- “Britain passes sweeping new ‘Online Safety Bill’” – Britain has passed a sweeping law to regulate online content, setting off debates about free speech and privacy rights, reports the New York Times.
- “Covid vaccine contaminates breast milk, study finds” – Remember how officials and TV health experts told us that the ‘vaccine stays in the arm’ and that ‘vaccine shedding is a myth’? It turns out that it was untrue, writes Igor Chudov on Substack.
- “Children who took three doses of COVID-19 vaccine have higher risk than ones with two doses: Pfizer-funded research” – New research, sponsored by Pfizer, has linked Covid vaccination with reduced medical visits for respiratory illness in children. The detailed data, however, triggered doubt, writes Marina Zhang in the Epoch Times.
- “Study: With each Covid vaccination, healthcare workers get sicker” – A new German study has found that some healthcare workers required time off from work due to symptoms related to the Covid vaccine, particularly after receiving booster shots, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “Has the NHS forgotten its real purpose?” – Those in charge of the NHS seem to hold us in contempt. They do not want to cure us but to re-educate us, says Joanna Williams in the Spectator.
- “Will Dominic Cummings destroy Westminster?” – Dominic Cummings is confronted with grim prospects in his plans for a new ‘Startup Party’, remarks Aris Roussinos in UnHerd.
- “Did conservatism die with Sir Roger Scruton?” – We should embrace Roger Scruton’s legacy and wear the label ‘conservative’ with pride, says Karl Williams on the Conservative Reader Substack.
- “Sunak calls press conference amid row over his ‘green policy U-turn’” – Rishi Sunak is facing a major crisis over the Tories’ Net Zero agenda as he prepares to water down their flagship environmental policies, according to the Mail.
- “Anti-Ulez vigilantes change tactics to thwart enforcement vans” – The anti-Ulez ‘Blade Runners’ group has begun boxing in ultra low emission zone enforcement vans so they cannot catch motorists, reports the Telegraph.
- “Sadiq Khan tells New York conference Ulez is a ‘two-for-one offer’” – Furious MPs have hit back at Sadiq Khan after he described Ulez as the “best ever two-for-one offer” as it tackles both air pollution and climate change, after a study warned carbon emissions would increase in some London boroughs, says the Mail.
- “Twenty miles per hour is just the start of the stranglehold on Wales” – The shift to 20mph limits on once 30mph roads reveals Welsh Labour’s seemingly eternal stranglehold on the people, writes Nicola Lund in TCW.
- “Suella Braverman slams Chris Packham after wildlife presenter insisted it is ‘ethically responsible’ for eco mob to break the law and warned an oil refinery could be blown up” – Home Secretary Suella Braverman has slammed BBC Springwatch presenter Chris Packham for his “aggressive approach” on climate change and for backing eco mobs who break the law, reports the Mail.
- “Britain has finally joined the ‘Net Sensibles’” – The Prime Minister’s modest tweaks to the Government’s Net Zero commitments are a welcome indication that the green orthodoxy is gradually crumbling, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Has the penny finally dropped about Net Zero?” – Rishi Sunak has not gone nearly far enough in challenging the establishment’s green consensus, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “How much of a con are electric cars?” – Look a little deeper into electric vehicles, and you will find them to be the ‘snake oil’ of the road, overpromising on environmental benefits, writes Tom Ed on Substack.
- “Why electric cars threaten to upend the U.S. election” – The threat to jobs posed by Biden’s green energy push could cost him the presidency, argue James Titcomb and Howard Mustoe in the Telegraph.
- “Pro-censorship group being investigated by U.S. Congress has ties to U.K. politicians” – The U.S. Congress has revealed connections between the pro-censorship Centre for Countering Digital Hate and the British Government, reports Reclaim The Net.
- “Britain’s hidden blasphemy laws” – Councils across the U.K. have embraced a dangerously broad definition of ‘Islamophobia’, warns Hardeep Singh in Spiked.
- “The BBC’s misinformation merchant” – Tom Slater exposes the falsehoods of the BBC’s Marianna Spring in a video for Spiked.
- “How the Antiques Roadshow became the ‘Antiques Guilt Trip’” – With its po-faced sermons about our colonial past and calls to repatriate family heirlooms, the BBC has turned the Antiques Roadshow into yet another soapbox, laments auctioneer Bob Hayton in the Mail.
- “Guidance on trans children could end up a legislative dog’s breakfast” – The Equality Act was not designed with gender questioning children in mind, says Ian Acheson in CapX.
- “My gender is ’rock’” – Gender Spectrum, arguably the most influential gender identity nonprofit in American K-12 education, has released a video to help students explore neo-identities such as “rockgender” and “autismgender”, reports Max Eden in City Journal.
- “Trans-identified male accused of voyeurism in women’s restroom set to appear in court” – A trans-identified male is facing charges of voyeurism and tampering with evidence after being caught photographing a woman in the female restroom of an office in Northwest Arkansas, reports Reduxx.
- “Be more Karen” – The term ‘Karen’ has come to mean any women bold enough to complain. What exactly is the problem with that, asks Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “Biden admin awards over $4 million in grants to programmes that target ‘misinformation’” – Millions of American taxpayer dollars are being spent on programmes that target speech, says Tom Parker in Reclaim The Net.
- “Google is accused of burying Rumble’s Republican debate stream exclusive in search” – Google search has been accused of burying references to Rumble’s stream of the Republican presidential primary debate, sparking concern over free speech and criticism of Google’s monopoly power, says Reclaim The Net.
- “Elon Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink to begin human trials” – Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, has announced human trials to evaluate the safety of its “fully implantable, wireless brain-computer interface”, reports the Hill.
- “Neil deGrasse Tyson: Why not solve the problem?” – The folks at Triggernometry are joined by Neil deGrasse Tyson to discuss what scientists got wrong about Covid, what their critics got wrong about science and his controversial defence of gender ideology.
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