News Round-Up

• “Our Policymaking Process Must Change to Avoid Repeating the Mistakes of the Covid Response” – Steve Baker MP writes for Trust the Evidence that calls for lockdown restrictions will inevitably return in the future and reforms are required to improve Government decision-making, including changing how expert advice is provided and reforms to epidemiological modelling not least a recognition of its limitations.
• “Scotch eggs and elbow bumps: Remembering the madness of lockdown” – It’s hard to believe people ever tolerated the rules and quirks of Covid times, but a host of Telegraph readers have not forgotten.
• “Who are the Covidiots now?” – Dr. Roger Watson in the New Conservative says that now Rishi Sunak has “blown the gaff on the processes leading to the national disaster of lockdown: the lack of any debate, zero calculation of likely harms, and deliberate silencing of dissent” Watson expects the apologies will be forthcoming any day now from Messrs Cummings, Johnson, Vallance, Whitty, Hancock…
• “How dare anyone demand an apology for Covid lockdowns” – Sean O’Grady writes in the Independent that the “myth is being perpetuated that lockdowns actually caused more deaths than lives saved. It is a ridiculous suggestion, but a seductive one”. Oh dear.
• “Forgive, shun or shame the lockdown collaborators?” – Dr. Niall McCrae in Unity News Network wonders if, now that Covid revisionism is gaining momentum, whether friends who shunned him because he thought differently have changed their minds in any way. “How do we repair such broken relationships? Or more pertinently, should we?”
• “Covid vaccines slash risk of spreading Omicron – and so does previous infection” – Nature reports on a pre-print looking at the spread of Covid in prisons – read past the spun headline to see the figures showing the vaccines do little and fade fast.
• “Young doctors in Canada are dying at a rate 23 times normal after the second booster” – With all the CMA Canadian doctor death data collected, Steve Kirsch concludes that doctors 50 and younger are dying after the second booster a rate that is 23 times the normal rate.
• “High Percentage of Covid Deaths Had Third Shot, More Excess Deaths After Fourth Shot” – Xiaoxu Sean Lin in the Epoch Times on the curious case of the disappearing unwelcome data.
• “Twitter labelled factual information about COVID-19 as misinformation” – The Washington Post reports that even on-narrative doctors and scientists attempting to “warn the public about the dangers of the virus” have had tweets flagged and accounts suspended. The experience doesn’t instil in them any appreciation of free speech, however, just better censorship.
• “New YouTube policy now permits telling truth about devastating harms and uselessness of masks for Covid” – LifeSite reports that the change is supposed to have taken place sometime between mid-April and late May
• “Silence From Science Community as NIH Cancels Grant to Wuhan Institute of Virology” – Paul Thacker in the Disinformation Chronicle reports that the National Institutes of Health terminated part of a grant last week that funded dangerous virus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through the EcoHealth Alliance – but not a peep about it from the media.
• “The Psychology of Totalitarianism” – Mattias Desmet writes for Brownstone that the solution to our fear and uncertainty does not lie in the increase of technological control.
• “U.K. inflation could top 22% as energy prices soar, Goldman Sachs warns” – U.K. inflation could soar above 22% next year if energy prices continue their upward spiral, the U.S. investment bank has warned, according to CNBC.
• “Korea Pares Back Renewables as It Taps Nuclear for Climate Goal” – The country’s renewable energy share will fall to 21.5% under a revised plan while the nuclear share is set to increase to almost one-third by 2030, according to Bloomberg.
• “The Great European Energy Disaster” – Briefings For Britain says that the high costs for electricity and other energy, caused by green-energy policies, have substantially reduced the consumption of energy in the EU and U.K, and that with its Green Deal announced last year, the EU has “now adopted the symptoms of disaster as the criterion of success and is actually planning to legislate for further dramatic reductions in energy consumption”.
• “Britons who shun the office could pay an extra £2,500 in energy costs” – Working from home could lead to household energy bills being stretched by an extra £2,500 each year, a new survey has revealed, the Mail reports.
• “No Evidence That Climate Change Is Making Droughts Any Worse” – Retired physicist Dr. Ralph B. Alexander summarises the counter-narrative evidence for Climate Intelligence.
• “Shell boss warns energy crisis will not be limited to ‘one winter’” – The Chief Executive of Shell, Ben van Beurden, says he does not think the energy crisis will be limited to “just one winter” and warns fuel could be rationed “for years”, the Mail reports.
• “Pub landlords worry they will go bust over rising energy bills” – Pubs and breweries have warned they face going bust amid soaring energy costs, with some claiming bills have rocketed by 300%, the Mail reports.
• “Tories rush to drill for more oil in North Sea” – The Times reports that Liz Truss will approve a series of oil and gas drilling licences in the North Sea in one of her first acts as Prime Minister as part of a long-term plan to ensure Britain’s energy security.
• “It’s time to kickstart North Sea oil” – Ross Clark in the Spectator says Britain’s cost-of-living crisis and the price of energy bills are being driven by a reduction in Russian gas, so we should start pumping North Sea oil again.
• “Greens preach that economic growth is an ill, so why are they not celebrating the coming recession?” – Ross Clark in the Telegraph argues that it is hypocritical for politicians who advocate high energy prices to now whine about rising fuel bills.
• “Boris can never be forgiven for sacrificing Britain to his Net Zero fantasy” – Allison Pearson in the Telegraph says we have already contributed billions to this elite pipe dream and now we must suffer the hardship caused as it darkens into a nightmare.
• “No, discipline in school is not ‘oppressive’” – Frank Furedi in Spiked wonders why Ofsted is condemning a school for the very thing that led to its remarkable turnaround in fortunes.
• “The Unexpected Future” – Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox in Quillette with a masterful overview of global demographic trends and their likely consequences and what could be done to avoid the approaching rapid depopulation.
• “Whistleblower Reports Twitter is ‘Dependent’ on China, Overrun by Bots” – Michael Senger on a whistleblower complaint filed last week by Twitter’s former head of security, Peter ‘Mudge’ Zatko, which paints a damning picture of a company characterised by “egregious deficiencies, negligence, willful ignorance, and threats to national security and democracy” and which has prompted inquiries by several governments including the U.S.
• “Notting Hill Carnival must end after weekend of violence, say police” – A murder, six stabbings, dozens of officer assaults and more than 200 arrests marred the street party’s post-pandemic return, reports the Telegraph. Somehow I think this is one call for cancellation following the murder of a black man that the woke are not going to join in with.
• “The decadent West is dismantling the foundations of its own success” – Professor Robert Tombs writes in the Telegraph that we have to face up to the dangers of ‘decolonisation’ and there is no alternative to the Enlightenment model of intellectual discovery.

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