News Round-Up

• “Biden to end Covid emergencies on May 11th” – The emergencies have been repeatedly extended by Biden since he took office in January 2021, but are finally set to expire in the coming months, according to the Mail. But will it mean the end of the ban on the unvaccinated entering the country?
• “Children lost third of a year’s learning during Covid pandemic” – Findings from 15 countries show delays linked to school closures have persisted for at least two and a half years, the Telegraph reports.
• “Why are excess deaths still so high?” – Thomas Fazi and Toby Green write in UnHerd that we can’t just blame a failing NHS as the worrying pattern is seen across Europe and further afield.
• “Excruciating moment Bill Gates stumbles over his words as TV host grills him about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and if ex Melinda warned him he could be ‘sexually compromised’” – Gates, a philanthropist, who has given billions to charity, was grilled about his links to Epstein while in Australia to talk about global issues such as climate change and artificial intelligence, reports the Mail.
• “Coinfection and Secondary infections Contribution to Excess Deaths” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson consider another possible cause of excess mortality.
• “It’s Time for the Scientific Community to Admit We Were Wrong About Covid” – Medical student Kevin Bass writes in Newsweek that he was “with them when they called for lockdowns, vaccines and boosters” but now he believes “we in the scientific community were wrong. And it cost lives”.
• “Secretive Government units spied on British citizen’s speech.” – Laura Dodsworth writes that, just as she explained in her book, A State of Fear, secretive Government units have been monitoring the speech of British citizens and removing content from social media during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• “It’s time to close the Government’s Ministry of Truth” – The Orwellian collection of secretive units that claim to counter misinformation have been monitoring and recording Government critics and it’s time to call time, writes Silkie Carlo in the Telegraph.
• “American Pravda: Vaccines and the Mystery of Polio” – Ron Unz with a long-read summary of acclaimed vaccine-critical book Turtles All the Way Down.
• “Lauterbach in 2020: ‘Schools drive the pandemic, the research is clear.’ Lauterbach in 2023: The belief that many infections occur in schools and daycare centres ‘did not prove to be correct’” – The pandemicists will now begin to say many stupid things as they beat a hasty retreat from policies that are more and more universally repudiated, writes Eugyppius.
• “Jordan Peterson announces World Economic Forum alternative” – The famed Canadian psychologist said the meeting will present an “alternative to that kind of apocalyptic narrative” that’s being put forward by the World Economic Forum, reports Just the News.
• “Eco warrior King Charles took two 112-mile helicopter trips in 24 hours to attend opening of new Africa centre in London where he talked about climate change” – The Mail spots the eco-preaching King’s hypocritical travel arrangements.
• “I’m not going to be the last driver to give up on his electric car” – With cost-effectiveness and eco-friendliness increasingly looking overrated, and the convenience problems obvious and not improving quickly, the electric car market looks to be headed for a sharp correction, writes Iain Dale in the Telegraph.
• “Violent trans criminals are women, Nicola Sturgeon says” – The First Minister said “trans women are women” but they had “no automatic right” to serve their sentences in female prisons, in the latest woke gobbledegook from north of the border as reported in the Telegraph.
• “‘Excluding women from women’s prisons just because they’ve got penises… seems awfully TERFy to me’: J.K. Rowling takes a swipe at Nicola Sturgeon as the Scottish leader ties herself in knots while she is grilled on trans offenders” – The Harry Potter author took another open swipe at Nicola Sturgeon after the Scottish First Minister stumbled her way through an awkward TV interview on trans offenders being put in women’s prisons, reports the Mail.
• “J.K. Rowling faces new boycott over trans rights as Harry Potter game distances itself from author” – Woke gamers have called for a boycott of a new Harry Potter release because of Rowling’s stance on transgender issues, reports GB News.
• “Musk to take on PayPal as Twitter prepares to launch online payments” – The social media company has formed an operation to become a PayPal rival, reports the Telegraph.
• “Transgender charity Mermaids reveals earnings from training NHS and educators have soared” – The scandal-hit organisation, which works with medical staff, universities and schools, saw its yearly income jump from £59,546 to £151,246 in 2022, the Telegraph reports.
• “Sam Smith and the embarrassing terribleness of LGBTQIA+ culture” – “It is not Smith’s sexuality that is worthy of critique,” writes Gareth Roberts in the Spectator. “It is his belief he is somehow beyond male and female, that he is not a man. Because as is manifestly and horribly apparent, he very much is.”
• “Australia Day: Protesting Ourselves into Oblivion” – This week’s Australia Day celebrations were mired by protest, says Frank Haviland in the European Conservative. “There were calls, not just to change the date of ‘Invasion Day’ or ‘Survival Day’ as the rebrands have it, but to abolish the ‘Celebration of genocide’ altogether.”
• “Thanks to Big Brother Watch for the Ministry of Truth report. Contracts between Logically.AI and the Government to ‘tackle misinformation’ are detailed. HART was smeared by Logically.AI in July 2021, using illegally hacked materials” – HART tweets that it would like to see the Government reports made public.

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