- “Israel claims Hamas fighters are surrendering in northern Gaza” – Israel claims that Hamas fighters have begun to surrender in northern Gaza, according to the Telegraph.
- “Aiding terror: How terrorists exploit humanitarian organisations” – Aid has become a lifeline for terrorist groups, enabling them to carry out deadly attacks, write Ari Heistein and Nathaniel Rabkin in Quillette.
- “The UN’s anti-Israel bias must be addressed for the sake of humanity” – In choosing to overlook the crimes of Hamas, the UN is betraying its most basic purpose, argues Tzipi Hotovely, the Ambassador of Israel to the United Kingdom, in the Telegraph.
- “More than one in eight African-Americans deny the Holocaust” – UnHerd’s Ralph Leonard reacts to a new poll showing that 20% of young Americans believe that “the Holocaust is a myth”.
- “UPenn President’s resignation could be a turning point” – The resignations of University of Pennsylvania’s Liz Magill and Scott Bok could herald a new era of donor interference in campus politics, writes Neetu Arnold in UnHerd.
- “Gove defends Sunak over ‘Eat Out to Help Out’” – Michael Gove has defended Rishi Sunak’s ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme as the Prime Minister prepares for his appearance at the Covid Inquiry today, reports the Telegraph.
- “Boris Johnson teaches William Farr to Hugo Keith” – Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan connect Boris’s lockdown testimony to Farr’s law on the rise and fall of epidemics in the Covid Inquiry.
- “The unvaccinated were scapegoated for failure of Covid vaccines, study finds” – On Substack, Igor Chudov reacts to a new study that found unvaccinated people were unfairly scapegoated during the pandemic.
- “The Covid catastrophe” – City Journal’s John Tierney reviews The Big Fail, a new book that holds elected leaders and public health officials accountable for their mismanagement of the pandemic.
- “Proposed amendments to international health regulations would set in motion a dangerous WHO-led global health bureaucracy” – The WHO has been pushing hard to consolidate and expand its power to declare and manage public health emergencies on a global scale, writes David Thunder on Substack.
- “Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo confirms detection of DNA fragments in Covid mRNA vaccines” – The Florida Surgeon General is demanding answers from the FDA regarding the detection of host cell DNA fragments in mRNA COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna, reports the Epoch Times.
- “The known unknowns” – Mark Steyn discusses unusual post-vaccination death patterns in the EU, declining fertility rates in Scandinavia and a whistleblower’s data in New Zealand.
- “Sunak risks Commons revolt unless he toughens up Rwanda Bill” – Rishi Sunak will come under pressure to toughen up his Rwanda Bill or face the prospect of it being killed off in a Commons revolt, says the Telegraph.
- “Back the Rwanda Bill or risk the sovereignty of Parliament, say KCs” – Four leading barristers have opined that the emergency Rwanda legislation cannot go any further, reports the Telegraph.
- “From take-off to crash landing: The six possible outcomes for Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill” – The Prime Minister is facing the biggest test of his premiership as Parliament votes on his immigration legislation, writes Dominic Penna in the Telegraph.
- “I’m A Celeb fans fume ‘it’s a fix’ as Nigel Farage is eliminated” – Nigel Farage has come third in I’m A Celeb, leading some viewers to claim it was a “fix”, reports the Express.
- “Nigel Farage can put this pointless Conservative Party out of its misery” – The Tories warned that Labour would open the borders and raise taxes, then did it themselves. They deserve to go, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
- “Reform U.K. to capitalise on Sunak chaos in plan to take 35 seats from Tories” – Support for Richard Tice’s party could give Labour a majority in the next General Election, according to the Express.
- “Western elites loathe their voters. Their contempt is palpable” – Politicians can barely hide their true views for long enough to beg for your vote. It’s no wonder populism is surging, says Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “Interactive map reveals how many ‘economically inactive’ live near you” – More than seven million people in Great Britain have no interest in finding a job, reveals the MailOnline.
- “The French elite have realised that Marine Le Pen might win” – You can tell that French elections are in the air because legal proceedings are being brought against a leading figure of the French Right, says John Keiger in the Spectator.
- “It isn’t free speech that causes violence – it’s censorship” – Denmark’s ban on burning the Koran will embolden some of the most regressive elements in Europe, warns Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Government pushes ahead with plans for the U.K.’s first hydrogen towns” – Hydrogen could replace natural gas in thousands of U.K. homes under controversial plans to decarbonise entire towns, reports the Mail.
