“Gove leads push for ‘Plan C’ Covid restrictions” – Gove’s push for ‘Plan C’ comes after scientists advising the British Government said tougher Covid restrictions may be needed to prevent Omicron causing upwards of 75,000 deaths, reports the Mail on Sunday.
“We must end this disastrous assault on liberty” – It is plain wrong for the party of enterprise and choice to spread dystopian fear and curtail freedoms, writes Graham Brady in the Sunday Telegraph.
“South Africa’s Omicron outbreak slows, figures suggest” – Nationally 17,154 cases were reported in the past 24 hours, around 1,000 more than the tally on the previous Saturday, South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases said.
“Don’t rage about No 10’s party – be angry that you couldn’t enjoy one too” – “To save Alexander Johnson’s face, we must all cover our faces. I won’t repeat here all the many objections I have made before to compulsory masking, or explain yet again why these measures are of doubtful value, to put it mildly,” writes Peter Hitchens in the Mail on Sunday.
“Journalism is now a crime” – Julian Assange’s extradition is bad news for press freedom, writes Fraser Miles in Spiked.
“Eric Zemmour and the French Right-Wing Primary” – The eighth episode of Bournbrook Magazine’s The Political Tipster, in which Julien Yvon and a ‘Mr Frexit’ discuss the French presidential election and the sudden arrival of Eric Zemmour.
“Why satire gave up on politics” – Power is no longer wielded by our hapless politicians, writes Dorian Lynskey in UnHerd.
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