“The Lockdowns Weren’t Worth It” – Philippe Lemoine has turned his magisterial anti-lockdown essay for the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology into an op ed for the Wall St Journal. If you can’t get beyond the paywall, read the long version
“Should we be worried about another Covid spike?” – With the introduction of mass testing for school children and teachers there is every reason to “expect a shift in the epidemic curve” write Ross Clark in the Spectator. “It would be better if we turned our attention instead to the hospitalisations and death figures”
“Sage’s Covert Coup” – Sonia Elijah investigates SAGE members’ connections to Big Pharma, Big Tech or the Big NGOs for the Conservative Woman. The first of a series
“The West has lost its moral high ground” – “Britain has navigated this pandemic with heavy-handed state coercion,” says Lionel Shriver in the Spectator. “There were other routes to managing this disease”
“Effect of the pandemic or lockdown? FT gets into a twist” – Freddie Sayers is amused to read an article in the FT that seems unable to decide whether falling birth rates across Europe is the fault of the pandemic or the lockdown
“There’s a youthquake coming” – Writing in UnHerd, Juliet Nicolson reckons that the end of lockdown will lead to a cultural revolution as a new generation bursts into action
“COVID-19 Weekly Bulletin” – The latest bulletin from the Health Advisory and Recovery Team looks at vaccine passports, for and against
“The town that didn’t lock down” – Reason reporter Christian Britschgi visited Paso Robles, California where many businesses defied state orders to close – and caught the virus
“Will the Tokyo Olympics go ahead?” – Seems that they will, but without spectators from overseas, according to Philip Patrick’s notes from Tokyo in this week’s Spectator
Sebastian Rushworth’s book is now available on Amazon after an initial ban
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