News Round-Up
28 April 2025
by Toby Young
Here Comes the Politics of Kindness
28 April 2025
by Will Jones
Some actions of humans are so dark that we prefer to ignore them, and may be quietly grateful when truthtellers are censored. But we must stop being willing to overlook the sacrifice of children, writes Dr David Bell.
Can vaccines make you gay? Of course not, says Steven Tucker, though the idea keeps popping up. On the flip-side, the idea that Covid vaccines can save you from impotence was given credence in the pandemic.
With a scheme to send breast binders to children behind parents' backs and staff pushing puberty-blocking drugs, "abusive" children's transgender charity Mermaids is a "scandal unfolding before our eyes".
BBC weathermen recently complained of ‘abuse’ after viewers responded to alarmist reporting of the recent heatwave by telling them to "get a grip". Meanwhile, anyone who questions climate orthodoxy is branded a 'denier'.
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