- “Hancock fails to have Bridgen libel case thrown out” – Matt Hancock’s tweet accusing Andrew Bridgen of antisemitism could backfire, after Mrs. Justice Steyn dismissed his attempt to ‘strike out’ Bridgen’s defamation claim, writes Sally Beck in TCW.
- “When will SARS-2 truth be told in one out-breath?” – In TrialSiteNews, Laura Mueller calls for greater transparency into investigations of the origins of SARS-2, as well as accountability for governments involved in risky research.
- “Britons furious as Central London covered in ‘Happy Ramadan’ lights over Easter” – Ramadan lights on display across Central London over the Easter weekend has prompted concern over support for other major faiths, reports GB News.
- “Sunak only went ahead with net migration measures after I threatened to quit, says Jenrick” – Robert Jenrick claims Rishi Sunak only went ahead with a package of measures to reduce net migration after he threatened to quit as Immigration Minister, says the Telegraph.
- “Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think” – Of all the silly ideas that pervade British politics, perhaps the silliest is the notion that our young people are incorrigibly, uniformly and uniquely ‘woke’, writes Sam Bidwell in the Critic.
- “Reform is right about Tory failings, admits MP Danny Kruger in leaked recordings” – Leading Conservative MP Danny Kruger has told party members that the Tories are “not a very conservative party in lots of ways”, according to the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage drops biggest hint yet about return to frontline politics” – Nigel Farage has suggested Reform U.K. could merge with the defeated Tories after the general election, as he dropped the strongest hint yet he will return to frontline politics, reports the Mail.
- “No, Liz Truss did not crash the economy” – In the Critic, Christopher Snowdon defends Liz Truss’s economic record.
- “Democracy in decay: invasion of the technocrats” – Representative ‘democracy’ tends to install and maintain technocrats, whereas direct democracy removes them, remarks Andrew Cadman in TCW.
- “‘Clueless’ execs and few hits: how Channel Four unravelled” – Budgets and staff are being cut, talent is leaving and the Russell Brand questions still linger. Can Channel Four survive? asks Liam Kelly in the Telegraph.
- “Bar Council issues warning over Garrick Club membership” – The Bar Council says that membership of the Garrick Club creates “the potential for unfair advantage” when it came to practitioners needing references to become judges, according to Legal Futures.
- “In defence of forgiveness” – In today’s world, you only have to put one step wrong to be wrong for ever, remarks Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “Going electric requires electricity. Who knew?” – When you push people to electrify everything in their lives, while bribing them to go all-electric with lavish government subsidies, it turns out they use more electricity, says Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
- “Financial flimflam backs Imran Ahmed’s Centre for Countering Digital Hate” – On Substack, Paul D. Thacker discusses the murky finances and politics surrounding the Centre for Countering Digital Hate and its ties to the Labour Party.
- “Civil servant sued over gender critical beliefs has case dropped” – A government lawyer who faced legal action after expressing gender-critical views at work, including commenting that only women menstruate, has had the case against her dropped, reports the Times.
- “What the collapse of a Christian teacher’s employment tribunal has to do with the rest of us” – The collapse of an employment tribunal due to social media comments by a panel member may appear as a victory against anti-Christian bias, but it actually exposes a grim outlook for orthodox Christians in the public square, argues Julian Mann in Christian Today.
- “Church tribunal clears clergyman who called trans archdeacon ‘a bloke’” – A disciplinary tribunal has ruled that a clergyman who called the Church of England’s first trans woman archdeacon a “bloke” should not be punished, according to the Times.
- “How Parkrun record row ended up at the centre of the culture war” – Arguments around transgender inclusion and what constitutes competitive sport have turned Parkrun into a battleground, writes Jeremy Wilson in the Telegraph.
- “Parkrun scrapped ‘A-Z records’ over climate fears to stop runners travelling the world” – Concern over the environmental impact of ‘Parkrun tourism’ has been revealed among the reasons for deleting an all-time record list from the charity’s website, reports the Telegraph.
- “Calling a female colleague glamorous is ‘belittling’, tribunal warns” – An employment tribunal has warned that calling a woman “glamorous” at work risks undermining or “belittling” them, reports the Mail.
- “Oxford has not gone ‘woke’, insists Vice-Chancellor after election row” – Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor has denied that the university has become “woke” in changing the way it chooses its chancellor, according to the Times.
- “Vulgarity as virtue” – In City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple laments the decline of Edinburgh.
- “Now Canada is euthanising autistic people” – Spiked’s Kevin Yuill sheds light on a troubling case in Canada, where a father has discovered he is powerless to stop his perfectly healthy daughter being killed.
- “Steve Sailer: still noticing after all these years” – On the Aporia Substack, Bo Winegard reflects on Steve Sailer’s influence and a book collection of his essays appropriately entitled Noticing.
- “Sam Bankman-Fried sentence: FTX tycoon sent to prison for 25 years” – Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder of the failed crypto exchange FTX, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for defrauding customers and investors of his now-bankrupt firm, reports the BBC.
- “European Commission publishes ‘disinformation’ guidelines for Big Tech” – The European Commission has published recommended anti-disinformation measures for social media and search engines, says Brussels Signal.
- “Florida is banning social media for kids. We must too” – Anger is growing that Big Tech has been given a free pass to push an addictive product on our children, writes Miriam Cates in the Telegraph.
- “A fine example of how to debate and carry the day” – The End of Race Politics author Coleman Hughes stays calm, clear and cool on a recent appearance of The View, despite the panels attempts to smear and misrepresent him.
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