News Round-Up

• “Covid makes a comeback: Cases jump 40% in a week in England” – The Office for National Statistics estimates 1.13 million people were infected on any given day in the week ending June 10th, the equivalent of one in 50 of the population, reports the Mail.
• “Rail revenues and passenger numbers half of pre-Covid levels” – The Office of Rail and Road said the industry generated £5.9 billion from ticket sales in 2021 and 2022 – 54% of the £11 billion raised two years ago, the Mail reports.
• “Fauci Finally Gets Covid: The Significance” – What Fauci imagined – and very few people picked up on it at the time – was construction of a new social system based around social distancing, says Jeffrey Tucker at Brownstone.
• “The case against lockdown as a public health intervention” – Mark Woolhouse, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh and a SAGE member during the pandemic, sets out the case against draconian public health measures in the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
• “Sweden saved children from lockdown” – It was wise enough to resist school closures, writes Johan Anderberg in UnHerd.
• “FDA Authorises Coronavirus Vaccines for Children Younger than Five” – But Florida says no, the risks outweigh the benefits, reports Breitbart News.
• “The Covid death data from Massachusetts shows vaccinating kids is insane” – Steve Kirsch writes that the death data show that no child aged five to 11 in Massachusetts died in 2020 or 2021 from Covid, meaning the FDA is approving vaccines for “emergency use” when there is no “emergency”.
• “Discussing WHO pandemic preparedness treaty with ex UN Assistant Sec-Gen Professor Ramesh Thakur” – Watch the former UN Assistant Secretary General and Senior Adviser to Kofi Annan tell Thinking Slow the dangers of transferring more powers and budget to the WHO in Geneva.
• “Mayfair club is sued for kicking out ‘Covid rule-breaker’: Unvaccinated ‘private investor’ launches £50,000 legal war after being accused of failing to quarantine by Department of Health official who was also a member” – Businesswoman Gina Mok was expelled from the £1,235-a-year Lansdowne Club in central London following a row with another member, who worked at the Department of Health, reports the Mail.
• “PANDA’s Nick Hudson on Covid and the death of logic” – Whatever the criminality or conspiracies that lie behind the global Covid response, whatever the selfish or power-hungry elite interests driving it, they could not have flourished without a fundamental, revolutionary knowledge shift, argues Nick Hudson in TCW Defending Freedom.
• “Things NASA climate scientists say:” – Charles Rotter on Watts Up With That? collects some of the far Left sentiments tweeted by NASA climate scientists, such as “I’d prefer a world without private cars”.
• “Dirty cost of keeping the Government’s Net Zero strategy alive revealed” – The plan to hit green targets relies on burning the equivalent of the New Forest every five months, Telegraph analysis shows.
• “The U.K. is squandering its gas reserves” – Amid soaring prices and talk of blackouts, we need to get serious about energy, says James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
• “Tom Hanks: Audiences no longer accept straight actors in gay roles” – The Hollywood star says “inauthenticity” makes such casting impossible today, reports the Telegraph. Is he confusing audiences with activists?
• “Musk tells Twitter staff he will tolerate ‘pretty outrageous tweets’” – The Mail reports that after arriving ten minutes late, Musk utilised a freewheeling Q&A format for the conference, where he addressed topics ranging from free speech, layoffs, and his preference for in-person work.
• “Say ‘women’ not ‘people with ovaries’, Sajid Javid orders NHS as experts warn woke language puts patients at risk” – The Health Secretary has repeatedly said he does not agree with the health service removing the word ‘women’ from its online advice pages, reports the Mail.
• “The diversity industry is bad for business” – The more woke a company is, the fewer minorities want to work there, writes Joanna Williams in Spiked.
• “The BBC’s coverage of the Falklands liberation was disgraceful” – Julien Yvon in Bournbrook says the BBC writer clearly knew little to nothing about the truth behind the war.
• “How the HR monster destroyed the workplace” – Mission creep has turned the once humdrum human resources department into an ultra-woke, bureaucratic beast, says Juliet Samuel in the Telegraph.
• “The American nightmare” – America’s toxic racial politics cannot be allowed to take root in Britain, says Rakib Ehsan in the Critic.
• “The gendrification of Ireland” – Colette Colfer in the Critic. on how gender identity theory has become embedded in Irish society.

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