“Three reasons not to panic over U.K. infection rate” – Ministers are quietly confident that this winter will be nothing like as bad as last, despite persistently high infection rates, reports the Mail on Sunday.
“Over a million hospital appointments were cancelled due to Covid” – More than a million hospital appointments were cancelled due to last winter’s Covid wave (and the response to it), reports the Sun. Now, medics warn “everything possible” must be done to stop widespread postponements this year.
“China Backtracking?” – “China plans to build more coal-fired power plants and has hinted that it will rethink its timetable to slash emissions, in a significant blow to the U.K.’s ambitions for securing a global agreement on phasing out coal,” writes Paul Homewood in Watts Up With That.
“Nasty tweets did not kill David Amess” – Nor did Angela Rayner. Or anonymous trolls. The response to this suspected Islamist murder is absurd, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
“Big tech censorship threatens our democracy” – YouTube recently deleted a speech by David Davis MP speaking out against vaccine passports, and it is just the tip of the iceberg, writes Silkie Carlo in the Telegraph.
“The Distorted Market for Woke Capitalism” – “The process of awakening corporate America from wokeness will need to be as much a cultural enterprise as it is an exercise in returning business to its proper function in the economy and society more generally,” writes Samuel Gregg in AIER.
“Australia gets worse by the day” – Police in Australia are checking that people’s coffee cups are full to make sure they have a reason to not wear their mask outside.
🚨 | NEW: Police in Australia are checking that people’s coffee cups are full to make sure they have a reason to not wear their mask outside
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