- “U.S. must push Beijing to ‘be honest’ about Covid origins, says Chinese ambassador” – Nicholas Burns’s comments came after news the U.S. Energy Department concluded the pandemic probably came from a lab leak, the Telegraph reports.
- “As U.S. experts reveal a Wuhan lab leak probably caused the Covid pandemic, Matt Ridley asks – why are British scientists still refusing to accept it?” – Matt in the Mail asks why resistance to the theory continues.
- “‘The U.K. can’t turn a blind eye and let China off the hook over Covid lab leak’: Former commander of Britain’s chemical and biological regiment demands action after U.S. Energy Department says outbreak most likely came from Wuhan institute” – Mail report that chemical and biological weapons expert Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon said that Britain must demand a full and wholly transparent investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
- “Questions the Covid Inquiry must ask” – Can the hearings be rescued from groupthink, ask Thomas Fazi and Toby Green in UnHerd.
- “Anti-Mandate Hollywood Speaks Up Against Covid Vaccines” – A large group of Hollywood actors say they have been locked out of their union buildings and blocked from competing for roles because they decided against taking the COVID-19 shot, reports the Epoch Times.
- “Postmodern science delivers immortality benefits” – The ONS data are so flawed they show the vaccines are delivering the prospect of immortality whether you take them or not, write Martin Neil and Norman Fenton.
- “We must never forget the Covid madness – a personal story by Jill Evans” – Jill writes about her traumatic experience of the pandemic for Coronababble.
- “U.S. papers cancel Dilbert after cartoonist says ‘get the hell away from black people’” – The Telegraph reports that Scott Adams’s tirade was prompted by a poll that found 47% of black American disagreed that “it’s okay to be white”.
- “Dilbert’s creator and the worrying return of racial separation” – Elon Musk was among those coming to Scott Adams’s defence, stating the media are now “racist against whites and Asians”, writes Oliver Bateman in UnHerd.
- “BBC disinvited us after we stood by Kate Forbes’s freedom of speech, claims LGB group” – The BBC programme instead invited a campaigner who argues Ms. Forbes’s views should rule her out from replacing Nicola Sturgeon, reports the Telegraph.
- “‘Qurangate’ and Britain’s new blasphemy rules” – Imagine living in a country so religiously uptight that even making a smudge on a copy of the Quran could turn into a police matter, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator. Well, it turns out that country is Britain.
- “Britain’s blasphemy laws” – Ben Sixsmith in the Critic says we must stand up to intimidation from Muslim activists.
- “Britain’s new moral guardians” – If men won’t be ruled by one blasphemy law, they’ll be ruled by 10,000, writes Ed West.
- “The culture wars are turning into the conservatives’ Vietnam” – Progressives are winning the war of attrition, not just holding their own, while politically motivated activism is being allowed to prosper with Government funds, says Tom Jones in CapX.
- “Labour plan to give menopausal women right to work from home” – Angela Rayner promises more support for women who “suffer in silence” and says the present situation is “bad for our economy”, reports the Telegraph.
- “We’re watching one of the most spectacular technology implosions of all time” – AI advocates abound but the mask is beginning to slip on the efficacy of early prototypes, according to Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “Across Europe, support for Ukraine is holding — for now” – But tax rises and pension changes will make the economic costs more visible, argues William Nattrass in UnHerd.
- “Ukraine and Russia one year on: Part 1” – Lieutenant General Jonathon Riley gives his one year report in TCW.
- “Instead of trying to adapt classic works of literature to make them suitable for the sensibilities of modern readers. Surely we should be adapting modern readers so they can appreciate great works of literature in the original” – Watch Toby talk to Jacob Rees-Mogg on GB News about the James Bond rewrites.
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