New York nursing home Covid victim’s daughter slams Andrew Cuomo in House hearing” – The daughter of an elderly woman who died of COVID-19 in a New York nursing home ripped disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo for covering up his decision to move infected patients into senior care facilities at the start of the pandemic, reports the New York Post.
- “Will Rishi Sunak admit the truth about Net Zero?” – Rishi Sunak’s answers at PMQs made more sense than the cries of his detractors and offered a hint of something more rational than we have now, says George Trefgarne in the Spectator.
- “I’m running for London Mayor to ditch Khan and scrap his driver tax” – CEBR estimate Khan’s August ULEZ expansion will have an an additional revenue impact of £369 million, says Howard Cox in the Express.
- “Just Stop Oil demo descends into chaos as police arrest protesters on Parliament Square” – The Met Police said eight arrests had been made following the march by 28 protesters on Parliament Square, reports the Express.
- “Oxford scholars back Kathleen Stock’s right to speak” – Student union plans protest at gender-critical Professor’s appearance at debating society, reports the Times.
- “When political dogma replaces medical truth” – The peer-review process is consistently failing to stop bad scholarship on gender medicine, writes Ian Kingsbury in City Journal.
- “How therapists became social justice warrior” – New therapists describe a profession that teaches the ascribing of oppressor or victim categories to patients, based on their innate characteristics, instead of seeing them as individuals, says Lisa Selin Davis in the Free Press.
- “Twitter unfairly maligned for turkey censorship” – Twitter more transparent than Google or Facebook and even Elon Musk’s harshest critics say Twitter had little choice, according to Michael Shellenberger.
- “The stomach-drop moment I realised there was something terribly wrong at the Tavistock gender clinic” – Nurse reveals why she blew the whistle on “experimental” treatment on children as young as ten, reports MailOnline.
- “Rishi Sunak won’t ban China’s Confucius Institutes despite promising to scrap them” – The Prime Minister said during last year’s leadership campaign that he would shut down the 30 Chinese culture institutes in the U.K., reports the Telegraph.
- “I have been censored for warning about censorship” – If you want to discover the limits of free speech nowadays, talk about sex and gender, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “Viewpoint Diversity Index shows most large companies threaten the fundamental freedoms of every American” – The second annual Viewpoint Diversity Score Business Index showed that prominent companies lack commitments to guarantee the First Amendment liberties of their customers and employees, writes Ben Zeisloft in the Daily Wire.
- “Trans activists now have a heckler’s veto on campus” – Universities are kowtowing to an intolerant fringe, according to Raquel Rosario Sanchez in Spiked.
- “DeSantis cancels ‘pronoun Olympics’ for students, teachers and says it’s ‘not happening’ in Florida” – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said students and teachers in Sunshine State schools will “never be forced to declare pronouns” while signing a measure to protect children and parental rights, reports Fox News.
- “Kamala Harris grilled after claiming conservatives banning ‘women’s history’ classes” – Critics ripped the U.S. Vice President for claiming conservatives’ push to ban gender ideology classes from public education means they’re trying to ban “women’s history”, reports Fox News.
- “Hey teachers, leave those kids alone” – “Thankfully I am in year nine now and I feel I dodged a bullet by not having to listen to any of this malarkey,” says 14 year-old Jack Watson in Country Squire Magazine. “But I feel for the younger students.”
- “Sex-change procedures at Texas Children’s Hospital” – Doctors said that they would stop such medical interventions. Whistleblower documents prove that they haven’t, says Christopher Rufo in City Journal.
- “Have you looked inside any of these books?” – Page through a few of the titles removed from Florida schools – some outright pornographic – and ask yourself if kids should be reading them, says Dave Seminara in City Journal.
- “Is Sadiq Khan right about the U.K.’s LGBT rights regression?” – Khan’s language was emotive, but as a trans person I find his depiction of LGBT rights – at least as far as the UK is concerned – hard to recognise, writes Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “Bud Light sales plummet for fifth straight week as customers react against Mulvaney partnership” – Retail data from Bump Williams Consulting and NielsenIQ indicate that sales for the brew declined 23.6% in the week ending May 6th relative to the same period last year, according to the Daily Wire.
