News Round-Up

• “Lockdown fallout pushes U.K. economy into ‘perma-stagnation’ as thousands give up jobs or retire after pandemic, with Bank of England warning Britain is facing highest tax burden in 70 years’” – Britain’s workforce will struggle to recover from older workers and early retirees giving up their roles during the pandemic, the Bank of England has warned, in the Mail.
• “Covid cases plunge to four-month low but Kraken and Orthrus may rise ” – Office for National Statistics analysts estimate that under 950,000 Brits were carrying the virus on any given day in the week to January 24th, down 15% from the week before, the Mail reports.
• “Students go to court for refunds on lockdown degrees” – Almost 80,000 students are taking legal action over costly courses disrupted by Covid, where tuition was a far cry from what was advertised, the Times reports.
• “‘I hope we don’t find out this mRNA lingers in the body,’ says Pfizer doctor” – Bret Swanson in Brownstone on the latest Project Veritas video of a Pfizer exec spilling the beans to an undercover camera.
• “Do mask mandates work?” – Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson write in the Spectator about the updated Cochrane review of mask studies led by Tom that found no clear reduction in infections.
• “How to create the illusion your vaccine is 90% effective” – Norman Fenton and Martin Neil explain the standard biases in vaccine studies that inflate efficacy estimates.
• “Is the U.K. Health Security Agency Careless, Trolling or Knows Something We Don’t?” – The Naked Emperor wonders why the UKHSA is advertising a post in anticipation of “what is expected to be the U.K.’s largest vaccination programme which will be delivered at pace and will be a key ministerial priority”. Is it a mistake or do they know something we don’t?
• “A worldwide call for data transparency: Show us the data!” – Steve Kirsch says that to end the debate on Covid vaccine safety we need the deaths and vaccination record data, yet those data are being concealed by health authorities in every jurisdiction – though one state has now promised to provide them.
• “The New Pause lengthens again: 101 months and counting” – Christopher Monckton in WUWT with his monthly update as global temperatures once again fail to rise.
• “The climate scaremongers: Drive to EVs is killing the British car industry” – With the collapse of Britishvolt, the wheels are well and truly coming off the Government’s campaign to make us all buy electric cars, writes Paul Homewood in TCW.
• “Friday Funny: Jane Fonda: ‘There’d be no climate crisis if it wasn’t for racism’” – Hard to top this one, in WUWT.
• “Deconstructing decolonisation” – Professor Nigel Biggar in the Critic delivers a masterclass in countering woke nonsense with calm facts.
• “‘Truth’ is not subjective” – Rod Liddle in the Spectator wants some objectivity to return to public discussion around sex and gender.
• “The ‘Re-education’ of Jordan Peterson” – Dr. Peterson’s characteristically robust response to the Ontario College of Psychologists’ demands is that he will not attend any ‘re-education’, and that he would like to make all communication 100% public – so far so good, says Frank Haviland in the European Conservative.
• “Google, defender of the BLM narrative” – Laurie Wastell on the sinister content warning Google has slapped on searches for ‘Tom Slater Tyre Nichols’ but not on any similar searches that stick to the woke line.
• “Row as woke firm won’t print ‘adult human females’ stickers” – A printing firm is in a women’s rights row after declaring it would no longer make stickers defining women as ‘Adult human females’ for a prominent campaigner, the Mail reports.

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