- “People will riot if another full lockdown is enforced, doctor warns” – Professor Roger Kirby, President of the Royal Society of Medicine, said the public would not tolerate being deprived of their liberty on such a scale again, the Mail reports.
- “Good riddance to the Zero Covid Left” – When Covid hit in the spring in 2020 those who looked to the Left for leadership found instead a cult of stupidity – the cult of Zero Covid, writes the ‘Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher’.
- “Favipiravir Study Enrollment Targeting COVID-19 in Japan Stopped Due to Omicron” – The company running the study, Fujifilm, decided Omicron was too mild to make it likely it would find a statistically significant impact on serious disease, reports TrialSite News.
- “Sheba Medical Center Study: Fourth mRNA Dose Only Offers Marginal Benefit at Best for Young, Healthy Populations” – A fourth COVID-19 vaccine fails to offer appropriate protection, reports a Sheba Medical Center-based study in Israel published in the New England Journal of Medicine, reports TrialSite News.
- “Is the death toll of the vaccines becoming impossible to ignore?” – D.V. Williamson takes a deep dive into the U.S. deaths data.
- “MIT’s new mask policy bans groups from forcing people to wear masks” – Steve Kirsch is pleased to hear that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has not only lifted its mask mandate but banned groups in the university from mandating masks as well.
- “China announces two new COVID-19 deaths bringing total to 4,638” – The National Health Commission said both deaths occurred in Jilin, the northeastern province which has been hardest-hit by a nationwide rise in cases that has prompted several lockdowns, reports the Mail. Just two, eh?
- “The Cult of Covid: How Lockdown Destroyed Britain” – As the pandemic has progressed, there is now clear evidence that Government interventions have been almost entirely wrong and have caused far more harm than good, says Jamie Walden in his newly revised and updated book.
- “Boris Johnson frustrated with Rishi Sunak over ‘resistance’ to new nuclear power plants” – Tension grows over the Treasury’s apparent reluctance to embrace ‘dash to nuclear’ that PM believes is needed to shore up U.K.’s energy supplies, reports the Telegraph.
- “Oh what a lovely war!” – First Gulf War veteran Roger Watson explains in the Salisbury Review why he is staying neutral in the Ukraine conflict.
- “Liz Truss: `Ludicrous debates´ about statutes and pronouns must end” – Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who is also the Government’s Equalities Minister, said the “constant self-questioning” and “ludicrous debates” on pronouns needed to cease, reports the Mail.
- “Great Ormond Street cancels trainee doctor conference over trans ‘safety’ complaints” – A Zoom conference descended into chaos as trans activists refused to appear alongside gender-critical speakers, reports the Telegraph.
- “Identity politics is eroding the values which set the West apart from Putin” – Our belief in liberty and individual responsibility is all that stands between us and tribal barbarism, writes Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
- “Tony Sewell deserves praise, not censure” – In attempting to smear him, his critics have debased the national conversation, writes Inaya Folarin Iman in the Telegraph.
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