- “Met chief faces call to quit as police clash with vigil women” – Cressida Dick is under fire after the excessive police reaction to the vigil for Sarah Everard on Clapham Common, the Telegraph reports
- “The policing of lockdown is failing” – The police response to the vigil has exposed another lockdown failure, says the Spectator
- “Covid: Judge rules man with learning difficulties should be vaccinated” – BBC item on a court case in Manchester in which a judge sided with medical specialists to say that a man with severe learning-difficulties should receive the vaccine, overriding the objections of his family
- “Half of all freelancers planning to quit self-employment” – Lockdowns, and new tax rules, is nailing the coffin shut on people’s dream of being their own boss, the Telegraph reports
- “As Britain’s Covid vaccinations gather pace, questions loom large over jabs for pregnant women” – Should pregnant women be given the jab? The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation is expected to make a recommendation soon, according to the Telegraph
- “Lockdown makes me see red mist of communism – we need courage instead, says John Longworth” – Tremendous soundness from the Chairman of the Independent Business Network in the Express
- “Are doctors failing to record bad reactions to Covid jabs?” – An anonymous piece in the Conservative Woman, with concerning implications
- “What is an anti-vaxxer” – Dr. Malcolm Kendrick’s latest blog ruminates on what it means to be ‘anti-‘ or a ‘denier’, or a ‘sceptic’
- “James and Laura’s Chinwag #15” – Watch James Delingpole and Laura Perrins’ latest chinwag, where they give it “both barrels on the subject of lockdown and Boris Johnson’s useless regime”
- “The New Normal: Lockdowns, Nervous Juries and Banned Books” – Latest release of the Bournbrook podcast, discussing Covid in the workplace among much else
- “The end of experts, the rejection of woke and the rise of the working classes” – The latest episode of Irreverend invites reverend Phil Sacre to discuss some optimistic predictions about the breakdown of the lockdown narrative and the end of the reign of experts
- “My €25 Covid jab surprise” – Jeremy Clarke relates his experience of getting the AstraZeneca jab in France for the Spectator
- “France to trial digital vaccine passport scheme” – Healthcare IT News reports that France is piloting a vaccine passport scheme for passengers travelling on Air France
- “CDC vs. common sense” – The CDC’s guidance is at odds with common sense, writes Paul E. Alexander at AIER. Americans must understand that it is just guidance and nothing more than that
- “Vaccinations and stimulus boost consumer sentiment in early March” – Robert Hughes at the AIER looks at a Consumer Survey which shows rising consumer confidence
- “We want to get our summer back!’“: – Oklahoma is also bringing restrictions to an end, according to the Daily Mail. Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day…
- “Lockdown sceptic Scott Atlas: ‘The big issue exposed by Covid is civil liberties’” – The lockdown sceptic heavyweight has lunch with the Financial Times. Outside, but only at the reporter’s insistence
- “Thousands march in Montreal to protest against wearing masks” – Thousands gathered in Montreal to protest Covid restrictions, the Montreal Gazette reports, with fines dished out, some arrests, for “non-compliance with sanitary measures”
- “‘Quad’ alliance to distribute one billion doses of vaccine to counter Chinese influence” – The US, Australia, India and Japan are opening up a new round of vaccine diplomacy, according to the Telegraph
- “WHO is set to reject Wuhan lab link to Covid outbreak and instead point to source being an animal market” – A trailer of the WHO’s forthcoming report into Covid’s origins in the Mail on Sunday. No surprises.
- “Caged pangolins and blood-soaked bats for sale in markets” – These markets continue, Evgeny Lebedev says in the Mail on Sunday
- “Thousands in Bucharest protest against virus vaccine” – Footage of last week’s rally which saw around 3,000 protesters converge outside the parliament building in Bucharest, Romania
- Exactly a year ago yesterday, Sir Patrick Vallance laid out the Government’s eminently sensible strategy for dealing with the virus. What went wrong?
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