- “TUI tells ‘hundreds’ of passengers holidays are cancelled over text” – The Mail reports that TUI told hundreds of passengers that their holidays are cancelled over text following eight-hour airport waits, as hundreds of trips are axed amid half-term travel chaos brought on by airlines’ failure to prepare properly for the end of Covid restrictions.
- “Netflix CEO says 75% stock drop was ‘horrifying and embarrassing’” – CEO Ted Sarandos says Netflix’s declining stock is “horrifying” but reiterated he remains optimistic about the streaming platform’s future, despite producers chopping multiple new projects, according to the Mail.
- “Shanghai scrambles to avoid Zero-Covid economic catastrophe” – The Telegraph reports that China’s biggest port has launched a stimulus effort after months of severe lockdowns.
- “Covid test rule for the dead sparks online mockery in Chinese city” – Report from the South China Morning Post that an internet user posted a screenshot of Shenzhen rules requiring a Covid-negative report for cremation.
- “Homeworking destroyed our desire to dress respectably” – The shift to working from home blurred the boundary between the face we present to the world and the intimate one we keep for our home lives, writes Jane Shilling in the Telegraph.
- “The plague of ‘mind-working’” – Stephen H. Balch writes in the New Criterion that our postmodern society owes its crazed condition to a historically unique circumstance: the existence within it of a huge class of ‘intellectuals’ and a willingness to allow such academics to build for themselves positions of near-institutional impregnability.
- “The long and short of ‘Long Covid’” – El Gato Malo looks at a recent study on Long Covid and finds the main risk factors were being female, diabetes and anxiety disorder, with 48% of those diagnosed with Long Covid having pre-existing mental health issues and 37.5% anxiety disorder.
- “Car-free high street in Gloucestershire turned into ‘ghost town’” – The Telegraph reports that South Gloucestershire Council has been accused of acting “like a dictatorship” by closing the High Street to through traffic despite the majority of residents opposing the scheme, having originally closed the street during the first lockdown after the Government promised millions of pounds for a ‘green transport revolution’, meant to promote social distancing, walking and cycling.
- “CDC study purporting to find substantial protective effects for school mask mandates fails to replicate” – Last year, the CDC published a paper that looked at data from 520 U.S. counties and concluded that masks resulted in smaller increases in infections, but a team in Canada has now looked at the larger dataset of 1,832 counties and found that mask mandates actually do nothing and the prior findings were almost certainly an illusion, writes Eugyppius.
- “Counting deaths ‘with Covid’ inflated mortality rate, B.C. data indicates” – George Dance reports on data from British Columbia which show that during April and May 2022, fewer than half of deaths ‘with Covid’ were found on investigation to have Covid as the underlying cause.
- “Police are calling transgender rape suspects by their ‘preferred pronoun’, report finds” – The Telegraph reports that self-declaration of ‘gender identity’ rather than biological sex has been adopted by all key criminal justice institutions, according to an investigation by Policy Exchange.
- “Top HSBC investor backs free speech after climate ‘nut job’ banker suspended” – Nigel Wilson at Legal & General says opposing points of view are important, the Telegraph reports.
- “Anneliese Dodds: Stella Creasy is wrong – a woman can’t have a penis” – Labour continues to flounder on the simple issue of defining womanhood, with two prominent figures at odds, the Telegraph reports – as Labour Party Chairman Anneliese Dodds finally grows some balls, so to speak, in the trans debate.
- “How much sense does this Church splurge make? Net zero” – Strong returns on its investment portfolio mean the C of E plans to plough another £20m into divisive race issues and £30m into Net Zero projects, while attendance continues its inexorable decline, writes Victoria Baillon in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “The Police Race Action Plan is really about injecting far-Left theory into policing” – Officers are right to guard against bigotry, but this exercise in social justice thinking will make it harder to fight crime, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
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