News Round-Up

• “Fury at video that lays bare huge A&E waits ‘being fueled by GPs’: Campaigners say desperate patients are turning to overwhelmed casualty units because they can’t get face-to-face appointments – as video shows nurse announcing 13-hour wait” – Watch in the Mail the moment patients in a crowded A&E in Harlow, Essex, were told they could be waiting 13 hours to be seen, in a video which epitomises the crisis within the NHS.
• “French President Macron: ‘Vaccinate Everything That Can Be Vaccinated’” – Jeffrey Tucker at the Brownstone Institute reports that Macron has said, “Vaccinate everything that can be vaccinated, because we avoid the virus. That’s the best response for unburdening the healthcare system and having a healthy population. So, we’re going to continue to work on this aspect.” It’ll work this time…
• “Return of ‘work from home’ plan to save fuel in event of crisis caused by Ukraine war” – People in Ireland will be ordered to work from home in the event of a major fuel crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine, under secret Government emergency plans, reports Independent.ie.
• “New vaccine could cure cancer – thanks to team behind Covid jab” – The scientists behind the Pfizer vaccine are collaborating on an individualised pancreatic cancer treatment that early trial results suggest can boost the long-term immune response to prevent recurrence, the Telegraph reports. (Also in the Mail without paywall.)
• “Covid: The death toll of panic” – Eyal Shahar, Professor Emeritus of Public Health at the University of Arizona, writes on Medium that the data show that panic-based policy was a major cause of death during the pandemic.
• “Should the Government Compensate the Vaccine Injured?” – Rusere Shoniwa on Left Lockdown Sceptics sets out a case for why the Government shouldn’t pay compensation to the vaccine injured or their families (it’s because someone else should).
• “A picture tells a thousand words: or does it?” – HART criticises “more data lies to prop up a crumbling data narrative”.
• “Moderna’s new Covid vaccine is five times better than the original” – Clinical trials have raised hopes that the next-generation jab will be needed just once a year, reports the Telegraph. Erm, didn’t the original trials promise 95% efficacy?
• “Welcome to the age of post-Covid nihilism” – From mass shootings to summer riots, we’re seeing what happens after you shut societies down, says Matt Purple in the Spectator.
• “Non-Covid Excess Deaths, 2020-21: Collateral Damage of Policy Choices?” – In the latest NBER working paper, Casey B. Mulligan and Robert D. Arnott examine the causes behind the disturbing rise in U.S. non-Covid mortality.
• “India is Buying Up Cheap Sanctioned Russian Oil and Selling it to the U.S. and E.U. at Huge Profits” – India is buying up cheap sanctioned Russian oil, refining it, then selling it to the U.S. and EU for huge profits, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal summarised by Paul Homewood.
• “Vegan TV advert that featured fish gasping for air and crying cows is banned for being too graphic – while separate ad for Tesco plant burger made ‘misleading’ claims about its ‘positive impact on planet’” – The ad for Tesco’s Plant Chef burgers has been banned over “misleading” claims that the products could make a positive difference to the environment compared with meat equivalents, reports the Mail.
• “India Reopens 100 Coal Mines” – In a bold and rebellious move, India has ordered reopening more than 100 dormant coal mines to meet skyrocketing domestic power demand, reports Paul Homewood on Watts Up With That?
• “Ketchup At Risk, Squeaks Telegraph!” – Paul Homewood’s fact check of the climate ketchup scare story.
• “Cow and sheep burps to be taxed by New Zealand in world first” – The draft climate-saving plan is likely to result in higher meat prices, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Channel Migrant crisis is an invasion, says William Clouston” – Luke Perry in Bournbrook on the SDP leader’s remarks that it’s not “intemperate” to say, “If you have 30,000 people just rocking up on the south coast this year, most people would just say ‘that’s pretty much an invasion’.”
• “‘I’d be banned from swimming if I had as much testosterone as Emily Bridges’: Olympian Sharron Davies slams trans cyclist as ‘not female’ in furious response to ‘her’ laughing at claims ‘she’ has a ‘competitive advantage’” – British Olympic legend Sharron Davies claimed that she would be banned from competing in international swimming if she had “as much testosterone in my system as Emily Bridges”, the Mail reports.
• “Why we need a Bad Law Project” – There are signs that the legal system is slowly succumbing to the coercive culture of compelled speech, writes Laurence Fox in the Law Gazette.
• “What is a woman?” – Laura Dodsworth in the Critic interviews Matt Walsh, the man behind the controversial new film on gender.
• “There’s nothing bold or brave about raising the smoking age to 21” – A puritanical minority are going after a poor and marginalised minority, argues Christopher Snowdon in the New Statesman.
• “The trouble with Thomas Piketty” – Jay Elwes writes in the Spectator that the central arguments of the economist’s new book are not intended to convince the undecided, but are a restatement of a set of familiar hard-left ideas, almost all of which are impossible to implement.
• “Seven problematic films that are yet to be cancelled” – James Delingpole in the Spectator on the films the woke censors have missed (so far).
• “We Need To Talk About Trans Politics” – David Martin Jones and M.L.R. Smith write for CIEO about the new politics that transcends the old Left and Right.
• “This question had to be asked, but can Sajid Javid really justify a ‘permanent’ £70k a year position for something he says will most probably never return?” – Watch Sir Desmond Swayne MP grill the Health Secretary in the Commons on some of the suspicious activity in his department.

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