- “Boris Johnson hands WhatsApps to Cabinet Office” – Former PM throws down the gauntlet for Rishi Sunak and other ministers to turn over their WhatsApp messages in latest twist in this story.
- “This Covid inquiry fiasco seems more interested in racism than lockdown” – Judging by the row over Boris’s texts, it is becoming an exercise in scapegoating and societal handwringing, says Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
- “We hid in a broom cupboard: my mad day at Oxford with Kathleen Stock” – The Times’s Janice Turner accompanied Kathleen Stock on her recent visit to the Oxford Union and ended up hiding in a broom cupboard.
- “Kathleen Stock is the opposite of an extremist” – The academic’s calm and rational approach to the gender debate confounds her critics, writes Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
- “Whitehall ‘blob’ blocked me from meeting Kathleen Stock, says Boris’s ‘free speech’ minister” – Andrea Jenkyns says civil servants prevented her from meeting J.K. Rowling, Matthew Goodwin and Kathleen Stock, according to the Telegraph.
- “Liz Truss was ‘forced out of Downing Street by top civil servant’” – Cabinet Secretary Simon Case is said to have written a memo that helped seal Liz Truss’s fate, reports the Mail.
- “New Israeli Data: No known Covid deaths in healthy people under 50” – An FOI request to the Israel Ministry of Health solicited the disclosure that zero people between the ages of 18 and 49 (that didn’t have any underlying diseases) died of Covid.
- “Electric car infrastructure creaks under demand” – The gulf between the number of electric vehicles on the road and public charge points has more than doubled in parts of the country in a year, reports the Times.
- “California’s unconstitutional, morally repugnant racist quotas thrown out by federal court” – The Golden State announced it was going to fine corporations up to $300,000 if they didn’t introduce more diversity hires, but a federal court has rejected the law as unconstitutional, writes the Washington Times.
- “The spread of 20 mph zones is a conspiracy against the public” – The Telegraph’s Ysenda Maxtone Graham isn’t a fan of the new 20 mph speed limits in built up areas.
- “Climate protester left with block of tarmac stuck to his hand is jailed” – The former German soap opera star who has been arrested at eco-protests more than 100 times has been jailed, repots the Telegraph. (Funny picture.)
- “Teenagers should stop blaming old people for climate crisis, says Ray Mears” – Wilderness expert says the elder generation aren’t part of the problem they are part of the solution, says the Telegraph.
- “People are tired of vegan food, says plant-based burger chief” – Numerous brands are pulling back on their meat-free offerings amid weak demand, reports the Telegraph. You‘d have to have a heart of stone…
- “Twitter has lost two thirds of its value since Elon Musk’s purchase” – Twitter’s value is now just one-third of what it was when Elon Musk bought it in October, according to the Mail.
- “School told to transition pupils to their ‘true identity’ or face discrimination claims” – In 2016, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission advised a school to affirm a child’s trans identity and worked closely with Stonewall and other charities to promote a woke agenda, reports the Telegraph.
- “Black people were three times more likely to receive Covid fines in England and Wales” – Those in poorest areas were seven times more likely to be fined, finds research into how police used emergency powers, says the Guardian. Are these the first signs of remorse from the pro-lockdown paper?
- “Lower survival for 2020 cancer patients blamed on ‘consequences of first lockdown’” – Survival rates for Scottish patients diagnosed with cancer during 2020 were lower compared to those diagnosed before the pandemic, reports the Herald. Shock!
- “Labour council staff take the knee prompting row with Salford residents” – Officers at Salford Council have posed outside their HQ taking the knee and giving the black power salute to mark the third anniversary of the death of George Floyd, says the Telegraph.
- “Covid lockdowns ‘crippled memory as much as spending time in prison’ ” – Missed birthday celebrations and holidays during the Covid lockdown may have created similar memory problems to those that people who are locked up in prions, Aberdeen researchers say.
- “Emails suggest ex-NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched COVID-19 memoir project in March 2020” – According to emails uncovered by FOI requests, ex-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo started working on his Corona memoir before the first wave had struck. The New York Post has more.
- “How the teachers union broke public education” – A former public school teacher documents the profound betrayal of children by America’s teaching unions in the Tablet.
- “The DEI industry needs to check its privilege” – Conor Friedersdorf in the Atlantic asks whether all the money companies spunk up the wall on DEI training would be better spent raising the wages of the lowest paid employees.
- “We are trans and cis together” – Watch a group at Norwich County Council singing the hymn ‘What a friend we have in Jesus’, but changing the lyrics to ‘We are trans and cis together’. You’d almost think this was a new religion.
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