- “‘My cancellation has trapped me in one of my own sitcoms’” – “The insanity of gender ideology has seen my Edinburgh show fall apart. It feels like living in Father Ted,” says Graham Linehan in a piece for the Telegraph.
- “Cancelling Graham Linehan proves that the word ‘inclusive’ has lost all meaning” – Anyone who dares to disagree with hardline trans activists risks being excluded from public life, warns Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “The staggering ignorance of Rosanna Lockwood” – Rosanna Lockwood’s TalkTV interrogation of Graham Linehan was trans activism dressed up as journalism, says Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “Most intensive Ivermectin use had 74% reduction in excess deaths in Peru” – A new study has found that when Peru authorised Ivermectin for COVID-19 it in reduced deaths, according to the Epoch Times.
- “Mayor’s website says white family photo doesn’t ‘represent Londoners’” – Labour London Mayor Sadiq Khan faced calls to apologise after his official website described a photograph of a young white family as not representing “real Londoners”, says the Mail.
- “Nana Akua: As ever with the woke Left, diversity is a one-way street” – What Londoners need is a mayor up to the job, not one who uses racially divisive ‘branding’ to deflect from real issues, writes Nana Akua in the Mail.
- “Khan tried to ‘silence’ scientists who questioned Ulez claims, emails show” – Sadiq Khan’s office tried to discredit and “silence” Imperial College scientists who found that his Ulez policy had little impact on air pollution, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Khan spends £220,000 on ‘Maaate’ campaign” – Steerpike, in the Spectator, has done some digging and it turns out that the total cost of Sadiq Khan’s ‘Maaate’ initiative was £219,000.
- “Senior Tories urge Rishi Sunak to review culture department’s links to advertising campaign group” – In a letter to the Prime Minister, 46 parliamentarians are asking the Government to distance itself from the Conscious Advertising Network, reports the Telegraph.
- “It’s time to end the rewilding menace” – There’s a ghastly predictability to the news that the University of Sussex will rewild 42% of its campus land in a move that aims to promote more biodiversity, writes Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “Net Zero bottle scheme will hit retailers with £1.8 billion a year” – The Government’s flagship bottle recycling scheme will cost companies ten times the amount that officials previously claimed, reports the Telegraph.
- “Nowhere do the climateers enjoy so much ascendancy over politics and the media as in Germany, and nowhere have they faced so many setbacks and humiliations” – Contrary to appearances, climate ideology is in the early stages of advanced, irreversible, long-term decline, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Young people don’t even know they’re being taken for a ride” – The Spectator’s Louise Perry wonders when the penny will drop with young people that it’s Britain’s high levels of migration that’s making housing unaffordable.
- “‘Fat Bottomed Girls is dropped from Queen Greatest Hits collection” – It is one of Queen’s best-loved songs but Fat Bottomed Girls has been mysteriously dropped from the group’s new Greatest Hits collection, reports the Mail.
- “Trigger warning added to E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India by U.S. publisher” – E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India has been given a trigger warning by publishers because it contains ‘offensive’ language, prompting concerns that English literature is being tarnished by American cultural fixations, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain has become a dictatorship of virtue, led by woke-mad ‘public’ servants” – To discuss how life in Britain has changed in recent decades, the Telegraph’s Steven Edginton is joined by the conservative writer, critic and psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple in the latest Off Script podcast.
- “‘Woke virus’ hits Royal Navy as officers are taught to question their ‘white privilege’” – The Sunday Express reports on the woke capture of the Royal Navy which has left personnel “angry, confused and insulted”.
- “Greg Lukianoff on how to build a culture of free speech” – On the Good Fight podcast, Yascha Mounk talks to Greg Lukianoff, the President of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, about countering threats to freedom of expression in the courts and in the classroom.
- “The Big Three: ESG and DEI’s puppet masters” – When it comes to tracing the roots of so-called ESG and DEI standards, all roads lead back to the ‘Big Three’: BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street, according to the New Tolerance Campaign.
- “Why did corporations go ‘woke’? It’s not about the free market” – American corporations aren’t conforming to consumer preferences; they are conforming to elite culture, argues Jon Schweppe in Newsweek.
- “This Bradley Cooper ‘Jewface’ controversy is ridiculous” – Critics of Bradley Cooper and his prosthetic nose in the soon-to-be-released Netflix biopic Maestro are trivialising the issue of anti-Semitism, writes Frank Furedi in Spiked.
- “The end of work: Which jobs will survive the AI revolution?” – It remains surprisingly hard to know which jobs are likely to go with the arrival of AI, concludes David Runciman in the Guardian.
- “AI-created art isn’t copyrightable, judge says in ruling that could give Hollywood studios pause” – A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
- “‘I would like to apologise to…’” – Watch a clip from the comedy series Scot Squad that absolutely nails the world we now live in.
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