News Round-Up

• “Covid has not gone away, but we can now protect ourselves through science not restrictions – so get your booster” – Read Health Secretary Steve Barclay’s take on the pandemic in the Mail.
• “How ‘living with Covid’ is helping keep England’s infections stubbornly high” – Alarmist Guardian report that, a year on from ‘Freedom Day’, Government messaging promoting a sense of the pandemic being over is having the opposite effect, according to selected experts.
• “The NHS is not working” – The National Health Service continues to disintegrate into chaos and, in some places, paralysis, writes Roger Watson in the New Conservative.
• “Short-term Fatality Rate in Israel of a Third Dose” – Professor Eyal Shahar writes for Brownstone that a “vaccine with a fatality rate on such a scale is not ‘safe – at least according to public health standards”.
• “The 1968-69 ‘Hong Kong Flu’ Pandemic Revisited” – Jeffrey Tucker on Brownstone asks why our public health responses have become so extreme.
• “Owen Jones, Peter Hitchens, and the Argument From Authority” – William Poulos takes a careful look at how people argue and when it’s logically sound to appeal to authority, with particular attention to the pandemic.
• “New Zealand falls out of love with Jacinda Ardern” – The once popular Kiwi leader is crashing in the polls, says Tom Chodor in UnHerd. The abject failure of her costly Covid strategy can’t be helping matters.
• “Unresolved Government disputes with Covid PPE suppliers may cost taxpayer £2.7bn, MPs warn as they claim scandal ‘beggars belief’” – The Mail reports that, according to a damming report, British taxpayers could have to pay a £2.7 billion bill due to Government failures in checking substandard PPE suppliers during the pandemic.
• “Bacterial and fungal isolation from face masks under the COVID-19 pandemic” – A study in Nature which cultured bacteria and fungi from 109 people’s face masks found several pathogenic microbes.
• “Germany is at Russia’s mercy” – It’s difficult to think of a way Germany could have made itself more dependent on Russian goodwill if it had tried, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Spectator.
• “Extinction Rebellion smash windows at Rupert Murdoch’s offices in protest over Sun and Times’ climate coverage” – Campaigners Vandals claim the newspapers failed to highlight the “terrifying dangers” of the heatwave, the Telegraph reports.
• “The Democrats’ green war on the working class” – Batya Ungar-Sargon writes in Spiked that the obsession with climate change is hammering the poor and driving voters to the right.
• “Climate Monitoring Since The Little Ice Age” – Paul Homewood says that the jokers at the Met Office don’t seem to have realised that their temperature records begin at the depth of the Little Ice Age, or appear to have heard about Urban Heat Islands.
• “Weather ‘too hot’ for solar panels” – Power output during the heatwave dropped below levels typically reached in spring, the Telegraph reports.
• “Kylie Jenner branded ‘climate criminal’ after her private plane makes 17-minute flight” – The make-up mogul’s jet travelled 40 miles, the equivalent of a hop from Gatwick to Heathrow, generating huge amounts of pollution, reports the Telegraph.
• “Report: Joe Biden May Call for a ‘Climate Emergency’ This Week” – President Joe Biden may call for a national climate emergency this week in the wake of his Build Back Better plan imploding, invoking powers usually reserved for natural disasters or terrorist attacks, reports Breitbart News. 
• “The Tories will regret rejecting Kemi Badenoch” – Madeline Grant writes in the Telegraph that Kemi’s insurgent campaign offered glimpses of a new brand of unapologetic and forthright conservatism.
• “Twitter granted fast-track trial in bid to force Elon Musk to complete $44bn takeover” – The company’s lawyers argue the Tesla billionaire is harming the social network “every hour of every day”, the Telegraph reports.
• “Going ‘gender neutral’ is not inclusive” – Maya Forstater in UnHerd says a bombshell report lays out why single-sex services matter.

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