News Round-Up

• “Boys to get anti-misogyny lessons as TV drama Adolescence hits home” – Schoolchildren will be given lessons to counter misogyny and the growing appeal of influencers such as Andrew Tate under the Government’s new relationships, health and sex education (RHSE) guidance, reports the Times. That didn’t take long.
• “Rape culture exists at 1,600 primary schools, report finds” – Rape culture exists in more than 1,600 primary schools in the UK and Ireland, an investigation by a charity that depends on the existence of ‘rape culture’ has found, according to the Telegraph. The solution is sex education in nurseries, apparently.
• “Adolescence: A McSweeney Ploy” – In Netflix’s TV series and the contrived press-political frenzy around it, J’Accuse spies one of the most transparent attempts to manufacture consent for authoritarianism in living memory.
• “Netflix’s Adolescence is seriously flawed” – In the Spectator, James Walton is the latest critic to find the TV sensation’s plot totally implausible: “The fact that people suspended their disbelief so willingly perhaps only confirms how unquestioningly the notion of toxic masculinity is now accepted.”
• “When it’s okay to cast a white actor” – Paul Sutton takes issue with how true-to-life Netflix’s Adolescence is.
• “Reeves to cut £2 billion from Civil Service as unions warn of massive job losses” – Rachel Reeves will this week order the Civil Service to save £2 billion a year in a move that unions said could result in tens of thousands of Government jobs being axed, reports the Telegraph.
• “Trump revokes legal status for more than 500,000 migrants” – Donald Trump’s administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to the Mail.
• “Who Controls the Administrative State?” – Trump is testing the limits of executive power and Left-wing judges are pushing back, but if the President cannot rein in the Deep State then who can, asks Jeffrey Tucker in the Brownstone Institute.
• “Project 2025: The radical blueprint forecasting Trump’s biggest moves” – Trump said he knew nothing about the Heritage Foundation’s document, but he has installed its authors into Government and enacted many of its proposals, says the Telegraph.
• “Peter Mandelson appears to have met Jeffrey Epstein at New York mansion on a taxpayer-funded trip – while billionaire paedophile was under house arrest, new documents show” – Epstein’s private schedule, unearthed by the Mail on Sunday, reveals the now US Ambassador Lord Mandelson was due to have two meetings with the convicted paedophile on consecutive days in March 2010, reports the Mail.
• “Britain is turning into a battleground for the world’s problems” – A clash between rival Eritrean groups has no place on the streets of Sheffield, says Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
• “Labour MPs tell Starmer to curb ECHR powers in UK courts” – ‘Red Wall’ Labour MPs have urged Sir Keir Starmer to overhaul human rights laws blocking the deportation of failed asylum seekers and foreign criminals, reports the Telegraph.
• “TikTok star Garron Noone’s account deleted after immigration rant backlash” – TikTok star Garron Noone has vanished from social media following controversy over a video he posted discussing immigration in Ireland, reports MyLondon.
• “Nigel Farage has won the row with Rupert Lowe” – The Reform schism, which the party’s many detractors hoped would prevent it securing a breakthrough at the local elections, is nearly over, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
• “Tories try to poach suspended Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe” – Suspended Reform MP Rupert Lowe has had secret talks about joining the Tories, the Sun on Sunday reveals.
• “I now believe Covid was caused by a lab leak. The Chinese owe us proper answers and our Government should start demanding them” – In the Mail, Boris Johnson says China is still not cooperating with Covid origins investigations.
• “Victorian Government loses fight to keep Covid health advice hidden” –The Victorian Government in Australia has lost its bid to keep secret the coronavirus briefings used to justify sending Victorians into the world’s longest lockdown, reports Rebekah Barnett on Dystopian Down Under.
• “Ed Miliband orders urgent investigation into Heathrow fire as boss claims he is ‘proud’ of how airport coped” – Ed Miliband has ordered an urgent investigation into the Heathrow fire after the airport boss claimed he is “proud” of how the power outage was handled, reports the Mail.
