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1 week ago | 
dailysceptic.org | Will Jones
Primary school children as young as 11 are being “sexualised” by lessons on 300 different LGBT Pride flags and the sexualities and gender identities behind each of them. The Telegraph has more. Leaflets handed out at primary schools by the charity Swindon and Wiltshire Pride claim there are more flags representing sexuality and gender identity than there are for countries. The material, signposted by the local council on social media, goes into detail about a “small selection” of 29 varieties.
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1 week ago | 
dailysceptic.org | Will Jones
“It is time for the House of Lords to come to the rescue” – The enthusiasm with which MPs have discarded centuries of consensus on the dignity of human life has been unnerving, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
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1 week ago | 
dailysceptic.org | Will Jones
Doctors are demanding the right to go on “heat strike” as the UK basks in temperatures upwards of 30°C, arguing that NHS staff should not be forced to work in conditions above a certain temperature. The Telegraph has more. A surge of hot weather will see temperatures increase to more than 30°C this week and over the weekend, prompting a health warning from officials.
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1 week ago | 
dailysceptic.org | Will Jones
Assisted suicide is to be legalised after MPs backed Kim Leadbetter’s bill by just 23 votes despite warnings that the NHS does not have capacity to provide death services as well as medical services. The Telegraph has more. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was supported by 314 votes to 291, a majority of 23, as it cleared the Commons, paving the way for assisted dying services to be introduced by the end of the decade.
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1 week ago | 
dailysceptic.org | Will Jones
Universities have been told to scrap rules that push the DEI agenda under new Government guidance issued by the Office for Students to ensure free speech is protected on campus. The Telegraph has the story. The guidance instructs universities to scrap policies controversially used to enforce what critics have branded “ideological conformity”.
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1 week ago | 
dailysceptic.org | Will Jones
The UK Government has quietly admitted to MPs that low-carbon technologies essential to hitting Net Zero are more expensive than using fossil fuels – despite Ed Miliband repeatedly insisting Net Zero will bring energy bills down. City AM has the story. Labour Ministers are expected to double down on expanding the use of green technologies to lower costs as the Treasury and Department for Business and Trade are set to unveil the UK’s industrial strategy next week.
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1 week ago | 
dailysceptic.org | Will Jones
Students should be ready to be shocked and offended at university, Government free speech champion Arif Ahmed has said, as he warned universities they face fines if they fail to uphold free speech under a new law coming into force in August. BBC News has more. Arif Ahmed, from the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, told the BBC that exposure to views which students might find offensive was “part of the process of education”.
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1 week ago | 
dailysceptic.org | Will Jones
J.K. Rowling has been “radicalised by TERFs”, Sir Stephen Fry has claimed, as he branded his former friend a “lost cause”. The Telegraph has the story. It is the first time the comedian and television presenter, who narrated all seven Harry Potter audio books, has criticised his former friend, describing her as a “lost cause”.
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1 week ago | 
dailysceptic.org | Will Jones
Spain’s disastrous national blackout in April was triggered by solar farms switching off in response to plummeting power prices, an official investigation has found. The Telegraph has more. A Government report into Europe’s biggest power cut found that Spain’s solar farms were generating so much power on April 28th, a particularly sunny day, that prices became “negative” – meaning there were no profits to be made in operating them.
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1 week ago | 
dailysceptic.org | Will Jones
Foreign nationals are responsible for more than a quarter of sex assaults on women successfully prosecuted in Britain despite being just 11% of the population, official figures obtained via FOI have revealed. The Telegraph has more. Data from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), obtained under freedom of information laws, showed that 26% of the 1,453 sex assault convictions women last year were accounted for by foreign nationals.
