- “‘Seven in 10’ people in England have had Covid at least once” – The Telegraph reports new estimates showing that Covid has infected more than 70% of people in England since the end of April 2020
- “How lockdown robbed the poor to enrich the elite” – The Conservative Woman’s Kathy Gyngell recommends Dr. Jay Bhattacharya’s recent interview with Jan Jekielek of Epoch TV
- “Lord Sumption in the bear-pit” – Jon Dobinson interviews Supreme Court Justice Lord Jonathan Sumption about life in the lockdown years for Time for Recovery
- “Covid Policy Tactics Were Borrowed from the Vietnam War” – “A consensus will emerge that the Coronavirus response was, like the Vietnam War, a colossal, politically-driven, panic-driven, inter-generationally unjust, deeply destructive over-reaction that caused far more harm than they prevented,” writes Mark Oshinskie for the Brownstone Institute
- “Why Is CDC Trying to Put a Mask on Your Face Again?” – Jeffrey A. Tucker of the Brownstone Institute takes aim at the CDC and the Department of Justice as they move to appeal the recent court decision ending the transportation mask mandate
- “Joe Rogan rips Stephen Colbert for palling around with Dems, touting vaccine” – The New York Post highlights Rogan’s mockery of Colbert for his chumminess with leading Democrats and his pro-vaccination song
- “Serum Institute of India halts vaccine production over millions of unused doses” – The Serum Institute has stopped making fresh batches of Covid vaccines amid a global supply glut, according to the Times of India
- “‘A betrayal of China’? Debate over COVID-19 remedy turns political” – Sceptics who have questioned the value of traditional Chinese medicine Lianhua Qingwen as a COVID-19 treatment are coming under attack on Chinese social media, says the South China Morning Post
- “Shanghai escalates Covid lockdown restrictions” – Shanghai authorities are set to install electronic door alarms to prevent infected people from leaving their homes, reports the BBC
- “Shanghai grandmother uses broom to fight off hazmat-wearing staff in daring quarantine escape” – The Telegraph compiles social media videos showing an elderly Chinese lady breaking out of a quarantine centre
- “I meet the brave doctors hounded for prescribing ivermectin” – James Bembridge gives the Conservative Woman an account of his meetings with Zimbabwean doctors using ivermectin to treat Covid
- “Time to raise our standards” – A passionate cri du coeur from Omar Khan on the post lockdown future of Sri Lanka, published in Daily FT
- “The Tories won’t back Boris Johnson, but they aren’t ready to sack him either” – “We could well be hearing the sound of a party deciding to stick with the devil it knows,” writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph
- “Boris is choosing to make you poorer” – “The eco tax system is totally regressive,” Ross Clark argues in the Spectator
- “The Triumph of Janet” – New Substacker Himbonomics takes aim at the gerontocracy and its unholy alliance with the Tory Party. A bit wonky, but nice combo of despairing rage and world-weariness
- “New Green NCAP emissions ratings cast doubt on electric cars’ green credentials” – Auto Express looks at new car eco-ratings which suggest that “electric vehicles in general may have similar or even a higher primary energy demand than a comparable conventional car”
- “Earth Day At 52: None of the eco-doomsday predictions have come true” – Net Zero Watch celebrates the 52nd Earth Day with a retrospective on the apocalyptic predictions that were being made on and around Earth Day 1970
- “Michael Tracey: when does anti-war become pro-Putin?” – UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers interviews Michael Tracey, the U.S. journalist committed to exposing what he calls the “proxy warmongering” of Western powers
- “The Grenfell effigy and the fall of liberal Britain” – Writing in Spiked, Tom Slater sounds the alarm that a “man has narrowly escaped prison for distributing an offensive joke, in private” in 21st-century Britain
- “Plymouth University accused of ‘gaslighting’ women students over signs” – Female students at the University of Plymouth have been warned not to challenge anyone they suspect of using the wrong bathroom, MailOnline reports. Instead they should “protect them from harm”
- “Lamenting lost Bobbies” – “It seems your best chance of coming face to face with a police officer these days is to make an inappropriate comment about transgenderism on social media,” writes Roger Watson in the New Conservative
- “Why Libs of TikTok terrifies the media” – Washington Post‘s witch hunt against Libs of TikTok – whose identity it revealed this week – is “fuelled by envy”, says Kat Rosenfield in UnHerd
- “Barack Obama Calls for More Censorship: First Amendment ‘Does Not Apply to Facebook and Twitter’” – The former President has called for more regulation of social media companies, Breitbart reports, because on Twitter there is no way to distinguish between “a peer-reviewed article by Dr. Anthony Fauci and a miracle cure pitched by a huckster”. Fauci? Really?
- “Will Elon Musk Take Over Twitter?” – Daniel Friedman speculates on Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter in Quillette
- “Elon Musk is poised to collect a $23 billion bonus from Tesla” – Tesla has posted a record $3.3 billion quarterly profit, according to MailOnline, and Elon Musk is a whole lot richer
- “What do all those over-knighted nitwits have to say about this” – Mark Steyn lays it on the line about the booster shots on the latest episode of his GB News show
- “We are not going to use your tax dollars to teach our kids to hate this country or to hate each other” – Ron DeSantis makes it clear he is the most anti-woke Governor in the U.S.
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