- “Covid inquiry demands all WhatsApp texts by Ministers” – No stone to be left unturned as all key figures in Covid response asked to release their private communications for scrutiny, according to the Telegraph.
- “Show me a school that I shut down” – Dr. Fauci absolves himself of responsibility for lockdowns in testy interview, according to Fox News.
- “Justin Trudeau accused of trying to rewrite history” – Twitter users accused Canada’s leader of gaslighting after he claimed he never forced anyone to get vaccinated, reports Fox News.
- “Vaccine sceptics – the modern-day martyrs” – The history of the last three years has been an updated version of martyrs being consigned to the flames for their beliefs, but this time the rejected articles of faith are the Covid vaccines, says Liz Hodgkinson in TCW.
- “The ‘best available science’: The CDC and the vaccine travel mandate” – In Brownstone, Hunter McBryde looks for the science behind America’s vaccine travel mandates and finds “a multitude of platitudes and a dearth of scientific evidence”.
- “Time to give long Covid short shrift” – “Those involved in Covid-related research have a vested interest in perpetuating the existence of long Covid,” says Dr. Roger Watson in TCW, where he makes the case for consigning long Covid “to the medical waste bin”.
- “German regulators revise their Covid vaccine recommendations for the 25th time, announce that we can stop jabbing children now” – “Of course, we’ve known this for three years, but we’ve vaccinated almost 10 million kids anyway,” says Eugyppius on Substack, responding to the latest announcement from the German vaccine regulatory authority.
- “Charlotte has been left destitute and relying on food banks while Kam’s still in shock at losing her husband: The heartbroken families of AstraZeneca Covid vaccine victims who say they’ve been abandoned by the Government” – The latest vaccine injury story from MailOnline.
- “Big pharma wants your NHS data: GSK boss begs Rishi Sunak to allow drug firms to see treasure trove of medical records in bid to find new treatments – despite fears sensitive info could end up in wrong hands” – Speaking at a conference in London yesterday, Dame Emma Walmsley, Chief Executive of GlaxoSmithKline, urged the Prime Minister to “keep pushing” his team “to do more” to make anonymised NHS records available to drug companies help them develop better treatments, reports MailOnline.
- “Climate activism must not be allowed to undermine climate science” – “Inane virtue signalling has no more place in our universities than it has at the Crucible,” says John Armstrong in the Spectator.
- “Extinction Rebellion: A movement against the people” – “The great enemy of the green movement is not the Government or the oil barons,” says Tom Slater in Spiked. “It’s you.”
- “Now vigilantes saw off wooden road bollard in Oxford just 10 days after it was installed to replace plastic post in LTN neighbourhood because obstacles were repeatedly crushed, burned, bent and stolen by irate drivers” – Oxfordshire County Council spent thousands of pounds replacing controversial bollards in its LTN scheme after furious residents repeatedly damaged them, according to MailOnline.
- “Just Stop Oil protest ruined by hero cyclist snatching banner in epic video” – A cyclist has triumphed over eco-zealots Just Stop Oil, saving motorists from infuriating roadblock, reports the Express.
- “Misogyny will not be made a hate crime, Government confirms” – The announcement came today as Government responded to a major review published by the Law Commission, according to the Telegraph.
- “Diane Abbott and the trouble with the ‘hierarchy of racism’” – In the Spectator, Brendan O’Neill explains what the Diane Abbott scandal – and the reaction among Corbynistas – tells us about the Labour Party’s problem.
- “Rupert Murdoch has fired his most successful host. Why?” – In firing Tucker Carlson and trying to draw a line under a painful NewsCorp episode, Rupert Murdoch has removed Fox News’s greatest asset, argues Freddy Gray in the Spectator’s U.S. edition.
- “What’s next for Tucker Carlson?” – As you may have heard once (or a hundred times), Fox has parted ways with him. But shed no tears for Tucker; his next act is likely to be very lucrative, says Alex Berenson on Substack.
- “Cambridge art museum removes painting showing free love after branding it ‘racist’” – New conversations are emerging around the status of canvases removed because their subject matter is criticised as ignorant or offensive, reports the Telegraph.
- “Joe Biden’s sinister disinformation campaign” – In the run-up to the 2020 election, intelligence officials spread lies to bury the Hunter Biden laptop story, writes Sean Collins in Spiked.
- “Michigan school district faces lawsuit after forcing students to remove ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sweatshirts” – Two students who were prohibited from wearing clothing that featured a phrase critical of President Joe Biden have filed a lawsuit against their Michigan school district, according to Fox News.
- “I believe in protecting children” – ‘Right-wing’ transgender woman who transitioned at age 15 insists kids should be banned from starting hormone replacement therapy until they’re 18, reports DailyMail.com.
- “The transgender children’s crusade” – “The ‘gender journey’, the search for one’s ‘authentic’ gender identity, is reshaping the biographies of the susceptible young into a radical and damaging new form,” says Kay S. Hymowitz in City Journal.
- “Why should the LGBTQ community have the power to stop somebody speaking?” – Watch panelists on GB News discussing the efforts by students to no-platform feminist academic Kathleen Stock, who resigned from her post at Sussex University in 2021 after a campaign of intimidation by activists who oppose her views on gender.
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