News Round-Up

• “Is the NHS beyond repair?” – Hannah Tomes in the Spectator on new research which found that NHS England is 12,000 doctors and 50,000 nurses and midwives short at the moment, and there are more than 99,000 vacancies in the health service with 105,000 in the health and social care sector. ‘No jab, no jab’ not looking so sensible now, is it.
• “Teacher exodus looming after lack of face-to-face training during pandemic, King’s report finds” – An exodus of teachers could be looming as new recruits who trained during the pandemic have been left feeling isolated, a study from King’s College London has found, the Telegraph reports.
• “The Covid Inquiry already looks loaded towards favouring our failed lockdowns and restrictions” – The early modules are so framed as to increase massively the likelihood that the interim advice will favour more and earlier restrictions, says Jon Dobinson at Time for Recovery.
• “Maps show how ‘most contagious Covid variant yet’ has grown in the U.K.” – Omicron sub-variant BA.5, the highly infectious Covid strain behind a recent surge in cases in the UK now accounts for 80% of all cases in England, the latest data show, reports the Mail.
• “Covid admissions reach record high in Australia amid ‘twindemic’” – There were 5,450 patients in hospital with Covid on Monday, official figures show, eclipsing the previous record of 5,390 during the first Omicron wave in January, reports the Mail.
• “Dr. Fauci Regrets Not Pushing For More Stringent Covid Restrictions, Says Americans Should Wear Masks In ‘Schools, Places of Work’” – Dr. Fauci on Monday regretted not pushing for more stringent Covid restrictions during an appearance on the Hill’s “Rising”, as he called for masks to return to schools and workplaces, according to the Gateway Pundit.
• “The rise and fall of Jacinda Ardern” – At first this young PM became the darling of the progressive world, but the carefully constructed façade is wearing thin, says Matthew Lesh in the Telegraph.
• “Lying with statistics: U.S. all cause deaths edition” – El Gato Malo says that U.S. all cause deaths statistics are being misused by supporters of the vaccines.
• “Though saying so was banned by Big Tech, Dr. Birx says she ‘knew’ Covid vaccines wouldn’t prevent infection” – Yet another example where the truth was censored, says Reclaim the Net.
• “Ukraine Government issues blacklist of ‘Russian propagandists’” – The Government of Ukraine has issued a blacklist of individuals who it judges to be “promoting Russian propaganda” – including a number of prominent Western intellectuals, writes Finn McRedmond in UnHerd.
• “Putin has Europe where he wants it” – Prices will skyrocket after Gazprom’s latest gas cut, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Why Joe Biden must never declare a climate emergency” – A state of emergency would be bad for democracy, freedom and living standards, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “Why Dutch farmers are revolting” – An agricultural uprising is shaking the Netherlands, writes Senay Boztas in UnHerd.
• “A Media-Fuelled Social Panic Over Unmarked Graves” – Not a single body has been unearthed, but Canadians wouldn’t know it from the false information reported in the New York Times, writes Jonathan Kay in Quillette.
• “Kemi Badenoch is the future of conservatism” – The Tories suspect they’ll lose the next election and the battle for leader after that is the one that counts, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “There’s no such thing as a transgender two-year-old” – Stonewall has inadvertently exposed the dangers of trans ideology, says James Esses in Spiked.

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