News Round-Up

• “20,000 children with rotten teeth missed out on treatment during Covid” – Official figures show just 14,645 under-19s in England had teeth removed in the first year of the pandemic, 20,000 (58.4%) fewer than one year earlier, the Mail reports.
• “‘It’s time everyone got off their backsides and back to the office!’” – It’s naïve to expect that everyone works as hard when no one is looking, yet WFH is becoming the norm, particularly in the public sector, says Lord Sugar in the Mail.
• “It would be absurd for Starmer to resign over a curry” – No one was harmed in the eating of Sir Keir’s curry; it simply doesn’t matter enough to force him out of office, argues Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “Death-by-Expert – a Cross-country Study” – D.V. Williamson take a fresh look at the data on Covid interventions and vaccines and concludes they may have made things worse.
• “Woman dragged from her home in China as virus restrictions tighten” – Shanghai, which is just emerging from a month of strict lockdown, has announced another round of mass testing and new rules despite infections falling as frustration grows with the Zero-Covid policy, the Mail reports.
• “The Public Health Prophet We Did Not Heed” – Aaron Kheriaty writes for the Brownstone Institute of the prescient wisdom of epidemiologist Dr. Donald Henderson, who in 2006 warned against using precisely the draconian public measures imposed in 2020.
• “Puck Covid” – The Covid narrative was an unwelcome reminder of corrupt Pharma, medicine and science, and is the zenith of a recurring crime against humanity, writes the Covid Physician.
• “Australia’s Record COVID-19 Death Count Mounts Yet Politicians Act Like Everything Normal” – The press in Australia is now acknowledging the growing breakthrough COVID-19 hospitalisations and death toll yet doesn’t raise any critical questions, says TrialSite News.
• “White House Predicts 100 Million COVID-19 Cases In Fall And Winter Unless The Feds Get Billions In Funding” – Tim Meads writes in the Daily Wire that the White House is currently predicting that 100 million cases of COVID-19 will hit America in the autumn and winter unless the Federal Government receives billions in taxpayer funding to combat the virus.
• “Extreme Weather During the Maunder Minimum” – Paul Homewood on Watts Up With That? says that if the BBC thinks global warming has made the weather more extreme, perhaps it would like to go back to the frosty weather of the Maunder Minimum.
• “Johnson’s grand nuclear plans already lie in tatters” – Ties with China risk scuppering existing proposals for plants, let alone future ones, writes Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
• “Scotland’s largest wind farm ‘using Net-Zero loophole to exploit cost of living crisis’” – Kwasi Kwarteng is set to take action amidst concerns that owners of Moray East are cashing in rather than paying back to taxpayers, the Telegraph reports.
• “Electric cars ‘risk wave of catastrophic fires on cargo ships’” – Thousands of vehicles, including Bentleys and Porsches, sank in the Atlantic in March when a cargo ship caught fire after the battery in one electric car on board burst into flames – and insurers now are sounding a warning, reports the Telegraph.
• “Vladimir Putin ‘gearing up for a prolonged war and will not stop at Donbas’” – The Russian leader’s retreat from Kyiv was “temporary shift” and he is likely counting on Western resolve weakening, a U.S. intelligence chief has warned, according to the Telegraph.
• “Ukraine should negotiate with Putin to protect German economy, VW boss says” – The Telegraph reports that Herbert Diess has sparked outrage with a call for negotiations to protect Europe’s economy.
• “Why the new Anglo-Swedish pact matters” – Britain is bringing Scandinavia under its nuclear umbrella, says Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
• “Censored speech” – The Queen’s speech revealed a Government failing to protect free expression, says Lois McLatchie in the Critic.
• “As censoring of TCW worsens, who is trying to gag us?” – TCW Defending Freedom is fighting the BBFC’s decision to classify it as an adult website, leading three ISPs to block it for their users.
• “We risk creating an Orwellian thought police” – Melanie Phillips writes for the Times that Britain and the U.S. are forgetting that censorship is never the right answer to disinformation.
• “Why progressives can’t tolerate Christians” – For progressives, democracies should move away from tolerance if it means that religious people can have power – but that’s not liberalism, it’s revolutionary secularism, and it’s frightening, says Freddy Gray in the Spectator.
• “Elon Musk Pledges to Reverse Trump Ban After Twitter Takeover” – Elon Musk has said he will reverse Twitter’s permanent ban of former president Donald Trump once he takes over the platform, adding that he wants the punishment of permanent suspensions to be reserved strictly for “spam” and “scam” accounts, reports Breitbart News.
• “Conversion therapy ban row as No.10 says it can continue if consensual” – No.10 has confirmed the proposed ban will not prohibit adult consensual activity or cover transgenderism, the Mail reports.
• “‘Anti-woke’ investment fund will shun companies making political statements” – “Woke Inc” author Vivek Ramaswamy is taking on the “ideological cartel” of Blackrock and Vanguard, the Telegraph reports.

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