- “Is Britain facing an electric car finance bombshell?” – The collapsing value of electric vehicles is prompting concern among financial experts, according to the Mail.
- “German EV sales crash and burn after subsidies dry up” – Sales of new cars in Germany have declined, influenced by a sharp drop in demand for EVs following the end of taxpayer subsidies, reports the Climate Change Dispatch.
- “Net Zero has doomed Europe’s car industry” – It is Net Zero targets, not Brexit, which are condemning mass-market car production in Europe to possible extinction, warns Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Drax will keep burning a hole in all our pockets” – In the Sunday Times, Dominic Lawson slams the U.K.’s plan to extend subsidies for the wood-burning Drax power station at the expense of reliable nuclear power.
- “John Kerry and the reality of CO2 emissions” – Biden’s flatulent climate envoy keeps demanding the end of fossil fuels while the world blows through his apocalyptic warnings, says the Climate Change Dispatch.
- “Schools admit white working-class pupils are rapidly being left behind” – According to a new Government report, white working-class pupils are rapidly falling behind other children and are the group that top school leaders are the “most concerned” about, reports the Mail.
- “Nicola Sturgeon’s latest humiliation” – UnHerd’s Julie Bindel celebrates the defeat of Nicola Sturgeon’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill.
- “Now police cancel their own Chief Constables!” – A collection of portraits of former Chief Constables has been officially ‘cancelled’ by Police Scotland as an example of unacceptable ‘misogyny’, according to the Mail.
- “Australian councillor facing tribunal inquiry and ‘inciting hatred’ charges for stating ‘trans women are men’” – A Hobart City Council member is under investigation by the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner down under for “inciting hatred” after declaring “trans women are men”, reports Reduxx.
- “In the name of ‘fake news’, NewsGuard extorts sites to follow the Government narrative” – NewsGuard’s ‘trust ratings’ are not just a scarlet letter to news websites, but a cudgel to coerce conformity, says Lee Fang in the New York Post. Daily Sceptic gets a mention.
- “Get the message?” – In Taki’s Magazine, Theodore Dalrymple explores the influence of political public messaging in shaping opinions in the West.
- “The derangement of James O’Brien” – James O’Brien’s How They Broke Britain is a liberal-elite conspiracy theory, stretched over 350 pages of pompous, smug prose, writes Tim Black in Spiked.
- “Progressive Democrat calls for defunding police in San Francisco” – Public’s Michael Shellenberger reacts to a San Francisco City Supervisor’s proposal to reduce the police budget by $100 million, despite the city facing a shortage of 540 officers.
- “Elon Musk tells Jack Posobiec he’s willing to go to jail rather than illegally censor X users on behalf of U.S. Government” – Elon Musk has said he’d rather lose his own freedoms than strip it away from others at the behest of the U.S. Government, according to the Post Millennial.
- “Elon Musk reinstates the X account of Alex Jones” – Elon Musk has restored the account of Alex Jones after holding a public vote, reports the Mail.
- “Tucker Carlson launches new streaming service” – Journalist Tucker Carlson is launching his own video subscription streaming service after being fired from Fox News, says the Post Millennial.
- “The American public has been losing faith in universities for good reason” – CNN’s Fareed Zakaria gives his take on the parlous state of American universities, advising them to abandon their long drift into politics and rebuild their reputations as centres of research and learning.
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The ‘R’ rate is a crock of smelly stuff. Its whatever people want it to be, its unmeasurable in a diverse population.
Absolutely – part of the ‘garbage out’ of the computer game nerds who do ‘models’ that relate to nothing in the real world.
Stop using the enemy’s terms of reference. The R rate is utter, utter dog shit.
Anything that has to determined based on a guess not on a evidence-based formula is of limited use.
But when they most admit they were wrong and the R-rate shows a decrease in spread. So, open the darn county up!
The picture reminds me strongly of Bill and Ben on either side of Little Weed.
Golly, that dates me!
‘R’ stands for rot and rubbish. More smoke and mirrors to confuse the sheep. If the numbers do not reflect the amount of fear factor, revert to the ‘R’.
But of course any future easing, even the existing roadmap is dependent on passports. SAGE has been wrong again and again, their modeling based on assumptions long since proven false (like schools causing an increase in infections…every place on earth where schools opened showed this false). The models not data have created this snails pace end of lockdown.
Yesterday the Telegraph reported on the deceptive fear campaign put in place by SAGE and Boris. This must be investigated. We have been lied to and manipulated and this government must be held accountable. Intentional deception to create excess fear is criminal. Hold these people accountable!