News Round-Up

• “Home working is essential to cut our gender pay gap, Treasury mandarins claim” – The Treasury has claimed that working from home is an essential part of its battle to cut the gender pay gap amid growing criticism of civil servants’ refusal to return to the office, the Telegraph reports.
• “China shuts down as it records highest number of Covid infections yet” – The resurgence throws President Xi Jinping’s strict Zero-Covid strategy under renewed scrutiny as workers rebel over money, the Telegraph reports.
• “The failure to investigate the origins of the virus, not No 10 parties, is the real Covid scandal” – What was going on at the Wuhan Institute of Virology must be examined openly and thoroughly, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
• “Time to come clean about Covid’s lab origins” – Neville Hodgkinson has had enough of the lies and excuses in TCW Defending Freedom.
• “Top virologists betrayed science with their Covid lab leak cover-up” – Despite instructing the rest of us to ‘follow the science’, these scientists were not doing so themselves, says Matt Ridley in the Telegraph.
• “Four Myths about Pandemic Preparedness” – “When public health policy is based on a demonstrably false narrative,” writes Dr. David Bell in Brownstone, “it is the role of public health workers, and the public, to oppose it.”
• “Who is Raymond D Palmer? Author of paper in Biomedicine journal says post-vaccination adverse events are actually caused by anti-vax misinformation, not vaccines” – Rebekah Barnett on the strange tale of the maverick author behind a bizarre new paper blaming vaccine side-effects on vaccine sceptics.
• “Murdered five-year-old boy was failed by lockdown, damning report finds” – Logan Mwangi, five, was murdered by his mum Angharad Williamson, stepdad John Cole, and step-brother Craig Mulligan, 14, with a safeguarding review finding officials failed him due to lockdown, the Mirror reports.
• “I just talked to embalmer Richard Hirschman about the reaction from Died Suddenly” – Steve Kirsch follows up on the disturbing reports from embalmers about strange clot-like structures “in the blood of vaccinated people”.
• “GPs vote to close their doors at 5pm despite average £112k salaries” – Family doctors, who earn £111,900 a year on average, will now lobby the NHS to change core opening hours in general practice from the current 8am to 6.30pm, Monday to Friday, the Mail reports.
• “The Lancet reports on Human Rights failures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Is the tide turning? Think again.” – An analysis from the Naked Emperor.
• “Scientists create super-influenza vaccine that can fight 20 strains and uses Covid mRNA technology” – The Mail reports that the experimental vaccine – which hasn’t been tested on people yet – offered broad protection against 20 influenza A and B subtypes in mice and ferret tests. It’s coming…
• “Just Stop Oil should be a proscribed terror group like Islamic State and National Action, says MP” – “These people are not protesters, they are criminals,” says Gareth Johnson, as reported in the Telegraph. “Will the PM therefore consider making Just Stop Oil a proscribed organisation.”
• “Conned: The Top Five Climate Change Lies” – Watch as Laurence Fox “breaks apart the lies repeatedly fed to the public and details the manipulation by the billionaire-funded lobby groups and activists”.
• “The Sun has surrendered to ‘Lefty activists putting the hard word on advertisers’” – Former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie writing in the Press Gazette believes the title’s days are numbered and he lays the blame firmly at the door of ‘Lefty activists’.
• “Musk shuns EU as Twitter disbands entire Brussels office” – Elon Musk has disbanded Twitter’s entire office in Brussels after a row over the policing of the social network’s content in the bloc, reports the Telegraph.
• “A crusade too far in Qatar” – The smart set is only prepared to defend some football fans’ self-expression, says Laurie Wastell in Spiked, as it tells those dressed up as crusaders to be more sensitive to the local culture.
• “Howls Of Outrage After New York Times Confirms SBF To Speak Alongside Zelenskyy, Yellen” – The NYT fails to revoke its invitation to the disgraced FTX founder, reports ZeroHedge.
• “The Guardians in Retreat” – Redefining its purpose as antiracism, the Art Institute of Chicago abandons its core mission of preserving history’s treasures and instructing future generations, writes Heater Mac Donald in City Journal.
• “It is the most important human right, without it none of the others have much meaning, have much point” – Watch Toby discuss with GB News‘s Mark Steyn the UN human rights chief writing an open letter to Elon Musk in which he told him: “Free speech is not a free pass.”

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