- “Covid inquiry ‘limits outside voices’ on whether lockdown was too draconian” – The Hallett Inquiry is seemingly reluctant to accept contrarian research into lockdowns, the Telegraph says, such as the report recently published by the IEA which found that the intervention saved 1,700 lives.
- “The Covid inquiry’s verdict already seems to be in: we should’ve locked down even harder” – In his Telegraph column, Dan Hannan says the Hallett Inquiry has already reached a verdict.
- “The main Covid lockdown casualties: Children” – “The evidence keeps piling up that children were the biggest casualties of the Government’s response to Covid,” says the Wall Street Journal, the latest being the news that suicide rates among young people in the U.S. have hit a 20-year high.
- “Tories drink, dance and laugh at Covid rules in first ever Partygate video” – The Mirror showcases some video footage of the Christmas knees-up held at Conservative Campaign Headquarter, December 14th 2020.
- “Proof Boris Johnson’s accuser did go to a party in lockdown” – The Mail On Sunday has got hold of the WhatsApp invite that Bernard Jenkin sent out offering “birthday drinks” for “a few of our favourite people”.
- “My conversation with AI over hydroxychloroquine” – The AI bot makes numerous factual errors as it discusses hydroxychloroquine with Harvey Risch of the Brownstone Institute.
- “Chinese scientist who filed patent for Covid vaccine died mysteriously” – Zhou Yusen died in mysterious circumstances in May 2020, according to the Mail, a few months after filing a patent for a Covid vaccine. Did he know too much about the virus’s origin?
- “Wildfires and climate change: Narrative ever more detached from actual evidence” – Francis Menton of the Manhattan Contrarian offers data to counter the widespread notion that climate change is the cause of wildfires.
- “Man arrested on suspicion of starting Northern California fire that burned more than 100 homes” – 71 year-old Edward Wackerman has been arrested on suspicion of starting a forest fire in Yosemite National Park in California, according to AP News.
- “Smart meters are a trial run for an even greater heat pump disaster to come” – The Telegraph’s Simon Heffer foresees a revolt over “impractical environmental schemes that will impoverish millions”.
- “There is still time for us to do right – and save Julian Assange from dying in U.S. dungeon” – Peter Hitchens calls on the Government to block the extradition of Julian Assange to the U.S. in his Mail On Sunday column.
- “Teacher Roy Huggins sex ed class nearly cost him his job and sanity” – Roy Huggins filled in for an absent colleague in a sex-ed class and told the children some biological facts. Now, reports the Mail, he is suffering from night terrors because of the fallout.
- “Sex education is brainwashing our kids – It’s time to take a stand” – “The blunt reality is Britain’s schools are now rapidly following their counterparts in America,” says Matt Goodwin in the Sun, “by exposing children to highly divisive, utterly toxic and very contentious theories which often have no serious basis in science.”
- “When will the Department for Education get a grip on its transgender guidance?” – Lottie Moore in the Spectator takes aim at the Department for Education over its new guidance on safeguarding children in schools.
- “Teach children to disagree politely, say leading heads” – Two leading headteachers have warned that free speech is rapidly disappearing from our schools, reports the Times.
- “I say, Darbishire, why are you wearing a dress?” – Katharine Birbalsingh says that private schools are “too caught up with social justice problems”. Cue a very funny column by Giles Coren in the Times in which he imagines a woke version of Jennings.
- “Federal judge rules MA student’s ‘there are only two genders’ T-shirt ‘invades the rights of others’, is not protected by free speech” – A Judge in Massachusetts has ruled that wearing a T-shirt saying “there are only two genders” could be construed as bullying, the Post Millennial reports.
- “Guilty Until Proven Innocent in Ireland” – Ireland’s new hate speech bill will be “as draconian as it ineffective”, argue Natalie Alkiviadou and Jeffrey Cieslikowski in Persuasion.
- “Council spends nearly £50,000 on ‘rainbow junction’” – Disability campaigners have urged Hounslow council to “rethink its priorities”, the Telegraph says, after it spent £50,000 on a ‘rainbow junction’ that’s leaving partially-sighted people dazed and confused.
- “Young Tories are nowhere to be found” – Eric Kaufmann analyses the latest polling on voting intentions among young people in a piece for UnHerd. “If today’s cultural trends go unchecked, the Tories are on track to becoming a natural party of opposition.”
- “An Inside Job” – The New York Times sets out the evidence that it was Russia that blew up the Kakhovka dam.
- “The revolutionary power of heresy” – Spiked publishes an extract from Brendan O’Neill’s new book, A Heretic’s Manifesto.
- “We need a 9/11-style commission to get to the bottom of the cover-up” – Michael Shellenberger appears on Calvin Robinson’s GB News show to discuss the origins of Covid and his claim that patient zero was a Wuhan lab researcher.
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