- “Covid cases drop 20.4% in a week to 60,578 and deaths fall to 259” – Government dashboard data shows there were 60,578 positive Covid tests recorded over the last 24 hours, down 20.4% on last Saturday’s figure of 76,069, reports the Mail.
- “The Power of Protest” – Freedom can win in the long run – despite the enormous cost of what took place, we will all find ourselves in a good position to see a rebirth of liberty, human rights, and prosperity on the other side, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker at the Brownstone Institute.
- “How a War on ‘Misinformation’ Led To a Coronavirus Tragedy” – Increasingly, governments, non-profits, and political parties, working with Big Media and Big Tech, have made the war on misinformation their central organising tactic, writes Bret Swanson in Real Clear Markets. “Refuse any debate whatsoever. Demonise contrary people and views. Destroy inconvenient data and science. Other words for the war on misinformation are censorship and propaganda.”
- “If This Isn’t the End of the Pandemic, It Will Never End” – What more is it going to take for the White House and its constituents to realise that Americans are moving on from the pandemic, with or without them, asks Noah Rothman in Commentary.
- “Israel’s rise in Covid deaths is an important lesson for the U.K. on vaccines” – There are several reasons why one of the world’s most highly vaccinated countries is now seeing a rise in Covid deaths, says (Gates-funded) Paul Nuki in the Telegraph. You guessed it, four-dose Israel is just not vaccinated enough.
- “The truth about ivermectin: As Laurence Fox becomes the latest to take anti-parasitic drug to treat Covid, Barney Calman reveals how trials turned out to be fake but there’s still hope it could help fight virus” – Report on the repurposed drug for the Mail on Sunday, which notes Laurence Fox is self-isolating in London having caught COVID-19 and is treating himself with ivermectin, which he purchased in Mexico while on holiday.
- “Mandatory NHS Covid vaccinations: ‘I feel stalked, bullied, harassed’” – BBC News feature on the midwives who are considering leaving the NHS despite a U-turn over mandatory vaccinations.
- “‘Trump is not my God’: how the former president’s only vaccine victory turned sour” – A rigid anti-vaccine stance among Trump’s supporters means Republicans can’t reap the benefits of Operation Warp Speed, writes David Smith in the Guardian.
- “Thousands Converge in Ottawa as Trucker Convoy Protest Enters Week 2” – Thousands of protesters once again gathered in Canada’s capital to protest COVID-19 mandates and restrictions on February 5th, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Ministers’ Covid communications campaign made lab rats of us all” – The messaging and manipulation is beginning to look counterproductive, writes Dr. Sarah Ingham on ConservativeHome.
- “Covid Rule Sceptics & the Countryside: Different Battles, Same War?” – Niall McCrae and Roger Watson explore the similarities and differences between Covid protestors and countryside protestors in Country Squire.
- “COVID, Politics and Psychology” – What was it that was going on inside people’s heads that has made almost everyone shut themselves up at home, wear germy rags over their mouths, keep their kids out of school, sanitise until their hands bleed, hoard toilet paper, queue for hours to take a meaningless test to see if they have the coronadoom, demand Novak Djokovic’s head on a pike, salivate at the prospect of booster upon booster of an experimental, liability-free, gene-therapy product from the corporate suits of Big Pharma and all the rest of the bizarre behaviour and superstitious ‘safety’ rituals we have had to endure for two years of unrelenting virus hysteria, asks Phil Shannon in Quadrant. Find Part II here.
- “The Week in Review – Net Zero Faith” – Listen to the latest Bournbrook podcast, where Michael Curzon, S.D. Wickett and Luke Perry discuss Johnson’s latest nudge to resign and the coming economic crises of ‘Net Zero’ and inflation.
- “Nadhim Zahawi intervenes over council’s ‘concerning’ race lessons for children as young as seven” – The Education Secretary has intervened over Brighton and Hove Council’s race lessons for schoolchildren, as MPs call on the equalities watchdog to consider potential law breaches, reports the Telegraph.
- “Boris Johnson to block diversity rule in MPs’ code of conduct” – In a brazen woke power grab, the Commons standards watchdog is seeking to require MPs to promote “anti-racism, inclusion and diversity” in changes to the code of conduct, but Boris has come out against the move, the Telegraph reports.
- “The White House throws Dr. Fauci under the bus” – Asked about the Johns Hopkins study that shows lockdowns failed, White House Press Secretary Psaki disavows them: “We’ve not been pro-lockdown – most of the lockdowns actually happened under the previous President.” Watch here.
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