News Round-Up

• “The Inflation Disaster Is Collateral Damage From Lockdowns” – The outrageous prices at the grocery store and gas stations are yet more collateral damage from the initial lockdowns two years ago, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker in Brownstone Institute.
• “Covid inquiry will brush toll on children under the carpet, warn senior Tories” – There are calls for the scope of the Covid inquiry to be widened to ensure the “burden shouldered by childred” as a result of Government policies is fully considered, reports the Telegraph.
• “The tragedy of Matt Hancock” – Will Lloyd writes on what two years of Covid taught us in UnHerd.
• “One in 16 Brits infected with Covid as new variant sweeps through Britain” – Covid ‘cases’ are back to their January peak after surging by a million in a week, reports the Sun.
• “We must face up to the grievous moral error of shutting schools” – This is an opportunity to reflect honestly on the suffering inflicted on children, and to try to fix our moral compass, writes Miriam Cates in the Telegraph.
• “We need to talk about behavioural science – but the powers that be don’t want to” – “The Government’s use of behavioural science now effects almost all aspects of our day-to-day lives,” writes Dr. Gary Sidley in Laura Dodsworth’s Substack.
• “Coronavirus Infection Survey” – Here’s the latest Covid infection survey from the ONS.
• “‘Chaos in the Sky’: Commercial Airline Pilots File Their First Lawsuit Over Transportation Mask Mandate” – Hours after the U.S. Senate voted to repeal the federal transportation mask mandate, a group of commercial pilots filed the first legal challenge by airline workers to overturn the requirement to wear masks on all public transport, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Biden admin operated with missing data as CDC issued pandemic guidance, emails show” – Newly released emails reveal the Biden admin lacked school data one day before the CDC issued school reopening guidelines, reports Fox News.
• “U.S. Government Runs Out of Covid Funds, Signals Intention to Relax Emergency” – Earlier this month, the White House announced that Covid funding was running out after Congress declined to approve more funds, reports Trial Site.“We need to talk about behavioural science – but the powers that be don’t want to” – “The Government’s use of behavioural science now effects almost all aspects of our day-to-day lives,” writes Dr. Gary Sidley in Laura Dodsworth’s Substack.
• “Joe Biden ready to use nuclear weapons first in ‘extreme circumstances’” – The U.S. president has abandoned plans to water down his policy amid fears Vladimir Putin may resort to deploying weapons of mass destruction, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ukrainian refugee visas delayed due to Home Office staff working from home, claims official” – Despite repeated requests the Home Office refused to deny visa staff managing the Homes for Ukraine scheme were working from home, reports the i.
• “Is the West deceiving itself about Russia’s ‘defeat’ in Ukraine?” – “This is not a time for self-congratulation,” writes Dalibor Rohac in the Spectator.
• “Weather history books rewritten as Victorian archives push back records by close to 180 years” – A project digitising the Met Office’s archive has found that several records were set much earlier than previously thought, reports the Telegraph.
• “China’s coal revival may soon slash our energy bills, but at a wicked ecological cost” – Xi Jinping’s return to coal is alarming for those who take global warming seriously, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
• “On a Common Culture: The Idea of a Shared National Culture” – “Without addressing these questions of moral values and personnel, Graham’s case for a putative common culture looks too undefined to attract active support from dissidents,” writes Alexander Adams in Bournbrook Magazine.
• “Why Does Tucker Carlson Sound Like a Berkeley Leftist?” – The war in Ukraine has exposed an ideological vacuum at the heart of American right, argues Antonio García Martínez in his latest Substack update.
• “Imposing the ideals of the woke left on businesses is bad for Britain, and the world” – The Russian invasion of Ukraine has reminded us that we live in the real world, not the world as we would like it to be.  In this context, it is especially troubling that governments have allowed myths about the purpose of business to proliferate, writes Shanker Singham in CapX.
• “Kemi Badenoch is right – Britain ISN’T racist” – Britain is not an institutionally racist country, writes Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert in the Express.
• “Forbes is slammed for tweet referring to ‘pregnant people’ in story” – Forbes is facing backlash over a story referring to “pregnant people” about the complications Covid caused in women who were expecting a child in during the first year of the pandemic, reports the Mail.
• “Self-ID will not give trans people ‘dignity and respect’” – Seven years after the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee opened the first inquiry into transgender equality, the ensuing debate has become polarised and heated, writes Debbie Hayton in UnHerd.
• “Do we need a Trans Olympics?” – Lia Thomas should not compete against women, argues Ayaan Hirsi Ali in UnHerd.
• “What’s happening now is because of cowardice” – President Trump’s former adviser Sebastian Gorka tells talkRADIO trans swimmer Lia Thomas has “destroyed the future of female athletes”.

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