News Round-Up

• “My students are in crisis after Covid. Will they ever recover?” – Professor Matthew Goodwin can’t believe how introverted and disengaged his undergraduates have become, and online learning is to blame, he argues in the Times.
• “Civil servants will have computers monitored as Cabinet Office cracks down on working from home” – Staff are being asked to return to the office four days a week, in a move that has sparked union complaints, according to the Telegraph.
• “Prostate cancer death rates tripled during pandemic” – A major study shows alarming changes in diagnosis and treatment of the disease, with cases spotted far later, when it is less treatable, the Telegraph reports.
• “Closing Schools Should Be the Last Option in a Pandemic” – Stephen L. Carter in Bloomberg writes that a new study shows how disastrous Covid-related shutdowns were for schoolchildren, especially the poor.
• “How the Feds Coordinate With Facebook on Censorship” – The Wall Street Journal reports that newly released emails show tech sites working with public officials, often solicitously.
• “A World on Fire” – Jeffrey Tucker at Brownstone explains why it’s the cost of lockdowns that is primarily driving inflation.
• “The Frank Report XXXV” – Frank Haviland on the New Conservative says the wheels are well and truly falling off the Covid bandwagon.
• “Corona Astrologer Christian Drosten Acknowledges that SARS-2 Has Become an Influenza-Level Risk, Fields New Justifications for Masks and Social Distancing” – Eugyppius’s latest update on the growing normalisation of pandemic measures in Germany.
• “The Bottom Is About To Fall Out For Pfizer And Moderna” – The Daily Caller reports that Pfizer and Moderna’s record-breaking pandemic profits are about to come to an end as the Biden administration no longer plans to purchase COVID-19 vaccines.
• “I now have an informant deep inside the CDC” – Steve Kirsch says he was surprised to learn that the whole agency actually believes its own crap.
• “An Ocean of Plastic – Fishing Gear” – Kip Hansen in WUWT on a couple of new studies that suggest the vast majority of the plastic in the ocean comes from shipping vessels.
• “Putin is finished. The Ukrainians have him on the ropes with a stunning victory in their sights” – Mike Martin in the Telegraph doesn’t think Putin can survive now that, in 72 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have retaken over 2,500 sq km of Russian-occupied Ukraine.
• “Queen Elizabeth and the End of History” – Brendan O’Neill in Spiked says the woke elites’ war on the past is a menace to freedom and democracy.
• “The moral inspiration of Tolkien’s universe” – Dr. Stephen Wigmore in the Spectator says that accusations of racism fundamentally misunderstand the author’s work.
• “Andrew Roberts wipes the floor with Ali Veshi in talk about Queen” – NBC News’ British historian Andrew Roberts slammed MSNBC host Ali Velshi on live TV Saturday for beginning a special on the Queen’s legacy by condemning the royal family, reports the Mail.
• “The Campus Trans Diktat: No Debate, No Dissent – And No Jokes” – Frances Widdowson on Quillette says that before firing her, her university investigated everything she’d said about gender ideology, right down to the satirical quips she’d made on Twitter.
• “The Move to Eradicate Disagreement” – Graeme Wood writes in the Atlantic that what troubles him when the censorious types speak is not that they speak but that their response is to call for less speech.

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