News Round-Up

• “Welsh NHS warns waiting list backlog could take years to clear” – It’s not just NHS England’s backlog that will take years to clear – the head of the body representing Welsh health boards has also delivered a bleak outlook to patients.
• “Mother dies while waiting on phone for GP appointment” – The daughter says her mum “put all her trust in the doctors but there seems to be no urgency with them”.
• “Nadhim Zahawi: I will not stand back and see schools close” – “We must do everything we can to keep as many children in face-to-face learning as possible,” the new Education Secretary tells the Telegraph.
• “Pharma’s Culture War: Are Simple, Cheap and Effective Options Being Downplayed?” – “There is a growing and disturbing trend toward authoritarian censorship of well-respected and science-driven medical doctors who are sharing information about Covid therapeutic approaches that go beyond vaccines,” writes John Roulac in TrialSite.
• “‘I cannot practice, I cannot play’: Tennis ace ends season, admits he regrets taking Covid vaccine after feeling ‘violent pain’” – A tennis star has admitted he does not know when he will return to the sport and fears he may have to bring forward his retirement because of health problems he says he has suffered since taking the Pfizer Covid vaccine, reports Russia Today.
• “Covid and the moral matrix: Will the new ‘lockdown code of ethics’ persist beyond the pandemic?” – Award winning health journalist Gabrielle Bauer explains the ‘Lockdown Code’ of ethics and conduct in Bournbrook Magazine.
• “Why are the FDA and CDC advisory panel members so afraid to debate Covid Vaccine Safety?” – “The U.S. FDA and CDC completely avoided talking about the issue of booster vaccines in their meetings and they refused all reasonable attempts to be challenged on what the science actually shows,” writes Steve Kirsch in TrialSite.
• “WHO Seeks to Revive Stalled Inquiry Into Origins of Covid With New Team” – The U.N. body is assembling a new group of scientists with a mandate to hunt for new evidence in China and elsewhere. But it could (unsurprinsgly) encounter resistance from Beijing, reports the Wall Street Journal.
• “Hurtling towards a barren wasteland” – In the latest episode of The Week in Review podcast, Michael Curzon, S.D. Wickett and Luke Perry discuss the cancer backlog, Insulate Britain and life down under.
• “‘Living in a parallel universe’: Australian PM boasts of Aussies’ love of freedom to U.N. as police crackdown continues at home” – A viral video has contrasted Prime Minister Scott Morrison telling the U.N. General Assembly that Australia believes in “freedom” and the “dignity of all people” with Australian cops beating citizens for not wearing masks.
• “Australian children as young as two are set to able to get vaccinated” – Moderna’s Chief Medical Officer says the pharmaceutical company is in discussions with the Australian Government to produce vaccines in Australia, which could be given to children as young as two.
• “Sir John Key: We need to break free of the hermit kingdom and stop ruling by fear on Covid” – We can’t believe the Government can go on borrowing a billion dollars every week to disguise that we are no longer making our way in the world, writes former New Zealand Prime Minister Sir John Key in Stuff.
• “Climate Change Committee misled Parliament about the cost of Net Zero” – Claims of low cost were based on “grossly misleading” assumptions, writes the Global Warming Policy Forum.
• “The PM’s posing as a global saviour will cost him dear with suffering voters at home” – Tories didn’t think a radical green agenda – with all the sacrifices it entails – was in the offing when they voted for Boris in 2019, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph.
• “Climate change hypocrites should look to their own lives first and ditch the private jets before telling me what to do” – For the preachy celebs in private jets and the protesters blocking our roads, it’s much easier telling us what to do than leading by example, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Sunday Telegraph.
• “Eco-warriors Meghan and Harry arrive back in California on private jet after VIP tour of NYC” – Touching down in their private jet, the virtue signaling couple and fossil fueled ‘eco-warriors’ embraced members of staff who had accompanied them on the pseudo royal tour before heading back to their Montecito mansion, reports MailOnline.
• “We’re in deep trouble when even the Lancet is regurgitating woke orthodoxy” – Words matter. Monitoring those we are allowed to use in public debate is a tried-and-tested ploy of totalitariansm, writes Judith Woods in the Sunday Telegraph.
• “Virtue-signalling is now a clue that an institution is failing to deliver” – From the police to the NHS and big business – preaching simply masks a multitude of inadequacies, writes Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
• “Is anti-Etonian prejudice really OK?” – Angela Rayner shouldn’t indulge in the politics of out-group hatred, writes Sam Leith in the Spectator.
• “Now spineless Starmer won’t even defend biological reality” – After refusing to say that only women have cervixes, Keir Starmer will lose even more working-class voters, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Celebrations in Stavanger” – Norway celebrates the end of all the country’s Covid restrictions with a huge party and fireworks.