- “I believe Dame Esther Rantzen is wrong on assisted dying” – Ian Birrell also thinks Rantzen is wrong about assisted dying, as he explains in the Mail.
- “Esther Rantzen is wrong about assisted suicide” – Julie Burchill in the Spectator sympathises with Esther Rantzen, but disagrees with her about assisted suicide.
- “Why are birth rates falling?” – Countries globally, including the U.K., are experiencing falling birth rates. But what’s the real reason people are having fewer children, asks Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
- “Kemi Badenoch’s civil servants celebrate diverse role models without mentioning her” – A recruitment advert showcasing diversity in the Business department only used civil servants who run its race network and not its commander-in-chief, reports the Telegraph.
- “Civil service lawyers accused of trying to scupper trans guidance” – A leak has revealed the Department for Education’s legal team claimed key parts of the long-awaited document for teachers on ‘gender-questioning children’ would be overturned in court, somewhat tenditiously, claims the Mail.
- “‘I was sacked as a teacher for standing up to gender ideology’” – Kevin Lister in the Mail tells the story of his defenestration from the teaching profession for refusing to kowtow to gender identity ideoloy.
- “My Debate In NYC On Government-fuelled Online Censorship” – On his Substack, Jay Bhattacharyahi recounts his debate with Kate Klonick about government-fuelled social media censorship, which he won comprehensively.
- “Bumper pay day for ex-Chancellor George Osborne” – The former Chancellor, who left Government in 2016, had a bumper pay day for the second year in a row after joining City firm Robey Warshaw in 2021, reports This Is Money.
- “Revealed: Harvard cleared Claudine Gay of plagiarism before investigating her — and its lawyers falsely claimed her work was ‘properly cited’” – The New York Post digs deeper into the scandal of Claudine Gay‘s plagiarism.
- “New Survey: Fewer Germans feel free to express their political opinions in 2023 than in any year since the early days of the Federal Republic” – The Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research has uncovered some disturbing data about the lack of free speech in Germany, reports Eugyppius.
- “Corporations offended by free speech are happy to invest in places without it” – Why did so many American corporations go from celebrating free speech to suddenly fearing it, asks Zaid Jilani in Public.
- “Guardian staff fear for their pets in work from home crackdown” – The Guardian’s staff say they don’t want to return to work because they’re worried about their pets, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why antisemitism sprouted so quickly on campus” – Chapter three of The Coddling of the American Mind explains how the oppressor/victim mindset created fertile ground for hate, explains Jonathan Haidt.
- “Muslim migrants are destroying European culture, says Poland’s ex-PM” – Mateusz Morawiecki is opposed to the EU’s latest migration pact and wants to ‘preserve’ his country’s culture, reports the Telegraph.
- “The British activist accused of being a key Hamas ally” – Majed Al-Zeer, who has campaigned for Palestinians in parliament, is named in a German interior ministry document, according to the Times.
- “Douglas Murray debates Cenk Uygur on Piers Morgan Uncensored” – Douglas Murray takes on a Hamas apologist on TalkTV and takes no prisoners.
Watching @DouglasKMurray skewer clueless apologists these last few months has been immensely enjoyable, but the fact that he finally got to @cenkuygur is the icing on the cake. pic.twitter.com/To9ePM3fFg
— Stephen Knight(@GSpellchecker) December 22, 2023
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