- “Covid in China: Million in lockdown in Wuhan after four cases” – The city where Covid began is under partial lockdown for the first time since the start of the pandemic after just four reported infections, reports BBC News.
- “WHO’s Susan Michie: my politics are my business” – UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers spoke to the new WHO Nudge Unit chair to discuss the politics of public health, where she repeated her weird claim that her political leanings towards a mass-murdering totalitarian ideology should be of no concern to anyone else.
- “Has the lab leak theory really been disproved?” – Matt Ridley in the Spectator sets out what’s wrong with the new papers in Science purporting to provide support for the wet market theory and even more wrong with the media coverage.
- “Japanese Government set to pay benefits over death after Covid shot for first time” – The Japanese Government is set to offer a lump-sum payment under the country’s vaccine redress system following the death of an elderly woman, the Mainichi reports.
- “Leading coronavirus scientist who insisted U.K. could fight pandemic without pandemic-era restrictions is now getting hate mail from Zero Covid zealots who say his opinion is ‘dangerous’ and think we still need ‘measures’ now” – The Mail does its bit for consigning lockdowns to history with an interview with Professor Paul Hunter, which says that when Britain was staring down the barrel of Omicron and yet another round of economically-devastating curbs, he saw no reason to hit the panic button.
- “‘Excess death patterns point to Covid jabs’” – Graham Crawford in Holding the Line writes about Edinburgh professor Richard Ennos’s claim that the latest data confirm a causal relationship.
- “Remote learning was built to fail” – Disastrous school shutdowns were no innocent mistake but their failure was entirely foreseeable, says Will Collins in UnHerd.
- “Bombshell: Template to Export Lockdowns Existed by 2014” – Michael Senger digs into internet history and finds that bots supported Sierra Leone’s unprecedented Ebola lockdowns in 2014 and 2015 with millions of posts specifically using the word “lockdown”.
- “A whole world of mRNA vaccine side effect case reports” – Alex Berenson rounds up some recent case reports in the medical literature.
- “The Missing Third Death from Pfizer-BioNTech’s Pivotal Article and a Further Look at the ‘Non-Related’ Adverse Events” – Sonia Elijah in Trial Site News on the mysterious third death acknowledged in the Pfizer trial documents released under court order but not in the official report.
- “Incompetents abroad” – Our hopeless foreign policy elite has no idea of what winning in Ukraine looks like or how to bring it about, says the Critic in its leading article.
- “The lights are going out across Europe” – The EU’s plan for mandatory gas rationing is utterly terrifying, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “New Surface Stations Report Released – It’s ‘worse than we thought’” – Anthony Watts writes on WUWT about a new report on official North American temperature stations which found they produce corrupted data due to purposeful placement in man-made hot spots and that the heat-bias distortion problem is even worse now than in 2009.
- “Why are we so afraid of nuclear power?” – The Spectator republishes a piece from last year about the importance of nuclear power by the scientist and environmentalist James Lovelock, who has died aged 103.
- “The Church of England now preaches the Gospel of Woke” – Romy Cerratti writes for TCW Defending Freedom that the CofE’s latest strategies’ include allocating £190 million “to help the Church of England transition to Net Zero” and “£20 million on work to promote Racial Justice”. That’ll get the punters in.
- “‘Dangerous’ transgender man tricked women into sex and assaulted them” – The Telegraph reports that Tarjit Singh is labelled a risk to the public by a judge who jailed ‘him’ (i.e., her) for 13 years. Bizarrely, the Telegraph report uses male pronouns for the defendant throughout, repeating the very lie that forms the heart of the abuse.
- “BBC please note, there is nothing wicked about whiteness” – Making people feel ashamed of their skin colour is wrong regardless if it comes from old-fashioned racists or supposed progressives, says Fraser Myers in the Telegraph.
- “New medical guidelines for trans patients are too political” – The latest RCOG advice bears all the hallmarks of transgender activism, says Debbie Hayton in UnHerd.
- “How Allison Bailey exposed the trans lobby” – Jo Bartosch in Spiked on Allison Bailey’s court win and how it underlines that we all have the right to reject gender ideology.
- “Why should straight white men ‘pass the power’?” – Douglas Murray in the Spectator notes that this week Twitter banned the use of the word ‘groomer’ as it is now the word used by conservatives and gender-critical to criticise those who foist LGBT ideology on children.
- “Trans parents should be given ‘chestfeeding’ support” – The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has released the first draft guidance of its kind and it’s as woke as feared, reports the Telegraph.
- “The truth about trans teaching in schools” – Joanna Williams in the Spectator with a detailed report of what children are being told about gender identity around the country.
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