- “Will they ever admit they got it so wrong?” – Lockdown-sceptics have won the argument, repeatedly, writes James Allan in Spectator Australia.
- “Freedom protesters may spell the end of Trudeau’s career: Poll” – A new Maru Public Opinion poll shows a possible career-ending backlash against Justin Trudeau’s handling of the freedom protesters, reports the Post Millennial.
- “University lecturers launch 10-day strike as students fall behind on studies” – Thousands of staff to walk out in pensions dispute as survey reveals pandemic has hindered students’ chances of catching up with their work, reports the Telegraph.
- “Plan to jab children aged 5-11 delayed amid No 10 and JCVI impasse” – The expert committee gave its verdict a week ago but the Government’s decision will not be announced until February 21st, for reasons that are not clear, reports the Guardian.
- “Duchess of Cornwall tests positive for Covid” – It comes after her husband the Prince of Wales also tested positive for the second time four days ago, reports the Telegraph.
- “Progress vs Fear: a Deep Dive into ‘Vaccines’, Liberties and the ‘Gift’ of Omicron” – Listen to Omar Khan’s latest podcast on Uncommon Wisdom with Yale Professor of Epidemiology Harvey Risch, discussing the vaccines, the Omicron variant, the legal basis of emergencies, the deployment of fear and more.
- “COVID-19: Northern Ireland to remove all remaining restrictions” – The regulations that are currently in place will become guidance, Health Minister Robin Swann says, according to BBC News. However, the BBC’s “all remaining restrictions” here doesn’t include the requirement to self-isolate.
- “London fails to match national recovery as commuters stay away” – The streets of the capital are only half as busy as they were pre-pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
- “Mayor outlines details of TfL fare changes from March 2022” – Large public transport fare increases in London under restriction-obsessed Sadiq Khan.
- “BBC to challenge antivaxers in reality show” – The BBC is planning to bring a group of Covid vaccine sceptics together under one roof and use science to challenge their views as part of a social experiment documentary, reports the Times.
- “10,000 wait for hospital admission as Covid cases swamp Hong Kong health system” – Health authorities confirm a new daily record of 2,071 infections while around 4,500 people tested preliminary positive – another high, reports the South China Morning Post. Interesting, though, that the CCP media organ is specifically highlighting a health emergency in Hong Kong rather than elsewhere, and despite Hong Kong’s Covid statistics currently sitting very low by international and regional standards.
- “Sweden recommends fourth COVID-19 jab for the elderly” – Sweden’s Health Agency recommended on Monday that people aged 80 or above should receive a second booster shot of COVID-19 vaccine, the fourth jab in total, to ward off waning immunity amid the rampant spread of the Omicron variant, Reuters reports. Hang on, wasn’t it trialled and authorised as a two-dose vaccine? So does that mean it doesn’t work…?
- “Claims that a ‘Johns Hopkins study’ showed lockdowns are ineffective at reducing COVID-19 mortality are based on a working paper with questionable methods” – Ludicrously biased ‘fact check’ from Google and Facebook-funded website Health Feedback as the lockdown establishment pushes back against the data.
- “Barry Manilow as a military weapon: a short history of sonic warfare” – Thanks to zealous New Zealand officials deploying his music against protestors, the soft-rock icon joins a long list of singers to be used as a psychological threat, reports the Telegraph.
- “Pfizer Trial Whistleblower Presses Forward With Lawsuit Without U.S. Government’s Help” – A former clinical trial overseer for a contractor holding trials of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is pressing forward with a lawsuit against Pfizer and her former company despite the U.S. Government declining to side with her, having taken a year to come to its decision, the Epoch Times reports.
- “New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern blasted for saying ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest imported” – The country’s leader has been accused of treating protesters dismissively amid growing unhappiness with severe Covid restrictions, reports the Telegraph.
- “The Covid regime has fooled us all” – Did mass formation psychosis make us easy to deceive, asks Jacob Siegel in UnHerd.
- “Long Covid – a skivers’ charter?” – With the intense focus on Long Covid we are, essentially, writing a skivers’ charter which will be used by the indolent and the disillusioned to take a few days off ‘sick’ without question, writes Roger Watson in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Why global warming is good for us” – Climate change is creating a greener, safer planet, writes Matt Ridley in Spiked.
- “Green hypocrisy hurts the poorest” – The West’s war on energy is crippling Africa, write Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger in UnHerd.
- “Business fires up the back-up generator as costs rise” – Soaring energy costs are hitting businesses as hard as they’re looming for households, making even diesel generators a more attractive option than buying power from the grid, reports BBC News.
- “As Ordinary People Struggle, Net Zero Policies are Killing Britain’s Gas Industry” – Britain has 200 trillion cubic feet of frackable gas in Lancashire, but the climate-obsessed British Government would rather pay sky high prices to Russia, than develop available domestic resources, writes Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?
- “Distort the Present, Rewrite the Past” – Following the lead of other major cultural institutions, the Metropolitan Museum of Art redefines its purpose as overcoming the racism of Western civilisation, writes Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “Labour’s obsession with race shows no signs of fading” – Why do the party’s bigwigs only have one way of viewing the world, asks Patrick O’Flynn in the Spectator.
- “Public Sector’s Highest-Paid Diversity Officer Earns More Than PM” – New Government transparency data have revealed the highest-paid diversity officer in the public sector is making just as much money as the Prime Minister, reports Guido Fawkes.
- “America’s racial torment must end” – White people are often the poorest, writes Glenn Loury in UnHerd.
- “Black Lives Matter’s missing billions” – More and more questions are being raised about BLM’s finances, writes Wilfred Reilly in Spiked.
- “Why the well-educated see racism everywhere” – Universities are promoting a culture of racial grievance, writes Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
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