News Round-Up

• “Bird flu has mutated to infect people: Fresh pandemic fears as scientists on ground zero in Cambodia find H5N1 strain that killed 11-year-old girl had evolved to infect human cells better” – Dr. Erik Karlsson, who led the team at the Pasteur Institute of Cambodia that isolated the girl’s virus, said there were “some indications” that it was already spreading among people, the Mail reports.
• “The Lockdown Files lift the curtain on Government by WhatsApp” –The messages show the astonishing extent to which ‘virtual’ snap decisions affecting millions of lives were taken on the hoof, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
• “Untruth after untruth was peddled to justify the great lockdown disaster” – So much of what we were told during the pandemic was wrong – and nobody has been held accountable, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “The grim lesson of the Lockdown Files” – The Government sacrificed care home residents in favour of mass testing, writes Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
• “Britain’s first child Covid death, 13, may have been contributed to by doctors as senior medic admits ‘horrendous oversight’ at inquest” – Doctors admitted they made ‘errors’ in not reading reports on X-rays of Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab’s chest, which pointed out the high position of the tube, the Mail reports.
• “Government considered killing all Britain’s pet cats at the start of the Covid pandemic because they feared they were spreading virus, claims former health minister” – Lord Bethell said the concern about pets underlined how little was known about the disease at the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020, reports the Mail.
• “Bank of England Deputy Governor: digital pound is ‘likely’” – A central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the U.K. is “likely to be needed”, the Bank of England’s Deputy Governor for Financial Stability has claimed, according to James Billot in UnHerd.
• “Beijing warns Musk after comments on Wuhan lab theory tweet” – Elon Musk – whose company Tesla sells nearly half its cars in China – was warned by Chinese state media after engaging with theories Covid originated in a Chinese lab, the Mail reports.
• “Prepared Testimony – Pandemic Response” – Watch Dr. Robert Malone’s testimony to the Mexican Senate on the pandemic response.
• “All-cause deaths boosted by 8.9% in Japan in 2022” – The annual number of deaths in Japan was 8.9% higher in 2022 than 2021 and the Government has blamed the after-effects of the virus, reports Guy Gin.
• “A Bad Op-Ed Criticizes the Cochrane Mask Review” – Watch Dr. Vinay Prasad take apart the awful Guardian op-ed by Lucky Tran, which he calls “a new low for evidence-based medicine”. Drs Carl and Tom have responded here.
• “Stillbirths nearly doubled in Singapore, one of the world’s most mRNA vaccinated countries, in 2022” – Meanwhile, live births plunged – and the changes began in March 2022, exactly nine months after Singapore mass vaccinated people of childbearing age, writes Alex Berenson.
• “The UN Discusses Darkening The Skies to Combat Climate Change” – Will Bill Gates succeed with his new plan, asks Igor Chudov.
• “Humza Yousaf says trans rapist Isla Bryson should have right to self-identify as female” – The favourite to replace Nicola Sturgeon seems to have learned nothing from her fall as he argues it would be unfair to oppose her self-ID gender laws “because of one despicable individual”, the Telegraph reports.
• “Ethnic and LGBT people over-represented on TV, say almost half of U.K.” – Some 45% of people in the UK think ethnic minorities are over-represented, while just 26% say they are under-represented, according to a recent YouGov poll, reported in the Mail. Only 45%?
• “Free Speech in U.K. Universities” – Listen to Toby deliver the National Conference of University Professors Annual Lecture on Roger Watson’s podcast.
• “Jeremy Clarkson and ITV deny he has been sacked as Who Wants To Be a Millionaire host” – Jeremy Clarkson and ITV have denied he has been axed as the host of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? after ITV earlier said there “are no further commissioning commitments” to the presenter, reports the Mail.
• “BlackRock’s tyrannical ESG agenda” – Is Larry Fink a threat to democracy, asks John Masko in UnHerd.
• “Biden’s trans fanaticism is a menace to freedom” – The President’s conversion to the religion of gendered souls is hurting women, Christians and liberty, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
• “We can’t let the race lobby hijack the Covid inquiry” – The Covid pandemic had nothing to do with ‘structural racism’, writes Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
• “When did we gays become so intolerant?” – The demonisation of Kate Forbes shows that the bullied have become the bullies, writes Malcolm Clark in Spiked.
• “Boris Johnson deserves much credit for taking the brave and correct step to not lockdown for the Omicron variant” – Watch Jacob Rees Mogg deliver his ‘Moggologue’ on GB News, saying the U.K. Covid enquiry “must focus on the devastating, incalculable consequences of putting the country under house arrest”. I seem to recall Johnson was all set to impose his fourth lockdown, but for 11th hour interventions by data-savvy ministers.

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