- “NHS to buy care beds to make space in hospitals” – The NHS is being given an extra £250m to buy beds in care homes as it grapples with a winter crisis, reports BBC News.
- “China reopens borders to tourists after three years of Covid closure” – The move comes as a huge travel surge begins for Lunar New Year, reports BBC News.
- “China Covid: More than 88 million people in Henan infected, official says” – China claims 89% of people in Henan province have been infected during the current wave, which would be extraordinary given waves elsewhere have only infected a minority of the population. The official also said visits to clinics have peaked, reports BBC News.
- “China suspends social media accounts of Covid policy critics” – China has suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1,000 critics of the Government’s policies on the COVID-19 outbreak, reports AP News, with a straight face and no obvious signs of self-awareness.
- “From the Twitter Files: Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb secretly pressed Twitter to hide posts challenging his company’s massively profitable Covid jabs” – To funnel his demands, Gottlieb used the same Twitter lobbyist the White House did, says Alex Berenson, who is breaking the story.
- “Pfizer stakeholder leaned on Twitter to quash vaccine-sceptical tweet” – The Mail reports on Alex Berenson’s scoop that former FDA head Scott Gottlieb, a Pfizer stakeholder, censored a tweet that cast doubt on its Covid shots.
- “The Censorious Scott Gottlieb Was a Major Influence on Lockdowns” – Gottlieb has been on the wrong side throughout the pandemic, writes Jeffrey Tucker in Brownstone.
- “Players could play at Australian Open with Covid– Tiley” – Players at this month’s Australian Open will not be required to take COVID-19 tests and could play even if they had the virus, tournament Director Craig Tiley said on Monday, in an extraordinary turnaround since last year, reports Reuters.
- “Govt U-turns on Covid vaccination rule for visitors” – At the weekend Thailand announced a policy requiring visitors to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination, but it was already abandoned by Monday, reports the Bangkok Post.
- “Nicola Sturgeon is slammed for ‘making excuses’ about NHS chaos in Scotland as she urges people to wear face masks on public transport and if they have a cold – and claims the situation is even worse in England” – Facing questions at a pandemic-style press briefing, Nicola Sturgeon admitted hospitals were nearly full and urged people to wear masks and stay at home if unwell, the Mail reports.
- “Did the West impose austerity on Africa?” – America’s pandemic victory is catastrophic for the global poor, writes Professor Toby Green in UnHerd.
- “Too much Covid testing” – Did the U.K. over-test its citizens, ask Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
- “The glorious counter-revolution: how the British beat back the New Normal” – K.B. Goldtooth praises the resistance to the Covid tyranny in OffGuardian.
- “U.K. age stratified all cause death data shows higher deaths associated with Covid vaccination” – El Gato Malo finds very worrying ONS data from last summer and calls on the Government to release the rest.
- “The Origins Of COVID-19 and Why The Vaccines Don’t Work.” – Professor Edward Steele is a scientist with an unusual theory of where Covid came from: outer space.
- “Obesity and the End of the Vaxxing Debate?” – Ron Unz continues to argue that it’s Covid not the vaccines causing the excess deaths – though he doesn’t take into account which age groups were being vaccinated in different countries in 2022.
- “My name is Dr. Simon Goddek, I am a biotechnologist, and only recently Elon Musk reinstated my account after being permabanned for 1.5 years” – Read Dr. Simon Goddek’s story on Twitter.
- “Does not having a Covid jab increase your risk of a traffic crash?” – Dr. Zoe Harcombe with a critique of a study claiming to show it does.
- “Single-use plastic cutlery and plates to be banned in England” – Figures suggest more than four billion pieces of single-use cutlery are used in England each year, reports BBC News.
- “Climate crisis will hit all students, warns Universities U.K. chief Vivienne Stern” – Climate change matters more than the pandemic or free speech at universities, the leader of vice-chancellors has told the Times.
- “The great anti-ESG backlash” – Oliver Wiseman in Spectator World goes inside the campaign to get politics out of investing.
- “Tony Sewell: My report was monstered and I was abused – sometimes racially. But it was right, and the Conservative agenda on race is getting going” – Dr. Tony Sewell in ConservativeHome urges “conservatives from all backgrounds not to be cowed by the Twitter-warriors and the Left’s outrage mob, to support each other and speak up when necessary and most of all to follow the evidence”.
- “Prince Harry’s defence of Lady Hussey comes back to bite” – A surprise moment in his ITV interview saw Prince Harry doing what William and Charles failed to do and defend Lady Susan Hussey – and he soon found himself on the sharp end of the woke mob’s pitchforks, says Steerpike in the Spectator.
- “Lead author of peer reviewed research re-analysing Pfizer and Moderna trials on mRNA vaccine Joseph Fraiman calls for immediate suspension of jab due to serious harms” – Watch Dr. Fraiman explain why: “We have conclusive evidence that the vaccines are inducing sudden cardiac death.”
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