• “Heathrow warned a decade ago about weakness of single grid connection” – Heathrow and the Government were warned a decade ago that the airport was overly reliant on very few sources of power to keep it fully functioning, it has emerged, according to the Telegraph.
• “Miliband accused of turning blind eye to modern slavery to pursue Net Zero” – Ed Miliband has been accused of turning a blind eye to modern slavery in order to appease China after he refused to back plans to ban forced labour from the supply chain of GB Energy, reports the Telegraph.
• “My plan to get Britain back on track” – Read Douglas Carswell’s proposals in the Telegraph on how to fundamentally change the way the UK is governed.
• “Revealed: The ‘offensive’ tweets that could get man sacked by Waitrose” – The tweets and memes Waitrose is using to threaten one of its own employees, Ben Woods, with the sack are revealed in the Mail, including one criticising a trans children’s book and another making fun of jihadi bride Shamima Begum.
• “School curriculum ‘designed to install racist notion of British identity’” – Britain’s biggest teaching union, the National Education Union, is to claim England’s curriculum “installs a racist notion of British identity”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Believing in meritocracy is ‘racist microaggression’, polar scientists told” – Thinking the most qualified person should get the job is “racial harassment”, according to an inclusivity guide for research stations in Antarctica, the Telegraph reports.
• “Britain’s ‘baby deserts’ shown in interactive map” – Alarming figures laying bare the ‘baby bust’ reveal some boroughs have seen a 60% decline in women having children since 2013, the Mail reports.
• “Box office figures reveal Disney’s humiliation over Snow White film” – Disney’s live-action woke remake of Snow White is shaping up to be one of the franchise’s worst-performing movies in recent years, according to initial box office figures, the Mail reports.
• “The case against Letby has been shredded” – There is now a mighty wall of facts and global expert opinion which casts grave doubt on Lucy Letby’s guilt: every aspect of the prosecution has been coolly dismantled, says Peter Hitchens in the Mail.
• “Cambridge causes bitter row by linking Stephen Hawking to slavery” – Cambridge University has become embroiled in a row over claims that scientists including the late Professor Stephen Hawking benefited from slavery, reports the Telegraph.
• “Free speech is equal, or it is pointless” – The police must work harder to ensure that identity politics does not affect their choice to arrest, says Jake Wallis Simons in the Telegraph.
• “Fury as primary school scraps Easter service to ‘respect’ other religions – in a move branded ‘disgraceful’” – Norwood Primary School in Eastleigh, Hants, sent a letter to parents and carers informing them that neither their Easter Bonnet Parade nor their Easter Service will be held this year in order to “respect diverse religious beliefs”, the Mail reports.
• “Police chiefs pulled armed officers away from Downing Street at the height of violent Black Lives Matter protests to appease hostile mob that left dozens of cops injured – as Met is accused of ‘two-tier policing’” – Police chiefs have been accused of capitulating to a Black Lives Matter mob by pulling armed officers away from the gates of Downing Street at the height of violent protests, the Mail reports.
• “Porton Down analyst forced out of top-secret research centre because of bosses’ ‘unblinking desire’ to support pro-trans lobby wins two-year legal fight” – An analyst working at a secretive Government facility has won a two-year legal fight after claiming he was pushed out of his job due to his gender-critical beliefs, the Mail reports.
• “Pro-Palestine activists target Waitrose avocados, hummus and dates in direct action campaign against Israeli products” – In their latest round of action, pro-Palestine protesters tore avocados, hummus and dates off the shelves in Waitrose, reports the Mail. Pathetic.
• “Why shouldn’t this white German woman ‘identify as black’?” – The Telegraph‘s Michael Deacon says he hopes everyone, especially on the Left, will #BeKind and affirm the new identity of a German white woman who believes she is black.
• “State TV in Sweden (SVT) has produced a big budget series called History Of Sweden. Here are the first Swedes” – The first Swedes arrived straight from sub-Saharan Africa, apparently..

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