News Round-Up

• “The perpetual state of emergency” – Matthew Crawford in conversation with Freddie Sayers for UnHerd TV about how Western governments have promoted the idea that we’re in the midst of various ‘emergencies’ because it enables them to transfer power from the legislative to the executive branch and bypass democratic accountability.
• “Why you can’t get rid of your cough” – According to a repot in the Times, the reason we can’t get rid of respiratory viruses this Winter is because we keep reinfecting each other. Our immune systems having been compromised by the lockdowns.
• “Germany’s climate change hypocrisy is breathtaking” – Despite years of preaching about the need to combat emissions, Germany is one of the biggest polluters of all, argues Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “The Cancer that is Public Health” – Former WHO employee David Bell takes a pop at the global elites for the Brownstone Institute.
• “Extinction Rebellion’s latest climate change stunt” – Extinction Rebellion activists let off smoke flares and poured black paint outside the Home Office today, reports MailOnline.
• “Taskforce set up to chase £4.5 billion Covid fraud not worth the money, says HMRC” – HMRC has stopped looking for £4.5 billion worth of fraudulent Covid loans, having clawed back just 25%. That’s less than half the amount Liz Truss’s cut in the top rate of tax was supposedly going to cost the taxpayer.
• “FOIA Doc Shows BioNTech Founders Postdated Start of C19 Vax Project” – The founders of BioNTech started working on the COVID-19 vaccine earlier than they claimed, reports Robert Kogan for the Brownstone Institute.
• “Penny Mordaunt is wrong to lecture the Church of England on gay marriage” – Andrew Tettenborn explains why it was wrong for Penny Mordaunt to browbeat the Church of England into dropping its refusal to host same sex marriages.
• “How Tories’ trans unity was torpedoed by Penny Mordaunt ally” – The Conservatives came out strongly against Nicola Sturgeon’s gender Bill, but the proposal to ban conversion therapy has brought the party rift into open, reports Daniel Martin in the Telegraph.
• “The fake arrest of Greta Thunberg” – Greta was arrested at the site of a new German coal mine, but, weirdly, the arresting officers were happy to pose with her for photos. Does this mean protestors like Greta are controlled opposition?

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