- “Covid vaccine injury bill tops £12 million” – Some 105 claims for the £120,000 compensation payment for vaccine injuries have now been approved, according to the Mail, up from 78 in early May. And there may be many more payments to follow.
- “Querying the existence of a Covid ‘pandemic’” – The HART group considers the long-established definition of the word ‘pandemic’, and concludes that the term does not describe the events of 2020.
- “Were lockdowns really worth all the economic and social damage they wrought?” – “In future we should be far more cautious when it comes to taking away people’s basic freedoms in the name of ‘protecting’ the public,” writes Reem Ibrahim in CapX.
- “Oliver Dowden led secret unit to stamp out lockdown dissent during pandemic” – The Telegraph reveals that it was Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden who, back in March 2020 when he was Culture Secretary, directed the Counter Disinformation Unit to start tackling Covid disinformation.
- “NHS workers killed by Covid are exempt from inheritance tax – but their families were never told” – Families of NHS workers who died of Covid after working in hospitals are wrongly paying inheritance tax, the Telegraph says, due to confusion over complex rules.
- “China abandoned ‘zero Covid’. But some don’t want to leave it behind” – The Washington Post reports on China’s ‘zero Covid’ holdouts, who have chosen to maintain strict infection control measures even though the rest of the country has moved on.
- “Pharmacovigilance escape and evasion” – Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan recount one of their reader’s efforts to get answers out of the MHRA about a friend who died after taking a Covid jab.
- “Hot weather: New health alert as weekend temperatures to hit 30°C” – The first Heat-Health Alert of the year has been issued across large parts of England, reports the BBC, with temperatures set to hit 30°C.
- “Net zero uncertainty is deterring investment in Britain, says pensions industry” – The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association has said that Net Zero is partly to blame for deterring pension funds from investing in Britain, the Telegraph reports.
- “Mr. Bean is right about electric cars” – “Atkinson is right,” says Ross Clark in the Telegraph. If carbon emissions are your main concern, you shouldn’t fall for the electric car hype.
- “The myth of the environmentalist” – “Show me an ‘environmentalist’ and I’ll show you someone that doesn’t know anything about the environment,” writes Mark Imisides in Spectator Australia. “That includes Government agencies with ‘environment’ in their name.”
- “Climate change is harming my mental health” – A former climate scientist is among a growing number of people overwhelmed by ‘eco-anxiety’, reports the BBC.
- “The gender wars are not a gift to the Right” – Critics of trans-activism are often told they are “’propping up’ the Right – or even the far-Right” but “concerned women are hardly extremists,” says Professor Kathleen Stock in UnHerd.
- “The elevation of women to male peaks” – “We are so stuck on the miracle of women partaking,” says Bettina Arndt in Spectator Australia, “that woe betide anyone who points out that even when women do it well, sometimes men still do it better.”
- “Why Anna Wintour won Vogue’s war on woke” – The Telegraph’s Ed Cumming wonders what lies behind Edward Enninful’s departure from the editorship of British Vogue. Could it be concerns about his progressive politics?
- “Apple TV And the Criterion Channel outrage film fans By censoring classic movie” – “If you love a film or TV show, you should buy it on disc,” says John Archer in Forbes, after Apple TV and Criterion censored the French Connection to take out a couple of racial slurs.
- “School about-turns after encouraging pupils to wear ‘full-blown drag’ for Pride day” – New Mills School in Derbyshire has scrapped its “Drag ’n’ Rainbows” themed non-uniform day after a backlash from parents, the Telegraph reports.
- “’All schools must comply’ – schools get heavy-handed against Pride backlash” – According to the National Post, two Canadian provinces have warned school boards that failure to properly observe Pride may be illegal!
- “Trans ideology is selling a lie” – “We can’t mend mental distress by removing healthy body parts,” says Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
- “What next for Daily and Sunday Telegraph now they are to be sold?” – The Guardian looks at who might buy the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph which are soon to be put up for sale, now that the Barclay family have lost control of the papers in a row over unpaid debts – although the family disputes that.
- “The hubris of Prince Harry” – The risk that Prince Harry’s legal action against Mirror Group Newspapers will not result in the outcome he desires “is growing stronger with every passing hour of cross examinations”, says Alexander Larman in the Spectator.
- “It’s just a load of woke waste of time” – TalkTV‘s Kevin O’Sullivan lambasts Westminster School which has told pupils that calling female teachers ‘Miss’ is sexist.
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