News Round-Up

• “Covid generation in danger of dropping out at sixth form because of poor English and maths” – David Hughes, Chief Executive of the Association of Colleges, fears that GCSE pupils whose education has been interrupted by school closures will find sixth form courses too difficult and drop out, according to the Telegraph
• “Jill Biden has ‘rebound’ COVID-19 case, President negative” – AP News reports that First lady Jill Biden has once again tested positive for COVID-19 in an apparent ‘rebound’ case, after she tested negative over the weekend
• “Routine Covid tests in English hospitals to be scrapped next week” – The Guardian sounds a note of panic as it reports the end of routine asymptomatic tests in hospitals, a move which it says will “alarm many health experts who have cautioned against dismantling the surveillance of Covid”. The rest of us can move on
• “Has ‘Long Covid’ been exaggerated?” – New data indicates that many of the self-reported Long Covid cases may be incorrectly recorded, reports Finn McRedmond in UnHerd
• “Novak Djokovic’s U.S. Covid vaccination ban branded ‘a joke’ by John McEnroe” – John McEnroe has said it would be “a joke” if Novak Djokovic is unable to play in the U.S. Grand Slam, the Telegraph reports. “I would have had the vaccine and gone and played but he’s got very strong beliefs and you have to respect that”
• “Hey Covid, I’ve Got Religion” – Writing for the Brownstone Institute, Gabrielle Bauer celebrates the resistance of religious leaders who “began pushing back against what they saw as encroachments on freedom of worship”
• “Leana Wen accused of ‘unsafe, ableist, fatphobic, and unethical practices’ for opposing Covid mandates” – “The left-leaning commentator wants to get back to normal,” writes Billy Binion in reason. “So more than 600 experts want to censor her”
• “Dr. Fauci’s Legacy” –  “Anthony Fauci is ending his long and celebrated government career by being widely lauded for getting so much so very wrong on COVID-19,” says Dr. Marty Makary
• “(Yet) more worrying data on myocarditis in children” – The Health Advisory and Recovery Team (HART) spells out the implications of a study, published in Thailand, which found increased warning signs of myocarditis among teenage boys who have taken an mRNA vaccine
• “German Ministry of Health reports on vaccine injury” – Further analysis of the risk of serious side effects from the Covid vaccines, courtesy of HART
• “The latest on vaccination of five -11 year-olds” – More from HART, with the latest on the campaign to vaccinate kids. “When will the onslaught on children end?” it asks
• “Impact of vaccination on Covid death” – Authorities continue to claim that vaccination provides 80% protection from Covid death, but why, asks HART, “is it so hard to see in real-world data?”
• “If you are a healthcare worker, now you can tell your story without fear of retribution” – Steve Kirsch provides healthcare workers with a platform to share their stories about the vaccine, without revealing their identity
• “Italian man becomes first person to get monkeypox, Covid and HIV” –A 36 year-old Italian man began to develop a series of symptoms after he returned home from a trip to Spain, reports MailOnline, and, in a world first, he subsequently tested positive for Covid, Monkeypox and HIV
• “Energy crisis threatens to derail green plans as firms forced to SLASH clean investments” – Bosses are said to be gearing up to slash green investments due to the high cost of energy, the Express reports
• “How art has been turned into a woke battering ram” – Robert James points readers of the Conservative Woman to Artivism, a new book examining the phenomenon of political propaganda dressed up as art
• “Now you can be cancelled for criticising drag queens” –The latest woke cancellation story as told by Jo Bartosch in Spiked. Cathy Boardman was judged ‘homophobic’ and ‘trans exclusionary’ after she asked whether drag queens might be sexist
• “Christianity told to bow to Woke” – Writing for Spectator Australia, James Macpherson pens a defence of a Catholic school that has found itself caught in the crosshairs of progressive outrage for its decision not to promote a student’s LGBTQ+ film on its website because its not in keeping with the school’s Catholic values
• “How wokeness and political tribalism overtook religious zealotry” – The Telegraph’s Gerard O’Donovan recommends two upcoming radio shows by broadcaster Helen Lewis which “get to grips with growing political aggressiveness on both the Left and Right”
• “Don’t go to A&E” – Dr. Emma Jones writes in UnHerd to explain why as “a senior employee and stalwart supporter of the NHS, my advice to patients is this: forget it. Beg, borrow or steal to go private instead”
• “A quarter of Russians stopped watching state TV because of propaganda” – A survey by the Rosmir polling centre has found that only 65% of Russians watch Kremlin-run stations, according to MailOnline, down from 86% at the start of the conflict
• “Thames Water hosepipe ban for 15M people begins today” – Thames Water has joined Welsh Water, Southern Water, South East Water and South West Water in implementing a hosepipe ban, reports MailOnline. The company has admitted losing 635 million litres of water a day due to leaks
• “Scots are £2,184 better off as part of U.K., new figures show” – The ‘Union dividend’ – the value of Scotland’s higher public spending and lower tax revenue compared to the U.K. as a whole – has now reached the highest sum on record, MailOnline reports
• “Cracks emerge in EU’s support for Ukraine amid call for Russia sanctions rethink” – Italy’s Matteo Salvini has called on the European Union to rethink its sanctions on Russia, according to the Telegraph, saying that punitive measures could “stoke the war”
• “Forget Top Gun: Maverick and Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness – these are the films to watch” – Writing for the Unity News Network, Roger Watson explains why he thinks Brilliantly Difficult, the film about Bob Moran, deserves an Oscar
• “Fauci was effectively in power, but not elected” – “The lasting impact of Fauci,” Toby tells Mark Steyn on GB News, “is that he’s undermined public trust, not just in experts but in science”

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