- “Face mask law ends in Scotland: Coverings are no longer needed” – People no longer have to wear face masks on public transport or in most indoor public spaces in Scotland, MailOnline reports
- “New Zealand PM Goes on First Post-Covid Overseas Trip to Promote Tourism” – Jacinda Ardern has embarked on a six-day trade mission to Singapore and Japan to promote New Zealand tourism and education, reports the Epoch Times
- “I don’t care about partygate. It’s time for a lockdown amnesty” – “I’m grateful to Boris for inadvertently making such a mockery of lockdown,” writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph. “I trust we will never run this experiment again”
- “Fewer than Half of People in parts of England have a Covid vaccine” – MailOnline examines officials statistics to find the areas with lowest jab take-up rates
- “We have rewritten history and reimagined the rules to be more draconian than they actually were” – If we are to have any consistency in how rules are being retrospectively enforced, surely the First Minister of Scotland must now be fined too, writes Tom Harwood for GB News
- “Stop working from home, Civil Service to be told” – Ministers are under orders to get staff back into offices, the Telegraph reports, with workers who refuse to do so accused of failing to pull their weight
- “Brits cancelled more than 1.5M subscriptions in first three months of 2022” – The U.K.’s great streaming boom is officially over, MailOnline says, as households unsubscribe
- “Global Covid deaths now at lowest point since pandemic took off” – The seven-day average number of Covid fatalities worldwide was 2,813 on Sunday, according to MailOnline, the lowest since March 28th, 2020, when it was 2,735.
- “Here’s Why No One Wants to Talk About Sweden” – “It was easy to understand why so many were reluctant to face the numbers from Sweden,” writs Johan Anderberg for the Brownstone Institute. “For the inevitable conclusion must be that millions of people had been denied their freedom… for nothing”
- “COVID-19: Lukashenko unveils Belarus-made Sputnik Light vaccine” – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Health Minister Dmitry Pinevich have unveiled a new Belarusian-made Russian COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Jerusalem Post
- “The horror of the new Chinese lockdown” – Karen Harradine reports on the human rights abuses taking place in locked-down Shanghai for the Conservative Woman
- “Florida judge voids U.S. mask mandate for planes, other travel” – A federal judge in Florida has voided the national mask mandate covering airplanes and other public transportation as exceeding the authority of U.S. health officials, the Associated Press reports
- “Hopeless airlines cannot take us all for fools forever” – The Telegraph’s Lucy Burton takes aim at the airlines who have “completely failed to plan for a recovery in demand”
- “If Churchill falls, woke warriors can force anything” – The Left’s woke warriors target Winston Churchill because bringing him down would show they can do anything, writes Douglas Murray in the Daily Mail
- “Do we really need a GCSE focused on saving the planet?” – Writing for the Spectator, Ross Clark worries that the new GCSE in natural history may turn out to be “yet another fashionable, soft subject which is designed to indoctrinate rather than educate”
- “Government might scrap green levy that adds £153 to average energy bill” – A green energy levy that adds £153 to the average energy bill could be scrapped to ease the cost of living crisis, the Telegraph has learned.
