- “Fourth Covid jabs could be rolled out from next week in England” – The U.K.’s vaccine advisory panel said last month that over-75s and vulnerable people should get the jabs six months after their original booster – and now a source has said the programme should begin next week, the Mail reports.
- “Novak Djokovic will get the chance to defend his French Open title” – Organisers of the Roland Garros Slam, set to begin on May 22nd, said the reigning champion will, as it stands, have the opportunity to defend his title, reports the Mail.
- “Divergent CEO View on Need for Vaccination: Moderna and Pfizer Differ on Fourth Shot” – Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla has spoken about the need for a fourth vaccine dose, whereas Moderna’s President Stephen Hoge has said he believes a fourth shot is warranted in only certain instances, reports TrialSite News.
- “‘Fortress New Zealand’ is no more, as country set to reopen borders after two years” – Thwarted by the arrival of Omicron, Jacinda Ardern’s Zero Covid ambitions will effectively come to an end, reports the Telegraph.
- “CDC Warns Agency Would Lose Access to Key Data If Emergency Declaration Ends” – The U.S. CDC makes a bid to avert the end of the public health emergency, according to the Epoch Times.
- “Ep 42. Trust in Justin (and other rambles) – The Real Normal” – Back to normal this week on the podcast. Don and Lord Rickmansworth chat everything from the Ukraine crisis (including U.K. and EU support) to Justin Trudeau’s laughable trip to the U.K., plus their thoughts on sanctions and the U.K.’s energy contingency cock ups.
- “A fine mess: nearly half of Covid penalty notices remain unpaid” – Calls for amnesty grow louder as more than 40% of penalty notices handed during the pandemic are still outstanding, the Telegraph reports.
- “The Wind Trap: Why Wind Power Has Already Peaked” – Wind energy has already passed its optimal share of power generation in the U.K. and there is simply no benefit to the grid to continue to add more variable renewable energy, resulting in abundant power only when the weather is favourable, but which makes zero contribution to the grid when cheap power is scarce, writes Barry Norris on Argonautica.
- “How the American Left empowers Putin” – Biden’s ‘Net zero’ policies are a gift to Moscow, says Joel Kotkin in UnHerd.
- “Johnson could ditch Net Zero now. Instead, he’s doubling down on it” – If ever there was a chance for Boris Johnson to abandon the hideous eco-insanity of Net Zero, this is it – but instead he recommits wholly to the folly of ‘green’ energy, writes Frederick Edward in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Ban on petrol and diesel cars by 2030 ‘unrealistic’ as electric charger network won’t be ready” – Drivers will not make the switch to eco-friendly vehicles if they are not confident of being able to charge them, writes Olivia Rudgard in the Telegraph.
- “The runaway cost of virtue-signalling” – Working-class Americans are paying a heavy price for their elites’ moral posturing, writes Batya Ungar-Sargon in Spiked.
- “Tony Sewell is dead right about race” – The life chances of ethnic-minority Britons are not determined by racism. Why is it verboten to say this, asks Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
- “We’re in the midst of a global food crisis – so how bad will it get for Britain?” – The war in Ukraine has sparked a food security emergency – those who’ll suffer most are those least able to absorb shortages and high prices, writes Mick Brown in the Telegraph.
- “The U.S. labs in Ukraine that sparked a propaganda war” – The Pentagon says it has invested $200 million in Ukraine to reduce biological threats, according to the Mail.
- “A ‘trans advocate’ is carrying out an NHS review into mixed wards” – Dr. Michael Brady has allegedly written to campaign groups and told them he has “no plans to reduce the existing rights of transgender people” during the process, which began in December, reports the Mail.
- “Threat to a free Press” – We simply can’t allow algorithms dreamed up in Silicon Valley to dictate what the British public should, and should not, be allowed to know, says the Mail in a leading article.
- “New Online Safety Bill ‘doesn’t do enough to guard Press freedom’” – Fears have been raised that the new Online Safety Bill will not do enough to stop legitimate news being removed by tech giants under pressure to police harmful content or face penalties, writes Jim Norton in the Mail.
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