News Round-Up

• Beaten then tied to a chair: Chinese protesters describe price paid for standing up against lockdown” – A man who tries to take photos of unrest in Shanghai is arrested and held in conditions he describes as “a simple form of torture”, the Telegraph reports.
• “China fights to escape Xi’s lockdown tyranny: Protesters turn streets into warzones, with hazmat-clad Covid-enforcers cowering under riot shields as bottles rain down on them and police strong-arming demonstrators” – The Mail reports that protesters have clashed with riot police wearing white hazmat suits in the southern city of Guangzhou, China, with demonstrators throwing glass bottles at the officials in chaotic scenes.
• “Mum in coma ‘for days’ after ‘falling ill following Covid jab’” – The Express reports that 46 year-old mother Sarah Birch became debilitated and ended up in an induced coma and on a ventilator for four days after she was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome following her AstraZeneca jab.
• “GOP senators threaten to block NDAA over COVID-19 vaccine mandate” – The Republican Senators want the troops who were dismissed for refusing the vaccine to get their jobs back and be awarded back pay, reports the Military Times.
• “Spotify reveals Joe Rogan’s podcast was its most-streamed of 2022 despite woke protests over ‘Covid misinformation’” – Joe Rogan was Spotify’s most popular podcaster of 2022, the streaming giant has revealed – despite repeated attempts by a woke mob to cancel him, reports the Mail.
• “The Covidification of Influenza” – As the relevance of SARS-CoV-2 recedes ever further, public health managers seek to apply the same risk magnification, testing, vaccination and hygiene regime to the flu, says Eugyppius.
• “A Haberdasher’s tale” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson say people used to be interested in excess deaths, but not so much now it seems.
• “Just the facts” – Dr. Robert Malone explains why he is suing the Breggins – fellow health freedom campaigners who took to slandering him and refused to desist.
• “Indian Government Blames Public for Getting Vaccines Despite Being Aware of its Side Effects – Claims it Cannot be Held Liable for Any Injuries” – The Indian Government has argued before the Supreme Court of India that it is not liable for any injuries that may occur as a result of the Covid vaccine, reports the Gateway Pundit.
• “What would it take for MHRA to hesitate on approvals?” – The Health Advisory and Recover Team (HART) says the evidence the MHRA used to approve vaccines against Omicron BA4 and BA5 variants is paper thin and the lack of transparency has worsened recently.
• “The Future is a Foreign Country” – Despite two and a half years of failure people continue to be paid to publish woefully wrong modelled predictions of the future, says HART.
• “The Evil of Coerced Medicine” – Aaron Kheriaty writes in Brownstone that “in early 2021, the public health establishment succumbed to two dangerous temptations: propaganda and coercion”.
• “‘An impasse’: Urgent court hearing for Health NZ and parents who refuse vaccinated blood for baby’s heart surgery” – The parents say that unvaccinated donors are available but the medics are having none of it and a court will decide, reports NZ Herald.
• “Just Stop Oil joke with officers as they get police escort at protest” – The eco-lunatic group has been blocking roads in north and central London today by slow-marching along the street, with police following behind them without taking action to stop the disruption, the Mail reports.
• “Just Stop Oil considers slashing artworks in threat to escalate protests” – According to the Telegraph, the criminal protesters have said: “If things need to escalate then we’re going to take inspiration from past successful movements and we’re going to do everything we can.”
• “Climate and colonialism are two sides of the same culture war coin” – Toby Green in UnHerd notes that reparations have become a core fault line in both debates.
• “Neither ‘our’ NHS nor ‘working people’ are spared in Labour’s war on motorists” – Sadiq Khan’s ULEZ is a regressive tax, says Ross Clark in the Telegraph. “But progressives think hitting the poor hardest is fine if it is in the name of the environment.”
• “Secular Britain worships destructive new gods” – Madeline Grant in the Telegraph responds to the news that ‘Christian’ is now a minority census response, saying that “as Christianity retreats, we are left with atomisation, faux-communities and cult-like devotion to fads”.
• “Where did wokeness come from?” – Listen to Dr. Noah Carl’s discussion with Eric Kaufmann.
• “Self-censorship is exactly how the woke win so often” – Young people are silencing themselves, too afraid to say what they think for fear of being cancelled or abused, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
• “Balenciaga and fashion’s child sexualisation problem ” – Julie Burchill in the Spectator writes that the “mainly gay male world of high fashion has, after a brief period of pretending to embrace ‘diversity’ (anything above a size eight) returned to physiques in which any semblance of female sexual characteristics has been excised” – the latest being “pre-teen girl children with no messy female bodies to spoil the line”.
• “The unconscionable barbarism of cancel culture” – Spiked‘s Brendan O’Neill writes in praise of Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who in her recent Reith lecture on freedom of speech “shatters the case for cancel culture” and “lays waste to the patrician Left’s claim that free speech serves the powerful but harms the powerless”.
• “The woke state has failed women” – The Ministry of Justice’s embrace of gender ideology has ruined the lives of some of the most vulnerable in society, says Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “Britain is fast descending into chaos, and the Tories are powerless to stop it” – Who governs the country, asks Allister Heath in the Telegraph. “Not the Conservatives, who increasingly appear to have given up completely.”
• “Maybe there’s a lab leak but it’s not with the viruses that the NIH was funding. That’s almost certain that that’s the case” – Dr. Alina Chan tweets about Anthony Fauci’s latest attempt to wriggle off the hook for creating the virus.

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