- “Tactics for shutting down debate: Pandemic preparedness narratives in the U.K. Parliament” – PANDA reports on the distinct divide in the U.K. Parliament over the WHO Treaty.
- “UKHSA’s duplication of surveillance” – Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson cast a critical eye over the U.K. Health Security Agency’s newly laid plans for virus surveillance.
- “The numbers are in, and we can say it with certainty: Lockdowns were worse than useless” – The miseries of lockdowns – the school closures, the ruined businesses, the debts, the authoritarianism – were all for nothing, says Dan Hannan in the Washington Examiner.
- “Igor Chudov: My post about VAIDS in children was fact-checked” – Igor Chudov responds to a ‘fact-checker’ who labelled his report on the decline in children’s immune response after Pfizer vaccination as ‘false’.
- “Nagoya Uni prof continues post-vax death analysis” – Nagoya University’s Prof. Seiji Kojima has extended his analysis of post-vax deaths in Japan to include people aged 20-49. Guy Gin examines the findings on his Substack.
- “Bring in the Gen X politicians!” – Our politicians at the moment are either baby boomers or millennials. Generation X would make the best politicians, says Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
- “Why is Britain so depressed?” – It is difficult, viewing the revolving carousel of nonentities in Parliament, to believe that the cloud will ever lift. But we shouldn’t abandon all hope, writes Aria Roussinos in UnHerd.
- “One year on, Truss’s case for growth is stronger than ever” – Liz Truss’s argument that the U.K. badly needs to do something about lifting its miserable growth rate is becoming stronger all the time, says Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “Unthinking, unquestioning – what a state we’re in” – In TCW, Ian Tamm warns that the increasing entanglement between Western governments and the corporate world is eroding democratic accountability.
- “What France’s rubgy racism row reveals about the French Left” – The French Left, or at least La France Insoumise, will only defend republican principles when it suits them, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “More than half of Australians oppose indigenous panel in constitution, poll shows” – According to a new newspaper poll, over 50% of Australians oppose the constitutional incorporation of an indigenous advisory panel, says Reuters.
- “The lack of indigenous mass graves in Canada” – The discovery of the remains of 215 children found buried at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada would have been a horrifying story – if it were true, says Meghan Murphy in Spectator World.
- “Hundreds of white farmers return to Zimbabwe in boost for agriculture” – Two decades after thousands of white farmers were forced from their land in Zimbabwe, a new generation is back to start again, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Mad’ Green plan for 30mph speed limit on busy motorway is passed by council” – A Scottish Green plan to cut the speed limit on part of the M8 to 30 mph, which was branded “madness” by Scottish Conservatives, has been passed by Glasgow City Council, reports the Scottish Daily Express.
- “U.K. homeowners face jail or £15k fine in Energy Bill crackdown” – Rishi Sunak’s Energy Bill paves the way for a one-year prison sentence and £15,000 fines for homeowners not complying with new energy performance regulations, reports Energy Live News.
- “Sunak is embracing wind farms because of politics, not principle” – ‘Sunak-ism’ is largely about what is possible, writes Isabel Hardman in the Spectator.
- “The political exploitation of children” – The UN is using ‘children’s rights’ to advance the elites’ green agenda, warns Frank Furedi in Spiked.
- “Toby Young – The free speech champion” – Laura Dodsworth interviews Toby in the inaugural post of her Vanguard Substack.
- “U.K. transgender group hosting nude camps, BDSM workshops, led by consultant at charity that teaches gender identity to children” – Reduxx investigates the link between TransBareAll, a project featuring workshops including nudity, and Gendered Intelligence, an educational charity.
- “Would the law treat a ‘TERF’ so leniently?” – The case of Sarah Jane Baker exposes the trans lobby’s capture of the criminal-justice system, argues Tim Black in Spiked.
- “Róisín Murphy and the curse of reasonableness” – “When it comes to debates on sex and gender, I sometimes wonder whether there’s any point in my side trying to be calm, empathetic or reasonable,” says Victoria Smith in the Critic.
- “Even private chats can get you cancelled by gender ideologues” – You don’t have to make a public statement to be vilified – there’s always someone just waiting for the chance to attack you, writes Suzanne Moore (referencing the cancellation of Róisín Murphy) in the Telegraph.
- “Reframing the gender debate” – Language matters and on gender identity the use of confected terms does rationality a disservice says Joseph Figliolia in City Journal.
- “Reform the National Trust to save our heritage” – TCW is encouraging readers to support the slate of the Restore Trust, an organisation trying to roll back the ‘wokery’ that has plagued the National Trust in recent years, in the forthcoming NT election.
- “Elon Musk threatens to sue anti-Semitism campaigners putting advertisers off Twitter” – Twitter (X) owner Elon Musk claims the Anti-Defamation League’s ‘anti-hate’ campaigning is responsible for his platform’s falling ad revenues, reports the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage: There’s something else going on in this bill, that I believe to be far more sinister…” – On GB News, Nigel Farage discusses the Energy Bill which could mean criminal charges for those who don’t comply with Net Zero measures.
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