News Round-Up

• “The world economy is on the brink of collapse and all the Tories do is tinker” – Jeremy Hunt’s Budget has its good parts, but it fails to address the pathologies leading us to disaster, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “So much for tackling the backlog! Eight in 10 hospitals are treating fewer elective patients now than pre-Covid” – Eight in 10 NHS trusts in England are still clearing fewer patients off their waiting lists than they were before Covid, MailOnline analysis shows.
• “An autopsy on Covid deaths” – The Healthy Advisory and Recovery Team (HART) re-examines the excess death waves to understand better what proportion was caused directly by Covid and what could have been caused by the response to Covid.
• “It Was A ‘Vaccine Strategy’ From The Start” – HART digs into the origins of lockdowns and the draconian responses of Governments.
• “Tech tycoon who offered woman $100,000 to take off her mask on board Delta flight is called a ‘creep’ and ‘weirdo’ – but some are on his side” – Steve Kirsch gets some unwanted media attention from his latest gimmick, in the Mail. Read his response here.
• “Britain’s growing sick note crisis could sink the economic recovery” – The rise in poor mental health is a delicate subject but its consequences can no longer be ignored, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
• “Norway’s top epidemiologist: Sweden handled Covid well” – Preben Aavitsland says the neighbouring country was unfairly demonised, according to James Billot in UnHerd.
• “Sir Jeremy Farrar, caught out in a lie” – Paula Jardine in TCW spots a glaring inconsistency in the ex-Wellcome bureaucrats public statements about the virus.
• “Susan Northrup, FAA’s federal air surgeon, should resign: Part II” – Steve Kirsch responds to criticism of his call for Northrup to resign over her handling of vaccine adverse events.
• “Tyranny Thy Name Is Emergency” – Jeffrey A. Tucker in the Epoch Times says there are very close analogies between bailout responses to a banking crisis and the insane response to Covid.
• “Don’t Fear Central Bank Digital Currency, Embrace It Instead” – J.G Collins makes the case for CBDCs in the Epoch Times despite the ‘we don’t trust the Government’ objection.
• “Antivax = Antisemitism?” – Weaponising language is just another competitive strategy, says Dr. Robert Malone.
• “David Zweig: how and why the reality of Covid was censored” – On his Spectator podcast, Winston Marshall speaks with the Twitter Files journalist just as the Twitter files scandal goes to congress.
• “Theory: Officials Intentionally Concealed Evidence of Early Spread” – Bill Rice, Jr. lists 27 ways the suppression of early spread evidence was accomplished.
• “HM Treasury made a joke about The Lockdown Files. But the joke is on us” – What a Treasury tweet reveals about the manipulation at the heart of modern communications, according to Laura Dodsworth.
• “Heat pumps have become the eco fiasco of the decade” – Britain is making an almighty mess of the transition to Net Zero, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “How Justin Trudeau’s Government was compromised by the CCP” – Justin Trudeau’s Government has been compromised by the Chinese Communist Party and Canada’s democracy is in jeopardy, argues Sam Dunning in the Spectator.
• “The overuse and abuse of ‘fascism’” – We live in a world in which there is only one historical reference point for evil – Hitlerian fascism – and this reference point must as a result be wheeled out at every opportunity as the example of what not to do, writes Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
• “‘Why is trophy hunting OK for rich Scottish landowners but not communities in Africa?’” – As MPs consider banning the import of wildlife hunting trophies, some claim the celebrity-backed bill could do more harm than good, writes Sarah Marshall in the Telegraph.
• “Cute Authoritarianism” – Ewan Morrison in Areo says that something sinister is going on with cuteness.
• “BBC reveals ‘arrangements’ with stars that allow them to express political opinions” – The BBC has “arrangements” with some stars that allow them to express political opinions – even though they front programmes for the corporation, the Telegraph reports.
• “Clarifying SARS-CoV-2, pt. 1” – Brian Mowrey wades into the excess deaths debate.
• “The trouble with sex education” – When the school curriculum can be confused with the dropdown menu of a pornography website, something has gone wrong, says Joanna Williams in the Spectator.
• “The rich are eating themselves” – The oligarchs are playing a dangerous game by pouring trillions into woke causes, says Joel Kotkin in Spiked
• “Beyond parody! Oxfam’s new 92-page inclusivity guide calls English ‘the language of a colonising nation’ and tells staff to avoid the words ‘mother’ ‘headquarters’ – and even ‘youth’, in move slammed by critics” – Oxfam came under fire last night for issuing a bizarre ‘inclusive’ language guide to staff, reports the Mail.

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