News Round-Up

• “China shows that a Zero-Covid policy fails. It is now the biggest threat to the world economy” – Mass public defiance is almost unheard of in the People’s Republic, but it is happening thanks to Xi Jinping’s coronavirus strategy, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
• “The dismissal of the Covid lab leak theory shows the perils of scientists turning into campaigners” – When researchers think it’s their duty to promote particular ends, their advice should come with a massive health warning, says Juliet Samuel in the Telegraph.
• “Time to Unmask the Truth” – Dr. Eric Payne in Brownstone with the case against face masks.
• “Lab leak conspiracy theory” – Watch Dr. John Campbell cover the Fauci lab leak cover-up emails.
• “Excess Deaths – a quick update yet again” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson find a number of explanations for excess deaths being advanced (though one is notably missing from their article).
• “Year-on-year mortality increases: Japan’s new normal” – Guy Gin finds elevated mortality continuing in Japan.
• “No life, no future and no sympathy – desperate plight of a vaccine injured teacher” – Read Clare McHugh’s tragic story in TCW Defending Freedom.
• “Elon Musk vows to unblock thousands of banned Twitter accounts” – The billionaire says accounts which have not broken the law or posted spam will have their suspensions revoked, the Telegraph reports – paving the way for throngs of dissenters from mainstream orthodoxy to return to the platform.
• “ULEZ expansion will cost hundreds of thousands of drivers £12.50 a day” – Sadiq Khan said extending London’s ‘ultra low emissions zone’ to cover the whole of the capital from August 29th next year is “one of the toughest decisions” he’s had to take but that it will give five million Londoners cleaner air to breathe, the Mail reports.
• “Sadiq Khan’s ULEZ expansion punishes the poorest” – There would be outrage if Jeremy Hunt announced a new 60p income tax band that was payable only by people who earn less than £20,000 a year, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator. Why then do things work differently with green taxes?
• “Why we should resist academic calls for climate reparations” – Simply blaming the West is easy but wrong, writes Richard Wood in the Critic.
• “The ghoulish exploitation of the Club Q shooting” – Tom Slater in Spiked says blaming gender-critical commentators for the atrocity in Colorado is morally repugnant.
• “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”.

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