- “Did flawed PCR tests convince us Covid was worse than it really was?” – Part one of the Mail on Sunday‘s investigation into the U.K. Government’s handling of the pandemic looks at how reliable the PCR test is.
- “Call to offer more people fourth jab as Covid rises in England” – As numbers admitted to hospital in England rise again, ministers face calls to extend fourth vaccination beyond the over-75s, reports the Guardian. How many of the admissions are incidental, though?
- “Forget About Covid, They Say” – Forget about Covid and live life as normally as possible in defiance of those who live to foster fear. But, never forget what they did, says Jeffrey A. Tucker at the Brownstone Institute.
- “The Lake District: How to Turn an Emergency into a Catastrophe” – The Lake District, that jewel in the Cumbrian crown of England, is a case study in how mismanagement of what transpired to be essentially just another virus can lead to near economic catastrophe, writes Roger Watson in the Country Squire.
- “One of World’s Most Boosted Nation Faces Surge of SARS-CoV-2 Cases, Hospitalisations and Deaths” – Scotland’s COVID-19 hospitalisation rate is the highest in over a year as a surge of infections driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant of concern as well as its sub-variant BA.2, reports TrialSite News.
- “‘People’s Convoy’ Meets with Senators” – The ‘People’s Convoy’, the group of truckers protesting vaccine mandates, now express their grievances in Washington D.C., reports TrialSite News.
- “Pfizer jab reduces risk of Covid infection for five to 11s by 31%” – The CDC published a report Friday finding that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is 31% effective at preventing infection for children aged five to 11 years old, reports the Mail. So, by its own admission, at under 50%, not effective enough to approve.
- “We’ve allowed narcissistic eco martyrs to booby-trap our energy markets” – The market could easily solve the crisis now facing the West – if we let it, argues Juliet Samuel in the Telegraph.
- “Grand Designs’ Kevin McCloud: Spending millions on heat pumps a ‘classic pratfall’” – In a Telegraph interview, the presenter says Britain’s Net Zero push should focus on insulation, ventilation and shutters, not heat pumps.
- “Extinction Rebellion’s eco-fanatics are the very definition of dangerous extremism” – With Putin rampant and energy prices soaring, there is no excuse for their selfish posturing, writes Douglas Murray in the Telegraph.
- “Parents’ fury as £32,650-a-year school teaches there are ’64 genders’” – Interim head at ASL Sacha McVean defended the school to parents saying its programmes had the backing of schools leaders and the watchdog’s inspection was ‘unusual’, reports the Mail.
- “J.K. Rowling slams Keir Starmer after he says ‘trans women are women’” – The Harry Potter author took to Twitter to criticise the Labour leader’s comments, claiming the party could “no longer be counted on to defend women’s rights”, reports the Mail.
- “Tory PCC slams bid by Crispin Blunt to ‘silence her on women’s rights’” – Lisa Townsend is a rare, defiant voice on an issue that’s become so politically charged that this week that two Labour front-benchers failed to define what a woman was, writes Rebecca Hardy in the Mail.
- “Russia convenes UN council alleging military biological activity in Ukraine” – The Naked Emperor relays what Russia alleged at the Security Council this week, asking whether it is misinformation.
- “Top Russian biologist turns on Putin’s propaganda” – Moscow microbiologist Dr. Yevgeny Levitin has accused the Kremlin of “pure lies” and “propaganda” for claiming Ukraine had secret biowarfare labs which “could attack Russia”, reports the Mail. So what are the labs that the WHO is so worried about then?
- “Ukraine’s NATO Membership Is Not ‘Relevant or On the Agenda’: Jens Stoltenberg” – Ukraine’s NATO membership was never “imminent” and will not be on the agenda in the near future, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s ports will cripple global food markets” – An estimated 15 million tonnes of wheat, corn and barley are currently piled up but unable to be exported, reports the Telegraph.
- “Putin’s dream of annexing Ukraine is over” – But the war on the ground is still stacked in Moscow’s favour, writes Justin Bronk in the Spectator.
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