- “No 10 to consider Wuhan leak theory after backlash to ‘entirely coincidental’ remark” – The PM’s spokesman says there are “still questions to be answered” after the Lockdown Files showed censorship of China comments in Matt Hancock’s book, the Telegraph reports.
- “Is Congress finally getting serious about investigating Covid’s origins?” – Dr. Alina Chan writes in the Spectator that Wednesday’s hearing on the origin of COVID-19 by the select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic was long overdue – and she doesn’t fail to mention that U.S. scientists have plenty they could be telling us even while China refuses to cooperate.
- “Lockdown supporters called me a killer – they should be disgusted with themselves” – Professor Karol Sikora in the Telegraph says his lockdown inbox was overflowing with desperate cancer patients whose treatment had been indefinitely postponed.
- “Children’s IQ dropped during lockdown, study finds” – German research suggests stress, anxiety, and social isolation could have caused children to perform below their usual standards, the Telegraph reports.
- “Increase in mental health callouts received by police over past five years” – Some forces told the BBC they saw incidents multiply by four or five times between 2017 and 2022.
- “20c diabetes drug slashed Long Covid symptoms by 42% in clinical trial” – Metformin – the world’s most common treatment for type 2 diabetes – is thought to suppress the production of the virus or reduce inflammation and oxidative stress, which contribute to Long Covid, according to the Mail.
- “Britain may well repeat its lockdown blunders sooner than anyone thinks” – From Sweden and the WhatsApp leaks, it’s clear what needs to be changed. But will anyone do it, asks Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Just 62% of NHS staff are happy with care patients get, survey shows” – Fewer than 63% of the 636,000 NHS workers in England polled said that if a friend or relative needed treatment, they would be happy with the standard of care provided by their organisation, the Mail reports.
- “Here comes the Bird F Word…” – As the UKHSA says it is turning to Bird Flu models, Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson ask if more terror is on the way.
- “Jim Jordan goes nuclear on Dr. Fauci, lays out devastating timeline of lies” – Watch the Republican congressman lay out the charge sheet against Fauci vis-à-vis the lab leak.
- “NHS waiting list shoots to another record high of 7.21 million” – NHS England data show there were 7.21 million patients queuing for operations in January, the highest figure ever logged and nearly three million more than pre-pandemic levels, the Mail reports.
- “U.S. Invested in mRNA Vaccines for Decades Pre-Pandemic: Study” – In the first study to systematically examine the public investments in mRNA vaccines, researchers have found that the U.S. Government was substantially invested in mRNA vaccine technology before the Covid pandemic, the Epoch Times reports.
- “Balaji Srinivasan: The Man Who Couldn’t Wait for Covid to Ring In the ‘New Normal’” – Michael Senger suggests Balaji’s Twitter ‘prophecies’ may be evidence that there was an early plan to recreate China’s Covid response globally.
- “Take the Jab and Live Forever!” – The Naked Emperor analyses the latest ONS release and finds clear evidence of heavy confounding in the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups.
- “Follow up on DNA contamination of Covid-injectable products” – It’s worse than originally thought based on new results, says Dr. Jessica Rose.
- “Three Years Ago This Week, the World Ended” – Jeffrey Tucker revisits the start of the pandemic for the Epoch Times.
- “Dr. Redfield’s Bombshell Testimony” – Dr. Robert Malone on the former CDC Director’s insider account of the lab leak cover-up.
- “Conspiracy Theories Become Conspiracy Facts” – The core claims behind lockdowns, masks and vaccines are unravelling and the prevailing narrative has been in retreat on all three fronts, writes Ramesh Thakur for Brownstone.
- “New Israeli MoH study shows Covid vax increases your risk of death over time” – A new study covertly released by the Israeli Ministry of Health “confirms what we know from the Medicare data: the Covid vaccines increase your risk of death over time”, writes Steve Kirsch.
- “Claim: Climate Change will Cause More Drought and More Frequent Intense Rainfall in Britain” – WUWT skewers the contradictory claims emanating from the U.K. about the consequences of climate change.
- “State-commissioned studies in Germany skewed by green agenda” – Alarmist research appears to have been motivated by faulty assumptions, writes Ralph Schoellhammer for UnHerd.
- “Cold weather can cut an electric car’s range by a third, says study” – If you’re thinking about buying an electric car, you need to know that they do not like Britain’s chilly winters and when temperatures drop they will not perform to the levels quoted, according to This is Money.
- “Goosebumps hit with secret ‘woke’ edits” – Kids’ horror author R.L Stine has denied sanitising his classic Goosebumps books to “appease the woke” — accusing his publisher of altering his work behind his back, reports news.com.au.
- “Kathleen Stock: ‘Young women would rather change gender than say they are lesbian’” – After losing her job over the trans war, the professor of philosophy – along with Martina Navratilova – wants the word reclaimed, reports the Telegraph.
- “Women’s rights have gone ‘too far’, say majority of Gen Z and millennials, study shows” – More than half of younger generations polled say women’s rights are now discriminating against men, reports the Telegraph.
- “Confusion reigns over promised Government guidance on blasphemy in schools” – On Saturday, Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced that the U.K. Government will introduce guidance on blasphemy in English schools, but the Department for Education seems to have other ideas, reports Humanists U.K.
- “Exposed: America’s Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex” – U.S. Government officials, agencies and contractors are violating the First Amendment, says Michael Shellenberger – and he includes the full report detailing the breaches he submitted to Congress this week.
- “Donald Trump: I’d have let Putin annex Ukraine to end the war” – The former U.S. President says Russia “would have never” invaded if he were still in power, but also claims he may have “made a deal” if necessary, according to the Telegraph.
- “Majority of Americans think ‘wokeness’ is good” – A confusing poll finds that people have a generally positive view on the word, but that when ‘woke’ is used to describe someone it is to insult them, reports the Telegraph.
- “The unbearable wokeness of Humza Yousaf” – The SNP leadership contender just cannot let gender ideology go, says Malcolm Clark in Spiked.
- “The former CDC director just said that your tax dollars funded the creation of Covid and his colleagues lied about it to cover their own asses” – Where the hell is the media, asks Colin Rugg.
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