- “These days no one cares if you’ve got Covid” – Everyone has had it and is now so over Covid that no one gives a flying fig about how thick the line on your lateral flow test is or what your symptoms are, says Aasmah Mir in the Times.
- “Hospitals are still clinging on to cruel Covid rules” – By denying patients the ability to see family, the public will conclude the NHS is merely using Covid as an excuse to avoid normality, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Children’s early development at risk as Covid still hampers vital NHS services” – Many speech and language drop-in centres remain closed, severely pared back or moved substantially online, reports the Telegraph.
- “Shanghai supermarkets looted by locals as Zero Covid lockdown goes on” – Looting and protests have broken out in locked down Shanghai after more than three weeks of the world’s harshest restrictions; food supplies are sparse, with many of the city’s 26 million people going hungry, reports the Mail.
- “B1.7bn for adverse jab effects” – The National Health Security Office in Thailand has provided more than 1.7 billion baht (£39 million) in financial compensation to more than 14,000 people who developed adverse effects from COVID-19 vaccinations, according to the Bangkok Post.
- “Boosters associated with higher death rates” – The English data show some worrying signs, says El Gato Malo.
- “Lockdowns, Not the Pandemic, Created Havoc” – Listen to Chris Calton on Mises Wire say those responsible for locking down much of the U.S. during Covid blame the pandemic for the economic and social havoc that followed, but they should look at the lockdowns themselves.
- “We used to have hangovers but it’s all Covid now” – It seems that the bureaucratic centralists of the NHS live in a world completely detached from the lives of the ordinary people of Britain, writes Roger Watson in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Deadly Daftodils” –Roger Watson in Country Squire wonders whether daffodils are the new Covid.
- “Climate anxiety is driving the West into dangerous mass hysteria” – Janet Daley in the Telegraph makes an appeal for calm rationality.
- “Pay more for power at peak hour under surge pricing plans” – The Business Secretary backs an energy billing shake-up that aims to reduce spikes in demand, the Telegraph reports.
- “Matt Le Tissier admits he was ‘wrong’ for tweet about Bucha massacre” – Le Tissier was heavily criticised this week after appearing to suggest that the media have lied about the unfolding horrors in eastern Europe, which have seen thousands of people killed, reports the Mail.
- “Full-scale NATO military force to defend borders” – Jens Stoltenberg, the chief of the alliance, reveals plans to deploy a permanent military presence sufficient to repel a Russian invasion, the Telegraph reports.
- “Equality chief: Trans activists will not sway rules on women-only spaces in their favour” – Writing in the Telegraph, Baroness Falkner says that the Equality and Human Rights Commission has a duty to uphold the law.
- “‘Decolonise’ maths by subtracting white male viewpoint, urges Durham University” – A new
anti-racist guide says professors must question themselves if they are citing work from “mostly white or male” mathematicians, the Telegraph reports. - “How Black Lives Matter became big business” – BLM has raised a lot of money, and done a lot of damage, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
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