News Round-Up

• “Nicola Sturgeon squirms as she is grilled at Covid Inquiry” – Nicola Sturgeon broke down in tears as she faced an intense grilling over deleting her Covid WhatsApps, according to the Mail.
• “Sturgeon denies ‘burning desire’ for independence influenced decisions” – Nicola Sturgeon was accused of letting a “burning desire” for independence drive her response to the pandemic as she appeared at the Covid Inquiry, reports the Telegraph.
• “One by one, the lockdown myths are crumbling” – Even the shutdown’s most fervent supporters cannot hide from the impact of that calamitous policy, writes Madeline Grant in the Telegraph.
• “Proof the CDC knowingly lied when claiming the mRNA vaccines ‘reduce hospitalisations and deaths’” – The vaccinated were systematically being classified as unvaxxed when entering U.S hospitals, writes Dr. Pierre Kory on Substack.
• “Maybe more people objected than we knew” – Discerning the level of public compliance with Covid measures is muddied by evidence suggesting the U.S. Government worked with tech and media to suppress dissenting voices, says Jeffrey A. Tucker for the Brownstone Institute.
• “David Cameron is in a muddle over Palestine” – Western foreign policy’s persistent push for a Palestinian state is more of a religious belief than a practical solution, writes Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
• “Britain is facing a constitutional crisis that could end Sunak’s premiership” – The row over the Rwanda policy has turned political attitudes to the House of Lords on their head, says Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
• “Europe’s war on farmers is playing with Eurosceptic fire” – We don’t need agricultural ‘degrowth’ to decarbonise the economy, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
• “Rolling your eyes is a microaggression, civil servants told” – Since 2021, the Government has spent over £160,000 hiring consultants to train staff in recognising perceived slights, according to a Times investigation. Although how they can do that while working from home is a mystery.
• “Families on benefits can be better off than those earning £70,000” – Generous welfare payments allow some London households to cash in, says the Telegraph.
• “Private schools will be forced to cut scholarships under Labour’s VAT raid” – Headteachers have warned that private schools will be forced to cut scholarships and bursaries for the poorest students in response to Labour’s planned VAT raid, reports the Telegraph.
• “Migrants will account for 92% of the U.K.’s population boom” – Data from the Office for National Statistics indicates that higher-than-expected immigration figures will see the U.K.’ population grow by 6.6 million to 73.7 million by 2036, says the Mail.
• “Impact of immigration – when fact-checking goes silent” – It is worth looking at the consequences of immigration in Sweden, which serves as a cautionary tale, remarks Theo L. Glück on Substack.
• “The UN’s annual $8 billion budget to support global migration” – The UN mission to encourage global migration has resulted in multiple avoidable political crises, says Dr. Robert W. Malone on Substack.
• “Europe is finished, condemned to death by its deluded, third-rate elites” – Europe is incapable of recovering from its present economic, military and demographic crisis, laments Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “85% of U.S. colleges limit free speech” – An overwhelming majority of American universities impose regulations on students’ free speech, according to UnHerd.
• “Milei proves that ideas matter” – Rather than the thin gruel of economic grievance offered by American Right-wing populists, Milei’s policies are built on his vast knowledge of sound and successful, albeit politically unpopular, economic thinking, writes G. Patrick Lynch for the American Institute for Economic Research.
• “Ignore the French: Net Zero is destroying British industry, not Brexit” – Our fixation with decarbonisation will be economically ruinous. On the continent, it could be even worse, warns Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Being Christian is now enough to get you cancelled” – Any power-hungry busybody can become a ‘police officer’ with the power to crush our religious freedom. What happened to fighting crime? asks Nana Akua in the Mail.
• “No army for white men: Britain’s self-inflicted recruiting crisis” – In wartime, countries depend not on ideological quotas but on fighting talent, says Harrison Pitt in the European Conservative.
• “Why is a full-grown man competing against teenage girls in swimming?” – Spiked’s Lauren Smith reacts to a 50 year-old male professor being allowed to identify as a woman and admitted to a teenage girls’ swimming league.
• “Meet the ‘trans apostate’ enraging all sides of the gender war” – Debbie Hayton’s memoir Transsexual Apostate tells of her gender reassignment and how she came to doubt what she had believed about herself, says Helen Brown in the Telegraph.
• “Russell Brand claims neo-Nazi holocaust denier was ahead of the curve” – Russell Brand recently appeared on Tucker Carlson’s X show to not only discuss his admiration for David Icke but also to deny the multiple rape allegations he’s faced since September, reports the Mail. See him talk to Tucker Carlson here.
• “‘I will never divide the children according to race or religion’” – On Triggernometry, Katharine Birbalsingh defends her controversial decision to ban prayer in her school.

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