- “Covid alarmism returns with the Eris variant” – Each season now comes with a new variant of Covid alarmism, fuelling media clickbait and ranging from the hyperbolic to the hypothetical, says Kevin Bardosh in UnHerd.
- “UN Initiative Tasked with Targeting COVID-19 ‘Disinformation’ Quietly Vanishes” – Team Halo, connected to the United Nations, targeted health care workers on social media for spreading ‘disinformation’ about COVID-19. Now, the group appears to have vanished, reports the Epoch Times.
- “English football’s new blasphemy laws” – ‘Tragedy chanting’ is offensive. But that should not make it a criminal offence, argues Mick Hume in Spiked.
- “Activists target Olympian’s kids ‘after she spoke out on trans issues’” – In a new low, trans activists are targeting Sharon Davies’s children, reports the Mail.
- “New allegations emerge about leftie campaigners linked to defunding GB News” – Stop Funding Hate, the left-wing activist group encouraging advertisers to boycott GB News, has endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory, according to David Maddox in the Express.
- “Is it a crime to call a police officer a lesbian?” – The arrest of a 16 year-old autistic girl for a ‘homophobic public-order offence’ raises some troubling questions, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Blind faith and bans won’t get us to net zero” – Net zero, we are told, is an area of policy that should be beyond criticism, says Juliet Samuel in the Times. But the absence of public debate about it means we haven’t worked out any solutions to the problems it will raise.
- “How the West plays up to Putin’s caricature” – Putin is trying to characterise Russia’s war against Ukraine as an existential battle with the moral depravity of the West. The problem is, says Lionel Shriver in the Spectator, we keep playing into his hands.
- “Brighton College is announced most expensive private school in Britain” – Brighton College is now officially Britain’s most expensive private school. It’s also the most woke says Mark Palmer in the Mail.
- “Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg is ON – and at ‘epic location’ in Rome” – It’s beginning to look as though Elon Musk’s showdown with Mark Zuckerberg will take place in Rome’s Colosseum. Get ready to rumble, says the Mail.
- “Who are the globalists?” – Eugyppius takes the WEF conspiracy theorists gently to task in his latest Substack post.
- “Jordan Peterson and Bjorn Lomborg: How to save critical thinking and constructive debate” – The two public intellectuals unveil their plans for an international conference in London this October in the National Post.
- “Anti-social Media” – Jack Watson reflects on the role social media platforms are playing in teenage riots breaking out in the capital.
- “Can Jeremy Clarkson please be the next Mayor of London?” – Wonderful rant by Jeremy Clarkson against the explosion of cycle lanes on London’s roads and the congestion they’s causing.
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