- “Public’s confidence in vaccines plummets since Covid pandemic” – Research reported in WalesOnline found that confidence in vaccinations in a post-pandemic group was considerably lower than in a pre-pandemic group.
- “The Confinement of the Healthy” – Aaron Kheriaty writes for Brownstone that “what descended upon us was not just a novel virus but a novel mode of social organisation and control – the beginnings of a new biomedical security state”.
- “Combining COVID-19 BA4/5 and Influenza mRNA” – Dr. Peter McCullough in TrialSite News sounds the alarm about the development of influenza mRNA vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna, which the companies appear to be hoping will be allowed once again to skip the usual full clinical trial process.
- “It Isn’t Cognitive Dissonance. It’s Doublethink” – It has to be doublethink, says Thorsteinn Siglaugsson, when a vaccinated person posts he’s never been so sick but the vaccine “greatly reduces the severity of symptoms”.
- “Boris Johnson will urge world to keep Net Zero plan in Cop27 speech” – The ex-PM says the mission to drive down fossil fuel use must not be disrupted by war in Ukraine and “corrosive cynicism”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Democrat Energy Policy Civil War: Manchin Blasts Biden’s Coal Shutdown Comments” – President Biden’s insensitive comments about the imminent shutdown of coal have triggered a fiery response from coal state Democrat Senator Joe Manchin, writes Eric Worrall in WUWT.
- “Joe Biden’s climate envoy warns U.K. against North Sea oil and gas expansion” – New drilling “isn’t going to make the difference today, or tomorrow, or in the next month – because it’s just not going to be available”, the President said, according to the Independent.
- “Deadly E-Bikes: Four Explosions in New York Every Week” – 38 people were injured in a New York e-Bike fire, reports WUWT. Dan Flynn, the Chief Fire Marshal at the New York Fire Department, said: “These bikes when they fail, they fail like a blowtorch.”
- “Greta Thunberg and her global army of zealots care more about revolutionary politics than climate” – If the Doom Goblin had her way our lives would once more be nasty, brutish and short, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Green zealots are threatening real conservation” – Obsession with climate change is now actively harming the environment, argues Matt Ridley in the Telegraph,
- “The Eden Project’s Sir Tim Smit: ‘Shut the f— up about climate’” – “We have to take the whole debate away from climate change and people being blamed,” Smit says.
- “Decarbonising U.K. public buildings to cost £25-30bn” – The Government estimates it will need £25-30bn to convert sites to low-carbon heating, BBC News has learned.
- “Biden administration ‘privately encouraging Zelensky to show willingness to hold talks with Putin’” – U.S. media reports said Ukraine’s ban on negotiating with Russia was risking reduced support from parts of Europe, Africa and Latin America, according to the Telegraph.
- “How Doctor Who became Doctor Woke” – In recent years the BBC TV show has become more strident, says Russell David, with “each showrunner seemingly determined to outdo his predecessor on the ‘progressive’ politics front”.
- “This is a law designed to make you afraid” – The Irish hate crime bill threatens to criminalise criticism of 10 ‘protected characteristics’ and especially transgenderism, writes Gerard Casey in Gript.
- “Now Big Tech is coming for your money” – Starving dissenters of funds is the dangerous new front in Silicon Valley censorship, writes Carrie Clark in Spiked.
- “Wokeness and anti-Semitism go hand-in-hand” – Modern identity politics is rehabilitating ancient prejudices and divisions, says Daniel Ben-Ami in Spiked.
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