- “Israel defending itself is not ‘escalation’” – The Israelophobes are desperately upset by the assassination of a Hamas chief in Beirut, remarks Daniel Ben-Ami in Spiked.
- “BBC description of Anthony Hopkins film failed to describe kindertransport children as Jewish” – BBC promotional material for a film about the kindertransport omitted the term “Jewish”, leading to furious claims that Jews were being “written out of history”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Substack faces user revolt over anti-censorship stance on neo-Nazis” – Substack is facing a user revolt after its Chief Executive defended hosting and handling payments for “Nazis” on its platform, citing anti-censorship reasons, according to the Guardian.
- “On academic standards, fair play and Claudine Gay” – On Substack, Eugyppius gives his latest take on the Claudine Gay saga.
- “Why did Claudine Gay get a free pass?” – American academia has tolerated a double standard for too long, says John Masko in UnHerd.
- “The conservative mastermind behind Claudine Gay’s ouster” – On Substack, Christopher Rufo recounts to Politico how he helped to run the campaign to unseat Harvard’s President.
- “The real Harvard scandal” – Academics debase their profession when they redefine plagiarism to suit their politics, writes Tyler Austin Harper in a piece for the Atlantic about Claudine Gay.
- “People who received older Pfizer Covid vaccines had similar outcomes as unvaccinated” – According to a new paper, people who received any version of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, except for the newest one, were no better off than the unvaccinated, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Fact checker response” – On Substack, Anandamide takes issue with journalist Ana Benacic over the evidence for DNA contamination in Covid vaccines.
- “Smokescreens – Part Three” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan explore the classification of influenza deaths, revealing discrepancies in reported figures due to different modelling approaches.
- “Sorry BMA, but doctors are not underpaid” – Despite the constraint of the NHS model, junior doctors in Britain still earn a considerable wage, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Jeffrey Epstein ran sex blackmail operation for intelligence agencies, new evidence suggests” – Unsealed documents offer new evidence that Jeffrey Epstein was working with the U.S. intelligence services to blackmail powerful individuals, albeit to mysterious ends, write Alex Gutentag and Michael Shellenberger on the Public Substack.
- “Jeffrey Epstein and the neverending quest for evil” – For how much longer are people going to believe that paedo cults are the secret puppet masters of our lives, asks Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Navy has so few sailors it has to decommission ships” – The Royal Navy has so few sailors – recruitment fell by 22.1% in the 12 months to March 2023 – it has had to decommission two warships to staff its new class of frigates, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Putin’s ‘peace’ is a partitioned Ukraine” – The problem facing western policymakers is that, however damaged Russia may be, Putin still wins by not losing, writes Owen Matthews in the Spectator.
- “Britain must commit to Ukraine – or admit we don’t care enough” – There is still time to commit ourselves to Ukraine; otherwise, we should be honest and tell Ukraine we just don’t care enough, says Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
- “The meaning of the battle for Polish television” – The ‘liberal’ suspension of the rule of law in Poland should concern us all, writes Pawel Sokala in the Critic.
- “Immigration could cost the Netherlands Є600 billion over next 20 years academics say” – According to the University of Amsterdam, immigration could cost the Dutch Є600 billion over the next two decades if current trends continue, reports Gript.
- “Another massacre in Nigeria and the ‘slow genocide’ of Christians” – The world is turning a blind eye to the genocide of Christians in Nigeria, writes Niamh Uí Bhriain in Gript.
- “‘Lack of commitment’ threatens Europe’s Net Zero progress” – European climate zealot politicians are not practicing what they’re preaching, says Eric Worrall in WUWT.
- “Is the ‘manmade’ climate crisis a scam?” – On Substack, Tom Ed explains how a Facebook spat has exposed the weakness of the Net Zero cult.
- “Stop the student visa racket” – Visas issued to the dependents of foreign students have risen 750% since 2019, remarks Tom Jones in CapX.
- “Why the Right is eating the Left’s lunch” – Progressives have abandoned the working class and embraced the oligarchs, says Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
- “The box-tickers shall inherit the Earth” – In organisations, a sorry inversion has occurred where those performing essential tasks now adhere to the directives of bureaucrats, says Rory Sutherland in the Spectator.
- “Why our cities should be sacred” – Utilitarian city-making is failing us, argues Nicholas Boys Smith in UnHerd.
- “The return of ‘Slag Lane’ is a victory for Britain’s unwittingly rude road signs” – Our maps are positively bursting with eyebrow-raising street names – and we should be proud of them, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Fat positivity is a fantasy” – You can’t argue your way to beauty, writes Kat Rosenfield in UnHerd.
- “What progressives get wrong about Winston Churchill” – It is folly to stick current ideological labels on Winston Churchill: in years to come, they will all peel off, says Sinclair McKay in the Spectator.
- “John Pilger was a charlatan and a fraudster” – Throughout his life, the left-wing journalist John Pilger concealed facts and said things he knew to be untrue, writes Oliver Kamm in CapX.
- “Free Speech Union cautions against U.K. financial regulator’s ‘diversity’ policy, citing free speech concerns” – The Free Speech Union warns that the Financial Conduct Authority’s proposal to label lack of diversity as a ‘non-financial risk’ for large companies could stifle free speech, according to Reclaim The Net.
- “Unrepentant DEI at MIT” – The diversity ideology marches on at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “‘I’m not sure any woman should want to belong to a group that would have Munroe Bergdorf as their champion’” – On TalkTV, Douglas Murray blasts UN Women U.K.’s decision to appoint a biological male as its U.K. champion.
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