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by Richard Eldred
21 April 2024 1:33 AM

  • “Britain’s statistics watchdog to examine Hamas’s Gaza death toll figures” – The U.K. Statistics Authority is examining fresh claims that death toll figures from Hamas cannot be trusted, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Furious protest in London against the police: ‘Met have allowed antisemitism to thrive!’” – Pro-Israel campaign group Enough is Enough have taken to the streets of London against the continued pro-Palestine marches, reports GB News.
  • “Met Police mocked as pro-Israel protester wears ‘don’t arrest me’ hoodie” – A pro-Israel demonstrator mocked the Met Police by wearing a hoodie with the message “Please do not arrest me”, after a Jewish man was held by police during a pro-Palestine march in the capital last week, says the Express.
  • “Enough is enough. Mark Rowley must go” – In the Telegraph, Suella Braverman says Sir Mark Rowley “needs to accept responsibility” after a “litany of failures” in policing pro-Palestine protests.
  • “U.S. expected to sanction IDF unit for human rights violations in West Bank” – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to announce sanctions against the Israel Defence Forces ‘Netzah Yehuda’ battalion for human rights violations in the West Bank, reports Axios.
  • “Google has the right answer to revolting employees: sack them” – Other companies looking for clear instructions on how to deal with revolting employees need only perform a basic Google search, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
  • “Oxford University college scraps St. George’s Day event but will host Eid dinner” – A University of Oxford college that traditionally hosts a St. George’s Day celebration has been accused of replacing it with Eid for the second year in row, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Belgian PM takes flak over late response to NatCon event cancellation attempt” – Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo is under fire for failing to act when Brussels mayors wanted to cancel the National Conservatism conference, says Brussels Signal.
  • “Study finds ‘significant increase’ in cancer mortality after mass vaccination with third Covid dose” – A new study reveals “statistically significant increases” in mortality rates of all cancers following mass vaccination with the third mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, reports the Epoch Times.
  • “Lockdown to blame for ‘concerning’ surge in number of potentially deadly falls” – A top British medical professor has blamed lockdown for a concerning jump in the number of potentially deadly falls suffered by people, reveals the Telegraph.
  • “FBI found it ‘alarming’ that Fauci-funded virus research at Wuhan lab would leave no trace of ‘human manipulation’” – Emails from FBI agents show that the bureau was tipped off in April 2020 to gain-of-function virus research in China, funded by the agency formerly headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, that “would leave no signature of purposeful human manipulation”, according to the NY Post.
  • “Twenty hours in Rome challenging the WHO and the ‘official’ Covid narrative” – Watch Prof. Norman Fenton’s speech at a CMSI event in Rome, reviewing pandemic management and protection of health, freedom and national sovereignty.
  • “The long and winding Covid” – In TCW, Dr. Roger Watson discusses recent reports suggesting a link between Long Covid and COVID-19 vaccines.
  • “Bird flu, censorship and 100 day vaccines: seven predictions for ‘the next pandemic’” – In OffGuardian, Kit Knightly predicts how “the next pandemic” will unfold.
  • “The rise in suicide” – Suicide rates are now the highest they have been in England for 25 years, writes Laura Dodsworth on Substack.
  • “No one told me how hard it would be to come off anti-depressants” – Is it time to make antidepressants available over the counter? No way, says Rebekah Barnett on Substack.
  • “The house sale document that could nail Angela Rayner” – Angela Rayner’s attempts to ride out her two-homes row have been dealt a significant blow by the emergence of a key document signed by her former neighbour, reports the Mail.
  • “Liz Truss is right – Tory MP selection has been taken over by wokery” – A whistleblower tells the Mail’s Anna Mikhailova and Glen Owen that the Tory party’s MP selection process has been so taken over by wokery that even a raging communist could be picked as a candidate.
  • “The real tragedy of Liz Truss is far more depressing than we realise” – A low-tax pushback cannot begin until Liz Truss owns her mini-Budget mistakes, says Kate Andrews in the Telegraph.
  • “Welcome to the jungle – the new Cold War era of investing is upon us” – Deglobalisation and rearmament will reshape the economy, predicts Barry Norris in the Telegraph.
  • “A risk-free life is not worth living” – Rishi Sunak’s smoking ban will turn the next generation into permanent infants, warns Lionel Shriver in Spiked.
  • “Fine Gael MEP wants to ‘call out’ those using words like ‘sovereignty’” – A Fine Gael MEP says it’s important to “call out” the use of words like “sovereignty” and “we must protect our borders”, according to Brussels Signal.
  • “No go zones” – Are ‘no go zones’ conspiracy theory fact or fiction? asks Dr. Robert W. Malone on Substack.
  • “A byword for resistance” – Salman Rushdie’s new memoir chronicles the price he paid for speaking freely, writes Corbin K. Barthold in City Journal.
  • “Katherine Birbalsingh’s victory hides a dark truth about education” – Many teachers are having to submit to the whims of their students, says Abbie MacGregor in CapX.
  • “London drivers ‘could pay per mile’ so that Sadiq Khan can hit Net Zero target” – Documents reveal the Mayor of London’s ambitious plans for decarbonisation are “only possible” by charging motorists, reports GB News.
