- “Putin declares inevitable landslide victory” – The result of Russia’s election was a a foregone conclusion, but protests at polling stations organised by Alexei Navalny’s widow proved popular, reports Tom Parfitt in the Times.
- “Dozens of Russians arrested in ‘Noon against Putin’ protests” – Human rights group OVD-info reports that more than 74 people have been detained in 17 cities across Russia for taking part in ‘Noon against Putin’ protests, according to the Telegraph.
- “Putin says ‘there is no democracy in the West’ after sham election” – A gloating Vladimir Putin has railed against the West in a speech following his victory in Russia’s sham presidential election, reports the Mail.
- “Putin’s transformation into the new Stalin is now complete” – Despite Russia’s sham presidential election this weekend, Putin’s 24 years in power hark back to centuries of empire-building dictators, says Daniel Johnson in the Telegraph.
- “We’re complacent about the grave threat Putin presents” – In the Mail, Ian Birrell argues that Putin presents an existential threat to our way of life and our democratic values.
- “Macron says Western ground operations in Ukraine ‘is possible’” – French President Emmanuel Macron has said that Western ground operations in Ukraine might be necessary “at some point”, according to the Mail.
- “Splinter group of Right-wing MPs pen their own manifesto” – A powerful group of Right-wing Tory MPs are preparing their own independent election manifesto as Rishi Sunak battles to keep his fractured party together, says the Mail.
- “Sunak urges Tories to ‘stick with the plan’ as leadership talk grows” – Rishi Sunak has urged Tory MPs to stick with him and see his economic plan through amid speculation about a challenge to his leadership, reports the Telegraph.
- “Will Rishi Sunak face a confidence vote?” – In the Mail, Andrew Pierce breaks down the leadership crisis currently engulfing the Tory party.
- “‘History has come for Israel, it’s come for Ukraine and it will come for the West next’” – In the Telegraph, Zoe Strimpel sits down with free speech champion Bari Weiss to discuss co-founding the University of Austin, the Twitter Files and antisemitism in America.
- “‘Well, I went to the Oscars to avoid antisemitism…’” – Writers and artists who claim to just want peace are showing their prejudice, writes Hadley Freeman in the Times.
- “The Palestinian terrorist authority” – A new report reveals the insanity of entrusting Israel’s security to Ramallah, says Melanie Phillips on Substack.
- “Stunning claims of whistleblower need to go viral” – On Substack, Bill Rice Jr. explores new claims by a whistleblower, revealing the presence of “white fibrous” substances in living patients, echoing embalmer Richard Hirschman’s findings on blood clots in embalmed bodies.
- “Criminal gangs make £1.6 million a day from small-boat crossings” – The average cost demanded from people-smugglers to cross the Channel is £4,000 per person, according to the Mail.
- “U.K. taxpayers’ bill for keeping asylum seekers in hotels rockets to £8.2 million a day” – Home Office figures show 45,768 asylum seekers are still housed in expensive hotel accommodation, reports the Express.
- “Why it’s Tony Blair’s fault if you can’t buy a house” – Young Britons are the victims of the former PM’s bubble of perceived prosperity, says Adam Edwards in the Telegraph.
- “Security minister’s attack on aim to create 20,000-strong Scottish Army” – A senior U.K. minister has branded the SNP’s plans to split from the U.K.’s defence forces and create a 20,000-strong Scottish Army a “threat to national security”, reports the Mail.
- “The SNP’s April 1st Hate Crime Act reads like an April Fools’ prank” – In the Scottish Hate Crime Act, intent – a key dimension of criminal law – has largely disappeared, remarks Stuart Waiton in the Scottish Mail.
- “Representation gets raunchy” – Where better to report a hate crime than your local sex shop? says Josephine Bartosch in the Critic, referencing the fact that one of Scotland’s new walk-in hate crime reporting centres is located in a Glaswegian sex shop.
- “Nigel Farage tipped for envoy role if Trump returns to White House” – Allies say that Nigel Farage is in line for a “very significant” job if Mr. Trump returns to the White House, most likely as an economic envoy to the U.K., reports the Mail.
