- “Starmer sides with Zelensky after Trump’s ‘dictator’ attack” – Keir Starmer has sided with Volodymyr Zelensky after Donald Trump branded the Ukrainian leader a dictator, reports the Telegraph.
- “Jailing Syrian sex offender asylum seeker could breach human rights, judge says” – Jailing a “very dangerous” asylum seeker who sexually assaulted a teenager could breach his human rights, according to the Telegraph.
- “The ‘human rights’ regime has flipped democracy on its head” – Britain’s migration policy has fallen into the hands of an arrogant, anti-democratic judiciary, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Great power brings greater scrutiny – even for judges” – A greatly expanded role for the judiciary demands greater public scrutiny, argues Henry Hill in CapX.
- “Migrant gangs and religious violence have made Europeans hostages in their own countries” – Western European governments refuse to admit the failure of mass migration, leaving citizens hostage to rising gang violence, religious strife and creeping authoritarianism, writes Ralph Schoellhammer in Brussels Signal.
- “We know the difference between Ukrainians and Gazans” – Our asylum system should be far more discriminatory, argues Chris Bayliss in the Critic.
- “There is still no rationale for our Chagos surrender” – Surrendering sovereignty to Mauritius would be an unforced geopolitical error, warns Yuan Yi Zhu in the Spectator.
- “Britain needs a DOGE government waste cull of its own” – In the Telegraph, Luke Johnson argues that Britain needs its own Musk-style Department of Government Efficiency to cull waste and stop the public sector from bleeding taxpayers dry.
- “We are only scratching the surface of state waste” – Those who claim it is impossible to find room for government cuts have no credibility, says Harry Phibbs in CapX.
- “Fix Britain before lavishing our cash on these bonkers projects around the world” – In TCW, Matt Goodwin argues that before Britain squanders billions on dubious global projects, it should focus on fixing its own crumbling services and neglected communities.
- “Taxpayer cash ploughed into wooden bottles under Labour’s Net Zero drive” – Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash is being ploughed into a company that makes wooden drinking bottles as part of Labour’s push towards Net Zero, reports the Telegraph.
- “Universities must not be ‘comfort blankets of cancellation’, says Lord Hague” – The former Conservative Party leader promised to make Oxford the “home of free speech” and to lead the university into a new era as he takes over from Lord Patten as the new chancellor, according to the Telegraph.
- “Yvette Cooper’s war on online privacy” – Apple is being asked to open up its users to unfettered surveillance, says Freddie Attenborough in Spiked.
- “Bird flu is a rerun of the Covid playbook” – For the Brownstone Institute, Dr Clayton J Baker warns that the bird flu panic is just a Covid rerun – this time, the playbook swaps lockdowns for food shortages to push unsafe vaccines.
- “The Scottish People’s COVID-19 Inquiry” – Join Dr Clare Craig, Prof Richard Ennos and others in Edinburgh on February 22nd for The Scottish People’s COVID-19 Inquiry – a deep dive into how government policies shaped lives during the pandemic.
- “Trump team makes radical U-turn on Covid vaccine” – Covid vaccines could be suspended for all age groups in America under radical new plans backed by key health figures in the Trump Administration, reports the Mail.
- “Yale researchers have found immune system exhaustion and prolonged spike protein production in some Covid jab recipients” – Yale’s new findings reveal concerning evidence of immune system damage and rising spike protein levels in some Covid vaccine recipients, with T-cell depletion mirroring HIV-like changes, reports Alex Berenson on his Substack.
- “Saying ‘ladies and gentlemen’ is offensive, folk dancers told” – The English Folk Dance and Song Society has called for the removal of gendered terms like “ladies and gentlemen” from folk dancing to avoid offending minority genders, says GB News.
- “The BBC went ‘woke’ with ‘moralising’ Antiques Roadshow and EastEnders” – Join the Mail for a tour through the endless parade of BBC shows that have angered the audience by going woke.
- “Elon Musk says SpaceX will return stranded astronauts ‘within weeks’” – Elon Musk has vowed to return two stranded NASA astronauts to Earth “within about four weeks”, accusing the former administration of abandoning them in space, according to the Mail.
- “‘They’re reaping a whirlwind in the world of cancer as a result of the vaccines’” – On Piers Morgan Uncensored, Piers reveals how even top cancer experts are sounding the alarm on the long-term impact of mRNA vaccines.
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) February 18, 2025
PIERS MORGAN: "I was with one of the top cancer experts in Britain for lunch a couple of days ago, who was utterly scathing about the long-term impact of the mRNA vaccines … and says that they're reaping a whirlwind in the world of cancer as a result of the vaccines." pic.twitter.com/9HPkIgBlRV
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