- “Britain’s looming cancer crisis” – Lockdown has stretched cancer services to breaking point, says Karol Sikora in Spiked.
- “Spain reverses plan to open up to unvaccinated British visitors” – On Wednesday the tourist board said unjabbed visitors would be able to enter Spain with a negative pre-departure test, but eight hours later travellers were told this was an error resulting from a misinterpretation of the official state bulletin, the Independent reports.
- “Sri Lanka imposes 36-hour lockdown to quell protests over food, fuel crisis” – Hit by Government mismanagement and a subsequent COVID-19 pandemic, Sri Lanka’s economy has been in a free fall due to the crash of the tourism sector, reports the Hindustan Times.
- “Corgi beaten to death in Shanghai over fears it might spread Covid” – Outrage has erupted online after a video of a corgi dog being beaten to death by a Shanghai healthcare worker went viral, over unfounded concerns that the pup could be infectious after its owners tested positive for Covid, reports the Telegraph.
- “Work half the week from home, French bank tells staff” – The BNP Paribas move suggests the lender may never return to pre-pandemic patterns of work, reports the Telegraph.
- “MaskWatch” – The Smile Free campaign’s new initiative MaskWatch names and shames the major organisations still forcing masks on U.K. people, suggests mask-free alternatives, and invites readers to complain and boycott them.
- “My response to the COVID-19 terms of reference inquiry” – Read A State of Fear author Laura Dodsworth’s suggestions of areas not covered that the Inquiry should address.
- “Vaccine Mandate Decisively Defeated in German Bundestag” – The proposal to require injections for everyone 60 and older will go nowhere, says Eugyppius.
- “Heroic Sir Christopher Chope on the betrayal of vaccine victims” – Alone amongst all MPs of all parties, Sir Christopher Chope has taken up the cause of the ignored vaccine-injured, writes Kathy Gyngell on TCW Defending Freedom.
- “FDA Fully Revokes Authorisation of GSK and Vir’s Sotrovimab for COVID-19” – The FDA has issued a statement that GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology’s COVID-19 treatment sotrovimab is no longer authorised to be used in any U.S. region for the disease, citing low efficacy against emerging Omicron sub-variant BA.2, reports TrialSite News.
- “Unvaccinated New York State Judges and Court Employees Face Punishment” – Court workers in New York State who haven’t complied with the state’s vaccine mandate are beginning to receive letters terminating their employment, despite it now being clear that the COVID-19 vaccines don’t stop community transmission, reports TrialSite News.
- “Will Britain’s new energy strategy keep the lights on?” – Will the Government’s new Energy Security Strategy ensure that we can keep the lights on as the Government continues to commit itself to a policy of Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050, and will it quickly wean us off Russian oil and gas, asks Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “One in two news cars must be electric by 2028” – The Government is to set legally binding targets to speed up the shift away from petrol and diesel, the Telegraph reports.
- “We need energy security – not Net Zero” – The Government is too beholden to green fantasies to take our energy needs seriously, writes James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
- “BBC slammed for asking eco-vigilantes to let them film tyre deflating” – The U.K. Corporation found itself in hot water when Justin Rowlatt asked members of Tyre Extinguishers to star in a clip in which he would hide their identities, reports the Mail.
- “The flawed science of trans inclusion in women’s sport” – Advocates are embracing unreliable studies to justify unfair competition, says Fiona McAnena in the Critic.
- “Sajid Javid: NHS must protect wards for women only” – Health Secretary Sajid Javid has told NHS bosses to accept the guidance issued by the Government’s equality watchdog and to protect single sex wards at hospitals, the Mail reports.
- “Emily Bridges will receive public funding if cleared, confirms U.K. Sport” – U.K. Sport has defied Boris Johnson by revealing it would be willing to give public funding to transgender cyclist Emily Bridges if ‘she’ is cleared to race in women’s events, the Mail reports.
- “The Church of England has drunk the trans Kool-Aid” – There is no woke bandwagon senior clergymen will not jump on, says Charlie Peters in Spiked.
- “Europe can choose peace in Ukraine or air conditioning, says Italian PM” – Mario Draghi’s comments come as Kyiv urges full ban on Russian gas and oil – but he says “gas embargo is not yet on the table”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Putin walks the tightrope” – The latest Ukraine war analysis from Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley in TCW Defending Freedom.
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