News Round-Up

• “Calls grow for No. 10 to bring back masks and £2bn-a-month free tests” – A number of high profile ‘experts’ publicly urged No. 10 to bring back face masks and free tests after a health minister admitted they could be reintroduced if the NHS becomes too busy to clear its backlogs, reports the Mail.
• “Jacinda Ardern is paying the price for her hermit Zero-Covid economy” – New Zealand is crashing into a hard recession, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “This heatwave hysteria epitomises the Tories’ fatal embrace of nanny statism” – Of course we spend and tax too much when the state has intruded into so many areas of our lives, says Philip Johnston in the Telegraph.
• “China locks down another city after one Covid case detected” – The Telegraph reports that experts have warned the country’s stringent approach to the pandemic is becoming “increasingly expensive and disruptive”. You think?
• “Emails Confirm Why CDC Changed Definitions of Vaccine, Vaccinated” – Newly obtained emails confirm that the CDC changed its definition for both both “vaccine” and “vaccinated” because people were pointing out that the definitions didn’t seem to apply to the COVID-19 vaccines, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Catching flu and Covid at the same time could reduce symptoms” – New York scientists say they have found that catching flu and Covid at the same time could lead to one virus suppressing the other, but only if people get infected with flu first, reports the Mail.
• “Worker wins tribunal after confrontation with maskless shopper” – Deborah Daisy was confronted by an “aggressive” man who refused to wear a mask at the Teesside branch of M&S at the height of the pandemic and went off on sick leave, the Mail reports.
• “How Boris Johnson became nanny-in-chief” – The famously libertine PM failed to take on the killjoy state, says Christopher Snowdon in Spiked.
• “Censoring TCW is stifling vital debate on Covid” – TCW Defending Freedom carries a letter from Neville Hodgkinson to the BBFC complaining about its censorship of the site.
• “What Weakened Immune Systems Have Wrought for Children” – Dr. Carla Peeters writes for Brownstone that chemical-associated malnutrition and dehydration exponentially grew during the Covid lockdowns to become a widespread and urgent problem all over the world. 
• “Andrew Dessler Cancels Economists from the Climate Debate” – Economists do not give Dessler the answers he so desperately wants, so he dismisses them, says Robert Bradley Jr in WUWT.
• “Sri Lanka Just Fell. What Do We Have to Do With It?” – The anti-growth environmental movement deserves much of the blame, argues Michael Shellenberger in Common Sense.
• “The forecast is… nudging to Net Zero” – Laura Dodsworth writes that these days you’d be forgiven for thinking a nice summer portends Armageddon.
• “Climate Mandates Imposed on Dutch Farmers Will Ruin Their Livelihood: War Correspondent” – The livelihoods of Dutch farmers are under attack due to the Dutch Government’s proposed nitrogen policy, which could necessitate the mass slaughter of livestock and potentially shut down almost a third of the country’s farms, according to the Epoch Times.
• “The Online Safety Bill could lead to the biggest curtailment of free speech in modern history” – The unintended consequences of the bill about to return to the Commons are potentially disastrous, writes David Davis in the Telegraph.
• “Contact Your Local MP” – If you value freedom of speech, freedom of thought, open debate, artistic freedom, comedy and satire, sensible laws, a free internet and workers’ rights, contact your local MP today and voice your opposition to online censorship, says the the Free Speech Union.
• “Trans woman returns to life as man and takes aim at the ‘activist’ doctor who turned his life upside down” – The New York Post tells the story of a detransitioner, who after 10 years living as a transgender woman, said: “Coming out of my transition was like leaving the Twilight Zone, but the rest of society is still in it.”
• “More than 1,000 children were raped and sexually exploited over 30 years in Telford where police and council officials ‘ignored’ abuse over fears investigating Asian men would ‘inflame racial tensions’” – The Mail reports that more than a thousand children were sexually exploited over at least 30 years in Telford by groups of “mainly Asian” men amid “shocking” police and council failings, an inquiry has concluded.
• “Why are teenagers being told that sex work is ‘rewarding’?” – The woke view of prostitution is becoming more and more bewildering, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Snubbed! Kevin Costner’s anti-woke drama series Yellowstone is shut out of Emmy Awards” – The nominations for the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards, which ‘honour the best in television’, were announced on Tuesday morning, but anti-woke Yellowstone, a smash hit, was once again left off the list.
• “Bring back blasphemy laws” – Free speech is all very well, but that’s no excuse for being rude, says Titania McGrath in the Critic.
• “Bridges to Hawley: I want to recognise that your line of questioning is transphobic” – Watch the viral exchange in the U.S. Congress between the Senator and a woke Law Professor.

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