- “Huw Edwards hit by fresh allegations from BBC staff” – The Times has the latest on the Huw Edwards sex scandal, including the Met Police ruling out an investigation, the Sun saying that it “will not publish further allegations”, and the BBC Director-General promising a “duty of care to all involved”.
- “The four young people’s allegations about the BBC presenter” – Four young people have made allegations against Huw Edwards, the BBC presenter at the centre of a sex scandal.
- “Huw Edwards hit with fresh claims of ‘inappropriate behaviour’” – Huw Edwards faces fresh allegations of inappropriate behaviour from his own BBC colleagues, reports the Mail.
- “The Sun has every right to ‘dig for dirt’” – The BBC presenter scandal has exposed just how much the woke elites hate the Sun and press freedom, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “The BBC presenter scandal reveals the narcissism of the media” – Journalists love nothing more than gossiping about other journalists, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “The Great Covid Laundering Scheme” – The U.S. CDC has systematically misclassified Covid on death certificates, which clearly list different conditions as the underlying cause of death, reports the Brownstone Institute.
- “Deer passed mutated Covid back to people” – A new study suggests animals could cause viral variants that are no longer widespread among human populations to persist, reports the Telegraph.
- “The trillion-dollar grift: Inside the greatest scam of all time” – The pandemic relief was the biggest bailout in history, and it opened the door to wide-scale fraud the likes of which no one had ever seen, says Sean Woods in Rolling Stone.
- “Dengue could become endemic in U.K. from ‘risky’ study, experts fear” – Londoners could be injected with the infectious tropical virus, dengue, as part of a proposed study that experts say carries an “inevitable” risk of onward community infections, reports the Mail.
- “Getting tough on asylum seekers” – The whitewashing of Disney murals is about the extent of our Mickey Mouse Government’s efforts in deterring asylum seekers and reducing the migrant population, says Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Laws designed to stop eco-zealots could be torn up by Labour” – According to leaked proposals, laws designed to stop eco-zealots from causing chaos could be torn up by Labour, reports the Mail.
- “Elon Musk is the tonic anti-ambition Britain needs – but refuses to take” – Britain should celebrate that Tesla is displaying an interest in the British electricity market. So why is Elon Musk’s latest intervention being met with such scepticism, asks Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Just Stop Oil launches ‘mum’s march’ in Hamleys” – Just Stop Oil has targeted Hamleys toy shop as part of a ‘mum’s march’ protest, as the group continues to cause disruption in central London, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain should place a big bet on the petrol engine” – While the world goes electric, Renault-Geely’s €7 billion joint venture in the U.K. bets on petrol engines, says the Spectator.
- “Ten climate lies on 35th anniversary of global warming warning” – Several groups questioning the claims of global warming doomsayers have recently released their list of the latest media lies on the issue to the Washington Examiner.
- “Why NATO shouldn’t let Ukraine in just yet” – There are good reasons to favour Ukraine’s inclusion in NATO, says Charles Lipson in the Spectator, but not while the war is ongoing.
- “The EU’s Orwellian crackdown on the media” – The European Media Freedom Act is another thinly veiled crusade against Poland and Hungary, says Norman Lewis in Spiked.
- “Social media shutdowns might be happening in the EU with new law” – Techradar examines the implications for free speech under the new EU Digital Services Act.
- “EU Commissioner says social media ‘didn’t do enough’ to censor French riot posts” – European Commissioner Thierry Breton’s criticism of social media platforms’ content control during the French riots has sparked concerns among free speech advocates, reports Reclaim The Net.
- “Amazon makes first Big Tech challenge to EU online content rules” – Amazon is challenging its inclusion in a group of companies subject to tough European Union online content rules, in a move that may prompt other tech giants to follow suit, reports Reuters.
- “MEP Christine Anderson to sue YouTube for censoring her videos” – German Member of the European Parliament Christine Anderson has decided to sue YouTube after two of her videos were blocked in September of last year for being critical of Big Pharma, says Reclaim The Net.
- “‘The culture wars are one battle Rishi could win’” – “A culture war is raging,” says Stephen Glover in the Mail, “but the Tories haven’t yet launched so much as a plastic battleship.”
- “Speech we loathe is speech we must defend” – Government cannot deputise the private sector to act as a censor, says Bret Stephens in the New York Times.
- “The Archbishop of political correctness” – Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has stuck his nose into the campus-censorship debate, says Frank Furedi in Spiked.
- “Joe Biden’s Ministry of Truth” – The Biden administration’s censorship regime could be the greatest threat to free speech in American history, warns Sean Collins in Spiked.
- “In defence of ‘Anons’” – Jordan Peterson is wrong to call for restrictions on anonymity, says Mark Granza in IM–1776.
- “Brazil’s CBDC pilot contains code that can freeze or reduce funds, developer claims” – Pedro Magalhães, a blockchain developer who claims to have reverse-engineered Brazil’s pilot central bank digital currency, says he has found code that would allow accounts to be frozen or drained at will, reports Cointelegraph.
- “Don’t kill cash” – Post Office Banking Director Martin Kearsley on why he is supporting GB News’s Don’t Kill Cash campaign.
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