- “Covid drops out of top five causes of death” – Coronavirus was recorded as the main cause of death for 22,454 people in 2022, or 3.9% of all deaths registered, making it the sixth leading cause overall, the Mail reports.
- “One in 10 Democratic voters supports Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” – Children’s health activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is polling at 10% among Democratic voters, a new Morning Consult Survey has found, according to UnHerd.
- “Long Mask: A new meta-analysis quantifies mask harms” – Guy Gin summarises the latest paper looking at harms from mask-wearing.
- “U.K. Government evidence for mask mandates policy” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson revisit the very weak U.K. Health Security Agency review of mask evidence.
- “Huge Veterans Study: Covid and Flu Vaccines are Useless at Preventing Hospitalisation” – Igor Chudov on the devastating results in the latest veterans study from the U.S.
- “Covid vaccines and Covid mortality: highly effective?” – Professor Eyal Shahar takes a look at the new data that show the vaccines having very little real world effect including against serious disease.
- “How Common Sense Prevailed in Sweden” – The success of Sweden may be viewed as a victory for the cool-headed utilitarianism of the sober and conscientious public health bureaucrats, at all times keeping their eyes on the big picture, suggests Thorsteinn Siglaugsson.
- “It’s time to hold the medical journals accountable” – Steve Kirsch with a suggestion of how readers can help hold medical journals accountable “with a single email”.
- “Support for Germany’s Green party plummets” – Its unrealistic policies are putting off voters, says Ralph Schoellhammer in UnHerd.
- “Sadiq Khan accused of using misleading statistics” – Laura Dodsworth with an interview with climate researcher Ben Pile about Sadiq Khan’s dubious claim that 4,000 die every year from air pollution in London.
- “Loudmouth minorities are ruling the roost” – Trevor Phillips writes in the Times that the capture of the SNP by a small group of fanatics is only the latest example of a phenomenon long known in history.
- “Trudeau Foundation collapses amid Chinese donation scheme” – Weeks after returning a Chinese Communist Party-backed donation, the entire Board of Directors, President, and CEO from the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation have resigned, the Counter Signal reports.
- “The Eradication Of An ‘Ism’” – Andrew Sullivan warns of the “creeping illiberalism of the anti-woke right”.
- “Watchdog to examine ‘implausible’ U.K. census trans figures” – The Times reports that the statistics regulator is examining concerns that the data behind landmark census figures on the U.K.’s transgender population may be flawed.
- “The neo-Maoist mobbing of Riley Gaines” – More people need to speak out against the unhinged misogyny of transgenderism, writes Jenny Holland in Spiked.
- “The false myth of transgender oppression” – Dennis Kneale in the Washington Examiner on the perverse way the woke turned the trans murderer into a victim and his victims into oppressors.
- “Bud Light angers conservative customers after partnering with transgender TikTok star” – Sales drop after Anheuser-Busch teams up with Dylan Mulvaney to attract younger drinkers, reports the Telegraph. All together now: go woke…
- “Daniel Radcliffe tells trans children that adults concerned about gender transitioning are ‘condescending’ and should ‘trust kids to tell them who they are’ – as Harry Potter star makes another apparent dig at J.K. Rowling” – Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe told six trans and non-binary children at a roundtable organised by an LGBTQ suicide prevention charity adults should just “trust kids to tell us who they are”, the Mail reports.
- “With so many civil servants working from home, how on earth can mental health and stress be up by 38%?” – Watch Nigel Farage on GB News react to the increase in civil servants taking days off for mental health due to “excessive workload”.
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