News Round-Up

• “Free speech prevails for NatCon: Belgian court strikes down order shuttering conservative conference” – The Belgian justice system has acted to protect free speech with an emergency ruling in favour of the National Conservativism conference, according to ADF International, who brought the case.
• “Why is the mayor of Tehran welcome in Brussels but not Nigel Farage?” – While the Mayor of Brussels obsesses about what he calls “the far-Right”, Islamism continues to thrive in Belgium’s Left-wing eco-system, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
• “The Left thinks everyone has ‘rights’ – apart from Nigel Farage” – Labour’s delight at the attempted closure of the National Conservative conference is deeply worrying for the future of free speech in the U.K., says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “Google employees arrested after protesting tech giant’s work with Israel” – A group of Google workers were arrested after they held a sit-in protest to challenge the tech giant’s work for the Israeli Government, reports the Telegraph.
• “mRNA is a class one carcinogen” – On Ian Brighthope’s Substack, Ian declares mRNA vaccines to be class one carcinogens and calls for an international ban.
• “‘Sweden has been vindicated on Covid’” – Swedish epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, one of the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, joins Brendan on the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss why lockdowns were a disaster for public health.
• “Join the Lighthouse Keepers who dared challenge Covid dictatorship” – In TCW, Sally Beck urges readers to sign the Cape Byron Lighthouse Declaration supporting the “vast numbers of health professionals who have been censored when attempting to raise awareness of significant harms caused by government COVID-19 policies”.
• “Move to repeal Scotland’s new hate crime laws fails after Holyrood debate” – The Scottish Conservatives’ motion to repeal Scotland’s controversial Hate Crime Act was defeated in Holyrood, reports Sky News.
• “Humza Yousaf attacks J.K. Rowling over ‘ludicrous’ objections to misogyny law” – Humza Yousaf has hit back at J.K. Rowling over her “ludicrous” attack on his plans to ensure biological men identifying as female are protected by a new misogyny law, according to the Telegraph.
• “Dissent is not hatred” – We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling, says Nigel Biggar in the Critic.
• “Religious groups divided over High Court ruling on school prayer ban” – Religious groups are split over the implications of a ruling dismissing a Muslim student’s challenge against a ban on prayer rituals at London’s Michaela school, reports the Mail.
• “Katharine Birbalsingh questions level of legal aid for pupil who challenged prayer ban” – Katharine Birbalsingh has questioned the £150,000 of taxpayer-funded legal aid received by a Muslim pupil who lost a court battle over Michaela school’s prayer ban, says the Telegraph.
• “Tony Blair trashed the constitution. Now we’re paying the enormous price” – Elected politicians cannot control the borders thanks to the power of the Left-wing legal establishment, claims Liz Truss in the Telegraph.
• “Are these the laziest WFH staff in Britain?” – HMRC civil servants in Wales walk the dog, garden and play video games at work, reveals Guy Adams in the Mail, while taxpayers face year-long waits and a £100 million office sits half-empty.
• “Shocking insight into the lives of the economically inactive” – In the Mail, Leo McKinstry and Anya Folarin Iman discuss the recent epidemic of worklessness that has swept Britain.
• “Britain was once proud to be a free country. Now millions cling to nanny” – Rishi Sunak’s new smoking policy is illustrative of the shift away from individual responsibility to statism, writes Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
• “Liberty is dying under the Tories” – The eradication of smoking was on its way to becoming a public policy success story until the Government decided to take down the principles of personal liberty with it, says Kate Andrews in the Spectator.
• “The Germans and the Jews” – On Substack, Eugyppius tackles the taboo of Germans and Jews, and the ominous mythology that the present political order has fashioned from the atrocities of National Socialism.
• “Smart meters could soon cost you a whole lot more” – Surge pricing could soon be introduced on smart meters for customers at companies like British Gas. The price to consumers could be high, warns Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Heat pumps ‘worsening inequality’” – The Telegraph reveals that heat pump subsidies largely favour wealthy households, with lower-income families unable to afford the costly equipment despite taxpayer grants.
• “Clean Kitchen Club swaps plant-based menu for whole food approach following ‘tough year’” – Made in Chelsea’s Verity Bowditch, co-founder of Clean Kitchen Club, is leaving the company as it plans to add animal products to its menu following a “tough year”, according to Restaurant Online.
• “Scotland to ditch key climate change target” – The Scottish Government is to scrap its flagship target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030, reports the BBC.
• “Was Dubai’s apocalyptic storm self-inflicted?” – Claims suggest that the UAE flew cloud-seeding flights – aimed at increasing rainfall – the day before 18 months’ worth of rain fell within 24 hours, causing widespread chaos, according to the Mail.
• “Why car insurance is suddenly so expensive” – Britain is set for another year of skyrocketing car insurance premiums after the cost of insuring a vehicle rose to record levels last year, reports the Telegraph.
• “Scottish primary schools appoint children as ‘LGBT champions’” – Scottish primary schools are appointing children as “LGBT champions” and being urged to ask pupils as young as four if they’re gay, lesbian or trans, reveals the Telegraph.
• “Young men are being left behind in the battle of the sexes” – Improving the lot of women was not intended to be at the expense of men, says Helena Morrissey in the Telegraph.
• “National Portrait Gallery had ‘no evidence’ for art dealer’s slavery link” – The National Portrait Gallery falsely accused a 19th Century art dealer of using slave trade money to build his career in a plaque next to his portrait, before admitting there was no evidence, reports the Times.
• “BBC drops Sir Steve Redgrave from Olympics rowing coverage” – Steve Redgrave will miss the Olympics for the first time in 40 years after losing his role as a BBC pundit to Katherine Grainger and the race to become British Rowing Performance Director to Louise Kingsley, according to the Telegraph.
• “‘We all have different truths’” – All truth is relative, according to National Public Radio’s far-Left CEO Katherine Maher at a recent TED Talk. She really is Titania McGrath!

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