- “Covid is back with a rebrand – and the rules have changed” – The disease may be the same, but everything surrounding it – from the official NHS advice to office etiquette – is different, says Guy Kelly in the Telegraph.
- “Long-awaited COVID-19 inquiry faces fresh delays as secrecy row emerges over civil servants’ names being redacted from documents” – Thousands of personal details are having to be redacted from hundreds of pages of submissions, a preliminary hearing was told yesterday, reports the Mail.
- “Mother-of-two, 35, working for the NHS killed herself after ‘struggling with Covid restrictions, work and childcare during the pandemic’, inquest hears” – Sophie Cross struggled while trying to juggle her work as a phlebotomist for Cardiff and Vale University Health Board with childcare and financial pressures during the coronavirus pandemic, reports the Mail.
- “New York Times sues EU over von der Leyen’s Pfizer texts” – The messages could shed light on deals to buy billions of euros worth of COVID-19 vaccines, reports Politico.
- “The deadly initial Spring 2020 Covid wave” – Norman Fenton and Martin Neil set out the ‘iatrogenesis hypothesis’ – the claim that excess deaths in the first wave were caused by the response, not the virus.
- “Petition: Public Inquiry into Ofcom’s guidance on broadcast standards during the pandemic” – Sign the petition to Parliament to open an independent Public Inquiry into Ofcom’s guidance on broadcast standards during the pandemic.
- “Don’t be fooled by dumb talkshows and the emerging disingenuous mistakes-were-made rhetoric – there will be no general Corona reckoning in Germany” – What you are seeing now is a series of tactical admissions as the media and the political establishment work to contain the discussion, says Eugyppius.
- “Weaponising Advertising” – Dr. Robert Malone takes a close look at who is waging an information war against conservative outlets. See also his follow-up.
- “Police side with the eco-mob: Met officer tackles a frustrated Londoner as he tries to drag an Animal Rebellion activist out of the road after angry residents confronted protesters for blocking traffic” – Footage shows members of Animal Rebellion, an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, getting dragged across the road by Westminster Bridge at 10am, while the police side with the mob not the public, reports the Mail.
- “Rising seas threaten ‘mass exodus on a biblical scale’, UN chief warns” – An increase in the pace at which sea levels are rising threatens “a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale”, the UN Secretary General has warned, according to the Guardian.
- “Is the eco-bubble about to burst?” – Firms are starting to wake up to the lunacy of Net Zero, says Ralph Schoellhammer in Spiked.
- “Global sea levels will rise by 4.6 feet by 2150 if temperatures continue to rise at the current pace, study warns” – Scientists from Korea and Hawaii have given estimates for how meltwater from Earth’s two ice sheets could add to sea levels by 2150, reports the Mail. I’m sure they’ll be highly accurate
- “UN adviser claims ‘climate change is triggering more earthquakes’” – WUWT reports on the latest crazy alarmist claim.
- “Solar farms and the trouble with Net Zero” – Any honest MP will admit in private that Net Zero is not going to happen because no democratic majority will tolerate the cutbacks in their quality of life necessary to maintain the dash to carbon neutrality in 27 years’ time, says Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “Professor claims ‘illiberal’ students forced him into hiding” – A university professor cleared of accusations of Islamophobia has claimed that he has been forced to wear a disguise and carry a weapon due to threats against him, reports the Times.
- “I’m sick of people with an ounce of common sense being labelled ‘far-Right’” – Justifiable annoyance is stigmatised by a sanctimonious class that largely escapes the consequences of its own idealistic opinions, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Use ‘egg-producing’ not ‘female’, say scientists in call to phase out binary language” – The words ‘male’ and ‘female’ should be phased out in science because they reinforce ideas that sex is binary, scientists have suggested, according to the Telegraph. Other problematic terms include man, woman, mother, father and ‘survival of the fittest’.
- “Charity which cancelled own ‘racist’ exhibition announces £211,000-a-year diversity role” – The Wellcome Trust seeks a new chief inclusion officer on an eye-watering salary to work two days in the office, months after closing its Medicine Man museum display, reports the Telegraph.
- “The tragedy of becoming a woman” – The NHS gender identity service told girls they needed a cure for femaleness, writes Sarah Ditum in UnHerd.
- “Andrew Tate is not a terrorist” – The U.K.’s Prevent Strategy has lost its purpose, says Liam Duffy in UnHerd.
- “U.S. warns Ukraine it may not be able to continue ‘same level’ of support” – Washington says it cannot supply long-range Atacms missiles as it would harm its own readiness for war, the Telegraph reports.
- “Vladimir Putin is about to win the ammunition war against the West” – NATO is producing far less ammunition than Ukraine is using and is not in a position to remedy this in a hurry, writes Jack Watling in the Telegraph.
- “We didn’t understand that it’s a fairly low fatality rate and that it’s a disease mainly in the elderly, kind of like flu is, although a bit different than that” – Watch Bill Gates state some more Covid ‘misinformation’.
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