“Lockdown, schools and children” – “This bottomless catalogue of damage done is nothing short of horrendous, the effects of which will stretch far out into the future of the lives of these people,” writes Jamie Walden in Bournbrook Magazine.
“The merchants of moral panic” – “The main driver of their actions is always the spirit of defeat, that is, the consciousness of having lost the level of social control that they thought was their perpetual inheritance,” writes Thomas Harrington for the Brownstone Institute.
“Is the WHO inventing diseases?” – “But it is far from clear that ‘gaming disorder’ or gaming addiction exists, at least as a well-defined condition separate from any other compulsive behaviour; and there is a hint that the WHO has made the decision under political pressure from China and other countries,” writes Tom Chivers in UnHerd.
“Homeopathy and Nazi past deters Germans from Covid vaccines” – “The abuse of civil liberties under the Nazis and communists is one factor behind that reaction. It explains why Germany never imposed the tight lockdowns applied in the U.K.,” writes David Crossland in the Times.
“Woman arrested for not wearing mask on flight yells ‘let’s go Brandon’” – Katrina Alspaugh was kicked off of a flight and arrested after refusing to wear a face mask while yelling “let’s go Brandon” as she was taken into custody at a Las Vegas airport on Sunday, reports the Mail.
“Free Church of Scotland split on support for Covid vaccines” – “A senior member of the Free Church of Scotland has suffered a backlash after it was suggested in the official magazine that getting vaccinated against Covid was a Christ-like act,” reports the Times.
“Torch-lit march against Covid health passes” – “Hundreds of people with torches and Swiss flags filed through a town in Switzerland’s Zurich region, decrying the possible introduction of Covid health passes,” reports RT.
“Top Australian official: we’re transferring Covid patients to quarantine camps” – “Australian authorities are removing Covid patients and residents in the Northern Territory to a quarantine camp in Howard Springs, after nine cases were identified in the community of Binjari, according to a local official,” reports the Epoch Times.
“Boris Johnson ‘watched Macbeth at theatre without a mask’” – “Boris Johnson has been accused of ignoring Covid guidance after he was seen without a mask at a performance of Macbeth last night delivered to a packed audience in north London,” reports the Times.
“There’s only one right way to get people vaccinated” – “With protests rising over the prospect of more Covid lockdowns, it is clear European countries face some tough decisions. But using a carrot rather than a stick to get people double jabbed has to be a priority,” writes Paul Nuttall in RT.
“Confession and conspiracism in the church of social justice” – “All in all, these ideas strike me as deflected Christian eschatology mashed up with fantasy fiction and progressive shibboleths regarding gender and race,” writes Jonathan Kay in Quillette.
“How having babies fell out of fashion” – “With all of our institutions now firmly under the iron fist of progressivism it was only a matter of time before social justice mission creep slipped under the doormat and into the home,” writes James Innes-Smith in the Spectator.
“Nadia Murad and the heartlessness of PC” – A Toronto school board pulled out of an event with a survivor of ISIS sex slavery over fears of Islamophobia, writes Paddy Hannam in Spiked.
“Where did Covid begin?” – Author Lord Matt Ridley speaks to talkRadio about his new book, Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid.
Author Lord Matt Ridley joins Julia to talk about his new book Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19.
He says, after 2 years we still do not know for certain if it was a "laboratory accident", or how a "bat virus" created a pandemic in Wuhan.@JuliaHB1 | @mattwridleypic.twitter.com/6A6aphdI01
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