- “What do people opposed to lockdowns actually think?” – In an essay for Time for Recovery, Raminder Mulla, Amy Willows and Rusere Shoniwa investigate the motivations of those who opposed the lockdowns
- “‘Living with Covid’: Where the pandemic could go next” – “Cases may surge again in the coming months,” Reuters warns, but “deaths and hospitalisations are unlikely to rise with the same intensity”
- “The Earliest Days of the Italian Pandemic, or: Why Nobody Wants To Talk About February 2020 Anymore” – “By the time pandemicists started rooting through their bag of tricks, the virus had been circulating for months with nobody noticing,” writes Eugyppius in his latest barnstormer
- “Jean-Pierre says Biden still has ‘lingering symptoms’ but feels well” – White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that the President has mild “lingering symptoms” but, according to the Daily Mail, she took pains to avoid saying what they were
- “Long Covid comes in ‘three different forms’ that are ‘evident in all variants’” – Using data from the ZOE app, Scientists from Kings College London have found that there are three different types of Long Covid, the Telegraph reports
- “NYT Goes to War on Parents Opposed to School Closures & Mandates” – Michael P. Senger takes aim at an article in the New York Times for its attack on parents whose politics changed in response to school closures
- “The Lockdowns Kicked Off this Depression” – “The emergency of our times is undeniable,” writes Jeffrey A. Tucker at the Brownstone Institute. “It was all kicked off by the most draconian and destructive public-health policy on record”
- “Inside the super-secure Swiss lab trying to stop the next pandemic” – Reuters pays a visit to Speiz Laboratory in Switzerland, the site of World Health Organisation’s first BioHub
- “New Evidence: Fauci Imposed a Vaccine Delay that Cost Trump the Election” – Toby Rogers highlights a new book which reveals that Dr. Fauci forced Moderna to delay their clinical trials by three weeks – pushing the release of the results back to after the 2020 presidential election
- “Miscarriages and a medical conspiracy of silence” – “In the U.K., Yellow Card reports include almost a thousand miscarriages and stillbirths,” writes Niall McCrae in TCW Defending Freedom. “What is going on?”
- “New Zealand fully reopens borders after long pandemic closure” – New Zealand’s border are now ‘fully reopened’ according to the BBC, glossing over the fact that most visitors still need to be fully vaccinated
- “Portugal: The one Covid rule to remember in these nine stunning spots” – Portugal has extended its Covid state of emergency until the end of August, Euronews reports. Masks are required on public transport
- “Climate endgame: risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored’” – An international team of experts is arguing that world needs to start preparing for possible ‘climate endgame’, the Guardian reports
- “A catastrophic energy crisis will fuel a revolt against our failed elites” – “Politicians cannot shirk responsibility now for the extreme hardship millions of people are about to face,” says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph
- “Florida Gov Ron DeSantis vows to fight ‘woke CEOs’ at financial services like PayPal” – The Independent reports that Governor Ron DeSantis has announced his next target in the culture wars: woke CEOs
- “How ESG banking turned into woke tyranny” – There brews “a growing and long overdue backlash against ESG investing”, says this Spectator World editorial
- “The police crackdown on social media has gone too far” – In the Spectator, Harry Miller tells of how he ended up in a police cell after he intervened following the arrest of an army veteran for causing ‘anxiety’ with a social media post
- “Our woke civil service is frustrating democracy” – “Many senior public sector leaders now take their instructions on policy from internal networks of activists,” writes Ian Acheson, a former senior official, in Spiked. “It’s not endemic, but it is entrenched”
- “Understanding Woke Tactics Pt. 7: Call-Outs” – “The woke do not want to win intellectually or academically, they want to win socially,” says Wokal distance. And the perfect example “is the phenomenon of the ‘call-out’”
- “Canadian university job listing limited to ‘equity-seeking groups’” – The Post Millennial flags up a job ad for a new vacancy at University of Guelph. “Candidates must be from one or more of the following equity-seeking groups to apply: women, persons with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, and racialised groups”
- “We are programmed to find insects revolting” – Laura Dodsworth sounds a warning on GB News over the “creepy (crawly) plans to make you eat insects”. See her substack post on the same topic
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