News Round-Up

• “A tribute to Jeremy Clarke” – Spectator Editor Fraser Nelson pays tribute to the Spectator’s Low Life columnist, who died yesterday at his home in France.
• “The best of Low Life: Jeremy Clarke remembered” – The Spectator has pulled together a few extracts from Clarke’s Low Life columns – some of them very, very funny.
• “Jeremy Clarke, Spectator magazine’s much-loved, funny and unsparing Low Life columnist” – Telegraph obit.
• “Martin Amis’s Comic Music” – Good piece in the New Yorker about Amis by literary Critic James Woods.
• “Howard Jacobson on Martin Amis: ‘His prose never begged to be loved – you either got it or you didn’t’” – Howard Jacobson pays tribute to the great comic novelist in the Telegraph.
• “South London council scraps planned LTN after huge outcry from residents” – Southwark Council has been forced into a U-turn over a planned LTN after the official consultation was bombarded with hundreds of angry responses, reports the Telegraph.
• “Low-traffic zones ‘just greenwashing’, says lobby group” – The Government has been accused of ‘greenwashing’ by supporting low-traffic zones since there’s no evidence they’re good for the environment, reports the Times.
• “U.K. faces ‘disastrous’ scenario if Russia cuts off vital links” – Fears are growing that Russia could target the arteries that keep the U.K. alive: Cables and pipes that carry everything from gas to electricity, banking data to military communications. The Daily Mail has more.
• “Michael Gove’s Department to spend £160,000 for staff to work from home” – The Department for Levelling Up has put out a tender asking for “chairs and desks for staff working from home, in order that the Department can fulfil its obligations of duty of care to its staff and their wellbeing”, reports the Mail.
• “Tagged A Racist Climate Denier, Anti-Authoritarian Professor Challenges Climate-Crisis, Diversity Narratives” – Nice profile of climate realist Dr. Matt Wielicki in the Cowboy State Daily.
• “Transgender rugby player bid to change laws banning players born male” – The ban on biological men playing women’s rugby was put in place after World Rugby found transwomen increase risk factors for biological women by as much as 30% due to power and strength differences, reports the Mail. Now a trans rugby player wants to overturn it.
• “No, a woman did not discover DNA” – Gavan Tredoux in Aporia Magazine debunks the myth Rosalind Franklin discovered DNA.
• “Biden White House and Big Disinformation have policies to ban ‘true content’ on Covid caccines” – How can social media companies police ‘vaccine misinformation’ when Big Pharma is paying them hundreds of millions for advertising, asks Paul D. Thacker at the Disinformation Chronicles.
• “Prime Minister vows to rip up sex education curriculum” – Rishi Sunak predicts that a consultation about sex education will find many parents are deeply unhappy about what their children are being taught in school and hints at big changes, reports the Mail.
• “Jeffrey Epstein ‘threatened to expose Bill Gates’ 2010 affair’” – Jeffrey Epstein used his knowledge of Bill Gates’s 2010 affair with a Russian bridge player to threaten the Microsoft billionaire, a bombshell new report claims. The Mail has the details.
• “The myth of New World genocide” – The story about New World genocide is a novel take on European colonialism that almost no historian agreed with prior to 2010. Why did so many suddenly start labelling it a ‘genocide’ overnight, asks Jeff Fynn-Paul in the Spectator.
• “At Oxford students now live in fear – they think cancelling each other will help them get ahead” – Brilliant account in the Telegraph by an anonymous member of the Oxford Feminist Society of what it’s like to be a student at Oxford, surrounded by the woke Stasi.
• “Those who want to silence free speech ‘do not speak for us’, says Oxford Union” – Members of the famous debating society have written a letter to the Telegraph condemning the abuse they’ve received for inviting gender-critical feminist Prof Kathleen Stock to speak.
• “The fight for free speech at Oxford” – Dr. Jan Macvarish, the Free Speech Union’s Education and Events Director, joins Christopher Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders, a Spiked podcast, where they discuss the free speech crisis at Oxford, among other things.
• “She has every right to set out her case in the public square” – Yours truly on GB News defending the right of Kathleen Stock to speak at the Oxford Union and welcoming the recent interventions by Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, who, along with the FSU, have forced the Students’ Union to do a U-turn about banning the Oxford Union from freshers’ fair.

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