News Round-Up

• “£461M wasted on useless PPE ‘could have paid for a brand new hospital’” – Jonathan Marron, a top civil servant at the U.K. Department of Health, has admitted £461m of taxpayer cash was blown on PPE that was unfit for use, MailOnline reports
• “Unvaccinated British grandmother faces being deported from Australia” – Clare Henderson has a medical exemption from vaccination on account of her temporal arteritis but when she landed in Perth she was told the law had changed, according to MailOnline
• “Vaccine study of 23 million shows real risk of ‘heart problems’ from Moderna or Pfizer jab” – The Express covers a recently published study investigating the risk of heart inflammation from the Moderna and Pfizer Covid jabs. Read the full study in the journal JAMACardiology here
• “Nicola Sturgeon: I won’t quit over mask breach because it wasn’t as bad as ‘partygate’” – Nic Sturge-on reckons that Boris Johnson’s rule-breaking was more severe because it happened during “very, very strict lockdown”, the Telegraph says
• “Javid’s refusal to help care workers he culled” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Niall McCrae takes aim at Sajid Javid’s for his refusal to help the care workers he culled under the no jab no rule
• “We can’t keep ‘protecting the NHS’ forever” – “While doing nothing might appear to protect us from accidents, in the long run it will lead to ill health and a poorer quality of life,” write Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan in Spiked
• “Poland Refuses to Accept and Pay for New COVID-19 Vaccine Deliveries” – Poland’s Health Minister has announced that the country will not be accepting further deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines from the European Union’s supply contract, the Epoch Times reports
• “Rare hepatitis virus afflicts children across EU, U.S. and U.K.” – Deutsche Welle looks into the spikes in hepatitis cases among young children
• “COVID-19: Mask mandate to be cancelled in closed spaces” – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz have announced that face masks will no longer be required in enclosed spaces, the Jerusalem Post reports
• “Why So Many Middle-Aged Deaths in 2021?” – Economist Genevieve Briand analyses the spikes in death rates among the middle aged in 2021 for the Brownstone Institute. “Am I afraid to admit Covid vaccines have caused deaths?” she asks. “Are you?”
• “Is the U.S. compensation scheme for vaccine injuries fit for purpose?” – America’s system for Covid vaccine injury claims is costly, opaque, and yet to issue a single payout, Maryanne Demasi reports for the BMJ
• “Mass Testing: The Fatal Conceit” – “While contact tracing and isolation may be important for some infectious diseases, it is futile and counterproductive for common infections such as influenza and COVID-19,” writes Yuri Blondi for the Brownstone Institute
• “The World Catastrophe Wrought by Covid Lockdowns” – “Increased food and fuel prices, general inflation, reducing services, and economic hardship cannot be painted over,” writes Paul Frityers for the Brownstone Institute. “Such are the fruits in developed nations of the Great Covid Panic”
• “The night the masks came off” – “Free Americans will never again submit to masks or the power-hungry tyranny lurking behind their performative safetyism,” says Paul du Quenoy in Spectator World
• “Rio’s Carnival parade is back, as street bands ache to party” – Rio de Janeiro’s is once again a carnival city, the Associated Press reports
• “An open letter to Christi Grimm, Inspector General of the Health and Human Services” – “There is an enormous amount of corruption at the highest levels of the FDA, CDC, and NIH,” writes Steve Kirsch in his latest Substack post. Particularly in respect of “negative safety and efficacy data about the COVID vaccines”
• “Scrapping green taxes is not enough” – Net Zero is “an inflationary attack on the working class” says James Woudhuysen in Spiked
• “Driverless cars will be a disappointment, if they ever arrive” – The Telegraph’s Jemima Lewis warns readers that “nothing digital works seamlessly”
• “The nine-to-five NHS is failing weekend patients” – “It’s a scandal that nothing has been done to make the health service work for the public rather than its staff,” writes Kate Andrews in the Telegraph
• “Boris Told the Truth: The Guilty Parties of Partygate” – Professor David Starkey’s offers a characteristically contrarian take on partygate
• “Final State Covid Report Card” – Tom Woods discusses the National Bureau of Economic Research’s investigation into the covid outcomes in different U.S. states in Episode 2108 of the Tom Woods Show
• “Banning Russian players from Wimbledon will backfire” – “The neo-McCarthyism ripping through various western institutions is getting ugly,” writes Tom Slater for the Spectator
• “PS22/3: Diversity and inclusion on company boards and executive management” – The Financial Conduct Authority announces new listing rules requiring the inclusion of a diversity target on statements in financial reports
• “Trans women left out of female diversity targets after City backlash” – The Telegraph reports that the FCA is dropping proposals to to force companies to count men who self-identify as women as female for the purposes of diversity targets
• “NHS transgender treatment for children ‘borders on ideological’, says Sajid Javid” – Health Secretary Sajid Javid says he shares concerns that the NHS may be making a child’s expressed gender identity the starting point for treatment, the Telegraph reports
• “The War on the West by Douglas Murray review: a ‘nuclear answer’ to attacks on whiteness” – Marc Sidwell reviews Douglas Murray’s latest polemic for the Telegraph. It’s a “spirited defence against antiracism and the Left’s assault on the Western tradition”
• “Inside the Netflix horror show” – Streaming pioneer is risking comparison to Blockbuster, say Ben Woods and Anita Singh in the Telegraph
• “We had to make decisions according to the situation as we found it” – Dan Wootton asks former Health Secretary Matt Hancock why the Government ‘abandoned’ the U.K.’s Pandemic Preparedness Strategy

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