News Round-Up

• “NHS sending police to heart attack callouts due to paramedic shortage” – The Mail reports that police officers in England and Wales are being forced to pick up the health service’s workload, with armed officers showing up to treat cardiac arrest patients.
• “The dangers of monkeypox hysteria” – Thomas Fazi in UnHerd say the West’s Covid failures are being repeated.
• “New ‘health emergency’ mustn’t degenerate into another Covid” – A sensible leading article in the Cyprus Mail.
• “Workers embrace the bare minimum in ‘quiet quitting’ trend” – Doing just enough to avoid being sacked is celebrated by TikTok users, partly inspired by China’s ‘lying flat’ movement, reports the Telegraph.
• “Court gives Spanish region 10 days to hand over secret agreements between EU & pharma: why and how?” – Scaled reports that the evidence is demanded as part of action brought by civil rights association Liberum and 549 Balearic islanders opposed to pandemic measures.
• “Twitter founder Jack Dorsey calls for end to China’s Communist Party over Zero-Covid policies” – Beijing is allegedly using a mandatory Covid-tracking app to control its citizens’ ability to travel around, the Telegraph reports.
• “Full extent of NHS dentistry shortage revealed by far-reaching BBC research” – Nine in 10 U.K. dentists are not accepting new adult patients, while eight in 10 are refusing children, reports BBC News. The Telegraph reports that the British Dental Association says millions are unable to get the care they need and more dentists are leaving the service.
• “Why are the police wasting time arresting people for social media posts?” – Hardeep Singh in CapX says the threshold for ‘hostility’ in the CPS’s definition of hate is worryingly low.
• “Viral: A Review” – Eugyppius looks at Matt Ridley’s new book and reconsiders the evidence for the laboratory origins of SARS-CoV-2.
• “Americans’ views harden against immigrants: 10% more want to cut flows” – Only 28% of Americans surveyed in 2020 wanted less immigration to the U.S; that rose to 38% in a poll released on Monday, suggesting frustration with the Biden administration, reports the Mail.
• “NYPD suffers exodus as 42% more cops than last year resign in 2022” – Pension fund statistics obtained by the New York Post suggest 2,465 officers have filed their notices so far this year, 42% more than the 1,731 who resigned over the same period in 2021, reports the Mail.
• “Malcolm Gladwell slams working from home, says concept ‘hurts society’” – Author Malcolm Gladwell is quoted in the Mail saying working from home is hurting society. “It’s very hard to feel necessary when you’re physically disconnected,” he said during a podcast.
• “Another bad CDC study on Long Covid in Kids” – Dr. Vinay Prasad criticises the latest CDC study pushing vaccines to children, saying: “If you tweet bad science long enough, I have to conclude you are a bad scientist.”
• “After Covid” – Daniel Hadas in City Journal says that pandemic restrictions are stumbling on like zombies.
• “Child vaccination must be halted until MHRA clarifies its confusing new under-18 fatality reports” – Kathy Gyngell in TCW Defending Freedom says that with six child deaths added to the MHRA Yellow Card vaccine adverse event reporting system this week, child vaccination must be halted until MHRA clarifies what’s going on.
• “Let’s not pretend sanctions can win this war – Putin will only be defeated on the battlefield” – Daniel Hannan in CapX asks when have economic sanctions ever resulted in regime change, or in significant policy change.
• “Britain’s water shortages have nothing to do with climate change” – James Woudhuysen in Spiked says that scaremongering about droughts lets the Government and the water firms off the hook, when there’s no good reason we should ever run out of water.
• “’Don’t Pay UK’ Green Energy Bill Strike Gathers Momentum” – Skyrocketing U.K. green energy bills have finally provoked a response, with 90,000 Britons and rising pledging not to pay their energy bills, until the Government brings prices down to affordable levels, writes Eric Worrall in WUWT.
• “How did climate doomsters get the Great Barrier Reef so wrong?” – Ross Clark in the Speccie says that with coral cover on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef up at record levels, how did climate change experts, who warned of bleaching from rising sea temperatures, get it so wrong? A real head-scratcher…
• “Smart meters have become agents of the nannying state” – Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph says that improved technology was meant to empower us to make more choices about our utility use, but they have become a regulators’ spy in our homes. This seems to have come as a surprise to him.
• “Wikipedia has become a tool of the Left in the battle to control the truth” – The website’s bias is all the more dangerous because it masquerades as objectivity, says Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
• “The End of Tenure: What Princeton Did to Joshua Katz Was a Warning” – Faculty at every institution, including tenured professors, have been put on notice, says Dr. Pamela Paresky on Reality’s Last Stand.
• “Germany succumbs to trans ideology” – Debbie Hayton in UnHerd says Germany’s plans to allow children as young as 14 to change their legal gender should ring alarm bells across Europe.
• “The scapegoating of Alex Jones” – Brendan O’Neill is concerned that elites are using the Jones trial to push their agenda of prioritising their own misinformation and conspiracy theories.
• “When the lights go off, one of the few consolations will be that Nick Clegg, sat there in the dark with his useless Oculus headset on, will know that he is to blame for opposing nuclear power in 2010 because it would only come on-stream by 2021 or 2022” – Guido Fawkes reminds the former Lib Dem leader that he blocked Britain’s path to energy security.

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