- “Climate cowards and apocalypse peddlers” – Ben Beattie pours scorn on uncritical followers of the approved narrative in discussions about the changing climate in Spectator Australia
- “Immigration and Musk’s Infiltration” – Michael Curzon and S.D. Wickett discuss the Government’s recent immigration plan, as well as Elon Musk’s attempted takeover of Twitter in the latest edition of the Week in Review by Bournbrook
- “The Panic Reveals So Much: Elon Musk, Twitter, and the Digital…” – “The proposed buyout of Twitter – targeting the curated reality of the powerful – pushed the aggressively anti-free-expression agenda out into the light,” writes Laura Williams for the AIER
- “Modern feminism is ‘racist’ and only focuses on ‘straight, white, middle-class women’” – The Telegraph reports that Highgate School – which counts poet T.S. Eliot and one of Boris Johnson’s daughters among its former students – has been criticised for lecturing pupils on sexism against trans people rather than focusing on abuse claims by female students
- “When ‘white’ becomes an epithet” – “Conservatives must rebut the equation between whiteness and evil,” writes Heather Mac Donald in Spectator World
- “Diversity advocates mistakenly accuse black DJ of wearing blackface” – Two Arizona diversity advocates labelled a local school district racist for hiring a DJ to perform wearing blackface, the Washington Examiner reports. It turned out the guy was actually black
- “Dorsey Rips Twitter Board for ‘Dysfunction’ After Musk Accuses It of Failing to Represent Shareholders” – Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has attacked the board of Twitter, the Epoch Times reports
- “We’re ready to make Britain the safest place for children online” – Nadine Dorries and Rachel de Souza make the case for the new Online Safety Bill in the Telegraph
- “Net zero will be new Brexit for Tories, says Richard Tice” – Reform U.K. leader says Conservatives face ‘seismic crisis’ because of soaring bills and it plans to exploit anti-Conservative dissatisfaction at local elections, the Telegraph says
- “Barrister FrancisHoar joins party leader Lawrence Fox to dissect the new Online Safety Bill” – Francis Hoar highlights the free speech implications of the Online Safety Bill with the head of the Reclaim Party
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Barrister @Francis_Hoar joins party leader @LozzaFox to dissect the new #OnlineSafetyBill and what impact it will have on the right to open discussion in the UK. #FreeSpeech
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James, Toby – are either of you fans of Elon Musk?
Thanks Toby, I was getting worried by James’s absence.
Probably just as well the “mummy and daddy arguing about the Ukraine” bit was lost, because Toby’s ideas about the Ukraine are absolutely on the level of a zero covid bed-wetter’s thoughts on covid, a middle class antiracist’s ideas about BLM, or a full on climate panicker’s “thinking” about energy policy – vacuous and infantile, and based on simple falsehoods about the world.
We get plenty of hypocritical/profoundly ignorant selective moralising about “aggression”, jingoist silliness about a “Russian threat” and “Britain’s global mission”, and one sided emotionally manipulative, shroud-waving war propaganda on the mainstream media, without Toby adding to it here.
While I don’t agree with everything Toby writes or says, he did create Lockdown Sceptics and the Free Speech Union, for which he deserves much praise. And, given the idea behind FSU, why complain that he exercises his here?
“While I don’t agree with everything Toby writes or says, he did create Lockdown Sceptics and the Free Speech Union, for which he deserves much praise.”
As it happens, I’ve said exactly the same a number of times here, and I have been a member of the FSU for nearly two years now. I have no problem respecting a person for his achievements and agreeing with many of his positions, while simultaneously criticising a particular position he holds.
Ukraine war emoting is basically the same as covid, BLM and climate alarmist emoting, just afflicting a slightly different demographic, and deserves a similar degree of disrespect. And it’s at least similarly costly and harmful. Potentially considerably more.
“And, given the idea behind FSU, why complain that he exercises his here?”
Not really a free speech issue, is it? This is just disagreement (admittedly rather contemptuous, given how conformist and wilfully ignorant his views on that particular topic are – the polar opposite of scepticism).
And no, I didn’t downvote your comment.
‘without Toby adding to it here’ seemed to suggest that you’d rather he didn’t post his opinions.
I don’t disagree with your other points, since I share them.
Imo you are overextending here.
I haven’t heard it. I have listened to them a few times and they provide a pleasant diversion and some amusement but it is as if there is a conscious effort to avoid a discussion of any depth. Why would you want to avoid such a discussion in these times? Is there no fertile ground anymore just the acceptance of a barren landscape and an impassable gulf? One way or another it is just willing it on, let it burn, This is not the Christian perspective. A real Christian perspective in our times would be concerned with damage limitation even though we know that evrything is going to shit.
Personally, I find this ‘James vs Tobes’ schtick a bit too much. It is blatantly put on, and, quite frankly, I am baffled that anyone would take it seriously.
I totally concur.
I’ve never encountered two less punk individuals, so why ‘The Clash’ reference in the title?
In an age of a torrent of podcasts, this one is lame, really lame.
Can’t help but wonder the following;
1. How much income Toby has generated from this site?
2. How well he is still connected to the Establishment?
3. How a silver spooned ‘Christian’ smoker defends traumatising and slaughtering foxes?
4. Why the Daily Round Up is predominantly full of propagandist MSM crap?
5. Why there are NEVER links to the real vanguard of alt media?