- “Fury as former education secretary Gavin Williamson is handed a knighthood after overseeing catastrophic Covid exams bungle and twice being sacked from the Government” – Downing Street said on Thursday afternoon that the Queen has conferred the honour on the Tory MP, who has twice been sacked from the Government, according to the Mail.
- “U.K.’s daily Covid cases rise again: Infections jump 17% in a week” – It is another sign the country’s outbreak may now be growing, after a month of falling infections was brought to an end yesterday when cases rose 11% compared to last week, the Mail reports.
- “Novak Djokovic WILL be able to play at the French Open in May” – The Mail reports the tennis player will be able to play at the French Open in May and at the Monte-Carlo Masters in April with France set to suspend vaccination passes after a fall in Covid cases.
- “Confidential Pfizer Covid Vaccine Documents Obtained by TrialSite Raise Safety Concerns” – TrialSite News has obtained confidential Pfizer documents that raise questions about the safety of its mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine.
- “The case for the lab-leak theory” – Matt Ridley talks to Brendan O’Neill on the Spiked podcast about the search for the origins of COVID-19.
- “Johnson’s idea of Covid freedom? Keep the diktats of the health police in place” – Unfortunately, the language adopted in most recent Whitehall publications on the pandemic reads less as if we are emerging from an outbreak and more as if one had only just begun, writes Tom Penn in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “World faces ‘energy starvation’ as oil and gas prices soar even higher” – Efforts to offset disruption to energy markets will not provide sufficient relief, analysts warn, the Telegraph reports.
- “The Strategic Threat from Net-Zero Emissions” – Lord Monckton on Watts Up With That? on why the world is so messed up and fixated on ruinous Net Zero fantasies.
- “The truth about electric cars” – They are far more environmentally damaging than normal cars, and far more likely spontaneously to ignite, says Andrew Orlowski in Spiked.
- “What the right gets wrong about Putin” – While the West has deranged itself with assaults on its own history, on biology and much more, an assortment of conservatives have come to see Putin as some kind of counterweight – but they’re wrong, writes Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “The return of Actual Badness” – The high-stakes headlines of the past week involve authentic morality, thereby exposing what’s been passing for the ethics of our day as indulgent entertainment, writes Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
- “Scotland’s Gender Recognition Act won’t help trans people” – If the Scottish Government thinks that its proposed reforms to the Gender Recognition Act will improve the lives of trans people, then it is utterly deluded, says Debbie Hayton in UnHerd.
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