“Hospitals Should Hire, Not Fire, Nurses with Natural Immunity” – Hospitals are firing nurses and other staff with superior natural immunity while retaining those with weaker vaccine-induced immunity, writes Professor Martin Kulldorff on the Brownstone Institute.
“My life as an outcast under Macron’s vaccine passport scheme” – “When the vaccine pass comes into effect later this week, I will not be able to enter a bar or a restaurant”, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator, after choosing not to get a third dose.
“Overdue for Sanity: Covid Confessions” – It has been a fascinating ten days for confessions, writes Omar Khan, with CDC Director Walensky announcing “the overwhelming number of deaths, over 75%, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities”.
“Covid could still save Boris” – England can lead the world out of pandemic, writes Freddie Sayers, optimistically, in UnHerd.
“Covid: what the hell happened and why?” – Gabrielle Bauer in Bournbrook says that in her search for answers, she has found Moral Foundations Theory very helpful.
“Two thirds of Covid vaccine side effects are imagined, study suggests” – Scientists found people who were given a dummy injection became ill because they anticipated a negative effect, reports the Telegraph. Presumably this doesn’t include ‘imaginary’ myocarditis and blood clots.
“Inside the Tory trans civil war” – MPs vilify their colleagues for criticising Stonewall, while Conservative MP Crispin Blunt complains to Surrey Police and Crime Panel about tweets by Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner Lisa Townsend which dared to question whether men who think they’re women are actually women.
“The snakes and ladders game of statues” – Timothy Bradshaw in TCW on the question of how we keep our connection with the past without always condoning it.
“Boris can’t fix the migrant crisis” – The missing ingredient is political will, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator, as “moving to an offshore processing model would require Britain to withdraw from a thicket of outdated international agreements, such as the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees”.
LATEST Chaos at the Carlton Club tonight. Boris Johnson had a drink with Conor Burns. Nadine Dorries was addressing an Onward dinner. Four 1922 members were having supper. The Press arrived believing a plot was under way so everyone left by the backdoor. One MP: "It is a farce."
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