- “NHS to call on volunteers to drive emergency patients to hospital” – London Ambulance Service is to pilot a scheme aimed at those with mobility problems in “category 3” as senior doctors warn of “staggeringly bad” delays to emergency care, the Telegraph reports.
- “Whatever happened to the Novavax Covid vaccine?” – The jab, seen as an alternative for people who are hesitant about gene-based vaccines, is widely available in the EU but still not cleared for use in the U.K., reports BBC News.
- “Britain is far from the laughing stock of the world” – Ignore the self-loathers, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph. In most other countries, Partygate wouldn’t even bubble to the surface, and the bigger truth is this: Britain is not rubbish, not even close – a truth that is self-evident in comparison with the rest of the world.
- “Justin Welby can’t see that modern societies need borders to survive” – Whatever the Archbishop believes, offshoring asylum seekers who come to Britain illegally, while establishing dedicated resettlement programmes for those most in need of support, is sensible policy and a real achievement for Priti Patel, says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “Unelected virtue-signallers like Justin Welby are out of step with the public on asylum policy” – Latest polling shows that the plan to relocate to Rwanda many of those arriving undocumented on cross-Channel dinghies is hugely popular, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph.
- “J.K. Rowling snubbed by Platinum Jubilee reading list” – J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter, almost certainly the U.K.’s largest literary export over the period, has been left out alongside J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings – beloved since its publication in 1954, reports the Mail.
- “University to Pay $400,000 to Professor Punished for Refusing to Use Student’s Preferred Pronouns” – The professor argued that obliging the student’s requests would violate his own convictions as a Christian, reports the National Review.
- “No, maths is not racist” – Durham University’s plans to ‘decolonise’ maths are absurd, writes Gareth Sturdy in Spiked.
- “Casualties of War” – “A Russophile for as long as I can remember,” writes the pseudonymous Robert Ginzburg in Quillette, “in my Southern Russian city I felt, to a great extent, that I was among my own. I continued to feel that way until the early morning of February 24th, 2022, when a chasm suddenly opened up, perhaps permanently.”
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