- “Small victories, but the fight against ‘pandemic restrictions’ is not over” – “Those who oppose lockdowns and their associated restrictions have won the argument for now,” says Brian Monteith, but Time for Recovery has still “a great deal to do”
- “Sturgeon ‘must resign’ over deadly errors that spread COVID-19 in care homes” – According to the Scottish Daily Express, Nicola Sturgeon and former Health Secretary Jeane Freeman were dubbed ‘the Shipman Sisters’ by nurses due to their blunders in care homes in the early stages of the pandemic
- “Scots professor criticises Scottish Enterprise’s £20 million grant to Valneva” – Professor Sir Hugh Pennington has branded a £20 million grant awarded to Valneva a “waste of public money” after the firm announced it was stopping production of its Covid vaccine due to lack of orders, the Scottish Daily Express reports
- “Bus services in England face cuts as end of Covid funding looms” – Bus services across England could be axed, the Guardian says, after Covid recovery grants run out
- “A Deeper Dive Into the CDC Reversal” – The Brownstone Institute’s Jeffery A. Tucker takes a close look at the CDC’s new Covid guidance.
- “I just now notified hundreds of people at the CDC why they aren’t able to find any vaccine-related deaths” – Read Steve Kirsch’s email to staff at the CDC explaining why they aren’t finding vaccine-related deaths. He has also written separately to Director Rochelle Walensky inviting her to debate him publicly
- “Why eco-alarmists are wrong about almost everything” – “The Great Barrier Reef is not dying,” writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked “and the world is not coming to an end”
- “Read all about it: Haywards Heath leads Europe on the climate emergency” – The Conservative Woman responds to the news that Haywards Heath Town Council has endorsed the Plant Based Treaty, an initiative to tackle emissions from animal farming
- “Are smart electricity meters really in consumers’ interests? Don’t be stupid” – Rod Liddle tears into the case for smart meters in the Sunday Times
- “Nicola Sturgeon mulls green crackdown for Scottish malt” – SNP and Green ministers are concerned that emissions released during the whisky maturation process could be having a detrimental impact on the environment and health, according to the Telegraph
- “The White House and Twitter Censorship” – The Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal responds to the release of evidence showing that Biden officials wanted Twitter to ban the journalist Alex Berenson
- “Thomas Hardy’s ‘cruel’ novel given a trigger warning” – The University of Warwick is warning students Far From the Madding Crowd depict the cruelty of nature and rural life, according to the Telegraph
- “University ‘forces out’ diversity adviser for supporting bullied professor Kathleen Stock” – ‘Far left’ bosses at the University of Sheffield stand accused of forcing out their own diversity advisor over his support for Kathleen Stock, reports the Sunday Telegraph
- “Free speech is under sustained attack” – “When fanatics attack free speech, we have to ask how far the West is truly willing to go to defend it,” says this leader in the Sunday Telegraph
- “Chinese institutes at U.K. universities ‘screening out undesirable staff’” – Research seen by the Telegraph has found that staff at Confucius Institutes are having their political views and ethnic backgrounds screened by Chinese officials
- “Texas PD angers woke mob with Kyle Rittenhouse selfie” – A police department in Texas has come under fire after an officer posted a photograph of himself posing with Kyle Rittenhouse, the Daily Mail reports, and it is refusing to back down
- “Why it’s hypocritical of the Fringe to cancel comedian Jerry Sadowitz” – Recently cancelled Jerry Sadowitz has always been offensive, the Telegraph’s Dominic Cavendish points out. “So why the faux shock?”
- “UN should rehire staffer sacked for tweet against ‘indiscriminate fire’” – The Israeli Ambassador to the UN has called for its official Sarah Muscroft to be reinstated after she was dismissed for tweeting dismay at “indiscriminate rocket fire” by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Jerusalem Post reports
- “Salman Rushdie left with ‘life-changing injuries’ from stab attack” – Sir Salman Rushdie’s son has said that his father remains in a critical condition, the Sunday Times reports
- “Salman Rushdie attack suspect ‘sympathetic to Shia extremism’” – Hadi Matar, 24, from Fairview, New Jersey, is alleged to be sympathetic to Shia extremism, according to the Telegraph
- “The attack on Salman Rushdie is an attack on us all” – “We must stop giving in to this evil,” writes Tom Slater in Spiked. “Time to fight for freedom of speech”
- “The ayatollahs have found their accomplices in western liberals” – “We blame the Rushdie attack on Muslim fanatics but we shouldn’t ignore our own complicity,” writes Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times
- “What is happening now is almost totally normal” – Physicist Brian Catt tells TalkTV’s Richard Tice that people “do not need to panic” over man made climate change
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