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by Will Jones
10 September 2023 12:29 AM

  • “Dominic Cummings set to create new party to take power in 2028” – Boris Johnson ‘s former Chief Adviser wants to launch the party – which he is temporarily referring to as The Startup Party – by Christmas, according to the Mail.
  • “Variants and scariants – the Covid joke is on us” – Far from bringing down the final curtain, it seems that the Covid comedy show is going to run and run, says Dr. Roger Watson in TCW.
  • “The misinformation of Marianna Spring” – With some delicious irony, the BBC’s ‘disinformation correspondent’ has been accused of lying on her CV, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
  • “Britain’s most outspoken headmaster resigns: ‘Hunky head’ who taught pupils how to fire guns says he has been ‘harassed and bullied’ for being anti-lockdown and against children having Covid jabs or wearing masks in school” – Headteacher Mike Fairclough, who blasted the impact of Covid restrictions on young children, has resigned from post, saying the local authority had run investigations into his conduct after complaints, the Mail reports.
  • “Canada’s Freedom Convoy truckers go on trial” – Tamara Lich and Chris Barber face up to 10 years in prison for “exercising their Charter right of peaceful protest to oppose the years-long COVID-19 vaccine mandates”, says Leila Mechoui in UnHerd.
  • “Reply to erroneous claims by RealClimate.org on our research into the Sun’s role in climate change” – The CERES team counters the ‘rebuttal’ of its recent off-narrative climate papers on WUWT.
  • “Labour abandons congestion charge in Cambridge after public backlash” – Controversial plans for a £5-a-day congestion charge in Cambridge have been scrapped by its Labour council because of concerns about the cost-of-living crisis, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Wind farms ‘gaming system to inflate millions earned when asked to halt production’” – Wind farm owners appear to be ‘gaming the system’ to inflate the tens of millions of pounds that they are paid not to produce electricity, a study has found, according to the Telegraph.
  • “A failure of safeguarding” – The Government should act on transitioning in schools, writes MP Miriam Cates in the Critic.
  • “The Tories must be willing to take the trans fight to the courts” – Rishi Sunak has a real opportunity to display resilience and create trouble for his opponents, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
  • “War On Free Speech Means Social Media Users Must Be Free To Moderate Their Content” – Michael Shellenberger in Public looks at a recent First Amendment censorship decision and makes a suggestion.
  • “Caribbean nations to formally demand slavery reparations from Royal family” – National reparations commissions in the Caribbean want to bypass the British Government and pursue financial payments directly from British institutions with historical links to slavery, such as the Royal Family, Lloyds of London and the Church of England, according to the Telegraph.
  • “We’re not interested in white, abled-bodied stories, woke literary agents tell aspiring authors” – An investigation by the Telegraph has found examples of literary agencies making clear their preference for authors deemed ‘under-represented’ or ‘marginalised’, such as ethnic minorities, LGBT people and the disabled.
  • “American colleges embrace California’s DEI model” – The Golden State’s ideological litmus tests are spreading across the country, warns John Sailer in UnHerd.
  • “You Should Be Very Worried About the Digital Services Act” – David Thunder on Brownstone raises the alarm about the EU’s Digital Services Act, which permits the European Commission to “apply significant pressures upon digital platforms to curb ‘hate speech’, ‘disinformation’ and threats to ‘civic discourse'”.
  • “Democrat who called to ‘dismantle’ the police praises officers following carjacking” – Shivanthi Sathanandan, a Democratic party leader who pledged to “dismantle” the Minneapolis police following the death of George Floyd, has called for a crackdown on crime after she was violently carjacked in front of her children, the Telegraph reports.

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