- “Daily Covid cases surge 60% in biggest rise since Freedom Day” – Government dashboard data showed there were 61,900 new positive tests over the last 24 hours, up 58.7% on last week’s figure of 39,000, reports the Mail.
- “Where’s the outrage over Trudeau’s trip to Britain?” – As Justin Trudeau waltzed through the U.K., visiting Boris Johnson and the Queen, did anyone spare a thought for Canadians struggling under Trudeau’s authoritarian Covid power moves, asks Jane Stannus in the Spectator.
- “UK freedom protesters chant “F*ck Trudeau” outside Downing Street” – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was dogged by protesters outside of 10 Downing Street on Monday, heckled for his continuing support of COVID-19 restrictions and his use of the Emergencies Act to quash peaceful demonstrations in Ottawa, reports True North.
- “Towards SARS-CoV-2 serotypes?” – The magnitude of immune evasion of Omicron raises the question whether it should be considered as a distinct SARS-CoV-2 serotype, according to a study in Nature Reviews Microbiology.
- “Take Off the Masks!” – Even with mandates finally waived, healthy Manhattanites show a seemingly inexhaustible appetite for fear and risk aversion, writes Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
- “The story of how ivermectin was ‘cancelled’” – Kathy Gyngell in TCW Defending Freedom relays the depressing story of how Dr. Andrew Hill let down colleague Dr. Tess Lawrie and others when his review failed to recommend ivermectin for use in treating COVID-19.
- “Is the media still stifling the lab-leak theory?” – Science writers have become useful idiots, writes Paul D. Thacker in UnHerd.
- “New Pfizer data kills the case for universal child Covid vaccines” – A recent study of the efficacy of Covid vaccines for children in New York state provides a striking reminder of how rarely children and adolescents are hospitalised when they get Covid, writes Professor Jay Bhattacharya in UnHerd.
- “Africa’s food crisis pre-dates the war in Ukraine” – Revisionists are already trying to erase the impact of Covid policy on the continent, writes Toby Green in UnHerd.
- “‘Slippages’ in democracy? Justin Trudeau knows a lot about that” – What would invoking the Emergencies Act over a truckers’ protest be considered, asks Rex Murphy in the National Post.
- “Climate Obsessed Biden Administration Seeks Oil Deal with Venezuela and Iran” – No word yet whether Hunter Biden will join the boards of any Iranian or Venezuelan oil companies, writes Eric Worrall on Watts Up With That?
- “Why block energy wells just when we need them?” – While Putin’s rape of Ukraine creates energy insecurity, to deny ourselves indigenous production of shale gas is crazy green dogmatism, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Can the West afford an energy embargo?” – Any such action will severely damage Western economies, though America is much less exposed than Europe, says the Telegraph in this leading article.
- “Living standards ‘return to the 70s’ as household incomes will drop 4%” – Inflation could rise above 8% as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, reports the Telegraph.
- “War in Ukraine makes European recession almost inevitable” – Russia’s invasion has put rocket boosters under surging energy, fuel and food prices, meaning inflation will remain higher for far longer, writes Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “John Kerry: Putin’s Useful Climate Idiot” – Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine marks the end of the West’s Era of Illusions. It was an era in which Western elites obsessed about solving climate change because the climate crisis was far more dangerous than issues of war and peace and the stability of the international system, writes Rupert Darwall on Real Clear Energy.
- “What a second golden age for North Sea oil could do for Britain” – While Norway got rich off its oil reserves, Britain went cold on its own ‘golden goose’. Could the Russian energy crisis now turn the tide, asks Harry de Quetteville in the Telegraph.
- “Ignore the sniping – our war effort for Ukraine is something we should all be proud of” – Volodymyr Zelensky’s tribute to Boris Johnson will sting those who only care about sneering at the Government’s handling of this crisis, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Ep 41. Inside Ukraine: Tanya Shelepko, Alex Borovenskiy, Bogdan and Pro English Theatre” – In a departure from the usual show the Real Normal Podcast is back with their friend Tanya Shelepko, and they find out what life is like in Kyiv in a bunker hiding from the Russian shelling.
- “Getting a sense of the Russian soul” – Looking into Russian genetics and history with Razib Khan on his Substack page.
