- “UN workers in Gaza kidnapped Israeli woman and gave weapons to Hamas, according to dossier” – According to Israeli intelligence, UN workers in Gaza kidnapped an Israeli woman during Hamas’s October 7th attack and handed out ammunition to its gunmen, reports the Telegraph.
- “UNRWA is worse than you think” – For too long, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency has provided moral cover to the antisemitic haters of Israel, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “‘Disgraceful’: Dutch University Postpones Holocaust Education Lectures” – The University of Applied Sciences in Holland announced it was postponing a lecture series on the Holocaust on Holocaust Memorial Day, causing uproar, reports the European Conservative.
- “One in nine children has a disability after post-pandemic surge” – One in nine children now has a disability after a post-pandemic surge driven by mental health conditions such as ADHD, reports the Times.
- “SNP’s aim to ‘destroy the U.K.’ drove their Covid response, says Gove” – Michael Gove has told the Covid Inquiry that the SNP response to the Covid pandemic was partly driven by its aim to “destroy the U.K.”, says the Telegraph.
- “Covid research waste – antivirals” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan discuss the Government wasting a further £1.2 billion on stockpiling unused antivirals for potential influenza and COVID-19 pandemics.
- “‘The vaccine cover-up is rapidly unravelling’” – In TCW, Andrew Bridgen talks about his hopes for a packed House of Commons at a debate on excess deaths by Easter.
- “The insane experiment behind the Covid pandemic and Disease X – Part Three” – In TCW, Paula Jardine suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic was a test for DARPA’s P3 Pandemic Prevention Platform project.
- “Government Covid measures impact research” – A U.K. researcher is looking at how the Covid measures in both higher education and retail sectors affected their service provision during the first year of the pandemic. If you’d like to help, an online survey, that takes just a few minutes, can be found here for parents of young adults in higher education, and here for high street retail consumers.
- “Nearly half the deaths observed in U.S. households judged to be due to the Covid vaccine” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch discusses a survey conducted in 1,000 American households, revealing that nearly half of respondents have attributed deaths since 2021 to the Covid vaccine.
- “Alzheimer’s passed to patients from corpses” – Scientists have shown that Alzheimer’s was passed to patients given hormones extracted from corpses, according to the Telegraph.
- “Petition: Review how to turn MHRA into a fully transparent, patient first regulator” – Sign a petition calling for a review of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to ensure patient safety is prioritised over commercial interests.
- “Kemi Badenoch is member of ‘Evil Plotters’ Tory WhatsApp group” – Kemi Badenoch is a member of a Conservative WhatsApp group called “Evil Plotters” despite telling party rebels to “stop messing around” and get behind Rishi Sunak, reveals the Guardian.
- “New model army” – Perhaps we will not see conscription any time soon, but when it comes, I don’t think many people will be killed in the stampede, says Prof. Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
- “French farmer vows to ‘starve Paris’” – A tractor blockade has been established at eight points around Paris to “starve Parisians”, a French farmer has claimed, according to the Telegraph.
- “Farming is in peril throughout Europe” – Bureaucrats are risking food supply security across Europe with little thought to the consequences, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “EU plans to cripple Hungary’s economy if it blocks Ukraine aid” – Hungary has vowed to challenge EU “blackmail” after a draft plan emerged to cripple the country’s economy if it blocked a €50 billion aid package for Ukraine, reports the Telegraph.
- “Poland and the ‘demon’ in democracy” – Since entering office, Poland’s new PM Donald Tusk immediately began suspending democratic norms in the name of defending democracy, writes N.S. Lyons on Substack. It’s a foretaste of things to come, he says.
- “Carlton Club accused of cancelling peer over Armenia talk” – Baroness Cox has accused the Carlton Club of “cancelling” her by pulling the plug on an event intended to highlight alleged ethnic cleansing by Azerbaijan, reports the Times.
- “Laurence Fox loses high court libel battle” – Laurence Fox has vowed to appeal a £2 million High Court ruling after he lost his libel battle with two people he referred to as paedophiles on social media in retaliation for calling him a racist, says the Mail.
