News Round-Up

• “Covid inquiry risks ‘whitewash’ with its focus on lockdown advocates, MPs warn” – A group of 21 MPs and peers said in a letter to the inquiry Chairman that it is “critical” a “diverse range of views” is considered as it emerged the core participants are almost entirely lockdown proponents, the Telegraph reports.
• “Civil servants want heating paid for so they can work from home” – Civil servants should have their heating paid for by the Government so they can continue working from home, union bosses have said, according to the Telegraph.
• “I warned there would be a price to pay over Covid” – Peter Hitchens in the Mail writes that the coming years of heavy taxes, along with the inflation and rising mortgage rates we face, are not caused by some unstoppable force of nature.
• “Lockdown turned Britain into a nation of neurotics who still cling to their homes” – Could it be that the terror wrought by the pandemic is one of the causes of this growing reluctance to work, asks Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
• “Conceptual Zero Draft” – James Roguski posts an advance copy of the World Health Organisation’s “Conceptual Zero Draft” of its proposed ‘Pandemic Treaty’.
• “The Killing Fields of Samoa” – Dr. Ah Kahn Syed on the curious tale of the Samoa measles lockdown in November 2019.
• “The foreign data set was gutted this week in VAERS and the cancer signal was halved, the myocarditis dose 3 response signal was lost and 994 spontaneous abortions/still births were dropped” – Jessica Rose is not impressed with the abrupt changes this week in the foreign data for the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.
• “COP27 deal to compensate developing nations for climate change nears” – The U.S. and EU push China to pay up and there are concerns that rich economies such as Saudi Arabia could be eligible for handout, reports the Telegraph.
• “Just Stop Oil aren’t like the suffragettes” – Just Stop Oil couldn’t articulate a convincing reason for throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, says Joanna Rossiter in the Spectator.
• “The Welsh Government loses a significant battle over its ‘groomer’s curriculum’” – Graham Linehan with an update on the battle against woke indoctrination in Welsh schools.
• “Oxford to ‘decolonise’ computing degree and emphasise slavery links” – The course is the latest to be targeted as universities increasingly ‘go for woke’ in scientific subjects, the Telegraph reports.
• “‘Decolonising’ maths is a dreadful idea” – Gareth Sturdy writes in Spiked that academics need to stand up for their disciplines against the woke crusade.
• “Meghan thinks ‘woke’ just means caring and kind. Here’s why she’s wrong” – The Duchess of Sussex claims that the woke are simply “alert to injustice in society”, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph. “But that’s not true.”
• “While the Tories slowly destroy Britain, U.S. conservatives are transforming America” – If the U.K. feels gloomy and broken, it’s in large part because the Conservative Party has abandoned its basic principles, argues Douglas Carswell in the Telegraph.
• “Why is Eventbrite censoring feminists?” – Julie Bindel in the Spectator is not happy that Eventbrite deleted the link to a gender critical event she was involved in and began issuing refunds, claiming the book launch event could promote “hateful views”.

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