- “Pfizer seeks authorisation for updated Covid vaccine, without fresh clinical trial data” – Pfizer and BioNTech have announced they’ve asked the FDA to authorise a new booster shot targeted at Omicron, reports Stat. They also said that a clinical study investigating the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of the vaccine is expected to start this month
- “The SARS-CoV-2 transmission riddle – Part 3” – An explainer from Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan on the “insanity of mass screening with PCR in the absence of sufficient information and detailed follow-up of each person tested”
- “Philippine students return to school for first time since Covid” – Students in the Philippines have finally returned to the classroom, the BBC reports, after one of the world’s longest school closures
- “Disastrous impact of Covid on children is ‘at risk of being forgotten’” – Former Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield says discussions about moving to a three-day school week this autumn are a major “red flag”, according to the Telegraph
- “Inside the mind of one of my very smart pro-vax friends” – Steve Kirsch relates an encounter with a pro-vax friend who “gets his belief system from the mainstream media”
- “Cold comfort for Sturgeon’s Covid hypocrite” – “There is no place for cough crime in our statutes,” writes Niall McCrae in the Conservative Woman as he reflects on the news that Margaret Farrier M.P. was “convicted for having a cold”
- “Where did the pandemic start? Anywhere but here” – “China now insists the pandemic didn’t start within its borders,” reports Jon Cohen, a writer for Science. “Its scientist are publishing a flurry of papers pointing the finger elsewhere”
- “Four things I want to know about the origin of Covid” – In the Washington Examiner, Epidemiologist Andrew Noymer asks four questions about the origins of COVID-19 which, he reckons, probably won’t be answered as long as the Chinese Communist Party is in power
- “Lockdown Architect Anthony Fauci Quits to Write a Book” – The Brownstone Institute bids a not-so-fond farewell to Dr. Anthony Fauci
- “Downfall: Anthony Fauci Resigns” – Michael P. Senger noticed that Dr. Fauci’s resignation letter does not discuss the response to Covid, and so he has filled in the missing text himself
- “Lifetime Government bureaucrat resigns, following 54 year career of corruption, deceit, death and destruction” – Jordan Schachtel expresses some surprise that Dr. Fauci does not intend to retire but to move on to the “next chapter“ in his career
- “Unknown Cause of Death? Our Latest Propaganda!” – A special report on ‘unknown cause of death’, a malady which has become the leading cause of death in the Canadian province of Alberta, courtesy of the inimitable JP
- “Polio spread in Israel, U.S., U.K. highlights extremely rare risk of oral vaccine” – The recent outbreaks of polio in New York, Jerusalem and London are linked to the oral vaccine, according to the Times of Israel
- “How we fell for antidepressants” – “Irrespective of the benefits of antidepressants in individual cases,” writes Theodore Dalrymple in the Spectator, “I suspect that their overall cultural effect, when prescribed almost in the way that hypochondriacs take vitamin supplements, has been, like that of psychoanalysis, negative or harmful”
- “Lithium lies” – “Ecars, wind turbines, solar panels, and batteries are doomed by 2025,” says Spectator Australia’s Flat White
- “There Is No Climate Emergency: So Say Us All” – William M. Briggs explains why along with more than 1,100 scientists and other professionals he signed the World Climate Declaration
- “Free Speech In Crisis” – Claire Fox kicks off the new-look Academy of Ideas newsletter with a rallying cry in defence of free speech
- “Andrew Tate: free speech is for twats too” – “Censorship is always more dangerous than the thing being censored,” says Fraser Myers in Spiked. “And the rantings of Andrew Tate are no exception”
- “Meet the British charity boss who supports the fatwa” – Writing for Spiked, Rakib Ehsan investigates the Islamic Human Rights Council, whose chair Massoud Shadjareh praised the Fatwa on Sir Salman Rushdie as recently as a year ago
- “Poison pens: leading writers call for overhaul of U.K.’s Society of Authors” – The Society of Authors stands accused of taking the side of trans rights activists who want to censor authors who disagree with them, the Observer reports
- “Trans prisoner who impregnated inmates tried to remove her testicle” – Trans prisoner Demi Minor has revealed that she was sent to the emergency room last week after trying to remove a testicle with a razor, the Daily Mail says
- “Cathy Boardman: Lecturer in trans row sues over ‘sacking’” – Cathy Boardman is suing the BIMM Institute in Brighton, the Times reports, over claims that she was forced out of her job because of her stance on trans issues
- “AI flags father with nude photos of his ill child to show doctors” – A father used his phone to share a picture of a rash on his son’s groin with a doctor and was subsequently locked out of his Google accounts and investigated by the police for potential child abuse, according to MailOnline
- “How Could We Have Been So Naïve about Big Tech?” – “There is no longer any doubt at all about the symbiotic relationship between Big Tech – the digital communications industry in particular – and government,” says Jeffrey A. Tucker at the Brownstone Institute
- “Apple workers say going back to the office would stifle ‘inclusion and diversity’” – A group of Apple Employees allege that the company’s leadership did not consider “the unique demands of each job role nor the diversity of individuals” when it required staff to go back to the office, the Post Millennial reports. Sounds like something in the Babylon Bee!
- “Energy bills ‘to hit £5,300 by April’ amid calls for price cap freeze” – A forecast by energy consultancy firm Cornwall Insight says energy bills could be capped at £5,341.08 in April next year, MailOnline reports, while the figure for January’s cap is expected to be £4,649.72
- “U.K. inflation to almost double to 18.6%, economists warn” – Citigroup has predicated that inflation will almost double to 18.6%, the Telegraph says, which could force the Bank of England to raise the interest rate to 7%
- “The monstrous NHS bureaucracy cares more about saving itself than patients” – “The health service is stuck in a vicious circle, whereby it only avoids collapse by failing to treat the public,” writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph
- “Colin Wright has been suspended from Twitter” – Reality’s Last Stand highlights the absurdity of Twitter’s rules against hate speech
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