- “Mentioning NATO does not make you a ‘Putin apologist’” – If you venture to suggest that NATO expansion has anything to do with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, you will be promptly informed that you’re a “Putin apologist” or that you’re peddling “pro-Putin talking points” (or some variation on this theme), writes Dr. Noah Carl on his Substack page.
- “The moral mess of banning Russian oil” – The U.S. ban on Russian oil will probably result in a closer embrace of countries and regimes that many Americans rightly loathe, writes Joel Mathis in the Week.
- “This energy crisis has deeper roots than Ukraine” – We are paying a heavy price for decades of policy failures, writes James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
- “Bully Bercow ‘should have portraits labelled like a slave trader’” – The former Commons Speaker is already facing a life ban from Parliament after an excoriating report today outlined his appalling treatment of staff, while one Tory MP suggests ‘explanatory plaques’ could be added to his portraits, reports the Mail.
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During Covid there seemed to be state control of the newspapers only it was the pernicious British government via the advertising spend.
Indeed – which is worse? Hard to say. The British government doesn’t appear to be acting on behalf of the British people and appears to be “follow” directives from “foreign” or “global” entities.
Also what about the BBC? That seems pretty foreign to me, in that it doesn’t share values with me and a lot of others. It’s also controlled by a government.
Well that’s cleared things up.
Foreign states will not be allowed to take over British news organisations but Foreign organisations are allowed to take over the British government.
Nice and tidy.
Chinese sponsorship of UK newspaper will probably also still be allowed. Makes one wonder if the UAE guy perhaps failed to grease the right wheels.
Brown envelopes? British government? Heaven forbid!
Not forgetting all the foreign nationals (aka illegal immigrants) taking over British hotels and holiday camps.
But foreign individuals will still be able to shower them with cash a la Dr Gates presumably.
Can anyone in Scotland attest to this? You have ‘Hate Crime Reporting Centres’ moonlighting as sex shops? WTF is this??
”The Scottish Government has created walk-in snitching centres in every major Scottish city where people can report ‘hate crimes’ under the new Hate Crime and Public Order Act and the one in Glasgow is in a sex shop!
Welcome to Humza Yousaf’s Scotland, where you can go shopping for a dildo and report a ‘hate crime’ at the same time.”
https://twitter.com/toadmeister/status/1767852719761445249
Condoming innocent people…
I would read between the lines. They obviously see a certain pathway ahead that they aren’t speaking about and they are trying to be a step ahead. It would be nice to think that their strategems represent a well-informed attempt to save our future but it is far from this. Just look at the events of the last five years. You can see the level of capture, which has necessitated a level of ineptitude. The strange spectacle of Joe Biden. At first I was a little perplexed why they even let him out in public. And then it was obvious. He is meant to look that way for a number of reasons foremost among them being the tacit cry for help of the Western mythos. Then you had the mad dog theory of war, look it up. And then the arrrogance of victory of the corporate state showing you what they can get away with. Just soberly look at it all. People with huge fibrous growths in their veins and they don’t seem too troubled about it at all. Surely this suggests a lack of vitality and a fatalism resigned to death of our culture.
State ownership or funding of British news organisations (whether they’re foreign states or our own) should be banned. That includes the state funding of the BBC.
There are cliches like ‘the breakdown of the rule of law’. This doesn’t even come close to what is coming. It will come via fifth dimensional warfare on one hand and deepening lassitude among the general public on the other. It might be demoralisation or it might be ill-health and the two will merge into one. You could easily look at the status quo and think that it isn’t even worth bothering with. But that is to give in to the force we oppose. The violinist Jascha Haifetz broke one of his strings during a performance and carried on playing until the end with three strings. Afterwards somebody asked him why he carried on and he said that it is our duty to carry on and try to make something beautiful even with just three strings. Anything less means that you have capitulated.
The whole discussion is ludicrous given the takeover of local radio in the mid 1990s. Local radio was very important largely because ir was decentralised. We weren’t all born under a Chrstmas tree and as Milan Kunera said, the power of man over tyranny is the power of memory over forgetting,
But Foreign Ownership of UK transport, energy, water supplies, steel industry, care homes, government computer systems, supermarkets, and vast tracts of British land, for example, are fine. Well that’s a relief.