News Round-Up

• “Bank of England has made ‘serious mistakes’, former Governor says” – Lord King warns that Covid money-printing spree and low interest rates were major errors, the Telegraph reports.
• “Surprise surprise, the NHS has spent its windfall on yet more waste and wokery” – They’re too busy adding more meaningless layers of management when its vast budget should be spent on the patients who need and pay for it, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “GPs miss chances to diagnose dementia due to lack of face-to-face appointments” – Dementia detection rates fall as the decline of in-person check-ups means fewer opportunities to spot the condition, an NHS leader warns, reports the Telegraph.
• “FDA Expands Eligibility for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Dose to Children Five through 11 Years” – The FDA is authorising the use of a single booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for individuals aged five through 11 years of age.
• “Mother needed surgery after accidentally swallowing a Covid swab” – A care worker from Peterlee County Durham was left briefly unable to breathe after swallowing a Covid test swab; medics eventually needed to perform surgery to remove the six-inch object, the Mail reports.
• “How the FDA justified rejecting an EUA for fluvoxamine” – The drug works great, but the FDA doesn’t want anyone to know that, says Steve Kirsch.
• “My interview with American Airlines pilot Bob Snow” – He nearly died right after landing the plane and he’s angry they forced him to take a vaccine he never wanted. Now he’s talking about what happened. Steve Kirsch spoke to him right after he left the hospital.
• “What is the truth about ‘surge in pilot deaths’ after vaccine rollout?” – If there is a surge in deaths or illness by a significant percentage, and if there are other indicators of disruption to ‘normality’, one has to draw the conclusion that something must be causing it, and whatever that something is, with no official explanation forthcoming, it is being withheld from the public, writes John Le Sueur in TCW Defending Freedom.
• “Rail unions threaten ‘summer of discontent’ unless they get 10% pay rises: Ministers warn mass strikes would be a betrayal of families who pitched in £600 each to save industry during Covid” – Union barons demanded the Government offers wage increases “very soon” that “at least match inflation” to avoid a wave of strikes, the Mail reports.
• “Family take legal action after son, 26, died after AstraZeneca jab” – The heartbroken family of 26-year-old graduate Jack Hurn, who died from “catastrophic” blood clots on his brain two weeks after he received an AstraZeneca vaccine are considering legal action, the Mail reports.
• “Apple delays plan to make staff return to its California HQ three days a week indefinitely due to latest Covid surge weeks after disgruntled boss resigned because he wanted to WFH” – Apple has delayed plans to bring workers back to the office three days a week following the resignation of a boss who quit over the requirement, reports the Mail. That didn’t take long.
• “Taxing the Unvaccinated: Externalities and Paternalism During the Pandemic” – As Canada proposes taxing individuals who choose not to take COVID-19 vaccines, Alice Pirlot and Kristoffer Berg at the Oxford University Centre for Busines Taxation ask if such a tax is justified and discuss the pros and cons.
• “Insiders say Justin Rowlatt is more ‘campaigner’ than reporter” – Some at the BBC, it seems, are losing patience with their climate editor, says Ross Clark in the Mail.
• “U.K. weather has become, if anything, less extreme, annual review shows” – U.K. weather trends have changed very little in recent decades and have become, if anything, less extreme, according to a new paper published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
• “Heatwaves Getting Worse In India? More BBC Lies” – Whether there is a new record set this week or not – and the latest data suggest not – it is clear that this is not part of any trend, says Paul Homewood on Watts Up With That?
• “Is There Really a Climate Crisis?” – There is no trace of a climate emergency in the temperature, rainfall, storm and tidal measurements, writes Ivor Williams for WUWT.
• “The ESG Community Lacks an Understanding of What Crude Oil is Used For” – Products from crude oil are the foundation of modern society and few consumers are willing to give up those benefits, says Ronald Stein in WUWT.
• “No, Tucker Carlson is not to blame for the Buffalo massacre” – It is obscene to say that Carlson inspired this act of racist barbarism, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “George Monbiot’s farming fantasies” – The urban voyeur will never understand agriculture, writes John Lewis-Stempel in UnHerd.
• “When will Sadiq Khan admit that stop and search works?” – Even as London faces record knife killings, the Mayor continues to undermine a system that has a proven record of tackling crime, writes Shaun Bailey in the Telegraph.
• “Saving democracy: Dr Frank Luntz’s Keith Joseph Memorial lecture” – Both populism and wokery are shredding the fabric of our democracy, says Dr. Frank Luntz at CapX.
• “Defunding the illiberal National Union of Students doesn’t go far enough” – The Government is right to sever ties with the NUS, but it’s doing so for the wrong reasons, writes Marc Glendenig at CapX.
• “Trans dogma has taken over our schools” – A teenager has been hounded out of her sixth-form for saying that biological sex exists, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
• “Tories must challenge campus group-think” – Unless the party stands up to left-wing ideas in higher education it will face a bleak future, argues Melanie Phillips in the Times.
• “The white privilege of BLM” – Connecticut’s wealthy enclaves reveal the emptiness of anti-racism, writes Kat Rosenfield in UnHerd.
• “Black Lives Matter paid $1.8m to companies owned by founder’s relatives” – The charity is ripe for accusations of impropriety, critics say, after filings reveal it gave lucrative contracts to relatives and associates, the Telegraph reports.
• “The remarkable poise of Allison Bailey” – Bailey has shown the strength of her character in the courtroom, writes Raquel Rosario Sánchez in the Critic.

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