News Round-Up

• “The case against new Covid restrictions” – “There’s no reason to believe that, now cases have stopped being able to grow exponentially despite there being no restrictions, they will start doing so again any time soon,” writes Andrew Lilico in UnHerd.
• “Businesses warn the threat of a return to working from home will cripple the economy” – Experts say a return to working from home in Britain will cripple the economy and will come at the worst possible time when companies are getting back on their feet, reports MailOnline.
• “Vaccinating children is a decision for families, not the Government, to make” – Parents have to give permission for a child to have a school photograph taken or a plaster applied – why not to have a novel mRNA jab, asks Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “What happened to ‘following the science’?” – To state that children must be vaccinated because schools will be closed if they aren’t is a circular argument, reads the lead article in the Telegraph on Tuesday.
• “The utter shambles of child Covid vaccine consent” – “The disease having proved far from fatal, experimental treatment may therefore not be administered in this case,” writes Tom Penn in TCW Defending Freedom.
• “Vaccinating kids against Covid is a big mistake” – The proposed Covid vaccination plan for 12 to 15 year-olds is not worth the risks, writes Alex Starling in Reaction.
• “Why are we jabbing millions of kids simply to keep teachers at work?” – Gavin Williamson and his department have been pushing for such a roll-out, terrified of the militant teaching unions who refused to work at the height of pandemic, writes Dan Wootton in MailOnline.
• “Mother of cancer victim says her daughter contacted GP over 20 times” – Jessica Brady, 27, from Stevenage passed away from liver cancer in December after a series of virtual appointments over the course of five months failed to spot her tumour, reports MailOnline.
• “Many civil servants will work from home for good, says Whitehall boss Alex Chisholm” – Many civil servants will continue to work from home permanently after the pandemic, reports the Times. What kind of example are they setting?
• “Cover-up: Why the ‘experts’ want to eliminate the Covid control group” – “Over the course of the last 18 months, our ruling class and their go-to ‘public health experts’ have uncloaked themselves as nothing more than power-hungry charlatans,” writes Jordan Schachtel in his latest substack update.
• “Risks of Vaccines for Those Recovered from Covid” – “There has been no study demonstrating clinical benefit with Covid vaccination in those who have well documented or even suspected prior Covid illness,” writes PeterA. McCullough in TrialSite.
• “U.K.’s already hard-hit travel sector to see even more jobs culled, industry body warns” – Britain’s travel sector is preparing for even more jobs to be slashed, as an executive for the industry’s trade body has warned that over two thirds of employers who still have furloughed staff are planning to make cuts soon, reports Russia Today.
• “Our Most Reliable Pandemic Number Is Losing Meaning” – A new study suggests that almost half of those hospitalised with Covid have mild or asymptomatic cases, writes David Zweig in the Atlantic.
• “China loses grip on soft power in Latin America as vaccine take-up wanes” – China’s efforts at vaccine diplomacy in Latin America have stalled after key nations scaled back plans to buy its jabs, reports the Times.
• “Andrew Neil was wrong about GB News – a ‘British Fox News’ is just what we need” – Learning from Fox could have helped GB News become a successful populist channel. With Neil gone, it might now stand a chance, writes Robin Aitken in the Telegraph.
• “Line up for the ‘Based Draft’” – “As Mancur Olson discovered, the organised minority is always more effective than the unorganised majority, frequently managing to dominate (or rule) societies,” writes Alexander Adams in Bournbrook Magazine.
• “This Government will be swept away unless they find a story to tell” – It will take more than an unconvincing vow that the pandemic is over to weather this surreal new era, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
• “Booker prize’s colonial roots are problematic, say organisers as shortlist revealed” – The roots of the Booker prize are problematic because they lie in colonialism and the British Empire, its organisers said, as is reported in the Times.
• “Of course AOC went to the Met Gala” – What passes for ‘left-wing’ politics has perhaps never been more palatable to the mega rich, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “The state could start pressuring young people into other things against their parents wishes” – Covid Recovery Group member Sir Geoffrey Clifton Brown says on talkRADIO: “It’s totally wrong’ for children to get jabbed without their parents permission.”