- “Civil servants threaten to strike over two days a week in the office” – ONS staff are threatening to strike over an instruction to return to the office, the Telegraph reports.
- “Martin Kulldorff: Fired by Harvard for getting Covid right” – Watch the Great Barrington legend’s new interview with UnHerd‘s Freddie Sayers.
- “Freedom of Thought vs Mentality Control” – ‘Mentality control’ is widespread in authoritarian regimes, but also a distinct tendency in Western administrations and academic institutions, as exemplified by the recent sacking of Martin Kulldorff by Harvard, says Freedom Research‘s Theo L. Gluck.
- “Hallett Inquiry: The Extraordinary” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson continue their coverage of the Covid Inquiry on Substack, this time criticising the setting up of a Covid testing centre in Cardiff without telling the Welsh Government.
- “Modest earners are now being taxed ‘as if they are rich’, figures show” – Present-day workers only have to earn 3.6 times the average pay to be taxed at the highest rate, up from 6.2 times in 2010, says the Telegraph.
- “Jewish lobby has insidious influence in U.K. politics, civil servants told” – A series of meetings have been held by hundreds of civil servants discussing how to force the Government to change its policy on the Israel-Gaza war and have featured numerous antisemitic tropes, the Times reveals.
- “Parliament has finally shown the autocracies what money can’t buy” – The U.K. is more exposed than many thought to influence-laundering, but better able to defend itself, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Fitzwilliam Museum rehang caters to the new ruling class” – If you’re an aspirant member of the 21st-century ruling class, you must be scrubbed free of place or history, says Mary Harrington in UnHerd.
- “Farage: Free speech under threat from Government’s extremism definition” – The Reform party President warns that the guidelines to identify high-risk fringe groups could be used to shut down legitimate debate, the Telegraph reports.
- “The evil trans ideology is in retreat, at last” – A landmark victory has been won, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph. “We must now end the indoctrination of innocent children in our schools.”
- “Trans athletes: Sharron Davies and Caitlyn Jenner on sport’s greatest debate” – In an exclusive interview with the Telegraph, female sport’s biggest advocates unite to address what the International Olympic Committee tries to shy away from.
- “Gender-neutral toilets at all Euro 2024 stadiums” – This summer’s European Championship will be the first major tournament to introduce gender-neutral toilets at all venues, according to the Telegraph.
- “Scotland Yard axes 60 murder detectives to save millions” – The Metropolitan Police’s 20 homicide squads will each lose three detective constables to save £4.2 million from budget despite London’s high murder rate, the Telegraph reports.
- “Dan Wootton on his fall from grace, friendship and a fresh start” – Laura Dodsworth interviews former GB News presenter Dan Wootton, who now runs his own independent media platform Outspoken on Substack, with a daily news and opinion show of the same name launching later this year.
- “Keir Starmer is dead wrong about assisted suicide” – ‘Assisted dying’ is a threat to the most vulnerable and must be resisted, argues Kevin Yuill in Spiked.
- “Labour’s class warriors refuse to see the injustice of imposing VAT on school fees” – Parents on modest incomes struggling to do the best for their children will pay the price for a policy aimed at “toffs and plutocrats”, argues Andrew Gimson on ConservativeHome.
- “Ep. 81 They’re still claiming the Covid vax is safe and effective. Yet somehow Dr. Pierre Kory treats hundreds of patients who’ve been badly injured by it” – Why is no one in the public health establishment paying attention, asks Tucker Carlson as he interviews Covid ‘frontline doctors’ hero Pierre Kory.
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