- “Forget the ‘sick man of Europe’ – Britain is simply a sick country” – The economic impact of the U.K.’s poorly delivered healthcare is finally being revealed, writes Kate Andrews in the Telegraph.
- “Resist the call to ‘move on from Covid’” – In TCW, Paul Collits explains why he remains hopeful that the Australian judicial system could still “somehow be re-oriented to the protection of liberty and citizen rights” after the injustices of the Covid response.
- “Weingarten crushed for pushing school lockdowns” – Randi Weingarten, one of the most powerful teachers union bosses in America, was admonished on CNN for supporting school lockdowns, reports Fox News.
- “ABC News admits to cutting down RFK Jr.’s vaccine claims” – The American news channel edited an interview with Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in which he made claims about the safety of Covid vaccines, reports Fox News.
- “Expert urges masks on public transport amid fears over Arcturus Covid variant” – Despite evidence that community masking does not achieve an appreciable reduction in viral transmission, the Chair of Independent SAGE has encouraged people to wear face coverings on public transport, while conceding that the advice “may seem like a throwback to last year”, according to MailOnline.
- “Another paper shows bivalent mRNA boosters are basically a marketing gimmick” – Added bonus, this one is from a study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, says Alex Berenson.
- “Net Zero Britain will be unable to keep the lights on, MPs warn” – The Business Select Committee said green power is unlikely to generate enough energy to run the country without radical reform, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sorry, the battle is cancelled due to unforeseen lack of charging stations” – Igor Chudov points out some flaws in the idea – backed by U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm – that the U.S. military should adopt an EV fleet by 2030.
- “Sadiq Khan is accused of ‘covering up’ bus route cuts as he reveals maps for new ‘Superloop’ orbital network” – The Mayor’s ‘Superloop’ will be formed of ten express buses around the capital – four existing routes and six new – but ten other London routes will be either axed or amended, reports MailOnline.
- “The climate scaremongers are telling us what to buy” – In increasingly Stalinist fashion, the Government is planning to force us to buy products whether we want them or not, writes Paul Homewood in TCW.
- “New York moves to become first state to ban natural gas hook-ups” – New York leaders reached an agreement on the state’s 2024 budget which includes a future ban on natural gas hook-ups in new building construction, reports Fox News.
- “The EU extends its censorship powers” – The European Commission announced its first list of designated Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) that will be subject to “content moderation” requirements and obligations to combat “disinformation” under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), reports Brownstone.
- “The revolt against the new elite” – Sociologist Matt Goodwin’s new book, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics, gives voice to the frustrations of the masses, according to Patrick West in Spiked.
- “Carlson is ‘designed for the internet’” – UFC commentator and podcast host Joe Rogan is confident Tucker Carlson will move to, or create, an independent platform after being ousted from Fox News, according to the Epoch Times.
- “Britain is now rapidly giving up on excellence” – Apart from in a few areas such as top-flight football, we have rejected ruthless competition and skill, says David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “The trans cult comes for Eurovision” – Ireland’s Eurovision entrant has excommunicated its creative director for ‘misgendering’ someone, says Robert Jessel in Spiked.
- “Bud Light to spend heavily on marketing after Dylan Mulvaney controversy: report” – Anheuser-Busch scrambling to repair Bud Light’s image after backlash over partnership with the trans influencer, according to Fox News.
- “How activism took over the classroom” – Too many schools are now pushing an identitarian worldview on to the young, according to Alka Sehgal in Spiked.
- “The travesty of the trans ads” – A new style of commercial amounts to a well-funded bid to influence society to become even sicker, argues writer and technology lawyer ‘Bridget Jones 2023’ in TCW.
- “Biden is the real threat to democracy” – On this week’s Spiked Podcast, Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss Joe Biden’s re-election bid and Labour’s blind spot for anti-Semitism.
- “This is a terrible place for an increasingly diverse, complicated society to be” – Watch author and academic Prof. Matt Goodwin explain that “radical progressivism” rejects keystones of classical liberalism.
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