“Health officials refute Deputy Prime Minister’s incorrect Omicron data” – “U.K. health officials were forced to correct Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, following interviews on Tuesday during which he twice gave the wrong number of hospitalised Omicron patients, providing wildly inaccurate figures,” reports RT.
“A conscientious objector’s view” – “Allow us bodily autonomy and freedom of conscience. If you do not, you forfeit your authority to act on representative democratic principles and you reveal to us your true nature,” says Alexander Adams, who sends a message to Britain’s political establishment in Bournbrook Magazine.
“Why I love Great Britain” – The freedoms Britain granted the world are the most precious gift of all. We must preserve them, writes Jordan Peterson in the Telegraph.
“The Pandemicists must be stopped” – Covid has vastly expanded the ranks of pandemic planners and public health botherers. Unless something is done, these people will destroy all of society in their radical pursuit of a few viruses, writes Eugyppius in his latest Substack update.
“The weird pandemic narrative” – “The bizarre confection of panic and lack of lethality that is ‘Omicron’ has essentially laid to rest any rationale for compulsory, mass vaccination,” says Omar Khan in Uncommon Wisdom.
“An unvaccinated nurse is better than no nurse at all” – The NHS vaccine mandate could decimate the service. It is akin to a war commander demobilising frontline troops in the middle of a battle, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
“Am I detecting a shift at the New York Times?” – One of America’s largest media publications, having previously been enthusiastic and supportive of lockdown measures, is quickly changing its tune to preserve its credibility, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker for the Brownstone Institute.
“It’s time we championed the family unit rather than divisive American identity politics” – “The immense social value of stable family units has been largely overlooked in a country that is grossly unequal in a regional sense. Meanwhile, protected characteristics such as race, ethnicity, religious belief, sexual orientation and gender reassignment have dominated equality debates,” argues Rakib Ehsan in Mail Plus.
“The good and bad news about the Online Safety Bill” – The Online Safety Bill does have its surprising benefits, but also its drawbacks, such as allowing social media companies to target speech which is perfectly legal, but could be considered offensive, writes Toby in the Spectator.
“New free speech law to protect against wokery and cancel culture” – “Freedom of speech is to be enshrined in a new British bill of rights to protect against wokery, political correctness and the advance of European-style privacy laws,” reports the Telegraph.
“The variant-response cycle” – In light of the Commons vote this evening which rubber stamped the Government’s ‘Plan B’ restrictions drafted in to tackle the Omicron variant, Toby speaks to TalkRadio about the precedent this sets for the future.
MPs will vote on Plan B measures this Tuesday.
The Free Speech Union's Toby Young says "The really frightening thing is every time there's a new variant, however mild, the Government will do exactly the same thing if we let them get away with it now."@JuliaHB1 | @toadmeisterpic.twitter.com/2nIQw7cjt4
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