News Round-Up

• “The NHS is at breaking point – and it’s about to get worse” – Last month, the number of twelve-hour waits in A&E departments in England exceeded 40,000 for the first time ever, notes Michael Simmons in the Spectator.
• “Nurses may be seen as heroes, but the RCN’s call for a 17.6% pay increase will not play well” – Ross Clark writes in the Telegraph that with most salary rises now below inflation, NHS staff will lose public sympathy if their unions continues to make outlandish demands.
• “The Government’s response to the nurses’ strike could destroy the NHS” – Why is NHS Chief Executive Amanda Pritchard paid £260,000 a year to preside over such inefficiency, asks Judith Woods in the Telegraph.
• “Nurses’ union facing growing mutiny over strikes” – The Telegraph reports that questions have been raised over the way the ballot was structured amid concerns for patients who will suffer from cancelled operations.
• “Global virus deaths have plummeted 90% since February ” – There were 9,400 fatalities from the virus around the world last week compared to more than 75,000 every seven days in early February, the Mail reports.
• “DeSantis Delivers in Huge Win for the Anti-Lockdown Movement” – Where DeSantis really stands out is in his wholehearted embrace from autumn 2020 onwards of the anti-lockdown movement in its entirety, suggests Michael Senger.
• “How selling mince pies landed a pensioner in prison” – We are still living with the fallout of our hysterical reaction to Covid, says Laurie Wastell in Spiked.
• “The sinister future planned by Covid insider Sir Jeremy Farrar” – Paula Jardine in TCW Defending Freedom on the grim future planned for us by our new biosecurity overlords.
• “Britain left out of post-Covid jobs recovery as early retirement surges” – The U.K. will be the only rich country with lower employment next year than before pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
• “Now doctors want children to mask-up in schools to stop the spread of flu — despite fears they stunted children’s development” – Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert at Vanderbilt University, claimed that it was “reasonable” to start masking up in schools again as flu and RSV spread across the U.S., the Mail reports.
• “Less Than 7% of Canadian Children Under Five Have Received a COVID-19 Vaccine” – A surprisingly low figure in such a liberal-progressive country, as reported in the Epoch Times.
• “Jabonomics: Japan’s Ministry of Finance calls for an end to ‘free’ Covid jabs” – Japan’s Ministry of Finance is finally taking a stand against the endless spending on Covid vaccines, reports Guy Gin.
• “Managing COVID-19 – how could we have done (and do) better?” – Join SAGE’s resident Communist Susan Michie for an online Lunch Hour Lecture at UCL.
• “The true cost of renewable energy” – The big problem with renewables is their lack of reliability and the costs and shortages that imposes on the system, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “What is the point of these police? As a lone protester forces the M25 to shut for the fourth day running and 17 officers stand around aimlessly, more and more hard-working citizens are seeking answers” – Outrage in the Mail as Chief Constable Chris Noble, who leads the National Police Chiefs Council on tackling protests, rejected Suella Braverman’s demands for officers to take a “firmer line”, saying: “We’re not going to arrest our way out of environmental protest.”
• “Ukraine urged to grasp ‘window of opportunity’ for peace talks with Russia” – The U.S. is holding discussions with the Kremlin ahead of a G20 summit showdown, reports the Telegraph.
• “Music school in trans row after telling students to ‘report’ women who oppose the ideology” – The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance has been forced to apologise after putting up a sign claiming female students who wanted single-sex spaces were “transphobic”.
• “The Scottish Book Trust has given up on free speech” – Writers’ organisations are betraying the people they’re meant to represent, says Joan Smith in UnHerd.
• “Students are running scared from debate” – William Clouston writes in Spiked that he faced boycotts, protests and online abuse for giving a talk on trade tariffs at York University.
• “Lawyer plans to sue Eventbrite after pulling tickets for trans debate” – The Mail reports that Sarah Phillimore is fundraising to take Eventbrite to court after it pulled tickets for her gender-critical book launch event.
• “Human sex is not determined at birth and can legally change, SNP argues in court” – In a controversial judicial review, Nicola Sturgeon’s Government is using biology-denying arguments to call on the courts to dismiss a case brought by feminist activists, the Telegraph reports.
• “British Airways will allow male pilots and cabin crew to wear make-up” – BA was said to be nearing the end of a review of its longstanding uniform policy after rival Virgin Atlantic announced it was making its traditional male and female uniform gender-neutral, reports the Mail.
• “Advertising’s false picture” – Rod Liddle in the Spectator bemoans that the fashionable aversion to ‘stereotypes’ is leading advertisers to portray a world very different from the one real people inhabit.

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