- “Covid cases rise by another 10% in England… but experts say it’s proof outbreak really has peaked” – The Office for National Statistics’ infection survey estimated 3.14 million people had the virus on any given day in the most recent week, up just 9% on the previous seven days, reports the Mail.
- “Laundering the death numbers” – HART spots a problem with the latest ONS deaths by vaccination status data.
- “Are masks bad for you?” – Michael Simmons in the Spectator reports on the recent Nature study findings nasty bugs on masks.
- “New study shows ivermectin can reduce chance of death by 92%” – Steve Kirsch reports on the latest large ivermectin study.
- “‘How do we bring an end to the doom-mongering?’” – Archbishop Cranmer contemplates what may be needed to dispel the hysteria over heatwaves, Covid and other modern terrors.
- “The European Heat Wave and Global Warming” – Ironically, such an extraordinarily extreme event is a sign that global warming played a very small role in this event, says Cliff Mass in WUWT.
- “Brave and digital Ukraine” – Mykhailo Fedorov, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, has promised that by 2030, Ukraine will be the freest and most digital country in the world, but Laura Dodsworth spies the unwelcome potential for social control.
- “XVI: Classical Music’s Suicide Pact feat. Heather Mac Donald” – Listen to the Quillette podcast with Heather Mac Donald discussing her recent articles “Classical Music’s Suicide Pact” and “Making Beethoven Woke”.
- “Inside the Woke Meltdown at One Domestic Violence Organisation” – Aaron Sibarium in the Washington Free Beacon records the shocking fact that Women Against Abuse discouraged black domestic abuse victims from calling the police.
- “Girl Guides sparks trans row by issuing statement from parents who let their seven-year-old son live their ‘true gender’ as a girl – in article blasted as ‘dangerous, reality-defying nonsense’” – Girl Guides has sparked a trans row after publishing an interview with the parents of a child who began ‘living as a girl’ from the age of five, reports the Mail.
- “Sacked for Christian beliefs” – Maureen Martin speaks from experience as she writes in the Critic on how cancel culture targets jobs to curtail free speech.
- “English Rugby wants to ban transgender women” – The current policy had seen the English game’s governing body allow some transgender women to play women’s rugby on a case-by-case basis, but a move is underway to remove the exceptions, the Mail reports.
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