News Round-Up

• “Biden still testing positive after rebound COVID-19 case but ‘continues to feel well,’ White House says” – President Joe Biden’s remains in Covid isolation, CNN reports, but he “continues to feel well” and “will continue to conduct the affairs of the American people”
• “Lockdowns and social media blamed for shocking new illness in girls” – Young women across Australia are suffering from a mystery neurological illness that triggers Tourettes-like tics including violent physical and verbal outbursts, reports Daily Mail Australia
• “China’s factory activity shrinks amid Covid disruption” – The sharpest contraction is in energy-intensive industries, such as petrol, coking coal and ferrous metals, according to the Guardian
• “L.A. School District Faces Lawsuit After Son Bribed Into Getting COVID-19 Vaccination: Mother” – The Epoch Times reports that a Los Angeles school district is facing a lawsuit from a mother who says her son was bribed to take a Covid jab and is now experiencing side effects
• “More disappearing Covid vaccine data” – Alex Berenson adds British Columbia to the list of governments “trying to hide the reality that the mRNA jabbed make up the vast majority of Covid hospitalisations and deaths”
• “Does the All Blacks’ failure to wear a mask explain their inability to execute a game plan?” –Stuff sports reporter Tony Smith sees a connection between the All Blacks’ recent defeat to Ireland and the fact that some of the players walked through Wellington airport last Tuesday without their masks on
• “Stand up. Speak out. Resist. Create ripples” – “Every day more question how we allowed ourselves to be muzzled,” says Alison Harvey in TCW Defending Freedom    
• “Green Dreams, Inflationary Realities” – “We must find ways to combat climate change without incurring devastating inflation, greater class division, the immiseration of the middle class, and the destitution of the poor,” write Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger in Quillette
• “Driverless cars may need gender settings as women are better at using them than men” – Researchers at Newcastle University believe that driverless car software in the future may need to have settings based on gender and age, the Telegraph reports.
• “Twitter censors all content from the Epoch Times as unsafe (restored after 20 hours of outcry)” – Steve Kirsch responds to Twitter’s ban (now rescinded) of the Epoch Times by calling on readers to support alternative social media sites Gab, GETTR, and Truth Social
• “The Week in Review (s02, e30) – Think of the Farmers” – Bournbrook’s Luke Perry and S. D. Wickett discuss the global farmers revolt in the latest episode of Week in Review
• “Freedom for all means freedom for nasty people” – Peter Hitchens uses his Mail On Sunday column to defend Graham Phillips, a Donbas-based British video blogger who has been sanctioned by the U.K. Government for disseminating pro-Russian propaganda
• “‘Safe access zones’ are a danger to free speech” – The Irish Government’s proposed legislation to set up buffer areas around abortion clinics illustrates “the undue influence of a plethora of left-wing NGOs” says David Quinn in the Sunday Times
• “‘It’s far more serious’: Kemi Badenoch issues stern warning over the ‘war on woke’” – The Express highlights Kemi Badenoch’s warning that  “sometimes when we say ‘war on woke’ or we use the word ‘woke,’ people think these are trivial issues”
• “Will Nadine be censored under her own law?” – Steerpike of the Spectator wonders whether Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries’ retweet of a meme showing Rishi mocked up as Brutus would put her on the wrong side of the Online Safety Bill
• “Police told to stop wasting time on Twitter disputes ‘simply because someone is offended’” – Greater Manchester chief constable Stephen Watson says officers have been overzealous in recording trivial online spats, the Telegraph reports
• “Why UCL are shutting the door on Stonewall” – Writing in the Critic, Professor Alice Sullivan explains why University College London is cutting ties with the LGBTQ+ lobby group
• “Now the Tavistock clinic is closing we must ask: where does the trans revolution end?” – Trans people have always existed, writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph. But the radical ideology that drove this clinic is authoritarian
• “Drag queen exposes self to children at ‘family friendly’ Pride event” – A video showing the male performer exposing himself at a family friendly event was posted on twitter by Libs of Tik-Tok and removed for violating the platform’s  guidelines, the Post Millennial reports
• “The Frank Report XXIX – The New Conservative” – The nation’s attention may have switched to the Commonwealth Games, but Frank Haviland is focussed on “the uncommon wealth vying for the keys to Downing Street” in his round-up of the week in the New Conservative
• “My thoughts on those activists who claim to be ‘on the right side of history’” – “If these people really are on the right side of history the future looks pretty bleak,” says Andrew Doyle

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