- “Ed Davey pledges to set U.K. on path back to the EU Single Market” – Sir Ed Davey has pledged to set the U.K. “on the path back to the Single Market” and back “at the heart of Europe”, says the Telegraph.
- “Locals slam council’s order to remove fish and chip shop’s mural” – Furious residents have slammed a council’s order to remove an “inappropriate” Union flag mural from the side of an award-winning fish and chip shop, reports the Mail.
- “Smurf scandal update and open thread” – On Substack, Eugyppius provides an update on ‘The Great Smurf Scandal’, wherein a 17 year-old school girl was scolded by three police officers for posting content to TikTok that appeared to support Alternative für Deutschland.
- “Too much time on phones is putting children at risk of blindness” – Top eye surgeons are warning that soaring numbers of children are in danger of going blind because of too much time staring at mobile phones and too little time outside, according to the Mail.
- “Pandemic and climate change response” – Observations always trump model projections, writes Roger Caiazza in WUWT.
- “The NHS prefers electric ambulances to saving your life” – The health service’s Net Zero drive illustrates how far down its list of priorities patients are, writes Karol Sikora in the Telegraph.
- “Can old-fashioned tariffs slam on brakes of Chinese electric cars?” – Plans are afoot to deny Europeans the chance to buy cheap electric vehicles from China by slapping protectionist tariffs on imports, reports the Mail.
- “Without more gas-fired power stations, support for Net Zero risks collapse” – Britain’s over-reliance on renewables needs to be offset, writes Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
- “Negligible future warming” – In WUWT, Ed Hoskins uses recent CO2 data to debunk the pursuit of Net Zero.
- “Dutch supermarket chain stops promotions on meat, to push ‘protein transition’” – Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo will no longer offer promotions on its meat products to encourage customers to eat “plant-based” food instead, reports Brussels Signal.
- “Cyclists have turned Paris into hell on earth” – Paris is being ruined by bicycle lanes, e-bikes and the nastiest cycling culture in the world, laments Anne-Elisabeth Moutet in the Telegraph.
- “Diana crash used in vile euthanasia ad campaign” – Friends of Princess Diana have reacted with anger and revulsion after an advert used her fatal car crash to promote euthanasia, according to the Mail.
- “Don’t use word ‘widows’, Lloyds chiefs tell staff at… Scottish Widows” – Lloyds is being labelled a woke laughing stock after it advised staff to avoid using the word ‘widow’ in its new ‘inclusive language’ guidance – despite the company owning Scottish Widows, reports the Mail.
- “‘How I took on the puberty blocker orthodoxy – and won’” – In the Telegraph, Prof. Michael Biggs recounts his personal struggle to publish the truth regarding the harmful effects of puberty blockers on children.
- “How was the puberty blocking scandal ever allowed to happen?” – The ruthless crushing of free speech allowed the puberty blocking scandal to take place, argues Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Puberty blocker clinic accepted £20,000 donation from ‘sugar daddy’” – A private clinic accepted a £20,000 donation from a “sugar daddy” who paid a male YouTuber thousands of pounds to behave like a submissive girl, reports the Times.
- “Artist ‘restricted from her own show over gender views’” – An artist was allegedly told she needed to give 24 hours’ notice to attend her own exhibition and reported to the police, after saying she believed it was harmful for children to try to change sex, according to the Times.
- “A debate on family values the nation needs” – It is astonishing that the position of women, and especially that of mothers, is so little discussed in our politics, says the Mail on Sunday in a leading article.
- “The W-word” – The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie, writes Theodore Dalrymple in the Critic.
- “How a handful of billionaires created the transgender ‘movement’” – In the European Conservative, Jonathon Van Maren sits down with investigative journalist Jennifer Bilek to discuss the extent to which billionaires have been quietly backing the trans movement.
- “Hollywokes” – Hollyoaks has become the latest show to foist woke gobbledygook on its viewers, says Jack Watson in the New Conservative.
