News Round-Up

• “Ryanair suffers £300 million annual loss” – Ryanair has suffered a £300million annual loss thanks to the pandemic – and has warned any recovery could be grounded by further Covid variants or Ukraine, the Mail reports.
• “Hundreds of students stage protest at Beijing university in lockdown” – In Beijing – which has reported more than 1,000 infections in recent weeks – most restaurants and public spaces have been shut and millions face daily testing and working from home, the Mail reports.
• “Jacob Rees-Mogg’s attack on fixed penalty notices is too little, too late – The problem with FPNs and PCNs is they have unleashed a culture in which police, councils and other authorities of the state have been able to extract large sums of money from the public for very minor infringements of laws and bylaws – without any proper right to appeal, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “British workers leads the world in refusing to return to the office” – New figures from Work From Home Research show the U.K. now tops the table of nations where workers would rather quit or find a new job than return to the office five days a week, the Mail reports.
• “Fraudulent Trial On Ivermectin Published By The World’s Top Medical Journal” – Dr Pierre Kory with a comprehensive critique of the Together trial, published in the NEJM, which he calls “fraudulent” and “designed and conducted to launch anti-ivermectin headlines across every major media outlet across the world”.
• “Can We Now See that Economics Does Not Diverge from Public Health?” – They wrecked social and market functioning and cannot fathom why we have a demoralised population, a mental health crisis, falling financials, soaring inflation, and shortages of goods and services that are essential to life, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker at the Brownstone Institute.
• “Bank of England chief issues ‘apocalyptic’ warning about food prices” – Governor Andrew Bailey revealed how further food inflation was a “major worry” for the central bank, with particular concerns about wheat and cooking oil, according to the Mail.
• “MPs maintain push for action over ‘questionable’ research” – A proposal by politicians in Denmark to establish a national body to monitor ‘questionable’ research is unlikely to be adopted any time soon, according to University World News, but there are “fears that negative public perceptions about the integrity of university-based research might emerge from all the noise”. Heaven forbid.
• “UKMFA Open Letter to NHS General Practice Managers re Face Mask Requirements in GP Surgeries” – The U.K. Medical Freedom Alliance calls upon all NHS General Practice Managers to make face masks optional for all staff, patients and visitors, with immediate effect.
• “Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Associated with Dramatic Decline in Antibody Protection Just Weeks After Second and Third Dose” – Investigating the impact of two and three mRNA-based does on 128 people, a Danish team found levels of Omicron-specific antibodies waning in strength after the second and third Pfizer jab, reports TrialSite News.
• “Covid: What we have learned” – Many who identified themselves as being on the ‘mainstream’ Left found that the mainstream Left wanted nothing to do with them, culminating in what may be an irreconcilable rift, says Phil Shannon on Left Lockdown Sceptics.
• “A live attenuated vaccine confers superior mucosal and systemic immunity to SARS-CoV-2 variants” – The robust immunity elicited by the live-attenuated-virus vaccine candidate sCPD9 was evident in a wide range of immune parameters after challenge with SARS-CoV-2 including rapid viral clearance, reduced tissue damage, strong systemic and mucosal humoral responses and rapid recall of memory T cells from lung tissue, according to a new study in BioRxiv.
• “Vladimir Putin threatens ‘response’ if Nato military infrastructure deployed in Sweden and Finland” – The Russian President’s comments come after the Deputy Foreign Minister says Nordic nations’ decision to join will have “far-reaching consequences”, the Mail reports.
• “Russian propaganda has reached new depths of insanity” – The Russian media is not just a mouthpiece but an actor within the regime, and currently it is normalising talk of nuclear annihilation, writes Jade McGlynn in the Telegraph.
• “Why Russia needs to be humiliated in Ukraine” – Too little was learnt from the collapse of the Soviet Union, says Sergey Radchenko in the Spectator.
• “Humiliating Russia is not good foreign policy” –  Russia is not going to disappear as an energy exporter that can fund a substantial military force and large nuclear arsenal, and endless sanctions and continual proxy wars will create a resentful garrison state, with more revanchist nationalism and desire for payback, says Ben Friedman in UnHerd.
• “Woke Yale Law Students call to ostracise conservative classmates” – Yale Law students responded to the leaked Supreme Court opinion on Roe v. Wade encouraging each other to harass and intimidate their conservative peers, the Mail reports.
• “Are Black Lives Matter and Antifa really Marxist?” – The problem with describing BLM, Antifa, and like-minded movements as Marxist is that they hold little in common with, and much in opposition to, the ideas that we find in Marx’s writing, according to History Reclaimed.
• “Elon Musk praises Netflix for crackdown on woke workers” – Last week the LA-based streamer dished out a new memo to staff telling them if they are offended by content the company is working on, they can quit. In a response, Musk tweeted, “Good move by @netflix”, the Mail reports.
• “The show must go on: Netflix confronts its offended staff” – It appears that the Board of Directors has concluded that appeasing the whims of a minority with a disproportionately loud megaphone is not a good business practice, writes Luke Perry in Bournbrook.
• “Is this the end of the ‘thought police’?” – Perhaps the police are starting to realise that the way to improve their relationship with the public is to tackle the crime that is actually being committed against them, rather than shaking more of them down over spicy Facebook posts, writes Tom Slater in the Spectator.
• “Social media platforms should make algorithms public” – Algorithms amplify and suppress content, creating harm, yet are shrouded in secrecy. The draft Online Safety Bill should force Big Tech to declare how algorithms work, writes Laura Dodsworth.
• “The West is wilfully abandoning its world-conquering principles” – To defend liberty around the globe, the Free World must cherish the very values that are the secret to its success, says Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
• “Pro-Grooming Disney’s Favourability Rating Plummets 53 Points In One Year” – NBC News buried a devastating poll finding about the shamelessly inappropriate content-pushing at Disney, writes John Nolte in Breitbart News.
• “Why are progressives so afraid of Right-wing comedy?” – A new book warns that it is a ‘monster’ the Left can’t ignore, writes Ben Sixsmith in UnHerd.
• “J.K. Rowling backs feminist campaigner who was ‘assaulted’ by balaclava-clad trans activists” – Aleks Kovacevic says she was threatened with arrest by Greater Manchester Police despite being attacked as she peacefully protested, the Mail reports.
• “They portray trans-people as fragile victims threatened by burley feminists, yet here they are at this demonstration dressed up like ninjas trying to be as intimidating as possible” – Toby on GB News answers whether aggressive pro-trans activists are setting back their own cause.

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