News Round-Up

• “Everything you need to know about the delayed Covid inquiry” – Will Boris Johnson appear before the Covid public inquiry? Who is leading the investigation into the pandemic? With the inquiry launching this week, the Mail delves into some of the key questions.
• “Almost half of ambulance delays happening at just 15 NHS trusts” – A health minister warns of “very striking” differences between hospital trusts and says the Government won’t “sugarcoat” the scale of the challenges, the Telegraph reports.
• “Therese Coffey opens the door to more foreign nurses to plug NHS staff shortage” – The Health Secretary says “I don’t mind if they are coming from abroad” as she battles to deal with long waiting lists, according to the Telegraph.
• “Newly Obtained Emails Shed More Light on CDC’s False Vaccine Safety Monitoring Statements” – The Epoch Times with the latest on the CDC’s vaccine safety cover-up.
• “Freddie Sayers: We need to fact-check the fact-checkers” – Watch UnHerd’s Executive Editor Freddie Sayers tell a festival crowd that an obsession with misinformation is resulting in a “certain kind of expert shutting down any views which go against accepted wisdom”, and is more dangerous than the original problem.
• “‘We Own the Science and the World Should Know it’” – Dr. Robert Malone on the the United Nations’ latest Orwellian moves towards global censorship.
• “Recent Non-Covid Excess Mortality. Too much of a bad thing?” – Jason Oke on Trust the Evidence asks what the right measure of excess mortality is.
• “Peter Daszak: more battiness?” – El Gato Malo suspects ulterior motives for Fauci’s latest payment to his pal.
• “The German Pandemic is Over” – Eugyppius says it ended months ago and it remains only for people to notice.
• “The SARS-CoV-2 transmission riddle – Part 7” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson on the curious human challenge evidence that shows how hard it is to catch a cold.
• “I asked for ‘early spread’ anecdotes and, boy, did I get them” – Bill Rice, Jr. says his project has generated intriguing testimonials, including six more antibody-confirmed early cases.
• “The Mandate on Health-Care Workers Is Still Unjust” – James Bovard writes for Brownstone that Biden’s vaccine mandates are another “demolition of freedom that do nothing to end the most politically exploited pandemic in American history”.
• “Media Lying About Climate And Hurricanes” – Michael Shellenberger says it’s time to state the obvious.
• “The buffoon delivering a permanent energy crisis” –  Sir John Armitt, the Chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission, rather than being ‘once bitten twice shy’, seems to be pleading ‘bite me harder, and this time do it where is really hurts’, writes Andrew Montford in TCW Defending Freedom.
• “It’s no surprise eco zealots targeted Captain Tom” – Brendan O’Neill writes in the Spectator that environmentalism is, at root, a campaign against people, and “that’s why it has an undeniable streak of contempt in it”.
• “Revisiting Dreamland” – Thorsteinn Siglaugsson asks why those, who earlier fought to preserve the unique nature of Iceland, now call for its destruction, and the censorship of those who oppose it.
• “Top Economist Draws Controversy After Arguing Biden Admin Destroyed Nord Stream Pipelines” – The Epoch Times reports that Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs suggested that the United States may be responsible for destroying part of the Nord Stream pipelines.
• “Why no one trusts the police anymore” – The FSU’s Carrie Clark argues in Spiked that the police have embraced trans identity politics at the expense of tackling crime.
• “Another shocking scandal at Mermaids” – Why did a trustee of the children’s transgender charity give a presentation at a ‘paedophile aid’ event, asks Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “Judge Ho’s Yale boycott” – Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho has said he will stop hiring law clerks from Yale Law School in protest at the woke cancel culture rife at the university, according to Power Line.
• “Do Oxford students really need trigger warnings?” – Joanna Williams in the Spectator bewails the arrival of peer-to-peer censorship by young adults “firmly wedded to a perception of themselves as mentally and emotionally vulnerable and in need of psychological protection from dangerous ideas”.
• “‘The mob needs to be stopped’: Home Secretary Suella Braverman vows to give police the powers they need to tackle and jail eco-protesters who have struck across Britain – and slams forces’ ‘wokery’ with demand for ‘common sense’ crime-fighting reset” – The Home Secretary lashed out at demonstrators but also reserved criticism for police forces for taking a soft line with political protests, reports the Mail. But will it be more than just empty words this time?
• “Speech police: U.K. writer Caroline Farrow arrested, accused of posting ‘offensive’ message online” – Despite the Government’s proposals to stop it, British citizens are still being arrested over alleged speech offences, reports Reclaim the Net. Read the Mail’s coverage here.
• “Elon Musk revives deal to buy Twitter in climbdown ” – Elon Musk has caved to Twitter’s legal demands and revived a takeover offer to buy the social media network for $44bn just days before a court battle over the deal was due to begin, the Telegraph reports.
• “Talulah Riley urged ex-husband Elon Musk to buy Twitter ‘then delete it’ and promised to join him in the fight against ‘wokeism’, leaked texts reveal” – Riley, who was married twice to the billionaire, was among a group of celebrities who contacted Musk in April after he announced plans to buy the company, reports the Mail.
• “Emergency doctors just wrapped up a huge three-day conference in San Francisco” – Their behaviour made a strong statement about what they truly believe about the importance of masking, remarks Laura Powell on Twitter.

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