- “Hospital admissions fall 17% to lowest figure since BEFORE Christmas” – Official Government data shows 46,186 people tested positive across Britain, a 30.2% drop on last Tuesday. Cases have tumbled week-on-week for 15 days in a row, reports the Mail.
- “Wimbledon poised to let Novak Djokovic defend his title despite refusal to get Covid jab” – Tim Henman, a member of the board of the All England Club, has said he does not foresee any ban being imposed on Djokovic, reports the Telegraph.
- “Covid in Wales: All five to 11-year-olds offered jabs” – Wales becomes the first U.K. nation to announce it will vaccinate the younger age group, reports BBC News.
- “Covid: 95% of Hywel Dda patients in hospital for other things” – All but two Covid patients in one health board are in hospital for other things, reports BBC News.
- “The crushing of the French Freedom Convoy” – The French ‘Freedom Convoy’ was met with an unprecedented and extraordinary degree of state repression and violence, writes Josie Appleton in Notes on Freedom.
- “GiveSendGo hacked as names of Freedom Convoy donors apparently leaked” – The website now leads to a blank white page saying “Application under maintenance we will be back very soon”, reports Newsweek.
- “‘We Will Hold the Line’: Freedom Convoy Organisers Say They’re Not Deterred by Emergencies Act” – Canada Freedom Convoy organisers say they will continue to protest on Parliament Hill, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Trudeau’s totalitarian turn” – The Canadian PM was desperate for his own January 6th moment to justify an emergency power grab; when it didn’t come he did it anyway, writes Jane Stannus in the Spectator.
- “Trudeau is world leader in woke illiberalism” – The Canadian PM’s double standards have exposed the woke ideology’s desire to crush any dissent, writes Eric Kaufmann in the Telegraph.
- “Cary Watkins confirms embalmer Richard Hirschman’s story about the telltale blood clots” – Watkins, who has over 50 years experience embalming people, was shown Hirschman’s strange clots more than four months ago and Watkins says he had never seen anything like it, according to Steve Kirsch on his Substack page.
- “The mRNA Covid shots are killing teenagers” – Alex Berenson reports on an autopsy report in the journal of the College of American Pathologists for two teenage boys who died of myocarditis following mRNA vaccination. The report concludes: “The myocardial injury seen in these post-vaccine hearts is different from typical myocarditis and has an appearance most closely resembling a catecholamine-mediated stress (toxic) cardiomyopathy.”
- “Are you unvaccinated in the eyes of the French? Why booster rules could ruin your holiday” – France has just effectively banned millions of vaccinated Britons from visiting with its change in rules to require third doses, reports the Telegraph.
- “Covid face masks contributed to death of epileptic man when junior NHS doctor misheard ’15mg’ as ’50mg’ before giving patient a fatal dose of anti-seizure drug” – John Skinner was admitted to Watford General hospital suffering from seizures in May 2020; a coroner ruled that a miscommunication “aggravated” by the masks contributed to his death, reports the Mail.
- “UKHSA review shows vaccinated less likely to have Long Covid than unvaccinated” – A new review by UKHSA claims to show that people who have had one or more doses of a coronavirus vaccine are less likely to develop Long Covid. In fact, it shows the data is mixed and the condition ill-defined.
- “SNP has become addicted to keeping the public under their control” – Stockholm syndrome is when captives fall in love with their captors; Scovid syndrome is when Scottish ministers fall in love with keeping the people of Scotland captive, writes MSP Murdo Fraser in the Scotsman.
- “To my critics I say, J’Avoue…!” – Ramesh Thakur responds to his detractors with hard data in Spectator Australia.
- “Why Did Masks Stop Working in Japan and South Korea?” – For nearly two years now, we’ve seen media outlets attempt to allocate credit to interventions by ignoring the seasons and the fact that the same interventions existed before the surge started, writes Ian Miller on the Brownstone Institute.
- “See the CDC corruption for yourself” – A paper in JAMA about myocarditis rates by CDC authors admits the adverse events are under-reported, but then fails to take the under-reporting into account despite having accepted methods for quantifying it, writes Steve Kirsch on his Substack page.
- “Louis Gave: What the Moderna share price reveals about vaccines” – Moderna’s share price has been sliding since November, and Financial Analyst Louis Gave tells Freddie Sayers in UnHerd that it’s because the financial markets were underwhelmed by the data on vaccines and Omicron.
- “Why don’t some people want to get the vaccine? Here’s why” – Left-leaning people wonder ‘what’s wrong’ with the unvaccinated. But what if their non-compliance isn’t that surprising, asks Musa al-Gharbi in an unexpectedly comprehensive piece in the Guardian.
- “Nicola Sturgeon’s strict Covid rules did not keep Scotland’s deaths below England’s” – The Scottish Tories said the latest data comparing the countries during the Delta wave last year cast doubts over the effectiveness of Sturgeon’s strategy of ‘bringing in restrictions on a whim’.
- “Archbishop of Canterbury denies sole blame for Covid church closures as he says ‘I am not the Pope’” – The Most Rev Justin Welby admitted he would be ‘more cautious about closing the churches’ if future restrictions were enforced in the U.K., reports the Telegraph.
- “Villagers wake to horrific crash as 300ft wind turbine is blown over” – The 300ft turbine was one of 29 at the Pant Y Wal wind farm in Wales and is twice the height of Nelson’s Column. The turbine snapped near the base in strong winds on Monday night, reports the Mail.
- “IPCC AR6 SPM Credibility Destroyed by ‘Disappearing’ Medieval Warming Period” – The Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL) has cataloged significant errors in the recent IPCC climate report AR6 Summary for Policy Makers and distributed this error-listing and analysis to the IPCC Chair and other world leaders to inform them of these errors, writes Larry Hamlin in Watts Up With That?
- “How is anyone getting any work done in woke Britain?” – The fear of causing offence in the workplace means we’re all self-flagellating and being unproductive, writes Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “School writes to parents of six-year-old for ‘transphobic behaviour’” – Sally and Nigel Rowe were told by their sons’ headteacher that pupils could be seen as transphobic if they were unable “to believe a transgender person is a ‘real’ male or female”, reports the Mail.
- “No, your six-year-old is not ‘transphobic’” – Of course young children are confused by transgenderism, writes Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “Danger: semantic engineers at work” – The invention of new speech codes and the censoring of ‘outdated’ words is no longer confined to the university, writes Frank Furedi in the Critic.
- “Replacing ‘Sir’ and ‘Miss’ should ‘NOT be happening’ says DfE” – Dr. Elly Barnes, head of the Educate and Celebrate charity, told an NEU webinar teachers could be addressed as ‘Teacher’ followed by their surname rather than ‘Mr’, ‘Miss’ or ‘Mrs’, but the Department for Education has opposed this practice, reports the Mail.
- “Adding injury to insult” – How has a 36 year-old man from Glasgow ended up with a criminal record for sending a “gratuitous insult” about Captain Sir Tom Moore on Twitter, asks Professor James Chalmers in the Critic.
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