News Round-Up

• “The BBC’s refusal to name Mr. X is just the beginning of its sordid, toxic culture” – It is illegal for the media to identify the presenter at the centre of the BBC’s latest sex scandal. But no matter how expensive his legal team may be, it will all come out soon, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Hotels given millions of pounds to reserve beds for migrants” – Ministers are spending over half a million pounds a day to reserve thousands of empty hotel beds for migrants as a ‘buffer’ to prevent overcrowding at processing centres, reports the Times.
• “‘Alarming’ sevenfold increase in Stevens-Johnson Syndrome linked to COVID-19 and vaccine” – A sudden increase in Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a rare and potentially fatal skin disorder, may be triggered by increased vaccination rates, according to a recently published case series in the medical journal Burns, says the Epoch Times.
• “Santa Clara University students must take Covid vaccines or withdraw” – While most colleges have rescinded their Covid vaccine mandates, some refuse to let go. Santa Clara University is one of the most oppressive, according to the Brownstone Institute.
• Text messages of top scientists shed light on Covid origin response” – New evidence suggests that scientists conspired to dismiss the origin of the pandemic to protect China, reports the Epoch Times.
• “The inversion of the ‘precautionary principle’” – The once sensible precautionary principle has been twisted and abused, resulting in un-evidenced Covid restrictions and the erosion of basic rights, says HART.
• “Doctor who gave puberty blockers to children nominated for ITV-backed diversity award” – Dr. Helen Webberley, who prescribed puberty blockers to children as young as 12, has been nominated for an ITV-backed award as a positive role model for LGBT people, says the Telegraph.
• “The WHO Is a real and present danger” – The World Health Organisation’s alarming transfer of power threatens our health, families, and freedoms. The public must educate themselves, and then refuse to comply, says David Bell of the Brownstone Institute.
• “The NATO mindset leads to war” – NATO’s push for Ukraine’s membership risks escalating the war and provoking a potentially catastrophic conflict with Russia, while disregarding peaceful solutions, warns Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
• “Secret blacklists have no place in a modern democracy” – The Government’s no-platforming of Dan Kaszeta, an internationally recognised chemical weapons expert, had no place in a modern democracy, writes the victim in the Times.
• “How Bill Gates wants to hack the weather to save us from extinction” – The Microsoft founder is funding experiments to cool the Earth’s climate. The Telegraph asks whether they’re safe?
• “On the media hype around bad weather” – The ‘disaster’ hysteria is meant to frighten. In reality, deaths from extreme weather events have plunged over the last 50 years, says Alex Berenson.
• “Just Stop Oil’s apocalyptic beliefs could lead to a terrifying escalation” – “How can you reason with people who believe the world as we know it is coming to an end?” asks Samuel Mace in the Telegraph.
• “Threads to the rescue!” – Judging by the media coverage, Threads’ threat to Twitter casts Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg as the hero, and Musk as the dastardly villain. In City Journal, Richard J. Shinder asks, “Exactly how and when did Zuckerberg become the good guy?”
• “Excluded for the crime of whiteness” – The overt betrayal of the white working-class on the grounds that they’re privileged is a contemptible policy. It’s high-time those in authority put a stop to it, says Frank Haviland in the European Conservative.
• “Contested racial views taught as fact, says pressure group” – A new report by Don’t Divide Us warns that critical race theory’s ‘radical script’ is infiltrating classrooms, redefining success in racial terms, and indoctrinating pupils, says the Times.
• “Anger as pupils are tested about ‘white privilege’” – In some classrooms, pupils are taking part in tests to check their ‘unconscious bias’, according to the Don’t Divide Us report.
• “Who are the experts?” – Read the important report from Don’t Divide Us.
• “We deserve more than the woeful response to Sarah Jane Baker’s ‘punch TERFs’ rant” – Why is the Probation Service not looking seriously at convicted criminal Sarah Jane Baker’s unhinged comments, asks Ian Acheson in CapX.
• “New approach to rape is founded on a myth” – “Police forces in England and Wales will now focus on ‘perpetrators’ rather than testing the credibility of the women who claim to have been raped,” writes Melanie Phillips in the Times, before explaining why it’s a terrible idea.
• “Male sex offenders ‘more likely to ID as trans than other inmates’” – Figures from the HMPPS Offender Equalities Annual Report show that of the 168 legally-male trans women prisoners in England and Wales, six were in women’s prisons and the rest in men’s, reports the Mail.
• “How Trump paved the way for trans equality” – More than a decade ago, Donald Trump allowed a biological male to compete in the Miss Universe contest, says Guy Kelly in the Telegraph.
• “Pupils struggle more with three Rs than before pandemic” – Barely three in five children in England are meeting standards in reading, writing and maths, says the Times, a significant fall compared to 2019.
• “Blame cancel culture for declining trust in U.S. universities” – A new Gallup poll shows that Americans’ confidence in their institutions of higher education has plummeted from 57% in 2015 to 36% today, reports UnHerd.
• “America’s fierce guilt for slavery is understandable – we mustn’t import it” – Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807, expending its blood and treasure to eradicate it around the world. Sean Thomas in the Spectator argues that there is “no need to import the one-sided neuroses of the USA regarding this tragic history”.
• “Chicago suburb starts making $25K reparations payouts in ‘test run for the whole country’” – A suburb of Chicago has started paying reparations to qualifying black residents in what is being seen as “a test run for the whole country,” reports the New York Post.
• “Neo-Marxists have won the battle of ideas” – When culture trumps the public finances, centre-Right politicians face an existential challenge, says Tony Abbott in the Telegraph.
• “How Professor Nudge holds us all in contempt” – Professor Halpern, head of the Nudge Unit, told the Hallett Inquiry he deliberately set out to terrify the public during the pandemic to get them to comply with the Covid restrictions, says Gillian Dymond in TCW.
• “Bud Light’s latest commercial sparks mockery” – Viewers have poured scorn on Bud Light’s latest advert, showing a woman eating a watermelon in the middle of a storm, reports the Mail.
• “Spanish Eco-Minister Teresa Ribera’s green hypocrisy” – Nothing says you’re serious about tackling climate change than taking a private jet to a climate conference, only to switch to a bicycle 100 metres from the venue, escorted by two cars.

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