Quick links 22

I submitted my final, 5000-word essay this evening. That's all the coursework done, just the take-home exam to do at the end of the month. This will give me more time to post next week in the meantime here's this week's link roundup.   

Covid:

Sweden’s Export-Driven Economy Reaches Pre-Pandemic Level

Culture wars/US politics:

A Portland Antifa Death Squad Goes Head Hunting for Andy Ngo and Somebody Gets a Beatdown.

Boris is getting off the BLM train

Fighting back against the censors

Should conservatives offer sanctuary to dissidents of the Left?

Guilt for January 6 Belongs With Those Most Eager to Condemn It

Civic Education, Rightly Understood

Why the Hammer and Sickle Should Be Treated Like the Swastika

Where we are now

The New Clerisy

Fighting back against Critical Race Theory

UK and Brexit

The historical myths about Britain that actually need correcting

The DUP has been broken by Brexit

Brexit Britain can capitalise on the breakdown in EU-Swiss talks Brexit Britain can capitalise on the breakdown in EU-Swiss talks

The SNP’s latest separation blueprint is pure project fantasy

Britain needs a cigarette

Biotech:

The Cancer Moonshot May Have Just Taken Off Thanks to a Light-Activated 'Trojan Horse' Miracle Drug

Are you ready for the chicken nugget revolution?

Demographics and China: 

Falling birth rates are not just a Chinese problem

Why Chinese women don’t want more children

Xi Jinping's Tiananmen Vision Is Coming for Us All

Video: The Lotus Eaters on Covid fearmongering


And finally, The week in pictures: grouchy Fauci edition. My favourite is this one:




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