- “Daily Covid cases fall to 77,500 in 14% drop in a week” – Government dashboard data show the number of people testing positive for Covid fell 14.2% in a week to 77,509 over the last 24 hours, down from the 90,349 recorded last Friday, reports the Mail.
- “England’s lockdown did NOT prevent Covid deaths, say experts” – Dr. Raghib Ali says that “despite England having less stringent restrictions we’ve had, if anything, a slightly lower death rate [than in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland]”, the Mail reports.
- “Twitter bans academic who shared Mail on Sunday article” – The social-media giant banned distinguished academic Carl Heneghan from its platform after he shared last weekend’s story Covid deaths being over-counted, the Mail reports.
- “A proper informed consent leads to 99.8% of army soldiers refusing to get vaccinated” – Army doctor Dr. Pete Chambers gave an informed consent briefing to 3,000 soldiers, after which just six soldiers wanted to be vaccinated – and Dr. Chambers was subsequently relieved of his duties, writes Steve Kirsch.
- “Was SARS-CoV-2 Designed to Spawn so Many Variants?” – Ralph Baric engineered a faster mutating SARS variant in 2010, writes Igor Chudov.
- “Why anti-vaxxers are starting new lives in exclusive tropical communes” – Promised a lush escape from the ‘open prison’ of the West, sceptics are moving thousands of miles away in search of a ‘free’ life, reports the Telegraph.
- “Mark Steyn, Guy Hatchard and the phoney Covid narrative” – Mark Steyn interviewed scientist Guy Hatchard on his GB News programme about the vaccine harms the mainstream isn’t talking about. Read the transcript on TCW Defending Freedom.
- “All schools to be open for 32.5 hours weekly by 2023, ministers will announce” – The Department for Education will set out plans next week, but headteachers are “unconvinced” saying schools need to be treated individually, reports the Telegraph.
- “Taxman has no plan to recover £39bn of Covid debt, say MPs” – HMRC must urgently begin to claw back “mountain” of tax debt built up during pandemic, committee says, the Telegraph reports.
- “Kwasi Kwarteng’s push for wind farms ‘could make Britain more reliant on gas’” – Campaigners claim that “desperate” Energy Secretary’s policy could punch a hole in the Government’s Net Zero ambitions, the Telegraph reports.
- “The Economist has lost the plot” – The magazine seems to think that virtuous self-denial would be a good way to help end energy dependency on Russia, says Juliet Samuel in the Telegraph.
- “Rebranded oil and gas regulator too ‘scared’ to be associated with fossil fuels, says MP” – Net Zero Scrutiny Group chairman says move against shale gas has “emboldened the Russian tyrant” as calls grow for a policy review, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Crippling’ sanctions could be lifted if Russia withdraws from Ukraine, says Liz Truss” – Foreign Secretary indicates a possible “off ramp” for Vladimir Putin, provided he agrees to “no further aggression”, reports the Telegraph.
- “The fall of Seattle” – After George Floyd died, the city turned on the police, says T.A. Frank in UnHerd.
- “It created an environment which led to the biggest assault on freedom of speech and democracy I’ve known in my lifetime” – Watch Ex-Sky and ITV News Executive Mark Sharman on GB News on Ofcom’s warning to “not question the official Government line”.
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