News Round-Up

• “South Africa’s latest surge is a possible preview of the pandemic’s next chapter.” – The spread of two newly discovered subvariants, Omicron BA.4 and BA.5, has doctors watching closely, according to the New York Times.
• “Rheumatologist Robert Jackson: 40% of my 3,000 vaccinated patients report a significant vaccine injury” – Steve Kirsch speaks to Dr. Robert Jackson, who says that of his practice’s 3,000 vaccinated patients, 40% reported a vaccine injury and 5% are still injured.
• “Care homes and COVID-19” – Dr. Malcolm Kendrick gives his view on the care home scandal.
• “WFH in return for a 20% pay cut, top London law firm says” – Managers at Stephenson Harwood are giving lawyers and other employees in London and abroad the option to WFH permanently in return for the financial sacrifice, the Mail reports.
• “Reminder: Respiratory viruses infect huge numbers of people all the time, and nobody cared about this until 2020” – Eugyppius reports that a 2018 New York study tested a bunch of healthy adults for common respiratory viruses and over 6% tested positive.
• “Italian Court Rules Mandatory Vaccination Unconstitutional, ‘Fatal Side Effects’ too Risky” – The RAIR Foundation reports that Sicily’s Court of Administrative Justice has ruled that Italy’s mandatory Covid vaccination is unconstitutional.
• “What Covid Containment Has Done to Our Children” – For the past two years, what Western governments have done to the next generation – all in the name of keeping them safe, of course – has been calamitous, write Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster and Michael Baker for the Brownstone Institute.
• “Don’t panic about unvaccinated kids” – It’s time to get back to normal, says Dr. Vinay Prasad in UnHerd.
• “Pandemic Lockdowns Linked to ‘Unprecedented’ Increase in Child Obesity” – Medscape reports on new analysis that finds Covid lockdowns led to “unprecedented” increases in child obesity in England.
• “Utah Community-based COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Adverse Event Report” – TrialSite News reports that aggregate data from multiple sources including a fertility clinic reveal a marked jump in miscarriage rate from 18% to 40% and 109 deaths reported as adverse events including several children.
• “What is the truth?” – The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history, characterised by official lies in an unending stream lead by government bureaucracies, medical associations, medical boards, the media, and international agencies, writes retired Neurosurgeon Dr. Russell L. Blaylock in Surgical Neurology International.
• “Paris suspends Bolloré electric buses after two catch fire” – Dozens of electric buses will be taken off the streets of Paris temporarily “as a precaution” after two of the vehicles caught fire, public transport operator RATP said Friday, reports France24. 
• “How Russia’s War on Ukraine Could Escalate” – “If I were Vladimir Putin, it would be less humiliating to lose a war to the United States or NATO than it would be humiliating to lose a war to Ukraine,” write Declan Garvey and Esther Eaton for the Dispatch.
• “Nuclear torpedo strike could engulf Britain with giant radioactive tsunami, Russian TV warns” – Propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov blames Liz Truss for escalating tensions and warns that Putin could turn the U.K. into a “radioactive desert”, the Telegraph reports.
• “Ukraine admits ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ who slayed 40 Russian planes is a myth” – The iconic ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ fighter pilot who took down 40 Russian warplanes in a valiant defence of Ukraine’s capital is just a myth, Kyiv admitted, the Mail reports. Read Laura Dodsworth’s take here.
• “The Free West is winning the war against the Russia-China axis of autocracy” – Have confidence: our foes are failing because their authoritarian systems are inferior to free societies, writes an optimistic Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
• “Japan shows how to avoid Russophobia” – The Japanese Government has distinguished between the Putin regime and its people, says Philip Patrick in UnHerd.
• “Proud to be free?” – Keith Waters in the Critic on ‘liberal’ Britain’s new blasphemy laws.
• “Academics must resist the creeping degradation of academic freedom” – Unless an academic is exceptionally bloody-minded, he or she will eventually take the path of least resistance, which is subtle erosion in action, says Arif Ahmed in Times Higher Education.
• “Cock-birthing” – “The fact that anyone is wasting their time on this bollocks (or lack thereof) shows how far removed from reality some people are,” writes Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
• “Reparations aren’t about justice. They’re an act of revenge” – There’s a tendency in our own age which does not allow wounds to mend or heal, writes Douglas Murray in the New York Post.
• “Race-based double standards exist in media, but not always how you think” – While lower-end white racism, of the kind measured by audit studies, clearly still exists, it is also a facially obvious truth that formalised advantages for people of color are a feature of modern middle class life, says Wilfred Reilly on Fair for All.
• “NHS ‘prioritising trans people over women for breast surgery’” – Gender reassignment operations have surged sevenfold in England in the past decade at the same time as admissions for congenital breast problems have more than halved, the Mail reports.
• “Muslim cleric forced to flee Manchester after he condemned extremism” – Mohammed El-Saeiti, a former iman at Didsbury mosque, has fled Manchester to a secret location with help from police, as concerns rise that his life is in danger, following death threats, reports the Mail.
• “Bill Murray blames changing tastes for row over joke which shut down film production” – The actor was due to star in “Being Mortal” before production was halted after a poorly judged joke led him to being accused of misconduct, the Telegraph reports.
• “Boys identifying as girls put into female dorms at summer camp set up by David Cameron” – A National Citizen Service facility is accused of putting young people at risk as parents reveal concerns to the Telegraph.
• “Some Lessons from the Sorry History of Campus Speech Codes” – For 40 years, experiments in restricting ‘hate speech’ have failed, write Greg Lukianoff and Talia Barnes in Persuasion.
• “Time Columnist Denounces Free Speech as a White Man’s ‘Obsession’” – Jonathan Turley writes that a Time magazine column by national correspondent Charlotte Alter was shocking in how mainstream anti-free speech views have become.
• “Westminster is not a hotbed of misogyny” – This overheated sexism row risks sanitising British politics, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
• “Tories’ ridiculous ‘cull male MPs’ response to porn scandal” – “The forces of woke and vengeance – now the dominant forces driving the Conservative party, it seems – think the Neil Parish porn incident warrants a cull of dozens of male MPs by virtue of their sex,” writes Kathy Gyngell in Conservative Woman.
• “Mickey Mouse Is Corporate Progressivism’s Canary in a Coal Mine” – The furor facing Walt Disney Co. in Florida is a warning that capitalism won’t regain its legitimacy by alienating half the country, argues Adrian Wooldridge in Bloomberg.
• “Bill Gates could not stop his Windows Operating System being infected with viruses, costing billions in fraud” – If he cannot stop tech, he won’t stop nature, says Jamie Jenkins on Twitter.

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