- “Bank of England staff in the office just one day a week” – Bank of England staff spend the majority of the week working from home despite ministers urging workers to go back to the office, the Telegraph reports.
- “Treasury civil servants warned: you’re being tracked to see if you’re really coming to work” – The Telegraph reports on a clampdown on working from home culture as staff attendance is monitored through office entry passes.
- “China’s Zero-Covid horror show is inspiring Taiwan to open up” – The Covid shackles are now coming off across Asia, writes Ian Williams in the Spectator.
- “‘Lockdown established a new caste system’” – Jay Bhattacharya lays out for Spiked‘s Brendan O’Neill the devastating consequences of lockdown for the world’s poorest.
- “COVID-19 Infection 1,000X More Likely from Air than from Solid Surface: University of Michigan Study” – TrialSite News reports that SARS-CoV-2 is 1,000 times more likely to spread from airborne transmission than from solid surfaces, according to the results of a two-year study conducted at University of Michigan.
- “Michelle Mone: first lady of lingerie embroiled in criminal investigation over £200m PPE contract” – A dozen unmarked police cars rolled into the Isle of Man’s capital as part of an investigation of a firm linked to the peer, reports the Times.
- “Voters won’t forgive self-righteous hypocrisy, Sir Keir” – “We were in the office to do work,” Sir Keir Starmer told TV interviewer Susanna Reid last Wednesday. Labour lied, and lied, and lied again, says Dan Hodges in the Mail.
- “Team Blue, Red or Orange? Who cares!” – Should you go Team Blue, Team Red, or Team Orange? Does it particularly matter – the same effluent will flow out the pipe of Government, writes Frederick Edward in Bournbrook.
- “Shielding instead of lockdowns would have been ‘catastrophic’” – A new study shows “even in the most optimistic shielding scenario there would have been tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths from Covid”, according to Michael Fitzpatrick in the Telegraph. The study is entirely based on modelling untroubled by empirical data, however, so can be safely ignored.
- “Increased deaths in England for the age-range given the spring booster dose of Covid vaccine” – Once again the rollout of a dose of vaccine has been associated with an increase in excess deaths, writes Amanuensis on Bartram’s Folly.
- “Woman goes blind in one eye after appointments cancelled due to Covid” – Janet Harris, 80, had attended three appointments to monitor her eye pressure in 2019 before the pandemic cancelled follow ups – which she says led to the loss of sight in the eye, the Mail reports.
- “The Bangladesh Mask study: a Bayesian perspective” – Professor Norman Fenton says the Bangladeshi mask study, which claimed to find a statistically significant reduction in infections for surgical masks, should be corrected or retracted as its conclusions misrepresent the data and are statistically invalid.
- “Pilots Injured by Covid Vaccines Speak Out: ‘I Will Probably Never Fly Again’” – Pilots injured by COVID-19 vaccines said despite a “culture of fear and intimidation” they are compelled to speak out against vaccine mandates that rob pilots of their careers – and in some cases their lives, according to the Epoch Times.
- “If 2022” – An amusing and cynical re-write of Kipling’s classic in honour of the MPs who’ve failed us all during the pandemic. “If you can bear to hear the safety-speak you’ve spoken / Exposed as coercive, pointless rules, / Or watch the things commoners gave their lives to, broken, / And stoop and smash ’em up again with new-found tools.”
- “Participate in the SurfaceStations Project – Version 2” – Anthony Watts in Watts Up With That? on his new project to check-up on the suitability of the location of the U.S. surface temperature measurement stations.
- “Why is Extinction Rebellion protesting against gender-critical feminists?” – Eco-warriors seem determined to alienate as many people from their cause as possible, says Paul Stott in Spiked.
- “Decolonise your ears as Mozart’s works may be an instrument of Empire, students told” – Undergraduates on a University of Cambridge music course are taught to view classical works as an “imperial phenomenon”, according to the Telegraph.
- “If only hunchbacks can play Richard III, why stop there?” – In modern theatre, it seems no dramatic instruction can be taken too literally, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Petition: Do not sign any WHO Pandemic Treaty unless it is approved via public referendum” – Tony Hinton promotes the U.K. petition trying to stop the global lockdown treaty.
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