News Round-Up

• “Every prosecution under emergency Covid powers was wrong, review finds” – Crown Prosecution Service data shows that hundreds of innocent people were wrongfully charged, with many cases deemed unlawful, reports the Telegraph.
• “Rishi Sunak to rein in borrowing as tough autumn looms” – Rishi Sunak will set out new fiscal rules in his budget next month to rein in Government borrowing amid Treasury concerns about inflation and interest rates, reports the Times.
• “GPs demand more cash to see patients as documents reveal full impact of remote appointments” – More than 175,000 diagnoses of key conditions are estimated to have been missed in 2020, reports the Telegraph.
• “Why didn’t doctors listen to women about the link between Covid vaccines and periods?” – A new study reveals that thousands of women experienced irregularities after their jab – yet the medical establishment seems “disinterested” [sic], reports the Telegraph.
• “I will not obey any more lockdowns” – If Boris Johnson attempts to lock down Britain again there will be mass disobedience, Nigel Farage tells Steven Edginton in an interview for the Telegraph.
• “Sajid Javid’s creative calculator” – The Health Secretary claims that vaccines have prevented more infections than there have ever been in the pandemic, writes HART.
• “Travel should not be used to coerce people into getting vaccinated” – Forcing quarantine on all un-jabbed arrivals has nothing to do with protecting us from variants and it won’t help travel to recover, writes Annabel Fenwick Elliott in the Telegraph.
• “Herd Immunity – Professor Sunetra Gupta” – “Herd immunity probably takes the prize for being the most misunderstood term of 2020,” says Professor Sunetra Gupta on Collateral Global’s YouTube channel.
• “Inside the mind of the carers that won’t get vaccinated – even though it will cost them their jobs” – New Government guidelines say care home workers must be jabbed. The Telegraph speaks to the workers who are drawing a line in the sand, to find out why.
• “Woman arrested and strip-searched by police for ‘not wearing a mask in Waitrose’” – Juliet Johnson has accused the police of wrongful arrest, false imprisonment, assault and disability discrimination, reports the Mirror.
• “French billboard owner hit with €10,000 fine for depicting president Macron as Hitler on Covid protest poster” – A court in southern France has slapped a billboard owner with a €10,000 fine for “public insult” after President Emmanuel Macron was depicted on the man’s public advertising panel as Hitler during anti-Covid-rules demonstrations, reports Russia Today.
• “How the West locked down Africa” – Professor Toby Green discusses his book on the introduction of Covid lockdown policies and their disastrous effect on the African poor.
• “Debunking Biden’s Claim We Must ‘Protect the Vaccinated from the Unvaccinated’” – The official line on vaccines is that they are extremely effective at protecting against serious illness. And yet these same people are also claiming that the unvaccinated are a major threat to the vaccinated, writes Ryan McMaken in Mises Institute.
• “Why I’ve given up on TV news” – There seems to be a relentless appetite for bad news, so much so that if there isn’t any actual bad news out there, folk just make it up, writes Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
• “Your Life in 10: Toby Young” – Toby talks to S.D. Wickett about his favourite books, music, films and more in the latest Bournbrook Magazine podcast.
• “Nuclear is the only solution to this energy crisis” – Allowing this country’s know-how in nuclear power to atrophy was a huge mistake by the Government, writes Ben Wright in the Telegraph.
• “Our police should be on the side of the public, not privileged green extremists” – When officers appear to indulge protesters bent on creating havoc, something has gone very wrong, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Appeal court overturns U.K. puberty blockers ruling for under-16s” – The court of appeal has overturned a judgment that children under the age of 16 considering gender reassignment are unlikely to be mature enough to give informed consent to be prescribed puberty-blocking drugs, reports the Guardian.
• “Are children capable of making life-changing decisions?” – “Can children ever understand the consequences of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones before they know what it means to be an adult,” asks Debbie Hayton in the Spectator. “I don’t think they can.”
• “Pushing the vaccination of children against Covid does little for the vaccine cause” – Mark Dolan says on GB News: “Bullying around the vaccine only adds to vaccine hesitancy and fuels the fires of the conspiracy theorists.”