News Round-Up

• “School issues detentions for pupils who fail to wear masks” – Kensington Aldridge Academy in west London has written to parents to say it is “reintroducing short detentions for failing to wear masks”.
• “Boris should seize his Thatcher moment to take on the selfish unions ruining our schools” – The trade unionists’ mindless demands are making a full return of children to the classroom impossible, writes Juliet Samuel in the Telegraph.
• “‘Trapped’ in Hong Kong: zero-Covid misery casts shadow over financial hub’s future” – Notoriously strict rules threaten the region’s ability to retain talent, reports the Telegraph.
• “Novak Djokovic ‘free to leave at any time’ says Canberra as two other tennis players placed under investigation” – The World No. 1 spent a second day in immigration detention in Australia on Friday as his lawyers battled to secure his release, the Telegraph reports.
• “I stand with Novak Djokovic” – Is anyone else alarmed by the widespread glee at the way Novak Djokovic has been treated by the Aussies, asks Emily Hill in the Speccie.
• “Rod Liddle: ‘We’re being led by scientists, but not by science’” – The journalist speaks to Dan Wootton on GB News on the information scientists have provided on Omicron.
• “Judge Gives FDA Just Over Eight Months to Produce Pfizer’s Safety Data” – A federal judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to produce, at a rate of 55,000 pages per month, the documents it relied on to license the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, reports the Epoch Times. The FDA had asked for 75 years.
• “Why are northern European (except for Sweden) all cause deaths up in 2021 vs 2020?” – Covid deaths are way down, but overall deaths are up considerably. This is a puzzle that warrants attention, writes El Gato Malo on his Substack page.
• “Covidianism and the frightened crowd (Part II) ” – Covidianism is grounded in organised, government-led credentialism and scientism, writes Alexander Adams in Bournbrook.
• “Colston Four case could be reviewed to avoid setting a dangerous legal precedent” – Court of Appeal may be asked whether the law was applied correctly after protesters who toppled sculpture were cleared, the Telegraph reports.
• “The case for the ‘Colston Four’ was not based on facts, but on political feelings” – If juries become auxiliaries of the sort of extremist politics that loves making trouble, they will no longer be pillars of our liberties, argues Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “The climate scaremongers: Extreme weather, 1961 style” – Paul Homewood in TCW looks back to the past and finds weather no less extreme than today.
• “Deliver us from Carrie” – Timothy Bradshaw in TCW calls on the henpecked PM to “drop his lunatic zero carbon axiom inflicting penury on non-wealthy people”.
• “Duke of Cambridge looking for ‘women-led solutions’ to save the planet as 2022 Earthshot Prize opens” – Prince William aims to find ‘wild card ideas’ to “repair and protect the environment”, with £1m prize offered, now apparently based on positive discrimination so the winner can really feel they didn’t deserve it.
• “I refuse to go quietly into the night” – Anti-extremism campaigner and radio host Maajid Nawaz has been axed by LBC, apparently over his criticism of Covid vaccines.