- “Allow visitors for an hour a day under ‘living with Covid’ plan, hospitals told” – New NHS England guidance says it is “important to recognise the contribution that visiting makes to the well-being of patients”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Thousands of pupils left school during lockdowns and never came back” – Local authorities “do not have an accurate figure” of how many children are absent from education, warns the Children’s Commissioner, according to the Telegraph.
- “Risk of another pandemic is high, Chris Whitty warns” – Speaking at a summit in London, Professor Sir Chris Whitty said there had been many “near misses” in the past decade, pointing to Ebola and Zika outbreaks, reports the Mail. Oh dear – is he missing the spotlight and power already?
- “Austria suspends law forcing all adults to have Covid jabs” – The Alpine nation of nine million people was one of the few countries in the world to make jabs against the coronavirus compulsory for all adults, though may not be following through with it, reports the Mail.
- “Germany Set to Pass More Coronavirus Rules as Europe Moves On” – While Europe may be moving on from lockdown rules, Germany is instead looking to pass more legislation in the name of the disease, reports Breitbart News.
- “Who Changed the Scientific Conclusions of a Paper that Could Have Saved Millions? At Last, We May Have a Name.” – The FLCCC says the changing of the conclusion of Dr. Andrew Hill’s ivermectin paper is a “scandal of immense proportions that warrants an immediate investigation”.
- “Deadly mutant Omicron smashes Hong Kong – should Australia be worried?” – Hong Kong has been ravaged by the virus since mid-February when deaths soared from just 224 in total to 2,287 within weeks, and hundreds are now dying daily. Now a new mutant strain has been detected, reports the Mail.
- “Kiwis turn on New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern” – Frustrated Kiwis have hit out at Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as she continues to reject claims New Zealand is in crisis despite the cost of living rising by 5.2%, reports the Mail.
- “Finding the true origin of SARS-CoV-2 is of paramount importance” – Why do we not care more about this potential explanation for the origin of the virus, and that it may well have been covered up, asks Jamie Walden in Bournbrook.
- “Mark Steyn: Wednesday March 9th” – Watch the Daily Sceptic‘s Dr. Noah Carl appear on GB News on Wednesday night to discuss his latest article.
- “Ex-minister slams Treasury over ‘Dad’s Army’ Covid anti-fraud efforts” – Lord Agnew, who quit in protest from his role as anti-fraud minister in January, told MPs that Treasury attempts to stop fraud on Covid business loans was a “Dad’s Army operation”, according to the Mail.
- “At 78 and unvaxxed, I’ve come through Covid unscathed – and I curse the fearmongers” – Neville Hodgkinson in TCW Defending Freedom on his recent brush with the virus – which sounds not so dissimilar to my own.
- “American Lockdowns Began Two Years Ago Today” – Certain dates should live in infamy. One is March 7th, 2020. That is the date that the American lockdowns began in Austin, Texas, recalls Jeffrey A. Tucker at the Brownstone Institute.
- “Why carmakers fear shift to electric could stall” – Higher costs for vital materials threaten to make cars even more expensive, reports the Telegraph.
- “Nicola Sturgeon is now the West’s woke weak link” – What sane country would view the current crisis and reject the obvious solution of turning to our own domestic resources, asks Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Why would the Saudis bail out Biden?” – Mohammed bin Salman has the West where he wants it, says Angus Colwell in the Spectator.
- “Oil and gas sanctions hurt the West more than Russia” – While many of the sanctions seem to hurt Russia in the short-term but weaken us in the long-term, the recently announced oil and gas embargoes strengthen the Russian economy and weaken our own in both the short-term and the long-term, says Philip Pilkington in UnHerd.
- “Is the Government in denial about the looming economic crisis?” – It’s not clear that the Government has quite yet grasped the scale of the economic challenge that is upon it, says Robert Peston in the Spectator.
- “Boris Johnson urged to seek more oil from Saudi Arabia as energy crisis deepens” – The Prime Minister is said to have a warm relationship with the kingdom’s Crown Prince, who has refused a call from U.S. President Biden, according to the Telegraph. Pick the current least bad dictator…
- “Robert Jenrick warns the U.K. to brace for ‘difficult economic year’” – Robert Jenrick has warned that the U.K. could face “the most difficult economic year that we’ve seen in our lifetime” amid the heavy sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, reports the Mail.
- “Fracking could be revived despite ministers warning over ‘earthquakes’” – Brexit Opportunities Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg became the latest and most senior minister to come out in support of the technology, according to the Mail.
- “£450m heat pump subsidy scheme could end up funding those who would have bought them anyway” – Benefits of scheme, in which homeowners will get grants of up to £5,000 to ditch their gas boilers, are unclear, a parliamentary committee warns, the Telegraph reports.
- “Japan Sees No Winter Warming in Decades…Tokyo Winters Haven’t Warmed Since 1984!” – So are winters getting colder, or are they getting milder like the media like to have everyone believe, asks Kirye on Watts Up With That?
- “Infrared Forcing by Greenhouse Gases” – Read the freshly revised article from physicists William A. van Wijngaarden and Will Happer arguing that the warming effect of carbon dioxide is “suppressed by four orders of magnitude… because of saturation of the strong absorption bands and interference from other greenhouse gases” and that as a result doubling carbon dioxide concentration “only increases the forcings by a few per cent”.
- “The Essay That Prompted an Editorial Revolt” – Kathleen Stock’s essay in the latest issue of Law and Contemporary Problems was controversial before she even wrote it, writes Tom Bartlett in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
- “Teach your child censorship!” – As any critically thinking parent knows, schools are a hotbed of state propaganda, from subversive gender ideology to prophecies of doom on climate change. But this has worsened significantly in the past two years, says Niall McCrae in Unity News Network.
- “How anti-racism can make you rich” – Diversity has become a business tactic, rather than a moral imperative, writes Sam Leith in UnHerd.
- “Pressure on British Museum as Smithsonian gives back entire Benin Bronze collection to Nigeria” – Return of looted artefacts to Africa “could be a turning point”, as attention now focuses on 700-strong collection held in London, the Telegraph reports.
- “Children are self-censoring because teachers have chastised them if they challenge this cult” – Watch Toby on talkRADIO with Mike Graham responding to the news that a well-known London private school has been downgraded by Ofsted due to excessive time teaching social justice.
If you have any tips for inclusion in the round-up, email us here.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.