- “The dangerous nonsense of white guilt” – Woke identity politics risks fuelling white identity politics, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Offer me money. Offer me power. I don’t care” – Elon Musk went viral with a bold statement on free speech during an interview on CNBC.
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A new headline for the green lobby “Cars being recycled by foxes”
“Recent photos show multiple cars covered in blue plastic for protection after a spate of attacks”
What these car owners don’t realise is that the planet-mauling plastic previously used for these blue tarpaulins has been replaced by planet-loving woad dyed hemp;
A substance known to be both delicious to foxes, and one which sends them into a dope-fuelled violent frenzy.
Residents of Worthing beware!!!
Goodness me! Won’t somebody save the poor foxes? Eating soy is so bad for them!
Soy fox.
Mmmmm.
And there was me chilling in the garden with sun on face, sipping a cold beer, and thinking life doesn’t get much better than this. Then this beauty – the genius of food based insulation used on exposed parts!!!
. The icing on the cake.
But what is the icing made of? Or the cake, for that matter?
Probably the same stuff they’ve started making tyres from!
Someone please tell me I haven’t just read this headline, please!
Having enjoyed myself taking the Mickey over this article a more serious thought occurs to me:
If it is actually true that foxes have taken to nibbling cars what about creatures or fungi or moulds that would be much harder to keep away from the car’s vitals? Could an infestation of some sort of beetle feasting on the cabling ruin a car or make it unsafe?
Again, if it’s true, surely some sort of testing should have been done before introducing such a change?
The Telegraph article feels like it ought to have been published on April 1st.
Mice, rats, squirrels also like a good chew.
Here in Thailand it’s the rats that go for it.
And what about the rats? They are the usual cable chewing animals on certain types of cable, traditionally. There are some places where they have to be careful about proper protective anti-chew coverage on cables that are accessible in places where there are plenty of rats.
There was a ‘Grand Designs’ where a guy built a house in the woods that he owned using timbers and shingles etc that he had cut himself. The main walls were straw bales shaped with a chain saw and covered in lime plaster. He was off-grid and had a small bird-chopper windmill to charge batteries for power. He cabled the place using orange metal sheathed ‘pyro’ cable. He said is was expensive cabling but cheaper than rebuilding after the fire if the mice chewed the ordinary cabling he might otherwise have used.
A bit of a rich eco-nutter but a lovely house when he’d finished.
See what happens when the Blob interferes with natural, rural life – bring back fox hunting with hounds, that should solve the problem.
Foxes might be drinking brake fluid but they’re not addicted to it because they can stop anytime they want.
Pretty soon the Animal Rights people will set up the BFA (Brake Fluids Anonymous). The wily old foxes can gather in a church hall to tell the story of how they became addicted to the pretend to save the planet brake cables.
Sloppy article written by someone who doesn’t know the difference between brake cables (handbrakes) and brake pipes, usually made of steel or alloy, that contain fluid under pressure (when braking applied).
So just what are foxes eating?
How much land and water is being used to make useful things from food?
So let me get this straight, there is hydraulic fluid in brake wires/cables and chewing therough the insulation allows a fox to get to glycol in the fluid?
When I last worked on car brakes, admittedly on my AH Frogeye from 1959. the brake fluid was contained in fairly tough steel tubes. They had to be tough because of the extremely high pressure developed when braking.
I am puzzled by the need to insulate these pipes since the ethylene glycol in the brake fluid is also used in the cooling system to stop water freezing!
I realise technology has moved on somewhat and there may be brake wiring actuating, for example a brake servo, but those wires contain electricity not fluid.
My conclusion is that this is technologicl rubbish.
PS Ethylene glycol is said to be an intoxicant, but I have no personal experience of that.