- “Daily Covid cases fall 23% to 41,270 while deaths drop by 30% to 52” – Department of Health figures show that the number of new reported cases week on week has fallen from 54,095 last Sunday to 41,270 today while deaths have also dropped from 75 to 52, reports the Mail.
- “Will Trudeau’s clampdown on the Freedom Convoy backfire?” – The next few days could end up being some of the most important in Canadian history, writes Michael Taube in the Spectator.
- “The propaganda war on the Canadian truckers” – The U.S. media are shamefully smearing the ‘Freedom Convoy’ as a far-right menace, writes Sean Collins in Spiked.
- “Anxiety Grips Canberra’s Freedom Camp” – John Stapleton in a Sense of Place with an update on the Canberra Freedom Convoy protest in Australia, which is facing some challenges.
- “To isolate or not to isolate: how to navigate the new etiquette of COVID-19” – Without legal restrictions or the Prime Minister to guide us, we will have to fall back on our manners and our morals, writes the Gates-funded Global Health Security team at the Telegraph, and without hysterics – a further sign of how ‘the Science’ is shifting.
- “Was Sweden right about Covid all along?” – The land of commonsense seems to be thriving while Britain is counting the cost of harsh lockdown restrictions, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Today’s pandemic response is eerily similar to the smallpox pandemic response” – Steve Kirsch tells the story of the 19th century smallpox vaccine mandates that were removed after a public backlash following suspicion they were making things worse.
- “Humza Yousaf: Scotland should not be forced into Covid easing” – Scotland Health Secretary Humza Yousaf says Scotland should be free to continue restrictions, reports BBC News.
- “Stillbirths, Miscarriages and Abortions in Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated Women” – Josh Guetzkow on Jackanapes Junction looks at worrying data from Rambam hospital in Israel, which reveal a stillbirth, miscarriage and abortion (SBMA) rate of 6% among women who never received a COVID-19 vaccine, compared to 8% among women who were vaccinated with at least one dose.
- “The day Boris tried to bribe me” – Toby in the Spectator says the reason the public is angry is because Boris abandoned his usual schtick when the pandemic struck and for the first time in his life asked people to take what he was saying at face value, even though he didn’t believe it himself, as his subsequent behaviour made clear.
- “Next Covid strain could kill many more, warn scientists ahead of England restrictions ending” – Demands grow for Government science chiefs to reveal evidence backing move to lift last protective measures, according to the latest alarmist article in the Guardian.
- “How the NHS fritters away your taxes” – Diversity has become a whole industry within the health service, with its practitioners earning half as much again as the average nurse, writes Ross Clark in the Mail.
- “Open Letter with Notice of Legal Obligations and Potential Liabilities to anyone Advocating or Administering COVID-19 Vaccines to Children” – Read the latest open letter from the U.K. Medical Freedom Alliance.
- “New Study: ‘On the Basis of Observational Data, the Climate Crisis…is Not Evident Yet’” – Watts Up With That reports on a new non-alarmist study in the European Physical Journal Plus.
- “‘Net Zero’ may become as divisive as Brexit” – When April utility bills hit the nation’s collective doormat, we could see not only mass protests, but widespread non-payment, writes Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
- “How Britain’s fracking industry was regulated into irrelevance” – The problem, writes Andrew Mountford in the Spectator, is that the Oil and Gas Authority’s remit contains nothing about making sure energy companies deliver for consumers nor about national energy security, but revolves entirely around delivering Net Zero.
- “Fracking ban must stay because ‘U.K. is not Utah’, insists minister” – Lord Goldsmith says Tory ministers would pay a high political price if the current moratorium on fracking is overturned owing to fracking’s deep unpopularity with the public, reports the Telegraph.
- “The woke Left is destroying the Anglosphere” – Cultural relativism is shattering faith in our nations and weakening the ties bind us with our global allies, writes Douglas Carswell in the Telegraph.
- “Tony Blair: ‘Voters don’t want a situation where women can’t talk about being women’” – Labour should disarm the Tories by grasping the transgender issue in a way that makes it absolutely clear the party is on the side of facts, says the former PM in the Times. Plus: University “no-platforming” is “ridiculous”, he says.
- “House of Lords is latest to say no to Stonewall after mother of all rows” – The House of Lords has abandoned a workplace inclusivity programme run by Stonewall following a row about the use of gender-neutral language in legislation, reports the Times.
- “Can Edinburgh really blame Henry Dundas for the evils of slavery?” – The current text on the plaque beside the statue of Henry Dundas can be considered patently absurd, erroneous, and ‘bad history’, and Edinburgh City Council has a moral duty to amend or remove it as soon as possible, writes Scottish Historian Professor Angela McCarthy in the Spectator.
- “New trans laws in Scotland could open up ‘loophole’ for rest of UK” – Fair Play for Women said the SNP plans would allow people from England, Wales and Northern Ireland to obtain a legal change in gender, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘There were some good things about colonialism’: Woke war erupts” – The Mail reports on an Anglican PR chief who has had to defend himself after telling a shocked General Synod there were “some good things about colonialism”, and that a former bishop in Borneo had told him “he wished the Church of England would stop apologising for colonialism” as “if it wasn’t for colonialism, we’d still be headhunters”.
- “Nadhim Zahawi tells schools to root out activist teachers” – Nadhim Zahawi will this week issue guidance for schools to ensure teachers make a “balanced presentation of opposing views” when discussing political issues with their students, reports the Mail.
- “Freedom Convoy – Speech by Canadian Army Major Stephen Chledowski” – Watch the army officer’s speech on the tyrannical suppression of basic rights and freedoms during the pandemic, particularly now of the unvaccinated.
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