- “Scientists raise alarm over new Covid variant and call for face masks” – The chin-wobblers were out in force yesterday, ringing the alarm about Eris, which one over-excited scientist called “the real deal”, reports the Mail.
- “First ‘confirmed’ COVID-19 cases in America were on U.S. aircraft carrier” – Studies suggest crew members aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt may have been infected with COVID-19 before America’s first confirmed case, writes Bill Rice Jr. on Substack.
- “Have you suffered from ‘pre-Covid’ phenomenon?” – Scientists say the ‘pre-Covid’ phenomenon may be caused by someone catching a mild bug or other virus before getting Covid, or could simply be the early stages of a Covid infection, reports the Mail. Or maybe it’s just in their heads.
- “Steve Barclay’s misrepresentation of the cancer crisis has betrayed thousands of Britons” – The Health Secretary’s claim that cancer survival rates are improving takes the biscuit, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Fewer HMRC staff are working in the office than during lockdown” – 95% of tax office staff work from home at least once a week despite poor customer service, reports the Telegraph.
- “Working from home is the new British disease” – Ever since the Covid lockdown, the U.K. has conducted a massive experiment in home working and the results have been catastrophic, says Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “Did Direct Energy Weapons start the fires in Maui?” – The thing is, after Covid, nobody believes a word the Government or media tells them, says the Naked Emperor. Although he thinks poor management of natural fire hazards is to blame.
- “How to solve Hawaii’s wildfires: Eat sheep or fry” – Controlled livestock grazing could solve Hawaii’s wildfire problem, but it will require facing down rampant eco-zealots, writes Richard North in Turbulent Times.
- “Greta and her fanclub need to get real about the climate challenge” – Condemnation and intolerance are Greta Thunberg’s stock-in-trade, says Eliot Wilson in CapX. What’s much less clear, however, is the Maid of Stockholm’s solutions.
- “The new elite is out of touch… again” – Matt Goodwin on his Substack argues that the Government’s efforts to house Britain’s asylum-seekers on barges has exposed a familiar divide between the new elite and the general public.
- “Dr Rakib Ehsan addresses missed chance to send warning to abusive fathers” – In the Mail, Dr. Rakib Ehsan gives his low opinion of Hussein Alinzi and the justice system that let him off with a suspended prison sentence and a ‘rehabilitation activity’ programme after he beat his 15 year-old daughter with an iron bar.
- “Asexual and ‘aromantic’ flags to be hung in public buildings under Welsh Labour plan” – The Welsh Labour Government has been accused of prioritising “woke virtue-signalling” after it ordered public buildings to fly flags celebrating asexual and ‘aromantic’ people, says the Telegraph.
- “PM says Starmer putting women and girls at risk over self-ID U-turn” – Rishi Sunak has hit out at Keir Starmer after he said he would not have blocked the SNP’s proposed reforms to the Gender Recognition Act, reports the Mail.
- “Woke Eton College has become a lost cause” – “My old teacher, Michael Kidson, inculcated in his pupils a healthy disrespect for received wisdom. He would not survive in the Eton of today,” laments Jamie Blackett in the Telegraph.
- “Doubt in Denmark” – Another progressive country is having second thoughts about transitioning children, writes Bernard Lane on Substack.
- “Gov employees want those who resist anti-racism training ‘taken out’” – A survey among employees of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada suggests that some believe colleagues should be fired, or not hired, if they are against mandatory anti-racism training, reports True North.
- “The German disillusionment” – Germans have lost faith in the political establishment, writes Uwe Steinhoff in the Critic.
- “Oliver Anthony and the sorry state of Rolling Stone” – The once-great Rolling Stone magazine’s coverage of the viral country star Oliver Anthony is embarrassing, says Winston Marshall in the Spectator.
- “Do we want to get rid of human nature?” – We can choose to be human and by making that choice we affirm the existence, relevance and importance of our nature, argues Thorsteinn Siglaugsson on Substack.
- “‘Museum curators and librarians are the Storm Troopers of woke ideology’” – New Culture Forum’s Emma Webb and Rafe Heydel-Mankoo discuss the ongoing scandal of museums rewriting our history on GB News.
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