News Round-Up

• “Britain is in crisis because of the arrogance and delusions of the lockdown fanatics” –“This economic storm is the direct result of the belief we could shut down society without cost,” says Daniel Hannan in the Sunday Telegraph
• “Why are we still being poleaxed by COVID-19?” – The Mail on Sunday looks at why so many have been laid low with COVID-19 recently, despite being fully vaccinated
• “New Zealand: Mugged by Covid Reality” – Professor Ramesh Thakur tells the story of New Zealand’s ‘Zero Covid’ policy for the Brownstone Institute
• “Masks Still Don’t Work” – “The best scientific evidence says that masks don’t stop Covid,” says Jeffrey H. Anderson in City Journal. “And public health officials continue to ignore it”
• “Philadelphia pre-kindergarten students must wear masks all year” – Parents in Philadelphia have been told that pre-kindergarten students must mask up for the 2022-23 school year, according to the Post Millennial
• “This origins discussion is the worst thing about Twitter” – The Observer interviews virologist Angela Rasmussen, one of the authors of a paper, recently published in Science, which found that the Huanan market in Wuhan was the “early epicentre” of the pandemic
• “Did the BBC unwittingly reveal the true proportion of unvaccinated as at least 20%” – A YouTube video by professor Norman Fenton, questioning the claim made in the BBC2 documentary Unvaccinated that only 8% of UK adults have declined the jab. “It’s a massive underestimate,” he says
• “COVID-19: an update of evidence based information” – An update on COVID-19 vaccinations and an analysis of adverse events from Professor Christopher Neil, incoming President of the Australian Medical Professionals Society
• “Are 12,500 non-Covid excess deaths in 14 weeks due to vaccine injury?” – Will Jones sets out the data showing high levels of excess deaths over the last 14 weeks and looks at possible explanations in a piece published in the Conservative Woman
• “10% of Americans Regret Taking Covid Vaccine, 15% have a New Medical Condition After It: Poll” – A recent poll conducted by Zogby Analytics has found that 10% of Americans who received a COVID-19 vaccine regret having done so, reports the Epoch Times
• “CDC (quietly) removes a massive claim on vaccine safety” – El Gato Malo points out that the C.D.C. has updated its page on mRNA vaccines, removing its claim that mRNA and the spike protein do not last long in the body
• “It’s called the Fauci effect” – Not the Bee picks up on Dr. Fauci’s recent statement that people go to medical school because of what he symbolises – integrity and truth
• “Cabinet learned of potential ‘breakthrough’ as Trudeau Government invoked Emergencies Act” – Heavily redacted minutes of a cabinet meeting held just before the Trudeau Government invoked the Emergencies act suggest officials were on the brink of a breakthrough with the Freedom Convoy blockade, the National Post reports
• “Eat beef, save the planet” – “It is absolute nonsense to claim that beef farming accelerates hypothetical global warming,” says Professor Ian Plimer in Spectator Australia. We are being conned “by unelected climate activists who want to control every aspect of our lives”
• “In baske tcase Britain, thieves run riot while woke police forces do nothing” – “The British police has swung to the far-Left,” writes the Sunday Telegraph’s Zoe Strimpel. “And its energies have been directed accordingly, away from real crime and towards the chimeras of social justice”
• “How censorship conquered academia” – The increasing levels of censorship in universities is “the logical consequence of a failure to hold the line on free speech” says Tom Slater in Spiked
• “Critical race theory is a threat to our national security” – “The U.S. military is being attacked from within,” writes Tom Fitton in the Washington Examiner. “But instead of rifles and tanks, the weapon being used to dismantle our armed forces is progressive ideology”
• “Source Backs Bari Weiss Account That New York Times Wanted to Run Tim Scott Op-Ed by Schumer” – The New York Times has denied it, but a second source has backed up Bari Weiss’s claim that it wanted to check with Chuck Schumer before running an op-ed by Senator Tim Scott, the National Review reports
• “How insane to traduce a kick-ass woman like Joan of Arc” – Mail On Sunday columnist Sarah Vine remonstrates with Shakespeare’s Globe for its decision to portray Joan of Arc as non-binary
• “Thousands of barrels of controversial blended oil shipped from Russia to Britain” – The oil is piped from Kazakhstan to a Russian port on the Black Sea and typically contains a small portion of Russian oil blended in along the way, according to the Telegraph
• “Lady Antonia Fraser on turning 90, playing charades with Churchill and the problem with Harry and Meghan” – Harry Mount interviews his cousin Lady Antonia Fraser for the Telegraph.
• “Man who stabbed Salman Rushdie had fake ID in name of Hezbollah leader” – The fake driver’s license that was found on 24 year-old Hadi Mater bore the name of a Hezbollah commander, the Daily Mail reports
• “We must sanction Iran over Salman Rushdie stabbing” – Rishi Sunak says that Britain should designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation in response to the attack on Salman Rushdie, the Telegraph reports
• “Too many in the West have failed to take Rushdie’s side” – “One of the problems,” says Brendan O’Neill, “is that too many intellectuals and thinkers and activists in the west have failed to take Rushdie’s side over the years”

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