- “Almost £1bn spent on anti-Covid drug that makes ‘no significant difference’” – Telegraph report that under 2% of 2.23 million courses of molnupiravir bought by the Department of Health have ever been prescribed.
- “Revealed: Just a third of people in some parts of England have had first Covid jab as booster scheme ends for healthy under-50s” – The Mail looks at take-up across the country.
- “Queen tests positive for Covid” – The Queen Consort gets a cold, and the Telegraph reports it.
- “Do face masks work?” – The latest review of their use during the pandemic suggests they did little to help, says Dr. Robert Dingwall in the Spectator.
- “Old people should embrace ‘mass suicide’, says Yale professor” – Old people in Japan should kill themselves to avoid burdening the state and the Government should consider making euthanasia compulsory, a professor at Yale University has said, according to the Telegraph.
- “The tyranny of digital currencies” – Central banks are creating their own surveillance state, writes Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
- “TCW’s triumph through the Guardian’s looking glass” – Dr. Roger Watson in TCW helps the Guardian‘s Peter Walker out with his report on a Celebration of Dissent.
- “A year in three psychological biases” – Behavioural scientist Patrick Fagan suggests slippery slopes, pro-innovation bias and norms help explain 2022.
- “Net Zero is a threat to energy security” – The UK’s new energy ministry is grappling with two contradictory goals, says James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
- “Support Clintel in their ‘Climate Case of the Century’” – WUWT reports on a major climate case now pending on appeal before the Hague Court of Appeals.
- “Climate change activist goes rogue releasing ‘mini volcanoes’ to cool atmosphere” – Experts in geoengineering say that the sulphur particle launches set a dangerous precedent for private companies to interfere with the planet’s atmosphere, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sadiq Khan accused of ‘using nonsense air pollution data’ to support Ulez” – Council leaders suggest the Mayor is cherry-picking mortality figures after analysis shows a “range of uncertainty” to the scheme’s health benefits, the Telegraph reports.
- “For you, milord, an idiot’s guide to Net Zero” – Andrew Montford writes to Lord (Gavin) Barwell to set him straight in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Disinformation Inc: Meet the groups hauling in cash to secretly blacklist conservative news” – A Washington Examiner investigative series looks into self-styled ‘disinformation’ tracking organisations that are cracking down on conservative media and part of a lucrative operation that aims to defund disfavoured speech.
- “Why it’s gone horribly wrong for Google” – Big Tech’s mad scramble to embrace AI technology will have disastrous consequences, argues Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “Teen Girls Experiencing Record Levels of Sadness and Suicide Risk, CDC Says” – U.S. teens reported increasing experiences of violence and suicidal thoughts, but girls fared worse than boys, reports the Wall Street Journal.
- “How did the Tavistock gender scandal unfold?” – Another week, another blast of evidence as to why putting kids on hormone blockers is an abomination, says Julie Bindel in the Spectator.
- “If an employee hears an upsetting conversation between customers they can then sue their employers for failing to protect them from that kind of harassment” – Watch Toby tell GB News‘s Andrew Doyle of the horrors lurking in the Worker Protection Bill.
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