- “Police officer tells singer she is ‘not allowed to sing church songs’” – A volunteer police officer wrongly told a Christian singer that she was “not allowed to sing church songs outside of church grounds”, according to the Mail.
- “Disposable vapes to be banned to stop children getting ‘hooked for life’” – Disposable vapes will be banned, and other e-cigarettes placed behind shop counters, as part of the Government’s efforts to stop children becoming “hooked for life”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Brighton shows why you shouldn’t vote Labour” – “I surely wasn’t the only Brighton citizen who breathed a sigh of relief when the Green council was turfed out by Labour last May,” says Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “Too many Labour MPs hate Britain and its allies – Starmer must purge the Corbynites” – Time and time again, the hard Left of the Labour Party undermines the party leader by cosying up to the West’s enemies, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “There’s a reason the public turn to populists” – Voters are bored with dull, unidentifiable politicians, so it’s no wonder Kemi Badenoch is favourite to be next Tory leader, says Trevor Phillips in the Times.
- “The hysterical style in Western politics” – On Substack, Eugyppius explains why the political rhetoric of Western nations is growing ever more insane and unhinged.
- “Donald Trump: We are on the brink of World War Three” – Donald Trump says Joe Biden has left the globe on the “brink of World War Three” after a drone attack on a base in Jordan killed three U.S. troops, according to the Telegraph.
- “BBC staff told not to hire candidates who are ‘dismissive’ of diversity” – BBC staff have been told not to hire candidates who are “dismissive” of diversity and inclusion, reveals the Telegraph.
- “Parents urge Archbishop of Canterbury to scrap trans guidance for schools” – Christian parents have urged the Archbishop of Canterbury to withdraw Church of England guidance that says children should be allowed to change their gender in school, according to the Telegraph.
- “School prayer bans don’t make Britain a secular state” – Plenty of British Muslim parents are happy to pick a high-performing school over a religiously observant one, remarks Rakib Ehsan in CapX in a comment piece about Michaela Community School.
- “Universities are in for a painful lesson: go woke, go broke” – Why would anyone donate to their universities when academics pour scorn on their benefactors? asks Lawrence Goldman in an excoriating piece for the Telegraph.
- “Network Rail is criticised for its ‘Pride Pillar’” – Network Rail has unveiled a ‘Pride Pillar’ in one of the country’s busiest stations – featuring flags representing ‘gender fluidity’, ‘demisexuality’ and ‘polyamory’, reports the Mail.
- “I’ve had a sex change operation but am not and never will be a woman” – In the Mail, a biological male post-op transexual argues that Britain’s schools must stop pandering to the trans lobby.
- “No, there’s no ‘epidemic’ of anti-transgender violence” – Human Rights Campaign’s own data suggest trans Americans suffer a homicide risk that’s actually less than the U.S. average, writes Brad Polumbo in Quillette.
- “Montana family loses custody of teenage daughter after expressing opposition to her gender transition” – A family in Montana is accusing the state’s child protective services of “kidnapping” their teenage daughter after she began to identify as a transgender boy, according to Reduxx.
- “Joe Biden: I’d shut Mexican border ‘right now’ if Congress let me” – Joe Biden has said he would close the U.S.-Mexico border “right now” if Congress handed him the power by passing a sweeping immigration bill, reports the Telegraph.
- “How America’s fact-checkers became Biden’s Pravda” – ‘Fact-checking’ website Snopes has been caught trying to cover-up Joe Biden’s latest gaffe, says Thomas Osborne in Spiked.
- “Date set for Supreme Court hearing on major free speech Big Tech case” – The Supreme Court has announced a date for when it will hear arguments for a big case involving free speech, government agencies and social media, reports the Washington Examiner.
- “Voices across the globe standing up for free speech in Ireland” – On X, the Alliance Defending Freedom International is asking viewers to share its video asking people to stand up against Ireland’s proposed hate speech bill.
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