“Javid’s cash boost can’t fix a battered NHS” – “The Treasury is, true to form, anxious that the health service doesn’t just take the money without it appearing to touch the sides,” writes Isabel Hardman in the Spectator.
“The Left’s science denial” – Beware sharing politically inconvenient stories on social media, writes Tom Chivers in UnHerd.
“Covid Bosh: The Illicit and the Desperate” – “The lies are growing more desperate. Now more than ever, we have to cleave to what we can best discern and know to most likely, rationally, be the case,” writes Omar Khan in Uncommon Wisdom.
“Vietnam man jailed for five years for spreading Covid” – The man was sentenced to five years in jail for “spreading dangerous infectious disease” after breaching quarantine rules and passing Covid to at least eight people, reports the Guardian.
“Sex, drugs and the Modern Review” – We wouldn’t have survived amid today’s echo chambers and cancel culture, writes Julie Burchill on the Modern Review in UnHerd.
“Only connect” – “This,” according to Alexander Adams in Bournbrook Magazine, “is why meeting in person at organised events, social get-togethers and chance encounters is so valuable.”
“We won’t be bullied into going green, says China” – Beijing has told Britain that it will not yield to international pressure for bigger improvements to its climate change commitments at the COP26 conference, reports the Times.
“Better-off workers will boost the war on woke” – “There is often more method to the madness of commercial wokery than is commonly supposed,” writes Andrew Cadman in TCW Defending Freedom.
“BBC offers staff test to see how privileged they are” – The initiative has been ridiculed by critics as pointless, while MPs declare that the corporation’s “distorted view” is not shared by viewers and listeners, reports the Telegraph.
"I am sick of being told I have to protect the NHS!"
Kevin says we must not have another lockdown to "save the NHS."
Free speech champion Toby Young agrees: "It has become our national religion. A lot of people are sick to the back teeth of this."@TVKev | @toadmeisterpic.twitter.com/w7eJphzsRh
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