- “Young women had 3.5 times higher risk of death from heart issues after AstraZeneca jab” – The ONS found a dramatically greater risk for 12-29 year-olds in the first three months after a single dose of AstraZeneca Covid vaccine compared to a later period, the Telegraph reports. Yet not after the mRNA vaccines and little in other demographics – contrary to other studies. Sounds dubious to me, but then it is a self-controlled study. Also in the Mail.
- “IgG4 Antibodies Induced by mRNA Vaccines Generate Immune Tolerance to SARS-CoV-2’s Spike Protein by Suppressing the Immune System” – A new preprint summaries evidence which “suggests that the reported increase in the IgG4 [antibody] levels detected after repeated vaccination with the mRNA vaccines is not a protective mechanism; rather, it may be a part of the immune tolerance mechanism to the spike protein that could promote unopposed SARS-CoV-2 infection and replication by suppressing natural antiviral responses” . It may also “cause autoimmune diseases and promote cancer growth and autoimmune myocarditis in susceptible individuals”.
- “The Lockdown Lunacy in Retrospect” – How and why most of the world succumbed to the lockdown lunacy – a new overview from the Swiss Doctor.
- “Rainmaking and Mask Mandates, or: The dumb chain of coincidences that brought community masking tyranny to the West” – Pandemic policies were deeply, profoundly stupid, in a way that we have hardly come to terms with even now, says Eugyppius.
- “Why didn’t America’s Covid hypocrites pay a price?” – Partygate all sounds a bit silly, but then at least the U.K. takes its Covid hypocrites seriously – in America, not so much, writes Matt Purple for Spectator World.
- “Jabbed pilots’ roll call of death and injuries” – Sally Beck in TCW on the worrying rate of serious adverse reactions to Covid jabs among pilots.
- “EU’s energy summit ends in division over Net Zero” – The EU may aspire to become a geopolitical superpower, but arguments over energy at a leaders’ summit this weekend suggested it has enough difficulties keeping its internal affairs in order, says William Nattrass in UnHerd.
- “Council chiefs ‘covered up’ data that could put climate zones ‘into jeopardy’” – Oxford council chiefs “covered up” data that risked “jeopardising” its controversial climate zones, which will ban residents from travelling directly between suburbs, the Telegraph reports.
- “Berliners vote down referendum on tighter climate goals” – Reuters reports that a referendum in Berlin on Sunday that would have bound the city to strive to be climate neutral by 2030 has failed, the city’s mayor Franziska Giffey said in a statement.
- “Putin and Xi’s plot to control the internet will leave the West in the dust” – Britain’s creaking framework risks being left behind by the leaders’ technology pact, says Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “Victory for ‘continuity candidate’ Humza Yousaf in SNP battle” – Humza Yousaf, seen as the ‘continuity’ candidate, emerged victorious and is now set to take over from Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister tomorrow, the Mail reports. He has indicated he wants to persist with Sturgeon’s disastrous transgender self-ID policy, despite its key role in her downfall.
- “Six of the worst Humza Yousaf scandals” – It can be a difficult task picking out the most incompetent minister in the Scottish Government, but the new First Minister is definitely in the running, says Steerpike in the Speccie.
- “Killing my own dinner taught me about my relationship with animals and humans” – Fascinating story from Laura Dodsworth about coming to terms with where meat comes from – but when it was published in the Sunday Times she wasn’t prepared for the aggression she received from the militant vegans.
- “Dan Snow is the ultimate midwit historian” – To the Midwit historian, like Snow, there simply is no greater thrill than slaying the most sacred cow you can find, writes Samuel Rubinstein in the Spectator.
- “More than 60% of Scotland’s trans prisoners began transitioning after being convicted” – Data obtained under Freedom of Information Act show 12 of 19 in custody identified as the opposite sex “after their date of admission”, the Telegraph reports. Almost as though they’d prefer to be in a women’s prison…
- “Trans activism is sexist and delusional” – By denying science, the medical profession is committing some of the worst moral crimes in modern times, and it must end, says Jordan Peterson in the Telegraph.
- “‘I’m not biased.’ Google’s chatbot denies any political leaning, but promotes trans drugs, Joe Biden and veganism, and bashes Fox News, gun rights and the January 6th rioters” – Google’s new chatbot insists it does not have a liberal bias, but the Daily Mail‘s 10 tests of Bard reveal its implicit political support for Joe Biden, transgender ideology and universal healthcare access.
- “How I survived the trans mob” – Listen to Kellie-Jay Keen aka Posie Parker talk to Spiked‘s Brendan O’Neill about her violent encounter with gender extremists.
- “Toby Young of the Free Speech Union explains how a freedom of information request shows police forces across the country are giving ‘little or no time’ for training officers about legal protections for free speech” – Watch Toby on GB News speaking with Andrew Doyle.
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