News Round-Up

• “MPs calls for China to be officially deemed a ‘threat’ to the U.K. to take a ‘meaningful stand’ against Beijing and remain a global ‘heavyweight’” – The Commons committee found Britain’s dependency on China “constrains” its ability to defend its interests and values, limiting its options when it “challenges international order”, the Mail reports.
• “Prisoners are being paid £3.50 a day by the Government to remove recyclable material from surplus Covid PPE which is then dumped, report reveals” – Prisoners are reportedly being paid £3.50 a day by the Government to secretly dismantle surplus PPE that was needed during the pandemic and unused Covid tests, a report has revealed, according to the Mail.
• “Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Linked to Blood Clotting: FDA” – Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has been linked to blood clotting in older individuals, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Epoch Times reports. Other side-effects (and side-effects in other brands) did not produce a statistical signal, however.
• “Florida Governor seeks grand jury investigation into Covid vaccines” – Ron DeSantis asks the state Supreme Court to investigate wrongdoing related to vaccinations, the Guardian reports.
• “I took my mother for the Covid jab – four days later she was dead” – Alex Kelly in TCW recounts the tragic story of how her mother died days after receiving her AstraZeneca jab.
• “We Are Still Locked Down” – Jeffrey Tucker in Brownstone points out that we are far less free today and far more censored, and the media are controlled too.
• “Calling the Royals racist is bunk. But Harry and Meghan’s morality play is perfectly in sync with the current woke rewriting of history” – Barbara Amiel writes in the Mail that “Harry and Meghan have farmed out their most lethal weapons against the monarchy to a few carefully chosen Left-wing historians”.
• “‘The trans movement is built on fear and intimidation’” – Deirdre O’Neill and Michael Wayne discuss the ‘no platforming’ of their film Adult Human Female in Spiked.
• “The NHS spends millions on ‘directors of lived experience’. Nurses have the right to be livid” – If you are a nurse turning up for the next 12-hour shift and being told we’re too skint to pay you any more money, it must turn your stomach, says Rod Liddle in the Times.
• “The Frank Report XLIX” – Read Frank Haviland’s weekly column in the New Conservative.
• “Oh, so now you care about Big Tech censorship?” – Elon Musk’s suspension of journalists has revealed the depths of liberal hypocrisy, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “What should be the biggest story in the world” – Dr. Aseem Malhotra tweets GB News‘s Neil Oliver’s “powerful and extraordinary call to action on the Covid mRNA vaccine scandal”.

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