News Round-Up

• “‘Shameful and toxic’: MPs demand answers over billions of PPE going up in smoke” – Health officials say they will burn much of a £4bn pile of unusable equipment to generate power – but a select committee investigating the episode wants to know more about the financial and environmental costs, reports Sky News.
• “There should be no room for Hunt in the Cabinet ” – Bringing politicians into Government who’ve consistently shown they would have made lockdowns harder and faster adds insult to egregious injury, writes Brian Monteith at Time for Recovery.
• “Nico Rosberg banned from Formula One paddock after vaccine refusal” – Rosberg, who beat Lewis Hamilton to the 2016 title, now works as a pundit for Sky Sports. But the 36-year-old is having to conduct his role remotely following the sport’s new-for-2022 Covid rulings, the Mail reports.
• “Covid Passes – and coercion – are here to stay” – Vaccine passports, like Covid, are ready to pounce again, writes Niall McCrae on TCW Defending Freedom.
• “Gigi Foster: Did Our Pandemic Policies Kill More People Than They Saved?” – Watch Gigi Foster speak to the Epoch Times about the harms of lockdown.
• “Against Coronadoom” – Don’t worry too much, says Eugyppius in his effort to counter sceptical doomery.
• “NYT: Something Was Lost in Lockdown in America—err.. China” – It’s among the many Orwellian peculiarities of the last two years that any honest discussion of the toll of lockdowns in the New York Times or its elite media counterparts is reserved for lockdowns in China, writes Michael Senger on his Substack page.
• “Do vaccine rollouts correlate to disabled Americans?” – El Gato Malo digs into the data and finds a disturbing correlation between the vaccine rollout and a 1.8 million rise in the number of Americans registered as disabled.
• “Top producer Albemarle risks shutting German plant if EU declares lithium a hazard” – Top lithium producer Albemarle Corp may have to shut its Langelsheim plant in Germany if the metal used in electric vehicle batteries is declared a hazardous material by the European Union, its finance chief told Reuters.
• “Michael Gove’s block on gas exploration sends Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s frackers ‘apoplectic’” – Energy giant Ineos is refused planning permission for gas exploration for trying to build a fence, the Telegraph reports.
• “Ben & Jerry’s is wrong about Britain’s ‘racist’ Rwanda plan” – Why is an ice cream brand lecturing Britain on the morality of its immigration policy, asks Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Spectator.
• “The Lady of Heaven and the racism of identity politics” – By giving in to the protesters, the elites have shown that they do not consider British Muslims to be ‘like us’, argues Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “Essential viewing: The Lady of Heaven” – Roger Watson in the New Conservative is not sure all Muslims or Cinema chains have got the hang of tolerance and free speech.
• “Meet the man taking on the anti-free-speech left” – For the anti-free-speech left, the most dangerous man in America today is Greg Lukianoff, the leader of FIRE, says Ben Domenech in Spectator World.
• “What are the philosophical roots of Wokery?” – Science over feelings, reality over ideas, ontology over epistemology – critical theory needs to be reversed, says Doug Stokes on his Substack page.
• “Civil Servants Given Lesson in Avoiding Procrastination… During Work Hours” – Lessons in crystal healing, Q&As with witches, how not to tweet, countless LGBTQIA+ lectures: just some of the many examples of how taxpayer cash is thrown around in the Civil Service nowadays, according to Guido Fawkes.
• “Social media comments should not cost us our jobs, say Oxford University dons” – A free speech row erupts as professors claim online and harassment policies are “outrageous” and will have a “chilling effect”, reports the Telegraph.
• “The Welsh way of woke” – Wales has an established church again: the religion of ‘anti-racism’, writes Andrew Tettenborn in the Critic.
• “Diversity is conformity” – Woke ideology is riddled with contradictions, says Patrick West in Spiked.
• “It is really tragic that a healthy kid who had Omicron would get a booster soon thereafter, and get Myocarditis” – Dr. Vinay Prasad says the policy of vaccinating children will not age well.

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