News Round-Up

• “COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities” – Keven Bardosh and his team are back with a major article in the BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics, where they argue that “booster mandates in young adults are expected to cause a net harm: per COVID-19 hospitalisation prevented, we anticipate at least 18.5 serious adverse events from mRNA vaccines, including 1.5–4.6 booster-associated myopericarditis cases in males (typically requiring hospitalisation)”.
• “How our High Streets changed over the Covid lockdowns” – There are fewer banks and shops but beauty parlours have prospered, BBC analysis of data has found.
• “‘Protecting the NHS’ was a dismal failure” – Lockdown was imposed to stop the health service from collapsing, but now it is falling apart anyway, says Jill Kirby in the Telegraph.
• “Why did Slate change its Covid headline?” – James Billot in UnHerd says the article’s title was gradually watered down away from lockdown scepticism – and away from what the article actually says.
• “So now it’s okay to protest against lockdown?” – Many of those now praising the anti-lockdown protesters in China were all too quick to demonise those in the U.K., writes Laurie Wastell in Spiked.
• “Unlike Britain, France is far from finished with Covid” – Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator says that 12 months ago Britain rebelled against Covid hysteria, but in France the hysteria was never checked.
• “Is lockdown to blame for the Strep A spike?” – Lucy Dunn writes in the Spectator that Group A Streptococcus infection is on the rise, and many point the finger at the immunity debt from lockdowns.
• “Why can’t we talk about it?” – How are we supposed to resolve our differences if every vaccine advocate in the world refuses to have a civil discussion about it, asks Steve Kirsch.
• “Japan’s quarantine, immunisation and infectious disease laws: revised but not improved” – Japan’s alarming new quarantine law allows officials to demand suspected virus-carriers to isolate at home or elsewhere on pain of a six-month jail term, reports Guy Gin.
• “Percent RNA integrity in the context of the COVID-19 shots” – Jessica Rose asks whether serious adverse event reporting frequency is linked to vaccines with greater mRNA integrity.
• “I’m Not Going into Hospital: Tales from the Front Line” – Carl Heneghan argues that the answer to the recurring ‘winter crises’ is staring us in the face: community hospitals.
• “The secret diary of Matt Hancock aged 44¼” – Matt Hancock’s new ‘Pandemic Diaries’ reads like a parody, says Laura Dodsworth.
• “Irreparable Vaccine-induced Harm” – Dr. Robert Malone shares an open letter from Dr. Charlton Brown to the Prime Minister and Government of New Zealand detailing his concerns arising from his analysis of COVID-19 vaccine surveillance and pharmacovigilance data.
• “The Mirage of Electric Vehicles” – Willis Eschenbach in WUWT sets out the figures and says: “For those who think that electric vehicles make a difference, think again.”
• “Rishi Sunak lifts ban on onshore windfarms in face of Tory rebellion” – Sunak folds again as the decisions will revert to local communities and there will no longer be a requirement for near-unanimous support, reports the Telegraph.
• “Police tell off drivers for honking horns at Just Stop Oil protestors” – The Metropolitan police officers can be seen laughing, chatting and filming the protesters, the Telegraph reports.
• “The ‘green leap’ forward” – The Dutch Minister for Nitrogen, Christianne van der Wal, announced that 3,000 farms will be forced to sell their properties to the Government for immediate closure after ‘voluntary’ measures failed, writes Alexandra Marshall in Spectator Australia.
• “The New Blasphemies” – Dr. Roger Watson writes in the European Conservative that “for there to be blasphemy there needs to be religion and, in this case, I am referring to the religions of identity politics and climate-change activism. These are not merely religions, however; they are the religions of fanatics”.
• “A royal Palace can never afford to be unfair” – Charles Moore in the Telegraph writes that: “Those acting on behalf of Lady Susan Hussey’s godson, the Prince of Wales, had publicly accused her of racism, with even less knowledge of the full situation than Buckingham Palace.”
• “King Charles should ignore Ngozi Fulani” – Gareth Roberts in the Spectator suggests that “if a visitor to my house suggested they had been abused and verbally attacked when they came to tea, I probably wouldn’t be in a particular hurry to invite them round again for nibbles”.
• “The Guardian is hiding the truth about trans” – Siuzanne Moore writes in the Telegraph that both she and Hadley Freeman left the Guardian after not being allowed to write as they wished on gender and other issues.
• “How ex-spies convinced Twitter to censor Hunter Biden emails story” – Nick Allen in the Telegraph reports on the messages revealed by Elon Mush which show how the social media giant moved to suppress the story as the 2020 US election neared.
• “Never take the Tories’ word for it on free speech” – Mick Hume in Spiked says the newly amended Higher Education Bill confirms the party “could not care less about this priceless liberty”.
• “Trans child surgeries up by 13-fold” – In what is believed to be the largest study of its kind, researchers looked at the number of mastectomies in a major health system in California since 2013, and found a 13-fold increase, the Mail reports
• “You Showed No Humanity” – Watch Australian Senator Gerard Rennick deliver some home truths to the ruling Covidians.

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