News Round-Up

• “Matt Hancock confronted by Kate Garraway over his failure to understand pandemic upset” – The GMB presenter – whose husband was in hospital for a year with the virus – tells the former Health Secretary that she and others were unable to visit loved ones because of his lockdown rules, the Telegraph reports.
• “Speedboat skipper nicknamed ‘Mr. Safe’ who killed a 15-year-old girl after crashing into 15ft buoy while wearing Covid facemask tells court he didn’t spot it because he went ‘lightheaded’ and lost his vision ‘like a sneeze’” – The face mask contributed to the tragic accident, according to the Mail.
• “Is the CCP’s desperation behind China’s abrupt reopening?” – China has followed its colossal U-turn on zero-Covid with a charm offensive to convince the outside world that it is open for business, writes Ian Williams in the Spectator.
• “The Biomedical Security State, British Edition” – Aaron Kheriaty writes for the Brownstone Institute that in Orwell’s country of origin, seven decades after the publication of 1984, it turns out that Big Brother is Always Watching.
• “Researchers bamboozling journalists with mythical comparison of vaccinated and unvaccinated” – Professor Norman Fenton criticises a study on post-Covid outcomes for blatant biases.
• “TTE Podcast: Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses” – Listen to Dr. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson discuss the latest Cochrane review update on non-pharmaceutical interventions.
• “Is the FDA ‘doubling down’ on a failed strategy?” – Dr. Maryanne Demasi writes a guest post on Dr. Robert Malone’s Substack looking at the FDA decision to move ahead with annual Covid boosters.
• “Good Australians and the banality of evil: how segregation became widely accepted public policy” – Rebekah Barnett takes a look at the appalling treatment of the unvaccinated in Western Australia and its grim echoes of earlier instances of segregation and mistreatment.
• “The GMC Persecution of Professional Medical Free Speech” – The Covid Physician with a detailed overview of the cases being brought by professional regulator the GMC against dissident doctors, saying its “criteria for acceptable, professional medical opinion seem arbitrary, subjective and politically motivated” and “at times, it behaves manifestly illegally”.
• “Chronic illness, constant pain, 21 visits to A&E – and still they tell me to have a second jab” – Nicola Cooper writes in TCW of her debilitating and ongoing reaction to the Pfizer vaccine – and the crazy medical advice that she should get the second dose.
• “I’m not anti-vax, I’m pro-informed consent — and you should be, too” – Felix Oram in U.K. Column makes the case for the vaccine-injured combining to pursue clinical negligence claims under tort law rather than relying upon the “tender mercies of the Government-run Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme”.
• “Forget Net Zero: Oil and gas investment needed for another 30 years, BP warns” – The assessment is likely to spark backlash from climate groups and campaigners who argue that investment should be immediately stopped in order to meet Net Zero goals, writes Paul Homewood in WUWT.
• “Why the public has gone cold on heat pumps” – The U.K.’s Net Zero boiler-replacement scheme has been a complete flop, says James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
• “Sadiq Khan sparks fury over £110m ULEZ scrappage scheme: Tory MPs ‘apoplectic’, transport minister warns tradespeople will be hardest hit and Pimlico Plumbers founder Charlie Mullins accuses London Mayor of ‘taking money from motorists who can’t afford it’” – The London Mayor yesterday dismissed anger at his decision to expand the ULEZ zone to the whole of Greater London from late August as he hit out at “vested interests”, reports the Mail.
• “The dangers of the Online Safety Bill” – Timandra Harkness speaks to Fraser Myers of Spiked about the Government’s authoritarian plan to regulate the internet.
• “France plans CV sting to cut work prejudice” – The French Prime Minister hatches a cunning plan to use fake work bios with ethnic names in an effort to identify racist employers, the Telegraph reports.
• “After months of obnoxious pro-Ukraine jingoistic war propaganda, Welt suddenly admits to its centre-Right audience that it’s ‘essentially impossible for Ukraine to win’” – Eugyppius ponders the timing of this uncharacteristic outbreak of honesty.
• “Why is BLM blaming Tyre Nichols’ death on ‘white supremacy’?” – James Innes-Smith in the Spectator on the mystery of why an anti-white campaign group is blaming white people for the violent death of a black man at the hands of five black police officers.
• “I was sacked for being a ‘transphobe’ – because I wouldn’t call a female pupil by a boy’s name: Kevin is just one of dozens of teachers on the front line of a culture war being vilified by colleagues for voicing their concerns over children changing gender’” – When maths teacher Kevin Lister received a message from his 17-year-old student, Lizzie, telling him she would now like to be called Liam, he was concerned – and he lost his job because he spoke up, reports the Mail.
• “Andrea Riseborough and the nonsense of ‘white privilege’” – Brendan O’Neill in Spiked on how the “new elites use racial grievance to protect their cultural power”.
• “The UN’s racial hysteria” – Rakib Ehsan in Spiked on the ludicrous claims in a new UN report that black Britons live in constant fear of racism.
• “Which Harry Potter stars have backed J.K. Rowling?” – The Mail names and shames the ungrateful stars who stuck the knife into the beleaguered gender-critical author.
• “I thought surely they can’t be monitoring people who are critical of Government policy… But it turns out they were!’” – Watch Toby on GB News discussing Big Brother Watch’s investigation into the 77th Brigade’s monitoring of those critical of the Government’s Covid policy.

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