- “Parents’ fury over schools choosing to shut due to U.K.’s heatwave” – Parents across England have said the “totally ridiculous” situation has led to “chaos” as they are forced to juggle last-minute childcare alongside their jobs, reports the Mail.
- “The heatwave green hysteria is out of control” – The unhinged eco-dread over the heatwave exposes how millenarian environmentalism has become, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Whisper it, but we’re allowed to enjoy the heatwave” – The heatwave is just the latest manifestation of our public authorities’ obsession with doom, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “The return of Covid fearmongering” – The usual suspects have been out in force demanding greater health restrictions as the story of rising Covid cases is peddled through the media, write Toby Green and Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
- “Settling the virus debate challenge from Dr. Sam Bailey” – Steve Kirsch says the virus-deniers have a new challenge out, but won’t debate any of his team, won’t tell him what he caught if it wasn’t Covid, and want five labs to work for free.
- “We’re in danger of learning the wrong lessons from Covid” – There is a risk that the narrow inquiry will tell us little about what we should have done differently, says Sunetra Gupta in the Telegraph.
- “Rishi is accused of peddling a ‘fairytale’ over his Covid loans scheme by one of his former ministers – as Lord Agnew says ex-Chancellor allowed billions of pounds to be lost to fraud that could have been used to tackle cost-of-living crisis” – The Mail reports that Lord Agnew, who quit as a Treasury minister in January, today tore into Mr Sunak’s record as Chancellor as he accused Mr Sunak of frittering away taxpayers’ cash.
- “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Takes on Fauci in ‘Most Important Book’ of our Times” – Bill Rice Jr. reviews Kennedy’s new book on Anthony Fauci for UncoverDC.
- “The crushing power of the pharmaceutical industry – a sorry tale” – Dr. Malcolm Kendrick tells the disturbing story of the power of the pharmaceutical industry to crush all dissent, with the key player Dr. Aseem Malhotra.
- “Confirmed: General indoor mask mandates will return to Germany in the Fall” – Eugyppius offers some thoughts on the “blindingly stupid arguments about why the German Federal Government should be allowed to force everybody to wear diapers on their faces for no reason”.
- “Cheating is rife, students are depressed – universities must end ‘remote learning’” – Having exams in person isn’t just a way to prevent cheating, it’s about giving students a normal university experience, writes Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “Djokovic and the US Open: Let Him Play” – The international humiliation inflicted so publicly on Djokovic in pursuit of vaccine apartheid was morally corrupt, says Ramesh Thakur in Brownstone.
- “The Never Ending Medical Emergency” – Is this medical emergency justified, or does it reflect yet more mis- dis- and mal-information from the HHS administrative state, asks Dr. Robert Malone in Brownstone.
- “The Culpability of the New York Times: Then and Now” – Jeffrey A. Tucker in Brownstone on the suspiciously simultaneous flipping to start pushing lockdowns on February 27th 2020 and the central role of the Gray Lady in that propaganda drive.
- “Investigating trends in those who experience menstrual bleeding changes after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination” – A study in Science finds that 42% of women with regular menstrual cycles bled more heavily than usual following Covid vaccination.
- “Volodymyr Zelensky sacks top aides over ‘Russian collaboration’” – The President said more than 60 officials from the two top aides’ agencies were now working against Ukraine in Russian-occupied territories, reports the Telegraph.
- “Gazprom cuts gas supplies as Kremlin escalates energy war in Europe” – Western governments accuse Russia of exacerbating the continent’s cost of living crisis in retaliation for sanctions over the Ukraine war, reports the Telegraph.
- “Please stop saying hot drinks cool you down” – Everyone loves a counterintuitive scientific belief, but Stuart Ritchie is sceptical of this one.
- “Unsuitable For Children Under 30?” – The absurdity of protecting university students from ‘harmful’ literature reaches new heights, says Thorsteinn Siglaugsson.
- “Why did the ACLU push for gender self-ID in prisons?” – News that a women’s prison in New Jersey has recently moved a transgender prisoner to a male facility after impregnating two females highlights a grim fact: that the movement we once knew as the Left has been colonised by an elite campaign to abolish material reality to the detriment of everyone else, writes Mary Harrington in UnHerd.
- “Kemi Badenoch is anti-woke, loves Britain – and is not afraid to take on the ‘hateful’ Left” – Among Conservative MPs, there is little doubt that she will play a big part in the future of the party, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
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