News Round-Up

• “The price Britain paid for lockdown was colossal. Was there an alternative?” – An economic recession, along with a new era of austerity and stagnation, are consequences of the policy response to the pandemic, writes Larry Elliott in the Guardian. I hate to say it, but… we told you so.
• “Child victims of lockdown: From Star Hobson to Arthur Labinjo-Hughes” – the Mail reports on another horrific human cost of lockdown – murdered children.
• “Inside an Australian Quarantine Camp” – Brownstone report on the experience of ‘Jane’, who spent two weeks in a quarantine camp in northern Australia.
• “Why is Prevent downplaying the threat of Islamism?” – Britain’s counter-extremism programme has succumbed to political correctness, says Rakib Eshan in Spiked.
• “Shamima Begum isn’t a celebrity” – The Isis bride’s youth and looks should not blind us to her despicable actions, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “The ‘holy f***’ moment I knew something was wrong at the Tavistock” – The Times reports on the moment Dr. Anna Hutchinson, one of the Tavistock whistleblowers, realised something was very wrong.
• “Where is the moral outrage about Britain’s grooming gangs?” – Why has it been left to GB News to tell the grooming gangs story, asks Ed West in the Spectator.
• “Four in 10 Scottish voters think Nicola Sturgeon should quit after trans rapist scandal” – Just 45% of Scottish voters say Nicola Sturgeon should remain until the 2026 Holyrood election, the Telegraph reports.
• “NHS children’s trans clinic accused of peddling unscientific ‘fiction’ to patients in waiting room” –Posters featuring the ‘Genderbread person’ are on display at the Tavistock’s gender identity service, and young people are signposted to activist group Gendered Intelligence, the Telegraph reports.
• “Mass sackings will complete the woke takeover of corporate life” – Wellness coaches and diversity officers will survive the cull, while useful people will be made redundant, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “U.K. school teacher sacked over pronoun row says Enoch Burke has taken the wrong course” – Enoch Burke has taken the wrong course of action in his legal dispute over refusing to use gender pronouns, says Kevin Lister, the maths teacher who was sacked for the same reason, according to the Times.
• “North Korea defector slams woke ideologies, cancel culture in the U.S.” – Yeonmi Park, who defected from North Korea and was at one point sold as a sex slave in China for $200, has condemned cancel culture and woke ideologies in the United States, the Mail reports.
• “How Disney is indoctrinating kids with woke cartoons” – As the company continues to see its stock price go down and is forced to slash another 7,000 jobs, Disney continues to produce ‘woke’ content that panders to leftist viewpoints, the Mail reports.
• “Mother of transgender rapist says her son didn’t talk about gender” – The mother of Adam Graham, AKA ‘Isla Bryson’, says her son did not show any signs of being transgender as a child, the Mail reports.
• “Welsh Parliament faces fury over putting tampons in male toilets” – It has emerged that period products are on offer at the Senedd, which also houses gender-neutral facilities and showers, according to the Mail.
• “Nine shocking replies that highlight ‘woke’ ChatGPT’s inherent bias” – ChatGPT has become a global obsession in recent weeks, but fears are rising about its inherent biases, the Mail reports.
• “Listen to Jordan Peterson on the Weekly Sceptic podcast” – The legend himself drops by to offer some timeless advice to our listeners.

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