News Round-Up

• “‘I am fuming’: ‘Disgusted’ Denise Welch Slams Matt Hancock for I’m A Celebrity stint after the impact his Covid measures had on ‘people’s lives, livelihoods and mental health’” – The Mail reports that the Loose Women panellist laid into the ex-Health Secretary on the ITV show, and notably it wasn’t the hypocrisy that she focused on but the “ridiculous” and extremely costly restrictions themselves.
• “The catastrophic consequences of lockdown are revealing themselves” – Like a major war, the pandemic has left a devastating legacy, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “Why America Doesn’t Trust the CDC” – The Biden administration promised to listen to the scientists, writes Marty Makary in Newsweek. “But the truth is, it only seems to listen to the ones who say what it wants to hear.”
• “The tyranny of a Covid amnesty” – A self-righteous cabal has delivered a public that is sicker and poorer, writes Mary Harrington in UnHerd.
• “Censorship and Defamation – Weapons of Control” – Dr. Robert Malone says that academic publisher Springer has allowed the unspeakable truth to be printed.
• “Matt Hancock’s slippery excuses” – Laura Dodsworth asks if the former Secretary of State for Health is being honest about his reasons to go on I’m a Celeb?
• “Is Newsguard a Propaganda Machine?” – Watch AIER’s Phil Magness discuss censorship, fact-checking, the politicisation of academia and how it affects research, corporations, and American culture.
• “How the world now works – or doesn’t” – Dr. Malcolm Kendrick skewers the Government on its spinning of NHS statistics over doctor numbers: “In the hands of politicians, facts can become slippery little swine.”
• “Why is Rishi Sunak going to COP?” – Ross Clark in the Spectator says that Sunak will “look like a member of the global elite following a high-carbon, jet-setting lifestyle while preaching to the rest of us that we must compromise our lifestyles in order to save the planet”.
• “De-Urbanisation of Surface Temperatures with the Landsat-Based ‘Built-Up’ Dataset” – Important new analysis by Dr. Roy Spencer in WUWT finds the urban heat island effect has exaggerated the U.S. surface temperature record even more than previously thought.
• “Brazil’s Bolsonaro Lost Because China Muzzled His Promised Conservatism” – Frances Martel in Breitbart suggests that Bolsonaro did himself no favours with his supporters by cosying up to China.
• “Nicola Sturgeon’s trans crusade will cost her dearly” – By allowing herself to be captured by extremists, the Scottish First Minister has united both nationalists and unionists against her, says Jenny Hjul in the Telegraph.
• “Spies no longer need to prove parents’ nationalities, say secret services in diversity drive” – Previously, applicants had to be a British citizen and one of their parents had to be a British citizen themselves or have nationality or citizenship from an approved list of countries, reports the Telegraph.
• “Rishi is the face of post-racial U.K.” – Ramesh Thakur in Spectator Australia says while there is obviously still some racism in the U.K., “no Western country that I’ve passed through begins to approach the level of prejudice against dark-skinned people in India”.
• “British MP Wants Law to Stop Digital Payment Firms Like PayPal Withdrawing Service Over Political Views” – A new clause could make it illegal in the U.K. for companies like PayPal to demonetise individuals or organisations for political reasons, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Alp Mehmet reacts to census revealing non-U.K. population more than doubled to 10 million in 2021” – Watch the Migration Watch head speak to Nigel Farage on GB News about the census revelations.
• “Daniel Radcliffe is surely the world’s most ungrateful man” – The actor has once again sought to cancel his creator J.K. Rowling for believing that women are women and trans women are trans women, saying young Harry Potter fans were left “hurt” by her views, writes Judith Woods in the Telegraph.
• “Musk suggests Trump will not return to Twitter before midterms” – Previously banned users are to be brought back in a few weeks, the billionaire says, according to the Telegraph.
• “My ‘debunked’ views” – Nathan Cofnas writes in the Critic about a predictable attempt by staff and journalists at Cambridge to cancel him for his non-PC scientific investigations.
• “Why I will never use female pronouns for Eddie Izzard” – Brendan O’Neill in Spiked says you cannot compel him to say something he does not believe.
• “David Sacks: Ukraine is turning into Woke War III” – Watch UnHerd‘s Freddie Sayers speak to PayPal cofounder David Sacks, who argues the West had entered into ‘Woke War III’ and that over the course of the war, “the woke Left and the neoconservative Right have been marching in lockstep, and using ‘woke cancellation tactics’ to suppress any dissenting opinions”. Sacks is also currently at Elon Musk’s side planning the next steps for Twitter and spoke to Freddy about that, saying “Elon Musk buying Twitter is just the start“.

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