News Round-Up

• “Ambulance staff to hold first strike for 30 years as NHS crisis deepens” – Thousands of health workers, including nurses as well as porters and cleaners, have voted in favour of industrial action, reports the Telegraph.
• “Quarter of teenagers who lived through lockdowns now have mental health problems” – As the figure rises from one in six in just a year, NHS data reveal the impact of Covid restrictions and attempts to adjust to a ‘new normal’ during the pandemic, reports the Telegraph.
• “Britain’s ‘golden era’ of close engagement with China is over, says Rishi Sunak” – The idea that free trade will democratise communist state is ‘naive’, the Prime Minister says in his first major policy speech, reports the Telegraph.
• “Tragic: 14-Year-Old Vaccine Myocarditis Victim” – Rav Arora in the Epoch Times tells the tragic story of a young vaccine victim.
• “More than 33,000 Covid fines withdrawn after Government concedes they are invalid” – The Sydney Morning Herald reports on the cancelling of fines representing just over half of all COVID-19 fines issued in NSW, following an unfavourable court judgment, with any already paid to be refunded.
• “Xocova’s emergency approval: ‘presumed’ effective, obviously unnecessary” – Guy Gin says he predicted that the Japanese Government would maintain Covid’s special legal status to justify giving emergency approval to domestically developed drugs and jabs based on their ‘presumed’ effectiveness, and he was right.
• “The hypocrisy over the coverage of the China protests is nauseating!” – Roger Watson in Unity News Network is glad to see that Prof. Devi Sridhar has “the courage to speak out in support of President Xi and his draconian Zero-Covid policies”.
• “Did West Africa’s Ebola Outbreak of 2014 Have a Lab Origin?” – Sam Husseini and virologist Dr. Jonathan Latham write in Independent Science News on the intriguing possibility that virologists “covered up the role of a U.S. funded pathogen lab in Sierra Leone when they blamed the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak on a Guinean boy”.
• “Full steam ahead for 5G – and let’s not even think about the damage to health” – Gillian Jamieson in TCW with an update on the current legal action over the negative health impacts of non-ionising electromagnetic radiation.
• “The Missing Babies of Europe” – Nine months after mass vaccination, 110,000 fewer babies are born, writes Mary Beth Pfeiffer in Rescue. The question is, how much is caused by the vaccine and how much is due to behaviour change around vaccination?
• “If we want to understand the cause of current excess deaths we should look at what people are not dying of at the moment” – Dr. Clare Craig tweets an analysis of what’s behind the mainly heart-related excess deaths this year.
• “The new global class war” – Joel Kotkin in Spiked says Western elites’ climate obsession is impoverishing the world’s poorest.
• “Sadiq Khan’s kamikaze war on motorists is an unforgivable act of fiscal recklessness” – Going against public opposition to a ULEZ expansion will do little to quell concerns about a hidden agenda to prop up a bankrupt Transport for London, writes Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
• “Parliament Installs Free Tampon Machine in Men’s Bathroom” – A vending machine distributing free tampons has been installed in at least one men’s bathroom in Ireland’s parliament building, reports Breitbart News.
• “Elon Musk threatens Apple with war.” – When did Apple fall out of love with the misfits, asks Laura Dodsworth.
• “Cambridge University college dean in heresy row as sermon suggests Jesus had a ‘trans body’” – A Cambridge University college dean has been accused of heresy after backing a sermon that suggested Jesus Christ had a “trans body”, the Times reports.
• “Britain has abandoned any pretence of controlling immigration” – The Government is an immigration junkie, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph: “It does its best to hide it from us, but it cannot break the habit of cheap foreign labour.”
• “John Mearsheimer: We’re playing Russian roulette” – The West “is screwed”, the realist foreign policy scholar tells UnHerd‘s Freddie Sayers.

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