News Round-Up

• “Why is the medical regulator pursuing one of the world’s leading cancer specialists? Professor Karol Sikora spoke up for a colleague at a GMC tribunal but now he’s being investigated – and they won’t even tell him why” – Professor Sikora, 74, is the founding Dean of the University of Buckingham Medical School and a former Clinical Director of Cancer Services for Hammersmith and Charing Cross, but the prominent lockdown sceptic is now being hounded with secret charges by the professional regulator, reports the Mail.
• “Billions in Covid cash reserves used to balance trusts’ books” – NHS trusts will draw on billions of pounds of cash reserves built up during the pandemic to help fund their costs this year, while using aggressive accounting treatments to stop the spending hitting the bottom line, according to the Health Service Journal.
• “New York Times staff refuse to come back to the office” – Over 1,200 members of staff are rebelling against the newspaper, reports the Telegraph.
• “Disgraced ex-SNP MP Margaret Ferrier spared jail for Covid breach – but could still lose seat” – The MP has, perhaps understandably, refused to quit the £84,000 role after being convicted of the ‘crime’ of taking the train to Glasgow instead of self-isolating, reports the Telegraph.
• “Shopper, 50, is jailed for life in Germany for shooting dead a cashier” – Mario N. was given a life sentence for fatally shooting a young gas station cashier after a dispute over face masks, reports the Mail.
• “CDC’s Own Study Reanalysed: MIS-C is More Likely After Vaccination, not Less” – Igor Chudov re-evaluates the figures and concludes vaccination increases multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) by at least 43%.
• “Masks are not a small thing. They’re not sensible and they’re not normal. They’re ugly, they stink, many of them are full of carcinogens, and they’re ruining our kids and our lives. It’s time to stop” – Eugyppius with some reflections on mandates as the German Bundestag extends the rules for another six months.
• “Biden Administration Decides Not to Enforce COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors” – President Joe Biden’s administration has opted not to enforce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, following a recent court decision that enabled the Government to enforce the rule in some parts of the country, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Rents rise sharply in cities as pandemic-era exodus goes into reverse” – The average property in London costs 17.8% more to rent now than last year, reports the Telegraph.
• “Governor Andrew Cuomo: From Hero to Goofball in One Seasonal Virus” – Jeffrey Tucker in Brownstone reads the New York ex-Governor’s pandemic book so you don’t have to, and finds a man who can’t imagine that he might have done anything wrong except perhaps communicated more clearly.
• “Britain shuts down for Queen’s funeral with list of services cancelled” – Bin collections, driving tests, hospital appointments, cinemas and major supermarkets are among the businesses and services halted as the country marks the Queen’s funeral on Monday, according to the Mail. Center Parcs reversed its bizarre decision to evict all its customers for 24 hours.
• “‘It’s what she would have wanted’: Twitter jokes at raft of closures” – From bike rack closures, turning down supermarket checkout bleeps to stopping the clocks, the Mail recounts some of the more bizarre ways people are commemorating Queen Elizabeth II’s death.
• “Norway says ‘no’ to a gas price cap” – Jack Smith in the Spectator says that the Norwegian Government is clearly not keen to limit its revenues in order to support what it sees as a pointless endeavour.
• “Humiliated in Ukraine – but gas remains Putin’s trump card” – Europe faces immense danger from Russian military and economic retaliations, argues Ben Wright in the Telegraph.
• “After Kharkiv rout, will Putin resort to nuclear weapons?” – Donald Forbes in TCW Defending Freedom ponders Putin’s next move following Russia’s unexpected defeat in Kharkiv.
• “Charles the Terrible” – Brendan O’Neill in Spiked is worried the Green King will be a monarch for the global elites.
• “The truth about Elizabeth’s empire” – Remi Adekoya argues in UnHerd that colonialism isn’t to blame for all of Africa’s ills.
• “Tavistock clinic ‘putting young gay people at risk by treating them as trans’” – The LGB Alliance defends at a tribunal its charitable status against the legal action brought by trans activist charity Mermaids by criticising the scandalous treatment at the NHS site, reports the Telegraph.
• “Police insist people do have the right to protest Royal Family” – The Met Police have insisted “the public absolutely has the right to protest” after a man was confronted by an officer after threatening to write “not my King” on a blank piece of paper, the Mail reports.
• “So now you care about free speech?” – The outrageous arrests of republican protesters have flushed out all the hypocrites, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “I was slightly concerned about the future of the monarchy… but actually it turns out people are really welcoming and enthusiastic about King Charles III” – Watch Toby on GB News discuss the surprising popularity of King Charles.
• “Leicester: multiculturalism turns violent” – Hardeep Singh in Spiked says tensions between Hindu and Muslim communities have reached boiling point.
• “We rejected the elites… They were wrong about lockdowns, they were wrong about epidemiological models, they were wrong about forced masking, they were wrong about natural immunity, and they were wrong about the efficacy of mRNA vaccines” – Watch Ron DeSantis in full sceptic mode at the National Conservatism conference.

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