News Round-Up

• “England’s wave continues to collapse despite having no restrictions” – Office for National Statistics data suggest 2.4 million people in England were infected with Covid last week – down by a quarter in just seven days, the Mail reports.
• “One in 20 eligible children have Covid jabs amid lacklustre take-up” – Just 262,000 children have received their vaccinations as centres use therapy dogs and games to make the experience more ‘child-friendly’, the Telegraph reports.
• “Continued care home measures are cruel” – There has been a consistent failure by the authorities since Covid first emerged to acknowledge the costs of their measures, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
• “UKMFA Open Letter to NHS Trust CEOs re Unethical and Restrictive Hospital Visitor Policies” – Read the open letter from the U.K. Medical Freedom Alliance to NHS Hospital Trust CEOs demanding the immediate implementation of recently published NHS guidance stating that “No patient should have to attend a hospital appointment alone”.
• “Covid ‘wonder pills’ going to waste, with just 0.6% of stock used” – Analysis suggests the U.K. has spent £2.2 billion procuring the drugs yet demand is not there, the Telegraph reports.
• “Evidence Based Medicine – it was a good idea… until it died” – What we currently have is a crisis in evidence-based medicine, says Dr. Malcolm Kendrick. “The evidence that we use is at best flawed and incomplete. At worst, just plain wrong. Yet, this is this evidence used to create the NICE guidelines and drive the targets.”
• “Airbnb to let staff work from home indefinitely” – The accommodation platform also pledges not to cut staff pay if they choose home-working, reports BBC News.
• “Gary Sidley on Psyops” – Listen to the sceptical psychologist tell Jeffrey Peel on the New Era that fear and isolation were the main tools used to coerce the population.
• “Another 34 hepatitis cases are confirmed in the U.K.” – Health bosses confirmed nearly three dozen cases of liver inflammation have been detected in those aged 10 and under since Monday, bringing the total U.K.-wide total to 145, the Mail reports.
• “None of the nine young children in Alabama who had hepatitis had Covid” – All of the nine children that were diagnosed with ‘Mysterious Hepatitis’ in Alabama in October and November 2021 tested positive for the adenovirus, and none had COVID-19, a new report from the CDC reveals, according to the Mail.
• “Police told to investigate Labour’s lies: After Mail exposes cover-up over ‘Beergate’ party, Cabinet ministers join calls for new probe into scandal engulfing Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner” – Cabinet ministers have joined calls for a new probe into the ‘Beergate’ scandal engulfing Labour leader Keir Starmer and deputy leader Angela Rayner, according to the Mail.
• “NIH-Funded Study Reveals Suicides Among Young People Rising During Pandemic” – The National Institutes of Health recently reported study results revealing that stresses associated with the pandemic may have contributed to more adolescent suicides, reports TrialSite News.
• “Climate Colonialists Disrupt African Pipeline, Perpetuate Poverty” – Climate activists’ ill-founded opposition to fossil fuels threatens to stop a major pipeline project in East Africa and stymie economic growth in Uganda and Tanzania, writes Vijay Jayaraj in Watts Up With That?
• “Russian gas flows to Europe through key pipelines steady” –Russia stopped gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria this week for their refusal to pay in roubles, though Poland is still getting Russian gas via reverse flows from Germany along the Yamal-Europe pipeline, Reuters reports.
• “Amazon Targets Conservative Children’s Book About Gender Identity” – In targeting “Johnny the Walrus” by Matt Walsh, Amazon shows it’s on the side of Leftist activists, not free speech, writes Katrina Trinko in the Daily Signal.
• “We don’t need to be protected from Netflix” – Nadine Dorries’ plans to regulate streaming services are alarming, says Matthew Lesh in Spiked.
• “Joe Biden’s ‘Disinformation Board’ is just another censorship tool” – Now the state will have an even tighter grip on our online lives, writes Katherine Dee in UnHerd.
• “Biden’s Disinformation Chief Nina Jankowicz: Online Mockery of Kamala Harris a Threat to Democracy and National Security” – Joe Biden’s new disinformation chief Nina Jankowicz argued online mockery of Vice-President Kamala Harris was a threat to national security, reports Breitbart News.
• “Biff, Chip and Kipper illustrator ‘profoundly upset’ to be cancelled in Islamophobia row” – The Telegraph reports that Alex Brychta, who is married to a Muslim and regularly visits the Middle East and gives readings of his books to children there, is left feeling hurt after the publisher pulped the book over “incredibly silly” racism accusations (the ‘unfriendly’ town at the centre of the row was not the only depiction of a Middle Eastern town in the book and was just part of the plot).

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