  • “LTN caused 30% surge in pupils arriving late” – A London head teacher reveals that an LTN that brought gridlock to public transport caused a 30% surge in school pupils arriving late as they navigated “heavy traffic and fumes”, according to the Telegraph. 
  • “Muggers target school children impacted by London LTN” – Teachers have been patrolling a ‘ghost town’ low traffic neighbourhood where gangs of thieves have been targeting pupils on the unnaturally quiet streets, reports the Mail. 
  • “Cycle lane on London roundabout would increase congestion by 800%, report says” – An independent report claims that a cycle lane planned for one of London’s busiest roundabouts will cause an 800% increase in traffic congestion, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Welsh Government plans 20mph speed limit U-turn” – Roads in Wales will revert to 30mph following backlash at the Welsh Government’s 20mph zone rollout, reports the Mail.
  • “Welsh Labour’s speeding U-turn shows devolution is beginning to grate” – The tragedy of Wales’s 20 mph speed limit, which is now to be relaxed, was that it took a good idea and ruined it by taking it to extremes, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
  • “Netherlands may reverse motorway speed limit cut which ‘barely reduces emissions’” – The Netherlands is considering reversing an unpopular speed limit imposed because of EU climate targets, after a study showed it barely lowered nitrogen emissions, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Rishi Sunak has set us back, head of climate change watchdog says” – In a BBC interview, head of the Climate Change Committee Chris Stark says the PM has not made climate change “as much of a priority as his predecessors”.
  • “Biofuel lunacy and the return of the hungry horses” – Australia’s pro-ethanol policy pits plant farmers against animal farmers and green politicians against food consumers, writes Viv Forbes in TCW.
  • “Evaluating the model projections” – It’s easy to predict the future… as long as it’s just like the past, says Willis Eschenbach in WUWT.
  • “MPs oppose funding disinformation ratings agency in blacklisting row” – MPs raise concerns about the prospect of the Government investing in a disinformation ratings agency that has been criticised for effectively blacklisting gender-critical columnists, reports the Times.
  • “Call for public inquiry into transgender ideology in NHS and schools” – More than 130 MPs, peers, doctors and psychiatrists have written to Rishi Sunak demanding a probe into the “pervasive influence” of transgender ideology in schools and the NHS, says the Telegraph. 
  • “Support for Stonewall crumbles after Cass review” – The NHS and other public bodies are reviewing their association with LGBT rights charity Stonewall following the release of the Cass review, writes Geraldine Scott in the Times.
  • “Stoke hospital hung banner celebrating 21 genders and sexualities” – Its waiting list for operations is the fourth worst in the country, yet a Stoke hospital found time to hang a banner celebrating 21 genders and sexualities. No wonder patients and nurses are calling it “absolute madness”, says Paul Bracchi in the Mail.
  • “King’s College London bars staff from promotion unless they support pro-trans diversity policy” – King’s College University has been warned that it risks breaking the law with a woke employment policy aimed at staff seeking promotion, according to the Mail.
  • “How Humza Yousaf’s growing anger amid trans row shows he’s buckling under the pressure” – Humza Yousaf is stirring up a culture war based on identity rather than focusing on kitchen-table politics such as the state of the NHS, our failing schools and the housing crisis, writes Susan Dalgety in the Scotsman.
  • “What Kemi Badenoch gets right about colonialism” – Kemi Badenoch has developed a habit of truth telling, remarks Robert Tombs in the Spectator.
  • “Villainy: the only role left for white men” – The campaign to airbrush white males from society (customarily euphemised as ‘diversity’), is almost complete, writes Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
  • “Woke Exeter University threatens anti-vegan student with expulsion” – A philosophy student, overheard through the wall of his room saying “veganism is wrong” and “gender fluidity is stupid”, was threatened with expulsion by his university, reveals the Mail on Sunday.
  • “Thought police: home visit for U.K. man who expressed anger online about Sydney bishop being stabbed by Islamist” – In Modernity, Paul Joseph Watson flags a video out of the U.K. showing a man being visited at home by two police officers and an NHS psychologist after he expressed anger online about the stabbing of a bishop in Sydney by an Islamist.
  • “Orwellian Sydney police: we will be the ‘source of truth’” – Sydney residents are questioning the implications of centralised truth and censorship in the wake of the Government’s push to police online discourse, reports Reclaim The Net.
  • “How Antifa went mainstream“ – From Brussels to California, illiberalism is thriving, says Geoff Shullenberger in UnHerd.
  • “Brazilian judge pushes nationalist conspiracy theory to weaponise federal police against defenders of free speech” – Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice claims that Elon Musk is part of a vast extremist conspiracy to undermine Brazil’s sovereignty and democracy, says Public’s Michael Shellenberger.
  • “‘We all have different truths’” – Ben Pile debates the European EV sales slump and the SNPs climate target U-turn with eco-loon Donnachadh McCarthy on Peter Cardwell’s TalkTV show.

Debating the European EV sales slump and the SNPs climate target U-turn with Donnachadh McCarthy on @petercardwell's @TalkTV show earlier today.

Donnachadh seems at last to be learning the basics of debate, unlike his proboscis monkey coreligionist 'meteorologist'. pic.twitter.com/wEWc63vCeb

— Ben Pile (@clim8resistance) April 20, 2024

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