- “True impact of Covid on cancer patients revealed as excess deaths soar” – The Government is called upon to act as charities warn missed diagnoses during lockdown may be a factor compounded by the current NHS crisis, the Telegraph reports.
- “Benefits claims still more than double pre-Covid levels in parts of U.K.” – The London constituencies of Brent North and East Ham both had twice as many claimants last month than before the pandemic, the Mail reports.
- “Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research” – Red meat has been linked to all sorts of adverse health outcomes. But a new study shows that the associations are weak or nonexistent, writes Ross Pomeroy in Big Think.
- “FDA Says Telling People Not to Take Ivermectin for COVID-19 Was Just a Recommendation” – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) telling people to “stop” taking ivermectin for COVID-19 was informal and just a recommendation, Government lawyers argued during a recent hearing, according to the Epoch TImes.
- “Association between vitamin D supplementation and COVID-19 infection and mortality” – A new study finds COVID-19 mortality 25-33% lower when using vitamin D.
- “The Dilemma of the Vaccinated” – Dr. Robert Malone on a new excess mortality analysis tool.
- “The biggest public policy disaster in a lifetime” – Dr. Ian Plimer in TCW Defending Freedom on why Net Zero is so wrongheaded.
- “Middle earners face further squeeze as Hunt plots ‘social tariffs’ for energy” – Ministers are looking at a policy to subsidise bills for low income households, the Telegraph reports.
- “Britons face ‘reparations’ bill for climate change: Ministers brace for backlash after COP27 summit agrees ‘loss and damage’ fund for developing countries… but who will get the money and how much?” – A ‘loss and damage’ mechanism was signed off in principle at the UN gathering in Egypt in the early hours of the morning, the Mail reports.
- “Elon Musk restores Donald Trump’s Twitter account” – The former President’s Twitter account reappeared shortly after Mr. Musk announced the narrow online poll win, reports the Telegraph.
- “Defund woke universities to defeat the new totalitarians” – Simon Heffer in the Telegraph says something must be done to protect rigour and freedom in higher education.
- “Society of Authors official quits, claiming it is undermining complaints of gender-critical writers” – A Society of Authors official has quit after claiming the union is undermining the complaints of gender-critical writers, reports the Telegraph.
- “Racism cannot explain away youth violence” – Inaya Folarin Iman writes in Spiked that we must not make excuses for violent perpetrators.
- “Disney’s woke crusade is costing it dearly” – Laurie Wastell in Spiked says the entertainment giant is alienating audiences and losing shedloads of money.
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