- “Covid can no longer be an excuse for shoddy customer service” – Britain’s biggest firms are still blaming the pandemic for their customer service woes, according to the Telegraph.
- “Covid Freedom Day? No thanks, say German regions fearful of rising cases” – Germans are still expected to wear masks and show their vaccine passports when entering shops and other venues, the Telegraph reports.
- “The reasons why Covid infection rates are rising again in Wales” – Dr. Giri Shankar, one of the incident directors for the COVID-19 response at Public Health Wales, stresses that the virus has not gone away, in a myth-stuffed WalesOnline report that indulges in another round of ‘blame the unvaccinated’.
- “‘Airbrushing’ children’s lockdown experiences from the Covid inquiry is a ‘shocking oversight’” – Molly Kingsley, co-founder of parents campaign group UsForThem, is now calling for a separate children’s inquiry to be conducted, the Telegraph reports.
- “Military Physicians: Pentagon Database Shows Many Service Members Have Been Injured By Mandated Covid Vaccines” – Report from TrialSite News that three military flight surgeons testified in federal court in Tampa, Florida that United States military personnel were being injured by Covid mRNA vaccines at a higher rate than is being publicly disclosed by Government officials.
- “Should we worry about the BA.2 Omicron variant?” – Cases are rising across Europe and deaths are soaring in Hong Kong, but our defences are strong, argues Francois Balloux in the Spectator.
- “COVID-19 Deaths Surge in Hong Kong Due to Under-Vaxxed Elderly, Low Natural Immunity and Overstretched Health System” – TrialSite News says it’s a perfect storm for the death of thousands of mostly elderly at-risk residents in the bustling, crowded city now under the rule of mainland China.
- “Bit late for that Joe! Biden urges Americans to ‘stop seeing each other as enemies’ in bid to heal Covid rifts over face-coverings, vaccines and school closings as he says Americans can finally return to normal life” – President Biden, facing an average approval rating of just 41.1%, seems to be changing his tone ahead of this year’s midterm elections, which are expected to deliver a blow to the Democrats, reports the Mail.
- “The Government’s absurd commitment to Net Zero is impoverishing the nation ” – The Climate Change Act has painted the Prime Minister into a corner, argues Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “Novelist Anne Tyler fears cancel culture will soon stop her from writing male lead characters” – The Pulitzer prize-winning author says she is “astonished” at how the issue of appropriation has taken hold of the industry, reports the Telegraph.
- “Discrimination row after Oxford college cancels Christian event” – Telegraph report that Worcester College apologised for hosting a Christian Concern training camp amid “ill-founded” complaints that students were “distressed” by it, as Toby writes to the college on behalf of the Free Speech Union warning of a risk of discrimination against Christian Concern and calling on the college leadership to apologise and reinstate the booking for the coming year.
- “The Cancellation of Russian Culture” – Even at the height of the Cold War, no one thought of banning Russian literature, art, or music, says Gary Saul Morson in First Things.
- “The woke university in a clinch with the People’s Republic of China” – While it has cancelled its alumnus Tony Sewell over his racism report, Nottingham has embraced authoritarian China, writes Jonathan Margolis in the Telegraph.
- “Teach bad and good of Empire, urges minister” – Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch said that children should be taught about both the good and bad aspects of the British Empire, reports the Mail. Watch Kemi’s appearance on Times Radio here.
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