- “U.S. FDA flags risk of heart inflammation after Novavax Covid vaccine” – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has raised concerns about a possible risk of heart inflammation from Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine, reports Reuters.
- “An epidemic of misguided moralising” – The difference between vaccine sceptics and advocates is not as great as it appears, argues Emily Schroeder in the Critic.
- “Wind farm and nuclear electricity could be exempt from windfall tax” – Rishi Sunak consults on plans for a North Sea oil and gas tax to cover only profits on electricity generated from fossil fuels, the Telegraph reports.
- “The Road to Genocide” – The Uyghurs have the potential to threaten China’s national unity, which is the real reason we are seeing the largest incarceration of an ethnic or religious minority since the Holocaust, writes Aaron Sarin in Quillette.
- “Nurses boycott Royal College after chief rejects gender-critical views” – Members say the comments by Pat Cullen on the transgender debate have created a “hostile environment” and they no longer feel safe airing opinions, reports the Telegraph.
- “Census could ask ‘do you menstruate?’ instead of ‘are you female?’ to be inclusive of trans people” – A Government-funded project has assessed how legal sex would be abolished in England and Wales and replaced with a single ‘gender’ category, the Telegraph reports.
- “Vandals attack restaurant after J.K. Rowling and friends raised £18,500 for charity and owner was targeted by trans activists on social media with a stream of hate messages and one-star reviews” – A London restaurateur who defended J.K. Rowling in an online spat with trans activists has shared images after the windows of one his businesses were smashed open, the Mail reports.
- “Teens having breasts cut off will not solve problems” – Transgender Trend’s Stephanie Davies-Arai, who has just been awarded a BEM, writes for the Mail that over the years she has been accused of wanting to ‘erase trans children’, of being ‘anti trans’ and worse, but her only aim has been to safeguard children.
- “Trans women cyclists take first and second place in ‘non-binary’ race” – A cycling race aimed at inclusivity for trans and non-binary people has been criticised on social media after trans cyclists came first and second, the Mail reports.
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