- “NHS seeks £7bn extra to cope with ‘nightmare’ of sky-high inflation” – Rishi Sunak promises to prioritise health service funding in exchange for ‘reform’, but there are fears it may not be enough to tackle backlogs, reports the Telegraph.
- “Crisis as excess deaths soar to levels higher than during Covid pandemic” – The Telegraph continues to report on the excess death crisis, suggesting possible causes and calling on the Government to investigate.
- “Bosses haul staff back to the office as remote working boom peaks” – The Telegraph reports the results of a survey showing that employers are cutting back flexible job offers as an economic downturn looms.
- “Xi Jinping is suffering from ‘bad emperor syndrome’” – Sophia Yan in the Telegraph goes inside the rise of the Chinese President’s “cult of personality”.
- “Freedom of information request to the MHRA, for all AstraZeneca data” – The Health Advisory and Recovery Team (HART) details an FOI it’s submitted and says a large percentage of the U.K.’s population have been “injected with a liability-free vaccine and we therefore require complete transparency”.
- “Finland Refuses to Recommend Bivalent Boosters for Working-Age People” – The Finnish health authority outright refused to recommend bivalent boosters for working-age people and children and acknowledged vaccines cause damage to immune systems, writes Igor Chudov.
- “Hot off the presses! ‘Censorship and Suppression of COVID-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics’” – Josh Guetzkow says his new paper on the suppression and smearing of highly accomplished doctors and research scientists because of their Covid dissent has been published in Minerva, a Springer journal in social studies of science.
- “Viewers will humiliate Matt Hancock – but he’ll think it means he’s popular” – It seems the former Health Secretary will go to any lengths to rehabilitate his image with a public disgusted by his lockdown hypocrisy, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “The lockdown bonfire of Britain’s freedoms” – The Government’s chaotic handling of the COVID-19 crisis resulted in an “arbitrary rule by diktat of dubious legitimacy that should never be repeated”, writes John Jolliffe in the Critic.
- “A ‘pandemic amnesty’ is a dangerous idea” – Lauren Smith in Spiked says the authoritarianism of the lockdown years must never be forgotten.
- “Osterism Won’t Prevent the Next Lockdown” – Jessica Hockett writes for Brownstone that Oster’s implicit claim that next-to-nothing was known about SARS-CoV-2 isn’t the pathway to healing, because it’s dishonest.
- “We desperately need clean long-term safety data on the mRNA shots” – Alex Berenson calls on the U.S. health authorities to require full and proper safety data from the currently-running trials for mRNA flu vaccines.
- “Effects of COVID-19 and Human Interventions in Care Homes: Part 1” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson say that ‘confinement disease’ is likely to be more harmful than Covid in care homes.
- “Evidence for a connection between coronavirus disease-19 and exposure to radiofrequency radiation from wireless communications including 5G” – New scientific paper looking at the evidence for a connection between radio wave exposure and Covid – apparently, it really is a thing (maybe).
- “Pandemic Aftermath: Understanding the Reveal Stage of the Pandemic Play” – Rusere Shoniwa in Left Lockdown Sceptics discusses the significance of a pandemic scenario published in 2017 by Johns Hopkins which anticipates a public backlash against a rushed medical countermeasure and how it might play out now it’s happening for real.
- “Dutch finance minister proposes increased financial surveillance” – Reclaim the Net reports that Dutch Minister of Finance Sigrid Kaag is pushing for the introduction of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the Netherlands and the passing of a law requiring banks to monitor all transactions above €100.
- “U.K. Trapped in The Green Energy Cul-de-Sac” – Francis Menton in WUWT says that only now has it become apparent that there is no good exit strategy.
- “Net Zero goals will require installation of hundreds of miles of cables and pylons” – National Grid says that seven times as much infrastructure must be built in the next seven or eight years than was built in the last 32, according to the Telegraph.
- “The cost of Net Zero is now becoming clear” – In a leading article, the Telegraph points out that by 2030, offshore wind power needs to increase by 400%, at vast cost, for the U.K. to hit its renewable targets.
- “The global climate change cult and the war on the mind” – Stephen McMurray in TCW Defending Freedom takes a closer look at the Climate Emergency Fund, which donates to Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil.
- “Why Rishi Sunak is right to snub COP27” – The annual climate conference is an indulgent and pointless spectacle, argues Andrew Orlowski in Spiked.
- “Boris Johnson confirms he will attend COP27” – The move will add to pressure on Rishi Sunak to attend the global meeting, the Telegraph reports.
- “An Inconvenient Opinion from Europe” – Dr. Robert Malone publishes a guest post by Alain Grootaers asking what happened to negotiations between the U.S., NATO, Ukraine and Russia.
- “Where the Boys Aren’t” – Kay S. Hymowitz in City Journal says that culture wars over gender obscure the deepening educational struggles of young males.
- “Harvard’s race diversity policy ‘like giving minorities a five-yard headstart’, says Supreme Court judge” – ‘Affirmative action’, accused of unfairly discriminating against white and Asian American applicants, could be banned across the U.S., reports the Telegraph.
- “How Big Tech became an arm of the state” – Tom Slater in Spiked says that the U.S. security services have been colluding with Silicon Valley to censor online speech.
- “The unpersoning of Kanye West” – Fraser Myers in Spiked grasps the nettle and offers a free speech argument against cancelling Kanye.
- “I don’t buy the idea that she’s morally unfit to be our Home Secretary because she takes this constant influx of illegal migrants seriously” – Watch Toby discuss with GB News‘s Mark Steyn the concerted ‘witch hunt’ to remove Suella Braverman as Home Secretary.
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