- “Rishi Sunak is just the start. The great lockdown scandal is about to unravel” – Fraser Nelson in Telegraph foresees a moment of reckoning as “the pseudo-scientific sheen is finally being stripped off the decision to shut down Britain”.
- “Rishi Sunak wins support for criticism of over-powerful Covid lockdown scientists” – MPs and former Cabinet colleagues have rallied behind the ex-Chancellor for saying it was a “mistake” to empower SAGE members, according to the Telegraph.
- “How Sir Patrick Vallance ‘rolled his eyes’ to crush dissent at controversial Covid rules” – Professor Robert Dingwall tells the Telegraph that the SAGE group of scientists advising politicians on lockdown became a “powerful clique” who presented lockdown as an “inevitability”.
- “Shutting Novak Djokovic out of the U.S. Open is an outrageous injustice” – Oliver Brown in the Telegraph says the Serbian has been denied the opportunity to claim a 22nd grand slam by Covid vaccination rules that are simply an affront to logic.
- “Is Novax Djokovic being Trolled by Moderna?” – The Naked Emperor wonders whether Moderna’s sponsorship of the U.S. Open has anything to do with Djokovic’s ban for being unvaccinated.
- “Post-vaccine myocarditis is not ‘mild’, warn doctors” – TCW Defending Freedom prints the letter from the Health Advisory and Recovery Team (HART) warning the UKHSA that vaccine myocarditis risks should not be downplayed or underestimated.
- “Never forget their thuggery” – James Allen in Spectator Australia senses change in the air as the New York Times runs an editorial to the effect that during the pandemic no schools should ever have been closed; he adds there is “simply no legitimate defence for Covid authoritarianism and over-reach”.
- “The New Conservative cancelled” – Frank Haviland was dismayed to find the New Conservative banned from Twitter for retweeting a Mark Steyn interview with Dr. Aseem Malhotra, who merely “quoted Pfizer’s initial trial data back to them”.
- “COVID-19 acquired in U.K. hospitals – what does it all mean?” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson at Trust the Evidence look into the data and find a large proportion of COVID-19 hospital cases were acquired in hospital.
- “GCSE results day 2022: Grades remain close to pandemic high” – Top grades fall by only 2.6 percentage points this year despite a government pledge to clamp down on inflation, the Telegraph reports.
- “How lockdown has made Britain sicker” – Tom Calver in the Times says we have “time to reflect on the results of a once-in-a-lifetime social experiment in lockdown – and the worrying side-effects, some predicted, some unforeseen, for Britons’ health, that are only just coming home to roost”.
- “COVID-19 Vaccines and Informed Consent” – Dr. Robert Malone features the work of lawyer John Allison on the fundamental right to make decisions about bodily health and medical treatments.
- “Another week with deaths far above normal in Europe” – Alex Berenson on the disturbing fact that excess deaths are now higher continent-wide in 2022 than either 2020 or 2021 – even with Covid deaths far lower.
- “Prince Harry arrives for private jet flight in an electric car” – The Mail reports that the Duke of Sussex had got on the $9 million Bombardier to head to a polo event on Wednesday, having pointlessly travelled to it in an electric vehicle – and then had staff retrieve his kit in a gas-guzzling Range Rover after he forgot to pack it.
- “You Can Be Sure That Net Zero Carbon Emissions from Electricity Generation Will Never Be Achieved. Here’s Why.” – Francis Menton in WUWT says if you have a chance to make a bet, “you’ll be extremely safe betting against Net Zero generation of electricity any time during your life”.
- “Sam Harris, religious fundamentalist” – Brendan O’Neill in Spiked slams the famed atheist for his hypocritical backing of media censorship when the aim was to remove Trump from power.
- “Exeter University trigger warning for ‘problematic’ Huckleberry Finn” – Report in the Times that a university has put a trigger warning on the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, describing the representation of a slave as “problematic in a number of ways”.
- “Anti-slavery MP Edmund Burke put on ‘transatlantic slave trade register’” – A review into statues and portraits of figures in Parliament sees the 18th-century philosopher caught up in slave links because of his brother, reports the Telegraph.
- “Golf balls ‘are the product of colonial exploitation’” – The Telegraph reports on the latest woke lunacy from the University of St Andrews, which claims the game was “imposed” around the world by the British Empire.
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