News Round-Up

• “Britain’s failed establishment will never apologise for the catastrophe of lockdown” – It was wrong to impose the restrictions, but the elites responsible are incapable of admitting it, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “We have won the Covid war, now let’s win the peace” – As with influenza, Covid variants will become a permanent feature of our lives. But what should ‘living with the virus’ really look like, asks James Lawson in the Telegraph.
• “Wimbledon offers no participation guarantees to Novak Djokovic amid threat of grand slam ban” – Djokovic could also miss the French Open after France U-turned and shifted towards more stringent rules for visiting athletes, the Telegraph reports.
• “The day after Novak Djokovic’s deportation: Australian Open facing backlash of its own making” – The mood in the locker room is sympathetic to Djokovic’s plight and now tournament organisers are feeling the heat, writes Oliver Brown in the Telegraph.
• “University of Chicago Must End Its Booster Mandate – We Are Not Lab Rats” – The University of Chicago continues to defy scientific and moral standards, says the Chicago Thinker.
• “What did they know and when did they know it?” – When the public awakens to the great betrayal of both health and science surrounding the handling of Covid, it will be important not to let anger run riot, writes Neville Hodgkinson in TCW.
• “How Confident is the Government in its ‘Evidence’ on Masks” – It would seem that Nadhim Zahawi’s most recent promised ‘material evidence’ for his recommendations for face coverings in secondary classrooms is as flimsy as some of the cloth masks our teenagers will need to resort to using, write HART in their latest bulletin.
• “The UK Government’s ‘Evidence Summary’ for the decision to remask children in schools in January 2022” – Hector Drummond takes apart the Government’s recent feeble effort to defend masking in classrooms.
• “Let’s face it” – Governments use masking to force compliance, not fight viruses, writes Dr. Gary Sidley in the Critic.
• “SAGE expert says UK to have ‘flu-type’ relationship with Covid by 2023” – Dr Mike Tildesley, from the University of Warwick, said he expects even milder variants than Omicron to emerge over the course of the year and bolster the UK’s wall of immunity, reports the Mail.
• “The Artless Partisans of Lockdowns and Mandates” – In fact, the great intellectual thought emerging from our times is coming from those opposing vaccine mandates and Covid fearmongering. These names run across the political spectrum, but those from the left are universally categorised by liberals as being “alt-right” or “fringe libertarian,” ensuring that they remain marginalised and carry whatever stigma goes along with being relegated to the internet, writes Michael Riches on the Brownstone Institute.
• “‘270 doctors’ called out Joe Rogan, but the authors of the letter and the vast majority of its signatories are not medical doctors” – Only a handful are practising physicians, writes Jordan Schachtel on the Dossier.
• “What lockdown took from my parents” – Covid restrictions stole their right to choose, writes Kate Clanchy in UnHerd.
• “Florida: Highest Rates of Infection Occurring in Counties with Highest Vaccination Rates ” – In Florida, counties with the lowest vaccination rates had the lowest infection rates, and vice-versa, writes Bill Rice in UncoverDC.
• “One hundred doctors locked out of Western Australia weeks before state reopens” – Shutout doctors and the state opposition raise concerns Mark McGowan’s Government is refusing entry for essential workers ahead of the Omicron floodgates opening, the Guardian reports.
• “Deprogramming Mass Psychosis” – Watch part three of Alexander Adams’ piece in Bournbrook which looks at some practical steps to help detach others from the mass psychosis propagated by authorities and mass media.
• “Moderna no longer used to vaccinate under-31s” – A rare side effect detected in young men means that as a precaution, the Moderna vaccine will no longer be used for the first two doses for younger people in Belgium, reports the Brussels Times.
• “Hurricanes in 2021 Were Unprecedented — as in Unprecedently Few” – Globally, 2021 had the fewest hurricanes ever in the satellite era (1980-2021). Did you see that reported anywhere, asks climate scientist Bjorn Lomborg on Watts Up With That?
• “Boris Johnson’s Other Disaster” – His political woes are a warning to conservatives who indulge green-energy illusions, says the Wall Street Journal in this leading article.
• “Hydrogen can’t power the green flight revolution” – Aviation is an unforgiving battleground – review the physics and reality bites very quickly, writes Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
• “Climate change: Wales has ‘duty’ due to coal mining history” – A charity director says the country’s coal mining history means it has released a lot of carbon, reports the BBC.
• “University of Edinburgh’s slavery row response shameful, says Sir Tom Devine” – The Emeritus Professor of History lambasted his former employer for failing to provide even “a hint of support” to either himself or Jonathan Hearn, a Professor of Historical Sociology, after both were branded racists by Sir Geoff Palmer, the human rights campaigner and chancellor of Heriot-Watt University, reports the Times.
• “Curriculum reviews launched to increase focus on ‘race equality’ in wake of BLM protests” – School courses are to be made more diverse, including replacing Shakespeare and Einstein with Nelson Mandela and Maya Angelou, reports the Telegraph. How’s that war on woke going, Boris?
• “Political discrimination is fuelling a crisis of academic freedom” – A preponderance of Left-wing academics is drowning out other voices, writes Eric Kaufmann in UnHerd.
• “If the Government is serious about growth, it’s time to take on the ‘EDI blob’” – U.K. Research and Innovation’s recently published ‘equality, diversity and inclusion strategy’ shows how woke thinking is now in control of the research purse strings and threatening the innovation that drives growth, writes Karl Williams in CapX.
• “‘The origin of the issue was restrictions that I believe were unnecessary, that were inhumane, that were cruel… it’s extraordinary these restrictions were brought in, within a democratic society” – Michael Portillo takes the side of sanity and freedom on GB News.