- “Health Care Workers Who Sued Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Win $10 Million Settlement” – A group of health care workers who sued their hospital over a COVID-19 vaccine mandate are slated to receive $10 million, according to the Epoch Times
- “GB News faces Ofcom investigation over host’s Covid booster claims” – Ofcom is investigating GB News, the Guardian reports, after Mark Steyn “wrongly alleged that having the extra dose was killing Britons”
- “AstraZeneca’s new Covid treatment stops virus mutating” – AstraZeneca says its new drug slashes the risk of new variants emerging, according to the Telegraph. No doses have been ordered yet
- “Shocking photos show animals tangled in face masks and gloves” – MailOnline publishes images collected by researchers from Dalhousie University in Canada showing animals tangled up in masks and gloves, with a significant majority involving birds
- “The WHO’s Reckless Disregard for Truth” – Writing for the Brownstone Institute, David Bell takes aim at the WHO over the latest update to its global COVID-19 vaccination strategy
- “Now We Know What It’s like To Live Among Lunatics” – “The hardest part of the past 28 months,” writes Mark Oshinskie at the Brownstone Institute, “has been being surrounded by so many people so deeply out of touch with reality”
- “L.A. County narrowly avoided a mask mandate. Can we keep BA.5 in check?” – The Los Angeles Times reports the city has escaped a renewed indoor mask mandate, as case number decline
- “LA’s largest hospital only treating five Covid patients as county weighs new mask mandates” – The Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Centre has announced that they have a total of five patients hospitalised for Covid, according to the Post Millennial
- “Working in No 10 was ‘like being Boris’s nanny’ says former aide” – Cleo Watson, a former aide to Boris Johnson has spilled some beans on her life inside No 10, MailOnline reports. Apparently, Boris had a “dubious attitude to handwashing and acted like a schoolboy when she checked his temperature as a warning he might have the virus”
- “How Wikipedia defames and delegitimises anybody raising concerns against the WHO narrative on Covid” – Professor Norman Fenton describes how his Wikipedia entry was hacked with “blatant lies and defamation”
- “The climate scaremongers: Was it really an unprecedented heatwave?” – “How exceptional were those temperatures?” asks Paul Homewood in TCW Defending Freedom
- “U.K. heatwave: Weather forecasters report unprecedented trolling” – The BBC reports that its weather team “received hundreds of abusive tweets or emails questioning their reports and telling them to ‘get a grip’”
- “The Great Climate Hoax?” – Climate change sceptics come in for a bit of teasing in Alistair Miller’s latest piece in the Salisbury Review
- “Climate Emergency Update” – Global hurricane activity and U.S. Tornado numbers well below average, Paul Homewood reports on Not A Lot of People Know That
- “Does the Associated Press expect journalists to lie?” – The new AP style guide on trans issues elevates gender ideology over the truth, says Jo Bartosch in Spiked
- “My son’s innocent teenage fumblings saw him branded a rapist” – An anonymous mother describes how her son’s immature flirtations led to his being labelled a sexual predator and suspended from his school
- “The rise and fall of Stonewall” – The Charity’s decline now appears to be rapid and terminal, writes Miriam Cates, rather optimistically, in the Telegraph
- “Russia facing ‘economic oblivion’ and losing financial war with West” – A new study looking at Russian consumer and trade data has found that the country “has no way out of economic oblivion”, MailOnline reports
- “Dutch farmers touch off a worldwide revolt” – Writing for Spectator World, Samuel Dutschmann looks at how farmers around the world are coming out in solidarity with the Dutch protest
- “Europe’s energy crisis deepens as more countries try to save power” – Pedro Sanchez, the Spanish PM has urged all public sector workers to ditch the neck-wear to stay cool instead of using air con, MailOnline says
- “Could U.K. be forced to turn off the lights like Germany to save energy?” – Once again, the lamps appear to be going out all over Europe, according to MailOnline
- “We are finally winning the battle against wokery” – Recent victories for common sense highlight the need to fight boldly on all fronts of the culture war, says David Abulafia in the Telegraph
- “Rishi Sunak seeks to revive faltering No 10 bid by attacking ‘woke nonsense’” – Rishi Sunak is “wading in to a series of so-called culture war issues”, the Guardian says, in a bid to revive his flagging leadership campaign
- “Police commissioner criticises own force over social media arrest” – Donna Jones, a Police and Crime Commissioner, has criticised her force for sending officers to arrest a man for an offensive social media post, the Evening Standard reports
- “Fact check: Scientists at CERN are not opening a ‘portal to hell’” – USA Today facts checks the TikTok video, claiming that scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research are using their particle accelerator to open a doorway for demons
- “Wikipedia just changed the definition of recession” – The Ministry of Truth is rewriting everything in front of your eyes, says Dr. Eli David
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