- “Father-of-two, 58, ‘left paralysed’ by first AstraZeneca Covid jab must use wheelchair and walking frame after 420 days in hospital” – Former security worker Anthony Shingler from Stoke on Trent spent 410 days in hospital and was left “paralysed” after taking his first AstraZeneca jab, reports the Mail.
- “Austria Set to Retire the Vaccine Mandate by End of August” – Eugyppius writes that the Health Minister has admitted the law “isn’t convincing anyone to accept vaccination” and has been responsible for deep social rifts.
- “Covid jabs ‘saved 20 million lives during first year of roll-out’” – A major new modelling paper from Imperial claims 20 million people across the globe would have died in 2021 if not for the Covid vaccine, reports the Mail. Ah yes, Imperial’s modelling…
- “Johnson’s flaws may be ‘hard-wired’, but he’s still morally to blame” – Even though he has not acted alone, as Prime Minister the buck stops with him, writes Frank Palmer in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Pfizer vaccine and Covid mortality: a call for retraction of publications from Israel” – Professor Eyal Shahar on Medium argues that the Israel vaccine studies are flawed because they used deaths with rather than from Covid.
- “Why are we hearing about polio again?” – Roger Watson in TCW Defending Freedom asks some questions about the ‘outbreak’.
- “‘Era of cheap Chinese manufacturing over,’ says Nat Rothschild” – The Telegraph reports that the British industrialist says that with China becoming unreliable owing to its fixation with Zero Covid more companies are now looking to factories in Europe and Central America.
- “Mathew Crawford: Fraud in the Military’s Health Database?” – Watch Mathew Crawford explain his discovery of a “smoking gun” that someone altered the 2016-2019 data of the U.S. military database to hide an explosion of ill-defined health problems in 2021.
- “Swedish vaccine injury data” – El Gato Malo digs into the Swedish vaccine adverse event reports.
- “Great Britain is decaying before our eyes” – Of course people are furious: nothing works, nobody is working, and everything is going to the dogs, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “EU Commissioner Claims Bloc Never Pushed People to Get COVID Vaccine” – EU Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Jourová shocked observers when she asserted that the bloc had never required its citizens to receive a COVID-19 vaccination in order for them to have access to public services and that claims to the contrary had primarily been made by what she called “anti-vaccine activists”, reports Save Britain.
- “The Mainstream Begins to See Lockdowns were a Catastrophe” – According to study by the World Bank, published in Nature, lockdowns and the response to COVID-19 have pushed an additional 75 million people into extreme poverty – though inevitably they blame this on “the pandemic”, writes Michael Senger on his Substack page.
- “Ding et al. Form World Health Network, Declare Monkeypox Pandemic” – Michael Senger says the newly-formed “World Health Network” – featuring many of the usual Zero Covid lockdown zealots – has unilaterally declared Monkeypox a pandemic.
- “Martin Kulldorff: Lessons from Sweden for the next pandemic” – Watch UnHerd‘s Freddie Sayers live in conversation with the co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration.
- “Sen. Rand Paul Continues to Grill Fauci on Evidence for Boosts for Children and NIH Royalties” – TrialSite News reports that Sen. Paul asked Dr. Fauci: “Are you aware of any studies that show reduction of hospitalisation or death for children who take a booster?” No, not yet, was Dr. Fauci’s reply.
- “Please complain to Advertising Standards Authority re NHS poster advertising COVID-19 vaccines for children five to 11 years” – The UKMFA is encouraging concerned members of the public to complain about the NHS Covid vaccine ads directed at children.
- “Our Russia strategy has backfired” – Biden is more likely to be toppled than Putin, writes Anusar Farooqui in UnHerd.
- “Boris Johnson hits the brakes on biofuel as he slashes Net-Zero targets to tackle cost of living crisis” – The Prime Minister has hit the brakes in the push for green fuel, citing concerns that the drive may contribute to spiralling inflation, reports the Mail.
- “It’s time to say goodbye to the LGBTQ+ flag” – It has become as ridiculous as it is meaningless, says Julie Bindel in UnHerd.
- “Anguish of young man who had sex organs removed as he sues NHS” – He complains that doctors did not warn him of the drastic outcome of the body-altering surgery which has left him infertile, incontinent and feeling like a “sexual eunuch”, reports the Mail. Expect many more of these.
- “The BBC gets new orders: back trans rights, ignore women” – James Kirkup in the Spectator says Ofcom’s report on the BBC’s impartial coverage of trans issues not only fails entirely to mention women’s legitimate concerns, but effectively tells the corporation that its coverage doesn’t lean far enough towards the pro-trans side. And this is the regulator the Tories are so keen to hand new powers to over online content.
- “I Criticized BLM. Then I Was Fired” – The data about police shootings just didn’t add up, but no one at Reuters wanted to hear it, writes Zac Kriegman, the news agency’s former head of data, on Common Sense.
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