News Round-Up

• “Britain braced for national heatwave emergency” – Ministers are drawing up an unprecedented plan to manage the soaring temperatures, as a health warning is issued indicating a ‘danger to life’, reports the Telegraph. Here we go…
• “Ambulance service in ‘critical’ condition as worker brands June ‘worst ever’” – The ambulance service has been described as being in ‘critical’ condition with crews waiting outside hospital to drop patients off for more than day, the Mirror reports.
• “Bank of England Governor denies causing inflation crisis by printing money during Covid pandemic as Andrew Bailey swipes back at Tory candidate Tom Tugendhat’” – The Mail reports that in a swipe at Tom Tugendhat, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey stressed that he did not “subscribe to the view” that quantitative easing is to blame for current high inflation. Good point, Andrew – why would printing billions of pounds cause currency to lose its value?
• “WFH Takes a Toll as U.K. Workplace Bullying Claims Surge” – Bloomberg reports that bullying allegations jumped 44% year-on-year, according to a study, with messaging apps and video calls contributing to the problem.
• “Why Australia’s record flu surge is a bleak omen for the NHS” – A sharp explosion of influenza has hit the country, signalling that a long-feared, post-pandemic flu revival has arrived, the Telegraph reports.
• “Macau shuts down casinos following Covid outbreak” – The BBC reports that the Chinese region has recorded around 1,500 coronavirus cases since mid-June.
• “CBC journalist quits over biased Covid coverage and I get cancelled (temporarily) for telling her story” – Journalist Trish Wood says that in March 2020 many historic norms of journalism were ditched in newsrooms around the world, including CBC – it was the start of the COVID-19 panic and the end of journalism as we knew it.
• “Steve Burton speaks out about leaving General Hospital after COVID-19 vaccination mandate: ‘I’ll always be grateful for my time there’” – The performer, who portrayed Jason Morgan in the long-running soap opera series, was dismissed in November last year after refusing to comply with the show’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate, reports the Mail.
• “Disney sued by three former workers for refusing have Covid vaccines” – Three former employees, Barbara Andreas, Stephen Cribb and Adam Pajer, are suing Walt Disney World, saying they were fired after refusing to wear face masks and get a COVID-19 vaccine, reports the Mail.
• “There may be a yellow card system but vaccines for footballers needs a red card” – Roger Watson in Unity News Network says it’s being reported that Premier League players who have refused to take a Covid vaccine are being “frozen out of transfers” by clubs in Europe – but maybe there’s a good reason they don’t want it.
• “Birth Rates, Vaccinations, Marriages” – The Swiss Doctor asks if the drop in birth rates since early 2022 is due to a decline in marriages.
• “A Short History of Big Pharma colonialism in India” – Word Virus with an article exposing “the dark side of the pharmaceutical industry – an industry that many believe to be among the most corrupt of all industries”.
• “Biden says he’s mulling health emergency for abortion access” – Associated Press reports that President Joe Biden said on Sunday he is considering declaring a public health emergency to free up federal resources to promote abortion access.
• “The Catastrophic Covid Convergence” – Debbie Lerman writes for Brownstone on what she calls the “four powerful forces [which] converged catastrophically to initiate and perpetuate the snowball that became the avalanche of Covid insanity”.
• “When did tennis become so politicised?” – Rows over vaccines or the war in Ukraine have no place at a tennis tournament, says Tim Black in Spiked.
• “Why lockdown will haunt Johnson’s legacy” – This alleged libertarian turned into our most authoritarian Prime Minister ever, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “‘Fit note’ Britain – a population groomed to stay at home” – Dr. Tom Goodfellow writes in TCW Defending Freedom that not all the sick notes doctors issue are necessarily warranted.
• “WHO Wants To Run the World?” – Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster and Michael Baker write for Brownstone that the recent and ongoing pandemic treaty moves at the WHO are the first clear instance of a globalist coup attempt and would subvert national sovereignty worldwide.
• “Putin ‘most likely’ to cut gas supplies to Europe” – The Telegraph reports that French economy minister Bruno Le Maire has warned to brace for rationing and blackouts.
• “The West must ramp up its support to Ukraine or face an unstoppable Russian victory” – Jonathan Shaw in the Telegraph says that more firepower is desperately needed by the besieged country’s defenders to fend off enemy missile attacks.
• “XR’s astroturfed greenery” – Pertinax writes in Bournbrook that Extinction Rebellion activists are “handmaidens of the technocrats”.
• “Speed limit to be lowered to 20mph in Wales” – Wales is set to be the world’s first nation to adopt a 20mph default limit in built-up areas, reports the BBC.
• “From Halifax to Mr Potato Head, businesses have become enforcers of cancel culture” – Lucy Burton in the Telegraph says that companies now feel they can sack their staff for thinking the wrong thing.
• “Bad Penny” – Josephine Bartosch in the Critic says that for Penny Mordaunt to deny what everyone knows are her former pro-transgender beliefs shows poor judgement, a lack of respect for would-be voters and a flexible attitude to the truth
• “Misinformation Is Here To Stay (And That’s OK)” – Attempting to eliminate incorrect speech will do more harm than good, says Isaac Saul in Persuasion – and he has a suggestion as to what we should do instead.
• “Lord Frost discusses Brexit, the Tory leadership contest and his thoughts on running for Parliament” – Watch the former Minister say that Net Zero must be abandoned, vaccine passports must never return and the Online Safety Bill needs to be stopped.

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