- “Ireland and the terrible truth about wokeness” – Ireland’s latest referendum exposed just how zealous and reckless the elites’ culture war has become, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Woke U.S. bosses tell cast to reshoot sex scenes in Jilly Cooper Rivals” – Dame Jilly Cooper has fallen foul of cautious American TV executives, who fear a forthcoming adaptation of her novel Rivals will prove too raunchy for the MeToo era, according to the Mail.
- “Don’t even think that or the Government will arrest you” – National Review’s John Fund reacts to the Trudeau Government’s newly proposed online-speech law that could be used to punish hate crimes before they’ve been committed.
- “On Don Lemon” – On Substack, Matt Taibbi demolishes the case for casting former CNN anchor Don Lemon as a “free speech martyr”.
- “Sainsbury’s and Tesco IT meltdown highlight danger of cashless society” – Experts warn that the recent IT meltdowns suffered by Sainsbury’s and Tesco highlight the risks of relying solely on cashless payment methods, putting “society as a whole at risk”, reports the Mail.
- “We are witnessing the invention of the ‘bloodbath’ hoax in real-time” – On X, End Wokeness compares the media narrative surrounding Trump’s recent “bloodbath” comments with reality.
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Not my problem, I always thought that lockdowns were a terrible idea.
Confronting child abuse, in all its forms, should be everyone’s problem.
I’m completely past giving a fuck about anybody – the sheep backed lockdowns, this is on them,not me. That said, none of this is accidental, and will have been forseen, and accepted, by TPTB
You do know that whenever you do a ‘Victor Meldrew’ I’m going to troll you with the antidote for your condition don’t you?
https://twitter.com/shouldhaveanima/status/1686821775890595840
That all looks like food to me.
So this is what becomes of our apathetic, ovine capitulation to rules that never made any sense, even with respect to physical health or control of a pathogen. The rules were ostensibly in place to “flatten the curve” – even to “save lives”. The result: child abuse and deaths, and a virus that becomes stronger due to our lack of exposure to it and subsequent immunological naivety, along with greater vulnerability to many other viruses for the same reason!
Look, I’m getting extremely tired of this now, tired of the ongoing debate about how Lockdowns were bad.. Yes we knew and know they were an appalling way to treat a society in all forms and metrics.
Stop the debate and start talking about who is accountable, what punishments and how we can ensure this never ever happens again
What a surprise. One of many items that they didn’t think through when they went mad. Jot it down and present to the Inquiry.
One doubts that these deaths (and it does not seem to include other forms of domestic abuse) will even be considered by the “We-should-have-locked-down-sooner-and-harder” Covid Enquiry.
NSPCC, Children’s Services et al can go to hell. Lest we forget individuals in these roles were some of the most vocal advocates of lockdowns and the other Covid restrictions.
They were told of the risks to these children yet plowed on regardless.
The data for the following year and after will be coming out too but may not be linked to the lockdowns even though they should be – having worked in childcare especially with those at risk knew the precious little ones would be in danger but it fell on deaf ears – “home visits” done via zoom or not at all – are you kidding me
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How many where children were flagged by a medical professional but did not have a home visit because of the Local Authority having new guidance and policies due to Covid measures?! How many where abuse was reported by family or neighbours in close proximity but these reports fell through the cracks?!
These deaths are just the tip of the iceberg. How many of these death cases also had siblings? One baby to be included in the 2022/23 died but had 4 siblings all experienced abuse but will not have their circumstances acknowledged as part of these figures…Another family again a sibling group of 5 one disabled in the home with a violent child among them. How about the children that were put into foster placements that did not have proper checks done as proper safeguarding went out the window due to covid – child placement with a foster carer that sexually abused her…
These poor children were murdered by their evil parents/step-parents/guardians ….. but that murder was facilitated by:
SAGE
Prof Neil Ferguson
The Quad: Johnson, Handcock, Gove and Sunak
Every MP who failed to even question the Government’s lockdown policy (that’s virtually all of them)
The Mainstream Media, who acted as cheerleaders for the murderous policy
All the above are accomplices to murder.