- “U.K.’s faltering Covid wave continues to fizzle as cases plunge 26%” – Government dashboard statistics revealed another 39,656 infections were recorded over the last 24 hours, falling a quarter on the tally last Wednesday, the Mail reports.
- “The end of masks on Tubes, trains and buses” – Transport for London said it will no longer be a “condition of carriage” to wear masks on its services, the Mail reports, as most of the remaining Covid restrictions in England come to an end.
- “People’s Convoy truckers set off on drive from California to DC” – People’s Convoy organisers and participants argue the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions and mandates are unconstitutional and claim the “Government has forgotten its place”, the Mail reports.
- “Freedom Convoy donors bank accounts are unfrozen by Canadian officials” – Police reportedly ordered a freeze on more than 206 bank accounts, including one valued at $3.8million Canadian dollars, and also ceased transactions involving 253 cryptocurrency addresses, but the Mail reports the accounts have been unfrozen following outcry.
- “What would really happen if we took 10 days off for a cold in Britain” – Boris Johnson has suggested we have much to learn from Germany on workplace sickness, but could the same approach really work here, asks Harry de Quetteville in the Telegraph.
- “‘I sued them for playing the piano’: neighbours flood the courts with lockdown disputes” – One couple found themselves on the receiving end of a £50,000 claim, according to the Telegraph.
- “German Public Health Insurer: Vaccine Side Effects Maybe eight to 10 Times More Frequent Than Officially Reported” – German publicly regulated health insurer the Betriebskrankenkassen reports substantially higher vaccine adverse effects than the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, the country’s vaccine regulatory body, writes Eugyppius on his Substack page.
- “The Silver Lining To The Covid Vaccine Bust” – The silver lining to the failure of vaccines, according to Louis-Vincent Gave on TrialSite News, is that China might look at Western nations ending restrictions and engineer its own about-turn.
- “The Freedom Movement in New Zealand Has Truly Begun” – Olivia Pierson has just spent a week in Freedom Village on parliament grounds and reports that a freedom movement has truly begun in New Zealand at last.
- “Woman who refused to wear a face mask was unfairly sacked” – An employment tribunal in Leeds ruled Laura Convery was a victim of disability discrimination and unfairly dismissed because of her anxiety which caused her to suffer panic attacks, the Mail reports.
- “January Covid deaths were around half the total on Government’s dashboard” – Dashboard recorded 7,014 deaths, but ONS data show just 3,797 cases in which virus was the main cause of death, reports the Mail.
- “How much did the Covid crisis cost?” – As with most problems, our national debt will only get worse the longer we take to face up to it, and with restrictions ending, excessive Government spending should end too, says Annabel Denham in the Spectator.
- “Covid has created a capitalist nightmare” – Big Tech and Big Pharma are more powerful than ever, argue Thomas Fazi and Toby Green in UnHerd.
- “MPs slam ministers over ‘waste, loss and fraud’ in Covid response” – The Public Accounts Committee has published a new report which is highly critical of Chancellor Rishi Sunak and the Treasury over waste and fraud in the Government Covid response, the Mail reports.
- “Superdrug undercuts Boots and pledges to sell Covid tests for just £2” – Lloyds Pharmacy, which has 1,500 stores dotted across Britain, has started to offer five tests for the price of £9.49 on its website – £3.51 less than the same offering from Boots, according to the Mail.
- “Be honest about Net Zero cost or public will reject it, Government warned” – Sir John Armitt, the infrastructure tsar, says ministers must be sincere about green targets, even when it is not “politically expedient”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Will we be ‘nudged’ into Net Zero?” – Green technocrats have long relied on behavioural science to bypass democratic debate, writes Philip Hammond in Spiked.
- “Analysis Of Winter Extreme Rainfall” – Paul Homewood on Not a Lot of People Know That says that the European Climate Assessment and Dataset provides no evidence that winter rainfall is now more extreme.
- “Why is the National Portrait Gallery cutting ties with BP?” – Rejecting donations from BP or the Sacklers will do nothing to alleviate climate change and will not free a single person of their opiate addiction – but it will make our cultural life more impoverished, writes Michael Mosbacher in the Spectator.
- “The case that changed the gender debate” – Stonewall’s strategy of ‘no debate’ has backfired, writes Maya Forstater in UnHerd.
- “How the woke BBC smeared Baden-Powell as a Nazi sympathiser” – Flawed research and out-of-context quotes have wrongly tarnished Baden-Powell’s and the Scouts’ legacy, write Tony Ransley and Steven Edginton in the Telegraph.
- “Trans privilege” – It is an outrage that Lia Thomas is allowed to compete against women, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Phil in London says he ‘doesn’t care’ about the situation in Ukraine and is more worried about Trudeau’s ‘brutal dictatorship’ in Canada” – talkRadio tweets the concerns of a listener.
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