- “Birthday party was held for Boris Johnson at Downing Street during Covid lockdown” – Anger over gathering, after PM had written praising a girl called Josephine for cancelling her birthday party due to coronavirus guidance, reports the Telegraph.
- “Dr. Steve James talks to Julia Hartley Brewer on why mandates should be stopped” – Watch the brave unvaccinated doctor on talkRADIO.
- “The Emergency Must Be Ended, Now” – The time has come to terminate the pandemic state of emergency and end the controls, write Jay Bhattacharya, Harvey Risch and Paul E. Alexander on the Epoch Times.
- “It is vital that civil servants return to the office ” – There is no longer any public health justification for civil servants working from home, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “COVID-19: A Second Opinion” – Watch U.S. Senator Ron Johnson moderate a panel discussion where a group of renowned doctors and medical experts provide a different perspective on the global pandemic response (starts at 40:20).
- “The dubious ethics of ‘nudging’: We urgently need an independent inquiry” – Dr. Gary Sidley on Coronababble criticises the Government’s deployment of covert psychological strategies (‘nudges’) throughout the COVID-19 crisis to stoke fear-inflation, shaming and scapegoating as a way of increasing compliance with restrictions and the vaccine rollout.
- “Inside the surreal Dutch lockdown” – You can visit a brothel but not a bar, writes Senay Boztas in UnHerd.
- “Integrity. Dignity. Community.” – Dr. Robert W. Malone writes on his Substack page that where there is risk there must be choice.
- “Shield badges for Scots to distance from Covid” – Badges and lanyards have been made available to signal that the wearer would like others to give them extra space in public, reports the BBC.
- “The False God of Central Planning: The Mysterious Reappearance of the Flu, Natural vs Vaccine-Induced Immunity, the Inability of the Vaccines to Control the Virus, and Other Extraordinary Lessons About the End of the Pandemic (Investigative Report)” – Why did the flu disappear during Covid? Why is it back now despite ongoing Covid cases? And what does it signal about the end of the pandemic? New in-depth report from Julius Ruechel.
- “Half term holiday chaos: Children who had Covid but no PCR may be unable to use vaccine passports” – Countries including France and Italy require all over-12s to prove their vaccination or recovered status to access official Covid passes, but children whose diagnosis relied solely on LFT may not be able to, reports the Telegraph.
- “More than 1.5m people were wrongly told to shield from Covid-19, expert suggests” – Dr. Tony Williams estimates that 1.5 million people were wrongly asked to shield under the original English guidelines, while about 1.5 million who should have been shielding were never warned, reports the Telegraph.
- “Nervous system disorders after the jab – a case study” – Sally Beck in TCW on the disturbing story of Georgia-Rose Segal, who developed a serious neurological disorder following Covid vaccination.
- “The WFH bubble has burst” – During lockdown, a whole series of companies were wildly over-hyped, with business models that assumed the world had changed forever, when it was only a temporary crisis, writes Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “I was right about everything” – Well, almost everything, writes Russell David on Mad World in a post which he says he hopes will be his last on the madness we have endured.
- “‘Irresponsible’ BBC face furious backlash over Question Time anti-vaxxer appeal” – The BBC is facing “furious backlash” over calls for “anti-vaxxers” to appear on Question Time, reports Herald Scotland, with bias on full display.
- “The influential UK face mask reviews” – Hector Drummond reviews the four key Government reports on face masks and their inconsistent messages.
- “Destroy the One Ring, Frodo” – An engaging Lord of the Rings metaphor for the pandemic on the Automatic Earth.
- “I watched and felt like my entire life was falling apart because of what this Government did to young people” – Watch school pupil Sophie Corcoran break down as she recalls her experience of wearing a mask in the classroom on GB News.
- “Latest case rates by vaccination status show that double dosed have rates per 100,000 three times higher than unvaccinated” – Dr. Clare Craig has crunched the numbers.
- “It was reported by various media outlets that “a few hundred people” attended the NHS100K protest march in London on Saturday. This is what actually happened” – Watch the mythbusting video of the London march from James Melville.
- “Global Coal Consumption Reaches New Record High In 2021…China, India Consuming Two Thirds” – Reduction in fossil fuel use not yet happening, writes Pierre Gosselin on the No Tricks Zone.
- “The Church of England’s diversity mission has gone too far” – From now on, at least ten bishops on General Synod must be from an ethnic minority, writes Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator, which according to the Archbishop of York will help create a “church that truly embraces people of global majority heritage”. You what? Whose heritage is in a global majority?
- “Christian nurse to sue Portman Clinic as course said Bible was racist” – Amy Gallagher is preparing legal action against the Portman Clinic in North London after being told to watch lectures saying that white people are unconsciously racist, that Christianity is a racist religion, and that the Bible can be blamed for racism because it contrasts ‘darkness’ and ‘light’, reports the Mail. Donate to Amy’s crowdfunder here.
- “How quoting the Bible became a crime” – Vaguely worded hate-speech laws can turn widely held beliefs into criminal speech, writes Lois McLatchie in Spiked.
- “Building the Alt-Academy” – A guest essay on Glenn Loury’s Substack page by Albert Eisenberg calls for the creation of an ‘alt-academy’, a new kind of institution that will support the kind of serious research and teaching that is increasingly difficult to do in traditional universities.
- “Your report on the human rights situation in the EU is fabricated and untrue, end insane divisions and discrimination against citizens” – Watch MEP Mislav Kolakusic address Ursula von der Leyen in the European Parliament.
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