News Round-Up

• “NHS hospitals spending more on spin doctors despite record-high waiting lists” – An investigation by TaxPayers’ Alliance reveals £57 million spent last year on communications – including 1,000 officers – amid a mounting crisis on the front line, the Telegraph reports.
• “Obese people twice as likely to die from Covid” – Obesity is linked with several other ailments, such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and asthma, which may lead to worse Covid outcomes, reports the Telegraph.
• “Federal Government Extends COVID-19 Public Health Emergency” – The federal Government on Thursday extended its COVID-19 emergency for another 90 days despite President Joe Biden declaring the pandemic “over” weeks earlier, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Freelance Sends Open Letter to U.K. MSM Asking Why They Ignored Malhotra and Jab Film” – Not one mainstream media outlet covered either Mark Sharman’s vaccine documentary or Dr. Malhotra’s peer-reviewed paper, and journalist Oliver May has written to editors to ask why, News Uncut reports.
• “No more boosters for me, says a high priestess of vaccines” – New Zealand’s high-profile vaccine advocate, opponent of vaccine hesitancy, co-director of the Global Vaccine Data Network, Pfizer adviser and NZ Government adviser says: “Don’t get another booster, I won’t”, reports Guy Hatchard in TCW Defending Freedom.
• “Covid vaccines ruled out as cause of neonatal deaths spike – but mothers’ vaccination status never checked” – Public health experts ruled out any link between spikes in neonatal deaths in Scotland and the Covid vaccine without checking whether any of the infants’ mothers had received the jab during pregnancy, Herald Scotland reports.
• “Omicron gain of function research” – El Gato Malo reports on a shocking new pre-print paper detailing gain-of-function research which combined the Omicron spike protein with the original virus base to create a virus just as infectious and immune-evasive as Omicron but with an 80% fatality rate (in mice).
• “This Harvard-educated MD went from blue pill to red pill on the Covid vax. Here’s the story.” – Steve Kirsch tells the story of Dr. Michael Turner, a medic who has changed his mind on the safety of the Covid vaccines.
• “50% increase in miscarriages; 50% decrease in fertility after Covid vax” – Watch the video of Dr. Kimberly Biss in Tampa Bay, Florida, explaining what they’ve observed in their large practice, courtesy of Steve Kirsch.
• “How far will the eco-fascists go?” – The tree huggers aren’t just harmless hippies, says Mary Harrington in UnHerd.
• “Court: Facebook ‘fact-check’ label does not mean that the assessment is ‘objective fact’” – A climate sceptics’ case against a fact checker has been dismissed, reports Reclaim the Net.
• “The real damage caused by eco-protestors” – For protesters to attack the trust which permits open access to treasures in pursuit of a cheap headline is deeply antisocial, writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Spectator.
• “J.K. Rowling criticises ‘bearded men defining what a woman is’ in row with Billy Bragg” – The author was responding to the singer’s tweet that said the media should talk to trans teens instead of “amplifying the takes of a celebrity”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Transgender charity Mermaids makes more than £140,000 through training schools, NHS services and even barber shops” – The Mail reports that the Prime Minister has backed demands for a thorough investigation into Mermaids as it has emerged that the controversial charity has made more than £140,000 through training sessions.
• “Booklist promoting trans surgery for young teens sparks parental fury” – The Telegraph reports that a national library scheme includes a book describing a teenager’s breasts as “fatty lumps that need to be gone”.
• “UN rejects Stonewall’s bid to downgrade Britain’s equality watchdog” – The LGBT charity wanted the EHRC stripped of its top-tier ranking after claiming it fails to sufficiently protect trans rights, reports the Telegraph.
• “New head of Cambridge University suggests ditching plan to decolonise” – The interim head of Cambridge University Dr. Anthony Freeling has suggested he will not continue plans to “decolonise” the curriculum and claimed to not know what the word meant, according to the Mail.
• “Public faith in the woke police is evaporating” – The Met shouldn’t be indulging in Twitter spats or handing out trans T-shirts until every single wanted criminal is in prison, says David Spencer in the Telegraph (and even then?).
• “Tough on hate speech may soon mean tough on any speech” – It is easy to see how tougher hate speech laws could be used against traditional religious believers, writes Julian Mann in Christian Today.
• “Et Tu, PayPal? The EU’s Role in Defunding Dissent” – Could the EU’s Code of Practice on Disinformation and its Digital Services Act have something to do with PayPal’s skittish forays into ‘combatting disinformation’, asks Robert Kogon in Brownstone.

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