- “Nicola Sturgeon branded Boris Johnson a ‘f—ing clown’ in deleted Whatsapps” – The Covid Inquiry has revealed that Nicola Sturgeon branded Boris Johnson a “f***ing clown” and boasted about how much better the Scottish Government was at talking to the public during the pandemic, according to the Scottish Sun.
- “Nicola Sturgeon’s reckoning with eternal shame is now only a question of when” – How can former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon look herself in the mirror and not see a bare-faced liar? asks Brian Monteith in the Scotsman.
- “Fast-dying myth of St. Nicola, Covid saviour” – The pandemic inquiry has shattered illusions about Nicola Sturgeon’s handling of the crisis and revealed a hidden agenda, writes Iain Martin in the Times.
- “Lady Hallett’s cup of tea” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan follow the Covid Inquiry to Scotland.
- “Email reveals why CDC didn’t issue alert on Covid vaccines and myocarditis” – America’s top public health agency did not send an alert on COVID-19 vaccines and heart inflammation because officials were concerned they would cause panic, according to the Epoch Times.
- “SARS2 was patented by Ralph Baric in 2018” – On Substack, Jim Hallam explores the origin of the COVID-19 virus, suggesting that Dr. Ralph Baric patented the SARS-CoV-2 genome in 2018.
- “COVID-19 mRNA vaccines: lessons learned from the registrational trials and global vaccination campaign” – On Cureus, Mead M, Seneff S., Wolfinger R., et al. question the safety of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, citing concerns about serious adverse events and insufficient safety testing.
- “When did face-to-face care become an optional extra?” – On Substack, HART discusses the dehumanisation of healthcare.
- “U.S. ‘deplores’ Israeli shelling of UN shelter in Gaza, mass casualties reported” – The Biden administration has issued a statement saying the U.S. “deplores the deadly attack on a UN shelter in Gaza”, according to ZeroHedge.
- “Hitlerism returns to The Hague” – On Politicsweb, James Myburgh writes on the old Nazi libel that lies at the heart of the South African Government’s genocide case against Israel.
- “War with Russia is coming. Britain is determined to lose” – Our Armed Forces are no longer fit to fight. They’ve been hollowed out by budget cuts and wokery, says Con Coughlin in the Telegraph.
- “The Government must stick to liberal principles when it comes to abortion buffer zones” – Banning otherwise legal activities within 150 metres of an abortion clinic is an assault on free speech, writes Francis Cox in CapX.
- “British kids spend obsessive amount of time on TikTok, new study finds” – A new report claims that children in the U.K. are using TikTok for more than two hours a day, making British youngsters some of the heaviest users of the app worldwide, according to indy100. At last, an international league table British kids come top of!
- “Keir Starmer is no friend of the National Trust” – Starmer speaks on behalf of a ‘civil society’ that promotes diversity of every kind except viewpoint diversity, says Tom Jones in CapX.
- “Cross-party group of MPs tell minister of concerns over UAE-backed takeover of the Telegraph” – A cross-party group of more than 20 MPs and peers have written to the Culture Secretary expressing their deep concern at the prospect of the Telegraph being taken over by a UAE-backed fund, according to the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak urged to introduce ‘no-brainer’ payment rules as shops to be forced to accept cash in Ireland” – Irish businesses will be forced to accept cash under new rules which politicians say will stop shoppers being “left behind”, reports GB News.
- “Trudeau’s mass migration cult is destroying Canada” – In Canada, quality of life, per capita income and social cohesion are being sacrificed to a third world ‘population trap’, says Eric Kaufman in the Telegraph.
- “You couldn’t make it up” – You could be forgiven for thinking that wind is a completely new phenomenon in the U.K., says Prof. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “The dark side of environmental activism” – Environmental activists may have a “dark side”, exhibiting traits like Machiavellianism and narcissism, according to a new study by Prof. Hannes Zacher in Personality and Individual Differences.
- “Globe Theatre in row over casting of able bodied female as Richard III” – The Globe Theatre is embroiled in an ableism row after a non-disabled actor was cast as Richard III, who is believed to have suffered from scoliosis, according to the Mail.
- “Father Ted writer Graham Linehan among group taking legal action against Belfast pub in row over ‘gender critical beliefs’” – A fundraising drive is underway to support campaigners, including Father Ted writer Graham Linehan, in their legal battle against a Belfast pub accused of refusing to serve them because of their gender-critical beliefs, reports the Irish News.
- “Fears NI people could be prosecuted over private conversations in own home to top agenda at free speech summit” – Concerns that people in Northern Ireland could soon be prosecuted for hate crimes relating to private conversations in their own homes is set to top the agenda at a free speech summit in Belfast, according to the Belfast Telegraph.
- “The EU’s hate-speech bill is a crackdown on dissent and a restriction on democracy” – In a worrying development for freedom of speech in Europe, the European Parliament voted to add ‘hate speech’ and ‘hate crime’ to the list of ‘EU Crimes’, writes Laurie Wastell in Brussels Signal.
- “Starmer has got the culture war all wrong” – The Spectator’s Rod Liddle suggests that Keir Starmer consider public opinion polls before taking sides in the culture war.
- “Democracy in decay: this is the way forward” – In TCW, Andrew Bridgen advocates for Swiss-style direct democracy.
- “Oxfam’s sneering at the rich is simplistic and unhelpful” – Oxfam’s neering at the wealthy offers no real answers to world poverty and damages its reputation. It must do better, says Jawad Iqbal in the Times.
- “Bizarre update in row between St. Pancras pianist and Chinese TV crew” – A public piano at London St. Pancras station has been sealed off following a clash between a YouTuber and Chinese tourists, reports Metro.
- “How to convert an atheist” – In the Spectator, Richard Dawkins discusses Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s recent conversion to Christianity.
- “The lies behind the ‘conversion therapy’ panic” – There is no evidence that LGBT Brits are being subjected to coercive conversion therapy because of their sexual or gender identities, says Malcolm Clark in Spiked.
- “Captain Cook statue sawn off at the ankles in Australia Day anti-colonial protests” – Activists in Australia have toppled a statue of Capt. James Cook and daubed a statue of Queen Victoria with red paint to protest against British colonialism, reports the Mail.
- “How to pass Harvard’s unconscious bias exam” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark takes Harvard’s ‘Implicit Association Test’ and discovers he is right out there on the racist fringe.
- “The Great Substack Nazi scare is legacy media’s latest moral panic” – You’re about as likely to get struck by lighting as run into a Nazi on Substack, but hey, let’s all freak out! says Paul D. Thacker on Substack.
- “Trump leads Biden by six points in new nationwide poll” – Trump leads President Joe Biden by 40% to 34% in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, according to the Mail.
- “Trump has captured the new conservative zeitgeist” – It’s clear from Trump’s campaign that anti-system politics and fundamentals, such as immigration control, are winning propositions for the Right, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Britain is one of the best, most welcoming and tolerant places in the world” – Konstantin Kisin gets shouted down by an audience member on Question Time for talking up Britain.
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