News Round-Up

• “Inflammatory mRNA Nanoparticles Inhibit and Alter Immune Response: Pre-Print Study” – The Epoch Times with a detailed report on the recent preprint study that found the lipid nanoparticles in mRNA vaccines inhibit the immune system.
• “Biden Administration Orders 171 Million Bivalent Booster Doses After Successful Eight-Mouse Trial in Which All the Rodents Got Corona Anyway” – Rav Arora writes a guest post on Eugyppius’s blog on the astounding vaccine zealotry that has gripped American regulators.
• “Is Xi Jinping’s trip overseas the beginning of the end for China’s Zero-Covid policy?” – The South China Morning Post notes that most of the country’s leadership has avoided travel abroad since the start of the pandemic two years ago.
• “The Weakness of Xi Jinping” – Cai Xia in Foreign Affairs with a semi-insider take on how China and Xi have handled the pandemic.
• “The ideology of lockdown is a menace to society” – Brendan O’Neill in Spiked says China’s ongoing brutal lockdowns are a reminder of the insanity of ‘Zero Covid’.
• “Debi Does Lockdowns” – Debbie Lerman in Brownstone finds evidence that most of the U.S. Covid measures were intended only to increase fear and compliance.
• “Revealed: Ministers ignored warnings on school closures” – UsForThem in TCW Defending Freedom takes a deep dive into the SAGE minutes and find weak assumptions on school closures, a lack of any serious recognition of the impact on children and an Education Department unprepared for the scale of the shutdown.
• “Two and a half years after school closures and incomprehensible restrictions on childhood began, it’s time for a reckoning” – Restore Childhood interviews Molly Kingsley from UsForThem.
• “The Continued Damages to our Children” – Dr. Robert Malone looks at the latest CDC statistics on vaccine safety for children and finds a very different picture to the one the agency puts out to the media.
• “Is Long Covid all in the mind?” – Michael Simmons in the Spectator on the latest research into post-Covid syndrome and its close connections with mental health.
• “Electric Cars Are Not ‘Zero-Emission Vehicles’” – The notion that electric vehicles are ‘zero-emission’ is rooted in a deceptive narrative that ignores all pollutants which don’t come out of an exhaust pipe, writes James D. Agresti in WUWT.
• “Former Greenpeace Founder Patrick Moore Says Climate Change Based on False Narratives” – Moore criticises the green campaigns against fossil fuels, nuclear energy, CO₂ and plastic as “misguided and designed to make people think the world will come to an end unless we cripple our civilisation and destroy our economy”, according to the Epoch Times.
• “Five laws Liz should scrap to untruss free speech” – Mick Hume in Spiked calls on the new Prime Minister, who says she supports free speech, to prove it.
• “Christian Henson, Spitfire Audio and the brutality of cancel culture” – One tweet in support of J.K. Rowling was apparently all it took for a composer to be ostracised by his own company, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “Only by embracing meritocracy have the Tories become the party of diversity” – Tony Sewell in the Telegraph says the new Government ministers worked their way to the top through “sheer determination, intellect and bags of confidence”, and that is what unites them.
• “Who cares about Liz Truss’s ‘diverse’ cabinet?” – Douglas Murray in the Spectator rails against the obligatory genuflecting to the diversity cult.
• “I’d rather stay in prison for a century than play by these transgender rules, says jailed teacher” – Enoch Burke, an evangelical Christian, tells court he will “only obey God” and “not obey man” as he refuses to comply with the injunction, according to the Telegraph.
• “Gulf states demand Netflix removes ‘immoral and un-Islamic’ content” – Saudi media cited in particular a same-sex kiss scene in Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous which threatens the “healthy upbringing of children”, in the latest sign of international internet censorship, reported in the Telegraph.
• “A decade of progress reversed – but not by ‘the pandemic’. Primary school kids in Sweden didn’t miss a day of schooling. Lockdown was a policy choice, whose pros and cons need to be evaluated before the next crisis” – Fraser Nelson tweets some depressing new statistics that remind us why lockdowns are such an awful idea.

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