- “Fear we go again! U.K. health officials including ‘Professor Lockdown’ begin Covid-style ‘worst-case scenario’ planning for if bird flu becomes transmissible in humans – as girl, 11, dies and 12 more people are feared infected in Cambodia” – U.K. scientists are modelling a worst-case scenario bird flu outbreak amid reports that an 11-year-old girl died of the disease in Cambodia, the Mail reports.
- “Covid expert Angela McLean is U.K.’s new Chief Scientific Adviser” – The mathematical biologist who co-chaired the SAGE subgroup that used epidemiology and mathematical modelling to guide the Government’s response to the pandemic, will take over from Patrick Vallance, reports Nature. Talk about rewarding failure and baking it in.
- “Republican Senators Push Back Against Accord Giving WHO Power Over U.S. Pandemic Response” – Republican senators are pushing back with an effort to reinforce congressional power to authorise treaties, reports the Epoch Times.
- “The lost generation: a global assault on children and young people” – “Children and young people should have been able to trust that, when the shit hit the fan, the adults-in-the-room would protect and nurture them,” writes Michael Jackson in Spectator Australia. “Instead, we instantly sacrificed their health, wellbeing, and futures on the altar of panic and performative Covid protocols.”
- “Healthy vaccinee bias: loud and clear in an ONS analysis” – Professor Eyal Shahar gives his take on the ONS vaccine data.
- “British Africans are Dying Less than South Asians and White British since the First Covid Wave” – Joel Smalley on some more evidence that contradicts the vaccine narrative.
- “The latest ONS data on deaths by Covid vaccination status” – Norman Fenton and Martin Neil say the updated data contain “the same (and worse) systemic problems and multiple flaws”.
- “Censors Use AI to Target Podcasts” – The collapse of support for free speech among Western pseudo-elites is the foundation of so many other problems, from medicine to war, writes Bret Swanson for Brownstone.
- “A Vax Update” – Watch the latest Mark Steyn show covering the vaccine scandal.
- “Drivers lose interest in electric cars as petrol prices tumble” – Demand for electric cars slumps as the energy crisis makes them more expensive to run, the Telegraph reports.
- “Being surrounded by men ‘always disappointing’, says Christine Lagarde” – The Central Bank President indulges in some bizarre self-pity as she says it is “tough” for women to gain a foothold in policy making, the Telegraph reports.
- “Is Shakespeare ‘far-Right’ now?” – Among the books on the reading list that could be a sign of ‘right-wing radicalisation’, some genius public servant came up with the complete works of Shakespeare, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
- “Queen Consort appears to criticise Roald Dahl changes” – The Queen told a group of authors to “remain true to their calling” and resist “curbs on freedom of expression”, the Telegraph reports.
- “The race is on to buy Roald Dahl’s original books” – In the wake of the classic children’s books being altered by ‘sensitivity readers’, demand for unedited copies is through the roof, reports the Telegraph.
- “The brutal dirty tricks campaign against Kate Forbes is beginning to backfire” – As Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney pour scorn on her beliefs while backing Humza Yousaf, SNP members think they’ve gone too far, says Alan Cochrane in the Telegraph.
- “Protestants are now hounded out of politics, as Kate Forbes has shown” – Are we really a tolerant society when the ambitious are expected to renounce aspects of their faith, asks Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Why Kate Forbes is apologising” – Somewhat inevitably, Kate Forbes has issued a lengthy apology for causing “hurt” by her comments on her personal moral beliefs, writes Isabel Hardman in the Spectator. Apparently, they were insufficiently wrapped in cotton wool for today’s fragile woke snowflakes.
- “‘Wokeism gone mad’: Fire chief sparks backlash after banning the word ‘fireman’ – because it’s ‘sexist and exclusionary’” – Dave Russel has insisted that the term ‘fireman’, which hasn’t been used officially since the late 1980s, will not be tolerated because it is “exclusionary and represents a form of micro-aggression'”, reports the Mail.
- “Kent University says everyone should be called ‘they’ until you know their pronouns” – Kent University is encouraging students to refer to others as ‘they’ until it’s clear what the person’s pronouns are, according to the Telegraph. Isn’t that ‘misgendering’?
- “Black Panther communist Angela Davis – who teaches that U.S. was built by racist colonisers – faces calls to pay reparations after genealogy show reveals her white puritan ancestor arrived in America on the Mayflower” – A Black Panther who’s also a communist has faced calls to pay reparations after discovering her ancestors were white puritans and slave owners, reports the Mail.
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