News Round-Up

• “How Boris Johnson squandered his premiership” – Andrew Lilico writes for the Spectator that the PM has been given countless second chances and has wasted all of them.
• “The Guardian view on Covid’s resurgence: act now or pay later” – The Guardian continues its effort to resurrect extreme Covid measures in a leading article which argues that with infections and hospitalisations in the U.K. “soaring”, “action is needed to protect the vulnerable and the NHS”.
• “Lockdown hysteria is still ruining Britain” – Madeline Grant writes for the Telegraph that it’s no wonder we’re failing to confront the costs of the shutdowns – the nation was gripped by a madness.
• “Cancer victim, 19, died after pleading in agony to see her doctor” – The family of Amelia Ellerby from York have slammed GPs for using Covid as “an excuse” not to see patients after she pleaded to see her doctor for more than a year, reports the Mail.
• “Tens of millions are put into lockdown in China” – Health authorities reported over 300 infections, with clusters found in the northern city of Xi’an as well as the country’s biggest city Shanghai and the capital Beijing, as ‘targeted’ lockdowns continue, reports the Mail. It’s not going to work, Xi.
• “Cyprus brings back face masks indoors in light of soaring Covid cases” – Cyprus has reintroduced the mandatory use of face masks indoors for all people aged over 12, as coronavirus cases spike, according to the Mail.
• “LAUSD parents can now file for damages from the illegal Covid vaccine mandates” – Now that a judge has ruled that the L.A. Unified School District wasn’t authorised to mandate the Covid vaccines or force kids into independent study, Steve Kirsch is offering to help the injured recover damages.
• “Canadian mRNA expert suspended without pay for questioning Covid jabs for kids” – Lifesite News reports that Prof. Patrick Provost subsequently stated in an interview that he was “just doing what I was hired to do”.
• “Over-50s could be offered fourth Covid booster jab in autumn” – Around six million people are understood to be in line for a fourth shot as the latest sub-variants of the Omicron strain continue to rapidly spread throughout the U.K., the Mail reports.
• “Dutch to make working from home a legal right – and the rest of Europe could follow” – Experts predict a ripple effect across the EU once the Dutch senate approves the new law, according to the Telegraph. More privileges for the laptop class.
• “‘To protect us all’: the U.K. Government’s contempt for Parliament during the Covid pandemic” – David McGrogan examines for the Freethinker the extent of the Government’s disdain for due process, democratic accountability and the rule of law during the pandemic.
• “Vast Majority in World Say They Lost Too Much Freedom During Covid” – Michael Senger writes that in a recent survey taken as part of the 2022 Democracy Perception Index, the vast majority of respondents agreed with the prompt, “My Government has done too much to limit people’s freedoms during the coronavirus crisis”.
• “Why the Rush for Toddler Vaccines?” – The ‘urgency’ now feels contrived and political, writes Allysia Finley in the Wall Street Journal.
• “Are Omicron-Targeted Boosters Worth It?” – Dr. Amesh Adalja is sceptical in MedPage Today.
• “Millions of AstraZeneca vaccines binned because no country wants them” – The Telegraph reports that Health Canada says it struggled to find a country willing to take the Covid vaccine doses.
• “Vaxsplainers” – German state media makes a laughable attempt to debunk Eugyppius’s analysis.
• “Dangerous incidents at U.K. laboratories ‘potentially exposed staff to Covid’” – Official reports describe leaks of virus-laden fluids, a flood and a researcher bitten by an infected ferret, reports the Guardian.
• “How Pfizer Won the Pandemic, Reaping Outsize Profit and Influence” – The drugmaker’s success has overshadowed the Government’s Covid-fighting strategy, says Arthur Allen in Medscape.
• “The doctor who turned her health watchdog into a Covid vaccine lapdog” – Kathy Gyngell in TCW Defending Freedom continues to lay out the charge sheet against June Raine and the MHRA.
• “Evil In Our Time: Naomi Wolf on the Covid Response” – Thorsteinn Siglaugsson review Naomi Wolf’s new book The Bodies of Others for Brownstone, saying it is a personal, deeply empathic and excellently written tribute to the innermost layer of freedom, the very core that defines us as human beings.
• “We’ll Never Be Fully Vaxxed” – Canadians will be required to get a Covid shot every nine months for the foreseeable future, says Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, telling reporters that previous definitions of “fully vaccinated” made no sense: “We will never be fully vaccinated against Covid-19”, he said, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
• “Russia boosts coal exports as Western sanctions yet to bite” – Much of the focus on sanctions on Russia’s commodity exports is on crude oil and natural gas, but coal is perhaps the best example of the challenges facing those seeking to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, writes Clyde Russell for Reuters.
• “Brussels to class nuclear and gas projects as ‘green’” – Nuclear and natural gas projects could now get subsidies and cheaper loans, reports the Telegraph.
• “A people’s revolt against eco-tyranny” – From the Netherlands to Sri Lanka, people have had enough of the elite’s green hysteria, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Ben & Jerry’s sues owner Unilever over Israel boycott row” – The ‘ethical’ ice cream maker claims that the decision to reverse the ban on sales has put its ‘social integrity’ at risk, reports the Telegraph. The social integrity of being anti-Semitic?
• “Trans hype is gripping schools – it’s time we learnt what our children are taught” – We expect our daughters to be educated so they can grow into capable young women, not encouraged to make life-altering decisions, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman admits it was a ‘mistake’ to refer to Chandler Bing’s transgender parent with male pronouns – after apologising for the show’s lack of black leads” – The writer, who created the long-running American sitcom with David Crane, said it was a “mistake” to use male pronouns and the word “father” to refer to the transgender woman, reports the Mail. Oh dear.
• “Trans women to be banned from female triathlons even if they haven’t gone through puberty” – British Triathlon’s new trans policy, which will come into effect from January 1st, is the strictest yet announced this summer, reports the Telegraph. Fancy that – restricting women’s sports to, er, women.
• “Black political commentator Calvin Robinson reports comedian Nish Kumar for racism over his Boris Johnson tweet about how he ‘loves to see a rich white man brought down by Asians’” – Kumar took to Twitter to share his views after the resignation of Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Heath Secretary Sajid Javid, but Robinson thought he’d give the comedian a taste of woke medicine, reports the Mail.
• “Maya Forstater’s victory” – Maya’s vindication in court is a triumph for all women, writes Sarah Phillimore in the Critic.
• “Did Newton microaggress?” – Charlie Peters writes in the Critic that as the flavour of the month for the activist-charity class is equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives, it should come as no surprise that Boris Johnson’s plans to turn Britain into a “science and technology superpower” have been infiltrated by the healthily remunerated executives of the EDI industry.
• “Online post offended you? There’s a reason why Ofcom probably won’t take it down” – The regulator promises to protect free speech, saying it will not “censor” content on social media, provided it is legal, reports the Telegraph. A line that will last right up until the Bill becomes law…

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